Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
METHODIST DISTRICT AND CON-
FERENCE HOME MISSION BOD.
les TO HOLD JOINT SESSION.
MEET HERE FOR TWO
DAYS, MAY 10 AND ID
Woman's Home Missionary Society OF
MarshaIltown District Will Meet on
neutrality-suspicious. Society Will
Hold It's Annual Meeting the Follow
ing Day in Methodist Church.

Members of the Woman'S Home Mis-
Methodist conference, and of the Mar
shalHown district of the conference,
will meet here in joint annual session
Thursday and Friday, May Is and IA.
All of the meetings will be held in the
Methodist church. Some of the most
prominent and active women workers
in the conference will take part in
the program.
The Marshalltown district society
will meet Thursday, and the confer
, ence society will meet Friday. but dele
gates for the latter will come for the
district meeting, and those here for
the district meeting will remain for the
conference gathering.
The Thursday meetings of the dis
trict society will be held in the fore
noon, afternoon, and evening. The
conference society's sessions will be
forenoon and afternoon. All meetings
will be held in the Methodist church.
The district society will elect officers
Thursday afternoon and install them
in the evening. The conference So
ciety will elect and install officers Fri
day afternoon.
Program For Opening Day.
A devotional led by Mrs. w. G. Crow
der. of this city, will open the meeting
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Of
ficers will read their reports, commit
tees will be appointed, and delegates
enrolled. Mrs. Ella n. McKim, of this
city, will lead a memorial service.
Mrs. Ella Blue, of Belle Plaine will
lead the devotional that opens the af-
ternoon meeting that will begin at =
o'clock. Mrs. Noble, of Belle Plaine,
will give talk on Queen Esther work,
and Paul H. Mckee, boys secretary of
the Y NJ. c. A, will talk of work
among boys.
A musical program in charge of Mrs.
P. F. Arney will open the evening pro-
gram at 7:3O. The devotional will be
led by Mrs Edwin Hetherington, and
Mrs. Naomi Day, of Bloomfield, will
deliver the principal address.
Fridays Program.
Devotional, enrolment of delegates,
the appointment of committees, and the
reports of district secretaries will open
the conference societys program at 9
o'clock Friday forenoon. The district
secretaries are Mrs. f. H. Cutler, Ce-
dar Falls; Mrs. Edwin Hetherington
Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Morris Fort, Dav-
export: Mrs. Flora Schlick, Decorah h
Mrs. Elizabeth Hoskyn. Dubuque; Mrs
L. E. Goodhile, Marshalltown
The eight department secretaries
will give five minute talks on the fol-
lowing subjects: Our Young Ladies,
Mrs. Alice B. Noble; Upper Iowa Chill
dren,' Mrs. c. B. Miller; Not Ole
Clothes Mrs. F. C. Erickson: The
Might of the Mites" Mrs. katherine
Blinks; Our Wise Women" Mrs
George Kissel; "One Tenth of Your
Time and Money" Mrs. j. E. johnson
"Dry?" Mrs. William Smythe; Train
ing Schools Mrs. c. w. Soesbe.
The closing meeting will begin a
las o'clock. Mrs. Edwin Hetherington
VIII read a report of the Syracuse ma
tional meeting and Mrs. Day will de-
liver the principal address.
In addition to the election and install
| lation other business to be transacted
at this session will be the election OF
delegates to the national meeting and
the reports of committees.
Officers Of Societies.
The officers Of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the Upper Iowa
| conference are: President, Mrs. H. o
! Pratt, city; district vice presidents
Mrs. c. P. Colgrove, Cedar Falls; Mrs
A. T. Bishop, Marion; Mrs. W. c. Hay.
| ward Davenport; MIS-. NJ NJ. Moon
Cresco; Mrs Rose Bruce, Manchester
and Mrs H. c. Shipman, Mason City;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Edwin
Hetherington, Cedar Rapids; treasurer
| Mrs Regina B. Van Ness, Mason City
The officers Of the Marshalltowl
District Home Missionary Society are
President Mrs. Henry Clay Shipman
Mason City; vice president Mrs. H. D
Pratt. city; corresponding secretary
Mrs. l.. E. Goodhile, Mason City; re
cording secretary; Mrs. j. W. Peisen
Eldora; treasurer, Mrs. F. Marks, low;
Falls; department secretaries, youn
people, Mrs. r. Atkinson, Sheffield
guards and Jewels, Mrs. Nelson Brown
Iowa Falls; mite boxes, Mrs. Emm;
Boughton, city; literature and read
Ing circle, Mrs. John Wurtzer, Hamp
ton; systematic benefcence, Mrs. I. w
Meyers, Hampton; temperance, Mis-