Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-11
LEADERS ARE NAMED
Foreign Missionary Society Re.
elects President Guine
and Other Officers.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS ON WORK
Missionaries Talk Interestingly of
Conditions in China and
Elsewhere.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS ON WORK

The fourth business session of the
northwestern branch of the Woman s
Foreign Missionary society opened
this morning at $50 at the First Meth
odist church with devotional half
hour conducted by Mrs. S: A. Kean,
Of Evanston. After the reading of the
minutes a resolution was adopted
providing for the representation of all
the Chicago auxiliaries. The election
of officers was next taken up. The
nominating committee presented the
| following nominations, which were
adopted:
President-Mrs. William E. Quine,
Chicago.
First Vice President-Mrs. Milton
S: Terry Evanston, III.
Corresponding Secretary - Mrs.
Frank p. Crandon, Evanston, Ill.
Secretary of Home Department
Mrs. l.. A. Calder, Evanston. Ill.
Recording Secretary-M l.. H.
Jennings, Chicago.
Treasurer-Mrs. B. D. York, De-
troit. Mich.
Assistant Treasurer-Mrs. Jonathan
Dunn, Detroit, Mich.
Branch Organizer-Miss Frances j.
Baker.
Auditor-Mrs. J. P. Gilmore.
Delegates to the General Executive
Committee Meeting-Mrs. j. H. Irish,
Mrs. Abel Bliss; reserves, Mrs. A j.
Powell, Mrs. Louis Meredith.
Conference Secretaries.
In addition to the branch officers
the following conference officers were
chosen:
Central Illinois, Mrs. j. A. Ryer-
son secretary. Mrs. j. T. Haggard
treasurer; Illinois, Mrs. w. A. Smith
secretary, Mrs. Margaret II. Robin
son, treasurer; Wisconsin, Mrs. l.. N.
Wheelan secretary, r. n. Bosworth
| treasurer; southern Illinois, Mrs. E.
A. HyPes secretary, Mrs. Jonathan
Seaman treasurer; northern Indiana,
Mrs. Harriet l.. Kemper secretary,
Mrs. Nj. II. Mendenhall treasurer !;
| northwestern Indiana, Mrs. A. G. Nc
Kinsey secretary, Mrs. l. S. Buckles
treasurer; Indiana, Miss Margaret /.
Dickson secretary, Mrs. Anna B.
Adams treasurer; Michigan, Mrs. c.
b. Carpenter secretarv. Mrs. w. S.
Keet treasurer; Detroit, Miss Frances
L. Baker secretary, Miss Louise V.
Wilson treasurer; western Wisconsin,
Mrs j. II. Irish secretary, Mrs. W.
A. Lawson treasurer.
The secretary then read the tele-
gram sent Mrs. G.. G. Hudson, who is
detained home by illness: I'VE miss
you. Read verse on calendar for Nov.
10" On motion it was resolved TO
send a telegram of sympathy and
coincidence to Mrs. j. r. Hit.
The report of conference secretaries
was next taken up, the first one being
that of the Wisconsin conference, by
Mrs. L. n. White. Reference was
made to the entertainment of the
branch at Appleton last year and the
increase of enthusiasm and mission
airy interest which followed. Self de-
NAL week resulted in collection of
S3S6.57, which was applied in sending
out new missionaries. Receipts for
the year were 81, SS4.6S
Miss Thoburn, for the Indiana con-
ference, reported receipts for the week
of prayer S85S.55; thankoffering,
81, sos. o.; total for the year, $12,-
71411, or an increase of So, 443. So
Mrs. Abel Bliss reported for the Rock
river conference total receipts of $21,-
171.14, an increase of 81, 320.70. A
report was read for west Wisconsin
by Mrs. l.. F. Halsted, and one for
northwestern Wisconsin by Mrs. A.
G. Mckinsey. Mrs. Willard Drury.
sister of Bishop Hartzell, placed on
sale so pounds of coffee that had been
raised by christian converts in Lii
IBERIA, Africa, and sent to America to
be sold and the proceeds devoted to
furthering the cause of missions.
Flint. Mich, Next.
Invitations to the branch to meet
next year at Detroit, and Flint. Mich,
were presented, and when put to a
vote the latter was chosen.
Mrs. Hartzell, mother of the bishop,
was introduced to the mbly and
received with a Chautauqua salute.
The chair asked all charter mem
bers TO rise, with a view to finding
out how many would attend a recog-
milton meeting, and II responded.
These ladies have been engaged in the
work almost thirty years.
rJNANCTAI AFFaTRS nE RRaNcH