The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-31
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
LOWER WABASH UNITED BRETHREN
END THEIR SESSION.
Ministers Are Assigned to the Various
Charges - Westfield College to
Have New Faculty.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Aug. S0.-The United
Brethren Conference of the Lower Wabash
Valley closed to-day with a sermon by
Bishop Matthews and the announcement
of the assignments OF ministers Tor next
year. The following conference officers
were also named: Sunday school treasurer.
j. r. Schaeffer, Olney, ILL.,: conference
treasurer. E. Boley. Olney. H.; treasurer
of publication fund, l.. H. Cooley, Paris.
ILL.,; manager Of educational rallies, S. Mills,
Westtield. purse was made up OF contri-
buttons by delegates for w. c. Smith, who
has been conference missionary treasurer
for forty-two years. The final sermon was
delivered this evening by Rev. William Bell
ID. d., missionary secretary of Dayton. Min
listers of the conference occupied a number
of the city pupilts to-day.
Bishop G. NJ. Matthews, who has been
presiding, after his sermon this morning
announced the following assignments for
the year, there being more than an ordinary
number of changes: Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, dis
trict, j. Is. Norviel, presiding elder; Mrs.
Ona Albert Metropolis missionary station;
C. w. Bauman, Blueford circuit; L. Boey,
Browns circuit; j. Cougill. Calhoun circuit;
w. l.. Duncan, Olney missionary circuit;
j. r. Ferguson, Hamletsburg; j. G. Fow-
Ter. St Francisville circuit; c. "A. Hall, Mt
Nebo circuit; W. G. Harbert, Olney circuit;
w. A. Haycock, Yale circuit; l. s. McIver,
Birds circuit; w. r. Muncie. Flora circuit;
Mrs. III. j. MusSelman, New Hebron cir
cult; j. l.. Pellum, Vienna circuit; l.. NJ
Pierson, Sumner circuit; L. Walters, YER
gennes circuit; j. p. Watson. Mt Vernon
missionary station; l.. p. White. Parkers-
burg circuit.
Westfeld district. ]. b. Connect, presiding
elder: q. w. Ball, Greenup circuit; j. Coff-
Point circuit: r. Griffin. Loogootee circuit;
w. H. Halberstadt Cation station; j. Me
Inman, Dalson circuit; A. Il. Kosht, Union
circuit; II. w. Lashbrook, Redmon circuit;
Z. o. Myers Woodbury. circuit; j. +. Pease.
Toledo circuit; G.. w. Pedrich, Beecher City;
G. w. Reed, Island Grove circuit; III. 5.
Reese, Clarksburg circuit: A. Rider, Mt.
Carmel circuit; ID. X. Stevenson, Edgewood
circuit; d. r. Seneff, d. d., Westfield sta
ton.
Terre Haute district J. L. Brandenburg,
presiding elder: II. w. Broadstone, Center
Point circuit: l.. III. Cooley. Oak Hill cir
cult; L. T.. Foreman, Vermilion circuit; j.
f. Fowler, Ashmore circuit j. A. Hawkins,
Casey station; p. f. Retiring. Terre Haute
missionary station; A. II. Kegy, Prarieton
circuit; S. f. Long, Terre Haute station;
A d. Markley. New Goshen circuit; l.. K.
Miller. Lewis circuit; j. I. McCreery. Robin
City circuit; Il. j. Richey, Mt. Zion circuit;
n. Z. Roger, Oblong circuit; S. o. Stoltz,
Marshall circuit; T. d. Spyker, Paris mis-
SiO1dTy SldllOD
III. Coen and w. T.. Anderson are confer
ence evangelists and w. G. Smith and S.
Mills, missionary agents
Perhaps the most gratifying reports heard
by the conference were as to the prospects
for the church college at Westfield, ILL.,,
which is getting out of debt and charging
the scope of its work. The term which will
begin on Sept. will bring together almost
an entirely new faculty. as follows: w. r.
Shuey A. M, president and professor of
philosophy; U: j. Daugherty. Lebanon Val
ley College, Dallastown, Pa. professor of
natural science; O., III. Charles, Otterbein
University. Westville, o., professor of
Greek and mathemtics; Lloyd GobIe. ILL
nois State Normal, professor of history
and English literature; Roxana Goble. Uni
versity of Illinois, professor of Latin and
German: Mary Iva Best, Conservatory of
Otterbein University, instructor i'm music
and voice culture; Effie Bigelow, Westfield
College, instructor commercial law; Cora
Hines. Evanston, ILL.,, teacher of elocution
and physical culture; Ida Gossage, Scots
burg, Ind, instructor in stenography and
typewriting; Lulu Barlow, Robinson, ILL.,
instructor in drawing, painting and design
ing.