Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — About the Methodist Conference. [ARTICLE]

About the Methodist Conference.

The N. W. Indiana M. E. Conference selected Lafayette as their place of meeting next year. The conference exonerated Dr. E. A. Schell from all wrong doing and severely condemned the Zion Herald editor for his presistent persecutions of the doctor. A new circuit was made in this county for the Barkley church and a minister, a divinity student appointed Mt. Ayr was also made a The following are the appointment for Valparaiso district. Samuel Beck, presiding elder. Barkley, H. 8. Keister, Brook, J, P. Shagley. Chesterton, B. H. Beall. Crown Point, R. D, Utter. Chesterton and Griffith, to be sup-plied. East Chicago, W. F. Hovis, Francesville C. B. Stanforth. Goodland, A. P. DeLong. Hammond, N. A. Chamberlain. Hebron, C. L. Harper Hobart, J. Greenway. Kentland, J. C. Martin. Leßoy, F. M. Withey. Lowel, E. D. Smith. Medaryville, A. L. Umpleby. Michigan City, H. L. Kindig. Monon, A. L. Clark. * f Morroco, O. B. Rippetoe. Mount Ayr, A. W. Smith. Remington, W. A. Matthews. Rensselaer, H. M. Middeton. ' Reynolds, Jacob Kohm. Rose Lawn, E. E. MoDuffey. Royal Center, H. 8. Neal. South Valparaiso, R. H. Forester. Valparaiso, M. H. Appleby. Wanatah and Hanna, to be supplied. Westville, C. U. Stokbarger. Wheatfield, 0. H. Hickman Wheeler, A. A. Randall. Whiting, D. D. Hoagland. Winamac, A. G. Young. Wolcott, J. J. Thompson. E. A. Schell, secretary of the Epworth League and a member |of the Crown Point quarterly conference. H. A. Tucker, superintendent of the American Anti-Saloon League J. Worrel, to the Utah mission and Q. A. Myers to the West China mission. Our townsman, J. W. Williams was honored by being selected an alternate layman’s delegate to the the general conference, which meets in Chicago next year.