The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-06-17
CONVENTION NOTES
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Among the distinguished Sunday
School workers at the state convention
are Judge Carthel, the capable score
tary. Judge Carthel was born and
reared in the Zion community in this
county, and is known to many resi-
dents of the county as Joe" He stud
led for the law and. hung out his shin
gle at Columbia, later going to Ala
maba. Eleven years ago he accepted
the position of state secretary for. Ala
bama, and so built up the organized
Sunday school work there that nearly
all the counties are now in the ban
ner" class. He was induced to re-
turn to Tennessee, and within less
than two years has increased the num-
Der of organized counties to sixty-seven
and the number Of banner counties to
twelve. In discussing the work in
Tennessee Judge Carthel said that sew
en- years was required in Alabama to
secure the number of 6apner counties
of which Tennessee now boasts. He
is optimistic for the future of organ
lied work in Tennessee. Judge Car
thel is self-sacrifcing and faithful. Il
want to find out from. Joe Carthel how
he lives on 5000 year." said one of
his boyhood chums, now a successful
lawyer, on hearing the report OF the
executive committee read.
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Miss Minnie Kennedy, whose adj
dresses have been 80 favorably re-
ceived, has been engaged in organized
Sunday school work in Alabama for
seven years. No Alabama state con-
vention is complete without Miss Ken
Fnedy, and she is known and loved
from one end of the Yellow Hammer
state to the other. Here We Rest"
Alabama's motto, does not apply to
Miss Kennedy, who is tireless work
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Prof. J. ]. Keyes, who is one OF the
Nashville delegates, is superintendent
of the city schools of the Capital City,
Prof. Keys rise to prominence and in
fiuence has been rapid. He taught a
country school at Bear Creek, this
county, and many old friends welcom
ed him back.
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George NJ. Boddie, one of the Sum.
ner County delegates, is chairman Of
the Democratic executive committee
of that county, and member of the
executive committee of the Anti-Sa-
loon league. Mr.. Bodie is state-wid-
er of the old-fashioned sort, and says
that Sumner county will be represent
ed in the next legislature by the right
kind of material.
Among the women of distinction
who are here are Mrs. w. M. Hart
and Mrs. Frank Slemons, of Nashville.
Mrs. Hart is the wife of Judge Hart, of
Davidson county, and is a charming
woman. Mrs. Slemons n the wife of
Frank Clemens, leading counsel for
the Loyalists in the recent litigation
to determine possession Of the prop
erty Of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, Judge Caldwell was also
prominent in this suit. Mrs. Slemons
is gifted woman and is deeply inter.
ested in Sunday school work.
The entertainment accorded the Wis
itors is the subject OF l4uch favorable
comment without exception the del
egates praise the hospitality of Colum-
bia. They are also enthusiastic ever
the Convention, which Is declared to
be even more successful than the
most sanquine had anticipated. Co
lumbians, on the other hand, continue
to complain, because they were not
permitted to give the stranger within
the gates three good square meals per
day.