The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-01

an address on "Connectional Inter
ests." Problems of conference and
were in charge of Mrs. c. H. Kin1ball
and Mrs. J. B. Thoburn. Mrs. Reba
5. Freeman will have charge of the
training camp tonight.
Many Notables Here.
Among the noted men and women
who Will attend the conference are
Rev. G. Franklin Ream, of New York,
who has charge of the life service de-
partment of the centenary movement
of the Methodist churches; Bishop
FRANCIS j. Mcconnell, of Denver; Mrs
Thomas Nicholson, of Chicago: Mrs.
Homer c. Stuntz. of Omaha; Bishop
WlIllam o. Shepard, of Wichita, and
Rev. Benson Baker, of India.
Doctor Ream will speak during
each of the four days of the conven-
ton. Bishop Mcconnell is an expert
on the Mexican situation. He is in
charge of the society's work in Mexico
and spends much of his time there
On several occasions during the past
three years he has been called to
Washington by President Wilson to
act in the capacity of advisor. He is
SAID to oppose American Intervention
In Mexican affairs. Delegates to the
conference are looking forward to his
p
terest.
To Tell of Foreign Travels.
Mrs. Nicholson is the wife of Bishop
Nicholson, of the Methodist church.
ana vice president of the national or
ganlzation. Mrs. Stuntz is the wife
or Blshop Stuntz of Omaha. They
nave just returned from a nine
months visit to the mission fields of
emma, Japan, India, the Philippine is
lands and Maylasia. Mrs. Stuntz will
speak on observations of their journey
FTioay afternoon. Bishop Shepard
VIII speak Sunday morning.
Tomorrow afternoon the feature of
the session will be a professional of
all the missionaries that have been
sent out to foreign fields by the To-
peka branch since it's organizat ton
thfrty-six years ago. All the women
who joined in 1S69-7O will actually be
in the procession, and other women
VIII represent the remaining ninety
four missionaries who for various rea-
sons cannot be present. The Topeka
branch now has sixty-four mission
aries in active service.
Tomorrow evening the address bv
Rev. Benson Baker will be preceded
| by demonstration of a village
preaching scene in some of the for
| eign countries. Reverend Mr.. Baker
| is superintendent of the Murat dis
| trict in India, which includes more
/ than 5000 Methodists
Japanese Girl Here.
The oldest in point of service of the
/ sixteen furloed missionaries who will
attend the convention is Miss Rebecca
| Watson, who has spent thirty-six years
in Yokohama, Japan. Miss Watson's
| home is in Lincoln, Kan. On her re-
turn to America she is accompanied
by Miss Suye Shibata, a Japanese girl
also a missionary, from Toxic. Miss
Shibata attended the New England
| conservatory of music and was the
first Japanese girl to graduate from
that school. When she finished hel
course fourteen years ago. she went tt
Japan, where she has been teaching
music in a girls school under the su
pervision of the society.
Among the other returned mission
aries who are natives of Kansas ar'
Miss Hilda Swan, of Scandia, who ma:
spent thirteen years in India; Mis-:
| Mildred Blakely, of Lyons, who ha.
been in the Philippines five years
Miss Cora Morgan, of Wichita, WHIT
has been eeleven years in Godhra
| Indian; Miss Clara Porter, of Beloit
| five years in Cawnpore, India; Mis-!
| Olive Vail, of Colby, five years il
MalIacca, Mayalasia; Miss Dora Wag
ner, of Penalosa, five years in Hako
date. Japan; Miss A. Jeanette Walter
of Kingman, nine years in Seoul
Korea. Among the others are Mis-
Grace Ellison, six years in China; Mis-
C. Ethel Householder, five years il
China; Miss Floy Hurlbut, five year
in China; Miss Edna Lee, five year
in Japan; Miss Livenia Nelson, twelv
years in India; Miss Caroline Nelson
twelve years in India, and Miss Eunic
| Porter, six years in India.