The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-06-17
SCHOOL
JUBILEE MEET
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
STATE ASSOCIATION.
A CALL TO MAHASKk COUNTY
One Hundred and Twenty Men Want
ed In the 5ig Parade. Miss xii.
burn Has Place on Con-
Vention Program.

| Sention Program.
| Considerable enthusiasm Is being
worked up over the Iowa Jubilee Sun
day School convention to be held at
Des Moines, June 81, %, 23 and "a,
1915. This is the semi-centennial
celebration of the state organization.
1t was back at the close of the Civil
war, 1865, that state organization was
perfected and 1t has been a going
concern ever since. Never, however,
more Intensely so than at the current
moment, when it's influence pene-
trates to the capillaries of the sys-
tenn, to the individual or the town
and township Sunday school associa-
tons.
| To more properly take cognizance
OF this semi-centennial celebration
spirit a special feature has been pro-
vided for Wednesday, June 20. In the
way of a parade of the Mems Bible
class department of the Sunday
school work. Effort is being made to
line up ten thousand men for this
parade and the way the organizers
are going after the recruits gives
promise of exceeding their anticipa-
lions. Ii is said that every county in
the state will be represented in the
parade and considerable rivalry ex-
lists as to the best showing to be
made.
Special trains will be run over the
Rock Island to take care of the dele
cations from Ottumwa, OskalOosa and
Pella, and OskalOosa can be counted
upon to furnish It's full quota. In the
work of the parade committee each
county has been charged with so
many men for the big show and it's
up to the county to furnish the num-
Der and receive credit.
Mahaska county, which is in the so
to 100-mile zone of towns surround
ing Des Moines, has been charged
with 125 men for the parade. VIII
the county respond and obtain full
credit? Keep your eye on Mahaska.
No better county Sunday school Or
ganiZation in the state than in Ma
haska county, and she will be heard
from. Mahaska county is asked to
furnish more men than any other
county in this particular zone, and
her Sunday schools will be fully equal
to the emergency. There are single
schools in the county that could sup
ply that number from one class If re-
IQuired. The parade will be the big
gest demonstration Of the kind the
country has known.
General organizer of the Jubilee
parade is w. D. Stem, well known in
Oskaloosa Sunday school circles as
general secretary of the state assO-
citation. G.. L. Farmhouse and A. j.
iWallsmith, of OskalOosa, were desig-
mated as aides for Mahaska county,
and W. ]. Howell the daddy of the
Mahaska County Sunday school work,
is assisting in recruiting for the
parade.
Big Convention.
The state convention itself will be
like the parade-the biggest ever;
best in the history OF the organiZa-
ton. Numbers of the big guns of the
national organization, the 4O-centi-
meter workers, have been requisl-
toned for the convention and are
coming with plenty OF ammunition.
Added to the convention proper Will
be a normal division, a school or
methods which embraces every part
and division of school work from the
beginners class CT the elementary di-
vision to the adult division, and even
the administration section has a pro-
gram covering three days-a special
school for superintendent pd man
ayers.
Oskaloosa is called upon to con-
tribute to the program. Miss Lillian
IKilburn, of the Central Methodist
Episcopal church school, has two sep
arate places on the big program, tell.
ling about Beginner Lessons and
Equipment" and Graded Lessons for
Juniors" Miss Kilburn is recognized
as one of the best authorities on jun
Iiors or beginners work, the klndergar-
ten department of the Sunday school,
anywhere in organized Sunday school
work. Hers is not theory alone, but
practice. She has done and is doing
what she advocates, and she knows
how to tell about the work for the
benefit of others.
Prominent among the workers OF
national reputation to be at the con-
Vention are: Mrs. Zellah Foster Stew
ems. temperance secretary of the In
lternational Sunday School associa-
ton; Rev. William Fl. Beachler, Of
Waterloo, president of the Iowa as
ISOLATION; Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner,
of Chicago; Marion Lawrence, OF Chi
cago; Prof. w. S. Athearn, OF Iowa;
Rev. w. A. Brown, of Chicago; Mrs.
A. o. Sheriff, of Davenport, and many
others.
The program is one OF commanding
Interest and it contains many num-
beers to attract the attention not only
of the ordinary Sunday school en-
thusiast, but individual attendants,
even outside of Sunday school work.
Oskaloosa will send good-sized
delegation to the state convention and
Mahaska county will be well repre-
scented, outside of the special delega-
ton that will go to Des Moines on
the special train service leaving some
time Wednesday afternoon.