The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-23
CONFERENCE OF METHoDIsTs.
Other Matters of Interest at the
Thriving Town of WaycrOss.

other Matters of Interest at the
Thriving Town of WnycrOss.
Waycross, Ga, Nov. 22.-The South
Georgia conference of the Wesleyan Meth
odist church was organized in this city
last week. The presiding elders are Rev.
Messrs. Williams, Pafford and Harrell.
Rev. Mr.. Stroller, who, In company with
Rev. Mr.. Williams, conducted the first
Wesleyan Methodist meeting in this city
last summer, is in charge of the church
in Waycross, and Rev. Mr.. Graham, who
has been filling the pulpit in Waycross for
several months, is to take charge of the
Ty-Ty circuit on the Brunswick and West
ern division of the Plant system. Various
committees have been appointed for the
purpose of filling out home missions and
otherwise advancing the interest of the
church in South Georgia. This Is the first
conference of this denomination that has
ever been held in this section. The Wes-
leyan Methodist church believes in strict
holiness doctrine, claiming when they are
entirely sanctifed that they do not sin
any more. There are many members of
this church in this section who claim to be
sanctifed, through and through and their
testimonies are in line with the doctrine
of holiness which they profess to believe
in. The church in this city has been
Methodist Episcopal church, though very
few have left the old church to join the
Wesleyan. The membership of the church
is almost entirely, made up of the recent
converts, and were not previously men,
bers of any church, and this brings into
the church a great many persons of the
poorer classes, who would not so identify
themselves with the church. With a COM
plete organization of its working commit
tees the Wesleyan Methodist church will
soon have large membership throughout
this section.
A number of aspirants for the postmas-
tership in Waycross are already agitating
themselves with regard to the appointment
of postmaster for this place, which will
occur year hence. A few nights ago
a colored mass meeting was held in Reed
vile, a colored suburb of Waycross for
the purpose of selecting a candidate. The
meeting Endorsed the candidacy of a col
ored young man named Brown. 1t is un-
derstood that some of the colored people
asked Rev. Floyd Snelson, colored, to ac-
cept the Endorsement of the meeting.
Frank Edwards, an ex-convict, and one
of the murderers of the colored deputy
sheriff of Charlton county, was arrested
in this city Friday night by Chief Cason
and Officer Colly. Edwards and two
other negroes, who were accessories to the
murder, were stopping over at w. p Lees
convict camp, and it was learned yester-
day that Edwards himself was in the city
visiting his sister. The officers were on
the lookout for him, and after dark they
found him in the railroad cut near the
Cherokee nurseries. Edwards tried to
run and the officers covered him with their
pistols and took him over to the Jail. The
sheriff of Charlton county has been noti-
fled of his arrest, and will come down to
identify him.
The pastors of the various churches in
this city held a conference this week for
the purpose of arranging for a Thanks
giving service, and it was decided that the
service should be held at the Presbyterian
church, and the Thanksgiving sermon will
be preached by Rev. ]. w. Domingos of
the First Methodist church.
The Bank of Waycross has removed to
its new handsome quarters in the South
ern hotel block.