Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-27
FRIENDS OF
new ENGLAND
At OAK Grove

III UHk GnUNE
Nassalboro. Me. June 25.-The regular
sessions OF the yearly meeting OF tn.
Friends OF New England opened at $50
, Tuesday with Walter s. Meader OF Do
yer. \. FL. as presiding clerk. Mary F.
, Paige OF Lynn. Mass. as recording
! clerk. and Emily 81. Jones of Limington
as reading clerk. Prayer was Offered
by Myra E. Frye OF Portland. The
names of the representatives from the
nine quarterly meetings were called as
, follows:
Rhode Island quarterly meeting-Ma.
ry ". Macomber, Harold Tollefsor. Ma.
rion Kelsey, Laura B. Aydelott. Carrie.
ton Wood. Susanna Holt, Charles Es-
ties, S. Caroline Tobey. Seth X. Clifford
/ Vim. L. Bates, Emily S. White. Alter.
mates Mary z. Kinber, Harold Wat.
jen, Willis Fl. White Helen T. Clifford
Alice Wood
Salem-Edmund F. Bufinton, Mary s
Paige, Cyrus Jones, Arthur c. winslov
Dorothy Winslow, Tom A Sykes. Susan
H. Meader. Mary I. Townsend. Daniel
c. Maxfe1d
Sandwich-Elam Henderson. Flda r.
Henderson, George r. Wood, Julia W.
Amy Caroline S. Jones Lucy J. Gift
ford. Ermina j. Totah, Sophia e. Ma
ccmber.
Falmouth, Harriet r. Brooks. JOHN ].
Frye, Laura 4. Ellison, Lucy A. Jones.
VIM. H. Dauglas. Leonard E. Jones.
Minnetta A. Jones, Mvra E. Frye.
George L. Crosman. Mary A. Gre s.
man. Miriam Cortland. Lindley NJ
! Rinford, Mary Fl. Blnford. Lettie VI.
Bailey, n. Melvin Bailey, S. Alfrt.l
Hall. Ida J. Hall, Margaret S Tira-
| berlakc, Margaret r. Skinner. Do"er:
Edwin l. Niles. Ida r. Niles, Margerv
/ NarneN. Myron I. Jenness. Lucy H
Meader, Arthur NJ. Hussey, Elizabeth
z. Jenress, Fairfield; Lewis H. Mills
paugh. Alice l.. Farr. Mary A. Hox-
ie, Lena l.. Williams, Mary l.. Smith.
Mabel g Bailey, Alfred w Hawkes..
Smithfield; Sarah J. Swift, W. Jas
rar Hddey, Alice i. Dow, Sarah H.
Dow, Ruth n Dow. Helen France.
Vassalboro: Louis T. Jones. Viola H.
Jones. IDA c. Jones Eta L. Sihley.
Annie NJ. Priest, Marion e Jones.
Roscoe E. Jones. Parsonsf1eld: Emily
NJ. Jones, Phcbe L. Pope, Marie
! Bedford
A very warm welcome was e1-
tended TO the visiting ministers from
other Yearly Meetings whose names
were given in yesterdays report. 4
response by our visitors to this vel
come was made, expressing their ap-
probation and pleasure Of being
here. Epistles were read from the
new Monthly Meeting in Japan, also
from Dublin, Canada, and a sum-
mary Of the American epistles. The
American epistles were especially
strong in all the lines in which the
Yearly Meetings are interested. such
as Evangelistic work. Education.
Temperance, and Missions. The
epistle from London yearly meeting
has not arrived yet.
Met at $50 Wednesday. Praver
by David W. Edwards Of Richnnon,nd
Ind. David W. Edwards has hem
president of Penn College. Oscaloosa
la Tor some years. He has been re-
Gently elected president Of Earlhan,
College at Richmond. Ind. The res
ords OF the permanent beard were
read. the principal business brought
TO the yearly meeting was Minute
stating the rules and defining the
powers OF the Board of MANAGERS of
ornament Investments and Funds.
The report of Moses Brown School
at providence. r. l., was read. It
showed the largest number of pupils
in its history, one hundred and sixty
seven in the upper school and one
hundred and thirty four in the lower
school thirty more students than in
the previous year.
The school will celebrate its centen-
NAL next year and will publish a his
tory covering the 100 years Of it's ex-
istence
Rayner ". Kelsey. professor OF his
tory at Haverford college. is to be the
historian Thomas j. Battey has been q
Va otleHCe In the school for -
years At commencement the 14th Of
,his month the school presented him
with bag of gold containing 1900.
The next report to claim the attention
OF the meeting was that of Oak Grove
seminary. IT has had prosperous
year. Thirtytwo boys and % girls in
attendance. The patrons and friends Of
|, the school very much regret that the
principal. Louis r. Jones. is to leave
Oak Grove. He has accepted a position
at Earlham college, Richmond, Ind as
professor Of history. These two schools
Moses Brown and Oak Grove-are
probably the only schools in the East
that have passed through the last wear
and paid their expenses
The last half hour of the session. call
ed the Bible half hour. was occupied
by A. j. Muster Of Providence, r. I.
He spoke on the Sd Psalm.
Adjourned "a z IN IN thA <T-~~>a