Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — CONFERENCE TO MEET AT PERMANENT PLACE [ARTICLE]

CONFERENCE TO MEET AT PERMANENT PLACE

Decides to Stop Itinerary Practice and to Choose Location For Annual Meetings.

Cities of northwest Indiana are to hereafter be denied the pleasure of entertaining the annual conference of Methodist The conference is to be permanently located, undoubtedly at Battle (ground. The move is epoch-mak-ing in Methodism. It not not learned until Saturday-that Hammond was to be host to the last of the itinerent conferences. The sixtysecond gathering which is now in full swing marks the close of the circuit. Ministers are glad. Dr. P. C. Curnick, the originator, said: “It is getting more difficult each year for the churches to entertain this large conference and it will be better for it to locate permanently.” Despite the fact that other conferences are satisfied with the. old system the approval of the attending clergy was immediately affixed. A committee of one layman from each conference \ to act with a pastor with a view to locating the conference. The Battle Ground was sugr gested as the proper place. By this move the sixty-second northwest Indiana conference stands heads and shoulders above predecessors. The pastors who are to act on that committee are P. W. Hixson, Crawfordsville; P. C. Curnick, Terre Haute; P. A. Fraley, Hammond; M. C. Wright, West Lafayette; H. L. Davis, South Bend. The laymen are W. C. Belman, P. C. Evans, Dr. Oliver Gard and Joseph Allen. Another bit of interesting business was the granting of SSO salary to the secretary who during the sessions of a conference works night and day and is put to expense by incidentals.