The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-22
CONVENTION Of
BIBLE SCHOOLS IS
HELD IN THIS CITY
Largest Gathering of Sunday
School Workers Ever
Held in District
2e SCHOOLS ARE
REPRESENTED
Reports Indicate Steady In
crease I'm All of the
Schools

The annual session of the Eighth
District Bible School Convention was
held in this city Wednesday morning,
| following the meeting of the district
! G. w. B. NJ, which was held Tues
| day. The meeting was called to or
der promptly at eight o'clock by Rev.
! Armistead, the president. Mr.. B. w.
| Trimble, the secretary, was in attend
ance.
The meeting was held in the Christ
ian church, and the interest in the BIZ
BILE school work attracted a large
number from each of the five coun-
ties composing the district. The
auditorium of the church and the Sun
day school annex were packed to
overlooking, and the convention was
said to be the largest and most repre-
sentative ever held. Twenty-Five
schools were represented, Cynthiana
sending the largest number of dele
gates, numbering sixty-five, while
North Middletown was second with
thirty-four.
After the business session the con-
yention was opened with hymn,
led by Mr., A. H. Boatright, with Miss
O'Neill at the organ. Rev. G. o. Co.'S
saboom, of Millersburg, had charge of
the devotional exercises.
Mr. Walter E. Frazee, State Secre-
tary, read his annual message to the
convention, in which was outlined
the work of the Bible School Associ-
alton. Men and the Bible School"
was the subject of the address of
Rev. ]. H MacNeill, of Winchester,
and, this was followed by a solo dy
Miss Elizabeth Hinton, of this city.
Addresses were made by Mrs.-L.sDe-
sha, of Cynthiana, Mrs. l. j. Spencer,
| of Lexington, and Miss Mary A.
Finch, of Mayslick This was fol-
lowed by solo by Miss Mary Hay
den, of Paris.
| Then followed the introduction of
teachers of classes with an enroll
ment of 100 or over. OF these there
were nine, as follows: B. w. Trim
ble's Loyal Women, 26S, and Mr.. Ha-
zelrigg's mems class of 21S, both Of
Mt. Sterling; B. F. Adcock, mer S
class, Winchester, $50; Mrs. Prewltt,
Winchester; J. N. Christopherson,
North Middletown, Every Mans
Glass; over 100; Mr.. Chinn, Cynthi-
ana, Business Mems Glass;" over
100; Mrs. l.. Desha, Cynthiana, lat
women; Mrs T. A. Hendricks, Paris,
over 100 women, and Mr. T. A. Hen
bricks, Paris, over 100 men.
The roll call of schools by counties
showed a total of 1926 representatives
present: Bethel, three; Bethlehem,
one; Forest Grove, seven; Mt. Carmel
eleven; Winchester, sixteen; Berry,
1.-TWO; Connersville, three; Cynthiana,
sixty-ive; Leesburg, ten; Indian
Creek, two; Republican, three; Rob-
inson, two; Camargo, two; Mt. Ster-
ling, eleven; Somerset, one; Carlisle,
ten: Jackstown, eighteen; Moorefeld,
two; Bethlehem (Bourbon) one; Cane
Ridge, five; Clintonville, twenty-sev-
en-; Escondida, three; Little ROCK,
twenty-four; Millersburg, twenty
seven; Mt. Carmel, twenty-six;
North Middletown, thirty-four; Rud-
i dies Mills, three; Stony Point, three;
Paris not counted. Besides these
!, there were a number of visitors from
Lexington, Versailles, Mayslick, and
} many other places, also oftlcers
: bringing up the total to about 4OO
not including any one from Paris.
After luncheon at the church, the
: annual report of the treasurer, Mr
: B. w. Trimble, showed the number Of
schools in the district to be twenty
mine, with a total enrolment OF 1864
and an Average attendance OF I,4lo
offerings amounting to $2,121.1l
: Winchester had the largest enroll
!, ment, and Cynthiana made the larg
est offering during the year, while
Little Rock has the largest ORGANIZED
3 county school, There are fifty-fou
/ adult classes with an enrolment
1850.
a The nominating committee recon-
S mended the following officers Tor TN
; ensuing year: President, Charles Dal
d sic; vice president, T. A. Hendrlcks
S secretary, B. W. Trimble. Adopted
> C. o. Cossaboom presented the pla
0 of future work, which was ADOPTED
It Committee on time and place recon
n mended Owingsville as the place 9
e holding the next meeting in 1919.
II Four splendid addresses were mad
n by j. N Christopherson, Prof. A. "
t. Fortune, ]. S. Hilton and Preslder
S R. H. Crossfield. -,
The meeting concluded WIN
l. touching memorial service in hone
a. of the Rev. H. d. Clarke, the Deiove
10 minister of the Mt. Sterling churc
IS for many years, conducted by tn
le Rev 7. H. MacNeill, a special featur
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