The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-05-14

itss'o Cuhiis bo hopb Oioun oho shos
the primary room be made attractive,
for beauty and appearance counts SO
much with child He emr basized the
necessity of the cooperation OF the
pastor with the children and their
teacher.
Rev. G. A. Phipps then conducted
very Interesting Ground liable "
Questions we're asked him, and only
those who were present could appre-
ciste he sdelightfUl hour spent with
Mr.. Phipps. Witty and timely re-
marks made the hour 60 as II on
wings.
President Cook gave a short com.
mentory on the mornings session,
and after the motion for adjournment
had been carried, Rev. Phipps pro-
nounced the benediction.
The following assigned delegates
from outside places we're present:
the Dalles-Miss Effie Van Deller,
Mrs r. Bayard, MIS-. r. II. Webber,
Miss Gladys Snipes, Miss Ella Young,
Mrs Julia Hunt, Mrs. Lulu Hunt,
Mrs. Sarah Bond, Mrs Grace Bond,
Miss Pearl Baker, Mrs. e. L. Thomp-
son, Mrs. Ii. NJ. Ford, Rev. Il. l.,
Cook, Mrs. DIR. Ferguson, Miss Eve
lyn Hayes, Mrs. M. CLANCY, Rev. d.
V. Polling, ". e. Gilhousen, l.. X.
kufus and wife.
Dufur- Nrs. e. o. Sbeperd, Rev.
and Mis-. Kennedy, Il. M Hill.
Cascade LoGks-A. O. Adams, Miss
Grace Greenlee.
BOyd-PeaII Haworth.
Eight Mile-John Griffith.
Odell-M o. Odeu, Gertrude Cros.
Cy, Marie Lockman.
Pine Grove-Mrs VIM. Kennedy,
Mr.. and Mrs. q. A. Littletield.
Menominee-Mrs. Elk Roberts.
Mt. Hood-C. A. Puddy.
Portland-Rev. Z. A. Phipps.
Hcod River Valley-Prof. B l..
Murphy, Burleigh Cash, Earl Moses.
Following Is the report OF the gen
eral secretary:
Forest Grove, April %, 1908.
To the Oregon State Sunday School
Association:
In presenting this, my second re.
port, allow me to say III this report
have covered the whole fiscal year be-
ginning May l, 1907, and closing Ap'
ril 30, 1908. We regret that we have
to report that there are three unor.
ganized counties, viz: Curry, Lake
and Hainey.
The interior counties OF Lake and
HaIney are without rail- oads, and
the going 10 requires so much time
and Is so expensive that the executive
committee have not desired 1t. Cur
~ is also very difficult Of access and
very sparsely settled. having, as faI
as we can learn, only four Sunday
schools, and these 80 far apart that
no two could be brought together
without great difficulty,
The remaining 80 counties are all
organized, though In few the organ
ization ia not very aggressive. lila
nook county has been organized dur.
ing the year for the first time Doug
las and Columbia have been reorgan-
lied. Your field worker has attended
26 county conventions in q different
counties Twenty Eve counties have
held conventions.
Grant, Ulatsop, Sherman, Morrow
and Wheeler have failed to hold
theirs, but the organization Ia all
right in Grant, Clatsop and Morrow,
and conventions will soon be held.
We have attended 80 district con-
yentions and institutes, and about AZ
other meetings of this kind have been
held by the different counties. We
have also held 3S rallies and "a con-
ferences; 80 counties have been visit
ed and 1886 addresses delivered, with
a great many Sunday school and con.
vention talks besides We have trae-
eled 1851 miles, employing almost
all the known modes OF tIansportati,E u
in "getting there
Since the first of July an office has
been maintained. Your worker has
actually written S9i letters and mailed
out very large number of pieces OF
second and third class mail matter,
with many postals.
Last December our arrangement
with the Western Washington!A !Associa
tion for the publishing OF a joint pa
per, "The Worker" came unexpect.
edly to an end by the suspension Of
"The Worker.
In January, by the authorization OF
our executive committee, we began
the publication OF 'fhe Oregon Sun
day School Optimist. "
At the very beginning OF: last year
we we're fortunate in having Mrs. j.
Woodbridge Barnes, the International
elementary secretary. with us In Linn
county convention, and also In rallies
at Portland and Pendleton. Rev. W.
q. Merritt, of the international force,
spent thi. last Sunday also In Pendie.
ton. General Secretary Marion Law
renee has just held the big Sunday
rallies in Portland and also attended
Multnomah county convention on the
9th inst. We had Prof Z. G. Knapp
at our last state convention, and fol-
lowing that be held rallies at three