The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-01
Finance Committee Named.

which will be held next month at Ev-
ansVille.
Finance Committee Named.
The finance committee of the Indi-
ana meeting as appointed Monday to
serve the ensuing year is composed of
Alonzo Gardner, Nina Trueblood to
take the place of Mary J. Ballard, and
Thomas J. Stubs.
The committee which was appoint
ed Monday morning, following tn dis
cussion in regard to the orthodox
Friends attitude toward the Hick-
sites, to name delegates to the Hick-
site conference at Winona next year
suggested the names of Chas. E. Hiatt
and Phariba Stephens as delegates
and Alfred Trueblood and Daisy Parr
as aiternates. The suggestion was
concurred in.
The committee appointed few
years ago to work along lines of di-
vorce legislation. in it's report made
the statement that not much was done
during the past year bearing directly
On the subject, but that the law pass
ed making it a felony for wife and
child desertion had done much to rem
edy evil marriage conditions. The
committee was continued and will fur
Their endeavOr to bring about proper
divorce legislation.
The committee appointed at the
converting of the sessions to devise
plans for the installation of Friends
supplement to the present information
nal lesson leaves, made a report that
the committee was not ready to sug-
gest plans to this years meeting, aid
would devise a system during the
coming year. The Friends believe
that more doctrinal matter should be
taught in the Sunday school, hence
their great interest in the Quaker sup
plements.
Eli Jay, custodian, made report in
which he said that twenty-five vol
umes, records from New Garden quar-
terly meeting from 1923 to 1883 had
been added to the historic collection
Of Quaker documents
New Quarterly Meeting.
A new quarterly meeting is to be
added to the already large constelia-
ton of the Indiana yearly meeting,
which will be named the Portland,
Ind, quarterly meeting. At t-S7 open.
ing of the Indiana meeting a proposi-
ton came up for consideration from
Winchester quarterly meeting asking
that White Oak, Olive Branch and
Portland monthly meetings be made
into quarterly meeting The report
showed the field ripe for such action.
The committee appointed to make rec
concentrations reported Monday that
they sanctioned the move and the
first session of the new quarterly
meeting will be held the third Sat-
urday in December. The following
delegates were appointed to attend
the opening of the new meeting which
will be held at Portland: Robert W.
Douglas, Cornelius Small, George M.
Hartley, Luke Woodland, O. NJ. Frazer,
A Jennie Ridgeway. Esther Cook, FL
vlra Woodland and Ira c. Johnson.
Not penny was received during
the past year by the committee in
charge for the support of aged min
listers according to the report of the
disbursing board A better condition
OF things is hoped for next year.
The committee on the home for ag-
ed women reported that s7S5.e5 had
been distributed to the work since the
books of the yearly meeting closed.
Allen Jay, Chas. o. Whitley, Mr.
Henley and Ira C. Johnson were Sc
lected as a committee to take charg
of the evangelistic and church extern
sion work. Charles Replogle was
made general superintendent of the
Puget Sound quarterly meeting and
state superintendent of the new Port
land quarterly meeting when that
body is set up.
Harvey Ratliff was appointed year
ly meeting delegate to the state con-
ventlon of the w. c. T. L. which con-
venes October Is at Lafayette.
The report of Whites institute read
Monday showed that at present there
are go inmates. The report suggest
ed that the daily charge of maintain
ing the children in the home be in
creased from twenty-five cents to
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