Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — Attica Keeps Promise. [ARTICLE]

Attica Keeps Promise.

Attica, Ind., Sept. 2. —The flftyseventeh annual session of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened here last night at 7:30 o'clock, and will continue until next Monday, when the ministerial appointments will be announced. The 250 pastors in the conference have begun to arrive. There will be three bishops and about sixty iay delegates here also. The conference will be presided over by Bishop Joseph F. Berry, of Buffalo, and among the prominent ministers on the program for the week are Bishop W. D. Warne, of India; Bishop J. D. Hartzell, ot Africa, and Dr. H. A. Gobin, president of DePauw university. Bishop Berry has decided to have the whole conference evangelistic in spirit, and the Rev. Henry Ostrom, of Greencastle, an evangelist, will preach every afternoon to the ministers, talking along evangelistic lines. The Rev. E. 8. Shumaker, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, will deliver an address on Wednesday afternoon, as will Judge Artman, of Lebanon, on Wednesday night. Last year Attica obtained the conference on the promise that all the ministers and delegates would be fed, free of charge, on yellow legged chickens this year, and preparations for this were made months ago. The result is that the chicken crop in Attica is the largest ever known, and the residents are ready to live up to their promise.