The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-09-11

ing information to the pastors and
llaymen regarding the general confer
ence commission on Finance. The
headquarters of the commission are al
$50 Fifth avenue, New York City.
They have unique plan of calling
the conference to order. Usually they
are scattered all over the church and
the Bishop calls upon someone tc
start hymn and the, singing draws
the conference together.
There are seven Smiths in the mem
bership; u. 8. Smith, of Washington;
1 A. M. Smith, of Moulton; d. G. Smith
of 0ttumwa; F. A. Smith, OF Taintor;
H. N. Smith, of Hedrick; U. B. Smith
of Ottumwa, and w. A. Smith, of Nal
com.
There was reunion during confer
ence OF the three Monkman Brothers
Rev. Jesse A., pastor at Killduff Geo
now attending Northwestern Univer
Isity at Evanston, ILL.,, and both mem
bers of this conference, and Robert
of the Collection Department of the
Methodist Book Concern, of Kansas
City.
Bishop w. o. Shepard goes from
here to Denver, Colo, to preside at
the Western-Swedish conference that
begins its session September 18th,
1913, and from there he goes later to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The local committee in charge OF
the banquet of Iowa Wesleyan Col.
lege on Friday evening comprised
Mrs. C. w. Abrams, Mrs. J. w.
Shreve, Mrs. s. w. Clark, Mrs. H. o.
Glasure, Mrs. Harry Walton, Mrs.
Geo. N. Russell, Mrs. d. " White,
Mrs. Harriet Wilcox, Mrs. A. E. Peas
ley and Mrs. M. ]. Roberts.
The rest room at the conference
was marked success. Mrs. M. S.
Cheney was in charge, assisted by a
special committee. The room was
furnished like a parlor and was de-
cidedly popular among both ladies
and pastors. ..
DIR. Jay w. Somerville, of Wichita,
Kansas, and formerly pastor of Cen
trail M. E. church, was a conference
visitor, arriving in Oskaloosa on Sun
day morning, but was delayed some
six hours by a railroad wreck in COM
ing from Boulder, Dolo. He is repre-
senting the General Conference Com
mission on Evangelism and is in
charge of the eighth district and in
this work has a list of conferences to
visit every spring and fall. The Iowa
conference is not in his territory, so
he is only here to. meet old friends.
He expects to leave Wednesday for
Kansas.
laa nf nOt
were held on Sunday evening and
they remained in session until two
a. m. Monday, and after a few hours
rest they were again in session early
monday morning.
"A largely attended meeting of the
Ministers Wives Association was
held on Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. r. A. Kent on North
Market street, and the session was
most enjoyable. The officers COM
prise as president, Mrs. ]. c. Caugh-
lin, of Wilton; vice president, Mrs.
J. r. Robertson, of Ottumwa, and sec
rotary, Mrs. w. B. Ireland, of Fairfield.
On Sunday people came from Mon
teZuma, Barnes City, New Sharon
and other nearby towns, in order to
hear the Bishop and enjoy the last
of the conference session. Quite a
number came In by train on Saturday.
1t was quite a novel sight to see
the autos about the corner of North
Market street and A avenue East.
Fully twenty-five or thirty autos were
lined up by the curb on both sides of
the street on both A avenue and Mar
ket street during the services on Sun
day. There were also a large num-
Der on other days, but Sunday the dis
play was unusual.
There were quite a large number of
changes in the appointments and as
far as known all are satisfactory.
In two cases the reading of the ap-
pointments were interrupted by ap-
plause; the first was when DR.. J. M.
McClelland was returned to Central
NJ. E. church, Oskaloosa, and the sec
ond was the announcement of the ap'
pointment of DR.. Fl. F. Gilbert, OF
Montezuma, as the district superin.
tendent of Muscatine district, sue
ceeding DIR. J. A. Boatman, whose
term Of service has expired. DR.. c. L,
Stafford, of the Oskaloosa district
now becomes the senior district super
intendent, he having been appointed
for his last year.