The Portland daily press., 1896-12-01
lTINERANTS' INSTITUTE.
Opening Session at South Portland
Yesterday.
INTERESTING LECTURE BY REV.
W. +. BERRY OF WATERvILLE.

The Attendance is Large and tho Meetings
Interesting-The Programme for This
Afternoon and Evening.
The four days session of the Maine Con-
ference ltinerants' Institute began yester-
day afternoon at the Methodist church at
that place, of viii oh Rev. William Wood is
the pastor. Mr.. Wood has been tireless in
his efforts to make this session of the Insti-
tute, the first held at South Portland, and
that he has done well is very evident from
the interest taken all over the town in the
meetings and the large attendance at the
church itself.
The attendance SO far is remarkably good
and everything is being done for the COM
fort o.. the visitors.
The following ladies and gentlemen,
among others, are entertained while at the
conference as follows:
Mrs. A. j. Brown, 9 Pine street, will en-
terrain Rev. D. f. Falkner, Kittery, and Rev.
A. w. Pottle, Boothbay Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Doughty, ST., "a
West High street-Rev W. P. Lord, Kenne-
bunk, and Rev. H. L. Nichols, Kennebunk-
port.
j. E. Fisher, IA West High street-Rev. W.
F. Berry, Waterville.
Mrs. Parker o. Haley, % Stanford street
Rev. F. G. Norcross, Madison; Rev. W. H.
Gowell, Long Island.
Mr. and Mrs. j. H. Hartford, 12O SAWYER
street-Rev. H. L. Williams, Biddeford.
Mrs. Mary j. Burnham, % West High
street-Rev. D. S. Pillsbury, Fairfield; Rev.
H. E. Frohock, Kent's HILL
Rev. W. Canham, Old Orchard-Rev
Thomas p Baker, Mechanic Falls.
Geo. A. Avery, Jefferson street-Rev. d.
B. Holt, B1idgton; Rev. F. G. Porter, Berlin,
N. H.
Parsonage, East High street-Rev. M. d.
Buell., Dean of Boston University Chance1-
lor j. R. Day, LID, Syracuse, N. T.; Rev.
E. C. Strout, Gorham; Rev. ]. R. Clifford
Woodfords.
Mrs. J. M. York, Sawyer street-Rev
George R. Palmer, P. E., Saco; Rev. ]. A.
Corey, Pc, Lewiston.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Tilton, 43 Sawyer street
Rev. E. o. Thayer, D. D., Gardiner; Rev.
]. H. Trask, Conway. N. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. I. Studley, 80 Sawyer street
Rev. Alex Hamilton, Bethel; Rev. j. P.
Lapham, P. E., Kent's Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Studley, Is East High
StreeI-h6V. w. ID. OukeSIllr0, r dTIulllSbOns
Rev. W. F. Holmes, Brunswick.
Miss Sophia e. Thurrell, 26 West High
street-Rev. J. F. Ford, Bowery Beach; Rev.
G. S. Cummings, Augusta.
In Portland-Rev. C.F. Parsons, Hallowell.
Mrs. Capt. Anderw Smart, Sawyer street
Rev. J. L. Holye, Bath; Rev. H. E. Dumack,
Bowdoin College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeremiah C. York, "a Sawyer
street-Rev. John Howard, Oxford; Rev.
Howard A. Clifford, "A. M. Wilton.
Capt. and Mrs Lincoln Jewett, 2 B street
Rev. A. A. Lewis, Saco; Rev. W. G. Went
worth, Cumberland; Rev. Frank H. Balling-
ton, Greene; Rev. W. H. varney, Andover.
The fist meeting Of the Institute was
love feast in the afternoon, conducted by
Presiding elder G.. R. Palmer of Saco.
The brief praise service at the evening
session was led by Rev. George +. Millward.
Rev. j. L. Hoyle sang solo with good
effect.
The special feature of the evening session
was the address by Rev. W. F. Berry of Wat
erville, whose subject was: "The Duty of
the Preacher to Prohibition
Mr.. Berry opened his remarks by a recital
of the organization of the state itself.
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