Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-30

Convention, Offering Inducements
Corkey> Likely to Again Be Made
President-committees Appointed.
With the auditorium and galleries
Of the First Methodist church beau
tifully draped with red. white and
blue and Old Glory. the active work
OF the forty third annual convention
Of the Iowa Sunday School association
began with the morning session to-
day. Delegates numbering between
500 and 500 were present, besides a
large number Of visitors from the To-
cal Sunday schools, who are not reg
ularly seated as delegates, but who
as the public In general, were privil-
eyed to hear the addresses and work
of the convention.
General Field Secretary F. r. Fitch
OF Des Moines. pronounced the con-
vention most successful one from
every viewpoint. and declared that
from indications Of the opening ses-
sions, the meeting would prove one
Of the very best in the history Of the
association.
Plan Reorganixat alton Of Work.
sn3uoho nv, %y,a a
before the convention Is plan to
reorganize the state work, and sim
plify It, doing away with much red
tape that now hampers the state Off
GERS from accomplishing the work
necessary with any degree OF rapidity
A committee on reorganization was
appointed, composed Of DR.. C. ]. Keep
hart, of Toledo; Secretary r. f. Fitch
of Des Moines, and President j. s
Corkey, OF Winterset; and this COM
mittee will recommend a general re-
organization. The plan Of the COM
mittee is to place the affairs and work
of the association under a state CEN
trail committee and do away with num-
erous subcommittee thru which
much of the routine work must, under
the present arrangement, pass, before
reaching the hands Of those Officers
who execute the work. 1t is believed
that this plan will meet with favor
in the convention, and that the com.
mfttee's report will be adopted.
Would Have Woman Field Worker.
II the convention can see its way
clear from q financial standpoint, it Is
likely that Secretary Fitch will be
given the services of a valuable as
sistant in the person Of Miss Minnie
Markham, Of independence. Miss Mark
ham, who is a kindergartener, and has
been identified with the independence
schools for several years, is an earnest
Sunday school worker, and has taken
an active interest in the work fol
years. She is believed to be especially
qualified as a field worker, and it will
be, recommended to the convention thai
she be made primary field worker fol
Iowa, This Is the only new office thai
will likely be created by the conven-
ton.
Des. Moines After Next Meeting.
Des Moines is likely to secure the
1903 convention Of the association. and
has placed before the committee or
next meeting, thru dts commercial club
a proposition that the committee VIII
doubtless recommend be accepted. The
Des Moines commercial club offers the
association a convention hall free OF
expenses, secretary's headquarters at
one Of the leading hotels free Of
49, ,,y Fo,s nj Ia
on the Harvard plan, lodging and
breakfasts, the same as is being done
here; and 800 in cash, to be used to-
ward defraying the expense Of pub
fishing the official programs.
Committees Are Named.
The committees of the convention
were named at the forenoon meeting
by President Corkey, and all went into
session at o'clock this afternoon. AL
will likely report at the forenoon ses-
sion Wednesday. The committees are
as follows:
Nominating-Lizz Barnard, North
wood, Mrs. Nellie Buell., Humboldt;
William Tackaberry, Sioux City; c. H
Roberts, Jolley; w. H. Chrisman, Ne
ola; ]. L. Peterson, Webster City; Miss
Larson, Shell Rock; MRS. G.. 3. Nc
Daniels; Anamosa; Mrs. James Nc
Cormack Upton; Mrs. w. II. Bailey
Iowa City; Emma Boyd, Mingo; Mrs
G. T. Mcmahon, Waukee; F. T. Arm
strong, Coon Rapids; L. B. Kinney
Council Bluffs; Nellie Arnold, Creston;
Rev. E. M. Atwood, Winterset; Mrs.
E. A. Anderson, Boone; W. H. Lucas
Knoxville.
Finance. H. Sherwood, Creston;
r. r. Lay, Marshalltown; DR.. c. An
derson, Reinbeck; L. B. Kinney, Coun-
Gil Bluffs; ]. F. Hardin, Eldora.
Enrollment-Local registration COM
mittee.
Resolutions-Olaf Swanson, Britt;
George Eisentrout, Morningside; Mrs.