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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1896
Page
5
The Congress of Missions considers many matters of interest to AIL as closing hours wrap up. Delegates review ongoing programs, approve routine resolutions, and discuss future plans. Key entries include budget adjustments, outreach initiatives, and organizational governance updates.
Attendees largely men hear reports on church education standards, college sponsorships, and catechism study. Officers for foreign mission and home mission plans are named. a state superintendent position is proposed with salary of 31500, and minutes conclude with mission congress notes and appointive decisions.
A morning and Friday gathering presided by Dr D H Evans discussed Protestant work in the South. Mrs Cave described education for Black communities and the need for funds as ships and boxes reach the region. Freedmen’s Board secretary E P Cowan cited cuts to schools, teachers, and students due to finances while plans for consecration and mission work continued. Rev John Murray announced a presbytery meeting and departure to China in November to begin new postings.
A nostalgic appeal invites former Wayne County residents to subscribe to The Woos Republican. It suggests mailing letters to distant contacts with news about people and places from the old home. It notes a weekly gift email worth a Burt is appreciated for a year.
The Two Synodical Societies of Ohio Presbyterian Women convened in Wooster. The Home Society opened its fourteenth annual session on October 14 1896 with devotions by Mrs E J March and addresses by officers on mission needs including education for colored girls and Seminaries. Reports praised generous gifts from Cleveland Cincinnati and Columbus presbyteries, urged broader funding for a $700000 property and new campaigns, and featured speeches by Mrs James and Miss Gertrude McClure. The afternoon included services for the Young People and a memorial for Mrs A M Reid. The Synodical Foreign Missionary Society also met revealing guidance passages and urging support for Alaska India and other missions as two young volunteers spoke and native greetings were received.
Miss Helen Jeffries youngest daughter of Mayor Lemuel Jeffries married Joseph Warner Augur of Chicago in a Wooster ceremony at 7 pm. The event featured Rev J Jeffries and Miss Fanny Benham singing the Lohengrin wedding march. Guests included numerous relatives and friends from Salem Warren and Chicago. Receipts and roses highlighted the celebration before the couple departed for Chicago.
About 350 attendees filled the Academy of Music for a weekly Central Free Silver Club gathering. Hon. John A. Connolly of Mansfield and Hon. S. M. Douglass spoke on gold and silver policy, free coinage, and Democratic plans to boost prosperity while critiquing the Republicans. The audience heard weathered debate on the gold standard, strikes, and economic independence with Douglass praised as the stronger orator.
In Cleveland on October 14 a Royer family reunion in Akron set plans to secure a clear title to a fortune of 2 4 million dollars in property in St Louis. The estate stems from Jacob Royer who died a century ago and left valuable real estate and personal property. Family members will hire a lawyer to obtain papers proving the capes and other assets exist.
Cleveland October 12 In Catholic circles here it is widely believed that Bishop Korst mann of the Cleveland diocese will be offered the position of rector of the Catholic university at Washington. The post is vacant due to the resignation of Bishop Keane. The bishop is currently in the East.
Washington octave 13 indicates the administration hopes to report progress on the Venezuelan boundary dispute by Congress's next session, but a final settlement by then seems unlikely.
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