The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-03-11
The WOman's Missionary Confer
ence

Somerville is this week entertaining
about 200 ladies of the Missionary Con-
ference, Southern Methodist church.
Memphis Annual Conference.
The business sessions of the confer
ence have begun each morning at $3.50
and last thru the day till a o. m, with
lunch served at the church each day
and a short intermission given for that
purpose. The evening hour has been
given each day to lectures on mission.
AIRY work, foreign and domestic, sand
much valuable and instructive informa.
ton has been given out by active
missionary workers in both fields.
Mrs. G. W, Nichols of Jackson il the
conference president and during her
administration'the wcrk has progressed
TIE first session was held Tuesday
and the most important work was the
session of the executive committee.
Inere are eight districts in the Mem.
PMS conference and delegates are in at
tendance from practically all. The
programme is unusually interesting and
the meeting was the best for several
years the meeting the official pro-
gramme fellows:
Wednesday, Morning Sessions 9
O'Clock devotional by Rev, R. A..
Walker; the presidents message. Mrs.
q. W. Nichols. Reports-Vice Presi-
dent. Mrs. 7. G. Lowry; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. H. H. Ellis; treasurer,
Mrs. b. T. Moore; superintendent Of
young peoples work, Mrs j. H. Rob.
erts; f"Our Literature" Miss lEstell
Haskins, editor Young Christian Work.
er; The Centenary Situation" Rev.
WI. Mccoy, conference centenary
secretary; 1.-The Relation of the Won.
ans Missionary Society to,the Christian
Education Movement" Miss Mabel K.
Howell' administrative secretary fields.
lndroductions and announcements.
Bible hour. Rev. C. A. .waterfeld of
Jackson.
Afternoon Session :3G o'clock. de-
volional. Rev. R. L. Duckwor,h: re.
pert of Wesley Institute. Memphis,
Miss Lillian Parker; financial report.
Wesley Institute. Mrs. j. T. Fusner;
"Womsn's Missionary Work 10 the
Present Day Crisis" Miss Mabel X.
Howell; report Of superintendent Of
Juniors, Mrs. P. B. jefferson; Somer.
vile Juniors" Committee Meeting.
Evening Sessions o'clock, Young
Peoples evening, Mrs. j. H. Roberts,
presiding. Devotional, Miss Elizabeth
Claibaprne, McTseire School, Shanghai,
China. roll call of Memphis Conference
missionaries, deaconesses and students
at Scarritt; address, "The Orient, Miss
Mabel X. Howell"
Thursday. Morning Sessions O'Clock
devotional. Rev. A. W. Lassiter. Re-
port of'superintendent Of mission study,
Miss Mamie Witt; Plans Methods and
Results of Missions Study" Mrs. Grace
Driver, report of superintendent of sup
plies, Mrs. +. v. Holmes: pledge boxes;
repor. Of superintendent of social SER
vice Mrs.J. F. Blalock; "Social Service
and its Relation to the Negro" Miss
Estell Haskins; ':The China of today, I"
Miss Elizabeth Claiborne; Bible hour,
Rev. G. A. Waterfield
Afternoon Session-1:30 o'clock. de-
votionsl. Mrs. 7. B. King, Conference
educational institutions. Rev. R. C.
Douglas, conference educational sec.
retary ; reports Of district secretaries,
Brownsville. Mrs. ]. d. Senter; Dyers.
bury, Mrs L. L Pace; Jackson, Mrs.
h. q. Johnson; Lexington, Mrs. W. H.
Dennison; "0ur work In China, {" Miss
Elizabeth Claiborne; committee meet
ibgs.
Evening Sessions. o'clock, devo-