Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1914 — BISHOP ASSIGNS M. E. MINISTERS [ARTICLE]

BISHOP ASSIGNS M. E. MINISTERS

Number of Divisions in Organization Reduced to Four. HAMMOND DISTRICT TAKEN IN Sixty-Third Northwest Indiana Conference Closes at Lafayette With Announcements of Pastorates for Ensuing Year.

The closing session of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held Sunday night at Lafayette at Trinity church and the pastors and the hundreds of laymen who attended the six days’ session departed for their homes. It was one of the most important conferences held by the Methodist church in the Northwest Conference.

Bishop McDowell of Chicago, who presided during the conference, announced at the closing session that the Hammond district would be merged with other districts of the conference. This reduces the number of districts in the Northwest Indiana Conference from five to four. The Rev. A. T. Briggs, who has been superintendent of the Hammond dis* trict, has been appointed pastor of the West Lafayette church. The' Rev. M. C. Wright, who has been pastor of the West Lafayette church, has been transferred to the Montrose church at Terre Haute. The conference which closed at Lafayette Sunday night was the six-ty-third which has been held by the Northwest Indiana Conference, and Bishop McDowell in his closing remarks thanked the Lafayette ministers for the entertainment and many courtesies that were extended to the visiting ministers and laymen. Sunday afternoon Bishop McDowell performed the ritualistic ceremony of the church when a class of young men was ordained-to the ministry. A short business session was held Sunday night before Bishop McDowell read the appointment? for the ensuing year. The following special appointments were announced:

H. A. Gobin, vice-president DePauw University. College Avenue Quarterly Conference- W. H. Hickman, trustee for Chattanooga Institution, College Avenue Quarterly Conference, postoffice Pennville; S. B. Towne, financial secretary DePauw University, College Avenue Quarterly Conference, postoffice Greencastle: Henry Ostrom, conference evangelist, College Avenue Quarterly Conference, postoffice Greencastle: S. Shumaker, state superintendent Anti-Saloon League, St. Paul Quarterly Conference, postoffice Indianapolis: J. H. Orroll, general missionary Sunday School Union, postoffice 1054 North Third street. Salt Lake City, Utah; E. T. Warring, associate editor Western Christian Advocate, Brazil Quarterly Conference, postoffice Cincinnati; L. R. Echhardt, professor DePauw University, College Avenue Quarterly Conference, postoffice Greencastle: J. W. Walker, professor English Bible, Puget Sound, University of Tacoma, postoffice Tacoma. Wash.; B. B. KessJer, professor 1 Iliff School of Theology, St. Paul Quarterly Conference, postoflice University Park, Col.; Guy S. Carpenter left without appointment to attend school. Brazil Quarterly Conference, postoffice Boston, Mass.; R. V. Johnson left without appointment to attend school, Kingman Conference, postoffice Boston, Mass.: Paul Hutchinson left without appointment to attend school, First Church South Bend Quarterly Conference, postoffice Evanston, Ill.; Charles Deich left without appointment to attend school, postoflice Evanston, Ill.; F. W. Hixson, president University of Chattanooga, Crawfordsville Quarterly Conference, postofficA Chattanooga, Tenn.; A. G. Schafer, field agent of the Northwest Indiana Conference for the Preachers’ Aid Society, First Church So-nth Bend Quarterly Conference, postoffice South Bend: J. J, Davis left without appointment to attend school; F. R. Briggs left without appointment to attend school; G. H. Bright left without appointment to attend school; R. C. Greenlee left without appointment to attend school. Bish-op McDowell read the following assignments for the districts, of which We give our own, now the Lafayette district:

Lafayette District—A. W. Wood, superintendent; Ambia, Elmer Jones; Barkley, C. W. Petty; Battle Ground, C. B. Smith; Boswell, F. J. Beisel; Brook, T. P. Woodson; Brookston, O. L. Chivington; Burnettsville, C. A. Smock: Culver, J. F. Kenrich; Dayton, J. W. Hanger; Delphi, C. L. Harper; Delphi Circuit, W r . H. Broomfield; Fowler, C. P Royce-

Francesville, J. M. Williams; Goodland, George E. Deuel; Idaville, J. S. Goodwin; Kentland,. F. L. Hovis; Kewanna, A. L. Brandenburg; Lafayette, Congress Street, Grant Teeters: St. Pauls, H. P. Ivey; Trinity, E. W. Dunlavy; West Side, A. T. Briggs; Lee and Shelby, H. A. Sutherland: Leiter’s Ford, W. I. Taylor; Lochiel, Harry Hoover; Lowell, V. H. Servies; Lucerne, H. H. Cannon; Medaryville, W. N. Dunn; Monon, W. B. Morgan; Monticello, H. L. Kindig; Montmorenci, A. S. Stewart; Morocco, J. J. Rankin; Mt. Ayr, C. A. Trimble; Mulberry, F. G. Howard; Otterbein, A. A. Dunlavy; Oxford, J. E. McCloud; Raub, T. Griffin; Remington, W. B. Warriner; Rensselaer, p. c. Curnick; Reynolds, A. T. Moshier; Richland Center, E. M. Kuonen; Rochester, A. S. Warriner; Roselawn and Fair Oaks, C. W. Postill; Royal Center, Linn Bates; Shadeland, H. H. Dunlavy; Star City, J. J. Wilson; Winamac, A. H. Lawrence; Wolcott, T. J. Reeder; Yeoman, R. H. Johnston.