Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-04
McKinlay Of Dimond
Chosen President
Attendance Was Largest In Recent
History of State Organization.
VIII Meet In Sacramento
Next Year
Long Beach Office,
129 East Third Street.
Phone-=Home 297.

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LONG BEACH, July BE. McKinla!
of Dimond, former general secretary o
the California Christian EndeaYor un
ion, was today elected to the presidenc,
of that organization, succeeding Paul
Brown of Los Angeles. Charles Stew
art of Long Beach was elected stat
treasurer. Sacramento was decided OF
as the next meeting place.
Reports from state officers and iron
the guperintendents of department
were encouraging and showed grea
progress during the last year. Th
twentieth annual convention closed to
night, the attendance having been th
largest in the history of the organiza
tion. The total registration was 2475.
The full list of officers named today
by the nominating committee and elect
ed by acclamation by the convention
follows:
President, e. McKinlay, Dimond; gen
eral secretary, H. H. Godber, Pasadena
statistical secretary, Caroline McClis
Oakland; treasurer, Charles w. Stew.
art, Long Beach; first vice president
Charles Cunningham, Sacramento, re-
appointed second vice president Juliar
r. Hudson, Fresno; third vice presi.
dent, Fred H. Schauer, Santa Barbara
NELL, Los Angeles; intermediate super
intendent, Winffred Skinner, Pasadena
reappointed.
New superintendents-Qu hour
Miss Margaret s. Smith, Berkeley, re.
appointed missionary, Miss Mabe
Farmhouse, Watsonville, reappointed;
tenth legion, Miss Lenore Butler, Sar
Diego; citizenship and temperance, e
e. Edison, San Francisco; evangelistic
Paul c. Brown, former state president
floating, Evan r. Jones, Berkeley; hos.
pital, Mrs. M. H. Reeves, Santa Rosa
assistant junior, Kate Ellsworth, Oak
land; assistant intermediate, r. S.
Hawley, Berkeley; state delegate tt
Seattle international convention in July
Paul c. Brown.
The press and transportation superin'
tendents and field secretary will be
chosen by the executive committee.
The committee on resolutions reported
thanking Long Beach for the entertain
ment furnished; urging the various so
cieties represented in the union to en-
deavor again to secure the passage of 6
Sunday law, and protesting against the
sale of intoxicating liquors.
Honor Francis Murphy
Resolutions of coincidence with The
bereaved relatives of the late Francis
Murphy of Los Angeles were adopted by
acclamation.
Dr. A. S. Kelly of Oakland, chairman
of the meeting committee, announced
that an invitation had been received
from Long Beach to come here again
next year. The only other invitation re
ceived was from Sacramento. Although
it is customary for the convention tt
alternate between the north and the
south, the Long Beachites began tt
think that their invitation had been ac
cepted when DR.. Kelly said
''AlI of you Christian Endeavorers are
invited to come to Long Beach again ir
190S." A great cheer went up. Not un,
I'll 1t mad subsided entirely did the
chairman of the committee proceed
Then he said You will be welcome
here to spend a vacation of a week oil
so after attending the annual conven-
ton in Sacramento. The committee has
decided to accept the Sacramento i'll
vitation.' The report was adopted
unanimously.
Last night $4,000 was raised by sub
scription for the furtherance of the
state work.
Tonight's program concluded the con-
vention. 1t was as follows:
Street prayer and testimony meetings
open praise and prayer service; report
Long Beach. Presentation of '07 COM
mittee. Installation of officers an6
prayer of conservation, VIM. G. Alexan-
der of San Jose. Address, What Wilt
Thou Have Me 90 Do?" DR.. H. H. Bel
of San Francisco. Solo. Adjournment
prayer and Mizpah benediction. Chris
tian Endeayor praise and fellowship
service.
Long Beach will make an attempt tC
secure the convention in 1909.
Counties Well Represented
The various counties were represent
ed as follows at the convention: Los
Angeles, 1177; Alameda, 12S; San Ber.
nardino, 80; Orange, SO; Riverside, SO
San Diego So; Santa Clara, So; Santa
Barbara, AZ; Fresno, 80; San Luis Obs
DO, 80; San Joaquin, IA; Sacramento
IL; Ventura, 10; Kern. 8; Sonoma 8
Butte, 6; Tulare, 3; Monterey, Hum
boldt. Contra Costa, San Mateo and Ma
rim, 2 each; Yolo, Napa and Solano,
each. From other states and countries
%: There were 1872 juniors registered.
reports of officers showed that there
We're DOB senior societies in the state
WIN io,oS2 members. Twenty-three new
socletles were enrolled during the veal
just closed. The largest societies in tn,
state are: Wesley Methodist, San Fran
cisco, 2O3; First Presbyterian. Berke
ley li6; congregational, Pomona. 116
The largest contributors to tbe mis-.
sionary fund in the last year were
First, Emmanuel Presbyterian society
Los Angeles; and second, the Chinese
Congregational society. The latter so.
ciety, with but twenty members raised
$1,000.
Most of the delegates will leave fo,
their homes tomorrow, but large nun.
ber will stay over until July 8, having
tickets good until that date.
The retiring president, Paul c. Browr
of Los Angeles, spoke of this conven.
tion as the best ever held, and said to.
day that the registration was twice
great as that of any other convention
held in recent years.