H P District Meeting Held By Methodists
The H P district gathering opened at 10 am with devotions led by Paul Hardin Jr. of First Church. All thirty five charges attended except one. talks by Craven Pritchard Hardin Nesbitt and Moore covered key work areas. J D Ross reported receipts for the year with a balance over 600 dollars after allocations. The principal business of the meeting continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Hardin, Jr
First
I. F. Craven
J. E. Pritchard
Paul Hardin
Wilson Nesbitt
A. J. Xoonee
J .D. Ross
Liquor Danger Emphasized By North Carolina Methodists
At the North Carolina Methodist Conference in Wilson speakers warned liquor threatens the nation during war. Bishop Clare Purcell urged no truce with liquor, while Bishop J Kenneth Pfoht called liquor the most dangerous fifth column. Henry R. Dwire of Duke spoke on education amid the war, with Paschal and Childs among other featured speakers as the session runs through tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purcell
America
J. Kenneth Pfoht
Winston-Salem
Moravian Church of America
Church
Temperance Committee
Dwire
Board of Christian Education
Henry R. Dwire
Duke University
F. W. Paschal
Wilmington
B. G. Childs
District approves World Service Budget increase plan
The morning session allocated twenty three thousand two hundred three dollars and ninety five cents to the World Service Budget for the district. A committee’s allotments were adopted, with expected district charges raising World Service giving 10 to 25 percent this year. The afternoon featured Missionary Institute talks led by Rev. W R Kelly and Dr. Ezra Cox, plus remarks on the Hugh Chatham Hospital and Children’s Home. The Hessian fly disease is cited as costing about 40 million bushels of wheat annually in the U S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of First Church
Central Church
W. C. Hammer
High Point
L. B. Abernethy
Ezra Cox
General Board of Missions
Supt
O. V. Woosley
W. M. Smith
R. T. Amos
R. O. Lindsay
Greensboro
Jo .A. Johnson
P. E. Lindley
S. W. Taylor
W. Taylor
Supcerin‘tendent
Smuts Calls Allied Egypt Victory a War Turning Point
Jan Smuts, prime minister of the Union of South Africa, said Allied successes in Egypt could reach victory proportions and be the turning point of the war. He sent messages to Gen. Sir Harold Alexander praising the Middle East campaign and to Gen. Frank Theron of the South African force, predicting a final, far reaching triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union of Ehe Africa
Egypt
Simuts
London
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Harold Alexander
Middle East
Tory
Frank Thereon
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Asheboro
Istrict
Missionary Institute
Methodist C Church
Filarilee’s
Bishop Purcell
North Carolina
Wilson
The
Associated Press
United States
Malabar
India
Jan Smuts
C & G Grocery
Centennial Age
Pepsodent
Hind’s Honey
Asc
Mennen
Carter
Epsom
Scott's
Woodbury's
Purex
Gleaner
Weatinghouse Electrica
Auteareph
Rae Ma Tee
Korex
Nursola
Dorothy Perkins
Jalma
Isc Size
Woodbury’s Dreams
Monocaps
Feenamint
Amooth
Richard Hudnut
Fox
Alophen
Creomulsion
Redding St. Thone
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