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BISHOP MURRAH GIVES OUT LI8T OF M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, APPOINTMENTS.I. J. Davidaon, supply; Depew and Davenport, R. C. .Dew; Haakell and Blxby. G. M. Byers; Henryetta, A. M. Belcher* Okcmah, D. A. Dawson; Okfuskee circuit J. H. Henson, supply; Okmulgee, J. R. Abernathy; Porter, P. C. Atkins; Prague and Paden, J. A Tricksy, supply Sapulpa, J. M- Cantrell; Tulsa, Boston avenue, D. S. Barton; Tulsa, Tigert Memorial, J. E. McConnell; Red Fork and Mounds, T. M. Moore; Stroud, A. M. Dupre; Pasco Mission, T. Weastham, supply; District statistical secretary, O. A. Dawson; conference missionary evangelist, A. M. Brannon; conference missionary secretary, J. M. Cantrell.Vlnlta District.MANY PREACHESS LEAVE STATERev.Knickerbocker Goes to North Texas Conference; Other Changes In the Roster.Ada.—At the final session of the East Oklahoma conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, St. Paul’s church, Muskogee, was nominated by Its pastor, Dr. J. M. Peterson, for the seat of tne 1915 convention and it was unanimously chosen. Bishop Murrah announced the ministerial appointments for the/- ensuing conference year, which are as follows:Choctaw district. Presiding Elder J. A. Kenny; Antlers clrqult, C. B, Wade, supply; Bruno circuit, das.. G. Frazier; Bok-tuklo circuit, L. N. Ishcomer; Chickasaw circuit, H. C. Imotichey, supply.Hugo and Bennington, L,. W. Cobb, supply; Idabel circuit, Eastman Jacob; Jesse circuit, Alexander Peter, supply; LeFlore circuit, J. J. McElroy, supply; McCurtaln circuit, Greggs Durant; Rufe circuit, A’. S. Williams; Agent American Bible society, Zadoo Anderson; District interpreter, J. J. Baker, supply; District Statistical Secretary, A. S. Williams.Creek DistrictCreek District, presiding elder, T. F. Roberts; Broken Arrow, Isaac Johnson, supply; Euchee mission, Sam Cooper, supply; Honey Cre6k, Harry Beaver, sup-pl . Okmulgee, William Hill, Sapulpa, Sam J. Checote, M. L. Checote, supply, junior preacher; Wewoka, Connugie Lowe supply; district interpreter, J. E. Tiger; district statistical secretary, J. E. Tiger.Holdenvllle District.Iloldenville district,' presiding elder N. L Linehaugh; Ada, first church, L. B. Ellis; Ada, Asbury, B. F. Stegall; Asher circuit, R. M. C. Hill; Dustin station, M. L. Sims; Holdenvllle station, Luther Roberts; Konawa station, W. L. Broom; Mc-Ix)ud, Earlsboro, J. M. Ball; Maud station, J. C. Crowson; Sasakwa circuit, A. 'I'. Winn; Seminole station, T. F. Roberts; Shawnee, first church. S. II. Baboo.-k; Shawnee, Trinity, C. P. Broome, supply; Shawnee circuit, C. W. Gross,suj i ly.T.M-urnsch station, A. C. Pickens; Unionchape;. \\\ L. French: Wanette and Mt.D. A. Greeg; AVeleetka station, G. L i'row: Wetumka station, P». L. Williams Wewoka station and mission, A. P. Johnson, A. T. Meek, supply, junior preai !,i-i . district statistical secretary, B. L W.ili.irns; conference missionary evan-M A. Cassidy; students in Massey •. M. \V. Dunaway; president Okla-W. -Ie.v,-jn co’dctre. N. L. Linebaugh:Vlnlta District: Presiding elder, J. W. Rogers; Adair circuit, M. M. Duper; Af-ton Btatlon, G. E Holley; Bernice and Pensacola, O. S. Snell; Blue Jacket olr-cult, John Haggard; Centralla circuit, K. K. Anderson; Chapel circuit, J. W. Anderson, supply; Chelsea—circuit, W. T. Ready; Cherokee circuit, A. H. Butler, supply; Choteau and Big Cabin, S. C. Nunley; Claremore, G. W. Grlner; Falkland circuit, Wiley Smith; Grove, J. C. Hooks; Jay circuit, James P. Butler; Kansas circuit, J. W. Rinkle, supply; Locust Grove circuit, J. T. Turner; Miami circuit, T. A. Hawkins; Pryor station, C. H. Buchanan; Spavlnaw circuit, John Hatfield, supply; Vlnlta station, R. C. Taylor; Wagoner station, T. F. Brewer; Wagoner circuit, W. M. Deatherwood, supply; Welch station, W. E. Garrison; district missionary evangelist, J. D. Edwards; district statistical secretary S. C. Runley.Transfers.Transfers: P. R. Knickerbocker, toNorth Texas conference; W. M. Wilson to West Oklahoma conference; M. L. Liutler to West Oklahoma conference; W. T. Stewart to West Oklahoma conference; W. H. Strong to Northwest Texas conference; W. D. Sauls to North Texas conference; Frank Burruss to Virginia conference; C. B. Galbreath to North Carolina conference; T. K. Graham toNew Mexico conference; M. Columbus Hamilton to Montana conference; RoyE. Early to Montana conference; J. D. Gage to West Oklahoma conference; Q. B. Win ton to Tennessee conference.FREEDMEN'S LAND IS TAXABLEImportant Decision Hapded Down bySupreme Court.Oklahoma City.—Several thousandacres of valuable land alloted by the government to former negro slaves in tfr© Chickasaw nation were declared to be subject to taxation the .same as other land, by the state supreme court, in an opinion announced by Justice Willard R. Bleakmore. This ruling reverses a former opinion of the court, written by Justice Johh B. Turner, which held the land of former Chickasaw slaves was exempt.The land in question is owned by negroes, who were former slaves of the Chickasaws, and was alloted under an act of congress in 1902. The land was purchased from the Indian nation by the government expressly for the purpose of allotment to the former slaves. Immediately after statehood those who still held their allotments resisted the payment of taxes, claiming the land was exempt from taxation under the Atoka agree-
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Council Hill Times
Council Hill, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Nov 26, 1914
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