The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-08
ARE CROWDED
Scheduled Sessions Will Be Featured
By Church People of National
Reputation Song Services to Be
Lead By Evangelist Excel.

That the Oklahoma Sunday school
convention and Guthrie are going to
agree finely and have one of the fin
est meetings on record is evident in
the prelimaries for the great state
gathering. The official opening will
be tonight, and there will be two
full days succeeding.
Visitors commenced to arrive last
night, and today they came in hum
dreds The parlors OF the First M.
u. church were headquarters and each
delegate was registered there and as
signed to a home, The plans were
made for an attendance of l,500 and
it is apparent that it will not fall
below that n imber
Practically everv automobile in the
city was used in laking delegates from
the railroad stations to the head
quarters and thence to their lodging
places. Dozens of cars were busy
every minute. The office force un-
der Secretary Nichols amounted to a
dozen.
Opening Session Attractions.
AT the opening session in the First
Methodist church tonight the great
est OF the living song leaders will
appear-E o. Excel, of Chicago. lie
aud Mrs. Excel and Prof. Roper Will
take charge OF the music. Addresses
OF welcome will be made by Mayor
Farquharson and ]. j. OrRourk, presl-
dent Of the chamber Of commerce
The people OF Guthrie are expected
10 attend this service. There will be
room for great crowd Of Gnthriana
The reservations OF seats are only
for the delegates registered today.
AT o'clock tomorrow the first reg
ular session will be held First Will
he a song service under the leader
ship of Mr.. Excel Rev j. r. Aber-
nathy will conduct the devotional ex-
ercises. Mrs. H. NJ. Leyda, of Chica-
go NJ A. Honline, OF Dayton, O., Mrs
Frances Miller ard the officers of
the state association will speak
The afternoon session Tomorrow
will be marked by addresses by Miss
elizabeth Fitzpatrick, OF Corinth, Miss.
J. II. Marshall, OF Oklahoma City, X.
p. Shepherd, Of st. Louis, and w. N.
Virgins OF Dallas, Texas
Great Parade Wednesday.
A splendid feature OF Wednesday
will be the parade
The line of march will be:
First NJ. ~ church to Ash, south TO
Harrison, west to First, north to OK.
lahoma east to Broad, north to be-
ginning point.
The formation will be:
Guthrie band, autos conveying urin-
cipal speakers and convention work
ers, the delegates, lei by the Logan
county delegation; Guthrie Sunday
schools each behind its own banner.
The Guthrie Sunday schools will be
in the following order.
NJ. e. church, south; First NJ e.
church, Salvation Army, Christian
Science, First Presbyterian, Chris
tian. Free Methodist. United Presby-
terian, Baptist, Evangelical, West
Guthrie NJ. e., West Side Congrega-
tional, Lutheran, German Baptist,
Episcopal
The memberships OF the ward
schools and the Logan county high
school are to march to the church at
u. m. The pupils will them ioan
their respective Sunday schools in
procession The smallest children in
each Sunday school will be immedi-
ately behind banners Every member
Of the Sunday schools Of the city and
every delegate to the convention Will
be erpected in line
The parade is to move at 4:I5.
Any further particulars may be OBJ.
tanned from G. A. Marr, phone 679.