Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-03
ASSIGNMENT OF BISHOPS
At the Semi Annual Conference at
New Haven.

| New Haven.
New Haven. Conn.,, Nov. 1.-THE
Methodist bishops who have ended their
semi-&nn:al conference here, have Sc
lected as the commission on the unfit
cation OF the different Methodist
churches in Japan. Bishop Cranston,
, Rev. A. B. Leonard. who is the mis-
sionary secretary. Rev. C. w. Smith
| of P1tt;burg. Pa. Lemuel Skidmore OF
New York ard Hon. c. z. Lincoln OF
Troy, N. Y.
The bishops Of the commission on the
consolidation of the benevolent socie-
ties are Warren. Flwer and Fitzgerald.
The six ministers and the six laymen
| on the commission are yet to be ap-
pointed
Inc bishops have before them for
further consideration the matter of al
| ieged restriction Of religious liberty in
| Bolivia. The acknowledgement by the
bishops of the protest against certain
appointments by Bishop Medley in the
Buffalo conference will be in the form
of letter stating that the bishops have
no jurisdiction in the matter. In ex-
PLANTATION of this Bishop Walden says
that the bishops are responsible to the
general conference and not to each
other on the matter of appointments.
The list of assignments Of bishops to
the various conferences was agreed TO
with several changes to be made by a
subcommittee which held a sitting,
Wednesday. Most Of the bishops who
had no further business to consider left
for Worcester on morning trains.
Bishop Walden. this noon. announced
the appointment Of the following COM
missions:
Unification of book concerns. Minis
tiers j. r. Day. Syracuse N. Y: c. H.
Buck. Newark. n. j.; E. NJ Mills. Uti-
ca, N. Y: w. w. Evans. Lewiston,
Pa; D. w. c. Huntington. Lincoln,
Neb.: c. L. Wade, Fort Wayne Ind.
and G. e. Addicks. Warrentown, Mo.
Laymen. G. F. Washburn. Boston,
Calvin Whitney. Norfolk. O.: j. f. An
mis-. Chattanooga. Tenn: w. H. Crog-
man. Atlanta. Ga: r. H. Beggs, Den
yer, Col, J. NJ. Stubs, Chicago; F. A.
Chamberlain. Minneapolis, and r. A.
Booth. Eugene, Ore.
Consultation of benevolent societies.
Bishops Warren. Fowler and Fitzger-
aid; ministers. ]. S. Chadwick. Brook
lyn: J. N. Buckley. New York: G. b.
Eckman. New York; Samuel Plantz.
-- F. D. Board, California, J. NJ.
Darrell, Dover. N. H. Laymen, ]. L.
Romer -; J. E. Ingraham, Balti-
more: w. F. Boyd, Cincinnati. c. d.
Antrim. -; c. I. Cochran. Los An
geles, and f. L. Dobbins, New Jersey.
The following assignments of bish-
ops to the spring conferences We're
made:
Bishop Mcdowell. Arkansas confer
ence at Stuttgart, Jan. -; Little Rock
at Fordyce, Ark, Jan. 10: Missouri, at
Chillicothe. Mar. Is; st. Louis at Farm
ington, Mo-, March %.
Bishop Moore, Baltimore conference
at Washington, March %; East Ger
man at Scranton Pa, April s; Wash
ington at Winchester. Va. April IL;
Vermont at Enosburg Falls, April 19.
Bishop Joyce, Northwest Kansas at
Smith Center March 5; Central Mis-
souri, at st. Louis, March 8; Kansas at
junction City, March Is; South Kan
sas at lola, March %: Southwest Kan
sas at Peabody, March 90.
Bishop Fitzgerald, Central Pennsyl-
vania at Berwick, March %; Porto
Rico at Arecibo, Feb. Is.
Bishop Perry, Delaware conference
at Dover, Mich, March Is: Newark at
- March ~; Northern New York
at Watertown. March L..
Bishop Goodsell. East Maine at Ban
Tor, April 10; New Hampshire at Clare
mont, April II; Wilmington at Will
mington, Del, March Is.
Bishop Fowler, East Swedish at Bos-
ton, March 80; Maine at Gardiner.
April II; New England at --, April
5.
Bishop McCabe. Florida at Ocala.
Feb. 2: Philadelphia at Allentown, Pa.
March Is; st. Johns. Seabreeze. Fla,
Jan. Is.
Bishop Spellmeyer. Gulf at Closter.
Miss, Feb. 2; Louisiana at Monroe,
Jan. Is; Mississippi at Natchez. Jan.
10: North Indiana at Portland. March
): Upper Mississippi at Columbus, Jan.
IL.
Bishop Hamilton. Lexington at Lou
isvil]e XIV, March 8; New England
Southern at -, March ~; New
York at ---. March 3.
Bishop Warren. Lincoln at Colorado
Swings March 2: New York East at
waterbury. Conn.,, March 5; Troy at
Saratoga, April IL.
I,;shop Cranston, New Jersey, at At
lantic City. March s; Virginia at Wise,
March 16; Wyoming at west ftts-
town. April 5.
The conferences in Europe were as
signed to Bishop Burt. those in Mexico
to Bishop Wilson and those in South
America to Bishop Medley.
BATES COLLEGE.
Interest in Football Now at Its
Height.
Lewiston, Me-, Nov. 2.-(Special)-
-, ~ eootbol enthusiasm Of the sea-