The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-06-05
Home Mission Items.

Inc W OMAN bOdTu VI A1OLAAC AA4S-
sions held its April Annual
Meeting in the handsome Fourth
Avenue church, Louisville, KY. The
attendance was large, reports crafty
ing, and wise deliberations and plan
ming for the next year s.work marked
the passage of the seven days of the
meeting.
The increase in membership and
financial results during the past fiscal
year was encouraging in the extreme
and proves that the Home Mission
Society takes no backward steps but
is going forward with ever increasing
strides.
Report Of general work for past fis-
cal year:
Number of Auxiliaries. ......-. 2,769
Number of Adult Members o.. 81, OBS
Number of Brigade Members IL 1902
Number on Baby Roll ......... 2,306
Number Schools ..........-..... IA
Number Teachers and Mission
aries -....-... ........-.- "
Number DeacOnesses .....-.... "A
Parsonages helped by Board 81
Money Granted Parsonages. S4.625
Parsonages helped by Confer
ence Societies. ............. 139
Money Granted Parsonages
by......-......... 5000. $40, 3O7 y
Subscribers to our Homes ...... Is, $50
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Cash collections for connec-
tiOnal work. ............ Sis, 044. "a
Collections reported by
vouchers ......-. %, S64.98
Collections for local work 270, 433. so
Value supplies sent through
supply department. 24,518.37
Grand total ......... SAP, S51. SO
OUR HOMES.
When Miss Mary Helm, editor of
this paper, read her report, it was re-
peatedly applauded. This valuable
organ is unique in journalistic records
in that it has run for years without
a dollar of indebtness; and, without
an advertisement, has paid all ex-
penses and, more than once has ap-
propriated $1,000 surplus to the insti-
buttons of the society, besides invest
ing in city railroad bonds. The Board
authorized Miss Helm to change the
form to magazine of 81 pages at
slightly increased expense.
PACIFIC COAST WORK.
When our Home Mission work on
the Pacific Coast was reported, DR..
McMurray, secretary of the Church
Extension assured the Board that the
Home Mission Society was 1.-THE big
gest thing the church has on the Pa
cific Coast''-high praise from such
an authority.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.
| had hoped to be able to report
the recent delightful annual meeting
of our Conference Society at Clarks-
dale, May 1920, but have not space
to do Justice to it. Suffice il, the
Society was Hospitality and eloquent
" entertained and the best year s
work in our history was reported.
The reports of Conference cores
ponding secretary and treasurer must
wait for another paper. The follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Mrs. Walter Trotter, Winona; LIST
Vice President, Mrs. l.. S. Short. CO.
mo; End Vice. president, Mrs. Abel
Bliss, Lexington; 3rd Vice President,
Mrs. Walter Price, Prairie Point;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. c. B.
Vance, Batesville; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. Bertha NJ. Scales, Stark
vile; Treasurer, Mrs. w. W. Wilburn,
Lexington.
DISTRICT SECRETARIES AND sUPERIN-
TENDENTS,
Winona District Mrs. w. o. Har-
ris, Rome; Greenville District Mrs.
E. d. Lewis, Gunnison; Columbus
District-Mrs. T. J. Dukeminier,
West Point, Assistant Mrs. Duncan;
Aberdeen District Mrs. W. c. Spen-
Ger, Verona; Corinth District Mrs.
Andrew Brown, Corinth, Assistant,
Mrs. W. @. Hines, Guntown; Oxford
District Mrs. W. c. Hartwell, Water