Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-16
DUNKARDS HERE
FOR CONVENTION
ANNUAL MEETING ATTRACTS
LARGE THR0NG
Tomorrow, Opening Day of Session,
viii Be Largely Attended-Mis=
sonaries to Confer Sat-
urday Morning

Dunkards are already to be seen il
large numbers in the streets and to.
morrow the national convention will
assemble at Temple Auditorium, wher
a Bible school conference will be held
| The convention will take on somewhat
of a world character, as a delegate from
| India, Mr.. Mccain, and delegates from
| Switzerland, Denmark and France Will
attend the convention. The session to-
morrow will be held in Choral hall. and
commencing on Saturday the main aud
itorium will be occupied to continue
over next week.
Yesterday afternoon crowds of the
Dunkards in their peculiarly simple
dress went into the Auditorium side by
side with the gay matinee throngs. The
Dunkards turned to the right to their
headquarters and the matinee girls
went into the auditorium.
Following the Bible school sessions
tomorrow, which will occupy the day,
A. c. Wind will preach in the evening.
Saturday a missionary conference will
be held and various committees will
meet. On Sunday morning 1. B. Trout
will preach, and in the afternoon G. B.
Rogers will speak.
There will be sermons each evening
during the convention, the business ses-
sions to be held during the day. 1t is
expected that special services will be
held in Los Angeles until June Z.
This is the first time that Dunkards
in any numbers have come to Los An
geles, and the local members of the
sect are doing all in their power to
make the visitors feel at home. Head
quarters have been arranged in the
basement in the Auditorium, and an
lNnrr
arranged for the convenience of the
visitors.
Committee of Forty
The general committee of forty will
make the plans for the convention. The
following compose this committee:
First district of India, S. n. McCann;
Oregon, Washington and Idaho, I. Har-
man Slower: Southern California and
Arizona, Edmund Forney; Northern
California, David Snyder; Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, Samuel Edge
comb; West Pennsylvania, S. A.
Blough; first district cf Virginia, j. A.
Dove and Henry Ikenberry; North and
South Carolina and Georgia. j. Henry
Peterson; middle Iowa; 1. w. Bru-
baker; south Iowa, H. c. N. Coffman;
north Missouri ]. H. Keller; middle
Missouri. G. w. Lentz; south Missouri
south Illinois, D. j. Blinkenstaff; north
Illinois and Wisconsin, John Hickman;
north Indiana, I. L. Berkey; middle
Indiana, Daniel Smell; south Indiana,
L. T. Hollsinger; northwest Ohio D. NJ.
Carver and 1. j. Rosenberger; west
Pennsylvania and east Maryland, Geo.
K. Sappington; second district of Vir-
ginia, II. G. Miller and A. S. Thomas;
Texas and southwest Louisiana, A. A.
Sutter; southwest Kansas, South Colo
RADIO and northwest Oklahoma. M. Kel-
Ter; northeast Kansas, S. E. Lantz;
northwest Kansas, William Davis; Ne
braska, N. B. Wagner; North Da-
kota, north Minnesota and Wet Can
ada, George Strycker; north Iowa, south
Minnesota and South Dakota, l. F.
Ralston; Indiana, L. T. Hulsinger;
Ohio, L. H. Dickey; east Pennsylvania,
John Herr; north Pennsylvania, j. T.
Myers; south Pennsylvania, William
Anthony; middle Pennsylvania, Will
liam Swigart