Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Sunday Schools Of City to
Meet October 81.
DELEGATES CHOSEN
ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEES
AND USHERS.
Field Secretary Pearce to Be Present
and Deliver Addresses-Program
of Opening Session.
DELEGATE CHOSEN

The eleventh annual convention of the
Sunday School Association of the District
of Columbia will be held in the First Con-
grcgational Church. 10th and G streets
northwest. October 81. November / and :.
The program is in charge of a committee,
composed of w. w. MILAN. president of the
association. chairman: W. S. Shalienberger,
f. l. Booraem. J. H. Lchliter r. A. Bal
derson. Mrs. Weston Flint and Miss Kate
s. White.
Other committees have been appointed as
fellows:
Ushers-William H. White ]. e. Nichol.
S. M. Croft Carlton r. Ball and B. S.
Gable.
Musc-Harry G. Kimball. chairman; R.
A. Balderson. Mrs. Alice K. McMichael,
George Newton and Mrs. Chas Trazzare.
Press-Eugene c. Brown, chairman; Jas.
l.. Ewin and George L. Beeler
Audting-Jno. S. Afeman. chairman; G..
w. Bohannon and George w. Pratt.
Credentials and badges-A. L. Dietrich,
chairman: H. L. Buell.. W. J. Bowman,
John E. Dawson and Albert E. Ogg.
Appliances and equipment-Mrs Sallie
North. Miss Belle Meany. r. E. Harvey c..
c. Purcell. F. E. Woodward and Miss Lydia
Is. Marshall.
About forty-three schools have already
of delegates selected. and a very large at
tendance is indicated.
Program Of the Evening Session.
The program al the opening session Mon
day evening. October 81, includes the an
nual report of the president remarks by
Commissioner Henry B. F. Mcfarland and
an address by Rev. Kerr Boyce Topper,
DID,. of Philadelphia. on the subject The
Peerless Book"
Sessions will be held Tuesday afternoon
and evening and Wednesday morning aft
ernoon and evening, and it is announced
that at all the sessions after the first Field
Secretary w. c. Pearce of Chicago will be
present, and at most of them he will speak
Some of the topics which he will discuss
are: The Teacher Preparing The Teach
er Teaching and approved Workmen:
How to Secure Them
The session of Tuesday afternoon will be
devoted to primary work, with Mrs. Zillah
Foster Stevens of ST. Louis as the princi-
pal speaker The Wednesday morning Ses-
sion will be devoted to the interests of the
home department special musical pro-
gram has been arranged for each session.
One of the features of the convention
will be the reports at the Wednesday aft
ernoon session from the delegates to the
worlds fourth Sunday school convention,
held in Jerusalem in April last. Those who
Sallie Russell Reeves, Miss Katharine J.
Laws and Rev. c. II. Butler. On Wednes-
day evening Rev. A. K. Wright, pastor of
the Centennial Baptist Church of this city,
who attended the Jerusalem convention as
delegate from the state of Kentucky, will
speak on The Land and the Book
The Sunday School Association is inter-
denominatiOnal in character, embracing all
the white Protestant schools of the Dis
trct, numbering about 155, with nearly
10000 officers, teachers and scholars en-
rolled.
A partial list of delegates chosen by the
different denominations to the eleventh an
nlIal convention is as follows: