The Cordele dispatch., 1919-05-19
CORDEDE HAS IT'S QUOTA OF
CENTENARY FUND
REPORT OF FIRST DAY
Less Than Half Churches
Have Already Reported
More Than Half Fund for
District.

| Reports began arriving yesterday
afternoon from the first days wark
lin the CordeIe District Methodist
NChurcheS of the results obtained on
the Centenary campaign. for contribu-
! tionS toward the $35 100000 which the
Southern Methodist church is under
| taking to raise this week. to supply
/ the home and foreign mission fields
Of the denomination during the next
, five years.
! MOnte2um1 church is leading the
district thus far. local director Dixon
reported before midnight last night
that the quota of $l5.2O was 0yersub-
scribHd during the afternoon. the
amount raised being $20,G45O0 that
! Cnly one church member failed tc con
/ tribute, and but two reduced the Quota
! suggested for them; while many sub
Scrihed more than the amount suggest
ed for them.
! Ashburn reports $4,000. ON a quota
of $l4,OS0 This is made up of pledges
Yesterday of $4,000. Sunday school
! pledge of $4,000 and Woman's Missions
AIRY Society of $1,000.
/ Abbeville reports over $4,000 on a
quota Of SIS $4,000 .'..
| Cordele reports It's quota of SIS. $50
| more than raised, and expects to go
beyond $4,000
Oakiield Circuit in some respects the
wonder of the district, reports from
its churches, $3.50 from the Oakfild
congregation, $4,000 from the War
wick congregation. and 1923 from Tn
ion congregation, with Doles church
Yet to hear from
Perry church reported before night
yesterday that its quota of $G.G55 had
Been oversubscribed during the after
noon.
Oglethorpe at & O'Clock yesterday
afternoon wired that 70 percent. of
its quota of 3,40O had been subscribed
in the first three hours of work.
The Pinehurst Circuit shows splen-
did work done, with two of their CON
gregatiOns OversubScribing their quo
taS, as Pinehurst congregation raised
fo,6o6.50 on d $500 quota, Saint Paul
rOnercga ation ont in the country rails
ed $2.271 on ii quota OF $l,510. while
S'nloh reports $I,S50 and Pleasant
Valley $500.
Rochelle with $5,572.50 raised yes
terday is in sight Of their goal while
;hc other churches on that circuit.
Liberty with 81. .625 and Kramer with
$50 are also expecting to OverSub
5crib" their quotas by Tuesday night
The Inadilla charge is going strong.
II" reports being that Unadilla congr-
cation has raised their allotment ot
$4,000; that small crowd present
yesterday afternoon Snow raised $94l:
while the Smyrna church on a quota
OF 1890 reports $2,345 raised.
Psoit to the opening day Of the GriN c
Fitzgerald had already raised $4,000
on its quota of $16.7SO; and Ocilla $!O.-
500 on its quota OF $4,000; and Mt
Carmel country church in Crisp cOun-
ty raised $500 on a quota OF $3.50; and
Henderson coumrr ychurch $4,000 Oh
a quota of $ll00.
Ideal on the Oelcthorpe Circuit re-
ports $30lI on quota OF $1,000 IA Is
yesterday
Presiding Elder Smiti and Di ,tii,'
Director A. S Bussey are happy 0-'~"
the generally fine reports reaching
them from all parts of the distric,
town and country congregations alike;
and believes that the district quota
will be oversubscribed by many thou
sands Of dollars.
The latest report is from the Perry
Circuit all congregations heard from
in part, and shows a total OF Sl2.550
on a circuit quota Of $10,"S0.
AS w go TO press the total report,
eH from the district is $l51,$2& from
only Il ont OF the II churches of the