Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1915 — MINISTERS MAY GET INCREASE OF SALARY [ARTICLE]

MINISTERS MAY GET INCREASE OF SALARY

Electorate Conference Recommends That They Receive 10 Per Cent Advance—Not Mandatory.

South Bend, Ind., Oct. I.—Ministers of the Northwest Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference will receive an increase of x ten per cent in salary if recommendation made 'by the electorate conference here tonight is carrid out. The resolution was the only one submitted to the conference by the committee on resolutions, composed of Col. Charles Arthur Carlisle and iB.-F. McKee, of South Bend, and Mrs. Emma Keller, of LaCrosse. There is nothing mandatory about the resolution, the matter of- increasing the salaries being left to the different congregations. Lay delegates kletced are as follows: Marvin Campbell, South Bend; J. P. Allen, Greencastle; Prof. W. B. Latta, Purdue unL_ versity, Lafayette; W. C. BelmanT Hammond.

Mrs. A. T. Briggs, of West Lafayette, gave a short talk on the friendship settlement house in 'Gary. Meetings of the- fall ministerial and laymen’s conference were announced as follows: Nov. 22, South Bend district; Nov. 23, Lafayette district; Nov. 24, Crawfordsville district; Nov. 25, Greencastle district.