Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — SEEKING A FAVORABLE CITY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEEKING A FAVORABLE CITY.

Location of the Next M. E. General Conference Not Decided Upon. What city wants to entertain the Methodist general conference two years hence! Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer, as chairman

of the committee having the location and general arrangements in charge, gives public notice that he wants to hear from such cities as do. The requirements are not burdensome. The churches at large are assessed for the principal expenditures of the general conference.

These expenses cover transportation delegates anl their entertainment while in attendance. The sum amounted in 1896 to 162,000 and in 1900 to 179,000. The local committee is expected to raise about $20,000 with which to pay hall rent and other incidentals. A Methodist general conference sitting three weeks costs the church SIIO,OOO, with a tendency to increase SIO,OOO to $12,000 each quadrennium. Thus far the only city to make any attempt at all to secure the honor is Minneapolis. The general expression seems to be in favor of an Eastern city, however, since for twelve years the conference has been held in the West It is said were Boston to make a strong bid it would get it. The conference has never met In New England, where Methodists are strong, save in Boston, and not there since 1852. New York would get it if it tried hard, since it has not met there since 1888. No Eastern city has, at writing, made a move to secure it Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer is one of the most able and influential clergymen in in the Methodist Church. He is the chairman of the general conference committee cn entertainment and resides at Newark, Ji. J. A fine preacher and writer, it is predicted that the highest honors in the M. E. Church will eventually be his

REV. SPELLMEYER.