Foreign missions goals rise in Presbyterian assembly
Kansas City May 27. The general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States reported record foreign mission giving and expanding self support. Total receipts exceeded 1 3 million dollars with expenditures at 1 455 million. Sixty four new missionaries were sent out and native churches in Korea Laos and the Philippines showed strong self sufficiency and evangelistic growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
United States
Cumberland Churches
Africa
China
India
Japan
Korea
Mexico
Persia
Philippine Islands
Siam
Laos
Brazil
Chile
Columbia
Guatemala
Syria
Philippines
Presbyterian Church
Shanghai
Southern Presbyterian Church
Northern Presbyterian Church
James Bryce
Wiliam Taft
Wm. J. Bryan
Wu Tang Fan
Committee On
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Advert
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as relief for various pains without habit formation. It features testimonials from Mrs G H Dustinburg Ohio and a general claim that attacks become less frequent or vanish. The copy notes availability through local druggists and a money back promise if no benefit is seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
LaGrippe
G. H
Dustinburg
Ohio
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
United Presbyterian General Conference Opens in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg on May 27 the United Presbyterian church holds its general conference and semi centennial celebration with hundreds of delegates from North America. Discussions cover church history, education, resources, relations with other denominations and proposed home mission reforms. Leaders for moderator include Rev. Dr. A G Wallace and Rev. James G Carr on. The session opened at 2 PM with devotions and the semi centennial commission report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
United Presbyterian Church
North America
General Committee of Home Missions
Synodical Superintendents of Missions
Board of Home Missions
Board of Church Extension
A. G. Wallace
Sewickley
James G. Carron
Xenia
Ohio
Presbyterian Denomination
J. D. Sands
Board of Publication
Presbyterian Church
Plan approved to aid superannuated preachers and claimants
The M B E conference adopts a temporal economy report to fund support for superannuated preachers widows and their under eighteen children with funds from public collections gifts bequests and other sources A conference claimants board will govern with Chicago as its headquarters Rev Frank Bristol was elected bishop, the eighth chosen in this conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Committee of Temporal Economy
General Conference
M. BE
Chicago
Frank Bristol
Boy knocked down by barrow team near Liberty Center
A ten year old boy, son of Martin McCarty near Liberty Center Wells County, was struck down by a team drawing a barrow. The machine paused over him before he escaped with severe bruises and a broken arm. Lightning struck the tower of Angola on Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin McCarty
Liberty Center
Wells County
Bruke
Angola
North Carolina Dry Victory Reported by Large Margin
Raleigh reports show North Carolina voting lauded as dry by a heavy majority exceeding forty thousand. Results across regions include Western Blue Ridge 10000, Piedmont 15000, Central 10000, Eastern 10000 with towns like Ashville 800 and Charlotte 1000 pro prohibition, wets carry only five of ninety eight counties. Liquor manufacture barred after January 1, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
John A. Oates
Antisaloon League Organization
Bluge Ridge
Prohibition
Piedmont
Central Part
Eastern
Ashville
Charlotte
Winston, Salem
Greensboro
Oates
Anti-Saloon League
Indiana Masons report steady growth and losses
Indiana Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons reports nearly 3000 new members in the past year. Jan 1 1908 total membership 50 111, up from 47 353 in 1907. Eighty seventh annual meeting opened in Indianapolis with officers elected and plans to lay corner stone of new Masonic Temple amid death notices and financial figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Grand Lodge
Calvin W. Prather
Pythian
Charles M. Mikels
Newcastle
William Marker
Tipton
William Ridley
Corydon
William Schntz
South Bend
Martin H. Rice
Isaac P. Leyden
New Albany
Indiana
Walter O. Bragg
Mr. Bragg
Masonic Temple
Pathfinders adopt resolution on lodge representation change
Kokomo Indiana May 27 Pathfinders meeting passes measure to petition the supreme lodge for a law change reducing local representation at the annual gathering and conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Ind
State Pathfinders
Supreme Lodge
Jetyee
Dae shiembiaRe
Indiana delegates vote in state organization officers
June selections for Indiana delegates yielded eight votes. Officers chosen include President E. A. Tucker Logansport and secretary Henry M. Ham Terre Haute. After welcome by Mayor Arnett, addresses by Tucker MacLane and McKay followed. a parade and representation from forty lodges marked the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry M. Ham
Terre Haute
John V. Lees
Huntington
M. L. Garrigus
Alexandria
Edgar Cox
Kokomo
Martha
Elwood
W. F. Enslem
Marion
Clary
Logansport
Rosetta Springer
R. Carpenter
New Albany
Glen Leap
Indianapolis
Harry L. Carmony
Frank Butler
Ligonier
Daniel McCarthy
Jeffersonville
Earl Henderson
Brazil
W. H. Arnett
A. E. Tucker
H. F. MacLane
Supreme Organizer
Cleveland
George R. McKay
No Liquor To Be Sold At Denver Democratic Convention
Denver officials announce no liquor sales will be allowed in the convention auditorium when the national Democratic gathering meets in July. A bar concession request near the assembly hall was rejected, and all concessions will be refused during sessions. Nonintoxicating refreshments will be sold at locations closer to the venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Cupid Takes Five Fort Wayne City Teachers
At a Fort Wayne school board meeting it was revealed that at least five city teachers plan marriage before the next school year starts. More marriages among the staff are anticipated as others may also be leaving for matrimony. The board set fall assignments with few changes. about 200 teachers are employed. The June meeting will appoint a city truancy officer, with D. L. Beaber the incumbent a candidate and W. M. Clutter, Capt. B. B. Smith, and T. A. Wilkinson also named. The city council will elect a new school board member next month to replace E. W. Cook, who seeks reelection. Allen Hamilton is also in the running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Cupid
D. L. Beaber
W. M. Clutter
Capt
B. B. Smith
T. A. Wilkinson
E. W. Cook
Mr. Cook
Allen Hamilton
Black Hand Panic Closes Chicago School
In Chicago the Black Hand scare in the Ghetto district forced 1,700 public pupils from the Jackson school during afternoon exercises. Principal William Hedges halted classes after rumors of a dynamite pit, seeking to prevent harm as anxious mothers rushed to collect children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wm. Hedges
Jackson
Black Hand
Hedges
Old Soldier Slain in Ohio State Home
Canton reports Acting Coroner Bothwell will present facts to Stark county grand jury seeking arrest of two Massillon asylum attendants for the death of 70 year old John Adams of Beach City. Adams died after alleged brutal beating. officials say death due to pneumonia per hospital records. Undertaker Crites recounts difficulty recovering Adams’s body from the morgue due to locked keys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Bothwell
John Adams
Massillon State Hospital
Stark County
Nts
Massillon
Beach City
Adams
Fort Wayne Bans Clairvoyants With 1000 Dollar Fee
Fort Wayne voters clamped down on clairvoyants palmists and fortune tellers by approving an ordinance imposing a 3000 dollar annual license fee. Earlier proposal had set 500 dollars, but the committee raised it further. Mayor Hosey’s annual report was read and ordered on file. A single debate arose over street maintenance on Fourth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortune
Tel- Jera
Fort Wayne
Econtcil
Welch
Committee On
Hosey
Bayer
Fourth Street
City Council Debates Bridges and Streetcar Rules
Council appoints committee to study river bridge links between Rudisill Lakeside and Walton-Columbia area while discussing a city wide interurban car speed inquiry. An ordinance to ban street games on streets and a license for outside teamsters are reviewed, with the mayor backing jacks on streetcars for emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne
Barr
Jefferson
Clinton
Pennsylvania
Harrison
Webster
Superior
Lafayette
Bayer
Boerger
Langard
Rodenbeek
Schwier
St. Mary's River
Rudisill
Lakeside
Bloomingdale
Walton Avenue
Columbia Avenue
Boeger
Colerick
Board of Safety
Lewis Street
Henry
Jury Convicts After Prayer In Murder Case
In Chattanooga Tennessee Judge Lewis Sheppard noted the jury for the J D Duncan case held a thirty minute prayer meeting before weighing evidence. After four hours deliberation the jury returned a verdict of first degree murder. Also reported, S J M Loomis longtime Kendallville merchant, died Monday night at Longcliffe asylum in Logansport at age over seventy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lewis Sheppard
J. ©. Duncan
S. J. M. Loomis
Kendallville
Longcliffe
Logansport
Infant son of Garren Williams found dead near Wabash
The infant son of Garren Williams, living southeast of Wabash, was found dead in its bed on Tuesday morning. The incident prompted a local investigation and routine inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garren Williams
Wabash
Seventeen Drown As Fame Sinks After Collision
The Boston fishing schooner Fame, under Captain Fay, was run down in fog by the Dominion Atlantic steamer Boston off Chaspes Bank. Seventeen of Fame’s nineteen crewmen were lost, with only Edward Pitts and John Clark rescued. The collision occurred at slow speed and the Fame sank in three minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarmouth
N. S
Fame
Fay
Chaspes Bank
Dominion Atlantic Line
Boston
Edward Pitts
Cook
John Clark
Pitts
Indiana Dentists Set Jubilee Anniversary Meeting
Indianapolis hosts the Indiana State Dental association semi centennial jubilee at the German House June 4 5 and 6 with invited dentists from Indiana and other states. Noted essayists include Dr V Black Dr Georges Zederbaum Dr M H Fletcher Dr Truman W Brophy and Dr Harry B Holmes. The first president Dr J F Johnston of Indianapolis will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana State Dental Association
German House
Indiana
V. Black
Chicago
Georges Zederbaum
Charlotte, Mich
M. H. Fletcher
Cincinnati
Truman W. Brophy
Harry B. Holmes
Louisville
J. F. Johnston
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Presbyterian General Assembly
North Carolina
Grand Lodge OF Masons
Pathfinders
Sis
Acquirren
Chaspes Banks
R. R
South Bend Coty
Rolla
Mchenry-Millhouse Sta
Weite
Columbia Street
Bryan
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