The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-26
Report Submitted in Reference
to Southland College Shows
That Much Good Has Been
Accomplished There.
INSTITUTION Is MAIN
TANNED FOR NEGROES.
Care of Three Indian Missions
Has Been Transferred to
The Kansas Body---Other
Action Is Taken. {

There was a larger attendance thar
has characterized In of the sessions
of the Indiana yearly meeting up-to
date, his morning when Clerk Timothy
Nicholson called the meeting to order
that it might again the regular
business sessions. In addition to the
minutes of those members of the
church visiting here which were read
Wednesday the miutes of John Henry
Douglas, of Pasadena, California,
George w. Adams, Shawnee, Oklahoma,
and Earl ]. Harold of Wooster, Mass,
were read and the visiting delegates
welcomed to the sessions of the Indiana
body. The sessions of the morning
were featured by the lively discussion
arising after the report from the South
land college was read, all of which IA
vored a nor active policy of church
extension by the Friends church as a
whole.
The report of the missionary board
of Southland college, which is under
the domination of the Indiana yearly
meeting showed that the school for the
colored young people is progressing
rapidly and work there has been again
taken up with renewed energy. South
land college is one established for the
negroes by the Friends, near Helena.
Ark. Harry C. Wolford and wife.
president and matron of Southland
college, will at the end of the coming
school year sever their connection with
the institution. They have had charge
for four yaorS All dnhtc of tho inSti-
tuition have been cancelled. The pres
ident's report showed the school in a
prosperous condition with an enroll
ment of 80 students. 1872 in the Eng
lish department, 81 in the normal de-
partment, - in the college department
and 40 in the department of music.
The receipts and expenditures at the
college during the past year, including
several improvements, was $~6,415.46.
The apportionment annually given by
the Indiana meeting to the college was
again asked this year.. Edward Bells,
corresponding secretary of the mission
short address in which he cited the
present needs of the college. There is
a crying need for new beds in the boys
dormitory, he said, and for this and
some furniture for the teachers hall.
a large collection was taken at the
meeting this morning. Homer L..
Thomas, principal or the school, is in
Richmond, and he said that the school
is doing a great WORK among the ne
groes. the students are not only will
ling to deprive themselves of almost
everything in order hat they may at
tend the school, but are eager to learn
and can do SO easily. The older peo-
pie, near Helena, Ark, who know the
school, are doing everything they can
to encourage its growth.
Urge Church Extension.
William A. Macy, Dorothy E. Luther.
John w. Harvey, Nathan Gilbert, Elma
H. Jay, Caroline Edgerton and Robert
B. Henley were chosen to nominate
three people to take the place of those
whose terms have expird on the South
college board.
The Friends. above all Others, it was
asserted in the discussion which follow
ed the reading of the Southland col
lege report. are the slowest along lines
of church extension. They fail to &C.
cept the openings. A more liberal pol
icy of church extension should be
adopted and followed in the future.
The reports of the committees on
Indiana affairs. both from the Indiana
yearly meeting representatives and
associated executive committee on
affairs occupied much time.
1t was shown that the Indiana affairs
were in good condition and were pro-
crossing.
Case Is Transferred.
Since the Ottowa. Modoc and Hill
side Indian missions are in territories
nearer the Kansas yearly meeting, it
was thought best that these stations
be transferred to the care of the Kan
yearly meeting. The secretary OF
has given the Indiana yearly
meeting a patent in fee for the lands
surrounding the stations OF Shawnee.
kickapoo and Otoe, and through this
the Indiana meeting comes into pos
session of lands valued at near
10000. The discussion on Indian
affairs occupied considerable atten-
ton and for the first time in several
years the regular order of business
had to be abandoned, the epistles
from two yearly meetings going un-
read.
At the sessions this morning the
Winchester quarterly meeting submit
ed a proposition whereby several
monthly meetings would be combined
nto a new quarterly meeting. No fin
Il action was taken on the matter By
he Indiana body.
The East Main Street Friends
church is a busy place during the SEES
lions of the yearly meeting. All the
committee rooms are occupied at the
Using of each session.
This afternoon Judge Samuel Art
nan of Lebanon spoke to the Friends
IN temperance. The judge of the
Boone circuit cour took occasion TO
,ay his compliments to the supreme
.ourt, while he discussed the temper
nee question as a whole from the le
,a1 standpoint. His address was