The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
WEST BRANCH WILL
HAVE A CENTENNIAL
Occasion Will Be One of Much
Interest, Especially to
The Friends.
HAS INTERESTING HISTORY.
CELEBRATION is SET FOR ocTO-
Der II AND IL AND THERE ARE
NAMES OF SEVERAL LOCAL
PEOPLE ON PROGRAM.

A home coming of no ordinary inter
est is that in connection with the cen
tennial celebration, commemorative OF
the founding of the West Branch quar-
terly meeting of Friends at West Mil
ton, O., October II and II. The West
Branch quarterly meeting is the Oldest
in the Indiana yearly meeting, and a
large number of people residing in
Richmond and surrounding territory
were former members of the West
Branch meeting, and for this reason
the observance is of particular interest
among local Friends.
The West Branch meeting was found
ed one hundred years ago, January 1,
last, but the committee in charge of ar
rangements thought the autumn
months more suitable for the proper
observance of the occasion. The
meeting occupies a prominent place in
American Friends history. Between
forty and fifty thousand Friends scat
tered throughout the Middle West, look
back with interest upon the organiza-
ton. Whitewater quarterly meeting
of this city is an off-shoot of West
Branch.
An excellent program has been ar
ranged and plans are already being
made for the entertainment of a large
number of people. The women's So
cieties Of the sister churches at West
Milton will serve meals for the occa
sion AS there are excellent trolley
connections between West Milton and
Richmond, a large crowd of Friends
of this city will certainly attend.
| A number of local people are on the
program, which is as follows:
Friday, Oct. IL
1OOO-Song service.
| Scripture reading and prayer
| .. -. .. J. Arthur Wollam
| Welcome address ...... 80.
| ... 80. j. Arthur Wollam
Response ......... Allen Jay.
1O:3O-Prehistoric West Branch 80.
II :1O-Historical. "reminiscences. of
| west BRANCH
.. E. Joseph Pemberton
II 3O-Historical "reminiscences of
West Branch E. .. :. .....
:. Enos Pemberton
II :5O-The Inner Light Nathan Frame
- :2O-Adjournment.
Afternoon
2:OO-Song ....... Jeanette Wollam
Prayer.
2:15-Quakerism and Slavery .....
.. May Pemberton
2:45-First Fifty Years of West
Branch ....... Arena Kersey
3:15-Memories of Fifty Years go.
. =. :. ......W. A. Jones
3:35-What Have Friends Contrib
? uted to Our Country?..
..... j. l.. Kittrell
, 4:15-Adjournment..
7:OO-Prayer.
Song ........ Ethel Coate
7:15-Reminiscences of West Branch
Robt. w. Douglas
7:35-The Quakerism of the 10th
Century :. -. Ebert Russell
Professor of Biblical in.
struction of Earlham college.
S:3o-SOng ............. Ethel Coate
Adjournment.
Saturday Forenoon =
I 9:3O-Scripture Reading.
Prayer.
Song ............ Celia Carroll
!. 9:45-The Branches that Have
Sprung from West Branch
Allen Jay
10:3O-Poem ........ "A. G. Mcdonald
. 1O45-Friends and Women Ministry
e. -. =. Daisy Barr
. 1:3O-The Friends and Peace .....
Cyrus Hodgin SHRD??. ~.
=. :. :. =. Cyrus w. Hodgin
Professor of History, Earl
ham college.
12:3O-Adjournment.
Saturday Afternoon
: 2OO-Devotion.
II Song. :. :. Jeanette Wollan
| 2:15-Permanent Elements of Qua
III Kerism ........J Edwin Jay
ii Professor of Biblical in
struction, Guilford college.
| 3OO-The Quakerism of the Future
ii >. .. 80. Ebert Russell
ii 4OO-Song.. go. 800. Celia Carroll
III Adjournment.
7:3O-Gospel sermon Esther Fran
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