Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-19

Annual Meeting of Women's
Foreign Missionary
Society Held in
This City.
INTERESTING L
Sixty Delegates From out of
' Town Here for Con-
~ventiOn.

With Friday afternoons program
the, WOmen's Foreign Missionary
society of the Fort Dodge district clos
ed its annual convention which haf
been in session here since Thursda!
afternoon. The convention was an un
usually. successful one, with sixty Out
Of town delegates and interesting talks
by missionaries and profitable discus
siOns of subjects relating to missionary
work.
On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Hattie
/. Paine of Eagle Grove very ably
gave an account of the golden jubilee
of the society in Boston last fall when
the fftieth anniversary of its orgafiza.
ton was celebrated. In a debate
which followed. on the question, Re
solved, that the task before the women
of MethOdism was more difficult i'm
1869 than in 1920" a tie was declared
between the two sides-Eagle Grove
the affirmative and Fort Dodge the
negative.
With a large world map andNa point
er, the trip recently made by Miss
Leona Ruppel from Webster City to
Bombay, India, was outlined and some
OF the interesting, experiences related
by Mrs. II. 7. C%hipperfield. STOPS
were made ut Yokohama, Nagaski,
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Col
OmbO and Bombay, taking by water
about seven weeks, but by the "airsllip
route" the pilot made the round trip
in about thirty minutes.
Banquet Dinner.
The visitors. and delegates were en-
tertained by the local women ut a ban
quet Thursday evening at 8 o'clock
for the Young Women's societies of
Eagle Grove, Fort Dodge and Webster
City. The program Of tOasts was es-
pecially interesting, in the nature OF, a
field meet" with the following sub
iects and speakers:
Starter" Miss Clara Ruppel ;
''Training,' Miss Lola Hughes /;
Hurdles" Miss Faye Miller; Team
Work." Mrs. ID. p. Smith: THE Coal
Mrs. c. w. Bum; Our Trophies"
Miss Lydie Trimble.
During the evening program an In
structive number showing the need of
medical missions in foreign countries.
was 1.-The Hanging of the Sign The
principal address Of the evening was
the address by Miss Lydic Trimble,
for thirty years IL missionary in China,
whose talk gave u vivid insight into
affairs in China and ended with Il plea
to prevent dumping of United States
Brewries onto China"
Officers Named.
Friday morning was given over to
business and officers were elected. All
former officers were named for Il Sec
Ond term with the exception OF the
president, Mrs. Il. Il. %Chippertield. who
retired and was succeeded by Miss
Mary Hobbs, of Manson.
A picnic luncheon was served AT
noon to the delegates and the local
auxiliary women. At the afternoon
session Mrs. S. A. Smith, of Riverside.
Fort Dodge, read Il letter from her
daughter, Miss Joy Smith, who Is at
Marking, China, telling how Christ
mas was celebrated in the mission
school, and Miss Johnston, district
evangelistic singer, sang one OF Miss
Smiths favOrite songs.
Miss Trimble in a very informal
a told the convention of the Foo
chow Woman's college, and the beauti-
full Christian girls they are training,
DIR. Bond, district superintendent,
then in a very forceful way, gave the
women a view Of their great task and
called upon those who would give q
willing service with the women on thls
side for the women over there, to
pledge anew their vows in a closils;
conservation service.