Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-13
HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Ninth Annual Meeting of the Woman's
Organization.
Those in Attendance mt HRmlinc
Church Today and the Busi-
ness Transactcd.

The ninth annual meeting of the Womans
Home Missionary Society of the Baltimore
confercnce of the Methodist Episcopal
Church began this morning in Hamline
Church, 9th and P streets Sessions were
held this afternoon and this evening, and
will be tomorrow morning and afternoon,
when the meeting is to be adjourned.
Mrs. William Burris one of the three vice
presidents of the society, presided at the
opening session this morning, and intro
duced Mr.. w. w. Davis, who conducted
Bible lesson. Prayer followed. led by Mrs.
C. E. Birch. Addresses of welcome were
made by Rev. w r. Stricken, D. D., pas
tor Of Hamline Church; Mrs. S. NJ. Lake, on
behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society, and Mrs. T. l.. Tulloch, on behalf
of the local HOME Missionary Society. were
next in order, to which a fitting response
was made by Mrs. r. z. Frost of Baltimore.
A roll cali of delegates showed a large
representative attendance from all sections
of the conference.
In Attendance.
The following answered to their names:
Baltimore dstrict-First Church. Mrs. F. J.
Wagner, Mrs. Francis Register, Miss A. L.
Armstrong Miss NJ. A. Afford; Eutaw,
Miss Sarah Lemon, Mrs. E. S. Johns Mrs.
Johns; Madison avenue, Mrs. A. G. Jones,
Mrs A. P Gore; Mount Vernon Place, Mrs.
NJ S. Richardson Mrs. W. s. Edwards;
South Baltimore Mrs. Carrie Sheckel Miss
Kate Saunders; Strawbridge Mrs Mat
thews, Mrs. Emma f. New; Wesley Chapel,
Mrs Brannen Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Wilson.
East Baltimore misunderstanding, Miss
Bessie Hancock, Miss Margaret starr; East
Baltimore, Miss Mollie Charlton; Har1ord
avenue. Mrs. Charles Marshall Miss Moilie
Erdman; North Baltimore, Mrs. Stanley
Davis. Mrs George Beodenkopf.
West Baltimore district-Bethany, Mrs.
Albert Williams Mrs. Litchfed: Columbia
Avenue, Mrs. Sedgwick. Mrs: T. Cromwell;
Emory Mrs. NJ. E. Brown, Mrs. H. s. Fur
long: Fayette Street, Mrs. c. H. Richard
son, Mrs l.. Bowen; Franklin Street. Mrs.
B. F. Clarkson, Mrs. Roswell Turner;
Grace, Mrs. John L. Blake, Miss Bertha
McElroy, Miss May Cummins; Harlem
Park, Mrs. F. McGlone, Mrs. John Wilson;
Union Square, Mrs. Mollie V. Thomas. Miss
Laura Bateman; West Baltimore Station
Mrs j. NJ. Sarrow, Mrs. j. Lucas.
Washington district-Kensington, Mrs. c.
F. Scott, Mrs. Amiss; Anacostia, Mrs Sue
King. Miss Elizabeth Page; Douglass Me-
mcrial Mrs B. L. Nevins; Dumbarton,
Street, Mrs. Shade. Mrs; Clara Ball;
Foundry, Mrs. Stinemetz, Miss Ball, Miss
Young, Miss Shotwell; Grace, Mrs. Cow
Wright, Mrs. g. c. Hough. Miss SWEET.
Miss Godfrey: McKendree, Mrs: Moores.
Miss Tomlinson, Miss Mitchell; Metropoli-
tan. Mrs. Anna Mcdonnell, Mrs. Tasker;
,
Ryland, Mrs. Gilmore, Mrs. George Barker;
St Paurs. Mrs Richardson. Mrs. Fellows;
Trinity, Mrs. Moffatt, Miss Bohannon;
Twelfth Street, Mrs. Jefferson. Mrs. Berke-
Waugh, Mrs ]. M. Black, Mrs. M. Mitchell
Wesley Chapel, Mrs. Hyatt, Miss Barker,
Miss Tompkins, Miss Barker.
The Committees.
The following committees were announced
by tie chair:
Enrollment-Mrs W. w. Davis, Mrs G.
c.. Huff.
Nominations-Mrs. D. B. Street, Mrs. r.
W. Baldwin, Mrs. A M. Hopkins, Mrs.
| George Beadenkopf.
Resolutions-Mrs. T. P. Frost. Mrs. C.
H. Richardson, Mrs. Leake, Miss Marion
Fowler.
| NJ. Hartsock, Miss Hattie Fague.
Press-Mrs. E. s. Wescott, Mrs. Clinton
Smith.
| Annual reports-The district secretaries,
| Mrs. r. NJ Reuter-, Mrs. M. c. Baer, Miss
| Maggie Addison, Mrs. A. NJ. Hopkins, Mrs.
| D. B. Street.
Place of next annual meeting-Mrs. john
4 Neff, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. w. w. DAVIS.
Other Business.
| The chair requested the committee or
| place of the next meeting to take into con-
sideration the fact that the general execu.
| tive board of mission work OF the M. r.
Church meets next year at Baltimore. and
| that the Foreign Missionary Society has al
| ready received an invitation to have Its
annual meeting there, and that as 1t !:
| regarded as undesirable to impose the worl
| of entertaining the members Of both mis-
sionary societies On the same ladies in an!
| city, 1t might be better for the Home So
| ciety to meet in some other place thar
| Baltimore in 1897.
The report of the treasurer Mrs. Mary E
Brown showed the receipts for the MIN
months ending June 80, the close of tn
fiscal year, to be $10.5S994. which wa
1885, II more than the entire twelve month
| previous, and was divided as follows; From
Washington district, $4,54S.4S; Baltimore
s., 9e5. 90; East Baltimore $7821s: West Bal
timore. $2.772s1; Frederick. 1856; confer
| ence donations, 1927; collections, $5S.24
balance of contingent fund, $17.35; tota
SO, 5S9.94. The disbursements include