The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-09
Next Yearly Meeting at
GuiIford College.
The Committee on the Suppression OF
Liquor Traffic Urge United Sup
port of This Measure
Memorial of Joseph
]. Cox.
Especial to News and Observer


High Point, n. c.. Aug. S.-The
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of
Friends came to q close this afternoon.
The business OF the meeting was con-
cluded very harmoniously and numer-
Gus expressions of satisfaction with
the work of the sessions were made
The visiting ministers spoke of their
interest i'll the Yearly Meeting this
year, and it was with reluctance that
the Friends separated at the close OF
the meeting. Next year the Yearly
Meeting is to be held ut Guilford Col
lege.
EpiStles were read this morning
from California and Ohio yearly meet
ings The Committee on Correspond
ence prepared and read the epistlc
from North Carolina to the other year
ly meetings
The Committee on the Suppression
of the Liquor Traffic made report
urging united support of the Watts
law and unceasing vigilance on behalf
of the temperance cause.
A memorial for DR. Joseph J. Cox
was read. AT the time of his death
year ago DIR. Cox held numerous
positions of responsibility in the Year
ly Meeting. of which he was for long
time treasurer and he was mayor of
High Point The reading of the me-
mortal recalled the meeting to sense
of the deep loss it had sustained in
this death and several of those pres
ent very feelmgly expressed the grief
that all felt.
The committees for next year are as
follows:
F'inance-John B. Griffin, L. Clark
son Mendenbali. Ada Black. George
w. White. JabeZ r. Mendenhall. vii
liam II. Worth, John S. Moore, Will
liam Grantham, Elias e. Spencer.
Lewis j. Hinshaw. Mollie S. Lowe, Will
liam w. Lassiter. John l.. Worth.
Samuel T.. Marshall, d. f. Sampson,
j. F. Williams. Mary Dixon. Alfred
uthrie, Rodema Wright. w. Jasper.
Thompson, Walphens. White, Mary j..
White.
First Day Schools. Il. Menden-
hall, general superintendent; Caleb
Mitchell, Emma White. Elma Hodgin.
Alice Massey Elwood Cox. Elizabeth
White, Raymond Binford Peace, T. S.
Blair j. f. Davis. Josiah Nicholson,
ali rantham. Clark Wilson, Henry
Hawkins. Anna J. Rugga, James Par
ker. Mary j. White. A w. Blair,
Dougan G. Cox, Wade Adams.
Evangelistic and Church Extension
Chairman. Mary G.. Woody; Super
| intendent. Mary l.. Cartland; Treasur-
er. George W. White. Albert Peele,
Alice White, Ohm S. Moore, John III.
Long. +. Il. Hackney, Eli Reece, ).
Louise Bridgers. Mary M. Hobbs,
| Thomas +. Andrew. Roxie ID. White,
| Ada e. Lee, John Griffin, Elias Elliott,
William G. Winslow. John l.. Worth,
Anna Brugg, Clara !. Cox.
Foreign Mission Board-Mary a.
Peele, Mary G.. Woody, Eli Reece.
Clara l. Cox, Sallie Winslow, Luelma
Moore, Josephus ID. Cox. Lorena Rey-
nolds, Lena Freeman Mamie Stew
art Rhoda M. Worth, Minnie Will
liams, Minnie Marshall. Cora Cox,
Mary Stanley, Elizabeth w. Nicholson.
Ada Blair.
Blue Ridge Mission-James l..
Garland, Elizabeth NJ. White, II. c..
Briggs Rhoda NJ. Worth. Sheppard
Nelson. d. f. Sampson, Edgar E. Far
low c. z. Frazier Mary E. w. White,
Julia S. White, Walphens White Mary
f.. NJ. Davis. David White, Cordela
Ledbetter, w. r. Hollowell. p. Is.
Hackney, j. Addison Hodgin.
Friends Orphanage-James e. Cart
land, Moses Hammond. John w.
Woody, Louisa Bridgers, Cyrus p. Fra
zicr. Mary E. Garland, Bertha Cox,
Adelaide Z. White.
Educatioh-C. p Frazier, Cora T..
White, ]. Milford Edgerton. Levi T..
Lowe, David Farlow. Sr., Walpnens
White, Eula Dixon, Martha Blair, l..
L. Hobbs, Zeno II. Dixon, Lottie Rob-
ertson. Edgar T. Snipes Mary M. Pet
ty d. Ralph Parker, David Coucn.
Girls Aid-Mary M. Hobbs Pris-
ella b. Hackney, Mary e. M. Davis,
son, Lena Freeman, Rachel Massey
Officers of the Yearly Meeting are
as follows: Clerk, L. L. Hobbs; Assist
ants, Priscilla =. Hackney, w. Jasper
Thompson; Announcing Clerk, Albert
Peele; Treasurer. Henry A. White;
Railroad Secretary. w. r. Parker
The position of statistical secretary
was created this year and Mary NJ.
Petty was appointed to inaugurate its
work.
Money was voted for next years
work among the various departments
of the church to the amount of ST.
455, divided as follows: Evangelistic
and church extension committee, $500:
Blue Ridge mission, $75; Friends Or
lphanage, $500; Friends foreign mis-
sions, 800; Peace committee, S15;
Temporary committee, $25; Bible
school committee. $40 disciplines for
distribution, $50; EXPENSES of five
years meeting, S55 Yearly Meeting
expenses and incidentals S395.
After the conclusion of the business,
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