The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-10
FRIENDS INDIAN WORK
REPORTS ARE SUBJECT
AT MONDAY MEETING

= Activities in Indian work in Okla
homa during the past year were re-
counted by Friends Indian mission
workers at the opening meeting of
the Indian affairs committee, held in
South Eighth street Friends church
Monday night
Lawrence Lindley, superintendent
in charge of the seven mission sta
lions, gave the principal report of the
evening Other talks relating to
Friends Indian work were given by
Amelia Ruger Lindley. Mr.. and Mrs.
William o. Wagner, of Hominy, Okla.
Indian affairs committee. Edward
Wistar, OF Philadelphia, representative
of the committee on the Home mission
council, made a brief address.
Disease Affects Schools
Mr.. Lindley, in reviewing the health
conditions among the Otoe tribe, said
that half of the children of school age
are barred from public schools be-
cause of trachoma- He also said that
so per cent Of the tribe are reported
having the disease.
Reference wa made by Mr.. Lindley
to the difficulty experienced in hand
ling the Kickapoo mission Indians.
The Big Jim Indians are much given
TO drinking of poisonous liquors, he
said. and were opposed to their chill
dren attending either public or Sun
p day schools.
Would Have Survey
In outlining the needs for the field,
advocated a survey of the seven mis-
sion stations by the Friends mission
aries. This survey, according to the
plan given by Mr.. Lindley, would in
clude informa ton showing the loca'
ton of Indian homes, names of fami-
lies, names of tribes to which each
belongs, ages of children, facts about
church membership and general re-
ligious attitude, economical situation
in each case and the Indians attitude
towards education.
Stereoptican slides of the fields,
covered were exhibited. The last meet
ing of the Indian committee is to be
held, Tuesday night in South Eighth
street Friends church, in conjunction
with the first meeting of the Home
mission board. The meeting will be
an open one. Meetings of the Home
mission board will continue through
three sessions, Wednesday, and one
session Thursday morning.
Mission board members present, and
the yearly meeting which they repre-
sent, follow:
James Carey, Jr.. Baltimore, Balti-
more Yearly meeting; Charles e. Teb-
belts, Brooklyn, California Yearly
meeting; Charles e. Carey, Paramount,
Ind. Indiana Yearly meeting; A. j.
Hadley, Earlham, Iowa, Iowa Yearly
meeting: Melissa S. Fellow, Wichita,
kans.. Kansas Yearly meeting: Wal
r. lace C. Kemp, Wichita, kans, Kansas
Yearly meeting; William I. Kent, AL
len, Neb., Nebraska Yearly meeting;
NJ Melvin Bailey, Portland, Me-, New
England Yearly meeting.
William c. Tabor, New York City,
New York Yearly meeting; Elizabeth
c. F. Stevens, Poughkeepsie. n. Y,
New York Yearly meeting; Nathan D.
Andrews, Greensboro, N. c., North
Carolina Yearly meeting; Fife r.
Tamplin, Portland, Ore. Oregon Year
" meeting; George H. Moore, George
town, ILL.,, Western Yearly meeting;
Flora Mills Morris, Bloomingdale, Ind,
Western Yearly meeting; Minnie M.
Anderson, Plainfield, Ind. Western
Yearly meeting
Harriet F. G. Peele. Sabina, O.,
Whining ton Yearly meeting; Laura S.
Durham, Lebanon, O., Wilmington
Yearly meeting; DR.. E. Blackburn
Cleveland, O., member-at-large; Belle
G Bailey. Newcastle, Ind, member
at-large; Mary Harold, Danville. Ind.
of the Womans Missionary Union;
and Lenora N. Hobbs, Bloomingdale
Ind, OF the Woman's Missionary
Union. --s II .-... IA.
Martha Woodward, Haviland. Kas.
Kansas Yearly Meeting; Lewis E
Stout, Kokomo, Ind. Western Yearly
meeting.
Missionaries present include Jennie
NJ Hoover, from Jamaica; Wendell G
Farr, from Jamaica; Cora Hendrick
under appointment to Mexico; Louis
Cope, under appointment to Africa
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Patten, under ap
pointment to Africa; and DR.. and Mrs
E. Blackburn. who will resign posi-
tions as members-at-large on the mis-
sion board to accept an appointment
to Africa.
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