Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-03
BAPTIST WOMEN
MEET NEXT WEEK
WoMEN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST
FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY
OPENS TUESDAY.
SESSIONS OF CONVENTION
CONTINUE THRU "WEDNESDAY
Activities OF West Central District,
Comprising Three States, to Be Re-
viewed-Offieers TO Be Elected Wed
nesday Forenoon-Dinner Tuesday
Evening, Pageant Wednesday night.

I Women Of the Baptist church from
Iowa Kansas and Nebraska will meet
al the Baptist church Tuesday and
Wednesday for the fifth annual meet
! ing Of the west central district of the
Womcn's American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society. Monday evening the
executive board will meet preliminary
/ 10 the opening OF the convention Tues
! day forenoon. Copies Of the programs,
! received yesterday from district head
/ quarters provide for six meetings in
/ the two days
J The convention viii open Tuesday
forenoon and will meet again. begin
ming al o'clock in the afternoon.
/ Dinner. TO be served 10y the women of
| the local church at Tuesday evening
will be followed by a song service at
| S o'clock. Meetings will be held We'd
! nesday forenoon. beginning at $3.50,
when officers will be elected. at >
o'clock in the afternoon and at 100 in
the evening a second praise service
/ Will be held. including a pageant by
! church.
Program Opening Meeting.
Delegates viii be welcomed AT the
! opening meeting Of the society by Mrs
! Lee Kellogg. president OF the mission
circle of the local church. Mrs. 5. W.
Price, of Ottumwa. Kan, foreign vice
president will respond. Reports of
officers Will include those of the en-
eCutive board. by Mrs. Kate r. Kelsey.
Omaha Neb.. secretary; Mrs. J. b.
Long. Council Bluffs, treasurer and
Miss Nellie Z. Lucas. Dcs Moines. field
secretary. Mrs. l. Nider. of Fairbury.
Neb. will report for the extension de-
partment. Committees will be ap.
pointed.
Afternoon and Evening.
Al the afternoon meeting Mrs. Ed
ward Johnson. of Omaha, home vice
president. will report for the home ad-
ministration department and the state
secretaries. Mrs. VI. l.. Workman.
Winfield. KAN; Mrs. X. W. Brown.
Ames, and Mrs johnson, Omaha, will
report for Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska,
respectively.
Mrs. Robert Plimpton. of Denison.
district secretary director of the World
Wide Guild. will report for that organ
ization with supplementary reports
from Kansas By Miss Olive Russell.
Derby. Kan; Iowa, Miss Bessie Jones.
Washington. Iowa. and Nebraska, Miss
Jennie Hall. Lincoln.
AT the Tuesday evening meeting,
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Mare OF Chicago. home administration
secretary Of the W. A. B. F. NJ. S. and
Mrs. ". 7. Elmore, Lincoln. Neb.; for
merry Of Ramapatnan, India, will
speak. Rev. f. b. Davidson will lead
the praise service and Mrs. E. E. Gid
ner, of this city. will sing
Wednesdays Program.
Committees will report and officers
will be elected at the Wednesday fore
noon meeting. A QUESTIONABLE will be
conducted by Mrs. johnson. of Omaha
! and Mrs. G. W. Newton, of Cedar Falls,
| will tell Of the reading contest move
ment in Iowa.
The work of the foreign administra-
| tive department will be told by Mrs.
| S. F. Price, of Ottawa, Kan. foreign
vice president at the Wednesday after
| noon meeting. Returned missionaries
present will give short talks and Mrs.
! ]. A. Lapham, of Des Moines, will
speak on the educational movement in
| Iowa.
! Following the pageant Wednesday
evening the resolutions committee will
report and Miss Edith Crisenberry. of
| Nowgong. Assam, will deliver an ad-
! dress. Rev. r. 3. Davidson will sing.