The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-25
STATE OFFICIALS
ARRIVED IN CITY
Sunday School Association
Leaders on Hand for the
State Convention.
1T OPENS WEDNESDAY
Every Detail Looking to Sue
cess of Conclave Has
Been Completed.

Indications point to one of the larg-
lest and most successful conventions
lof the Indiana Sunday School associa-
ition ever held in the history of the or
tganization which will open here tomor-
row in the East Main Street Friends
Church at eleven o'clock.
Every care will be taken of the fiji
teen hundred expected delegates, the
local committees having expended
much time and thought in the arrange
lments for the visitors comfort, con-
ivenience and enjoyment.
The vanguard will arrive today, in
Ecluding the state officers, w. c. Hall,
fof indianapolis, President: Judge E.
Nv. Felt, of Greenfield, Vice President,
with e. G. Holmes and G. S. Dearborn,
Recording Secretary and Treasurer, re-
spectively, both of the capital city.
/ These, with the committees appoint
ed from this city, will complete final
arrangements for the big opening to-
morrow
! All Quarters Secured.
j Eleven hundred delegates will be en-
tertained in private homes where they
will receive their breakfasts. Dinners
and suppers to be served in the dining
lTooms of the East Main Street Friends
church, where the sessions will con-
,yeDe; of the First NJ. E. and the First
English Lutheran, the first being able
Ito accommodate $50 at one time, the
second two hundred and the third two
hundred
The balance of the delegates will
lodge in the hotels and boarding
ihouses and if all the delegates expect
ed arrive that have signified their in
itention of coming, one of the biggest
conventions in the history of the town
will be on here.
A post office will be established tenn
porarily in the East Main Street
Friends church for the convenience of
the delegates where they can post
their mail and have it delivered and
rest and writing rooms have been fit
ed up.
One of the innovations will be an
emergency hospital, also arranged for
placement i'm the convention building,
so that any one in attendance who is
suddenly or seriously indisposed. will
receive prompt medical attention.
To Meet Delegates.
Forty pages will meet the delegates
at the various stations and escort
them to their places of entertainment,
the street car company having offer
ed to carry these pages free of charge,
since they will be constantly enroute
to and from trains.
Altogether every arrangement has
been made toward expeditiously hand
ling the big crowd in order that the
sessions may be promptly opened.
Mr.. George N. Burnie, General Sec
Rotary, who is the head of the admin
istration, will arrive today and will
| take charge of matters in general and
other members of the board of direc-
| tors are expected this afternoon and
evening.
! Among the Sunday School notabili
ties from out of the state who will adj
dress different sessions of the conven-
ton are Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, D. D.
,of Rochester, N. Y, one of the best
known workers in the United States;
Rev A. H. Mckinney, Phi. D., of New
York City; Dr. F. N. Palmer, of Win
ona Lake, Bible specialist; Mr.. w.
&c. Pearce, of Chicago, Associate Gen
eral Secretary and Superintendent of
Adult Department of the International
IS S. Association; and Mrs. Mary Eos
tier Bryner, of Chicago, International
Superintendent of the Elementary Di-
vision.
! Among those representing the state
are Mr.. Clark, a banker of Brazil, In
diana, superintendent of the biggest
Sunday school in the United States,