The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-09-17

Emma clifford Andrews and chill
dren Of Des Moines are at Yearly
Meeting, also Mrs. w. c.. Edinger
Edythe AMI Mrs. Lura A. Perdue.
Some of those in attendance from
Chapel are p. P. Bogue, Anna L. Nor
gan, Ollie Wheeler and Sarah e.
WINNER.
Ella ]. Diggs and Laura X. Max
well are here from Earlham.
Clyde Coffin, president Of Pleasant
Plain C. E., who has been here en-
joying Yearly Meeting, returned
home Thursday evening.
Joseph Sopher, pastor at Pleasant
Plain, and family, are tenting this
year. There are several represent
atives from there, among them Gil
bert Hoskins, Joel Hoskins, Elwood
Hadley, Jesse Tandy Williams, Jane
Neatly, Seth, Fora and Omar Hos
kins, Elizabeth Heston, Sina Pickard,
Kate Crumbley, John Gilmore, Jere-
miah Coffin, Henry Pickard and
Rhoda Melville.
Those here fom Richland are Lola
Hobson, NJ. Grace Allen, Anna L. AL
len, Blanche tombstone, Eli Jones,
Aaron Stalker and wife, Howard
Brown and wife, Lillian Logan and
Elwood Hadley.
Abram Jones and wife are here
from Woolson, also Sumner and VIM.
McCracken.
Ellis A. Wells, pastor at Spencer,
is attending Yearly Meeting.
Some of those attending from Sa-
lem quarter are Bessie Ferguson,
Alma j. Kellum, Louisa Richardson,
Rena Trueblood, A. F. Hinshaw, B.
M. Legere, John Long, Vora Parisho,
Gertrude Marriage, Caroline Jacob
son, Ellen Long, E. H. Parisho.
Mrs. Eva Kendle and baby, Of
Martinsburg, went home this morn
ing. Mrs. Kendle's mother is still
| here
Roy N. Wellington, A. H. Briggs
and Edwin Ellis are here from Spring
Bank, Nebraska.
Ada M. Branson is in attendance
from West Branch.
Elmer Perhberton and family are
here for the week.
High Point has some representa-
tives: B. F. and M. V. McCleary,
| Carrie Butler and z. Clark.
Zeno H Doan, pastor of Friends
Church, Danville, Ind, is in attend
ance this week.
Eta Deck is at Yearly Meeting,
having lately arrived from her work
at Sedalia, Mo. She is an old Penn
student.
| Mrs. Ella Thomas of Toronto, Can,
and her brother, Luther Hill, Of
Earlham, arrived this morning to be
present at the remainder of the
Yearly Meeting.
(From Mondays Daily.)
Sunday was a great day at Iowa
Yearly Meeting, both in attendance
and in work for The Master. The pro-
gram as announced in Saturdays
Herald was carried out with few
changes regarding the services at the
Yearly Meeting House. The entire
week has been rainy and heavy
showers late Saturday evening left
the sod of the grounds saturated Sab
| bath morning. 1t was cool and
threatening also, but the attendance
was good. About noon the weather
faired and the afternoon crowd was
almost it's usual size. Order was un-
usually good and during the program
of the three open air meetings at 2
o'clock the majority of the great
crowd gave good attention to what
was being said. And as someone said
of himself, "there are great many
people about who are QuaHsrs one
day in the year."
The devotional meeting Saturday
morning was led by Nellie M. Law
head. The subject was "The
Church's Need of the Holy Ghost.
The meeting closed with an effective
altar service.
The business meeting opened at 9
o'clock. 49, ..
The report of the Book and Tract
Committee was read, requesting an
appropriation of $500.
Minutes were read for Nathan and
Esther Frame. Both brought greet
ing in their earnest, characteristic
way.
The report of the Trustees of the
Wells and Johnson funds was ac-
cepted.
Pres. Hobbs was given a few min
utes in which he spoke of the effort
being made to establish Biblical
Department at Guilford college as a
memorial to Harriet Green, an Eng
lish Friend, who died there few
months ago. At the time of her
death she was laboring for the estab-
lishment of such department and
now that she has gone to her reward,
Friends of both continents have in
terested themselves IN what is called
the Harriet Green Memorial Fund.
Saturday Afternoon.
Promptly at 2 o'clock the clerk
read the opening minute.
The epistle from Ohio was read.
The following were appointed toI