The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-24
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CONSOLIDATE.
Christian Advocate and Southern
Methodist Recorder Conc 3
Together.
THE REV. Mr.. HOPE LEAVES
Rev, Ja,nes Canton, Jr., and.
Rcv.sJ. Sid1eyiPctcrs Will .
Conductsthc Paper.

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| With tho new your the Christian Adj
vocatc. OF this city will uppcar III now
form and under different management
Tho paper has Just been consolidated
with the Southern Methodist Recorder,
published ut Blackslone,' by tho Rev.
James Cannon, .r
a change has been impending for some
time, and while 1t will, therefore, create
ito great surprise, tho form in which it
comes will distinctly do SO. Tho Advocate
and the Recorder havo been at odds for
long, and tho Blackstone minister has
time and again opposed the policy of the
Richmond paper. Under tho consideration,
which goes into effect Junuary list, Inc
new owners OF tho Advocate nre Tho
Rcv. MIR. Cannon and tho Rev j. Sidney,
Peters, of Hampton. The former is to be
president of tho company and managing
cd tor, and the latter secretary and treas
Eurer and business manager. Tho Recorder
will go out OF existence, and tho new
paper will appear under is old name, tho
Baltimore and iRchmond Christian Adj.
vocnte DIR. r. J. Lafferty and DR.. s. Il.
Cox will continue on tho editorial staff.
assistant editor and business manager,
sewers his connection with the paper with
the current issue. lie will establish here
branch office OF tho MesscnEole General
Advertising Agency, Of Atlanta, Ga His
office will be the American National Bank
building from the first of the year.
THE. ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tic announcements Of these reVolu-
tionary changes in the management arc
made In the issue which came from the
press yesterday. 1t contains the follow
ing xplanatory notices:
Moved by the hope OF uniting The church
in Virginia in support Of it's conference
organ, have sold all my interest In the
Advocate to Revs. James Cannon, Jr., and
j. Sidney Peters. BY this purchase they
secure a large majority Of the stock Of the
Advocate Publishing Company, and will
assume management before the next
paper Is printed. My connection with the
paper ceases with this issue.
HERBERT M. HOPE.
A CARD.
Animated by tho desire to unite The
preachers and laymen Of the patronizing
conferences in the support Of one weekly
religious newspaper. the undersigned have
had several interviews which have pro-
d,lccd the following results:
~ Tho Baltimore and Richnond Chris
tian Advocate and tho uthern Mctho-
dist Recorder have been consolidated, und
will DO issued after January LIST as ono
paper under tho namo Of the Baltimore
and Richmond Christian Advocate.
(2) Nearly all OF the stock OF tho Ad-
vocate Publishing Company has passed
under the contrib Of the undersigned and
tho Advocate Publishing Company will
be reorsanlzed as speedily as the charter
and bylaws Of the company will admit.
(O Under the new organization James
Cannon Jr., will BIO tho president of the
company and managing editor Of the
paper, and r. Sidney Peters will be the
secretary and treasurer Of tho company
and business manager
% The contracts of the Advocate Pub
fishing Company with DR.. S. X. Cox, Of
the Baltimore Conference. and DR.. J. j.
Lafferty, of tho Virginia Conference, will
continue and be carried out as II there
had been no change In tho management.
Rov. H. M. Hope, having disposed Of all
his interests in the paper, will retire from
tho position Of associate editor and busl-
ness manager.
1t Is hoped by the now Management that
the result OF the reorganization will DO to
unite the entire body OF preachers and
laymcn In the hearty support Of a weekly
religious paper, which shall be, indeed.
an arm OF power to tho church in accom-.
plishinS her great mission.
JAMES CANNON, Jr,
55 j. SIDNEY PETERS.