The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31
METHOO|STS WILL MEET
Annual Conference to Be Held
in Butte Next Thursday.
PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY
All the Preachers of the Methodist
Church South in the State viii Be
Present Bishop Hendrix OF
Kansas City Will Preside.

The Montana annual conference of
the NJ. f. church south will
in Butte Thursday morning of this
week at the Idaho street church. corner
of Galena. The conference will bring
together in this city all preachers If
this denomination within the state. and
it is expected the proceedings of the
conference will be of an exceedingly
interesting character.
The conference will be called to order
at 8 o'clock by Bishop e. r. Hendrix
of Kansas City, who will preside during
the sessions. which will continue until
Monday. The conference will open
with devotional and communion serv-
ices, followed by the organization of
the conference, which will be merely
formal, as Bishop Hendrix has been in
vited especially to preside, and II has
been decided to select Rev. w. T. Gold
er of Townsend as secretary. The APP
pointment of committees will complete
the first f%orenoon's work. In the after
noon there will be preaching by one of
the members of the conference.
Friday reports of pastoral charges
will occupy the forenoon and there will
be preaching again in the afternoon.
Saturday morning will be devoted To
the consideration of committee reports
and the same afternoon programme
Will be observed as on the preceding
days.
Sunday will be the important day Of
the conference. Bishop Hendrix will
preach in the morning, followed by the
ordination of deacons. There will also
be services in the afternoon and even
ing and at the close of the evening
services the appointments will be an
nounced.
The NJ. f. church south has 10 pas
toral charges in the state and two pre-
siding elder districts. The Helena dis
trict is presided over by Rev. s. b.
Tabor and the Bitter Root district by
A. II. Kincaid.
The ministers who are expected to be
in attendance are: Bishop +. X. Hen
dirk, Kansas City: Presiding Elder
5. b. Tabor, Helena district; Presiding
Elder w. II. Kincaid, Bitter Root dis
trict; Rev. II. S. Clark, Willow Creek;
r.. L. Bramble, Bozeman; Rev. w. 7.
Colder, Townsend; Rev. d. B.. Price.
Helena; Rev. Il. +. III. Warren. East
Helena; Rev. Joseph Whiteside, late of
Nashville, Tenn, now of Boulder; Rev.
j. II. French, of the Bozeman circuit:
Rev. w. q. Forbis, Clyde Park: Rev.
A. A. Walker, Deer Lodge: Rev. Ber-
nard Pos, Hamilton: Rev. j. Hubs,
Corvallis; Rev. John H. Shelton, Hell
ena; Rev. T.. J. Stanley. Corvallis.
The lay delegates expected to be in
attendance from the Helena district
are: A. G. Clarke, Helena: S. b. Tut
tie, Whitehall; John Lewellin, Gallatln
valley; j.. w. KemDer. Butte.
From the Bitter Root district: Rev.
j. A. WATSON, Stevensville; John Mar
tin, Bitter Roof valley; Abram Collet,
Florence; Nathaniel Evans, Deer Lodge
valley.
The Woman's Home Mission society,
auxiliary society of the church, will
hold it's annual meeting during the con-
ference and will be presided over by
Mrs. Grille ohnson of Helena, the
president of the society.
1t is rumored that Rev. Shaeffer, the
present pastor of the Idaho street
church, will be called to another pas
torate.
Bishop Hendrix, who will preside at
the conference, is a distinguished di-
vine, being the youngest bishop in the
church. He is but 3S years of age, yet
is regarded as one of the most elo-
quent speakers in the ministerial pro-
fession of the country. He is a brother
of Banker Joseph Hendrix of New
York, one of the leading gold advocates
of the country.