The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-25
j UNANIMOUS VOTE
FOR RETURN OF
PASTOR DOW
Fourth Quarterly Conference OF
Methodist Church
STANDING DEBT REDUCED
Reports of Officers and Committees
Show Spiritual and Material
Progress.

The fourth quarterly conference OF
the Methodist church was held last
evening in the official room of the
church, sixteen members of the board
being present, with Rev. j. II. Cole
man, ID. D., district superintendent, in
the chair. The reports read, repre-
senting the various activities of the
church, showed over $1400 had been
raised by that society during the fis-
cal year. The report of A. NJ. Tor
rance, treasurer of the building COM
mittee, showed that the church debt
was less by $1754 than year ago.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc
iety has raised one third more mon
ey for missions than last year, and
the Woman's Home Missionary socie-
tw will show an equally good increase
All the other church benevolences
will show an encouraging increase.
Good work is being done in the Sun
day school, and Junior league. The
report concerning the temperance
work being done. was full of cheer
One hundred and twenty-five have
signed the temperance pledge during
the past few months. The spiritual
life of the school is deepening, a
goodly number have recently taken a
stand to lead the christian life.
The following officers were appoint
ed for the ensuing year: Stewards,
Ira p Wood, G. F. Burt, NJ. b. Nor
gan. A. II. HOLSTER, j. l.. Griswold,
II. G. Banks, H. T. Haskins. c. w.
Resseguie, j. H. Evans End, Fred
Stickles, e. T. Griswold, C. r. Far
mum, c. B. Rice, c. w. Evans, Smith
Stratton. Willard Lighthall, T. A. Car
penter, Willis Stickles.
Trustees, A. T. Cutler, A. f. Hollis
ter, F. A. Greenslet, A. NJ. Torrance,
l. f. Gibson, f. L. Bottum, John Rock
wood, Fred Martin, Frank Evans.
Glass leader, John Evans, whose re-
port clearly showed the importance
of this institution. The following
were approved as members of the
quarterly conference: Mrs. w. A.
Austin, president of Ladies' Aid; Mrs.
Merrill Hitchcock treasurer of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society;
Miss Carrie Wood, superintendent of
Junior League
The following committees were ap-
pointed: Foreign missions, Mrs w.
A. Austin. Mrs. A. NJ. Torrance, Mrs.
Merrill Hitchcock, +. T. Griswold,
Mrs. S. T. Townsend, Willis Stickles
Home missionary and church extern
sion, ]. II. Evans, Mrs. ]. C. Wilson,
Mrs. Frank Evans, Gertrude Evans,
John Jepson, Mrs. William Newton,
K. 7. Griswold, j. l.. Griswold Sun
day schools, II. |. Haskins, Burt
Waite, Fred Austin, Mrs. Carrie
Hawks, Mrs c. s. Morse, Miss Annie
E. Daiken. Tracts, Mrs. c. X. Farnum
Leona Cook. Elizabeth Bailey. Tenn
perance, f. l.. Bottum, f. s. Gokay,
w. NJ. Aiken, Nelson Hitchcock Edu
cational. Miss Amy Cutler, Mrs. w
H. Aiken, Mrs. Jesse Carpenter, Char
les Hitchcock, A. NJ. Torrance. Free
mems aid, Miss Carrie Wood, Morti-
mer Townsend, Mrs. Herman Bugbee-
Mrs. c. r. Farnum. Hospitals, Mrs
T. 4. Gibson, Mrs. c. W. Resseguie,
Mrs. Frank Grenslet, Mrs. Lillian Will
son. Church records, NJ. b. Morgan,
c. w. Evans, c. +. Rice Auditing
accounts, !. +. Gibson, A. f. HOLSTER,
Willard Lighthall. Parsonage and
furniture, Mrs. A. j. Cooper, Mrs. A.
q. Cutler, Mrs. c. w. Evans. Church
music, Fred Stickles, A. NJ Torrance,
Mrs. A. ]. Cooper, Mrs. A. F. Hollis
ter, Mrs. George Stoddard. Estimat-
ing pastors salary, F.. l.. Bottum, +.
A. Greenslet, F. A. Evans, A. f. Hol-
lister, Ira p. Wood, Fred Stickles,
John lockwood. Estimating aid for
conference claimants, same as for pas
tors salary. fryer of appeals. E. S.
Gokay.
BY standing vote, a unanimous re
quest was made that the district SUI
perintendent should use his best in
fiuence to secure the return of Rev.
p. L. Dow as pastor for the ensuing
year.