Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-10
HELD ITS FINAL, MEETING
Executive COMMITTEES Of District Endeavor-
ers in Sessions Last Evening.
Reports Read and Committees for
the Next Year Appeinted-The
Coming EAhoi Service.


mittee of the District of Columbia Chris
tian Endeavor Union for the year 1s9G-'37
was held last evenings in the vestry of
Calvary Baptist Church. The meeting
opened with spirited song service and de-
votional exercises conducted by President
Miles M. Shand. The minutes of the July
meeting of the committee were read by the
secretary and approved. The roll call OF
societies disclosed that representatives Of
forty-three societies were present.
The report of the union lookout commit
tee, Miss Christine A. Poggensee, chairman,
was read by the secretary. The commit
tee reported that during the month of July
the plan of society intervisitation had been
very successfully carried out, large ma
jority of the societies participating.
The president read letter recently re-
ceived from Mr.. c. e. Titus, former Sec
rotary of the District Union, stating that
he and his wife would shortly sail from
San Francisco for China, where he las
been sent as a missionary by the mission
airy board of the Church of the Disciples OF
Christ. letter was also read from DR..
Marion McC. Hull, the first chairman of
the missionary committee of the District
union, stating that he would leave this
country for China about the middle Of Sep
TENDER. DR.. Hull Is sent as medical mis-
sionary by the Presbyterian board of for
eign missions. Great qualification was ex-
announcement of the intentions OF. these
two former Washington Endeavorers.
The Australian President.
Announcement was also made that Rcv
DR.. Silas Mead of Adelaide, Australia,
president of the Australian Christian En-
deavor Union, would reach the city today,
en- route home from the San Francisco
convention. DR.. Mead is to spend ,Ir or
five days in seeing the beauties Of the
capital city of America before returEin:
to his far-away home.
The president stated that he NOS i'm
portant item of business to come before the
executive committee at last nights meeting
was the appointment of the standing COM
mfttees of the union for the new year of
work. commencing September 1. The joint
committee on nominations consisting of
the retiring and incoming boards of officers.
presented the following report, which was
adopted, and the nominees declared elected:
Lookout committee-W. w. Tuckey.
chairman; w. L. Speiden, Miss Florence
Callahan. Miss Lillian Ritter, G. T. Prev
lit, B. F. Anderson, Clarence z. Yount r.
p. L. Smith. E. H. Hunter. J. NJ. Foster,
Miss Elsie Troutman. Miss Ella Morrison
and w. ]. Brewer.
Missionary committee-Mss Ella c. Ly
man. chairman; Miss E. NJ Dickinson. E.
p. Kicks. Miss Lena Sunny. Miss Sarah
Green; Miss Jennie E: Levering, Carl Ket-
tier, Mrs. r: E. L. Smith w. N. Crom-
we'll, r. S. Whaley, Miss Mollie S. Lord, ;
Miss Bernice Spies and Miss Estelle c.
Drane
PIP Press ens committee mini C. Adkins.
erson, Miles NJ. Shand and ]. NJ Morgan.
Music committee-PaSe L. Zimmerman,
chairman: Miss Alice M. Fletcher, Frank
A. Carpenter, E. R: Conner. Miss G. NJ.
Farabee. Miss Louie D. Leeds, R. T. Bal
lard, Harry G. KimbaH and Mrs. J. E.
Fout.
Good citizenship compittee-F M. Brad
ley, chairman; Chas. F. M. Browne, w. H.
Penneil, Prof. K. B. sWarder, NJ M Rouzer.
Judge Arson S. Taylor, B. F. Peston, c.
o. Bohrer and Washington Topham.
Good literature committee-Miss Zue H.
Crockett chairman I Miss Sarah f. White,
Miss Ella Chase MISS Bertha Simonds. n
E. Webster. e. II. Easterling, Miss Grace
Butler, Miss Jennie M. Spears Miss Edith
Compton, Mss Fife Bradfield and Miss
Nellie Boyden.
Echo Program.
Announcement was made of the Cali
fornia 1897 echo meeting, to be held Fri
day evening, August 20, in Calvary Bap-
fist Sunday School. House. Preparations
are being made for a large meeting, and
the officers of the union, confidently ex-
pect to crowd the spacious auditorium of
the Sunday school house. The program
will include addresses by the four city
pastors who made the trip to the San
Francisco conventicn: an address by Mr.
William L. Ellis OF PHILADELPHIA, and q
number of one-ninute speeches by those
who attended the convention at the Col
den Gate. Music will be lnterspersed and
at 9:30 o'clock the meeting will adjourn
to the first floor of the Sunday school
house, where the returned delegates will
hold an informal reception.
The meeting last evening closed with a
prayer service for the success of the work
of the union for the new year soon to be
entered upon.