Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-25
FAREWELL MEETING.
Exercises in Honor of Miss OIL
i've Hodges.
She Starts as Missionary to Japan Next
Saturday-W VIII be Gone Six Years
Much Praise of Her Work Here.

Saturday VIII be Zone Six Years
Much Praise of Her Work Here.
Exercises in honor Of Miss Olive
Hodges and her work for the Meth
odist Protestant church and it's auxil
iaries were held at the NJ. p. church
Sunday evening. Miss Hodges
starts Saturday, August 30, for ia
pan where she will remain for six
years as a missionary.
The friends OF Miss Hodges here
desired to pay tribute to her ser
vice to her home people before her
departure to the lost. In order to
express in public way their appre-
citation of her work and sell sacri-
fee, the greeting was prepared for
Sunday evening The regular
preaching hour was devoted to this
exercise.
Addresses reciting the loving ser
vices of Miss Hodges to her home
church were made by Miss LYDIA
Morris representing the Christian
Endeavor Society, Misses Bertha
and Cecil Pixler representing the
Junior c. E. Societies, Mrs. G. :.
Conn Tor the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, Mr. Frank Weaver
superintendent of the Sunday school,
and by her pastors Rev. Douglas
and Rev. Ireland. Rev. Ireland had
known her at her former home IN
Richie county. He spoke in the
highest terms of her character and
praiseworthy endeayor for the cause
of right since her childhood. His
eulogy was seconded in the hearts
of her numerous friends here.
Miss Hodges will start on her
long journey to Japan next Satur
day. She will go by way of Chicago
and ST. Paul arriving at Vancouver,
British Columbia, from which point
she will sail September Sth. The
voyage across the ocean will require
about eleven or twelve days if no
storms are encountered. The land
ing on the other shore will be made
at Yokohama, Japan, and from there
she will go to an inland town, Ma
goya, where she will spend the first
| year learning the japanese Ian
guage, and getting acquainted with
their customs and habits. The
next five years she will spend in
teaching the natives of Japan. Her
first station will probably be Yokoha-
ma, but that is not definitely decided.
She goes into the interior first year
so as to have better opportunity
to learn the language. The M. z.
church has mission school at Ma
goya, where the missionaries are
taught the language by a native
teacher.
Miss Hodges knows no one where
she goes. A classmate of hers at
Nashville University has been in
Japan as missionary tor few years,
but her station is not known. A
sister of Mrs. Gallup, Mrs. White,
is missionary at Tsyuyama. She
is sent out by another mission board.
Mr.. and Mrs. Totten from New
York and Chicago will meet Miss
Hodges somewhere on the journey
across the continent and accompany
her to Japan. They are also sent
out by the Methodist Protestant
mission board They are just mar
ried and will take this journey on
their honeymoon.
A number of Miss Hodges friends
recently presented her a new hun
bred dollar typewriter which she
will take on the trip. The work OF
this young lady in the church, Sun
day school, missionary society, and
Young Peoples Union has been most
helpful No less valuable was her
services to the public school, where
she had been assistant principal in
the High school for several years.
1t is with reluctance that the school
board gives her up from this posi-
ton, so efficient was her work.
She organized the woman's mis-
sionary society of her church here,
and the Junior Christian Endeavor
Society. She goes to her mission
work with the best wishes Of those
who will miss her CHEEKY disposition
and helpful encouragement.
Miss Hodges is the daughter OF
Mrs. and Mrs. J f. Hodges of North
High street Mr.. and Mrs. Hodges
will accompany her to Pittsburg on
the trip. She will attend the M. p
Conference at Grafton on Wednesday
and Thursday. She has the distinc
ton OF being the only missionary
sent out from this state by the board
this year. Though the term of alb
sence from home and friends seems
long, Miss Hodges looks forward
hopefully to results to be accom-
plished by her six years of ministry
to the eastern people who have not
learned of savior.