Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-30
fellows in the county, many of whom
paid UP and settled the cases brought
against them, who can maintain the
same defense.
NEW HALL FOR LAWRENCE.
Large Contributions Assure It-Meth-
odists Assigned to Pulpits

MdflneCle, WIS, Sept. 2S.-LaWrence
university is to have a new science
hall to cost $4,000, exclusive of equip
ment. This announcement was made
at the Methodist conference when DR..
]. E. Farmer made known the con-
tribution Of Louis Gram of this city.
of $1,000 for this purpose, and followed
it with the further announcement that
ex-Congressman Stephenson had do
mated 5000. The new building is
to be known as the Robert c. Stephen
son hall. The surprise did not stop
here, for when the uproarious applause
subsidized DR.. Farmer read a letter
from DR.. H. A. Kirschner of Chicago,
stating that he would contribute
$4,000 for the equipment of the build
ing. DR.. Farmer thought the confer
C1Ce CuoEtt % donate $1,000, and
called for contributions. Revs Web
ster Millar of Waukesha and Willis
Cooper of Winneconne contributed
500 each. George F. Reynolds of
Omro and w. J. Olmstead of Milwau-
kee, $50 each, and Revs A J. Mead,
Farmer, Perry Millar, George Trever,
William Clark, T. W. North and w. E.
Morris, s25 each. F'ifty-four ministers
contributed $40 each for their wives,
making total of $2,240. The build
ing will be brick, three stories high,
and will have a tower.
lowering over the conference like
a powder magazine suspended over
blazing fire, has been one of the great
est sensations of the Methodist year,
and only the greatest tact and nicely
prevented the explosion. Had the bolt
fallen it would have precipitated an
| three years ago and at that other
conference which Bishop Fowler pre-
| sided over at Appleton ten years ago.
Party politics make strange bedfellows
and Methodist politics are subject to
the rule, and the religious ups and
| downs are just as marked as in the
secular game, so that it is not, per-
haps, strange that the spirit which ex-
pounds the principles of brotherly love
and good fellowship should some
times give way and angrily burst forth
with, "Oh, keep still; | saved your
| head and kept you from being turned
out into the country" accompanied
with turning away in unfeigned dis
| gust. And likewise it cannot be said
to be strange for the one rebuked to
retOrt with equal spirit and all but
pass the lie direct, though it may be
said to have passed indirectly and in
ferentially in a sharp, quick, THAT is
not so and you know it." This was
the elimination scene of a series of
somewhat similar and equally eXcit-
| ing encounters between one of the
formerly most prominent pastors in
the conference and one of the five
presiding elders. And this pastor
spoke his mind with independence and
force in criticising his superior's ac-
ton. And then he proceeded to charge
his presiding elder with being the
fault that all but disrupted his con-
gregation and turned the members
against him. While the storm was
happily stayed, it is by no means GER
tain that the outbreak will not come
DIT Wdupul heAI veal. IL III DC sui
prising to many if it doesn't.
Following is the assignment OF min
listers as made by Bishop Warren:
GAINESVILLE misunderstanding elder
F. A. Pease; Allen Grove and Fair.
child, A. Pomfret; Beloit, T. D. w
Peake; Clinton, w. P. Leek; Delava1
and Darien, S. w. Naylor; East Tro!
and Troy Center, j. A. Collinge
Edgerton and Albion, E. ]. Symons
EIkhorn and Bethel, w. w. Wood
side; Evansville, William Rawlins
Fort Atkinson, W. W. Stevens; Foot
vile, J J. Lugg; Heart Prairie and
La Grange, J. B. Noyes; Hebron ant
Rome, to be supplied; GAINESVILLE, Cour
Street, w. A. Hall; GAINESVILLE, FRS
church, H. w. Thompson; Jefferson
and JohnsOn's Creek, F. c.. Richard
son; Lake Geneva, J. J. Garvin; Lake
Mills and Milford, G. w. White; Lon.
don, to be supplied; Lyons and Spring
| Prairie, M. A. Drew; Magnolia, H
Sewall; Milton Junction and Koshko-
nong, A. w. Stephens; Milton, F. F.
Sherwin; Orfordville and Plymouth, tt
be supplied; Palmyra and Little Prai
RE, G. w. Pratt; Palmyra circuit, F.
| C. Brayton; Richmond and tiers Cor
rers, J. G. Lang; Sharon, Z. c..
| Potter; ShOpiere, J. R. Fretts Slough
| ton and Wheeler Prairie, R. K. Mana
| ten; Whitewater, E. Perry.