Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-06
TIE CONFERENCE Today
Election Of Delegates to the Gen.
eral Conference One Of the In.
teresting Features
Lay Candidates Numerous and Elec.
ton Attended With Something
Of Political Methods.
Good Reports Made by the Presid-
ing Elders-Annual Mission
airy Sermon.
oecial to Times-Republican.

Special to TimeS-Republican,
Waterloo, Oct. 6.-The conference or
gained this morning. AT o'clock this
AFTERNOON the formal ballot for lay dele
gates resulted in the choice of A. E.
Fisher, of Iowa City, and j. F. Merry, of
Dubuque.
Special to Republican.
Waterloo, Oct. 6.--The second day of
the annual session of the Upper Iowa
conference was very Interesting.
Among the important things was
motion to make the election of dele
gates to general conference, to be held
| in Chicago next June a special order of
the day for Friday. The report of Cor
lnell College was the best for years. The
great increase of productive endow-
ments, the increased number of stu
|dents, there being 147 in the freshman
class. the erection of new and improved
buildings, and above all the determina-
ltion on the part of the faculty and
friends to make it one of the best COL
Ileges in the land.
! Dr. Mason (colored), of Cincinnati
|secretary of the Freedman's Aid and
Southern Education Society, was intro
lduced and gave brief address, show
ing the developments in the branch of
church work represented. Again in the
evening he addressed large and en-
thusiastic audience on the needs of the
white and colored people of the south.
Mr.. Mason himself is product of the
society he represents. He is a man of
high intellectual culture, an orator of
rare ability and thorough represent
tative of his race.
In the afternoon Rev. Frank w. Luce
4 preached the annual missionary SER
mon, which is said by the older mem
bers of the conference to be one of the
Very best in thirty years.
| The forenoon's business consisted of
lhearing reports from the presiding ell
lders of the districts and the choosing OF
La place for meeting next year. Usage
was presented by Rev. F. NJ. Robertson
as the city for the next conference and
was unanimously chosen.
The upper Iowa lay conference met
this morning and was attended with a
great deal of interest. The only specific
work this meeting has to perform is the
election of two delegates to TIE genera
conference of the church which meet:
next year in San Francisco. Consider
progress in the interest of the severa
candidates and the general aspect o
things somewhat resembles that famil
! liar TO attendants upon political con
2 ventions The candidates for election
6 as delegates are:
! ID. B. Snyder, Lyons.
7 w. III. Hand, Maquoketa.
, l. F. Reed, Clinton.
w. F.. Johnston, Toledo.
j. j. Clark. Mason City.
, A. +. Swisher. Iowa City.
J j. f. Merry, Dubuque.
L. b. Taylor, Hampton.
+. u. Smalley, Wayerly.
r j. G. Marietta, Ninton.
1 The exercises yesterday afternoon
$ consisted of a foreign missionary meet
2 ing. in charge of Miss Haskell, nativ
e missionary from India. In the evening
e DR.. William f. Mcdowell, of Ney
t York, gave a most instructive an
I pleasing address at the Educational So
lciety anniversary.