Evening journal., 1897-03-18
CONFERENCE AT WORK.
Ministers Settle Down for
Active Business To-day.
READY FOR THE ELDERS REPORTS

READY FOR THE ELDERS REPORTS
BISHOP WALDEN CONDUCTS PRO
CEEDINGS DELIBERATELY, BUT
PROMPTLY - COMMITTEES AP-
POINTED-THAT ON MINISTER
IAL QUALIFICATION WILL HOLD
OVER.
Special Despatch Evening Journal.
CHESTERTOWN,' Md, March 49,
After yesterdays hurry and period OF
planning, conference settled down to
active work this morning and the min
listers placed themselves early within
the conference bar to hear the presiding
elders reports. r. II. Adams, presid-
ing elder of Dover district. was called,
his character was passed and he pro-
ceeded to read his report.
At its conclusion the various minis
ters on Dover district reported their
varying success at raising outside be-
nevolsnt collections during a year OF
hard times.
SECRETARIES AND TREAsURERS.
The new officers of the conference
are: Secretary, A. S. Mowbray; assist
ants, J. d. Rigg, w. A. Wise, Y. II.
Webster; journalist. j. d. Rigg; statis-
tical secretary, w. r. Mowbray; assist
ants, J. H. Geohogan, H. A. G. Wester-
field. Y. p. NOrthrup, G. =. Jones, E.
Gardner, w. w. Sharp, w. G. Chance;
| treasurer. c. A. Grise; assistants, A. G.
Cox, ID. II. Corkran. H. $. Goldey, +. c.
D ~ 1 Is.1A IL y
T. F. Beauchamp, w. ]. Duhadway.
NEW COMMITTEES NAMED.
The following committees have been
announced by the chair:
Public Worship-Alfred Smith M. p
Compton, e. II. Wilson, T. b. Cooper.
Education-W. l.. S. Murray, T. l..
Wood w j. Duhadway, II. C Turner.
Bible Society-James Carroll. w. T..
Valiant, II. S. Dulaney, Wilmer Jag
gard
Sunday School and Tracts-F. ].
Cochran, NJ. d. Nutter, w. H. Benford,
Robert Roe.
Temperance-C. 7. Wyatt, ] D.
Kemp, George w. Burke, T. S. VIII
liams.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
w. G.. Koons, Frank Fletcher w. E.
Avery, Warren Burr
Woman's Home Missionary Society
/ e. p. Roberts, T. +. Taber, w. f. Daw-
son, o. w. Devinish.
Freedmens Aids J. Morris, G. w.
Bounds, r. II. Hardesty, J. f. Ander-
son.
Missionary Statistics-W. B. Guthrie,
w. H. S. Loller. J. NJ. Collins, J. p Out
ten, i. Z. Beauchamp. G. S. Conway, I.
c. Smoot, F. e. McKinsey.
Sabbath Observance-S. NJ. Morgan
T. f. Carpenter, G. r. Anderson.
Periodicals.. NJ. Lindale, W. e
West, A. Green, A. p. Taylor.
EpworthLeague-R X. Stephenson
c. p. Swain, V. S. Collins, w. o. Hurst
Stewards Endowment-T E Martin
dale, j. A. Arters, Robert Watt, Q. A
Grise, c. p. Swain, William Taylor
= William H. Jackson, H. s. Goldey
Joseph Smithers, Isaac X. Wright, f
Dawson, c. A. Mckinney.
Ministerial Qualifications-C. f. At
kins, T. e. Martindale, John France, j
w. Easley, e. II. Nelson, c. S. Baker
II. S. Thompson, c. w. Prettyman.
Auditing-Julius DOdd, J. o. Sypherd
] l.. p. Corkran, J. NJ. Mitchell, Adam
Stengle.
W
Townsend, +. c. McSorley, c. A. Hill
T. L. Terry, G. r. Hardesty.
Z. NJ DOugherty was transferred
from the Minnesota Conference to tn,
Wilmington Conference. DR.. Ezra
Tinker and Mr.. Dougherty were intro
duced to the audience.
TWO OTHER CONFERENCES.
In the Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Churcl
yesterday, at Clearfield, Bishop Nind'
spoke of the reluctance with which h'
undertook the making of ministerial
appointments. In the afternoon tn
temperance question was discussed, ant
in the evening the anniversary OF tn
Church Extension Society was held.
Bishop Newman presided at the open
ing Of the Philadelphia Conferenc
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Beth
lehem, yesterday. A resolution wa
adopted in favor Of the speedy ratifica
ton of the arbitration treaty. The an
niversary of the Church Extension So
ciety was held in the evening.
NOTES OF THE CONFERENCE.
The Committee on Ministerial Quail
)hcations was continued for three years
! and the following were elected confer
{ ence stewards: p. II. Rawiins, c.
Sheppard, John France and J. S. Wick
5 line.
It Bishop Walden made a short openin
n address, in which he referred to tn
I Importance Of all the ministers bein
d prompt, and the hospitality Of the pee
i pie of ChestertOwn.
h The most of yesterdays mornin
y session was devoted to the appoint
s ment of standing committees and III
n handing of reports to the statistica
= secretary.
j. Yesterday afternoon the Histories
II Society celebrated its anniversary, an
o speeches were made by several of tn
l. oder members of the conference.
Last evening Bishop Walden deliver
ed his lecture, Africa, Its Evangeliza
a tion,' to large audience.
: CLEVELAND IN WILMINGTON
II Ex-President Grover Cleveland pass
cd fbrCarcrb fr1o Z