The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-10
N|SSLY FOR PRESIDENT
State Sunday School Convention Will Proba-
bly, Choose Guthrie Man as Official
Head of Association

more like a school than any other
feature OF the convention.
Al the closing session tonight Rev.
A. h. Nicholas will lead the devotlons.
There will be but one formal adj
dress, but there will be plenty of mu-
sic under the direction of Mr.. Excell
and Prof. Roper. Mr.. w. A. Brown,
a noted Sunday school orator, will
make an address. Informal talks
viii be made
Was Great Parade
The parade Wednesday afternoon
Of Oklahoma Sunday school workers
and the Guthrie Sunday schools was
OF great size and attractiyeness. So
many children have seldom appeared
In one place in Guthrie The people
of the city turned out very large
crowd to witness the procession.
AT the head of the parade was a
Land and it was followed by automo-
biles containing distinguished Wis
itors. The first big wagon in the
parade was that Of the First Presby-
terian church, carrying about thirty
Of the smaller children. The Chris
tan church Bible class made Rne
showing. But the largest representa-
ton in the procession was that of
the First Methodist church. The
Congregational church loaded large
pumber into float.
The automobiles ]. Il. Nissley,
Rev ]. r. Alternately and others car
rled large numbers OF gleeful chill
drcn
Following the Guthrie schools
came the delegates to the conven-
ton They We're headed BY the Al
falfa county delegation, carrying the
state banner, won for home vista
tion work.
G. A. Marr was marshal of the
parade.
This is the eighteenth annual con-
yention.
Treasurer Kingkade made his re-
port late this afternoon.
Guthrie is played up by the Sun
Gay school Worker, the official paper
Of the convention, as the biggest
city Of her size in America"
The fame of the mineral wells has
been effectively spread through this
convention.
There is a reason for the early
date OF the state convention, which
shut out great many teachers OF
day schools from attendance. The
speakers and international officers
who try to attend all state conven-
tions, started the first of the year
and are making the rounds. TO com
plete their circuit they asked that
dates be moved forward The Okla
homa convention usually meets in
May. The international convention
will be in San Francisco In June oil
this year.
Chester A. Mari, chairman OF the
parade committee, today issued the
following card "On behalf of the
parade committee and Of the execu-
tive committee OF Logan County Sun
day school association, which was re-
quested by the state association to
arrange for this feature OF the con-
yention, | desire 20 thank the )eo
ple Of Guthrie and all others who 80
freely contributed to The success OF
the parade
One OF the notable side events OF
the convention was the adult Bible
class banquet at the Odd Fellows
hall last evening. The attendance
was very large, and the program was
excellent. The service by the ladies'
was pronounced by guests to be ele-
CANT The principal speaker was
Miss Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, teacher OF
the famous class at Corinth, Mo. She
has over 100 men in the class, and
il Is claimed they beat all the other
men in the Uni I'd States for regu-
lar attendance.
The elementary banquet was held
held in the First M. L. cl<H.ch dim
ing room at noon today The officers
and teachers Of the division filled the
large hall.
Iii the chapel of the First NJ. u.
church this morning the elementary
workers held special session.
A special meeting for colored peo-
pie was decided upon by the State
Sunday School convention. The
meeting will be held at Tie city hall
Thursday night, and addresses will
be made by some of the noted speak
ers attending the convention.
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HUGHES WILL HEAD Commission