Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-25
LAYNEN,S MISSIONARY
CONVENTION IN SALEM
Many Women Of City Met
Yeterday to Consider
Necessary Arrangements

The visit of Mrs Paul Raymond in
the city yesterday brought together a
representative group of Salem women
at the Y w. C. A. in the interests of
the laymen's s missionary movement
convention to be held in Salem, Marcl
II, Is, and 10. Mrs. Raymond, who is
the field representative of the FEEDER
alton of the Women s Foreign Mission
Board of North America, and Council
of Women for Home missions, will be
the leader of the parallel woman 8
convention to be held in the Congrega-
tional church, while the men hold theirs
in the Methodist church. Mrs. Ray
mond is woman of strong personal
ity and faith, and is known to many IN
Salem thru her books, one of which,
''The Kings Business" has been stud
led in many of the mission circles.
The woman S convention is Part of
world wide movement, and will be
of interest not only to women of mis-
sionary societies, but to all those in
terested in social service, social well
fare, and settlement work The local
women, who are on the committee, rep
resent all phases of women work,
and they aim to enlist all the women
of this district, which includes the
territory from the Columbia and to-
and including Eugene, and east to the
Gas ades
Mrs. f. A. Elliott, chairman of the
woman s committee, has called meet
ing for each Tuesday at 2:30, at the
Y. W. c. A., beginning tomorrow, to,
further the plans for the convention.
The young woman s committee, Flor
ence Cleveland, chairman, will meet at
the Y. w. C. A. Thursday evening at
six O'Clock for supper, and they will
discuss the plans for their committee
work.
The personnel of the committees is
as follows.
Convention committee chairman,
Mrs. F. A. Elliott.
Statistics = Mrs. Carl LEI. Elliott,
chairman; Mrs. George A. Wood, Mrs.
B. C. Miles; Mrs. VIM. Fleming; Mrs
E. Sherwood, Mrs. Mabel Buirgy, Mrs.
Aspinwall, Mrs. S. W. Hale, Mrs. j.
Bauman, Miss Doremus, Mrs. B. T. Ma
Wis, Miss Andrea Ibsen.
Registration Mrs. James Elvin,
chairman; Mrs. Fred Cooks, Mrs. Rob
ert Gill, Mrs. A. E. Hunt, Mrs John
Miss Gile, Mrs. j. Ray
Pemberton, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Bertha
Peoples. Mrs. G. N. Thompson, Mrs.
lummer, Mrs. E. A. Kurtz, Mrs. b.
5tenstrem.
Young women's committee-Florence
chairman; Violet Welborn,
Edna Dierks, Roberta Morton, Hazel
Long, Agnes Bayne, Laura 4antis'
Florence Miller, Helen Wood, Ruth
Priscilla Ottefbein, Lyra
Miles, Isola Smith, Emma More, Laura
Heist Andrea Ibsen, Gladys Zel.
Arrangements W. I. Staley,
chairman, Mrs. C. P. Bishop, Mrs Ed
Weller, Mrs. Fred Thompson, Mrs
Frank Reasoner, Ruth Hansbro, Miss
Pearl Eyre.
Pubicity-Florenc Cleveland.
Prayer-Mrs. G. F. Holt, chairman;
Mrs. R. S. Wallace, Mrs. Parounagian,
Mrs. J. E. Hocket, Mrs. John Bayne,
Mrs Eugene Gillingham, Mrs. Phelps.
Mrs Frank Brown.
Literature Mrs. A. A. Underhill,
chairman; Mrs, VIM. Busick, Mrs. Nc
zee Mrs. Bornestadt Mrs. H. S. Gilc.
Deputation-Mrs. Katherine Upmey-
II, chairman; Mrs. Alice H. Dodd, Miss
Gertrude Eakin.
Conservation F. T. Porter,
hartman; Mrs. w, W. Emmons, Mrs.
T. E. Hoeket, Mrs. f. E. Horton, Mrs.
+. 0. Goltra, Mrs. Alice H. Dodd, Mrs.
funny, Mrs. w. W. Rosebraugh, Mrs
Iiles, Miss Lydia Rex, Mrs. U. G.
jhipley, Mrs. f. E. Jones, Mrs. Kath-
rine Upmeyer.