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' 156 JF - i Y£j u | Y o r f e Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest

ORGANIZED IN 1868 IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE

“ w o m a n ’ s b o a r d o f m i s s i o n s o f t h e i n t e r i o r .” REORGANIZED IN 1870 AS THE “ WOMAN’ S PRESBY­ TERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.”

GIVEN AT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN jSclxr APRIL, 1909

t e r r i t o r y : c o l o r a d o ,I l l i n o i s , i n d i a n a , "S3 IOWA, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MONTANA, NEBRASKA, NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, WISCONSIN AND WYOMING

ROOM 48, 328 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

T elephone Harrison 2437

A copy of this report is sent to the Secretary of each Auxiliary Society FOR THE USE OF THE SOCIETY, and she is re­ quested to put it promptly into the hands of the President. Addi­ tional copies of this report sent on receipt of 4 cents each for postage. THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT

F DAY MISSIONS. Woman’s Presbyta^p& Boai^T/ of Missions of me Northwest

ORGANIZED IK 1868 IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE “ WOMAN’S BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE INTERIOR.” REORGANIZED IN 1870 AS THE “ WOMAN’S PRESBY­ TERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.”

GIVEN AT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN APRIL, 1909

t e r r i t o r y : Co l o r a d o , I l l i n o i s , I n d i a n a , IOWA, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MONTANA, NEBRASKA, NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, WISCONSIN AND WYOMING

PRESBYTERIAN OFFICES ROOM 48, 328 WABASH AVENUE

TELEPHONE HARRISON 2437 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE WOMAN’S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST State of Illinois, Department of State. Geo. H. Harlow, Secretary of State. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas, A certificate duly signed and acknowledged, having been filed in the office of the Secretary of State, on the 15th day of July, A. D. 1875, for the organization of the W oman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, under and in accordance with the pro­ visions of “An Act Concerning Corporations,” approved April 18th, 1872, and in force July 1st, 1872. Now, Therefore, I, George H. Harlow, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, by virtue of the powers and duties vested in me by law, do hereby certify that the said Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest is a legally organized corporation under the laws of this State. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and cause to be affixed the Great Seal of State. Done in the city of Springfield, this 15th day of July, in the yeai of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundredth. (Seal) GEORGE H. HARLOW, Secretary of State.

WOMAN’S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.

O fficers.

Pres.—MRS. LINCOLN M. COY, Sec’y.—MRS. W. B. JACOBS. V.-P.—MRS. N. W. CAMPBELL. Treas.—MRS. T. E. D. BRADLEY.

Life Members.

MRS. C. H. McCORMICK. MRS. HENRY H. FORSYTH. MRS. ALBERT KEEP. MRS. A. L. BERRY. MRS. WILLIAM BLAIR, MISS E. SKINNER. MRS. N. D. PRATT, MRS. J. C. WELLING. MRS. J. Y. FARWELL. MRS. F. W. CROSBY. MRS. THOS. E. D. BRADLEY. MISS EDITH MOSS, MRS. W. B. JACOBS, MISS ELIZABETH G. ROSS, MRS. W. G. CRAIG. MRS. A. H. VEDDER ...... W is . MRS. THOMAS KANE, MISS JULIA H. JOHNSTON. .111. MRS. N. W. CAMPBELL, MRS. S. A. BONNER ...... Ind. MRS. WM. E. CLOW. MRS. E. S. WILLIAMS ...... M in n . MRS. R. W. PATTERSON, MRS. P. L. PERINE,...... N eb. MRS. LINCOLN M. COY. MISS C. S. WEED ...... M ich . T rustees.

MRS. THOS. E. D. BRADLEY. MRS. C. H. McCORMICK. MRS. J. V. FARWELL, MRS. WILLIAM BLAIR, MRS. ALBERT KEEP. MRS. N. W. CAMPBELL. MRS. W. B. JACOBS, MRS. HENRY H. FORSYTH. MRS. W. G. CRAIG, MRS. A. L. BERRY. MRS. N. D. PRATT. MRS. F. W. CROSBY, MISS E. SKINNER. MRS. WM. E. CLOW, MRS. THOMAS KANE, MRS. LINCOLN M. COY. Finance Committee.

MRS. ALBERT KEEP. MRS. THOS. E. D. BRADLEY, MRS. WILLIAM BLAIR. MRS. W. B. JACOBS. MISS E. SKINNER, 2 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WOMAN’S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.

President Emeritus.

MRS. HENRY H. PORSYTH, 20 Ritchie Place, Chicago.

P resid en t.

MRS. LINCOLN M. COY, 39G6 Lake Ave., Chicago.

Honorary Vice-Presidents.

MRS. CYRUS H. McCORMICK. MRS. R. W. PATTERSON, MRS. S. H. PERRY. MRS. J. V. FARWBLL. Vice-Presidents.

MRS. WM. BLAIR ...... 148 Rush Street, Chicago. MRS. ALBERT KEEP ...... 2010 M ich ig a n A v en u e, C h ica go. MRS. N. D. PRATT ...... 1118 Main Street, Evanston, 111. MISS E. SKINNER ...... 100 R u sh S treet, C h ica go. M R S . W. G. C R A IG ...... 1048 N. Halsted Street, Chicago. MRS. W. S. CANDEE ...... 1310 Maple Avenue, Evanston, 111. MRS. W. B. JACOBS ...... 65 Bryant Avenue, Chicago. MRS. N. W. CAMPBELL ...... 1836 C alu m et A v en u e, C h ica go. MRS. THOS. KANE ...... 310 Ashland Boulevard, Chicago. MRS. ALBERT L. BERRY ...... 3756 E llis A v e n u e , C h ica go.

Recording Secretary.

MRS. A. W. McCLURE Room 1203 Marquette Building, Chicago.

Corresponding Secretary.

MRS. W. G. CRAIG ...... 1048 N. Halsted Street, Chicago.

T re a su re r.

MRS. THOS. E. D. BRADLEY... Room 4S, 328 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Home Address: 792 W. Monroe Street, Chicago.

M an agers.

MRS. CYRUS H. ADAMS ...... 155 R u sh S treet, C h ica go. MRS. A. L. ASHLEY ...... 6262 Jackson Park Avenue, Chicago. MRS. H. H. BELFIELD ...... 5738 Washington Avenue, Chicago. MRS. CHAS. E. BRADT ...... 306 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, 111. MRS. FRANK M. CARSON ...... 720 P in e G rov e A v e n u e , C h ica go. MISS HERMA N. CLARK ...... 148 R u sh S treet, C h ica g o. MISS GRACE COULTER ...... 5340 Ellis Avenue. Chicago. MRS. W. H. COSGROVE ...... 12 Rimbach Avenue, Hammond, Ind. MRS. F. W. CROSBY ...... Lake Forest, 111. MRS. ABBY FARWELL FERRY ...... Lake Forest. 111. MRS. JAMES FROTHINGHAM ...... 5000 Madison Avenue, Chicago! MRS. MARTIN D. HARDIN ...... 793 Washington Boulevard, Chicago. MISS ELIZABETH HAVEN ...... Lake Forest, 111. MRS. JAMES W. JANNET ...... 4729 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago. MISS ANNA B. LAWRENCE ...... The Metropole, Chicago. MISS MART T. LORD ...... 4957 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago. M R S . G E O R G E B . L O W N ...... 748 F u lle rto n B ou le v a rd , C h ica g o . MRS. PHILIP F. MATZINGER ...... 307 S. L e a v itt S treet, C h ica g o . MRS. WM. McGILL ...... 6527 Yale Avenue, Chicago. MRS. EARL B. MILLAR. JR ...... 385 N . S ta te S treet, C h ica g o . MRS. L. PEARNE MOORE ...... 914 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, 111. MISS EDITH H. MOSS ...... 4531 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago. MISS FRANCES M. PRENTISS ...... 695 W . A d a m s .S treet, C h ica go. MISS ELIZABETH G. ROSS ------234 Lincoln Park Boulevard, Chicago. MRS. A. H. STEPHENS ...... 1630 Clifton Avenue, Chicago. MRS. L. K. STEVENS ...... 203 C lem en t S treet, J oliet, 111. M IS S M A R Y S T I L L W E L L ...... 2397 C la ren d on A v e n u e , C h ica go. MRS. H. C. TILLMAN ...... Highland Park. 111. MRS. ALFRED C. TYLER ...... 4915 Grand Boulevard, Chicago. MRS. ROBERT E. WALLER ...... 1459 S h erid an R o a d , C h ica g o. MRS. JOHN C. WELLING ...... 4950 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago. M ISS C. S. W E E D ...... Y p sila n ti. M ich . M R S . F . E . F A R M E R ...... D en v e r, C olo. A u d ito r . MR. EARL C. GREENMAN.

Home Corresponding Secretaries.

MRS. N. W. CAMPBELL ...... 1836 Calumet Avenue, Chicago. MISS MARTHA M. SARVER ...... 50 Buena Avenue, Chicago. MRS. HENRY CURTISS ...... 4455 Greenwood Avenue. Chicago. MRS. W. HOLMES FORSYTH ...... 45 Cedar Street, Chicago. MRS. WILLIAM C. COVERT ...... 367 O a k w o o d B ou leva rd , C h ica g o. MRS. BRYAN Y. CRAIG ...... 1048 N. Halsted Street, Chicago. MRS. AMBROSE V. POWELL ...... 214 E. Fifty-first Street. Chicago. MRS. SAMUEL DICKEY ...... 10 C h alm ers P la ce , C h ica g o. MRS. HENRY H. FORSYTH ...... 20 Ritchie Place. Chicago. MISS MINNIE M. RUMSEY ...... Lake Forest, 111. MRS. NOBLE C. KING ...... 311 S. Scoville Avenue, Oak Park. MRS. E. P. HILL ...... 3 Chalmers Place, Chicago.

Foreign Corresponding Secretaries.

MISS M. P. HALSEY ...... 301 B eld en A v e n u e , C h ica g o. MRS. E. G. SHUMWAY ...... 4549 Ellis Avenue, Chicago. MRS. J. M. COULTER ...... 5340 Ellis Avenue, Chicago. MRS. JOHN BALCOM SHAW ...... 1604 Prairie Avenue. Chicago. MRS. ROBERT M. WELLS ...... 3800 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. MRS. WM. E. CLOW ...... 50 B u e n a A v e n u e , C h ica g o. MRS. JOHN A. COLE ...... 271 E . F ifty -t h ir d S treet, C h ica go. MRS. WALTER H. GREEN ...... 1819 W . 101st S treet. C h ica g o. MRS. CHAS. W. EGAN ...... 39 J u n ior T e rr a c e . C h ica g o. MRS. GEORGE L. ROBINSON ...... 4 Chalmers Place, Chicago. Field Secretary.

MISS KATHRENE MYERS...Room 48, 328 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.

Office Secretary.

MRS. DEE F. CLARKE Room 48, 328 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Address all orders for leaflets and literature to Mrs. Dee F. Clarke, Room 48, 328 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. 4 Division of Correspondence Among Secretaries Indicated Below.

Concerning Special Objects, M r s . N. W . C a m p b e l l with Synodical and Presbyterial Societies, and Miss M a r t h a M . S a r v e r with Individuals and Local S o c ie tie s . With Synodical Societies, M r s. H e n r y C u r t is s . Concerning Distribution of Foreign Letters and Informa­ tion, M r s . W . H o l m e s F o r s y t h . Concerning Speakers, M r s . W il l i a m C . C o vert. Concerning Literature, M r s . B r y a n Y. C r a ig . With Young People’s, and Christian Endeavor Societies, M r s . A m b r o s e V. P o w e l l . Concerning Adoption and Support of Missionaries, M r s . S a m u e l D i c k e y . Concerning Missionary Candidates, M r s. H e n r y H. F or­ s y t h . Concerning Westminster Guild, M is s M i n n i e R u m s e y . Concerning Mission Study Classes, M r s . N oble C. K i n g . With Young Women’s Societies and Children’s Bands, M r s . E. P. H i l l .

Foreign Corresponding Secretaries.

W ith Missionaries in India, Miss M. P. H a l s e y . With Missionaries in Japan, M r s . E . G. S h u m w a y . With Missionaries in China (Central, Canton, Hunan and Hainan Missions) and the Philippines, M r s . J. M . C o u l t e r . With Missionaries in China (Peking, East and West Shan­ tung Missions) M r s . J o h n B a l c o m S h a w . W i t h Missionaries in Korea, M r s . R obert M. W e lls W ith Missionaries in Persia, M rs. W m. E . C lo w . With Missionaries in Siam and Laos, M rs. J o h n A. C o le . With Missionaries in South America, Mexico and Guate­ mala, Mrs. W alter H. Green. With Missionaries in Africa and Syria, M r s . C h a s . W . E g a n . With Missionaries Supported by Young People’s and Chris­ tian Endeavor Societies, M rs. George L. R o b in s o n . The addresses of these Secretaries are given on the oppo­ site page. Public meetings every Friday at 10 a. m. in the Assembly Hall, 328 Wabash Ave., Chicago. The meeting every third Fri­ day in the month is a prayer meeting; and every fourth Fri­ day it is in charge of the Chicago Presbyterial Society, and in­ cludes a map talk on the country for which we are to pray the coming month. All are cordially invited. 5 Vice-Presidents Nominated by the Synodical Societies.

(See Article 3 of the Constitution.) MISS JULIA H. JOHNSTON ...... Peoria. 111. MRS. B. H. BRAINERD ...... Lincoln, 111. MRS. B. P. MARSH ...... Bloomington. 111. MRS. C. C. BROWN ...... Springfield, 111. MRS. T. C. DAY ...... Indianapolis, Ind. MRS. J. F. KENDALL ...... Laporte, Ind. MRS. W. J. DARBY ...... Evansville. Ind. MRS. A. F. BRUSKE ...... A lm a , M ich . MRS. GEORG'E HIGBEE ...... Marquette. Mich. MRS. B. P. GRAVES ...... Detroit, Mich. MRS. H. E. WINSOR...... Marshall, Mich. MRS. D. W. C. ROWLEY ...... Cedar Rapids, Iowa. MRS. J. C. McCLINTOCK ...... Sioux City, Iowa. MRS. CHAS. E. RISSER ...... Des Moines, Iowa. MRS. A. H. VEDDER ...... Milwaukee. Wis. MRS. E. P. BACON ...... Milwaukee. Wis. MRS. WILLIAM K. SMITH ...... Oconto, Wis. MRS. E. S. WILLIAMS ...... Minneapolis, Minn. MRS. M. D. EDWARDS ...... St. Paul, Minn. MRS. E. M. VAN CLEVE ...... Minneapolis, Minn. MRS. MARY J. KENNEDY ...... Colorado Springs, Colo. MRS. P. L. PERINE ...... Omaha, Neb. M IS S A N N A E . M c C A U L E Y ...... B rid g e w a te r, S. D a k . MRS. A. J. GOODALL ...... Bathgate, N. Dak. MRS. A. B. MARTIN ...... Dillon, Mont.

Managers Ex-Officio.

(See Article 3 of the Constitution.) Synodical Secretaries. MRS. E. C. HENSLEY ...... D en ver, C olo. MRS. S. O. LOUGHRIDGE ...... Peoria, 111. MRS. GHAS. FINNEY ...... Attica, Ind. MRS. W. W. HALE ...... Des Moines, Iowa. MRS. W. W. WETMORE ...... Ann Arbor, Mich. MRS. J. T. HENDERSON ...... St. Paul, Minn. MRS. G. E. BLACKBURN ...... Butte, Mont. MRS. J. R. RADCLIFFE ...... Central City, Neb. MRS. A. J. GOODALL ...... Bathgate, N. Dak. MRS. H. P. CARSON ...... Huron, S. Dak. MRS. W. J. McELROY ...... Milwaukee, Wis.

6 STANDING COMMITTEES.

Nomination. MRS. W. G. CRAIG, MRS. BERRY, M R S . S H A W , M R S . K E E P , MRS. GREEN, MRS. ROBINSON. M R S . C L O W . MISS LAWRENCE, MRS. DICKEY. MISS HALSEY. MRS. TYLER. Central Committee. MRS. McCLURE, M r s . b e r r y , M R S . E G A N . MRS. HENRY H. FORSYTH.

Medical Education. Missionary Record. MRS. CURTISS, M R S . C O L E . MRS. COVERT, MRS. MOORE. M R S . K A N E . M IS S R O SS, MRS. GREEN, MRS. STEVENS. M R S . E G A N . MRS. McGILL. Publication. MRS. BLAIR. Friday 10 O’clock Meeting. MRS. CAMPBELL. MRS. B. Y. CRAIG, MRS. PRATT, MRS. HARDIN. MISS HALSEY. M R S . E G A N . MISS SKINNER, MRS. FROTHINGHAM. MRS. WELLS. MRS. W. G. CRAIG, MRS. ADAMS, MRS. COVERT. MRS. WELLING, MRS. CARSON. MRS. CURTISS. MRS. MATZINGER. MRS. CROSBY, MISS CLARK. Hospitality. MRS. B. Y. CRAIG. MRS. SHUMWAY, MRS. W. HOLMES FORSYTH, MRS. COSGROVE. MRS. COULTER. MRS. COULTER, M R S . K IN G . M R S . K A N E . MRS. A. H. STEPHENS. MRS. CANDEE, MRS. FERRY, MRS. JANNEY, MRS. TILLMAN. MRS. STEPHENS. M IS S M O SS . MISS STILLWELL. Westminster Guild. MISS RUMSEY. Room W o rk . MRS. TYLER, MRS. CANDEE. M R S. S H A W . MRS. McCLURE. MISS SARVER. MRS. COSGROVE. MRS. W. HOLMES FORSYTH. MRS. WELLS. MISS CLARK. M R S . H IL L , M ISS L O R D , M R S . K IN G , MRS. CAMPBELL. MISS LAWRENCE. MISS COULTER. MRS. BELFIELD, M IS S R O S S. M R S . C L O W . MRS. MILLAR. Fin an ce. MRS. MOORE. MISS SARVER, MISS PRENTISS, MISS HAVEN. MRS. BLAIR. MISS SKINNER, Summer School. MISS RUMSEY, MRS. ROBINSON. MRS. CURTISS. MRS. BRADT. MRS. CAMPBELL, MISS HALSEY. MRS. BRADT. MRS. BRADLEY. Y ou ng People’s W o rk . MRS. POWELL. Candidates. MRS. ROBINSON. MRS. HENRY H. FORSYTH. MRS.- HILL. MRS. JACOBS. M R S . L O W N . M R S . C O L E . M R S . K IN G .

7 ANNUAL MEETINGS.

Place of Meeting. Date. Presiding Officers. Receipts. *1. Chicago, T h ird ...... Apr 1 11, 1872 Mrs. R. W . P atterson .. .. $6,074.42 2. Chicago, First...... Apr 1 • 10, 1873 Mrs. R. W . Patterson----- 9,323.58 3. Detroit, Fort St...... Apr 1 8-9, 1874 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 11,731.15 4. Milwaukee, Immanuel...... 'Apr 1 8-9, 1875 Mrs. A. H. H ove...... 18,033.36 5. Indianapolis, First...... Apr 1 12-13, 1876 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 21,496.01 6. Chicago, First...... May 24-25, 1877 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 25,390.79 7. Cedar Rapids, First...... 1 24-25, 1878 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 31,368.67 8. Toledo, Westminster...... Apr 1 23-24, 1879 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 32,273.13 9. Springfield, Second...... Apr 1 28-29, 1880 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 43,288.89 10. Chicago, Third ...... 1 27-28, 1881 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 54,643.85 11. Minneapolis, Plymouth Cong ...... Apr 1 19-20, 1882 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 48,310.15 12. Detroit, Fort St...... Apr 1 24-25, 1883 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 55,858.37 13. Milwaukee, Immanuel...... Apr 1 23-24, 1884 Mrs. A. H. H o g e ...... 66,047.06 14. Chicago, Second...... 1 22-23, 1885 Mrs. Herrick Johnson.... 59,851.49 15. Indianapolis, S econ d ...... Apr 1 21-22, 1886 Mrs. Herrick Johnson.... 65,779.21 16. Davenport, First...... Apr 1 27-28, 1887 Mrs. Benjamin Douglass. 67,059.82 17. Freeport ...... Apr 1 25-26, 1888 Mrs. Benjamin Douglass. 82,472,12 18. Fort Wayne, First...... Apr 1 24-25, 1889 Mrs. Benjamin Douglass. 80,076.81 19. Lincoln, First...... Apr 1 23-24, 1890 Mrs. Herrick Johnson___ 80,643.93 20. Peoria, First...... Apr 1 22-23, 1891 Mrs. Herrick Johnson.... 90,914.15 21. St. Paul, Central...... Apr 1 27-28, 1892 Mrs. H. D. Penfield...... 86,308.37 22. Burlington, First...... Anr 1 26-27, 1893 Mrs. H. D. Penfield...... 91,183.54 23. Denver, Central...... Apr 1 25-26, 1894 Mrs. H. D. Penfield...... 82,812.64 24. Detroit, Jefferson Ave ...... Apr 1 24-25, 1895 Mrs. N. W . C a m p b ell.... 76,690.57 25. Milwaukee, Calvary...... Apr 1 22-23, 1896 Mrs. H. H. Forsyth...... 80,001.75 26. Rock Island, Broadway...... Apr I 21-22, 1897 Mrs. H. H. Forsyth ...... 70,569.00 27. Minneapolis, Westminster...... Apr 1 27-28, 1898 Mrs. H. H. Forsyth ...... 90,646.80 •The first annual meeting was postponed from the fall of 1871 to April, 1872, on account of the fire. STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS. Bonds. Value. C. B. & Q. R. R. (Interest 4 per cent, Jan. and July) . . . .$3,000.00 Chicago Gas Light & Coke Co. (Interest 5 per cent, Jan. and July) ...... 4,000.00 Chicago City Railway Co. (Interest 5 per cent, Feb. and August) ...... 3,000.00 Stocks. First National Bank (Chicago), 90 shares (gift of Dr. and Mrs. D. K. Pearsons)...... 9,000.00 Chicago National Bank, 58 shares (gift of Dr. and Mrs. D. K. Pearsons)...... Value not known

TREASURER’S REPORT.

R eceipts from I nvestments. Gross income for rental of D. K. Pearsons real estate.$ 461.00 Received from sale of 37th St. property...... 7,000.00 Interest on certificate of deposit, $7,000, ll/30/’08— l/1 8 /’09 ...... 18.67 Refund on insurance ...... 17.50 Dividends on First National Bank stock ...... 1,170.00 Interest on C., B. & Q. R. R. bonds ...... 65.96 “ “ City Railway bonds ...... 75.00 “ “ Savings Deposit ...... 19.86 Received for Kirkwood Memorial ...... 85.55 “ Legacies— Mary Eastman Brownell Estate.. 271.86 Sarah Butler “ 587.34 Mary Brown “ 474.55 Sarah McIntyre “ 499.00 Joseph D. Stewart “ 3,760.17 Elmira Wilson “ 100.00 Cash on hand, May 5th, 1908 ...... 11.47

$14,617.93

D isbursements f r o m I n v e s t m e n t s . Repairs on 37th St. property ...... $ 165.80 Insurance on 37th St. property...... 9.75 Agents’ commission ...... 35.25 For legal services ...... 50.00 10 Purchased of Shearson, Hammill & Co. : 4 $1,000 bonds, Chicago GasLight & Coke Co 4,000.00 Premium on same ...... 180.00 3 $1,000 bonds, Chicago City Railway Co...... 3,000.00 Premium on same ...... 142.50 Accrued interest ...... 73.89 Commission ...... 7.50 Paid Mrs. Thos. E. D. Bradley, Treasurer of Executive Committee ...... 6,504.69 Rent of deposit drawer ...... 3.00 Cash on hand, May 4th, 1909 ...... 445.55

$14,617.93 M e d ic a l E d u c a t io n F u n d . Interest on Medical Fund ...... $ 54.04 Cash on hand, May 5th, 1908 ...... 475.35

Cash on hand, May 4th, 1909 ...... $ 529.39

REPORT OF AUDITOR.

I have examined the cash book of Mrs. Thos. E. D. Brad­ ley, Treasurer of the Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, compared the expenditures with the vouchers, and the balance with the bank balance, and find the same cor­ rect. Total receipts ...... $14,660.50 Medical Education Fund at interest ...... 239.45 Balance, M ay 5th, 1908 ...... 247.37

$15,147.32 i Total disbursements ...... $14,172.38 Balance May 5th, 1909, including Medical Education Fund ...... 974.94

$15,147.32 E. C. G R E E N M A N , Auditor. Chicago, May 5th, 1909.

11 REPORT OF TREASURER OF EXECUTIVE COMMIT­ TEE.

R e c e ip t s .

Cash received from Women’s Societies and individuals.$ 90,652.67 “ Y. P. S. C. E ...... 10,739.40 “ Intermediate and Junior C.E. S... 824.78 Other Y. P. S. and Children’s Bands 5,070.39 “ The Westminster Guild ...... 1,817.06 “ Miscellaneous sources ...... 976.80 “ Legacies ...... 9,357.90 " Publications...... 3,095.68 for Office expenses ...... 259.56 Income from Investments ...... 811.77

Total receipts o f the year ending April 1st, 1909. .$123,606.01 Balance on hand April 1st, 1908 ...... 13,758.73

$137,364.74 Anonymous gift, November 4th, 1908, omitted here­ tofore by request ...... 3,000.00

$140,364.74

D isbursements . Cash paid toward salary of General Secretary in New Y ork ...... $ 188.13 “ “ for expenses of The Westminster Guild.... 263.73 “ “ “ “ “ Traveling Secretaries ...... 1,059.24 “ “ “ printing and mailing the Thirtyseventh Annual Report, April, 1908 ...... 815.00 “ “ “ Annual Meeting expenses ...... 140.31 “ “ “ other delegates’ expenses ...... 357.21 “ “ “ Office expenses, as follows— Postage ...... $ 444.10 Freight and express ...... 85.23 Telephone ...... 24.97 Cleaning ...... 17.25 Annual report blanks ...... 12.00 Exchange ...... 6.42 Stationery ...... 190.72 Lighting ...... 25.75 Mailing envelopes ...... 185.96 Printing ...... 98.10 Repairs ...... 12.00 Sundries ...... 190.15 Insurance ...... 14.62 M oving ...... 55.48 12 Typewriter and mimeo­ graph supplies ...... 22.48 Salaries of office assistants and traveling secretaries. 4,757.16 Rent of offices ...... 988.62 ------7,131.01 Cash paid to Treasurer of the Assembly’s Board 105,014.25 sent directly to Mission Stations...... 741.86 “ paid for Publications ...... 2,892.23

Total disbursements of the year ending April 1st, 1909 ...... $118,602.97 Balance on hand April 1st, 1909 ...... 18,761.77

$137,364.74 Forwarded to New York, November 9th, 1908 ...... 3,000.00

$140,364.74

I have this day examined the cash book of Mrs. Thos. E. D. Bradley, Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, for the year ending April 1st, 1909, have compared the entries with the properly approved vouchers and the balance shown with the bank balance and find the same correct. Total receipts ...... $123,606.01 Balance April 1st, 1908 ...... 13,758.73

$137,364.74

Total disbursements ...... $118,602.97 Balance April 1st, 1909 ...... 18,761.77

$137,364.74 E. C. G R E E N M A N , Auditor. Chicago, May 26th, 1909.

13 REPORTS OF PRESBYTERIAL SECRETARIES

COLORADO SYNODICAL SOCIETY Mrs. E. H. Silverthorn, 285 So. Grant St., Denver, President.

“3. L. C. C3heS»?rw!omiit“d0 Pr“id“ *S- Mrs. E. C. Hensley, 154 Irvington Place, Denver, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. J. W . Skinner, Fort Collins, Recording Secretary. Miss Kate Lazear, 1750 Gilpin St., Denver, Literature Secretary. Mrs. David C. Cowan, 925 Rudd Ave., Canon City, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Anna McClintock, 925 Logan St., Denver, Westminster Guild Secretary. Boulder Presbyterial Society. Mrs. A. A. Reed, Boulde, Colorado, President. Miss Nettie M. Dobbins, 419 Collier St., Longmont, Colorado, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. A. D. Holt, Longmont, Colorado, Recording Secretary. Mrs. E. W. Hulse, 2427 Seventh St., Boulder, Colorado, Literature Secretary. Miss Edna Voight, Boulder, Colorado, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. C. Putnam, Fort Morgan, Colorado, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

B erth ou d...... Mrs. S. H. D y e r ...... 1 4 6 $33.00 Boulder ...... Mrs. Isaac Earl ...... 26 41 166 184.00 Westminster G u ild ...... 3 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Olive P e r r y ...... 135 10.00 Brush...... Mrs. E. E. Seaman . .. 8 36 22 24.00 Fort Collins, First Ch...... Mrs. E. J. Gregory .. . 12 24 70 115.00 Y . P .S . C. E ...... Miss Edith Kimmon 6 48 50.00 Second Ch...... 3 14.00 Fort Morgan...... Miss E. H. Glassey . . . . 5 8 55 97.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Elsie G. I d e ...... 8 41 10.00 Fossil Creek Ch. 11.00 G reeley...... Miss Dora M. Baxter . . 5 42 104.20 estminster G u ild ...... 8.0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Paul McCreery...... 42 5 .00 L aporte...... Mrs. R ebecca Falloon . 2 10 12 14.00 La Salle ...... Mrs. R . M. M oore...... 3 12 20 45.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Edith Herrington 10.00 Jr C E 4.0 0 L on g m on t...... Miss Katherine Davis. 3 40 57.00 L ov eia n d ...... Mrs. Reed Hayward . . 2 28 35.00 Sterling ...... Mrs. R . R . Cutler...... 8 ” 2 ’ 69 71.00 Westminster G uild ...... 1.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... R. F. Washburn...... 64 20.00 Sunset Y P S 0 E 1.00 Timnath ...... Miss Annie K . Strang 4 0.00 Valmont Ch., R. R. I., Boulder. . Miss Harriet Harmon 14 8 .0 0 T o t a l...... 78 151 860 $974.20 No. Women’s Societies, 15; No. Young Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 7; No. Jr. C. E., 1; Total, 26. 14 Cheyenne, Wyoming, Presbyterial Society. Mrs.Gordon Mackay, Cheyenne, Wyoming, President. Mrs. J. M Robinson, Luther, Wyoming, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Carleton, Saratoga, Wyoming, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Windsor, Saratoga, Wyoming, Literature Secretary. Miss A. Bennett, Rawlins, Wyoming, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. D. S. Swan, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Treasurer.

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Cheyenne, First Ch...... Mrs. J. L. G arner...... 8 1 29 $105.00 12 26.00 3 15 4.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 Rawlins, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00

T o t a l...... 15611 S142.00 No. Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 2; Total, 5-

Denver Presbyterial Society. Mrs. William Symon, 3025 W. 25th Xve., Denver, Colorado, President. Mrs. J. C. Herrick, 1344 Gaylord St., Denver, Colorado, Corresponding Sec­ retary. Mrs. Will T. Holden, 73 Pearl St., Denver, Colorado, Recording Secretary. Mrs. A. M. Donaldson, 2667 W. Douglas Place, Denver, Colorado, Literature Secretary. Miss Mattie Smolenski, 2324 Ogden St., Denver, Colorado, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Alberta Soetje, 432 S. Washington St., Denver, Colorado, Treasurer.

Arvada ...... Mrs. Effie M. Nicholson 10 6.00 A u rora ...... Mrs. C. F. Secrest...... 16 2.10 B righ ton ...... Mrs. Walter Gregory. . 1 1 26 13.00 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. C. R. P ow ell...... 1 12.00 Denver Central Ch...... Mrs. Charles S. H ill.. . . '42 26 Ì83 490.00 W. G. Judson Chapter.. . . Miss M arshall...... 50 127.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Theresa Klay.... 112 75.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Eunice Welch . . . 10.00 Corona Ch...... Mrs. T. A. Tuttrup.... 15 44.40 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss R uby Carlisle . . . 31 6.00 First Ave. Ch ...... Miss Kate L. Betts.... 30 106 198.00 W. G. Alpha Chapter...... Mrs. W. A. Reynolds. . 6.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Highland Park Ch...... Mrs. E. A. Edwards . . 2S 27 42 81.00 Hyde Park Ch...... Mrs. Florence Ayers . . 9 28 62.00 Young Women’s Society.. . Miss E. Schmitzberger. 18 9 .0 0 Y.P.S.C.E ...... Miss Bernice B ow les.. . 57 16.00 Montview Blvd. Ch...... Mrs. J. F. Maxwell. . . . 4 30 15.00 North C h ...... Mrs. Jason R ead e...... 15 31 63.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 Park Hill Ch...... 5.00 South Broadway Ch...... Mrs. F. L. D odge. . . . 40 54.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. S. B. Powers 42 8.00 Inter C. E ...... Mr. S. B. Powers...... 2 .50 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Nellie Ballinger. 1.50 Twenty-third Ave. Ch...... Mrs. H. D. Thurston . 13 75 152.50 15 a

Name of Society or ¿5 Band Secretary Taken £ Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed £ Contributing i

W. G Campbell Chapter,. . . 51 $ 2.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... «n 27.00 ? 19 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 40 2.00 5 fi 65.30 Y . P. S. C. E ...... an 10.00 Miss Bessie Walker - .. fi 5 17 50.37 1 1 12 23 .00 1 9 11.10 4 1.36 W ra y ...... Mrs. F. D. Johnson . . . 3 7 18.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. A. L. H o w e ...... 30 8 .0 0 6 .35 77.55 T o t a l...... 140 120 1246 $1806.03

No. W om en’s Societies, 20; No. Young W om en’s Societies, 4; No. Y . P. S. C. E . ’ 10; No. Inter C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E., 3; Total, 38.

Gunnison Presbyterial Society. Mrs. George F. Sevier, 725 F St., Salida, Colorado, President. E. E. Lytle, Grand Junction, Colorado, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Burgess, Delta, Colorado, Recording Secretary Mrs. J. D. Henry, Gunnison, Colorado, Literature Secretary. Miss Katharine D. Smith, 416 F. St., Salida, Colorado, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. A. M. Todd, 313 East Eighth St., Leadville, Colorado, Treasurer.

D elta...... Mrs. Elvina L. Hick.. . 3 3 27 40.00 Glenwood Springs...... 2 .00 Grand Junction...... Mrs. L. E. Turner .... 6 37 131.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 G unnison...... 15.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 14.50 L eadville...... 17.60 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 O u ra y ...... 1 1 4 .0 0 Salida...... Mrs. J. M. Duncan . . . . 34 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 T o t a l...... 10 3 99 $299.60 No. Women’s Societies, 7; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 4; Total, 11.

16 Pueblo Presbyterial Society. Mrs. R. A. Mack, 1627 N. Weber St., Colorado Springs, Colorado, President. Hi Mrs. E. H. Liles, 1101 E. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado, Correspond­ ing Secretary. Mrs. D. G. Monfort, 405 Mesa Road, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Merle C. Ward, Lamar, Colorado, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Charles Pressey, 1119 Greenwood Ave., Canon City, Colorado, Y.JP. Sec retary. Miss'M. L. Strang, The’McClelland]Public Library, Pueblo, Colorado, Treasurer

Name of Society or Band - Secretary Taken Money Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. W. Taken

Mrs. C. F. Sm ith...... 16 $17.65 Jr. C. E ...... 2.00 Mrs. J. W . R ogers. . . . 15 85 141.00 Y . P. S. C. E...... 35.00 7 .50 Colorado Springs First Ch...... Mrs. M. Slaughter . . . . 31 23 175 464.00 2.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 95.00 5 .00 Jr. C. E ...... 5.00 40.00 34.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 Mrs. W.M. Shad ford.. 2 " Ì 4 85.00 Jr. C. E ...... 3.00 Mrs. Bessie Hazlett.. . 3 12 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.50 IR 14.00 Mrs. J. D. Stewart. . . . 4 4 29 44.98 H olly Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.50 ? ?fi 23.00 Las A n im as...... Mrs. W. B. Dumbauld.. 4 1 15 18.00 48 52.00 21 23 40 110.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 40.00 El B e th e l...... 1 9.00 5 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .5 0 10 5 40 100.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 13.25 5 .00 1 18 17.00 1 1 47 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 2 .00 San Raphael Y. P. S. C. E ...... 2 .00 17 48 50.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 V ic to r ...... Mrs. C. M. Ustick, 4 5 35 36.70 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 116 62 6,Sfi $1590.08

Total for Synodical Society . 345 334 2947 $4811.91 No. Women’s Societies, 20; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 12; No. Inter C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E ., 4; No. Bands, 1; Total, 38. No. Women’s Societies, 65; No. Young Women’s Societies, 8; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 35; No. Inter C. E., 2; No. Jr. C. E., 8; No. Bands, 1; Total for Synodical So­ ciety, 118. 37 ILLINOIS SYNODICAL SOCIETY Mrs. C. C. Brown, 833 South Fourth St., Springfield, President. Mrs. J. W. Elder, Argenta, Vice-President at Large. Mrs. S. O. Loughridge, 106 North Madison Ave., Peoria, Corresponding Sec­ retary. Mrs. D. McIntyre, Mattoon, Recording Secretary. Mrs. John H. Sikes, 1215 S. Second St., Springfield,'Literature Secretary. Miss Fanny F. Cleland, Rock Island, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Dorothy Fuller, Evanston Westminster Guild Secretary. Miss Mary Paddock, Pana, Treasurer.

Alton Presbyterial Society. Mrs. G. W. T. Reynolds, 633 N. 9th St., E. St. Louis, Illinois, President. Miss Mary Ellis, White Hall, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Virginia Ryan, Carrollton, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. T. T. Hinde, Madison, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. A. W. Cross, Jerseyville, Illinois, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Qontributed W .W . Taken tribu Cbn ting

Alton First Ch...... Mrs. T. L on g...... 9 29 $92.00 Twelfth St. Ch...... Mrs. G. C. Zimmerman 2 26 22.00 B elleville...... Miss May Pannell. . . . 2 13 4 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.50 Bethel Ch., Reno ...... 12.00 Carlinville ...... Miss Helen A. David . 5 19 15.10 Y. P. S.C. E ...... 3 .7 0 Carlyle, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Carrollton...... Mrs. Charles G. Borger ’ 9 5 22 86.00 Chester...... Miss Alice Crissey...... , 4 7 17 35.00 Little W orld W orkers...... 4 .00 Coffeen...... Miss A lice Sharp...... 12 12.85 Donnellson...... Miss Lizzie Finley. . . . 1 9 14 18.25 East St. Louis First Ch...... Mrs. Geo. Buck...... 7 7 35 51.00 Westminster Guild...... 34.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Jr. C. E ...... 1.00 W instanley Park, Y . P. S. C. E. 4 .0 0 Greenfield...... Mrs. Chas. King ...... 2 23 13.00 Greenville...... Mrs. W. A. McLain. . . 3 ” i 78 50.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 H ardin...... Mrs. W . M. Fisher . . . . 11 3 24 12.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1.05 Hillsboro...... Miss Edna Paisley. . .. 5 6 32 36.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 27.00 Jerseyville...... Mrs. Geo. Van Horne.. 11 54 59.00 Lebanon...... Mrs. E . S. Pfiffer...... 2 15 20.00 Litchfield...... Miss Anna H o o d ...... 20 47.00 Madison...... Mrs. A. F. Koontz.... 4 2 13 22.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 Raym ond Y . P. S. C. E . . : ...... 4 .0 0 18 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

* Mrs .T H Oimmpll , 3 40 $40.50 T renton...... 7 24 16.60 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 16.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .00 Miss S. L. Colby . . . 19 12.00 Mrs. J. H. Wright.... 18 39 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.00 Miss Virginia R yan... 4 8 ' Ì8 21.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2 00 White Hall...... Mrs. W . W . Davis. . . 4 9 12.00 Interest on Marshall Fund...... 16.00 93 55 574 $929.05

No. Women’s Societies, 24; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 12; No. Jr. C. E. 3; No. Bands, 1; Total, 41.

Bloomington Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. J. J. Pence, Fairbury, Illinois, President. Miss Jane L. Thompson, 612 Douglas St., Bloomington, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. W. L. McMillin, 511 W. Harrison St., Danville, Illinois, Recording Secre­ tary. Mrs. A. A. Hoffman, 1202 S. Linden St., Normal, Illinois, Literature Secretary- Mrs. James A. Foster, 35 W. Pine St., Danville, Illinois, Y .'P . Secretary. Mrs. W. L. McMillin, 511 W. Harrison St., Danville, Illinois, Treasurer.

Allerton...... Margaret Thullberg. . . 12 21 24.33 Bement...... Mrs. E. W. Alvord. .. 11 12 20 78.00 Mrs. C am p ...... 100.00 Y. P. S. C. E ' ...... Mrs. Mary Taylor.. .. 31.47 Bloomington First Ch...... Mrs. C. J. Porterfield. 10 30 86.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary L. Johnson 50 30.00 Second Ch...... Miss K. W . Hamilton 44 324.10 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Evelyn Simons.. , 30 100.00 Catlin ...... Mrs. J. M. M orphis.. . . 2 .80 Champaign...... Mrs. J. B. Russell...... 20 63 368.10 Y. P. S. C. E ...... E. S. Scott...... 75 100.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Ruth A k e rs...... 16.00 Mrs. F. C. Borden and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gunn...... 50.00 Chenoa...... Miss Alice H oke. 22 40.70 Jr. C. E ...... 2.00 Clinton...... Mrs. E. B. Bentley. .. 19 41 385.23 C ooksville...... Mrs. Wilson Mahon. . 1 10 10.00 Danvers...... Miss Amelia Risser . . 33.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Amelia Risser. . 5.00 Danville First Ch...... Mrs. J. C. W oodbury 12 30 155.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 Girls’ B an d ...... 6 .25

19 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

12 $ 7.00 16 16.15 Y . P. S. 0. E ...... 10.00 D ow ns...... 10 8.55 Y . P. S. G. E ...... 22 10.00 • 13 93 42.00 2 58 171.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 55.00 i i 7 43 102.10 2 .50 (rilmn.n Y . P R fl E ...... 94 13.00 3 20 27.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 24 25.00 30.00 Jr. C. E ...... R 17.00 50 37.12 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 32 15.00 12 12 22 112.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24 30.00 Jr. C. E ...... 6 6 .00 ? 13 •10.00 Mrs. D. A. B o a l...... 5 14 16.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 6 3 12 51.00 Jr. C. E ...... 1.00 Miss Mary E. Carson. . 5 90 47.00 Y .P ..S . C. E ...... 23 26.25 Mrs. L. J. Risser...... "ÌÓ ' ' ’ è 21 125.00 Y . P. S. C. E . . . 50 12.00 10.00 11 8 21 41.00 Philo...... 9 4 79.40 Jr. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Piper City...... Miss Clara B. Bishop. . q 98 349.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... ► ■ • • 30 22.00 Jr. C. E ...... 14.00 Mrs. A. Chenoweth . . . q 4 30 53.23 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 36 25.00 i 10 16.85 Miss Anna Gernand . . 1 2 10 17.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 Savoy Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.50 Mrs. Rosa Burch...... 9 1 6 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 Sidney V, P, p, fl, F. 2 .50 4 75.00 Mrs. D. I. Durfey .. . 8 21 80.10 5 .75 7 14 45 6S.70 Y. P. S. C. E ...... „ 85 60.00 " " 7 95 46.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 32 12.50 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. W . D. Smith...... 10.00 Mrs. F. D. H u ll ...... R 9 16 14.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7.73 40.00

Total...... 242 127 1376 $4084.91 No. Women’s Societies, 39; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 25; No. Inter C. E.,1; No. Jr. C. E., 8; No. Bands, 3; Total, 76. • 20 Cairo Presbyterial Society. Mrs. J. R . E. Craighead, Anna, Illinois, President. Mrs. C. H. Wiley, Anna, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Charles McClure, Cobden, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. S. E. Hanson, Murphvsboro, Illinois, Literature Secretary. Miss Emma Williford, Anna, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. T. B. Cinorlman, Cobden, Illinois. Treasurer.

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Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributec W. W. Take Contributin 1 1 Members

Anna...... Mrs. C. H. W iley. 20 $42.00 Westminister Gui!d...... 6.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Emma W illiford 30.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Emma Williford 15.00 Ava Y . P. S. C. E ...... Belle Taggart...... 1.40 Cairo...... Mrs. E. S. Dewey. 12 26.00 Westminister Guild...... 19.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Effie Lansden .... 39.00 Jr. C. E ...... Leah Hailey ...... 7.00 Carbondale...... Mrs. F. H. Colyer. 72.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Inez Hollenberger 1.55 C. U. B. S o c ie ty ...... 5 .00 Cobden Mrs. E. O. Sterrette . . 58.00 Equality...... Mrs. Chas. W . Turner. 19.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... A. P. M urray...... 11.61 Golconda...... Miss Minnie M. Gilbert 22 10.00 Westminster Guild 10.00 Harrisburg...... Mrs. W . S. Swan. 10 10.70 Herrin ...... 7 .00 Metropolis...... Mrs. R. W. McCartney 15.00 Murphysboro...... Mrs. W . H. Trobaugh. 39.17 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Stella Burr ...... 4 .00 Omaha...... Mrs. F. Johnson...... 12 20.00 R id g w a y...... 1.70 Shawneetown...... Mrs. Daniel Breeze 10 6.00 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. D. Breeze. . .. 3 .0 0

T otal...... 39 12 268 $479.13 No. Women’s Societies, 14; No. Yonng Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. G. E., 5; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands,1; Total, 25. Chicago Presbyterial Society. Mrs. George P. Williams, 316 Main St., Evanston, Illinois, President. Mrs. Edgar L. Jayne, 5414 Madison Ave., Chicago, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. C. Albert Mead, 1921 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. O. R. Williamson, 1879 W. Adams St., Chicago, Illinois, Literature Sec­ retary. Miss Emma Shasberger, 38 Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. L. E. Marshall, 804 West Adams, Chicago, Illinois, Secretary Children’s Work. Mrs. E. S. Stewart, 5343 Madison Ave., Chicago, Illinois, Treasurer.

Arlington Heights...... Mrs. W . M. Dyas. 14.81 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary Mead. . 33.95 Mary Olmstead Band. 13.36 Austin First Ch...... Mrs. Paul D. O tter.. 20 80 160.55 Westminster Guild.... 4 .85 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Loretta E. Oram. 100.00 Faith Bennett Band. . Miss Carrie R. Bennett 25.40 Berwyn...... Mrs. Arthur Crabbe. . . 29.10 21 Name of Society or & L. Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

Y . P. S. C. E. 1...... 814.55 5.00 Mrs. M. Beardsley.... 1 9 4 .8 5 Y . P.. S. C. E ...... 1.50 Cabery Y . P. S. C. E ...... i 1.94 Mrs. F. S. Pederson . . ? 12.61 Mrs. W . M. P. Davis. . 1 14 10 5.34 9 .7 0 3 .40 23.28 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 35 7 .7 6 40 12.13 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 29.10 3 .88 Brighton Park Ch. Jr. C. E . . . 25 2.43 ?n 98.50 8 R 15 60.20 Y P S C E. . . Miss Emily Hammond 14.55 Mrs. W . H. M u lv ey ... 7 ?, 17 33.87 15.00 4 35 19 22.31 Jr C . E ...... 3? 9 .70 Mrs. W. L. Chidester. . 1 fi 200.00 Y. P. S. C. E. . . . 9 .72 i i 4 .8 6 22 9 .70 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 49.25 Inter C. E ...... 35 5.00 23* 35 182.57 5 .82 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 14.55 4 .8 6 Mrs. J. W . Heatfield. . 50 67.00 Y P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 3.21 Mrs. Sarah M. Sutliff. ? 18 14.56 5 .82 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .8 5 Mrs. Ë. Â. McDonnell. ’ 's ' ‘ 3fi‘ ‘ "?A 79.41 29.10 1 95 27.00 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. Lorenzo Patten. . 50 2.91 i 15 3.88 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .85 4 .85 Mrs. D. W . Thompson ?A 9 4?, 134.44 Y P S C E 121.27 Erie Chapel Y . P. S. ( I E . 7 .!! 14.55 9 4 75 148.20 12.68 H ope Chapel Y . P. S. C. E . .97 Hyde Park Ch...... Mrs. Howard French.. 97 13fi 795.04 .98 267.78 Mrs. Frank Bosworth . 210 48.50 Immanuel Ch. Y . P. S. C. E. . 13.58 Jefferson Park Ch., Westmin- 3 .9 4 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 11.64 Lake View Ch...... Mrs. James S. Moore .. 43 ' " 8 *|" 3 0 220.00 Westminster Guild...... 1 10.67 22 a a> Name of Society or Band Secretary Money £ Taken M embers' 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed £ Contributing

$12 68 3.33 Mrs. Clow ...... 100 00 11 00 5 59 15 12 61 Mrs. T. K . Gale. . . 6 22 25 57 Mrs. Harry Kelow. . . . 2 28 13 6.70 4 85 41 3 68 9 4.03 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 1 1 4 85 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 5.15 Jr. C. E ...... 20 9.22 10 13 20 54 97 Jr. C. E ...... 4 85 1.00 2 91 1 2 18 17 46 Mrs. G. Hollingsworth 17 60 606 12 19 46 825.77 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 28 15 Mrs. J. G. M oore...... 27 56 ' .39 1878 42 35.82 Third C h ...... • . . . 24 22 191 876 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 75 62 1308 13 25. 00 . Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24 46 56 Jr. C. E ...... 2.91 1500.03 23 11 73 361.90 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24.27 Miss Mary Rhinehardt 90 8.73 15 15.52 Jr. C. E . . 62 2 91 6 30 15 44.62 Y . P. S. C. E . . . Jr. C. E ...... 1 94 Mrs. J. M. H o ld e n ___ 1 18 27.16 19 40 3 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... -. 14.85 Forty-first St..Ch...... Mrs. H. M. T u rn er... . 51 40 39 158.00 12.14 i 2 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 40 269.66 42 11.64 Jr. C. E ...... 35 9 .70 Fifty-second Ave. Ch...... Mrs. Calvin H. Mills.. . 7 4 40.74 Y P S C E. 19 55 Chicago Heights...... Mrs. H. L. Chaffee.. .. 4 48 45.59 Y . P. S. C .E ...... 24.40 S 16 8.73 Jr. C. E ...... 20 14.57 17.46 94 80 44 1981.16 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Mrs. J. N. M ills...... 50.00 23 e .3 ■8 Najne of Society or Secretary Band

£ Taken Monei Members 0 . s. & Contribu Contributing

Mrs. E. C. Crawford . . 5 3 44 $271.93 Y . P. S. C. E ...... r TT Mash , ■ 14.82 50.00 Gardner Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.94 Harvey Y . P. S. C. E ...... 9.70 Herscher Y . P. S. C. E ...... 97 Mrs. E. P. Sedgwick. . 21 S 186.76 Miss Alice S. Davidson 11.64 4.8 5 Hinsdale Morning Star Band... . 80 5.00 H om ew ood...... 19 10.67 Mrs. H . S. L y o n ...... 7 9 85 284.80 55 63.05 f>5 125.91 15 8.25 Jr. 0. E ...... 7.52 Second Ch. W estminster Guild 5.94 11 27 33 123.89 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24.25 Jr. C. E ...... 35 4 .85 15 101.85 Jr. C. E ...... 35 4 .8 6 29 11 121 1113.75 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 45.93 50 213.89 82.45 Liberty ville ...... 8 25 1.94 ' q 12 20 71.78 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 30 3.88 5 18 14.55 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.98 Jr. C. E ...... 20 9.70 Mrs, W . G. Husbn-nH 2 9 47 43.92 18 61.00 57 37 169 380.27 19.91 Florence Nightingale Band. 67.90 60 9 .7 0 5.00 Mrs. W . H. W a tt...... 11 29 52 100.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.85 34 4 .8 5 95 7 .76 3 5 19 29.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .8 6 ” 92 22.75 18 7 44 56.07 Jr. C. E ...... 35 8.4 0 5 24 36.00 119.95 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 27.16 2 1 12 3 .60 Mr3. Jean G artley. . . . 1 1 4 .0 0 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 1.00 18 6 44 147.54 4 .8 5 20.00 1500.00 A F riend...... 4000.00 24 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W .W . Taken Contributing

$3101 00 Mrs. Henry Curtiss...... 100.00 Mrs. D. P. L e e ...... 5 00 Miss Shasberger...... 5.00 Interest on D. K. Pearsons’ Fund 735.77 Presbyterial Society...... 263.35 Total...... • 792 611 3506 27831.39 No. Women’s Societies, 77; No. Young Women’s Societies,16; No. Y. P. S. C E., 44; No. Inter C. E „ 5; No. Jr. C. E „ 15; No. Bands, 26; Total, 183.

Ewing Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. F. W Keller, Lawrenceville, Illinois, President. Mrs. A. E. Shinn, Flora, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Ida Boynton, Salem, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. L. D. Laswell, Enfield, Illinois, Literature Secretary. Miss Gertrude Skinner, Du Quoin, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. W . C. Smith, Carmi, Illinois, Treasurer.

Albion...... Miss Addie Gibson. 18 29.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 Jr. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Bridgeport...... Mrs. C. M. Piper...... 3 20 105 70 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie L oga n .. . . 'ÌÓ ' 12 2 .00 Carmi...... Mrs. B. S. Crebs...... 26 70.00 Centralia...... Mrs. R. H. Robertson . 2 18 29.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss S. M. B u ck ...... 1 20 18.00 Du Quoin...... Mrs. R. O. Lehn...... 7 15 79.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Catherine Purdy. 1 42 35.00 Jr. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Enfield...... Mrs. J. A. Mathis . . . . 6 24 33.50 • y Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. J. A. Mathis...... 5 11.00 Fairfield...... Mrs. Albert Marsh. .. . 1 Ì5 " 23.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Etta Smith...... 12' 30.00 Flora ...... Mrs. Edwin Sm ith. . . . 33 40.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Georgia Andrews 45 5 .00 Grayville...... Mrs Chas. McCleur. 8.00 Galium...... 5.50 Lawrenceville...... Mrs. Chas. P. Sm ith.. . 3 16 29.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 Mission Band...... Mrs. F. W . Keller! .. .. 5.00 L u k a ...... 1.00 Mt. Carm el...... Mrs. S. W . W illis...... 6 3 .00 Mt. Vernon...... Mrs. J. L. Pollock . . . . 1 20 17.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 17.00 New Bethel...... Mrs. J. E. B oynton. . . ' '2 9 1.40 Norris City...... 21 6.25 O d in ...... Miss Mattie McMurray. 1 8 57.00 O ln e y ...... , ...... Mrs. W . A. Cope...... 3 17 28.00 P yatt...... 5.00 St. Francisville...... 5.00 Y , P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 Salem...... Miss Nora Turner...... 2 10 34.50 Y. P. S.C. E ...... 3 .00 25 L. & L.

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6 18 $ 8.00 4 .0 0 1 in 14.00 44 9.00 „Y . P . S. C. E ...... 3.00 48 18 536 $804.85

No. Women’s Societies. 24; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 11; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 1; Total, 39. Freeport Presbyterial Society. Mrs. D. T. Smiley, Woodstock, Illinois, President. Miss Ada L. Parsons, Woodstock, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. A. W. McPherson, 1734 Camp Ave., Rockford, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Miss Phoebe Corwith, 420 S. Third St., Rockford, Illinois, Literature Secre­ tary. Miss Elizabeth Ballard, 140 Bishop St., Belvidere, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary Mrs. E. L. Herrick, 303 S. Second St., Rockford, Illinois, Treasurer.

Apple River Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. R. S. Hall...... 8 4 .5 0 Argyle Ch., Roscoe R. F. D ...... Miss Eliza M. Mitchell. 8 9 60 217.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Abbie Ralston 10.50 Belvidere...... Mrs. L. M. Kelley . . . . 8 74 86.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Pansy E. Ballard 25.00 Byron R. F. D ...... Miss Agnes L ove...... 4 23 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Laura Jones...... 14.50 Dakota...... Miss Martha Young 12 9 .00 Elizabeth...... Mrs. J. P. Fraser...... 3 8.25 Freeport First Ch . . Mrs. R F. H ayes...... 12 234.72 Young Women Workers. .. . Miss Iva E Henney 100.00 Second Ch...... Mrs. Nera K e c k ...... 7 96 51.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ida F.|Bastian.. . 1 35 23.50 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs A. Billonbeck. .. . 8 .00 Galena, First Ch...... Miss Clara A. Drunning 4 1 17 45.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Adele Chapin.... 1 1 2.00 Inter. C. E...... Miss Anna E. Felt.... 1.30 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Emma S. R obb 1.00 South Ch . . . . Miss Letitia Husted 17 24.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Hattie Davies. 7.50 Hanover...... Mrs. A. C. Limage. . . . 3 37 42.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nell M Edgerton 35.00 H arvard...... Miss Maria Fleming.. . 1 19 12.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... Mr. Harry Slanson. .. . 2 .00 Hebron...... Miss Alice W eter...... 1 46 54.00 Marengo...... Mrs. Ellen L. Rogers. . 6 50 61.35 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Emma Swager. . . 1 1 65.50 Oregon...... Mrs.. F. R. Artz...... 2 i s ' 31.50 Y . P . S. C. E ...... Mrs. Mary R. Washburn 5 .0 0 P o lo ...... Miss Ida E. Mason. .. . 2 3 31 22.00 Y . S. P. C. E ...... Miss Nellie S. Butts 2 .00 Rockford, First Ch...... Mrs. D. R. Wyant. ... 24 26 102 315.00 Westminster Ch...... Mrs. W. L. Gregory .. 7 3 40 100.55 Savanna...... Mrs. Geo. W . W . Daly 12 18.00

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Winnebago, R. F. D. . . . , Mrs. Mary J. Sm ith.. . $83.62 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mr. H. G. Parsons 5 .00 W oodstock...... Mrs. E. J. Norton. . .. 75.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Erna Siler...... 75.00 Total...... 100 57 815 $1913.29 No. Women’s Societies, 20; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y.*P. S. C. E., 14; No. Inter. C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E ., 2; Total, 38.

Galena Presbyterial Society.

30.00 17.75

T otal...... $47.75 No. Women’s Societies, 2; Total, 2.

Mattoon Presbyterial Society. Mrs. G. W. Rhoads, 2315 S. First St., Shelbyville, Illinois, President. Mrs. D. T. McIntyre, 1301 Charleston Ave., Mattoon, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Josephine McCord, Paris, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. E. R. White, Neoga, Illinois, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Viola C. Dellinger, Dalton City, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. L. M. Voris, Neoga, Illinois, Treasurer.

Areola...... Mrs. J. S. R ay ...... 55.00 Ashmore, First Ch...... Miss Anna Phelps. . 14.55 Mrs. J. W . Hawkins. 5.00 Second Ch...... Mrs. S. C. Zimmerman 3 .5 0 Assumption...... Mrs. W . S. Wallace. 13 199.06 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Gertrude Close. 16.00 Bement Y. P. S. C. E. .. . 12.00 Bethany...... 10.00 Broadlands...... 20.00 Charleston, First Ch...... Mrs. J. A. Shortess.. . . 55 111.50 Westminster Guild. . . Miss Mary Weiss...... 2.00 Chrisman...... Mrs. W. L. Scott . . .. 8 .60 Dalton City...... Mrs. Emma W ard...... 12.03 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Bertha Fletcher.. 1 .00 Effingham...... Miss Sadie Roberts... . 6 .5 0 Grandview Y . P. S. C. E. Miss Pearl Smith ...... 3 .0 0 Kansas...... Mrs. John A. Payne.. . 7 0.90 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Estelle Juntgen. . 10.00 Jr. C. E ...... Misa G. Alexander.... 5 .00 Mattoon, First C h ...... Mrs. D. T. McIntyre .. 12 54.50 Broadway Ch...... Mrs. Mercie R. Brown. 3 .3 5 Moweaqua...... Mrs. L. C. Winchell. . . 16.80 N eoga...... Mrs. E. R. White...... 24.25 Westminster Guild . . 5 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Minnie Young. 10.00 Newman...... Mrs. M. J. Page. . . . 11.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Hope More■. ■ 16.00

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Palestine...... Mrs. Jack Feldman. .. 22 $69.98 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Volo Mills...... 54 25.25 Pana...... Mrs. L. E. McTaggert. 50 85.50 Paris...... Mrs. R . H. P i l e ...... 42 -103.92 Y . P. S. C. E . . .•...... Miss Elizabeth McCord 46 10.00 Shelbyville...... Mrs. Lewis E il e r ...... 11 41 53.00 Margaret Simcox Band...... Miss Estie Graybill. . . 22 15.00 Y . P .S . C. E ...... George B.Rhoads. . . . 22 10.00 T oled o...... Mrs. W . C. Greathouse. 4 16 14.70 Westminster G uild ...... 6.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie Dow. . 3.65 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. A. R . Brown. 3.80 Tower H ill...... Mrs. F. P. Hish. ... 14.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. J. M. Swiss. . . 2.00 Tuscola...... Mrs. W . S. Martin. 52.98 Vandalia...... Mrs. W . C. W h ite.. 56.50 W in d so r...... 15.40 Wood’s Chapel Y.P.S.C.E.,Neoga 12. SO Presbyterial Society...... 60.00 Total...... 94 51 944 $1351.79 No. Women’s Societies, 25; No. Young Women’s Societies. 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E„ 13; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 1; Total, 44. Ottawa Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Cha3. Handwerk, Morris, Illinois, President. , Mrs. A. C. Henry, Mendota, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Miss E. Rich, Wenona, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. E. E. Hull. Aurora, Illinois, Literature Secretary. Miss E. Rich, Wenona, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. A. C. Henry, 208 13th Ave., Mendota, Illinois, Treasurer.

Aurora...... Mrs. G. A. Anderson. . 4 50 29.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mr. T. B. S w a n ...... 51 10.00 Jr. C. E ...... 20.00 Aux. Sable Grove Ch., Yorkville. Mrs. F. M. Sulz...... 25 31.00 Brookfield Ch., Seneca...... Mrs. A. G. Noack...... 24 111.00 Earlville...... Mrs. W . G. Clark...... 5 31 16.00 E lgin...... Miss B. Rosborough . 6 ‘ '.V 18 101.50 Westminster Guild ...... 3 .0 0 F lorid...... 5 .0 0 Grand Ridge...... 30.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Lottie C. Read 28 8 .0 0 ...... Miss E. P. Stevenson 10 13.00Kings M endota...... Mrs. L. W. Potter .... 2 1 60 124.35 Westminster Guild...... 12.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary B lack ...... 20 8 .00 Busy Bees...... 9 .00 Minonk ...... Mrs. T . B. Allen...... 4 3 10 55.52 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 8 .5 5 A F riend...... 55.00 Morris...... Mrs. C. H andwerk. . . . 1 2 20 53.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 8 .00 Oswego...... Mrs. K ate Marshall. .. 11 21.00 Ottaw a...... Mrs. H . B. S haw ...... 3 20 95.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 Paw Paw ...... Mrs. W. Chaffee...... Ü 12.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Orla Stetter...... 22 5 .0 0 23 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

Jr. C. E ...... S 5.00 40 87.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 Rochelle, R .F .D .3 ...... Miss Mary B. Lyon... . 1 35 40.00 Sandwich...... Mrs. H. S. B r a d l e y . . 2 50 4 3.00 Streator...... Mrs. Mary Gruner. .. . 2 1 25 76.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Jr. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 6 .00 Waltham Ch.,Utica, R. F. D .... Mrs. John Blackard... 6 26 20 15.00 W aterman...... Mrs. J. K irkpatrick. . . 1 35 23.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 16.00 Wenona...... Mrs. H . M. Taggart. . . 6 26 15 14.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 Jr. C. E ...... 1.00 Total...... 37 38 633 81240.02 No. Women’s Societies, 22; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y.P.S.C.E. 11; No. Jr. C. E ., 4; No. Bands, 1; Total, 40. Peoria Presbyterial Society. Miss Julia H. Johnston, 1008 Hamilton Blvd., Peoria, Dl., President. Mrs. Isabella C. Ayres, 105 Randolph Ave., Peoria, 111., Corresponding Secre- tary. Mrs. Isabella C. Ayres, 105 Randolph Ave., Peoria, 111., Recording Secretary. Mrs. A. R.. Mathes, Knoxville, 111., Literature Secretary. Miss Josephine Gibson, 302 Dechman Ave., Peoria, 111., Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Louisa D. Elder, 404 N. Madison Ave., Peoria, 111., Treasurer.

Astoria...... Mrs. L. J. Shawver. 3.00 C a n to n ...... Miss Marie Weaner. 64.00 Mission Band...... Miss Ruth Underwood 100.00 D e la v a n ...... Mrs. Daniel Crabb 60.00 Westminster Guild...... 8.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Dunlap, Prospect Ch...... Mrs. Belle Dunlap. 21 23.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nellie Smith. . . 9 .00 Sheaf Gatherers...... 4.00 E lm w o o d ...... Mrs. John Cullings. 47.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. B. Y. George. 5.00 Eureka...... Mrs. Rinthia Laws 44.00 . Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jessie Petrie.. 3 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... 2.00 Farmington...... Mrs. Mary S. Barrows 20 40.00 Y . P. S.C. E ...... Mrs. Addie Higgs...... 5 .00 Galesburg...... Mrs. A. L. Andrews . . 75 141.00 Westminster Guild...... 20.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary Armstrong. 10.00 Green Valley...... Mrs. Louis Lawler. . . . 52.00 Mission B and ...... Carrie Berendes...... 7 00 Rural Gleaners...... ■6.00 Hanna City, Salem Ch...... Mrs. Edith Christie . . 39.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mr. J. F. Fuller...... 8.00 Mission B an d ...... Mrs. Sylma Francis.. 6.00 Henry...... Mrs. J. A. W illiam s.. 5 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss C. M. Carpenter. 5.00 Ipavk...... Miss Jennie B ab cock . 64.00 29 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Y . P. S. C. E ...... 19 $ 13.00 18 25 72.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .00 23' ' 40 50.00 8 .0 0 200.00 Mrs. Joseph Foote.... 4 41 71.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... ?5 5 .0 0 Mrs. A. G. Miller...... 1 20 27.00 25 42 246.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 33 33.00 10 50 29.00 13 25 16.00 12 5 90 169.00 14 25.00 11 11 51 105.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15 11.00 4 14 90 29.00 13 90 36.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25 19.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 2 .0 0 4 11 6.00 18 3? 262.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25 48.00 1 7 4 .00 ? ?fi 37.00 32 5 .00 Mrs. Olive Mathews. .. 3 25 47.00 Y . P. S. C. Ë ...... 2 .00 3760.17 11.00

T otal...... 144 1121 1181 86142.17 No. Women’s Societies, 25; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E„ 16; No. Jr. C. E.„ 2; No. Bands, 12; Total, 57. Rock River Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Mary J. Slaymaker, Albany, Illinois, President. Mrs. L. E. Pritchard, Wood hull, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Mary L. Kelly, Milan, Illinois, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Julia Coe, Sterling, Illinois,, Literature Secretary. Miss F. F. Cleland, 539 Twentieth St., Rock Island, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. H. Ramsey, Aledo, Illinois, Treasurer.

Albany...... Miss Alice Craig...... 4 27 17.50 Aledo...... Mrs. Nannie W allace. . 7 37 81.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss B . K . Bigelow 48 45.00 Peniel Ch Miss Lula Miller...... 10 49 49 Alexis...... •...... Mrs. Nannie Bruington 27 31.00 N orw ood Ch...... Mrs. Lizzie Hill...... 4 6 21 23.50 Fannie Cleland Band...... Miss Bertha Likely 16 4.63 Arlington...... Mrs. F. E. Gleason... . 30 5 .55 Ashton...... Mrs. Nina M o o r e ...... 21.50 Y . P S C E 25.00 D ixon...... Mrs. A. H. Stoddard. . 6 30 37.13 Daughters of the Covenant. Miss Marjorie V ail------12 37.50 30 Najne of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

S 5 .00 25 26.50 2 .50 Mrs. T. H. Smith. . . . 14 17.00 9 1 15 22.82 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 9S 25.00 'J r . C. E ...... 16 11.50 20 100.37 21.20 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 Hamlet & Perryton Ch., Reynolds Mrs. W m . De B ord e. . ' 2 ’ "i" 34 30.07 J o y ...... 11.80 19 5.75 Mrs. E. L. L ord ...... 9 3 20 15.00 Ladd...... 24.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.93 9 9 17 27.00 Jr. C. E ...... 33 5.00 Mrs. J. T. 'W y llie...... 6 11.00 Y. P. S. C. E * ...... Miss Martha H. Bay. . 3 10.00 Miss Margaret Melville 47 60.15 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 66.24 100.60 ?,n 62.77 Rock Island, Broadway Ch...... Mrs. A. H. McCandlass 11 56 160.50 Miss F. F. Cleland____ 60 80.00 20 10.00 14 24.50 8 .5 0 So. Park Chapel, J. B. C . . . 10 10.00 9 14 27 30.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7.00 15 1.50 4 6 91 51.00 9, 30 17.50 W oodhull...... 40 24.73

T otal...... 51 33 885 S1500.13 No. Women’s Societies, 31; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 8; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 4; Total, 47.

Rushville Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. J. W. Pugh, Blandinsville, Illinois, President. Miss E. B. Griffith, Rushville, Illinois, Corresponding Secretary. Miss E. B. Curry, Hersman Illinois, Recording Secretary. Miss Harriet Means, Hersman, Illinois, Literature Secretary. Miss Martha Gray, Warsaw, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Miss E. B. Griffith, Rushville, Illinois, Treasurer.

Appanoose Ch., Niota. .. .-...... Miss Ida L. Jackson.. . 2 13 42.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Robt. W ilso n .. . . 12.00 Augusta...... » ...... Mrs. Cornelia Fisher. . 1 14 44.00 Bardolph...... Mrs. W . W . Hendricks 2 18 12.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Cora Harris...... 1 30 10.50 Bethel Ch., H am ilton...... Mrs. J. P. Sennett, . . 3 27 19.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Yiola Crouch .... 1 47 4 .2 0 31 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

6 12 $ 3 .60 9, 8 5.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 44 5.00 Bushnell...... 1 30 40.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 52 20.00 4 12 16.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 21 12.00 Mrs. S. P. Markle. s 55 88 00 1 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Helen Sweeney. . 59 50.00 Clayton...... 3 20 17.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .6 0 é 4 .0 0 F,hPTiPZf.r Y P S O F,. 3 00 10 28 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 5 Fargo Y . P. S. C. E ...... ' 'à i 42.00 Mrs. F. H. Huston, . . 2 15 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 G ood H op e...... 8 44.20 Mrs. H enry Means. . .. 4 17 46.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Bertha Means... 1 6 22 38.00 Jr. C. E ...... 5 in 3.00 3 26 49.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 50.00 Macomb, First Ch...... 7 an 61.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ruth Watson .. . 35 54.00 ¿' 15 66.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 21 21.00 17 90 219.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 60.00 37 82.00 35.00 fi 34 30.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Elizabeth Gordon 28 3 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... 3 .0 0 P erry...... Mrs. M. C. Reynolds .. 3 5 23.00 3 .0 0 6 18 38.35 . Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Julia Wilson...... 6 39 17.50 24 33 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 53 30.00 7 45 45.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 36 50.00 1 11 17.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3fi 4 .5 0 Warsaw...... 1 q 6 .5 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 36 22.00 Miss Martha Gray. . . . fi 12 55.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Wanda Ernst.... 2 20 40.00 18.00 5 .0 0 T otal...... 146 .18 1270 $1781.50 No. Women’s Societies, 29; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 25; No. Jr. C. E „ 2; Total, 57.

32 Springfield P r e s b y t t ó ^ ^ t y ^ j j g S I O N S Mrs. B. H. Brainerd, Brainard Farm, Lincoln, Illinois, President. Mrs. M. W. Shultz, 351 W. William StX^Deca^ur, Illinois, Corresponding j

Mrs. Alice McElroy Griffith, 606 S. Sixth Stì^'Sft£Ìr^fil2l, BhiiAis^ecjit Secretary. Mrs. J. H. Sikes, 1215 S. Second St., Springfield, Illinois, Literature Secretary. Miss Harriet J. Brown, 724 E.Capitol Ave., Springfield, Illinois, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Harrington Clanahan, 912 S. Fourth St., Springfield. Illinois, Treasurer.

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A r g e n ta ...... i ...... Mrs. Louis Bannett 10 S 5.00 Auburn Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. B. L. Kessler. 8.50 Bates...... Miss Beulah Maxey. . . 20 63.00 Buffalo Hart...... Mrs.John Richardson 15 33.00 Decatur 1st Ch...... Mrs. C. E. O chiltree.. 30 125 351.00 Westminster Guild...... Miss Clara Cadwallader 27 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Carrie Knapp. 80 50.00 Brier B an d ...... 30.00 Second C h...... Mrs. Hattie J. W ebster 84.00 Westminster Ch ...... Miss Lula Baldridge . . 35.00 Divernon...... Mrs. Charles Kerr.. 27.00 Farmingdale...... Mrs. Nannie M axey.. . 30.00 Greenview...... Miss Bessie Trip.. . . 44.00 Jacksonville State St. Ch...... Mrs. T. P. Laning .. 146.30 Young Ladies’ ...... Mrs. W . J. Winchester 93.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Lillian Luckmeyer 4 .00 Jordan St. Ch...... Mrs. F. D. Martin. . 47.00 Westminster Guild ...... 10.00 Young Women’s Mission B a n d ...... Miss J. Vasconcellos 48.00 Westminster Ch...... Mrs. J. Marshall Miller 16 175.00 Y. P. S C. E ...... 5.00 Lincoln...... Miss Clara McCord. . . 223.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Helen Pierce. . . 10.00 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. Otis S m ith ...... 5.00 Macon...... Mrs. Howard Highly. 25.00 Maroa...... Mrs. W . T. M cL ean .. 43.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 19.00 Mason C ity...... Miss H. B. Vickery. . . 45 67.00 Westminster G uild...... 1 .00 M iddletow n ...... Mrs. W . J. Rainey. 5.00 Morrisonville...... Mrs. David Acken. 22.65 NorthFork Ch.,DecaturR.F.D.. . Mrs. J. C. M eyer.. . 4.00 North Sangamon...... 111.50 Pawnee...... Mrs. Mae Y ou ng...... 24.00 Y -P . S. C. E ...... Mrs. Mae Y ou n g...... 5.00 Petersburg First Ch...... Mrs. Sam. Montgomery 10 105.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Pisgah Ch., Orleans...... Mrs. Belle P. Drury.. . 30.00 Pleasant Plains...... Mrs. W . C. H ensley.. . 25.00 Rock Creek Ch.,Talula...... Miss Alice Stout...... 16.00 Smyrna Ch., Loami R .R . No. 32. . Miss Ethel C loyd...... 45.00 Springfield First Ch...... Mrs. J. B. Perkins. . . . 95.00 E. J. Brown M em orial...... Mrs. H. F. Darwin... . 54 229.00 Westminster Guild ...... Mrs. Robt. McClintic . 5.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Robt. McClintic . 19.00 Busy Bees...... Miss Dorothy B. Scott 40.00 88 a a)

Name of Society or Secretary H Band Taken £ Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed £ Contributing j

$ 30.00 Mrs. E. D. Roberts. . . 14 70 150.50 10.00 1 2 30 25 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 40 20.00 1 6 5.00 Fifth Ch., Y . P. S. C. E . . . . 1 1 1.50 Sweetwater...... Mrs. Mary F. Hurst. .. 3 1 15 36.00 Taylorville...... 9,0 1 39 126.00 10 20 50.00 10 9 .00 4 25 45.00 12 9 .0 0 1 8 15.00 Mrs. M. A. Henderson 12 9 .0 0 31.70

Total...... 206 129 1382 $3083.65

Total for Synodical Society 1992 1270 13370 851189.63 No. Women’s Societies, 39; No. Young Women’s Societies, 8; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 11; No. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 3; Total 62. No. Women’s-Societies, 372; No. Young Women’s Societies, 40; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 195; No. Inter C. E., 6; No. Jr. C. E.,44; No. Bands, 56; Total for Synodical Society, 715. INDIANA SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. J. B. Kendall, La Porte, President Emeritus. Mrs. S. A. Bonner, Greensburg, President. Mrs. Charles Finney, Attica, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Charles T. Latham, 1915 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Literature Secretary. Miss Emma Donnell, Greensburg, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Leonora Paxton, Princeton, Westminster Guild Secretary.

Crawfordsville Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Herbert Campbell, Newtown, Ind., President. Mrs. Rufus Dooley, Rockville, Ind., Corresponding Secretary. Miss Harriet Van Natta, Fowler, Ind., Recording Secretary. Mrs. Wm. .Colvert, Attica, Ind., Literature Secretary. Miss Lena M. Bryant, Frankfort, Ind., Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. W. B. Sidwell, 508 E. Clinton St., Frankfort, Ind., Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W .W . Taken

Attica...... Mrs. Alice Whitehead. 4 52 $ 73.68 Young Women’s Society. Miss Louise McKee. . . 30 3.50 Golden Links...... Miss Helen Martin. .. . 1 12 5.00 Beulah Ch...... Mrs. F. A. Nave. . .. 10 30 35.00 Bethany Ch., Marshall...... Miss R. Weatherford 23 30.00 Bethel Ch., Shannondale...... Mrs. Addie McDowell . 1 10 29.00 Boswell...... Mrs. M. A. Barber . . 8 5.50 Clinton...... Mrs. C. Am m erm an. . . 2 38 32.00 Crawfordsville, First Ch...... Mrs. C. C. R ice...... 10 32 28.00 Young Ladies’ Society ...... Miss Ruth Beatty .... 1 41 21.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mae Sidener...... 79 15.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Althea Barnes 1 54 1.00 Center Ch...... Mrs. Ella Myers. . . . 5 48 120.00 A. H. Walter Band ...... Mrs. Edwin M. Brown. 3 50 13.00 Whosoever Band...... 10.00 Susan Carter Estate...... 25.00 C u tler...... Mrs. C. M. Lung...... 1 20 28.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Minnie M. Smith 29 3 .00 Darlington...... Mrs. Carl Fox . . . 3 6 5.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Verna Willing .. . 23 2 .0 0 D ayton...... Mrs. W m . Frantz...... 9 54 80.00 Mrs. D. H . Crouse...... 10.00 Mrs.M. P. Simms...... ! ...... 15.00 Deer Creek...... 10.00 Delphi...... Mrs. C. N. Gros...... 35 72.00 Mission Band...... 17.81 Mrs. J. C. B ow en...... 100.00 Fowler...... Mrs. John Hamilton .. 2 16 6 .3 0 35 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

Mrs. Guy L. Bergue.. . q 50 $137.00 30 40 30.15 45 10.00 Geetingsville Ch., R. F. D. 1.. Mrs. Claude Young.. . 2 8 9 .8 0 fi 9 .3 0 Kirklin...... Miss G. Thompson.. . . 2 23 21.07 12 8 .0 0 ? 50 55.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25 43.00 123.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 88 20.00 15.00 4 45 45.50 Mrs. G. F. Miller...... 5 21 59.50 “>0 8 .50 Mrs. F. C. Schultz___ 20 10.00 1 12 6.00 Rockfield...... Mrs. Annie Bohannon. 4 25 12.00 Rockville...... Mrs. J. S. McFadden . . 3 53 70.00 31 3 .0 0 Y . P. S. C- E ...... Miss Eleanor Fisher.. . 1 28 9.0 0 28.75 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 5 .00 1 19 16.00 Miss Ella Fordyce.. . . ? 1? 19.00 4 4.22 Mrs. Thos. M. Morgan . 3 45 65.00 Y . P. S. C. E 23 5 .00 9 20 25.00 O 20 10.00 Williamsport...... Mrs. F. Goodwine .... 4 48 28.00 6.74

T otal...... 128 9 1509 $1754.32 No. Women's Societies, 34; No. Young Women’s Societies, 5; No. Y. P. S. C. E. 8; N o. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 7; Total, 55.

Ft. Wayne Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Norah B. Hughes, 1122 W. Wayne St., Ft. Wayne, Indiana, President. Miss Mary McDonald, 1104 W. Wayne St., Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Charles Dicer, Decatur, Indiana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. W. W. Greek, Bluffton, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Miss Cora Aultman, 47 Henry St., Huntington, Indiana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. S. B. Nichols, Lima, Indiana, Treasurer.

Albion...... Mrs. J. M. Matthews. . 2 15 5.5 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Elva Foote...... 14 1.00 Auburn...... Miss Edna A. Davis.. . 1 1 30 20.00 Bluffton...... Mrs. M. E. O lds...... 3 60 59.00 Columbia City ... Mrs. J. F. Brenneman 25 14.75 Decatur...... Miss Laura Alban.... 1 30 9 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ., R . R . 6 ...... Thos S Perkins . . . 40 6 .0 0 Elhanan Ch., Ossian, R. R. 3. .. Mrs. John Drage...... 15 10.25 Elkhart « Mrs. C. K . Runyon 40 40.68 Ft Wayne, Bethany Ch ...... Mrs. R . K. M iller...... 21 14.25 Girls’ B an d...... :...... 15.00 36 ¡3 tt)

Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. ■> ■> Money Contributec W. W. W. Take Contributin

First Ch...... Mrs. E. M. W ilso n ... 60 $512.43 Third C h...... Mrs. S. A. Guenther.. 72 42.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Zoe D exter...... 100 4 .5 0 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .50 Westminster Ch...... Mrs. S. W . Daugherty 40 55.68 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss G. Ferguson. . . . 28 5.75 Garrett...... Mrs. Sheldon McLeod 26 9 .45 Goshen...... Mrs. George C regier.. 50 155.00 Young Women’s Society.. . Miss Mabel Simmons. 53 233.50 H untington...... Miss F. Purvianee .. . 37 86.15 Westminster Guild...... 4.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 3.80 Kendallville...... Miss Lottie E. Daniels 41.00 La Grange...... Miss Ida Cathcart . 51.75 Westminster Guild.. 2.00 Ligonier...... Mrs. M. C. D en ny---- 5 .00 Lima...... Mrs. Clyde Harding. . 75.20 Ossian...... Mrs. Capatolia Glass. 43.56 Pierceton...... Miss Jennie Snyder.. 17.00 Warsaw...... Mrs. Lydia M cCom b. 76.45 W aterloo...... Miss Mary M. Eberly. 22.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mis3 Emma Ahrendt. 2.42 Winona Federated Church. 85.48 Mary Brown Estate ...... 474.55

T otal...... 1 97 11 935 $2207.10 No. Women’s Societies, 23; No. Young Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E. * 5; No. Jr. C. E.. 1; No. Bands, 1; Total, 33. Indiana Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Julia B. Shaley, 664 Mulberry St., Terre Haute, Indiana, President. Mrs. Margaret Hogue, 1225 Fairground Ave., Vincennes, Indiana, Correspond, ing Secretary. Miss Florence Gray, Princeton, Indiana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. E. A. Thompson, 1210 Perry St., Vincennes, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Miss Allie Hart, Boonville, Indiana, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Sallie McLeish, R. F. D. No. 2., Evansville, Indiana, Treasurer.

Boonville...... Mrs. Mary E. Lamar.. 1 14 9 .20 Bloom field...... Mrs. Cora W. Cravens. 3 23 15.92 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1.37 Chrisney Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3.40 Claiborne Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3.57 Cynthiana...... Mrs. W . M. Mason. . . . 7 3.50 Evansville, Chestnut St. Ch...... Miss Nathalie M inch... 6 71 198.00 Y. P..S..C. E ...... 27.47 Jr. Mission B an d ...... ’ 35 12.00 First Ave. Ch ...... Mrs. A. C. Quinback. . 2 10 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.48 Grace C h ...... Mrs! M. P. V o g e i...... 8 " 3 5 86.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15.82 Jefferson Ave Ch Mrs A. F. Karges. 18 18.00 Oak Hill Y P. S. C. E ...... 1.30 Olive St. Ch...... Mrs. F. R . Austin . . . . 5 10 17.05 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 5 .1 2 37 a JS Name of Society or & Band Secretary Money è Taken Members Members | 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed & Contributing |

$ 5.50 i 10 7 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 17.57 i i ’ 7Ì 185.00 Miss Margaret McClain 10 19.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3 .70 " Ì 2 10.80 Y P S C E ...... 1.37 Jackson Hill, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.37 Mrs. Newton Jean . . . . i s 3 .0 0 » 3 .50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... > .. .50 Mrs. W alter M yers... . ' ‘ 'è 17.00 M idway Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3 .60 5 .00 3 .4 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3.30 ■ - y "21 28.74 .50 fi 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 13.70 Patoka Y P S C E . .. 1.86 Mrs. Frank Lenke .... 4 30 30.05 Princeton, First Ch...... Mrs. Robt. A. Woods.. 4 24 51.00 4.75 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6.87 " i f l 31.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.37 Mra. A. M organthaler. ' ' s ’ Ì.2 16.50 18.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .1 3 Sugar Grove Y . P. S. C. E ...... 44 ' W " i s 43.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.66 Terre Haute, Central Ch...... '¿ s ’ " ¿ 2 131.65 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 57.91 1.12 Jr. C. E ...... 10.00 4 35 42.95 Y . P. S. .C. E ...... 13.61 Miss A. Willoughby.. . 10' ’ '34 88.25 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7 .48 Mrs. Margaret H ogu e. ■ ' k " 2 4 28.50 Indiana” Ch. “ Solid W orkers” R . R . 3...... Mrs. Stanton Johnson . 10 10 24 46.25 fgqi Y P S C E 6.98 t M cK inley Ave. Ch! Y .P . s! C. E 2.25 Upper Indiana Ch., R. R.. 1.. Mrs. Lillie McClure----- 6 6 11 23.00 2 6 40 64.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 21.72 " i i 6.50 50.00 2.40 1.38 26.11

T otal...... ' 135 84 477 $1646.94 No. Women’s Societies, 32; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 32; No. Inter. C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E „ 1; No. Bands, 3; Total, 70.

38 Indianapolis Presbyterial Society. Mrs. John H. Holliday, 1121 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana, President. Mrs. G. H. Springer, 521 E. Seventh St., Bloomington, Indiana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. W. W. Winslow, 1934 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. C. C. Van Nuys, Franklin, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Miss Florence E. Lanham, 309 N. Walcott St., Indianapolis, Indiana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. W. H. Hubbard, 1427 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Secretary Band Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Acton Y P S C E R. F. D. 32 $ 1 75 Bloomington...... Mrs. G. L. Reinhard . . 9 11 36 57.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 11 38 8.00 Mrs. S. G. Ralston. . . . 1 45 72.00 14.53 Columbus...... Mrs. F. Fitzgibbon.. . . 4 54 86.20 Danville...... Mrs. John Underwood 2 17 76.55 1.66 Mrs. Roscoe Dunlap . . 4 73 238.00 Y . P. S C. E ...... 20.00 11 40 34.00 Mrs. Margaret Voris.. . 3 45 116.43 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 40.00 Jr C. E . . . 4 7 00 2 4 18 15.00 Greenfield...... Miss Jacobina Morton. 1 20 4 .00 Y P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 26 48.00 Y . P. S. C. E 2 50 Mrs. J. E. Stephenson. 14 4 141 568.45 Young Women’s Society... . Miss Louisa Milligan. . 2 58 56.25 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 60.00 12.94 12.00 200.00 150.00 Second Ch...... '...... Mrs. D. L. W ood 14 70 322.00 Young Women’s Society... . 26 29.75 37 5.00 Miss Bessie S. Stephens 11 33.00 Sarah Mayo Band...... Mrs. Edward H. Mayo 5 30 12.50 Fourth Ch...... Mrs. J. F. Edwards... . 5 2 • 70 91.82 Sixth Ch...... Mrs. Grace Peacher. . . 2 26 18.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 2 30 1.00 Seventh Ch...... Mrs. Agnes Thompson. 18 45 64.86 14 30.80 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 54.00 Jr. C. E ...... 4 5 .00 Wee Workers...... 3 .3 0 2 5 19 26.69 Y . P. S C. E ...... 9.50 Home Ch...... Mrs. C. D. Remington. 2 29 8 .00 Mrs. H. O. Suft . . . . 6 87 101.25 Jr. Partners...... Miss Bessie B ro w n .. . . 65 40 8 .00

39 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

Southerland Ch., Y . P. S. C. E . $ 4 .15 30 12 103 557.02 M rs. J. W . K e e le y ... . 8 45 66.00 Bertha Johnson Society. . . . 7 14 11.00 Mfs. F. M. Deputy... . 2 27 45 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.00 W. Washington St. Ch.. Mrs. B . E. Shirley...... 1 11 15.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.75 15.00 5 19 11.90 Young W om an’s Miss Soc . . 5 35 9 16 20.00 1 14 13.32 .47 5 .5 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... is 3 .5 0 South P o rt...... Mrs. P. B. B ailey...... 5 20 22.00 3 20 15.10 14 .50 Whiteland, R. R. 2, Greenwood. Mrs. Roy C. Sheek.... 3 18 14.90 587.34

T otal...... 145 147 1507 $4166.93 No. Women’s Societies, 31; No. Young Women’s Societies, 9; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 13; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 9; Total, 64.

Logansport Presbyterial Society. Mrs. F. M. Hatch, 865 Forest Ave., South Bend, Indiana, President. Mrs. Nellie Wirt, Monticello, Indiana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. O. N. Toland, 115 Twentieth St., Logansport, Indiana Recording Sec­ retary. Mrs. W. O. Williams, 618 N. Michigan St., South Bend, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Mrs. S. A. Carson, Monticello, Indiana, Treasurer.

Bethel Ch., Union Mills...... Mrs. Otha W ay...... 7 10.00 B ourbon...... Miss L. A. Borton. . . . 15 8 .40 B rookston...... Mrs. J. B. Kennedy.. . 2 28 22.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nellie Hagarty. . 1 " i ‘ 7 .0 0 Chalmers...... Miss Gertrude Sluyter 7 ' io 19.03 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.87 Camden Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 Concord...... 14.00 Crown Point...... Mrs. O. J. B ru ce...... 4 19 32.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nellie McNay... . *5 4 .0 0 Goodland Mrs. M. C. Fleming.. . i2 12.20 Hammond...... Mrs. S. P. W iley ...... 5 25 20.00 Mrs. Cosgrove...... 5.00 K entland...... Mrs. H . Billrrian...... 25 29.50 Hebron Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ortha Lawson 2.50 Lake Prairie Ch., Lowell.. . Miss Edna Michael.... 12 12.00 La P orte...... Mrs. Jessie Atkins. ... 17 48 104.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss F. Coddington 20.00 Katherine Van Pelt Circle. . 20.00

40 J «ö S3 Name of Society or Secretary Band CG S3 Money

O Members Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

Mrs. H. A. Searight.. . 11 50 §85.00 ?n 27.52 ?0 20.00 Concord Ch., R. R. 1...... Mrs. Jennie James. . . . 1 26 17 8 .30 Mrs. Will Duff...... 30 12.00 Mrs. J. E. De W olfe.. . 14.00 . ' Y . P. S. C. È ...... • - j ' 10.00 Miss Edna Thorndylce ' '22 24.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 8 53 30.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 18 27.56 10 6 .90 Mrs. Geo. Hargreaves. 3 34 24.37 Y. P. S. C E ___ 9 18.75 3 ?1 2 9.00 5 20 16.9S Y . P. S. C E 3 3 .00 Mrs. W . A. B u g b e e .. . 14 87 60:00 Y . P. S. C. E 33.09 Jr. C. E 11.00 ?? 15.00 Westminster Ch...... Mrs. L. P. Hardy 3 28 29.00 Y . P. S. C. E . . . 3.00 Union Ch., Walton, R. R. 17. . . Mssi Cora Ritter...... 5 76.43 ' Y ‘ Ì2 29.92 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 7.00 T o ta l...... 99 11 729 S976.82 No. W om en’s Societies, 30; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 15; No. Jr. C. E ., 1; No. Bands, 1; Total, 47. Muncie Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. G. A. Little, 208 E. Broadway, Alexandria, Indiana, President. Mrs. Elmer Burns, 38 S. Adams St., Wabash, Indiana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. R. E. Egbert, 203 N. East St., Marion, Indiana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. R. E. Egbert, 203 N. East St., Marion, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Mrs. A. R. McArthur, 2718 Main St., Elwood, Indiana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. M. F. Pulerbaugh, 118 Main St., Peru, Indiana, Treasurer.

Alexandria...... Mrs. G. H. Van Riper. 2 1 11 11.70 Anderson...... Mrs. George L illy...... 7 4 55 82.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Alice Smith... :. . 28 12.90 Mrs. George E . L illy ...... 30.00 Elwood ...... ' Mrs. L. W. Mellette... 2 3 22 24.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Marjorie Shoemaker 32 6 50 Hartford City...... Mrs. George Fulton. . . 4 30 38.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Bertha Dale...... 3 .8 6 Jonesboro...... Mrs. Walter R. Meek.. 2 3 Ì5 16.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Sue Wallace...... 20 5 .55 K ok om o...... ! ...... Mrs. A. P. Strayer.... 2 25 43.00 Marion...... Mrs. O. R. Daniels.... i 56 99.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00

41 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Taken • Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

M ontpelier...... 14 $ 10 60 Mrs. O. B. Bannister.. 10 109 154 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 00 10 7 9 .0 0 5 39 66.69 Mrs. E . M. H a y n es... . 1 15 32.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Ruth R h a m y...... 50 ■3.00 5 8 00 46 47 00 85 141.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. L. Lefforge...... ?ft 11.90 Winchester...... Mrs. F. A. Chenoweth . 1 4 38 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 35 1.50 T otal...... 46 23 770 S902.30 No. Women’s Societies, 16; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 8; Total, 24. New Albany Presbyterial Society. Mrs. E. P. Moore, Mitchell, Indiana, President. Mrs. C. H. Emery, Bedford, Indiana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Geo. W. Applegate,Sr., Corydon, Indiana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. James Omelvena, Seymour, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Miss A. Putnam, New Albany, Indiana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Geo. W. Applegate, Sr., Corydon, Indiana, Treasurer.

B ed ford ...... Mrs. W. H. Martin.. . . 5 30 61.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... 1.00 Bethel Ch.. S c ip io ...... 9.25 Brow nstow n...... Mrs. Sara C. Findley. . 2 25 4.5 0 Charlestown...... Miss Olive Hickes... 3 22 29.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 C orydon...... Mrs. M. B. Slemons. . . 5 8 39 46.00 Westminster Guild...... 2 .50 Wistaria Band...... 1.00 H a n ov er...... Miss Leila Garritt...... 8 25 70.00 Jeffersonville...... Mrs. Thomas L. Carr 20 67.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Madison, First Ch...... 4 10 31.85 Ladies Missionary Circle... . 45.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 7 .0 0 Second Ch...... i 12.00 M itchell...... 5 59.00 New Albany, First Ch...... Miss T. Hidden ...... 23 56.85 Second Ch...... Mrs. C. N. Douglas----- 1 44 93.38 S. C. H. A. Society...... 25.00 Third Ch...... Mrs. R. Ruthenberg . . 4 2 30 57.47 Y . P . R, C. E ...... 5.00 Girls’ Mission Band.. 2.0 0 North Vernon...... Mrs. Adelia H ill...... 3 16 24.40 Orleans...... Mrs. Mary M on yh an .. 2 24 11.80 Paoli...... 9 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 Pleasant Township...... ” i ’ 9 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1 2 .0 0 Salem...... Miss Ellen Lockwood. . |.... 22 30.00 42 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W .W . Taken Contributing

Seym our...... Mrs. C. S. Cone...... 4? $63.65 8 .0 0 10 3 .0 0 15.38 Mrs. J. M. S h o d d y .. . 8 14.00 Walnut Ridge ...... 5.00

T otal...... 36 28 380 S902.03 No. W om en’s Societies, 24; No. Young W om en’s Societies, 2; No. Y . P. S. C. E. 7; No. Jr. C. E ., 1; No. Bands, 3; Total, 37.

Whitewater Presbyterial Society. Mrs. S. A. Bonner, 422 E. Central Ave., Greensburg, Indiana, President. Miss Amelia A. Holby, 213£ N. Franklin St., Greensburg, Indiana, Correspond­ ing Secretary. Mrs. L. R. Gillies, 210 S. Fourteenth St., New Castle, Indiana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. L. R-. Gillies, 210 S. Fourteenth St., New Castle, Indiana, Literature Secretary. Miss Alice E. Brown, 422 W. Third St., ConnersviUe, Indiana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. H. F. Hanna, College Corner, Ohio, Treasurer.

Aurora...... Mrs. H. G. Wilkinson . 32 37.00 Brook ville...... Mrs. Harley Castle. . . 18 5 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Curtis Van Ausdall . . . 30 2 .50 Cambridge City Jr. C. E ...... Miss Ruth Donovan. . 20 .50 Clarksburg...... Mrs. James Halsey.. . . 12 19.55 College Corner, Ohio...... Mrs. Emma W itter. . . 40 60.63 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss M. Carmichael .. 11.50 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. II. F. Hanna . . . . 25 13.16 Connersville...... Mrs. Fannie II. Nevin 32 3 5.00 Mrs. Maude H. R o o ts...... 20.00 Dillsboro, Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Margaret Proctor 1.00 Ebenezer Ch., Y . P. S. C. E., Straughn’s Station, R. R. 1 Miss Elsie B ates.. . . 2.00 Greensburg...... Miss Clara Hamilton. 90 336.30 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Lottie Shreve. ■. 29 6 .25 Mrs. S. A. Bonner...... 10.00 Harmony Ch., Oxford, Ohio, R. R. 4 ...... Mrs. Lou B. Moore . . . 25 45.15 Mission Band...... Miss Laura M eyers... . 35 10.30 Kingston Ch., Greensburg, R . R. 11...... Mrs. W . K. Stew art.. . 19 78.06 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary Jackson. 3.50 Mrs. Orlando Hamilton. . . . 10.00 Knightstown...... Mrs. Alice Bierhaus. . 12 10 17 26.33 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Veva Forbes...... 6.00 Lawrenceburg...... Miss Mary P. Groff. . . 25 19.57 Lewisville Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie Cartwright 18 5 .00 Liberty...... Mrs. Jennie Hill.... 33.07 Winona League...... Miss Stella Leech . . 2.00 Mission BanJ...... 26 6.00 Mt. Carmel Ch.,Brookville,R.R.5 Mrs. Iza K . Craig. 12.75

43 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Iza K. Craig...... 1 1 $ 1.40 3 1 12 27 80 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 Providence Ch., Lawrenceburg, R . R . 1...... Mrs T. B. G ib son ... . 4 6 18 23.20 Mrs 5.00 Richmond First Church...... Mrs. O. B. Fulghum. . 5 60 166.5S 5 00 Second Ch., R. R. 3 ...... Mrs. P. H. Hummert.. 2 16 9 .1 8 Rising Sun. ■...... Mrs. E . M. Shaw. . . . 1 15 20.53 Rushville...... Mrs. J. T. Arbuckle. . . 25 22 61.00 7 43 92.45 15.00 10.00 Union Ch., Letts R. R. 4 ...... Mrs. M. G. M oor...... 1 7 13.98 108 39 738 $1271.24

Total for Synodical Society. 794 352 7045 13827.68 No. Women’s Societies, 20; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 10; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 6; Total, 38. No. Women’s Societies, 210; No. Young Women’s Societies, 20; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 98; No. Inter C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E., 9; No. Bands, 30; Total for Synod- ical Society, 368.

u IOWA SYNODICAL SOCIETY Mrs. J. C. McClintock, Sioux City, Honorary President. Mrs. Willis E. Parsons, Fairfield, President. Mrs. S. W . McFadden, Sioux City, Vice-President. Mrs. W. W . Hale, 847 Eighteenth St., Des Moines, Seeretary-Treasurer. Mrs. J. A. Miller, 542 College Ave., Davenport, Literature Secretary. Mrs. George G. Bruce, Mediapolis, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Carrie L. De Nise, 97 Colombia St., Burlington, Westminster Guild Sec' tary. Cedar Rapids Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. L. L. Smullin, 531 Sixth Ave., Clinton, Iowa, President. Mrs. WT. A. Quinn, Vinton, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. C. J. Deacon, 1025 First Ave., Cedar llapids, Iowa, Recording Sec­ retary. Mrs. C. A. Donaldson, First Ave., and 21st St., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Mrs. M. W. Moulton, Bellevue, Iowa, Lock Box 523, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. W. A. Quinn, Vinton, Iowa, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Atkins...... Mrs. AY. R. Mitchell . . 3 1 S15.40 Bellevue Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. M. W . Moulton. . 1 7.45 Blairstown . . . . Mrs. N. H. Y ocu m .. . . 22.15 Cedar Rapids First Ch...... Mrs. J. H. Johnson. . ¡ 1î> 85 440.00 W estminster Guild Miss Helen Hubbard 4 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Sadie Cowden 67.5 0 Central Park Ch...... Mrs. Arthur B. Farr. . 8 10 56 57.65 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Olive E. Boardwell... . 9 .0 0 Olivet Ch...... Mrs. J. J. Russett . . . . 4 3 38 21.48 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 Sinclair Memorial Ch...... E. B. Grother...... ’ 1 5.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Anna Repka èó 6.40 Westminster Ch ...... Mrs. W . M. Beck . . . 13 10 ' '72 90.00 Y ..P . S. C. E ...... Helen Lawrence... 15.00 Clarence. ' ...... 4 55.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Alice Frink ...... 10.00 Clinton, First Ch.. . . . 21 227.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Helen M. Billings. 4 .8 5 Garrison Mrs. M cGirr...... 1 25 24.25 Lime Grove Ch., R. R. 1, Mt. Vernon ...... Mrs. A. M Richardson 1 2 11 25.00 Lyons...... Mrs. M. L. Stumbaugh 1 15 14.45 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Lucy McAulay...... 5.00 Marion...... Mrs. Wm. E. Woods. . 9 22 75 125.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Bertha Smith...... 31.35 Mechanicsville. * ...... Mrs. Mary Thomas.... 1 1 20 22.00 Y. P. S. C. E...... Mrs. Adda Y u le ...... 10.00 M onticello...... Mrs. C. D. C h ase.. . . 11 18 S I. 80 Mt. Vernon...... Mrs. L. S. Hubbard.... 9 ' 49 50.40 Y. P. S. C. E ...... W. H. Kelly, Jr . . . 2.50 45 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W .W . Taken Contributing

?1 $ 1.50 Onslow...... Mrs. Florence Franks . 5 35 34.65 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 8 3 .0 0 Scotch Grove Sunbeam Band.. . 4 7 9 .75 Mrs. Nettie Dunlap. . . 1 3 10 19.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.50 Jr. C. E ...... 5.00 Mrs. J. Guy Haish.... 13 3 100 169.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. H. H. St. Clair.. 13.00 4 15 40.16 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6 .00 Total...... 141 127 671 $1761.09 No. Women's Societies, 21; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 17; No. Jr. C. E ., 1; No. Bands, 2; Total, 42.

Corning Presbyterial Society. Mrs. A. B. Turner, Corning, Iowa, President. Mrs. W. E. Crum, Bedford, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Silas Cooke, Red Oak, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Miss Myra La Rue, Corning, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Mrs. C. C. Ingmand, R ed Oak, Iow a, Y . P. Secretary. Mrs. W. E. Crum, Bedford, Iowa, Treasurer.

A fton...... Mrs. W alter J. Phillips 5 14 17.00 B edford...... Mrs. C. A. Orth...... 53 84.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. J. A. Dresher 11.00 Girls’ Band ...... Miss Beryl Rhoads... . 8 11.00 Clarinda...... Mrs. W . C. C ram er.. . 8 70 136.50 Corning...... Miss Myra La Rue. . .. 10 42 51.00 Westminster Guild .... Miss Lillie E. Maine 22 6.00 Creston...... Mrs. A. B. De Long. .. 1 19 17.00 D iagon al...... Mrs. N. M. Morrison 18 4 .0 0 Em erson...... Mrs. J. Sandiland...... 4 5 - 20 24.45 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss G. F. Goefparth 10.50 Emerson R. F. D. No. 2 ...... Miss Ella M. Gibson 11.25 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 Essex...... Mrs. R. A. Sanderson 10 19.30 H am burg...... Mrs. H . G. Butterfield. 7 17 30.00 Lenox ...... Miss M. E. McCuaig... 3 ' 2 23 6.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss M. E . McCuaig 2 .50 Malvern...... Mrs. Nellie Foster .... 8 S 30 55.00 Morning Star Ch., Bedford, R. 4 Mrs. J. W . Aiton 30 5 .00 M t. A yr...... 1 .00 N odaw ay...... Mrs. Effie Murphy. ... 3 3 18.50 Platte Center Ch., Kent .... Mrs. Geo. W . Johnson Ì9 10.00 Red Oak...... Mrs. M. N. Spencer.. . 9 40 88.85 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Ralph P rice...... 20.00 Sharpsburg...... Mrs. M. E. Jewell...... 7 6.00 Shenandoah...... Mrs. J. A. Masters.... 3 1 40 40.00 S idn ey...... Mrs. A. P. Wightman. 3 1 35 3 1.12 V illisca...... Mrs. John W ickersham 5 1 22 12.00

T otal...... 69 1 21 539 $741.87 No. Women’s Societies, 21; No. Young Womens’ Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 5; No. Bands, 1; Total 28. 46 Council Bluffs Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. J. J. Amen, Missouri Valley, Iowa .President. Mrs. C. H. Pryor, Guthrie Center, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. R. L. Lin sley,Missouri Valley, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Mrs. E. A. Morehouse, 320 Frank St., Council Bluffs, Iowa, Literature Secre" tary. Miss Mary Tate, Shelby, Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. C. H . Pryor, Guthrie Center, Iowa, Treasurer.

Name -of Society or Band Secretary ¡Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W .W . Taken Contributing i

99 $ 25.60 8 40 102.00 Y. P. S.C. E ...... 9 .0 0 Mrs. Dora H ylan d. . . . 9 12 23.90 18 8 53 125.00 Mrs. Arthur Pickering. 4 3 «3 19.00 4 18 9.90 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 8 .9 0 Griswold...... 10.00 1 17 16.00 12 34 31.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .00 in 19.50 3 2 30 36.25 14 19.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 16.27 15 10.25 10 21 85.10 1 . 0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 18 6 .5 0 S helby...... Mrs. F. J. Sallm an... . 9 10 22.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 Walnut. . . 5 .00 Mrs. F. O. Sm ith. . . . 4 10 37.50

T otal...... 68 13 382 $654.17 No. Women’s Societies, 17; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 6; Total, 24.

Des Moines Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Anna Ellis, Dallas Center, Iowa, President. Mrs. Fred P. Hartsook, Winterset, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Fred P. Hartsook, Winterset, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Louis R. Elliott, Knoxville, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Mrs. S. D. McFadden, 1320 Harrison Ave., Des Moines Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Fred P. Hartsook, Winterset, Iowa, Treasurer.

Adel...... Mrs. L. F. O rton...... 15 20 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Harold Fisher...... 1 .10 Albia...... Mrs. J. M. Grenage . . . 25 45 .00 Centerville...... Mrs. W . Sedgley...... 25 .00 Chariton...... Mrs. J. J. Smythe . . . . 14 8 .00

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Name of Society or ¿5 Band Secretary Money is Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed £ Contributing

2 4 18 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 6 .50 6 37 35.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Josephine Scott. . 26.00 Mrs. P. E. Van Hoesen. 32' 8 ÌÒ3 275.00 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 43.75 Mrs. C. M. W e r t s ...... 6 .0 0 First Ch. . 1 33 62 25 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 35.00 2 17 16.20 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Frances Riddle . . . . 15.00 Ì4 6 ’ 6(1 55.00 7 40 39.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6 .15 6 17 2 .00 D exter...... 6 9 19 41.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 18.75 7 2 16 11.00 Garden Grove Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 1 2 20 39.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 49.30 39 44.00 6 4 55 81.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 Jr. C. E ...... 10.00 Mrs. H arry V ogt...... 3 1 30 13.00 Le R oy Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3 .1 6 6 .5 0 Milo...... Mrs. Maud W right... . 3 11 10.00 1 15 7 .5 0 Mrs. H. G. Bergman .. 11 11 35 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24.95 3 17 10.00 3 .5 0 7 30 3 7.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 50 7 9 1? 32.00 q 9 15 25.00 25.00 5.50 Ridgedale Ch., Grimes, R. R. 1. . Mrs. J. A. Rittgers .. . 1 12 21.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 35.00 Mrs. H . W . E lliott___ 9 23 21.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 8.90 Jr. C. E ...... 2.00 Mrs. L. M. Beebe . . . . 3 q 16 15.50 .55 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.20 Winterset...... Miss W. W hedon ...... 7 3 76 100.35 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 7.50 ? 15.50 2.00

T o t a l_____ ' 169 90 829 S1551.96 1 No. Women’s Societies, 32; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ IB; No. Jr. C. E ., 2; N o. Bands, 2; Total, 56.

48 Dubuque Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Annie M. Thomas, Lansing, Iowa, President. Mrs. Alvin M. Hendee, Hopkinton, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Alvin M. Hendee, Hopkinton, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Mrs. L. D. Snyder, Manchester, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Miss Winifred Heald, Farley, Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Alvin M. Hendee, Hopkinton, Iowa, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary S. & S. & L. Taken Money Members O. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

1 7 19.26 12 15.06 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .2 5 Dubuque First German Ch., Y. P. S. C. E ...... 7 .0 0 Third Ch...... 14 8 .00 60 161.11 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 7 .5 0 5 3 .80 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10 2.00 ? 6 7 6.85 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 20 5 .0 0 37 32.30 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 6 9 .00 49.00 Miss Jennie M. Young 5 60 115.83 Y. P. S C. E ...... 34 25.00 19 9 .74 Mrs R. M Kimhn.ll . ? 23 39.89 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 21 3.70 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. E. E. H u ll...... 1.00 3 17 21.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 40 4.50 Littleton, First Ch., Y .P . S. C.E. 20 2.85 7 1 34 19.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 Jr. C. E ...... 1.45 25 18.25 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6.00 6.50 1 9 15.69 Volga, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 1.00 13 10.70 24 51.90 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 6.00 9 .5 0 1 21 40.34 U nity Ch...... 17 18.75 8 583 $760.72 271

No. W om en’s Societies, 19; No. Y . P. S. C. E., 14; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 1; Total, 36.

49 Fort Dodge Presbyterial Society. Mrs. L. B. Kinsey, Dana, Iowa, President. Mrs. Robert Paterson, 1422 Fifth Ave. S., Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Robert Paterson, 1422 Fifth Ave. S., Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Recording Secre­ tary. Mrs. E. M., Bell, Spirit Lake, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Edward Campbell, Estherville, Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Robert Paterson, 1422 Fifth Ave. S., Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Treasurer.

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Name of Society or H Band Secretary Taken £ Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed £ Contributing

17 $ 10 00 Mrs. A. P. Hargrave. . 2 14 15 00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 2 00 11 58 77 00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 12 00 3 00 5 23 25 00 1 7 3 30 Mrs. L. B. Kinsey. . . . 4 20 26 00 5.00 4 20 3.35 16 5.00 7 48 155 10 32 50 00 Y. P. S. C. E. . . 16.43 1 37 15 00 Glidden...... Mrs. L. M. Leffingwell8 40 45.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 23.75 1 16 30 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 Mrs. J. J. Ehrstein .. . 7 24 40 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 14.25 4 40 24 00 9 9 10 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6 .50 Lohrville, Y. P. S. C.E ...... 4.75 1 14 5.00 1.30 3 19 20.00 Mrs J J MeCulloch 3 10 00 Rockwell City...... 4 32.00 IS 22 00 _ Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 è ‘ '¿Ò 6.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 Mrs. R . B. Girton. . . . i 14 14.50

T otal...... 72 18 546 $753.23 No. Women’s Societies, 25; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 9; No. Bands, 2; Total, 37.

George Presbyterial Society.

German Ch., H astings...... 2.50 T o ta l...... $2.50 No. Women’s Societies, 1; Total, 1.

50 Iowa Presbyterial Society. Mrs. T. D. Foster, Ottumwa, Iowa, President. Mrs. A. W. Enoch, Ottumwa, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. T. L. James, 304 E. Burlington St., Fairfield, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Miss Catherine Rhodes, Ottumwa, Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. A. W. Enoch, Ottumwa, Iowa, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

12 $ 5 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7 1.45 9 15.00 Jr. C. E ...... 50 21 50 190.45 97 50.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 '' ‘ s 3 .3 0 10.00 Y. P .S . C. E ...... 10.00 Mrs. Hattie R. Greef.. 60 20 90 352.70 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 35 65.00 22 15.00 Ft. Madison...... Mrs. Geo. D. Stewart.. 5 30 122.00 Y . P. S C. E 37 10.00 Keokuk, First Westminster Ch.. Miss Eunice Tem plin.. 12 12 93 187.00 Y . P. S. C. E. 35 200.00 26 4.50 Mrs. Ella McQuade .. . 1 22 14.00 Mrs. W . B. McNeil___ 10 5.00 7 36 37.00 4 3 16 73.85 Y . P. S. C. E.. Miss Agnes McConnell 26 23.55 3 .35 10 9.75 Y . P. S. C. E 5.00 3 .0 0 3 5.00 6 5.25 10 9.90 9.00 7 30 21.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 8.00 17 30 124.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 9,7 5 .00 3 4 94 31.00 Y . P. S, C. E ...... 2.50 Mrs. E. M. Krotzer... Ì2 ió o 106.25 6 .25 7 5 95 61.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 36 22.00 W apello...... Mrs. W . J. Gerlach . . . 3 31 10.00 W infield...... 2 97 3 4.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 11.00 10.00

T otal...... 164 44 1001 »1923.05 No. Women’s Societies, 23; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 13; No. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 5; Total, 44. 51 Iowa City Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. W. H. Graff, 108 W. Sixth St., Muscatine, Iowa, President. Miss Emma Gallup, Box 512, Marengo, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Emma Gallup, Box 512, Marengo, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Miss Alice Yocum, R. R. 1, Davenport, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Miss Nellie Robertson, 614 W. 3d St., Muscatine, Iowa, Y: P. Secretary. Mrs. Carrie W. Carson, 411 Marengo Ave., Marengo, Iowa, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Mrs. Henry W atters .. 1 3 15 §11.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7 5 .00 20.00 30 18.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 ’ “ i s 17.50 Mrs. W. A. Kleinhen.. 10 35 96 50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 Y . P. M. S...... 25.00 Second Ch...... 27 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 20.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 90 50 4 00 Hills...... 6 3 00 Jr. C. E ...... 1.00 Iowa City First Ch., R. F. D. 4 .. Miss G. Ryerson ...... 10 11. 35 88.50 Westminster Guild...... 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.50 Scott Ch., R. F. D. 6 ...... ‘ 17 38.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 9.00 Unity Ch., R. F. D. 2 ...... ‘ ¿0 25.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3 00 Miss Jennie Holmes . . 7 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 9 28 4 1 75 5.50 4 7 30 14.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .50 Miss Emma Gallup .. . 1 16 24 75 36 47.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... i .. 5 00 Mrs. W . H. Graff . 3 54 90 50 30.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Myrel B. Nesper...... 15.00 N olo, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .30 16 6 90 Princeton Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7 .0 0 iè 12 50 Miss Elizabeth Mackey 23 16.50 Y . P. S. 0. E. . 5 00 T ip ton ...... 6 20 30.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Mrs. Frank Stewart . . ■ 7 ' '¿ 4 112.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 53.50 Jr: C. E ...... 10.50 15 8 .50 17 15.50 West Liberty...... Mrs. Flora T. Nichols . 8 1 23 54.00 52 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Blanche Shipman $15.50 1.30 30 24.50 Y . P. S. C. É ...... 10.00 Wilton Junction ...... Mrs. Thomas R aynor. ' 25 48.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 5.00 T o ta l...... 59 22 595 SI193.78 No. Women’s Societies, 28; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 20; No. Jr. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 2; Total, 54.

Sioux City Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. S. A. Ensign, Cleghorn, Iowa, President. Miss Mae Henderson, 416 W. Cherry St..Cherokee, Iowa, Corresponding Sec­ retary. Miss Mae Henderson, 416 W. Cherry St., Cherokee, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Mrs. G. H. Cummings, 1822 Boulevard, Sioux City, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Miss Ethel M. Eyres, 1214 Court St., Le Maw, Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Fannie McNeill, 610 Eleventh St., Sioux City, Iowa, Treasurer.

Alta...... Miss Lucy Hey wood .. 4 9 32.33 Ashton...... 50.00 Battle Creek...... Mrs. W . T. Smith...... 3 1 20 18.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Em ily Churchill 25.00 Charter Oak Y. P. S. C. E ...... 3.00 Cherokee...... Mrs. W. H. Jacobs. .. . 21 1 71 204.00 Westminster Guild...... Miss Ethel W hite . . . . 2.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Irene H eym er .. 25.00 Jr. C. E ...... 4 .00 Cleghorn...... Mrs. Henry S pecht... . 6 4 19 62.64 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ethel Mansinith 9 .0 0 Denison...... Mrs. Jas. Armstrong. . 5 7 34 31.55 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss F. W ear mouth 10.00 E arly...... Mrs. G. W. Needham.. 5 16 15. 8S Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Geo. Wetzstein 15.00 Elliott Creek Ch., B ronson...... Mrs. G. W . Elliott 16 9.79 H awarden...... Mrs. M. Gregg...... 4 18 16.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie Smith. . . . 11.00 H u l l ...... Mrs. George Sheldon 9.25 Y P S C E. . Miss Maude Hawkins 5.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Emma Sheldon 2 .50 Ida G rove...... ; ...... Mrs. G. W . McWilliams 2 13 38.50 Inw ood...... Mrs. Henry Hanson. .. 13 IS. 57 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Pearl Harris...... 5 .0 0 Ireton...... Mrs. John B row n...... 30 38.78 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Edith Brown... . 16.41 LeMars...... Mrs. M. L. Ravburn 18 28.00 Westminster Guild . -. ... Miss Minnie Weiland 18.00 Y. P. S. C. E . Miss’ Lois E v r e s ...... 40.00 Jr. C. E ...... MissWettie Snidow... 7 .5 0 Girls’ Band...... 3 .6 0 Union Township Ch., R .F .D . 1 Mr3. L. A. In glett. . . . 30 31.00

53 a JS Name of Society or £ Band Secretary

& Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed £ Contributing

4 21 9 29 .» i) 1 1 10 22 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 17 4 S5 7 19 00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 8 .0 0 Paullina...... Miss Isabella Cowan .. 5 12 28 47 77 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 43.50 8 12 29 76 00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 12 00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 10 00 5 16 34 16 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Sioux City First Ch...... Mrs. T. A. Treynor .. . 18 100 105.21 13.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20 00 Jr. and Inter. C. E ...... S. 00 500.00 5 45 59 53 Jr. C. E ...... 3 .3 0 Third C h...... Mrs. J. F. Helge...... 4 2 24 48.84 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 g 4 33 115.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 50.00 Jr. and Inter C. E ...... 5 .0 9 Mrs. Angelia Calkins. . 1 5 12.35 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 8 .0 0 14 6 64 124.61 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Grace Yerrington 15.00 Pilgrim Ch. R . F. D. 1...... 25 25.20 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6 .0 0 Vail...... Miss Margaret Short. . 4 4 7 7 .5 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .5 0 2 8 10.15 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0

T otal...... 1M 54 746 82308.87 No. Women’s Societies, 32; No. Young Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 25; No. Jr. and Inter C. E., 6; No. Bands, 1; Total, 67.

Waterloo Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Hugh McConnell, 306 N. Fourth St.. Marshalltown, Iowa, President. Miss Alice C. Morgan, 218 W. Second St., Waterloo, Iowa, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. G. E. Stebbins, La Porte City, Iowa, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Chas. Gates, Greene, Iowa, Literature Secretary. Miss Eloise P. Raymond, 402 South St., Waterloo, Iowa, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Alice C. Morgan, 218 W. Second St., Waterloo, Iowa, Treasurer.

Ackley First Ch...... Mrs. H. Trainer...... 9 35 25 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Esther Stock.... 4.00 Cedar Falls...... Mrs. W. H. Bender... . 7 2S 58.82 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss C. Schm idt...... 50 39.40 54 c 0)

Name of Society or £ Band Secretary Money P- Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing

2 14 3 8.25 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 7.40 13 Eden Ch., Nora Springs, R. F. D. 1 ...... 54.00 8 9 30 24.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... ■ 4 .45 12 96 79.70 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Maggie Gray. .. . 8 15 28.25 2 93 37.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 22 10.00 3 2 25 45.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie Mayer.. . . 1 18 20.00 Mrs. H. E. Redfield.. . 5 .00 7 18 14.32 in 95 101.85 Mrs. L. Bell...... 7 2 24 57.00 4 16 15.47 Y. P. S. C. È ...... 1.25 ’ - '2 " Ì8 18.80 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 14 13.90 Jr. C. E ...... 4.00 4 4 93 45.20 Y . P.'S. C. E ...... 16 4 .67 4 10 8.95 FT nit. v flh , RVif.llrnr.lr Mrs. C. C. Hickle . . . 9 13 12.75 Miss Ella R. W hite.... 27 125 161.00 10 14.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Margery Graham 1 25 40.00 16 38 45.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 4 30 11.82 Mrs. C. M. Trumbauer 1 12 20.70 2S.65 195 65 791 81087.25 Total for Synodical Society 1023 462 6613 12738.49

No. W om en’s Societies, 19; No. Young W om en’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C . E., 12; No. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 1; Total, 34. No. Women’s Societies, 238; No. Young Women’s Societies, 14; No. Y. P.S.C. E., 139; No. Jr. C. E., 15; No. Bands, 17; Total for Synodical Society, 423.

55 MICHIGAN SYNODICAL SOCIETY Mrs. Geo. C. Higbee, 315 North Front St., Marquette, President. Mrs. W. E. Bellows, 312 Fourth St., Jackson, Vice President. Mrs. W. W. Wetmore, 802 West Huron St., Ann Arbor, Corresponding Secret tary and Treasurer. Mrs. F. P. Obernauer, 1196 Brooklyn Ave., Detroit, Recording Secretary. Mrs. H .A. Musselman, 521 Washington St.,Traverse City, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Fred B. Kitch, 1092 Warren Ave., W. Detroit, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Anna Graves Adams, 407 Pasadena Apts., Detroit, Westminster Guild Secretary. Detroit Presbyterial Society. Mrs. W. S. Jerome, Northville, Michigan, President. Mrs. J. D. MacDonald, Highland Park, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Geo. A. McDonald, 294 Field Ave., Detroit, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Mrs. G. B. Erving, 185 East Ferry St., Detroit, Michigan, Literature Secretary. Miss Anna Fullerton, 77 King Ave., Detroit, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. W. Kennedy, 1084 West Warren Ave., Detroit, Michigan, Treasurer.

a tL V -3 *Ü£ Name of Society or Secretary £ Band t£ H © . . s. & £ Taken ^ a

0 g s £ o

Ann Arbor...... Mrs. George L. Moore 10S £205.92 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Wilder...... 21i 30.00 Birmingham...... Mrs. M. E. Hemingway 13 32.14 Brighton. Miss Electa Morgan 10 15.00 Clarkston. Springfield Ch.. . . 2.05 White Lake Ch...... Mrs. R . D. H u b b ard .. 13 20.00 D e a rb o rn ...... 2.00 Detroit, Bethany Ch...... Mrs. T. A. D ew ar...... 10 71 70.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... B. G. Carter...... 35 15.00 Cadillac Ave. Ch...... Mrs. A. Dauskin...... 4 15 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss M. A. Goetsch .. . 25 5 .0 0 B oys’ B and...... Lee B loom ...... 16 2.00 Calvary Ch...... Miss Ellen Martin .... 30 89.00 Westminster Guild...... Mrs. F. D. Prescott... 12 4 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Emma Zellers ... 20 10.00 Central Ch...... Mrs. James Law...... 14 , 26 60 145.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss D. Fraser...... 43 31.00 Covenant Ch...... Mrs. Andrew Coombe . T 15 35.00 Westminster Guild...... Miss Mamie D eV ries.. 10 20.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... C. E . B u ck ...... 30 6.00 First Ch...... Mrs. Thomas O’Leary. 40 I 8 110 821.60 Richardson M. S...... Miss Alice Kingsley.. . 20 125.00 Forest Ave. Ch...... Miss Etta M. Tinker.. 20 56 100.00 Westminster League...... Miss Helen Beach...... 93 50.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Fort St. Ch...... Mrs. Walter Scotten.. 38 95 890.00 Westminster League...... Mis3 Alice L adu e...... 10 36.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 38.50 Rhea Mission Band...... Miss Annie G. Adams 65 35.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Ada C ooper...... 10 30.00 56 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed , W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Mary Eastman Brownell Est 271.86 Fort W ayne Ch. Y. P. S. C. E. 2 .50 Jr. C. E ...... 21 5 .00 Mrs. E. L. Harrington. 8 45 145 00 15 13 00 Westminster League...... 30 37.0S 30 5 .00 Jefferson Ave. Ch...... Mrs. A. R. Hall. 94 13 70 590.00 Mrs. L. E. W alker___ n 4 50 61.00 Westminster Guild ...... 14 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 7.80 33 15.06 St. Andrews Ch...... 7 90 55.25 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 30 3.00 Soovel Memorial C h ...... 4 60 107.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 100 20.00 Inter C. E ...... 40 5 00 Jr. C. E ...... 5 35 5 .00 Second Ave. Ch...... Miss H . M. Cleland .. . 3 53 60.00 Y . P. S. C. E. 6 50 Y. P. Union...... 8? 11.00 Jr. C. E ...... 40 5.00 Mrs. It. M. Grindley .. 25 92 100.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 120 47.50 Westminster Ch...... Miss J. E. Kennedy . . 21 12 95 575.00 Y. P. Union ...... 4 .50 500.00 Mrs. F. E. Kelsey. . . . 11 3 25 21.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 50 3.60 - F,. Nankin f!h. 5.00 Highland Park. Ch...... Mrs. Walter Conely. .. 8 28 67 30.00 ?5 22.00 H olly...... 9 40 21.42 Mrs. L. N. Van Kleeck 4 1 52 71.13 M ilford...... 12 41 155.84 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20 10.00 Builders’ B and ...... 9 10 3 .25 Little Gleaners’ Band ...... Mrs. F. M. Ladd...... 2.00 Mt. Clemens...... 9 3 ?0 35.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 37 15.40 Northville...... 9 50 118.00 Mrs. Ada Murray . . . . 9 21 4 .4 8 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 25 3.00 Pontiac...... Mrs. F. W . Chaffee .. . 7 9 36 123.05 Young Women’s Society... . 51 61.65 3? 19.54 29 3 .00 Saline Y . P. S. C. E ...... 32 7.50 1 1 9H 20.00 23 10.00 27 16.50 51 18.77 22 85 369.50 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 50 19.50 54.35

T o ta l...... l427 131 3202 $6805.75 No. Women’s Societies, 38; No. Young Women’s Societies, 7; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 21; No. Inter C. E ,. 1; No. Jr. C. E „ 4; No. Bands, 12; Total, 83. Flint Presbyterial Society.

Miss Catherine Berrell, Lapeer, Michigan, President Emeritus. Miss Mary E. Johnson, 117 Oregon St., Lapeer, Michigan, President. Miss M. Jean Ross, 1328 Sixth St., Port Huron, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Pearl Leyman, Bad Axe, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Miss Lillian Dale, R. R., Marlette, Michigan, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Arthur W. Church, Caro, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. D. Hotchkiss. 510 Garland St.. Flint, Michigan, Treasurer.

d i£ & ►4 .5 H 1 1 Name of Society or Secretary rSl: Band .fe S & . s. & Taken ►¿J O JS

C a r o ...... Mrs. F. F. Kelley. $25.00 Oass C ity ...... 5 .0 0 Fairgrove Y. P. S. C. E. . . . Miss Flossie McCloy.. 15.00 F enton...... Mrs. J. H. Phipps___ 20.00 F lint...... Mrs. A. C. Switzer. . . 97.50 Westminster League. . . Mrs. Octave Antonio 15.00 Flushing...... Miss Susie Pack. .... 7 .0 0 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1.50 Harbor Beach ...... 5.00 Lapeer...... Mrs. George Dent.. . . 80.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Elizabeth R ood. 9 .0 0 Marlette First Ch...... Mrs. W . M. Hanley. . 19.00 Second Ch...... Miss Lillian Dale. . .. 34.00 Port Huron First Ch...... Miss Lillian Dale. . . . 11.50 Westminster Ch...... Miss M. Jean R oss... 21.25

T otal...... $366,25 No. W om en’s Societies, 11; No. Y. P S. C. E., 3; No. Bands, 1; Total, 15. Grand Rapids Presbyterial Society. Miss J. A. Risedorph, 11 Eleventh St., Grand Rapids, Michigan, President. Mrs. A. C. Terrell, 465 South College Ave. Graud Rapids, Michigan, Corres ponding Secretary. Mrs. A. C. Terrell,465 South College Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Mrs. C. L. Streng, Montague, Michigan, Literature Secretary. Miss Anna Potter Webster, Ionia, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Cecilia Armstrong, 453 South Lafayette St., Grand Rapids, Michigan, Treasurer. B ig R apids...... Mrs. John W. D. Brien 24 11 .00 E vart...... Mrs. R o x b u r g ...... 12 15..00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 10. 00 Grand Haven...... Mrs. A. W . Thompson 20 22,.50 Grand Rapids First Ch . Mrs. G. A. Richards .. 66 101 .00 L. K . Society...... Mrs. Claude Hurd. .. . 17 8 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10..00 Immanuel Ch ...... Mrs. Julia Segrist. 22 9. 01 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 5.,00 Third C h...... Mrs. M. W a r d .. . . 17 17,.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 WestminsterJCh...... Mrs. H. G. Bedford.. . 64 148,.00 Westminster ¡Guild ...... Miss Margaret McKee. 10 10. 00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 26. 80 H esperia...... Mrs. Henry B ecker. . . 10 15. 50 58 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

Ionia...... Mrs. Gilbert S. Y ates.. 4 3 25 23.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 11.00 Ludington...... Mrs. Geo. T. Haskell.. 4 3 16 25.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .5 0 Mrs. L. W . Mills...... 4 9 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 Spring Lake...... Mrs. Henry Durali ... 1 1 13 3 .50

T ota l...... 70 78 325 *496.81 No. Women’s Societies, 12; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 8; No. Bands, 1; Total, 22.

Kalamazoo Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. F. M. Travis, Plainwell, Michigan, President. Mrs. Eliza Trump Reed, 833 Main St., Three Rivers, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. A. B. Wilder, Allegan, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Mrs. May Place, 306 Broadway, Three Rivers, Michigan, Literature Secretary Miss Lilian Harwood, Plainwell, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Emilia Barnes. Richland, Michigan, Treasurer.

Allegan...... Mrs. C. Mainwaring. . . 1 20 19.40 Benton Harbor. Mrs. H E. Clark...... " 3 15 59.94 Buchanan...... Mrs. Grace B u tts...... 1 3 8 11.50 Burr Oak...... Mrs. Rose Stephens.. . 2 10 10.00 Cassopolis...... Mrs J. R . Carr. . . 6 6 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 11.00 Decatur...... Miss Nellie E. Roberts 3 20 9 .3 7 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 23.10 Edwardsburg...... Mrs. Geo. H avnes...... 10 7.75 Kalamazoo First Ch...... Mrs. Julia E. Morse.. . 9 4 28 135.00 W estminster G uild...... 20.00 North Ch...... Mrs. A. Dunning...... - 10 10.00 Martin...... Mrs. Nellie Russell.. . . 4 8 3.2 0 Niles...... Mrs. Sadie W Powell 24 28.50 Paw Paw. Mrs. Harriet E. Gorton 23 31 00 Plainwell...... Mrs. F. A. H arw ood.. 3 2 18 14.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 R ichland...... Miss Mary Bradley .. . 2 è ' " 30 44.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Schoolcraft...... Mrs. J. F. Johnson. .. . ‘ 2 " i ’ ‘ " 9 17.92 Sturgis...... Mrs. R. F. Tracy...... 1 12 10.32 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 Three Rivers...... Mrs. Helen Sanderson. 4 4 38 55.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 16.00 Jr. C E 5 .0 0 Interest .40 T otal...... 41 23 289 8567.92 No. Women’s Societies, 17; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S.C. E ., 6; No. Jr. C. E., 1; Total, 25.

59 Lake Superior Presbyterial Society. Mrs. W. H. Selden, Stambaugh, Michigan, President. Mrs. L. T. Sterling. Iron Mountain, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. C. A. Cram, 404 S. Elmore St., Escanaba, Michigan, Recording Secretary, Mrs. A. E. Robbins, Iron Mountain, Michigan, Literature Secretary. Mrs. D. N. McDonald, Calumet, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. S. C. Armstrong, 219 East Arch St., Marquette, Michigan, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

? 50 $90.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 30 10.00 1 3 37 4 6.52 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 G ladstone...... Mrs. George C. F le t t.. fi 7 17.00 H oughton...... ?t 1? 8 .2 5 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 ‘ ' 4 ’ 25 40.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20 8 .0 0 14 27 15.00 Mrs. H enry H arw ood.. 1 17 51.60 48 80.00 Mrs. S. C. Arm strong. . 8 37 133.50 Young Women's Society. . . 16 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ruth Brotherton 35 16.00 Inter C. E ...... 2 .5 0 Menominee...... Mrs. Wm. Simpson ... 3 ?8 66.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... Mr. W. R. Dunn...... 50 5.0 0 Sunshine Band...... ?3 1.00 Munising...... Mrs. H . F. Shier...... 13 9 .0 0 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 13 2 .0 0 24 1.00 Mrs. Thos. Brown .... 1 17 16.55 4 .0 0 Mrs. J. C. Manning .. . 2 2 30 75.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Olive C om b...... 75 2 .0 0 T otal...... 30 21 634 $724.92 No. Women’s Societies. 12: No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 8; No. Inter C. E., 1; No. Bands, 3; Total, 26.

Lansing Presbyterial Society. Mrs. H. E. Winsor, 225 High St., Marshall, Michigan, President. Mrs. Charles F. Keeler, Concord, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. J. T. Cook, Homer, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Mrs. G. M. "Webb, Mason, Michigan, Literature Secretary. Mrs. C. F. Streeter, 310 Fourth St., Jackson, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary Mrs. C. M. Colville, Grand Ledge, Michigan, Treasurer.

A lbion ...... Mrs. C. Knickerbocker. 32 89.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Roy R. Hoag...... 50 2 .3 5 Inter C. E ...... 5 .0 0 Battle Creek...... Mrs. Julia E. Swift . 6 ... 45 91.00 Y. P . S. C. E ...... Miss Roberts ...... 61 2 9.0 0 B rooklyn...... Miss J. DeLamatter 9 62.00 Concord...... Mrs. L. F. Keeler... 45 31.00 Dim ondale...... Mrs. M. M cClintock. I 7 .00 60 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

I V 00 3 11 16.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss G. Hampton...... 2 20 3 .8 0 H om er...... Miss Emma Cook .... 4 i ' 28 39.00 Mrs. H. S. Kelley. .. 75 80.40 2.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1 Miss Leora L e slie ...... 36 34.30 Lansing First Ch...... j Mrs. D. E. MacPherson 5 . 32 8 7.75 37.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... I Miss Clara Bailey 25 11.00 Mrs. L ongyear...... \ ...... 6 .0 0 Franklin Ave. Ch...... ! Mrs. N. E. Hildreth. .. 3 25 28.50 Y. P. S. G. E ...... j Miss Belle McNish 2 33 20.80 Marshall...... ! Mrs. C. R . Bentley. 25 70.00 Haskell Bible Class. . . :. . .! Mrs. F. W. Smith...... 4 25 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... j Miss Josephine Dibble. 98 10.00 5.0 0 Mason...... Mrs. A. G. L y o n ...... 1 35 52.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... ; Miss Margaret Kerns .. 3 65 5 .0 0 23 11.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... i Mrs. C. C. M oxley . . . . 10 5 .0 0 Oneida Ch., Grand Ledge R.F.D. j Mrs. J. B. Strange 10 8.2 0 4 10 5.5 0 19 10.00

Total...... 44 7 847 SSS5.60

No. Women’s Societies, 18; No. Young Women’s Societies. 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 9; No. Inter C. E., 1; Total, 30.

Monroe Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. S. W . Glasgow, Jonesville, Michigan, President. Mrs. H. E. Mitchell, Holloway, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. W. C. Burns, Monroe, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Miss Anna Ferris, Monroe, Michigan, Literature Secretary. » Miss Edna Walker, Adrian, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Miss E. C. Sinclair, Box 56, Jonesville, Michigan, Treasurer.

A drian ...... Mrs. Austin Wilcox. . . 9 50 75 200.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Harriet Dersham ...... 18.00 Mission B a n d ...... 15.00 Blissfield...... Mrs. Olive Palmer. .. . 2 1 75 10.00 4 17 70.00 Harrington Y. W ...... Miss Augusta Hawley. 1 48 35.00 9 15.00 CaliforniaCh.,MontgomeryR.F.D. Mrs. S. A. W ilson...... 6 3 .0 0 Clayton Y . P . S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 .Deerfield Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss L. Kirchgessuer.. ' 3 .3 2 6.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. C. J. Fraught . , . 7 .0 0 Hillsdale...... Mrs. Kate Schafer.... 6 2 40 6 3.00 Mrs. Elmira W ilson E state. 100.00

61 Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

Mrs. Geo. Holloway . . 2 15 815.50 5 18 10.00 Ida Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 Jonesville...... Mrs. E. DeReamer... . 2 . . . . 43 35.00 Mrs. Lynott Bloodgood 3 78 90.00 22 5 .0 0 4 .5 0 Miss Mary Dresser. . . . 10 5 58 46.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 35 67 504 8764.32

No. Women’s Societies, 12; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No! Y. P. S. C. E.. 6; No. Band«, 3; Total, 22.

Petoskey Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. H. F. Manning, Petoskey, R. F. D. 2, Michigan, President. Mrs. E. G. Carey. Harbor Springs, Michigan, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Powers, Boyne City, Michigan, Recording Secretary. Miss Mima Shearrer, Traverse City, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Wm. L. Curtis, 115 Division St., Petoskey, Michigan, Treasurer.

Miss Carrie Peterson . . 1 6 4 .0 0 Mrs. W. L. Martin . . . 4 • 2 20 28.00 On Hill no 27 38.00 25.00 3.75 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .00 Mrs. E. G. D u n h a m ... 5 2 20 45.00 5.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... • y ‘ 9 35 54.00 Y . P. S. C. É ...... „ 14.00 67.00 y p s. c e 8 .0 0 Miss Martha Warrie.. . 8 22 32.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4.75 10.00 Greenwood. Ch., R. F. D. 2 .. Mrs. Sam Pletzer...... 1 12 15 10.00 Mrs. W. P. Crotyer . ... 9 5 26 42.00

Total...... 36 30 171 8392.50 No. Women’s Societies, 9; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S C. E ., 4; No. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 2: Total, 17.

G2 Saginaw Presbyterial Society. Mrs. G. A. Baker, 1015 Adams St., Saginaw, W. S., Michigan, President. Mrs. C. H. Green, 417 N. Michigan Ave., Saginaw, W. S., Michigan, Correspond­ ing Secretary. Mrs. D. W. Briggs, 904 N. Michigan Ave., Saginaw, W. S., Michigan, Recording Secretary. Mrs. G. A. Allen, 200 S. Raymond Ave., Bay City, Michigan, Literature Secretary. Miss Gertrude Gates, Centre St., Bay City, Michigan, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs.yWilliam Peck, 4th St., Bay City, Michigan, Treasurer.

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Name o f Society or £ Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed Contributing

A lm a...... Mrs. R. H. W ilcox... . 5 2 38 S175.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Letta Soper...... 43 4.85 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Wrinfred Trapp 22 1.94 Bay City, First Ch...... Mrs. F. T. Woodworth. 11 126 78.26 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 19.40 Memorial Ch ...... Mrs. F. R e e d ...... 2 15 4 .85 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 Westminster Ch...... Mrs. W . A. W rig h t... . 22 23 67 100.00 Grayling Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. A. B. Failing. . . . 21 3 .3 0 Ithaca ...... Mrs. F. P. G lid d en ... . 7 6 34 25.00 Midland ...... Mrs. S. J. A bbev...... 18 21.58 Y P S C E Miss Verna G. Rice 35 7 .3 6 Mt. Pleasant...... Mrs. C. T. Grawn...... 10 7 .1 6 E. Saginaw Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.70 Saginaw, E. S., Warren Ave. Ch. Mrs. H. M. Wenger. . . ’ 4 ' '49 53.05 Washington Ave. Ch...... Miss Gussie Miller...... 3 ' 3 ' 10 11.64 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20 3 .3 0 W . S., First C h...... Mrs. D. \V. Briggs. . . . 23' 18' 65 460.00 Westminster Guild Mrs. Clarence Brand 11 30.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ollip Tracy .. 22 50.00 Jr. C. E ...... Miss L. Olive Porter 55 2.00 K ing’s M essengers.. 10.00 Golden Rule Band...... Ruth Robinson...... 29 60.00 Dresser Band ...... 2 .26 Grace Ch. Jr. C. E ...... 97 Dresser Band ...... Edith Krenz...... ' is 6.79 Immanuel Ch...... Mrs. W. D. Perrin. . .. 1 8 4 .8 5 St. L ouis...... Mrs. Norman Johnson 1 12 10.00 Presbyterial Society...... 17.00 T otal...... 79 70 710 $1173.26 Total for Synodical Society 762 427 66S2 12177.33

No. Women’s Societies, 12; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 8; No. Jr. C. E., 3; No. Bands, 4; Total, 28. No. Women's Societies, 141; No. Young Women’s Societies, 16; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 73; No. Inter C. E., 3; No. Jr. C. E., 9; No. Bands, 26; Total for Synodical Society, 268.

G3 MINNESOTA SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. M. D. Edwards, 423 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, President. Miss Ida Y. Mann, North High School, Minneapolis, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. J. T. Henderson, 1990 Iglehart St., St. Paul, Recording Secretary. Mrs. H. S. Weir, 243S Stevens Ave., Minneapolis, Literature Secretary. Mrs. H. F. Ware, 561 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Eva McCord, 1778 Irvine Ave., S., Minneapolis, Westminster Guild Secretary. Mrs. S. L. Howell, 475 Carroll St., St. Paul, Treasurer.

Adams Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Grant Stroh, Warren, Minnesota, President. Mrs. \Y. S. "Ward, 506 N. Broadway, Crookston, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Eva Powell, Warren, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. John Hannah, Davidson, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. W. R. Haney, Warren, Minnesota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. A. Bryson, Davidson, Minnesota, Treasurer

Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

Bethel Ch., Davidson...... Mrs. J. A. B ryson . . . . 16 22 $24.75 B e m id ji...... 13.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... 7 .5 0 Blackduck...... Mrs. J. M Freehercr 12 4 .00 C rookston...... Miss Eliz. Haireard.. . . 2 22 3 5.77 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 12.67 E u clid...... Mr.« George Nelson... 2 6 5 .0 0 H allock...... Mrs.D. A. Robertson. 4 8 20.55 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 N orthcote Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 O rleans...... Mrs. J. D. Irving...... •15 8 .0 0 Red Lake Falls Y. P. S. C.E. . . . 9.25 Stephen Y . P. S. C. E ...... 18.20 W arren...... Mrs. W . F. Pow ell. . . . 7 23 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 11.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 T ota l...... !. .. 31 108 S218.69

No. Women’s Societies, 8; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 7; No. Jr. C. E., 2; Total, 17. Duluth Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. W. J. McCabe, 2240 Woodland Ave., Duluth, Minnesota, President. Mrs. J. C. Faries, 2108 Woodland Ave., Duluth, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Geo. M. Smith, 2131 Woodland Ave., Duluth, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. James Hanks, 808 E. Third St., Duluth, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. W. L. Jackson, 1940 Minnesota Ave., Duluth, Minnesota, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

*6 Bruno Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. John Stafford.... $ 2 50 Cloquet...... Mrs. Alden Batson... . 5 18 6 .0 0 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie Reynolds 25 29.37 Duluth First Ch...... Mrs. W. H. Burns. . .. 16 1 82 317.58 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Sadie McLean 98 29 90 Forward Guild...... Mrs. F. H. Rogers 50 138.00 Second Ch...... Mrs Chas Pierce 1 26 22.48 Glen Avon Ch...... Mrs. H C Helm 15 i 36 149.58 Mission Circle...... Miss Lula Dalmer.. . . 24 49.00 Mission Band ...... Miss Grace Grant. 54 6 .80 Susan M. Stryker...... 25 00 New Duluth Ch., Lakeside. .. . 32.19 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 21.62 Westminster Ch...... 2.00 E ly Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Edith Ellefsen 18 15 50 Grand Rapids...... Mrs. W . J. Yost 32 8 .00 Jr. C. E ...... 7.00 H ibbing Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 McNair Memorial Ch., Carlton.. . Mrs. A. M. Brower.. . . ’ Ì5 9.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ethelwyn Waugh. 20 12.00 Mora...... Mrs. W . S Titus 1 9 8135 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Rev. Fulton...... 15 4 00 Junior Band ...... Miss Grace Fulton 15 1.25 Sandstone...... Mrs. Wm. Addington.. 1 8 16.50 Tower Y . P . S. C. E ...... Miss Hattie Martin... . 11 12 00 Two Harbors...... Mrs* Mabel Switzer .. 12 30 26 42.30 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Eleanor Osborn 38 5 .0 0 Work Study Class...... Miss G. Rothfers 1.25 What-So-Ever...... Miss Leila Budd ... . 8 27 00 Virginia Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mr. H erbert K in g...... 18 29.00

T otal...... 50 33 646 $1040.67 No. Women’s Societies, 11; No. Y. P. S. C., 11; No. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 6; Total, 29.

65 Mankato Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. A. H. Carver, Luverne, Minnesota, President. Miss Julia M. Chaney, Worthington, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. W. W. Davis, 116 State St., Mankato, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. J. A. Armstrong, Winnebago, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. C. D. Snow, 218 S. Broad St., Mankato, Minnesota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. B. S. Dodds, Luverne, Minnesota, Treasurer.

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Mrs. J. S. Crowley. . . . 2 3 S 6 .2 5 Girls’ Club...... 2 .3 0 Am boy Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.25 B alaton...... Mrs. Nelette Ganser.. . " l " 12 3 4.0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 97 3 .0 0 Mrs. L. N. N ichols___ 8 9H 67.05 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 13 24.00 4 4 9 9 25 Delhi...... Mrs. H. S. W e ld e r .. . . 3 13 3 4.00 Jackson...... Mrs. J. W . Cow ing----- 1 6 13.64 Mrs. Fred Randolph. . 1 7 10.00 Mrs. S. L. N eff...... o 9. 2 .2 5 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 3 17 3 9.2 8 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 33 4 .91 Mrs. Ella B. White ... 2 13 37 63 Jr. C. E ...... Roy Cummings...... 35 1.00 12 1.40 Mrs. W. W. Davis. . . . 6 40 107.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 97 8 .0 0 Mrs. M ary T h om son .. 6 20 3 5.00 12 12.45 5 3 19 42.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 39 3 .0 0 36 15.00 20 50.60 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Mrs! E . S. W hipkey.!! 2 5 "ÌÒ 21.35 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3 .7 5 1 5 10.40 Mrs. W . Hale...... 2 5 2 .1 5 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Rhoda Peterson.. 39 3 3.00 Jr. C. E ...... Marion Tyler...... 2 .00 Mrs. W. R. Edwards. . 8 36 110.35 Jr. C. E ...... 53 10.00 Mrs. G. A. Holsinger. . 3 8 17.00 g 4 9 4 2.0 0 4 1 9(\ 6 8.12 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3° 5 .8 4 Presbyterial Fund ...... 10.00

Total...... 72 22 734 $949.22 No. Women’s Societies, 23; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 11; No. Jr. C. E., 3; No. Bands, 3; Total, 40.

<>r. Minneapolis Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. E. S. Williams, 1222 Mary Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota, President. Mrs. L. L. Longbrake, 1909 Queen Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cor­ responding Secretary. Mrs. Bradley Phillips, 2431 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. E. M. Van Cleve, 520 Fourth St. S. E., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. C. M. Williams, 3301 First Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Y. P. Secre­ tary. Miss Emma E. Grimes, 3348 First Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minnesota, Treasurer.

c a> o Najne of Society or s 5 Secretary E-h Band is E Taken Monej 0. S. &

o Con tribù

B uffalo...... Mrs. C. L. Larson . . . . 3 27 *30.01 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Loretta Taylor 37 3 .00 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. George Leek .... 70 5 .00 Crystal Bay, R. F. D. No. 1 ...... 33 3 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5.00 Eden Prairie, R. R. No. 1 .. . . 10.00 Howard Lake...... Mrs. W. J. Rausch; .. . 5 32 39.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Alice Lentz . . . . 42 10.00 Maple Plain...... 5 .2 5 Minneapolis, Andrew Ch...... Mrs. D. H. Tow le...... 12 7 32 139.04 Westminster Guild...... Miss M. A. Van Cleve 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Soldiers of the Cross...... Miss Katherine Yerxa '30 1.96 Vanguards Miss Grace Barnes 45 8 .4 2 Busy Bees...... 4 .43 Bethany Ch...... Mrs. E. W allace...... 6 15 3 6.10 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Louise W aring 25 19.50 Sunshine Society...... 1.15 P r im a r y B an d . 1.00 Bethlehem Ch. . Mrs J. S Craig ...... 25 18 125 312.10 Westminster Guild...... 2 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mae Kilbourne 75 70.00 E lim C h ...... 1.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Alma Huttner. 40 6.00 First Ch...... Mrs. E. Torrance...... 22 13 52 258.00 Westminster Guild...... Miss Grace Mathewson 26 111.00 Phi Lambda Class...... Miss Grace Badger.... 50.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mr. R . B . Stephens 80 3 0.00 Merry Gleaners...... 51.00 Willing Workers...... 3 0.00 Fifth Ch...... Mrs. M. E. Thom pson. 3 12 4 0.45 Grace Ch...... Miss Margaret Dixon.. 7 ' 2 30 41.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mildred Gumble 25 10.00 Little Mission Band...... Mrs. Stewart Gumble 10.00 Highland Park Ch...... Mrs. C. A. Donaldson . 12 8 25 70.93 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Amy Cross...... 45 16.50 Sunshine Band...... 8 .7 3 Hope Chapel...... 5 90.00 Y . P .S . C. E ...... 35.00 Inter C. E ...... 7 .5 0 House of Faith Ch...... 4 8 16.30

G7 Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W .W . Taken Contributing

Oliver Ch...... 10 6 25 $61.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 68 10 00 Inter C. E ...... 57 5 00 Jr. C. E ...... 135 4 00 Rosedale Ch...... fi 7.00 9 r> 23 26 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24 2.50 6 2 1 34 120.40 38 15 75 Y . P. S. C. E ...... •>5 15.00 Katherine McCurdy Circle. . 11 5 00 Little Helpers...... 94 .82 Vanderburg Memorial Ch. . . . Mrs. U. C. Anderson. . 2 17 14.30 105 140 1161 00 Westminster Guild, Alpha Chapter...... Mrs. Marc C. Laeger. . 23 108 642.00 18 16 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4? 90.00 53 47 50 Jr. C. E ...... 25 20.00 Daughters of the King ...... 10 25.00 18 25 00 12 6 00 20.00 7.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 9 13.10 R ockford Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1 ?8 5 .0 0 Mrs. S..C. Snodgrass .. 1 15 11.00

T otal...... 255 80 1896 $3991 84 No. Women’s Societies, 23; No. Young Women’s Societies, 9; No. Y. P. S. C- E ., 17; No. Inter C. E ., 3; No. Jr. C. E ., 3; No. Bands, 12; Total, 67.

Red River Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Compton, Minneapolis, Minnesota, President. Mrs. W. C. Roberts, R. F. D., No. 10, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Hamilton Bell, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. F. S. Sharpless, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. James F. McGowan, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. S. L. Putnam, R. No. 3, Battle Lake, Minnesota, Treasurer.

Brainerd...... Mrs. J. S. Robertson. . 3 17 5 .0 0 Fergus Falls...... Mrs. H amilton Bell 6 12 60.00 Maine...... 6 .5 0 Western, Campbell R. F. D. 10.. Mrs. F. M. Lyck ...... 16 7.00 Presbyterial Offering...... 24.00

T otal...... 9 45 $102.50 No. Women’s Societies, 4; Total, 4.

68 St. Cloud Presbyterial Society. Mrs. T. M. Findley, Spicer, Minnesota, President. Mrs. A. I. Shaver, Maynard, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. A. I. Shaver, Maynard, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. F. J. Bingham, 424 Maud St., Willmar, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. D. H. Duckering, R. F. D., No. 4, Litchfield, Minnesota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Agnes Beidler, 824 Fourth Ave. S., St. Cloud, Minnesota, Treasurer.

Name of Society or a; Secretary Band 02,d O

A tw a te r ...... $6.00 Browns Valley V. P. S. C. E . . 5.00 Inter C. E ...... Mrs. C. C. A. Barns. 25 7.50 Forada...... 1.00 Foley Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 Greenleaf, Litchfield, R. 4. . , Mrs. D. H . Duckering 4 .2 5 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss J. Duckering...... 5 .50 Litchfield...... Mrs. M. E. Baum ...... 62.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary Stewart . . , 15.00 Busy B ees...... 12.50 Maynard...... Mrs. A. I. Shaver 25.00 M u rd ock ...... 10.00 Spicer...... 1.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 St. Cloud...... Mrs. H. C. E rvin .. . . 44.26 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Esther R obins. 5.0 0 Busy Bees...... 16.50 W illmar...... Mrs. G. E. Thomas. 4 3.0 0 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Am y H anscom . 15.00 Willing Workers...... Marl R od gers...... 11.00 B oys’ B rigade...... 10.00 Busy Bees...... 5.00 Mildred Ormundson...... 25.00 Mrs. T en n ey...... 5 .0 0 Mrs. Findley...... 5 .0 0 Mrs. K e tch a m ...... 2.00

T otal...... 21 20 247 $346.01 No. W om en’s Societies, 9; No. Y . P. S. C. E., No. Jr. C. E ., 1; No. Bands, 5; Total, 22.

St. Paul Presbyterial Society. Mrs. J. C. Robinson, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, President. Mrs. E. C. Stringer, 471 Ashland Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. T. H. Dickson, 121 Cambridge Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. M. E. Shirey, 588 Case St., St. Paul, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. A. S. Bliss, 1684 Van Buren St., St. Paul, Minnesota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. E. S. Robbins, 40 Irvine Park, St. Paul, Minnesota, Treasurer.

Farm ington...... Miss Stella Judson. . 2 12 4 .5 0 Hastings...... Mrs. M. L. Chapin. .. . 14 2 4 .0 0 Westminster Guild...... 1.00 Young People...... 8.00 Red W in g...... Miss Anna Lew is...... 5 34 67.47 Westminster Guild...... 5.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Carl Melander...... 40 9 .25 69 a « T3 •Se Name of Society or £ Band Secretary M •si Monei

£ Taken O. O. s. &

è o Contribu

Rush C ity...... Mrs. W m . Pearce. 10 7 .80 St. Croix Falls, Wis...... 11.65 Y . P S. C. E ...... Miss Edna Olson ...... 25.00 St. Paul, Arlington Hills...... Mrs. Emil T heu m m el. 17.22 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Minnie Larson. . . 11.00 Young People...... 7 .0 0 Bethlehem Ch...... Mrs. Mary Lehman .. 12.00 Central Ch...... Mrs. J. L. Blain. 20 141.80 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jessie Bradford. 60.00 Busy Bees...... Miss H. J. Smith. . . . 12.00 Mrs. G ou ld ...... :.. 25.00 Miss Braden...... 25.00 Dayton Ave. Ch...... I Miss N M. Riheldaffer. 43 76 70 479.88 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Grace Gilbert. 56 100.00 Busy Bees Miss Grace W aufle. 225 75.00 Carroll St. Mission Y. P ...... 1.00 East Ch...... 7 .6 5 First Ch...... Miss Gaver...... 26 85.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 67.70 Goodrich Ave. Ch...... Mrs. F.E.Sehoonmeyer 18.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss E. Walla...... 4 .0 0 Young People...... 6.00 House of Hope Ch...... Mrs. J. I. H . F ie ld ... . 90 534.61 Young People...... 15.00 K n ox C h ...... Mrs. Kingsland. 25.05 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Chas. Elmer. . . 7 .16 Jr. Young People...... 15.00 Busy B ees...... 8 .3 6 Macalester Ch...... Mrs. C. M. Reed. 51.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mabel Reed. 12.60 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .5 0 Busy B ees...... Mrs. R . G. Bross . 6 .91 Merriam Park Ch...... Mrs. Chase...... 15 94.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 20.00 Wayside Gleaners...... Martha Freeman... 3 .3 3 B usy B ees...... Mrs. C. Ferguson. . 8.00 Ninth Ch...... Mrs. R . J. R och .. 10.74 Westminster Ch...... Mrs. R . M. Lawton 3 1.66 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Lawton...... 10.00 Young People...... 10.00 St. Paul Park...... Mrs. M. Kendall. . 18.00 South St. Paul...... Miss Helen Smith. 13.15 Stillwater...... 75.06 Albright Band...... 47.00 White Bear Lake...... Mrs. George Schnable. 19 3 5.05 Y . P. S. C. E ...... J. Lester Thompson.. . 5 .0 0 Young People...... 5 .0 0 Busy B ees...... 5 .0 0 Presbyterial Offering...... 10.00 T otal...... 109 161 1357 $2398.10

No. Women’s Societies, 22; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C E ., 12; No. Jr. C. E ., 1; No. Bands, 16; Total, 53.

70 Winona Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. W. Williams, Winona, Minnesota, President. Mrs. Evert Smits, Le Roy, Minnesota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. C. B. Augur, Albert Lea, Minnesota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. George Hormel, Austin, Minnesota, Literature Secretary. Miss Jane Todd, Austin, Minnesota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. A. MacRae, Rochester, Minnesota, Treasurer.

1 Name of Society or u Band Secretary

Taken S ì Members

0. S. & 0. S. & L. o

Contributing O * * W.W. i Taken

10 80 $98.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 20 10.00 15.00 Mrs. W. H. Walker. . . 10 29.50 5 913 28.00 Chatfield...... Mrs. E. F. Hamish. . . 4 40 81.06 Mrs. Mary Duncan. . . ? 10 10.00 2 .00 12.60 5 ?,a 19.00 19! 5 .00 11 65.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 3? 5.00 15 60 5 .00 Mrs. J. N. Childs...... 10 12.80 Mrs. M. M. Haber . . . . 1 25 41.00 D O. W ...... 1.00 1 22 17.25 10.50 7.77 13 44.00 22.00

T otal...... 49 15 4 ?? $541.98 656 331 5455 S9589.01

No. Women’s Societies, 16; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 2; No. Bands, 3; Total, 21. No. Women’s Societies, 116; No. Young Women’s Societies, 11; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 66; No. Inter C. E., 3; No. Jr. C. E., 10; No. Bands, 44; Total for Synodieal Society, 250.

71 MONTANA SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. A. B. Jlartin, Dillon, President. Mrs. G. E. Blackburn, Ousley Block, Butte, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. E. L. Bishop, 1021 Third Ave. N., Great Falls, Literature Secretary. Mrs. \Y. H. Trippet, 607 Maple St., Anaconda, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Sherman Phillips, Bozeman, Treasurer.

Butte Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. C. S. Passmore, 717 W. Granite St., Butte, Montana, President. Mrs. James A. Jordon, 615 Maple St., Anaconda, Montana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs, James A. Jordan, 615 Maple St., Anaconda, Montana, Recording Secre­ tary. Mrs. W. H. Trippet, 607 Maple St., Anaconda, Montana, Literature Secretary. Miss Maye Carman, 107 S. Crystal St., Butte, Montana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. Wilson Moore, P. O. Box 492, Missoula, Montana, Treasurer.

c 0) Name of Society or & Band Stecretary Money Ta Ta ken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. . Contributed Contributing

Anaconda...... Mrs. T. J. McKenzie. . 3 14 $23.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6 22.50 Jr. C. E ...... 10.00 B utte...... Mrs. H. H. Townshend 4 50 106.15 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 12.50 Jr. C. E ...... 15.00 Deer Lodge...... 3 .0 0 Dillon...... Miss Jean Bishop...... 11 7 .20 Missoula...... Mrs. N at S. L ittle .. . . 2 35 41.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 Phillipshurg...... 10 12.75 South Butte ...... 16 4 0.0 0

Total...... 15 136 $299.00

No. Women’s Societies, 7; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 3; No. Jr. C. E., 2; Total, 12 Great Falls Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Robert Lytle, Lytle, Montana, President. Miss Caroline Walchli, Box 176, Kalispell, Montana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. E. L. Bishop, 1021 Third Ave. North, Great Falls, Montana, Literature Secretary. Miss Gertrude Maxwell, Lewistown, Montana, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Gara Gilchrist, 1001 Third Ave. N., Great Falls, Montana, Treasurer.

£ O Contributed

Great Falls...... Mrs. 0. F. Sm ith...... 6 20 $28.58 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 29.25 50.00 30 5 .0 0 5 .0 0

T otal...... 6 50 $118.10

No.. W om en’s Societies, 2; No. Y . P. S. C. E ., 1; Total, 3.

Helena Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. E. Y. More, 520 Grand Ave. N., Bozeman, Montana, President. Mrs. Lilia M. Ellis, 930 N. Rodney St., Helena, Montana, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Lilia M. Ellis, 930 N. Rodney St., Helena, Montana, Recording Secretary. Mrs. William N. Sloan, 611 Spruce St., Helena, Montana, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Arie LeSelle, Manhattan, Montana, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Sherman G. Phillips, Bozeman, Montana, Treasurer.

3 .0 0 3 .4 0 B ozem an...... Mrs. Wm. Cobleigh. . . 11 2 54 94.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 3 0.39 21 2 29 2 7.90 Westminster Guild...... Mrs. P . G. Schroeder, 14 6 .00 5 .00 Mrs. W m . W o lff...... 19 33.00 T otal...... 32 4 116 $202.69 Total for Synodical Society. 53 4 302 $619.79

No. Women’s Societies, 6; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E ., 1; Total, S. No. Women’s Societies, 14; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 4; No. Jr. C. E., 3; Total for SynodicaT Society, 22. NEBRASKA SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. M. L. Stone, Grand Island, President. Mrs. A. T. Sidwell, Omaha, ) TT T , f v »oe Presidents. Mrs. H. G. McClusky, Laurel, » Mrs. J. R. Ratcliffe, Central City, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Mrs. W. V. A. Dodds, Beatrice, Recording Secretary. Mrs. John A. Elliott, Beatrice, Literature Secretary. Mrs. P. M. Conklin, 4114 Cuming St.,„Omaha, Y. P. Secretary. Miss E. W. Irwin, 1200 H. St., Lincoln, Missionary Correspondent.

Box Butte Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Alice R. Daily, Valentine, Nebraska, President. Mrs. Mary Quigley, Valentine, Nebraska, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Cecil Phillips, Minatare, Nebraska, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Edgar Clark, Gordon, Nebraska, Literature Secretary. Mrs. K. S. Whitlock, Mitchell, Nebraska, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. M. H. Cole, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, Treasurer.

Name of Society or & L. Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. O. S. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Alliance...... Mrs. E. L. Martin.. . . 4 1 35 $15.00 B elm ont...... 2 .0 0 F a irv ie w ...... 2.0 0 G ordon...... Mrs. C. T. M argrave... 3 15 4 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nellie Margrave 54 4 .0 0 M itchell...... Mrs. James Clark...... 3 1 10 4 .0 0 Rushville...... Mrs. Lizzie Hotye...... 5 2 13 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Hazel Zoll...... 39 7 ,00 Scotts Bluff...... Mrs. D. H . Cole...... 8 19 13.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Dr. H. P. Sheldon. 9 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Amber Jordon 40 1.00 Union Star...... 1.00 Valentine...... Mrs. Jennie Bivens.... 5 3 23 13.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Mary Quigley. ... 48 3 .0 0 Willow Creek Ch., Crawford...... 1 1 1.50 Presbyterial Society, W. S ...... 50 Y . P. S. C E ...... 12.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2.0 0

Total...... 29 8 296 $104.00 No. Women’s Societies, 11; No. Y. P.S. C. E„ 5; No. Jr. C. E., 2; Total, 18.

74 Hastings Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. C. W . Fye, Superior, Nebraska, President. Mrs. W. F. Buck, Superior, Nebraska, Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. M. M. Roelse, 830 N. Lexington Ave., Hastings, Nebraska, Recording Secretary. Mrs. L. W. Hague, Minden, Nebraska, Literature Secretary. Miss Celia Cleland, W. Fourth St., Hastings, Nebraska, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. H. L. McGrew. Bloomington, Nebraska. Treasurer

Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W .W . Taken

8 1<< $15.10 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 7 .0 0 ?, 12 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25 22.00 Jr. C .E ...... Mrs. B a ll...... 2.0 0 1 1 8 4 .0 0 Culbertson Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 1 .50 Jr. C. E . 1.00 4 ?.1 13.00 13 70.00 1 fi 24 3 8.5 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... ?8 6 .0 0 1 15 8 .0 0 Lebanon Y . P . S. C. E ...... 3fi 2 .0 0 6 16 21.40 Y . P. S. C. E. ?n 2 ,00 Mrs. Frank Nelson. . . . 7 fi 55 53.00 Y . P S. C E.. 34 15.00 Ong Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10 4 .0 0 4 14 9 .4 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 48 4 7.0 0 2 .0 0

T otal...... 47 13 520 $380.90 No. W om en’s Societies, 15; No. Y . P. S. C. E .. 6; No. Jr. C. E ., 2; Total, 23

Kearney Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Jane Barre, Fullerton, Nebraska, President. Mrs. W. H. Cooper, Fullerton, Nebraska, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. W. H. Cooper, Fullerton, Nebraska, Recording Secretary. Mrs. G. W. Musgrove, St. Edward, Nebraska, Literature Secretary. Miss Jessie Martin, Central City, Nebraska, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Metta Porter, Central City, Nebraska, Treasurer.

Broken B o w ...... Mrs. Geo. B. M air.. . . 2 15 2 8.0 0 Central Citv...... Mrs. A. Fouts . ; ...... 10 39 117.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Sadie Martin...' ...... 15 8 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 Mission Band . ... Bessie Reynolds...... 2 30 14.00 F ullerton...... Mrs. Grace E. Jarvis. . 2 2 27 6 8.00 Y P S. C. E ...... Rilla Brown ...... 32 18.00 Jr. C. E ...... Grace Jarvis...... 10.00 75 M -o •Je Name of Society or « e g Secretary i ! Band m s s O § s o o u

G andy...... $2.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Elsie Jewell. 11 3 .0 0 Genoa ...... 10.00 G ib b on ...... Mrs. I. A. Daggett.... 25.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. J. G. Walker...... 14.00 Grand Island ...... -...... Mrs. J. J. G. Graham.,. 46.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Sylvania Harrison.. 8.00 K earn ey...... 67.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Helen Hartzell...... 1.00 L exin gton ...... Mrs. C. A . Bassett. . . 24.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Tena M. Gunn...... 12.00 Litchfield Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. G. A. Engleman 2.00 Loup C ity ...... 1.50 North Platte...... Mrs. B . Buchanan...... 6 2.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Leta Atkinson ...... 18.00 Jr. C. E ...... Mary Strahom ...... 4 .0 0 O rd...... Mrs. O. P. Cromwell. . 15.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Winnie Parks...... 2.00 St. Edwards...... Mrs. G. W. Musgrove . 3 1.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Alice Edmondson 13.00 St. P au l...... Mrs. J. A. Haggart... . 10.00 Shelton...... 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Cora W h ite...... 12 2.00 Sutherland Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. M. H u n te r ...... 2.00 Wilson Memorial...... Mrs. E va Johnson...... 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Alice Armstrong...... 4 .0 0 W ood R iv er...... Mrs. Avis Tomlinson.. 43.00 W ood ville...... Mrs. W alter E llis...... 5 .00 U n k n ow n ...... 4 .0 0 T o ta l...... 59 16 618 «7 1 6.50 No. W om en’s Societies, 19; No. Y . P. S. C. E ., 13; No. Jr. C. E., 3; N o. Bands 1; Total, 36. Nebraska City Presbyterial Society. Miss Elizabeth W. Irwin, 1200 H. St., Lincoln, Nebraska, President. Mrs. W. E. Bell, 823 Platte Ave., York, Nebraska, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. W. E. Bell, 823 Platte Ave., York, Nebraska, Recording Secretary. Mrs. J. C. Herron, Tamora, Nebraska, Literature Secretary. Miss May Whyman, Adams, Nebraska. Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. W. I. Doole, Adams, Nebraska, Treasurer.

Adam s...... Miss Anna Gray...... 9 11 10 3 4.34 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss May Whyman .. . 1 24 10.05 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. W . I. D o o le ...... i i ' 21 3 .0 0 Alexandria...... Mrs. Bert Newell...... 4 14 10.00 Auburn ...... Mrs. H . F. Shafer...... 5 2 43 2 8.26 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Lulu C. Gillan.... 3 53 8 .0 0 Inter C. E...... Miss Helen Svsart.... 14 1 .25 Jr. C. E ...... Miss Eulalia Gillan.... 1 23 2 .50 B eatrice...... Miss M. Carrie Elliott.. 23 44 75 162.08 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Julia Fuller...... 1 1 25 4 0.00 W estminster Circi© . , 22.80 Blue Springs...... Mrs. H. A. Knight.... 2 9 8 .0 0 Y. P. S.C. E ...... Miss Anna Gillette 12 4 .0 0 D prTiIpf Mrs. Henry Sittler... . 10 5 .8 0 D iller...... Miss Emma Line...... 2 3 22 28.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Effie Diller...... 7 .6 0 76 Name of Society or & L. Band Secretary Money Taken Mpmbers 0. S. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

D u n bar...... 30 22.96 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Dollie Sm ith...... 44 4.00 Mrs. W . W . B ott. . 12 18.16 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Anna Fehlman.. . 29 9 .00 4 . 3 9 12.36 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 1 * 25 8 00 Jr. C. E ...... i 1 30 .50 25 8 .1 5 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Goldie Burcham i 34 2.00 Jr. C. E ...... , 5 00 Gresham...... Mrs. Brown Myers. . . . 3 19 12.80 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4.00 Jr. C. E ...... 3 00 4 50 65.60 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss K. Marsh...... 9 30 13 00 Jr. C. E ...... Grace Collins...... ! 2 40 4 00 45.00 Hubbell Y . P. S. C. E ...... i 5 .0 0 ‘ 9 ’ ¿7 24.50 L ib erty ...... 5 24 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4 .00 Mrs. H. C. Lindsay. . . Ì8 i i ó 200.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Janette Long. . . . 17 65 Mrs. W. B. Williams. . 3 78 76.00 6 4 21 24.18 W estminster G uild...... 2 00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6 60 Miss Mary R. Harding. 5 1 29 19.92 Miss N. Coles Jones. . . 9 8 14 20.80 499.00 1 2 30 68.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 18.00 Jr. C. E ...... Mrs. L. W. Harrington 3 75 4 I 10 12.40 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Clara Wohlfarth . 25 .80 Mrs. S. W . Dunbaugh. 1 6 2 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 6.00 Staplehurst...... i 3 70 Mrs. Georgia Catchpole 10 11.00 1 14 6 .0 0 22 15.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 24 8 50 9 4 9 5.08 Y. P. S. C .'E ...... 90 Jr. C. E ...... * i 4* 4 1 95 Tecum seh...... Mrs. R . McMillen...... 2 28 53.32 1 14 3 .60 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss E. L. Robertson. . 24 4 .0 0 6 .4 6 Y ork...... Mrs. H arry W . Price. . 6 19 2 7.2 4

T ota l...... 132 122 1385 $1776.20

No. Women’s Societies, 33; No. Young Women's Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E .’ 21; N o. Inter C. E .. 1; No. Jr. C. E ., 8 ; No. Bands, 1; Total, 65.

77 Niobrara Presbyterial Society. Mrs. J. W. Nunn, Winnebago, Nebraska, President. Mrs. D. M. Day, Winnebago, Nebraska, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. H. G. McClusky, Laurel, Nebraska, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Forrest B. Smith, Emerson, Nebraska, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Amanda Ready, Hartington, Nebraska, Treasurer.

iJ •ag Name of Society or .J* .g * * 1 Band Secretary o E o

Atkinson...... Mrs. Samuel Becker 3 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. W. B.Arganbright 3 .0 0 Coleridge...... 13.20 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Blanche Linkhart 14.16 Em erson...... Mrs. W.Y.McLaughlin 20.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ida D avis...... 3 .8 4 H artington...... Mrs. Francis Nelson.. . 26.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss M ary Jones...... 26.00 Laurel...... Mrs. Lizzie Oxby_,.... 2 6.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... Miss Joy Grovenor .. 5 .0 0 Lyn ch Y . P . S. C. E ...... 2.20 M adison...... Mrs. H . McClenaghan. 16.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 8.00 Niobrara Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.20 O ’N e ill...... 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ada Hullhoist.. . 3 .2 0 Pender ...... Mrs. Robert Racely... 2 1.16 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Clara Smith 12.00 Ponca...... 22.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary M cKinley., 10.00 R a n d o lp h ...... Mrs. Herman De Bow 20.06 Y . P. S. C. E ...... S. O . Reese, Jr . 10.00 St. Jam es...... 50 Stuart...... Mrs. H . Shank...... 9 .0 0 W akefield...... Mrs. R. H. Mathewson 3 7.0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Ella Shellington . 3 .0 0 W a y n e ...... Mrs. Ella J. W ilb u r... 44.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.40 W innebago...... 5.1 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. Susie Thacker. 8.00

Total 18 202 $393.02

No. Women’s Societies, 15; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 15; Total, 30. Omaha Presbyterial Society. Mrs. W. R. Burns, 2507 Cass St., Omaha, Nebraska, President. Mrs. J. M. Patton, 3514 Charles St., Omaha, Nebraska, Corresponding Sec­

u re. G. P. Carley, 13th and Harrison Sts., Omaha, Nebraska, Recording Secre­ tary. Mrs. C. E. Dickason, 3522 Maple St., Omaha, Nebraska, Literature Secretary. Mrs. R. T. Bell, 3615 N. Twenty-fourth St., Omaha, Nebraska, Y. P. Sec­ retary. Mrs. E. P. Hood, 1750 Georgia Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, Treasurer.

Bancroft 5 .4 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Anna Hansen.... 25 8.0 0 B ellevue...... Mrs. H . H . Harnesh .. 10 1 20 74.00 B enson...... Mrs. M. D. Crossett 10 1.60 Blackbird Hills...... Mrs. G. A. B erth...... 32 7 .0 0 78 Name of Society or Secretary Taken Band Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W . W. Contributing

Mrs. Chas. R oss...... 7 $ 5 .00 25.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... *> 30 4 .0 0 Mrs. Lizzie Taylor.... ?, ?3 22.50 Y P . S C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Mrs. D . H . Struthers.. 4 15 26.00 Mrs. George S ie r t__ _ 6 2 35 20.67 Mrs. J . B. Thomas.... 4 1 18 29.59 Y . P . S. € . E...... Carl M iller...... 9X) 10.00 18 28.00 Monroe Y . P . S . C. E ...... 7.83 i 8 30 2 9 . 0 0 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 34 1 4 .0 0 1? 21.72 Y . P . S C. E ...... 9<=t 4 . 0 0 niif+.nn Trills f!h ...... 9 1? 16.82 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 19 8 .0 0 16 23.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 10.00 First Ch...... 23 7 r a 360.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... fiO 40.00 25.00 24.80 Royal Blue Band...... 10.00 11 9 30 64.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Blanche Westgate 30 20.00 North C h ...... Mrs. B ryce Crawford. . 24 64 90.00 10.25 20 20 3.5 0 12.70 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 4 . 0 0 Third C h...... 9 4 12 10.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 6 .0 0 Mrs. E . U. G r a ff...... 29 87 137.64 Young Women’s Society... 95 12.80 17 19 7 .00 14 1 4 .0 0 Y. P . S. C. E ...... 3 .0 0 40 37.60 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 2 1.00 ' '4 ' 14 11.60 Ifi 10 75 6 4.40 Bohemian Ch.. Y. P . S. C. E . . 1.00 ’ "9 " i i 3 5.20 Y . P . S. C. E ...... ?0 14.00 Mrs. J. H . Ingram. ... 3 i>5 4 .8 0 4 5 24 2 5 .4 8 Y. P . S. C. E ...... 3 .00

149 84 1003 $1477.90

419 261 40 2 4 $4848.52

No. Women’s Societies, 30; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. G. E, 18; No. Bands, 3; Total, 53. No. Women’s Societies, 123; No. Young Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 78; No. Inter C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E., 15; No. Bands, 5; Total for Synodical Society, 225.

79 NORTH DAKOTA SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. R. P. Sherman, 405 Eighth Ave., S., Fargo, President. Mrs. A. J. Goodall, Bathgate, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. E. P. Lawrence, Casselton, Recording Secretary. Miss Anna D. Burr, Bottineau, Literature Secretary. Miss Lucy A. C. Gordon, Langdon, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Cornelia M. Lyon, 517 Thirteenth St., S., Fargo, Westminster Guild Sec­ retary. Mrs. R. H. Myers, Milton, Treasurer.

feismarck Presbyterial Society. Mrs. J. D. McLennan, Stewartsdale, North Dakota, President. Mrs. M.E. Hulls, Second St., Bismarck, North Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Struble, Third St., Bismarck, North Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. E. S. Brearley, 219 Third St., Bismarck, North Dakota, Treasurer.

tx ■j= 2 Name of Society or Band Secretary • c j Money Taken

0. S. & 0. S. & L. g s Contributed W. W. Taken o 1

Bismarrk , . Mrs C. \V Harris $18.58 New S a lem ...... ! ...... 2.00 Stewartsdale...... Mrs J. D. McLennan.. 6.G7

T o ta l...... I ...... I $27.25 No. Women’s Societies, 3; Total, 3.

Fargo Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. E. P. Lawrence, Casselton, North Dakota, President. " Mrs. Nelson Sauvain, Casselton, North Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Miss Abbie Porter, Sharlow, North Dakota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. S. Dunlop, 1345 Third Ave. S., Fargo, North Dakota, Treasurer.’

Casselton...... Mrs. John Bullard... . 33 34.04 Colgate Y. P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Courtenay...... Mrs. E. J. E rsin...... 20.00 Westminster Guild...... 10.00 F argo...... Mrs. Hasselquist...... 7 37 38.65 Westminster Guild ...... Mrs. W m . Sudro...... 27 35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 16.50 B an d ...... 13.00 Grandin Y. P. S. C. E ...... „ 5.0 0 Jam estow n...... Miss Helen J. Allen.. . ' 3Ì 125.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Tow er C ity...... 1.65 W im bledon ...... 34.41 T o ta l...... 1 8 128 $362.25 No. Women’s Societies, 6; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E ., 4; No. Bands. 1; Total, 13.

30 Minnewaukon Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. J. P. Schell, Rolla, North Dakota, President. Mrs. Marion, Bisbee, North Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. A. D. Campbell, Starkweather, North Dakota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Miles Moore, Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Wm. Buck,' Starkweather, North Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. C. F. Plummer, Minnewaukon, North Dakota, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

B isbee...... Mrs. G. Tru m an ...... 17 $15.00 Devil’s Lake,...... Mr3. J. H alliday...... -4 31 20.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Mae 15. Connolly...... 13.00 Jr. C. E ...... 19.00 Leeds...... 5.52 R o lla ...... 10.00 R olette...... 10.00 Starkweather...... Miss Kate Clerke...... 1 15.00

T otal...... 4 49 $107.52 No. W om en’s Societies, 6; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E., 1; Total, 8.

Minot Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. E. P. Lawrence, 123 W. Third St., Minot, North Dakota, President. Mrs. Fred McGulpin, Main Street, Minot, North Dakota, Corresponding Secre­ tary. Mrs. J. C. Wilson, Epping, North Dakota, Literature Secretary. Miss Annie Robb, Minot, North Dakota, Treasurer.

E pping...... Mrs. J. C. W ilson...... 2 .0 0 M inot...... Mrs. Fred McGulpin 10 5 .0 0 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 20.00 Spring Brook...... Mrs. J. C. W ilson...... 1.00 Presbyterial Society ...... 8 .0 0 T o ta l...... 10 S36.00 No. Women’s Societies, 3; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 1; Total, 4.

81 Mouse River Presbyterial Society.

Mr. John R. MacLean, Towner, North Dakota, President. Miss Annie D. Burr, Bottineau, North Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. J. McN. Stevens, Towner, North Dakota, Recording Secretary. Miss Annie D. Burr, Bott'neau, North Dakota, Literature Secretary. Miss Maron McLean, Bantry, North Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. David Clark, Bottineau, North Dakota, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members Members | 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. Taken

Bottineau...... Mrs. W. H. McIntosh. 6 R 22 $35.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 I ___ ! ____ 4 .0 0 Miss Mary M cIntosh. . 3 : 2.00 1.50 1.00 4 .4 0 1 1 8 10.00 3 .0 0 3 .0 0 4 .7 5 Willow City...... 3.0 0

T otal...... 10 7 30 $81.65

No. W om en’s Societies, 11; No. Y . P. S. C. E ., 1; Total, 12.

Oakes Presbyterial Society. Mrs. R. S. Adams, Lisbon, North Dakota, Acting Président. Mrs. A. F. Norton, L’sbon, North Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Du Vail, Edgeley, North Dakota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. H. S. Oliver, Lisbon, North Dakota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. E. K. Riek, Lisbon, North Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. H. E. Sox, Edgeley, North Dakota, Treasurer.

Crete...... Mrs. J. V. Ha rman n ,. . 4 4 4 .30 E dgeley...... \ Mrs. F. Cunningham. . 2 ' ‘ 38 27.00 Ellendale Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. J. B ak er...... 6.00 Enderlin...... 2 .25 La Moure ...... Mrs. H . L. Junod...... 2 *43 33.75 L isbon...... Mrs. C. E. B o y d e n ... . 3 4 16 22.00 * Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Mary Williamson 6 .0 0 M onango...... Mrs. M cPherson...... 11 12 13.15 Oakes...... Mrs. I. B. W ard ...... 4 19 2 2.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Bessie Bong...... 1.00 Pleasant Valley...... 1.08 Presbyterial Society...... 10.00

T otal...... 24 1 10 128 $149.03 No. W om en’s Societies, 8; N o. Y . P. S. C. E., 3; Total, 11.

82 Pembina Presbyterial Society. • Mrs. A. J. Goodall, Bathgate, North Dakota, President. Mrs. A. R. Harvey, Pembina, North Dakota., Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. A. Wilson, Tyner, North Dakota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. J. Foster, Bathgate, North Dakota, Literature Secretary. Miss Lucy A. C. Gordon, Langdon, North Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. A. R. Harvey, Pembina, North Dakota, Treasurer *

Name of Society or Secretary Band Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. Taken Contributing

16.00 Mrs. Elsie Goodall.... R 1 1 2.0 0 21.00 5 5 .0 0 Mrs. C. A. A p p leton ... 3 15 14.00 1 15 15.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 11 23.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 8 .00 in 19.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15 15.00 Gilby, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 Grafton Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 4 254.50 in 7.00 5 ?i 16.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15 12.50 H yde P a r k ...... 15.00 1 5.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 32 30.00 3 ?n 120.00 Jr. C. E ...... 1? 15.00 1 ?3 50.00 17 20.00 in 16.00 Mrs. Godfray Anderson 3 14 31.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15 10.00 Pem bina...... 3 13 17.00 20 14.00 5 15 29.50 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 8 4 .00 WnlViM.lln.,Y. P. S. f!. IT, r , 2 .00 32 6 312 $860.00

61 31 657 $1623.70

No. W om en’s Societies, 16; No. Y . P. S. C. E., 11; No. Jr. C. E „ 2; No. B ands. 4; Total, 33. No. Women’s Societies, 53; No. Young Women’s Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 21;; No. Jr. C. E., 3; No. Bands, 5; Total for Synodical Society, 84.

83 SOUTH DAKOTA SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. J. S. Oliver, Los Angeles, California, President Emeritus. Miss Anna E. McCauley, Bridgewater, President. Mrs. H. P. Carson, Huron, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Mrs. W. L. Notestein, Huron, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Thomas Luckey, Huron, Literature Secretary. Miss Mabel Horswell, Watertown, Y. P. Secretary.

Aberdeen Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. A. M. Work, 207 Fourth St., Watertown, South Dakota, President. Mrs. F. N. Lee, Britton, South Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. L. H. Neff, Groton, South Dakota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. J. G. Wilson, Pierpont, South Dakota, Literature Secretary. Miss Kate L. Curtiss, Castlewood, South Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. F. N. Lee, Britton, South Dakota, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Taken Money Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

Aberdeen...... Mrs. A. W. Campbell . 9 1 45 $190.00 Y P S. C. E Miss Bertha Shenkel 16 14.50 Jr C E 9 .00 B em is...... Miss Jennie Prange .. . 1 1 23.00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... Ruth E. Blogg...... 2 .30 B ritto n ...... Mrs. W . M. J ah n ig ... . 15 7 33 82.50 Y . P S C. E . . . Miss Ida Buchert .... 20.00 Jr C E Mrs. D M B u tt...... 9 .0 0 Castlewood...... Mrs. Mary A. Curtis... 2 1 17 24.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nellie Locke...... 26 3 .0 0 G roton ...... Mrs. M. E. Brow n. . . . 6 6 * 29 100.00 Y P S C E Miss Elizabeth Jones 8 37 10.00 Mina, Y . P. S. C. E ...... W. A. Poole...... 27 1.00 Mt. Carmel, Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Bessie Behrens 2 .0 0 P ierpont...... Mrs. Jessie Wilson.... 4 2 19 23 .'00 P? Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. J. G. W ilson...... 1 5 55 2.00 Sisseton...... 4 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2 .0 0 W ilm otY . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Marie Cable .... 1.00 Watertown...... Mrs. Agnes Skells...... 6 16 10.00

T otal...... 44 31 34511 *532.30 No. W om en’s Societies, 8; No. Y . P. S. C. E., 10; No. Jr. C. E., 2; Total, 20.

84 Black Hills Presbyterial Society. Mrs. J. S. Surbeck. 115 S. W all St., Lead, South Dakota, President. Mrs. E. F. Irwin, 316 Summit St., Lead, South Dakota, Corresponding Sec­ retary. Mrs. H. Davidson, Rapid City, South Dakota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. A. H. Spayde, Rapid City, South Dakota, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing

20 $14.00 10 5 .00 Rapid City...... Mrs. H. Davidson .... 3 20 30 33.00

T otal...... 3 20 60 $52.00 No. Women’s Societies, 3; Total, 3.

Central Dakota Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. C. H. French, Huron, South Dakota, President. Mrs. P. J. Hegeman, Brookings, South Dakota, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. George F. Tuttle, Madison, South Dakota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. W. II. Smith, Huron, South Dakota, Literature Secretary. Miss Myra Fishback, Brookings, South Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. L. C. Dewing, Brookings, South Dakota, Treasurer.

50 2.00 Blunt, Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 15 58 78.68 Y . P. S. c. E ...... 56 31.00 13 18 5.00 . Y . P. S. c. E...... 30 10.36 1 3 17 2.00 Y . P. S. c. E ...... Mrs. E. Choplin...... 2 17 1.50 Mrs. Geo. LongstafF . . 35’ 20 49 153.40 Y. P. S. c. E ...... 58 18.35 Jr. C. E 32 3 .00 Mrs. F. G. Ball. . . . 5 42 59.20 Y . P. S. c E ...... 59 3.65 Jr. C. E 2.00 2 2 20 7.00 Y . P. S. c. E ...... 33 4 .10 Mrs. Robert Henry .. . 1 4 1.00 4 1 16 12.00 Y . P. S. c. E...... 25 1.40 .Tr. C. E .50 6 2.00 Y . P. S. c. E ...... ?,n 1.10 Miss Rena Shultz .... 2 7 23 7.00 W oonsocket Mrs. Chas. N. W hite. . 1 1 29 25.25 Total. ' 79 40 608 $432.99 No. Women’s Societies, 13; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 9; No. Jr. C. E., 3; Total, 25.

85 Dakota Presbyterial Society.

c tc T3 is À

Name of Society or Eh- Band Secretary £ S Monej t¿ Taker O. O. S. &

ü tribuCon

Good W ill, Y . P. S. C. E. $11.00 Pine R id g e ...... 1.00 Total. $12.00 No. W om en’ s Societies, 1; No. Y . P. S. C. E., 1; Total, 2.

Southern Dakota Presbyterial Society. Mrs. D. T. Kulm, Alexandria, South Dakota, President. Mrs. J. H. Dickson, Scotland, South Dakota, Corresp^ding Secretary. Mrs. T. A. Toland, Canistota, South Dakota, Recording Secretary. Mrs. George Smith, Bridgewater, South Dakota, Literature Secretary. Mrs. C. E. Rose, Canistota, South Dakota, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. H. Dickson, Scotland, South Dakota, Treasurer.

Alexandria...... Miss Anna Ryburn... . 5 2 19 $5.00 B ridge water...... Mrs. George Smith.... 6 16 17 64.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... Miss Grace Savage. .. . 15 19.00 Prairie Gleaners...... Miss Jeanie S. Shanard 16 28 24.00 Canistota...... Mrs. W . S. S cott...... • '4 ' 28 39.00 Y. P. S..C. E ...... Miss Pearl Moore...... 15 3.0 0 Mission Band.. Miss Mable Toland.... 35 5.0 0 Dell Rapids...... Mrs. C. A. Butler...... 16 2 .0 0 Eagle Y . P. S. C. E ...... 2.00 Golden R o d ...... 1.94 H urley...... Mrs. J. W. Pingrey... . 4 8 12 20.00 Kimball Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Joy Rose...... 20 5 .0 0 L akeA ndeas...... Miss Kate Becker...... 3 .00 M itchell...... Miss Rilla Rierson. . . . 1 8 .0 0 Parker...... Mrs. Fannie Cotton 11 10 28 67.40 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Bernice Clark.... 4 5.00 Mission Band...... Miss Ruth E. Rider 20 13.00 P latte...... Miss Jeanie Noordhoff. 4 15 2 .00 Y . P . S. C. E ...... Miss May D ek ...... 22 9 .0 0 Mission Band...... 2 .23 Salem ...... 5 .0 0 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Esther Shreeder 5.50 S cotland...... Miss Sarah Beecher... . 6 3 12 4 0.25 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Jennie Smith. . . . 35 15.00 Sioux Falls...... Mrs. B eaulieu...... 4 45 4 4.27 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss Nina Steak...... 3 1.00

T otal...... 45 155 382 $480.59 Total for Synodical Soc 171 146; 1395 $1509.88

No. Women’s Societies, 13; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 9; No. Bands, 4; Total, 26. No. Women’s Societies, 38; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 29; No. Jr. C. E., 5; No. Bands, 4; Total for Synodical Society, 76.

86 *UTAH SYNODICAL SOCIETY Boise Presbyterial Society.

a a o o Name of Society or H 4 3 £•3 Band Secretary £ £ O= 5u £ S s o g S Ö £

Boise First, Mr. and Mrs L. M. Beal $60.00 T o ta l...... 60.00

Kendall Presbyterial Society.

1 Malad...... 9.00 Paris Mission Band ...... 5.00 Total ...... 1 4 .0D 1

Utah Presbyterial Society.

American Fork 2.00 Brigham...... 2.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... ’ ...... 50 Ephraim. . .30 Green River...... 2 .25 Logan...... 10.00 Y P S. C E . 3.00 Minto . 3.00 Mt Pleasant 7.00 Ogden First Gh. 50.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 Payson...... 2.00 Salina...... 2.00 Salt Lake City First Ch...... 77.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15.00 Third Ch 9.50 "Westminster Ch .... 6.00 Sm ithfield...... 1.00 Mission Band ...... 1.00 Springville...... 5.60 ------Total $204.15 —— Total for Synodical Soc $278.15

*At close of the First Quarter, Utah was transferred to the Occidental Board. These Societies are not counted in our total number of Societies, 87 WISCONSIN SYNODICAL SOCIETY

Mrs. A. H. Vedder, 199 Tenth St., Milwaukee, President. Mrs. Wm. J. McElroy, 3329 Cedar St., Milwaukee, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Horace P. Yale, 3011 State St., Milwaukee. Recording Secretary. Mrs. Frederick W. Ells, 220 Twenty-sixth St., Milwaukee. -i „ . M rs. Florence Thomas, 109 Nineteenth St., Milwaukee. j~ el*®ra Mrs. Daniel MacGillis, 614 Hackett Ave., Milwaukee ' CCre arles Mrs. George W. Ogden, 133 Eighteenth St., Milwaukee, Missionary Cor­ respondence. Mrs. Herbert M. Moore, 409 College Ave., Milwaukee, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Elmer A. Davies, 373 Thirty-third St., Milwaukee, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Frances Welles, 2216 Wells St., Milwaukee, Westminster Gutld Secretary. Mrs. A. G. Weissert, 101 Eighteenth St., Milwaukee, Treasurer.

Chippewa Presbyterial Society. Mrs. A. A. Amy, Stanley, Wisconsin, President. Mrs. Stella A. Fifield, 1 Fifield Plaee, Ashland, Wisconsin, Corresponding Sec­ retary. Mrs. Stella A Fifield, 1 Fifield Place, Ashland, Wisconsin, Recording Secretary. Mrs. L. K. Grimes, 1621 Hammond Ave., Superior, Wisconsin, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Geo. McDonald, 405 W. Seventh St., Ashland, Wisconsin, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. F. W. Starr, Stanley, Wisconsin Treasurer.

Name of Society or Secretary Band Money Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. W. W. Taken Contributing j j Contributed

Ashland First Ch...... Mrs. Stella A. Fifield . 2 1 50 $22.00 Y . P* S. C. E ...... Miss Elizabeth Bucke 45 19.25 Vaughn-Marquis Estate . . 3352.20 Bethel Ch ...... Lucy N. Williams. . . . 6 7 .1 8 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Lucy N. Williams. ... 25 2 .00 Baldwin...... Rev. J. H. Beach...... 10 15.00 Young I adies* Society Lora Hebink...... 18 30.00 Bayfield Y . P. S. C. E ...... 5 .0 0 Chetek...... 2 .0 0 Chippewa Falls...... Mrs. Peter Robinson. . 1 20 13.'11 Eau Claire. Mrs. R . A. E tty ...... 2 21.28 H udson...... Mrs. H. C. B aker...... 5 4 39 33.21 Ir o n w o o d ...... Mrs. G. N. Tourtellot . 2 2 48 24.35 Little Elk ...... 3 .0 0 Stanley...... Mrs. A . M. B erg...... 5 10 41 4 2.76 Westminster Guild . . , . 8 .2 5 Superior First Ch ...... Mrs. Pear Benson...... 1 5 25 11.00 Hammond Ave. Ch...... Miss Edna G. Kimball 7 15 60 88.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. C. H. Noyes .... 28 4 .0 0 Presbyterial Society...... 10.00 'Id * T otal...... 25 37 488 $3713.59 No. Women's Societies, 12; No. Young Women's Societies, 2; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 4; Total, 18. 88 La Crosse Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. S. L. McKee, West Salem, Wisconsin, President. Mrs. Emily P. Reid, 618 Cass St., La Crosse, Wisconsin, Corresponding Secre- t ary. Mrs. M. McEldowney, West Salem, Wisconsin, Recording Secretary. Mrs. Halbert, 600 Block Logan St., La Crosse, Wisconsin, Literature Secretary.' Mrs. A. C. Schmidt, 304 S. Seventh St., La Crosse, Wisconsin, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. J. McKinley, West Salem, Wisconsin, Treasurer.

a> Name of Society or £ Band Secretary Taken Money Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed Contributing #

La Crosse First Ch., Westminster G u ild...... 10 $ 3.00 18 10.00 West Salem...... Mrs. Jay Pettingill.... 1 69 12.00

T otal...... 1 97 $25.00 No. Women’s Societies, 2; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; Total, 3.

Madison Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. R. E. Ely, Madison, Wisconsin, President. Miss Alice G. Conger, 423 S. Bluff St., Janesville, Wisconsin, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. J. H. Hutchison, 1015 W. Johnson St., Madison, Wisconsin, Recording Secretary. Mrs. C. A. Rood, Reedsburg, Wisconsin, Literature Secretary. Miss H. Grace Andrews, 148 W. Gilman St., Madison, Wisconsin, Y. P. Secre­ tary. Miss Elizabeth Cady, Kilbourn, Wisconsin, Treasurer.

Baraboo...... Miss Jessie C. H olden.. ’ 2 19 20.00 fi 5 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15 10.00 18 25.00 7 40 77.00 8 1 60 81.50 17.00 Miss Elizabeth Cady .. 9, 16 13.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1 15.00 28.00 2 15.50 11 55 163.00 Y . P. S.' C. E ...... 4 .4 8 17 5 .00 1 30 56.00 9 94 38.00 Mrs. Clarence E. Fey.. 1 1 18 5.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 14 5.00 3 97 63.75 12 5 .25

T otal...... 40 2 396 8652.48 No. W om en’s Societies, 14; No. Young W om en’s Societies, 1; N o. Y . P. S. C. E-. 4; Total, 19. 89 Milwaukee Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. W. O. Carrier, Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, President. Mrs. E. -M. Kennedy, 106 James St., Waukesha, Wisconsin, Corresponding Sec - retary. Mrs E. M. Kennedy, 106 James St., Waukesha, Wisconsin, Recording Secre­ tary. Mrs. E. P. Loose, 525 College Ave., Waukesha, Wisconsin, Literature Secretary. Miss E. C. Kurtz, 824 Larkin St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Y. P. Secretary. Miss Grace T. Dey, R. D. Route 8, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Treasurer.

Name of Society or Band Secretary Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed W. W. W. Taken Contributing i

1 16 $ 9:00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 30 5 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... ?0 2.00 10 5 .0 0 1 34 10.00 Jr C E ...... 24 1.00 Mrs. H'. J . Huemink .. 6 100 25.00 Young People’s Missionary.. 44.00 H oricon Y. P. S. C. E ...... 28 5.00 Mrs. H. F. Hubbard .. 7 3 26 32.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Mrs. O. C. Johnson... . 2 36 3 .0 0 Mrs. C. J. T u ft ...... 2 11 2.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1 14 3.00 j r C E ...... 39 2 .0 0 Mrs. W . F. R e ic h ___ 3 11 3 .50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 15 5 .0 0 Jr. C. E ...... 16 5.00 Miss Jessie Mae Gillis . 7 56 133.60 20.00 . Y . P. S. C. E ...... - 35 30.00 Mrs. G. M. Pelton ___ 1 15 14.95 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 35 5 .0 0 Girls’ Guild...... 95 5 .0 0 Holland Ch., Young W om en’s S ociety...... Miss K. Van Horneghan 14 6 .00 Mrs. P. B. Bogart .... 21 11 65 450.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 25 30.00 Inter. C. E ...... 39 5 .00 Jr. C. E ...... 23 1 .25 4 5 21 8 .76 12.00 Jr. C. E ...... 24 2 .0 0 Mrs. I. D. Mishoff .... 1 2 18 23.50 7 .50 1.00 2 .0 0 Y . P . S. C. E ...... 33 2 .0 0 29 100.00 Young People’s Society.... 8.00 O ttaw a...... Mrs. Walter Jones. .. . 2 20 8 .00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 29 12.53 Mrs, D. H. M inott------12 6 65 41.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... V.5 16.00 17 5 .00

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Name of Society or H Band Secretary Money £ Taken Members O. S. & O. S. & L. Contributed Contributing

Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10 20 $15.00 Mrs H. M BneW 8 20 41.50 Y . P. S. C. E ...... Miss R. Hartness...... 70 10.00 1.00 Carroll College...... % 59.60 T otal...... 77 38 1153 $1239.19

No. Women’s Societies, 20; No. Young Women’s Societies, 4; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 13; No. Inter 0. E., 1; No. Jr. C. E„ 6; No. Bands, 5; Total, 49.

Winnebago Presbyterial Society.

Mrs. Wm. Mainland, 121 Franklin Ave., Oshkosh, Wisconsin, President. Mrs. Ralph M. Burtis, 40 Franklin Ave., Oshkosh, Wis., Corresponding Sec­ retary. Mrs. Ralph M. Burtis, 40 Franklin Ave., Oshkosh, Wis., Recording Secretary. Mrs. W. T. Mitchell, 202 E. Division St., Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Literature Secretary. Mrs. Olla M. Perry, 415 S. Commercial St., Neenah, Wisconsin, Y. P. Secretary. Mrs. Theo. Beglinger, 188 Jefferson St., Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Treasurer.

A b b o ttsfo rd ...... Mrs. E. M. Sorenson. . 8 1 24 10.00 A p p le to n ...... Mrs. C. S. L ittle...... 6 3 27 60.00 Westminster Guild...... 1.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 1.00 Arbor Vita Y . P. S. C. E... . 2.00 De P e r e ...... Mrs. H. A. T a lb o t .. 1 9.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 4 .0 0 Florence Y. P. S. C. E ...... 5 .00 Fond du Lac...... Miss J. R. Tallmadge . 3 1 40 19.00 Green B ay...... Mrs. J. A. Baldwin .. . 2 19 10.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 8 .7 5 Marshfield ...... Mrs. Benj. Elvis...... ' ' 4 ' " 50 25.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 4.51 M arinette...... Mrs. R . W . Peliow .... ‘ 6 ' ‘ 29 48.25 Merrill First Ch. . . . : ...... Mrs. J. W . Zipp...... 1 16 6 .0 0 W est Ch...... Mrs. J. S. W ilson...... 3 .3 0 Neenah...... Miss J. S C o o k e ...... 10 2 40 100.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 25.00 Inter C. E ...... 10.00 Jr. C. E ...... 2 .00 O con to...... Mrs. F. Messenger. . . . 7 3 50 146.00 Y . P. S. C. E ...... 10.00 Omro . Miss H. E. Wood 3 2 12 5.00 Y. P. S. C. E ...... 6 .0 0 Oshkosh...... Mrs. E. R e if...... 11 5 70 175.00 Mission Baud...... 4 .0 0 O xford...... Mrs. A. W . Tuttle .... 16 11.00 Mission Band 2 .4 3 Riverside...... 2 .5 0 Shawano...... Mrs. C. A. K napp...... 1 5 .0 0 Sherry...... Mrs. H. J. Williams. . . 1 1 16 3 .0 0 Y. P. S/C. E ...... 5.00 Stevens Point...... Mrs. H. C. W e lty ...... "¿5 25.00 91 Name of Society or Secretary Band Money Taken Members 0. S. & 0. S. & L. Contributed Contributing W. W. W. Taken

Y . P. S.C. E ...... $ 2 .00 Inter C. E ...... 2 .00 W ausau...... Mrs. Orlof Anderson.. 20 7 52 105.00 W eyauwega Y . P. S. C. E. . . 2 .0 0 12 5.00 1.50

85 25 538 $871.24

228 102 2672 $6501.50

Grand Total...... 6504 3720 47162 $119715.59 No. Women’s Societies, 20; No. Young Women’s Societies, 1; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 12; No. Inter C. E., 2; No. Jr. C. E., 1; No. Bands, 3; Total, 39. No. Women’s Societies, 68; No. Young Women’s Societies, 9; No. Y. P. S. C. E., 33; No. Inter C. E., 3; No. Jr. C. E., 7; No. Bands, 8; Total for Synodical Society, 128. Grand Total of Societies; No. Women’s Societies, 1,439; No. Young Women’s Societies, 124; No. Y. P. S. C. E „ 773; No. Inter C. E „ 19; No. Jr. C. E., 128; No. Bands, 197; Total, 2,679.

92 UNCLASSIFIED RECEIPTS.

Annual Meeting Offering, Springfield, 111...... $ 48.38 Mrs. W. Harry Davis ...... 25.00 Per Mrs. J. M. C...... 25.00 Mrs. E. M. Davidson, Bozeman, M ont...... 2.00 Rev. David Park ...... 37.00 Mrs. J. Halsted ...... 5.00 M. E. M ...... 3.00 E. B. R ...... 2.00 Returned on outfit account...... 50.00 G. C. G...... 24.00 Gold dollar redeemed ...... 1.00 Commission on Slides Fund ...... t. .. . 21.50 Western College, Oxford, Ohio ...... 100.00 Y. W . B. C., 41st St. Church, C h icago...... 10.00 Y. W. C. A., Lincoln, Neb...... 2.30 Illinois C. E. Union ...... 5.00 Colorado Synodical Society ...... 20.00 Illinois “ “ 10.00 Indiana “ “ 100.00 Iow a “ “ 10.00 Michigan “ “ 17.00 Montana' “ 7.00 Nebraska “ “ 10.00

Total ...... $535.18

RECAPITULATION OF RECEIPTS.

Presbyterial Society of Boulder...... $ 974.20 “ “ “ Cheyenne 142.00

Gunnison ...... 299.60

Total from the Synodical Society of Colorado... .$ 4,811.91

“ Bloomington .... 4,084.91 “ Cairo ...... 479.13 “ Chicago ...... 27,831.39 i( 17 Tiriti rr fi HA Q K

“ Freeport ...... 1,913.29 “ M attoon ...... 1,351.79 ^ O ffrm rn 1 94H ÌÌ9

Rock River ...... 1,500.13

93 “ Rushville ...... 1,781.50 “ “ “ Springfield ...... 3,083.65 Total from the Synodical Society of Illinois $ 51,189.63

Presbyterial Society of Crawfordsville $ 1,754.32 “ “ “ Ft. Wayne ...... 2,207.10 “ “ “ Indiana ...... 1,646.94 “ “ “ Indianapolis ...... 4,166.93 “ “ Logan sport ...... 976.82 “ “ Muncie ...... 902.30 “ “ “ N ew Albany ____ 902.03 “ Whitewater ...... 1,271.24

Total from the Synodical Society of Indiana $ 13,827.68

Presbyterial Society of Cedar Rapids $ 1,761.09 “ Corning ...... 741.87 " “ “ Council Bluffs.... 654.17 “ Des M oines 1,551.96 “ Dubuque ...... 760.72 “ Ft. D odge ...... 753.23 “ “ “ George ...... 2.50 “ Iowa ...... 1,923.05 “ Iowa City 1,193.78 “ Sioux City ...... 2,308.87 “ Waterloo ...... 1,087.25

Total from the Synodical Society of Iowa ...... $ 12,738.49

Presbyterial Society of Detroit...... $ 6,805.75 “ Flint ...... 366.25 “ “ “ Grand Rapids 496.81 “ “ “ Kalamazoo ...... 567.92 “ “ “ Lake Superior... 724.92 “ L a n s in g ...... 885.60 “ M onroe ...... 764.32 “ Petoskey ...... 392.50 “ Saginaw ...... 1,173.26

Total from the Synpdical Society of Michigan.. . .$ 12,177.33 * Presbyterial Society of Adams...... $ 218.69 “ Duluth ...... 1,040.67 “ “ “ Mankato ...... 949.22 “ “ “ Minneapolis ...... 3,991.84 “ Red River ...... 102.50 “ St. Cloud ...... 346.01 “ St. P a u l ...... 2,398.10 “ W inona ...... 541.98

Total from the Synodical Society of Minnesota.. 9,589.01 Presbyterial Society of Butte...... $ 299.00 “ “ “ Great Falls 118.10 “ “ Helena 202.69

Total from the Synodical Society of Montana $ 619.79

Presbyterial Society of Box Butte...... $ 104.00 “ Hastings ...... 380.90 “ K e a r n e y ...... 716.50 “ Nebraska C ity .... 1,776.20 “ Niobrara ...... 393.02 “ Omaha ...... 1,477.90

Total from the Synodical Society of Nebraska... .$ 4,848.52

Presbyterial Society of Bismarck ...... $ 27.25 u a “ Fargo ...... 362.25 U (t “ Minnewaukon 107.52 (< (S “ Minot ...... 36.00 U (( “ Mouse River . . 81.65 {( (i “ Oakes ...... 149.03 tl « “ Pembina ...... 860.00

Total from the Synodical Society of North Dakota.$ 1,623.70

Presbyterial Society of Aberdeen...... $ 532.30 “ Black Hills ...... 52.00 “ “ “ Central Dakota... 432.99 “ “ “ Dakota ...... 12.00 “ “ “ Southern Dakota. 480.59

'Total from the Synodical Society of South Dakota.$ 1,509.88

Total from the Synodical Society of Utah...... $ 278.15

Presbyterial Society of Chippewa...... $ 3,713.59 “ La Crosse ...... 25.00 “ Madison ...... 652.48 “ Milwaukee ...... 1,239.19 “ Winnebago ...... 871.24

Total from the Synodical Society of Wisconsin.. .$ 6,501.50 Unclassified ...... 535.18 For publications ...... 3,095.68 For office expenses...... 259.56

$123,606.01

95 THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING.

H E L D A T

M i l w a u k e e , W i s c o n s i n , A p r i l 27 a n d 28, 1909.

For the fourth time in the history of the Board of the Northwest the hospitable doors of Milwaukee opened wide in welcome. Thrice this invitation has come from Immanuel church. The Rev. Paul B. Jenkins, its pastor, with a com­ mittee of ladies and an alert band of young men who in­ sisted on caring for the baggage, met the incoming trains to care for the elect women who came to this Annual Feast. The beautiful church edifice bore a festive air with its deco­ ration of palms, ferns and flowers, and committees were :n waiting to care for the comfort and convenience of the delegates, who numbered two hundred and fifty. Two preliminary meetings were held. Dr. H. W . Boyle’s address, to Westminister Guild delegates, was a plea for making home the vestibule of heaven as an essential part of woman’s work, and for self-sacrifice in the service of Christ. Tuesday evening’s address by Dr. Zwemer, fitly called the “Apostle to Arabia,” was upon the theme: A Three­ fold Challenge from the Moslem World. Like Goliath, Islam challenges the church of the living God and exists to deny our blessed Saviour. Wednesday morning, Mrs. Albert L. Berry presiding, the meeting was formally opened with singing, "A ll people who on earth do dwell;” After reading Psalm 33, Mrs. Berry commented upon it. Prayer and praise are the wings which carry us into God’s presence. There we receive in order that we may give.' The conversion of the world waits on the prayers of God’s children. Following the appointment of committees came the re­ port o f the nominating committee read by its* chairman, Mrs. George L. Robinson, who preceded it with a loving tribute to the two vice-presidents who, during the year, passed from earth to heaven, Mrs. R. P. Lewis, of St. Paul, and Mrs. W . L. Moss, of Chicago. Both had given years

96 of valued service and were endeared to those who knew them by a charming personality. Mrs. Berry, whose resignation was accepted with great regret, introduced the new president, Mrs. Lincoln M. Coy, with kindly words of welcome and appreciation. Mrs. Coy expressed her sense of responsibility and the privilege of service conferred upon her, and her wish to discern God’s will in all that pertained to this work. The treasurer, Mrs. Bradley, reported $123,606 paid in to the treasury, the twenty per cent, advance asked for having been very nearly met. Shall we continue this high standard for another year? Miss Mary L. Freeman, of Bogota, Colombia, gave an address. The need of workers and money for this Roman Catholic country, and the why of it, was a story well told. The Synodical reports following were full of progress and promise. Miss Ivathrene Myers, the new field secretary, expressed her desire to serve the churches and be a “live wire connect­ ing them with the Board.” M rs. Dee F. Clarke, office sec­ retary, explained its function in the work. Miss'Grettie Y. Holliday, long a missionary in Persia, wished to be “only a voice” calling to prayer for the world. The morning session was closed with prayer by Dr. Mary Bradford. Song and prayer opened the afternoon service. Mrs. B. Y. Craig, in charge of the Hour for Literature, called on Miss Skinner to speak for the Year Book of Prayer, Mrs. King for the Leaflets, Mrs. Egan for Over Sea and Land, while she, herself, reported for Woman’s Work. Mrs. Robinson announced a varied and interesting program for the Summer School of Missions opening June 26th at Winona Lake. Miss Velma Snook, of Korea, told of a great work being done by a handful of workers. The time is now in that country. Calls to the work are to be heard rather than felt. The need in Korea is so great. The Westminster Guild Hour was led by Miss Minnie Rumsey. Eight Synodical secretaries for the Guild were presented. Mrs. E. S. Williams welcomed them to the 97 work, rejoicing that the freshness and vigor of youth should thus be added. M rs. Vedder’s very cordial invitation to her home, between sessions, in spite of unfavorable weather was very generally accepted. Rev. Henry W hite of Chieng Rai, Laos, spoke in the evening to an audience in which young people, especially young men, predominated. Rev. Charles J. Ogilvie, a re­ cent graduate of McCormick Seminary, under appointment for China, took as a subject for his discourse Christian Warfare, which, he said, was no camp life. The devotional service, on Thursday morning, was a precious season of prayer in which many participated. Mrs. W . O. Carrier was the leader. Her thought for meditation was upon Ne- heniiah, the hero of faith, who saw a vision of service and heard a call. I f united, we can do this great work, sure of victory since Christ leads. A hymn opened the regular morning service, followed by prayer by Mrs. Bonner. The report of the Home Secretaries was given Mrs. W . Holmfer***-«* Forsyth. Mrs. M. D. Edwards, from her store of wisdom and experience, solved the problems evolved from the Ques­ tion Box. In the Young People’s Hour, conducted by Mrs. A. V. Powell, the increase of Mission Study classes, the 'phenomenal growth of summer schools of missions, the mul­ tiplication of Westminister Guild Chapters and Westminister Circles for younger girls were facts brought out. Mrs. Mar­ shall showed the increase in Children’s organizations, Miss Elizabeth Jervis the advance in C. E. societies as relating to Missions. Mrs. George Schwab, from Efulen, Africa, contrasted the dense darkness in which Africa has been immersed, with the dawn of light that is coming through the influence of schools and churches. God has said “Let there be light” and there is light. Honorary and Life Members stood while M rs. E. S. W illiam s led in a prayer o f consecration., Reports of Committees: Mrs. Rexford, chairman, re­ ported a cablegram of congratulations to Dr. and Mrs. M. J. W . Farnham. Their golden wedding anniversary also marks fifty years of missionary service in Shanghai, China. Mrs. Bonner, chairman of committee on Time and Place, reported that her committee accepted the recommen- 98 dation of the Executive Board that no public Annual Meet­ ing be held next year, but in April, 1911, the Biennial Meet­ ing will convene in Chicago, celebrating the Fortieth Anni­ versary of our Board of the Northwest. Resolutions reported by Mrs. Shaley, chairman, included one of thanks to all who in any way had contributed to the success of the meeting and comfort of the guests. Also to pray for Mrs. Berry in her chosen work, to loyally support M rs. Coy, and to sound trumpet call for the advance, to $145,000 and to prayer. Accepted with a rising vote. Mrs. Keep offered prayer, followed by a few words from Mrs. Blair. In making trial of a bi-ennial meeting as pro­ vided in the Constitution, Article V , it is desired to magnify the Synodical meetings, from which we hope a strong influ­ ence will go out through each state, corresponding to that o f the Annual Meeting of the Board. Dr. W inifred Heston, in an address, called India the land of romance and ignorance. The missionary physician min­ isters to sin-sick souls as well as to the body.“ None but Tesus is worthy of the bright star of India, and He shall have it.” W ith the w ords: “ H ow beautiful, upon the mountains are the feet of them that bring good tidings,” Mrs. N. D. Pratt introduced the missionaries present and the candidates. These were Mrs. Schwab, Africa; Miss Free­ man, Bogota; Dr. Heston. India; Miss Mayo, Japan; Miss Snook, Korea; Mrs. Gelwicks, China; Miss Beaber, Dr. Emma Miller, Dr. Bradford and Miss Holliday, Persia; Mrs. F. S. Miller, Korea, and Miss Downs and Miss Given, India. Fifteen candidates have been accepted, of whom three were present, Miss Clara L. Seiler, Miss Margo Lee Lewis and Miss Susan F. Eames. Others were Miss Abbie S. Miller, Mrs. F. H. Throop, Mrs. R. E. Winn, Miss Edith M. Fulton, Mrs. Cora White-Carpenter, M. D., Miss Mar­ garet Elder, Miss Mary L. Jenkins, Miss Alary Cowell, Mrs. Nellie C. Field, Miss Frances E. Clarke and Miss Leada B. Newman. Most of those present gave a message, each in response to her name. A precious season of communion led by the pastor assisted by other ministers, closed this memorable meeting.

99 REPORT OF THE FOREIGN SECRETARIES FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL, 1909.

N o te .— In the following report the names, o f the mission­ aries of our ATorthwcst Board are italicised.

AFRICA.

“The marvelous change in four years in the West Africa Mission is not excelled even by the wonderful work going on in Korea and the Philippines.”—Dr. A . IV. Halsey.

Our interest centers chiefly about this E F U L E N . station for this has been the home of Mrs. George Schwab, our one represent­ ative in Africa, now in America on furlough. She expects to return to her work about the first of January. Continu­ ous, steady growth causes rejoicing. Two new elders, thirty- three new members, and four new centers of Christian work are reported, and eager listeners everywhere. Sunday School, men’s meetings and catechism classes are all flourishing, while the school passed the most successful year in its his­ tory with an enrollment of 260 pupils, and graduated its first class of three splendid, Christian young men. M rs. Schwab, besides teaching in the station school and holding meetings at the station for women, opened and supervised three village schools for women that they might learn to read the Bible. Meetings for women of this district, ex­ cepting those at the station, have had to be discontinued. This station regards work for women as most important, and asks that the following report be made to the Church. There are about eighty women and girls in the Mission schools and several hundred more in the villages round about, who very much need the help and care a woman could give them in town visitation. Without this attention it is difficult to see how Christian homes are to be established, 100 the lack of which will make a telling weakness in the future. There are three churches within this dis- BATANGA. trict, each of which maintains preaching at two out-stations. The missionaries have had charge of eight village schools besides the one at the station. The medical work has been especially satisfactory, and is self-supporting. This station needs a teacher for in­ dustrial work for boys. Six churches are reported in this district, BENITO. self-supporting, conducting village schools, doing evangelistic work and contributing generously to repairs, new buildings, etc. Dr. Pinney has taught in the station school in the morning as Spanish teach­ ing is required by the government and he is the only Span­ ish speaking missionary, giving his afternoons to medical work. The boys and girls spend three hours each afternoon working. This work, together with a monthly tuition fee of thirty-five cents, pays for their food, washing, etc. Be­ side the usual school instruction (in Spanish) there has been Scripture reading in the native tongue, classes for boys in practical trading, and in sewing, dressmaking and tailoring for the girls. The health of the missionaries at Benito has been remarkably good this year. This station needs a Spanish speaking teacher, that Dr. Pinney may have the necessary time to attend to the sick. Mr. and Mrs. Ford were alone here part BARAKA. ' of the year and then Miss Mackenzie came, a host in herself. These three are pushing on as vigorously as so small a force can, and their health having been good there have been no interruptions. The work has suffered most in the evangelistic line, from the fact that all the various forms of work cannot be satis­ factorily maintained by only one man. There is a large population which could be successfully reached were a white pastor in charge. Many of the church members have gone out Sunday afternoons to hold services of song and prayer in districts assigned to them, and they report having been cordially received. The Sunday School has progressed, teachers’ meetings and Bible classes have been held, and 101 visits made to other towns. Miss Mackenzie has charge of women’s work. These women have a missionary society which in interest, in programmes and in contributions might serve as a model for some societies in America. The school work at this station has received particular attention, a recent examination showing excellent results. The head teacher, one of our own boys, has held first place in the night classes of the government normal school. The girls of Sidon, Syria, contributed twenty dollars, which made the building of a shed to be used as dining-room and work­ room possible, and is a great comfort and aid to the mis­ sionaries. Cannot this station have the white pastor it so much needs ? A church cannot flourish with only occasional visits, perhaps once in two or three months, from a minister. Elat is perhaps the most wonderful o f all with its Sunday school o f a thousand or more, its crowded churches, its gen­ erous gifts and good schools. When Mrs. Schwab returns to A frica she will probably be stationed at Elat. There is imperative need of physicians for the west coast of Africa. Have you prayed the Lord of the harvest that he send laborers to A frica?

CHINA.

In mentioning a few events that have transpired in China the past year, we put first the ^deaths o f the Empress and Emperor. The one followed so closely on that of the other, that the eyes of all the world were drawn to Peking, but the succession of the infant Emperor was so peacefully accom­ plished that no cause for concern was apparent. Even a superficial glance at the political and social condi­ tions fills one with amazement— so rapid is the development and so wonderful are the changes that are taking place in this vast Empire. The adoption by the government of Occi­ dental methods o f education in so many of the schools is a promise of progress that means much for the future. The demand for better education for women is growing and from Canton a memorial to the throne from the Board of Educa­ tion asks that $70,000 be devoted to found, in the capital, a normal school for the training of women teachers, the 102 school to be maintained by an annual grant from the govern­ ment of $40,000. In one of the leading papers of Hong Kong a writer says, “Few things have been more rapid or more startling than the emancipation of women, and the ac­ quiescence of the leaders among the people, in the position of women, as a factor in public life.” A notable feature of this year and the consummation of many years of faithful labor has been the completion of the Old Testament in Shanghai and Soochow colloquial. This publication appears in a four volume edition and has been in the hands of Committee for eight years. It is a work that will be of great help to the native Christians and will be most useful to pastors and helpers. Rev. Calvin Mateer D. D., LL.D., who died on September 28, 1908, was Chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Old and New Testaments. It is a source of rejoicing that the Revision of the New Testament has been completed. Considerable work has been done on the Old Testament, but it will be difficult to fill Dr. Mateer's place in connection with this stupendous undertaking. A great man has laid down his work, and we bow before the wisdom that sees as man cannot see.

NORTH CHINA MISSION.

Mrs. Alexander Cunningham, who con- PEKING. tinues in charge of the boys’ boarding school— “Truth Hall,” reports a good year. There have been twenty-six boys in the Academy, thirty-two in the intermediate school, and twenty-seven in the primary school; a total o f eighty-five pupils. Eight young men were graduated in June, one of them but fifteeo years of age, the youngest boy who has ever completed the prescribed course. Mrs. Cunningham has been assisted in the teaching by four native Chinese, two being college grad­ uates, one a teacher of the Confucian Classics, and the other an assistant in the day-school. Efficient help has been given by Air. E. L. Johnson, who has taught a class in Arithmetic, and also in English part of the year. Musical training in chorus singing has been given by Air. Cunningham. Dr. W . A. P. Martin, the founder of the school, generous­ 103 ly contributed to a fund for uniforms, an indispensable requi­ site in the schools of new China. Physical drill has been given by a soldier from the American Legation. Through the generosity of Mr. Louis Severance of Cleveland, Ohio, an addition to the play ground has been secured. It is a gratifying fact that $772 have been raised in China this year for the support of the school. A series of religious meetings was conducted among the pupils by Mr. Goforth, a Canadian Presbyterian evangelist. At first the boys stoutly refused all efforts to induce them to either confess sins, or to express a desire for higher and better things. But after the meetings were closed, a most remarkable change occurred. Open confession was made of sins, facts long hidden came to light, long standing quarrels were made up, and as a result the spiritual tone of the school is much improved. Mrs. Cunningham in addition to her school duties has had charge of the Children’s Service held on Sunday. She has assisted in the regular weekly examinations in the day schools of which there are two for boys and two for girls. In all of these schools modern Chinese text books have been introduced and attractive equipment added. As a result the work done is much more regular and efficient than that done in non-Christian schools of the same grade. M r. and Mrs. Cunningham will spend their furlough in this country. They are due this year. Miss Ellen Ward who rejoined the Mission in 1906 is now serving as treasurer of the station. She writes most inter­ estingly of events transpiring about her, and expresses her pleasure and satisfaction in being connected with the Mis­ sion, and having a share of its varied opportunities for ser­ vice to the missionary circle as well as to the Chinese. The kindergarten which, through the generosity of Mr. Severance of Cleveland, was started last year has been con­ tinued under the direction o f Miss Bessie McCoy. A large building connected with the compound was secured, court­ yard walls were built, the rooms were fitted up and heated, the outfit bought and two native assistants secured. The school opened with thirty-five children and a number of adults, who were attracted by the novelty of the idea. Dur­ 104 ing the winter a second kindergarten lias been opened and housed in a new building adjoining the Seminary compound. This was done to accommodate the children in another neighborhood from the first, and to provide opportunity for the necessary practice work in connection with the Kinder­ garten Training School, also under Miss McCoy’s direction. The Training School has had seven regular pupils and these have alternated with M iss M cC o y in assuming responsibility in the two schools. These schools are proving an excellent means of securing an entrance into the homes and hearts of the parents, and will provide, it is hoped, a much better class of pupils than o f old for day and boarding schools. The kindergarten training, which M iss M cC o y had ac­ quired before her appointment as a missionary on the field, has fitted her for this new task, and by nature as well, she was found to be eminently qualified for successful w^ork. For use in the kindergarten, she has translated a. number of games and songs, that have added interest and pleasure. In addition, M iss M cC o y has regularly assisted in the weekly examinations in the two schools for girls, has conducted a class on Thursday afternoons for women, and on Sunday she has efficiently conducted a work for women and children in co-operation with Mrs. Fenn. Mrs. Ethel Emery Johnson is in better health than she was a year ago. She has finished the second year's examina­ tion and received the praise o f the examiners. She is now sufficiently proficient with the language to lead women’s and children’s meetings, and has been able to assist most help­ fully in the various duties of the station. She writes: “I could not be happy out here, if I did not try my best to get the language, in order to reach the people. There are so many avenues of work open, so many oppor­ tunities, that one is bewildered, not knowing where to begin or which one to take, and so helpless until the language is learned.”

105 EAST SHANTUNG MISSION.

The reports from the Temple Hill Engr CHEFOO. hsh School with which Mr. and M rs. William C. Booth are connected are most interesting. Mrs-. Booth has become sufficiently acquainted with the language to assist in teaching. The Chi­ nese pupils have made great advance in the study of the English language. English is spoken whenever possible in the management and general business of the school, and the students have organized an “English Society/' which holds weekly meetings, stories are read, and essays and debates and.short addresses are given. It is a gratifying feature of the religious development of the school, that the older • Christian students teach in the Sunday school, which M rs. Booth has organized for heathen children. Three prayer bands have been organized and meet for de­ votions in the evenings. W hen the first bell for retiring sounds, even the non-Christian boys join in these occasions for prayer.

Mrs. Charles E. Scott, busy with the TSING-TAU. cares of her family, has found it pos­ sible to continue her language study, but under difficulties, as a teacher has not been available much of the time. From this station come encouraging reports of growth in self support on the part of the native churches. Organized as a station about twelve years ago, Tsing Tau now has four self-supporting churches. The pastors over these are men trained in our mission colleges and seminaries. A Home Mission Board has been organized in the Synod of East China and these four pastors are most active in the plans for sending out evangelists into the section of the country as yet unreached by our missionaries. Through generous gifts from friends in America, a com­ pound has been secured and one residence and a building for the Girls’ School are now in readiness.

106 WEST SHANTUNG MISSION.

On September 28, 1908, Dr. Calvin W . WEI HSIEN. Mateer, D. D., LL. D., died at the hospi­ tal at Tsing-tau. Mrs. Mateer writes: “W e thought we had started for home when we took the steamer at Chefoo, but stopping at Tsing-tau for necessary medical attention, my husband left me, going on before to the home above.” In a letter full of her deep sorrow and grief Mrs. Mateer pays this tribute to Dr. Mateer whose con­ stant companion she had been, and whose faithful secretary she ever was, sharing with him the work of revision of the Old and New Testaments. “ I thank the Lord for the long, rich years of service which He allowed my husband in this land, fo r the foundations which he has been able to lay for the Christian church in China, for the college he founded and for the young men trained there for noble service, for the books which he published that have been so helpful to every foreign missionary and every mission educated Chinese child, and for the crowning work o f his life—his part in the Revision of the New Testament.” Mrs-. M ateer will make her home at Wei Hsien where she is now engaged in translating several important books. She has published a supplement to the book of tunes so long in use, also a second volume of her “Abridged Arithmetic” and is writing a book on “Household Economy.” Mrs. Robert Mateer has continued supervision of the Pri­ mary Boarding Schools for Girls in the country. Improve­ ment is noted in the teaching methods, and in the increased amount o f money given by the patrons in support o f the schools. The patrons now pay one-half of the teachers’ sal­ aries', all incidentals, for books, etc., and 1,500 small cash (ninety cents Mexican) per month for each boarding pupil. A severe drought visited this section the past summer and great loss to crops ensued, resulting in the necessity for dis­ tribution of relief to the people. This condition will affect attendance at the schools and has already shown its influ­ ence. Increased cost of living leaves less money available for education and the girls are the first to suffer. In some way cannot an increased number of scholarships be provided for these schools, that are under Mrs. Mateer’s efficient care? 107 Mrs. Mateer has translated a story called “Teddie’s But­ tons” into Chinese.. She is now engaged on a work of “Organ Methods,” and also is writing a story, “The Browns at Mt. Hermon.” Mrs. Paul D. Bergen makes.no report, but we may believe she assumes and perforrrts a variety of important duties too numerous to mention. Mrs. C. F. Johnson has remained in this country to super­ intend the education of her children. She has therefore no report to give. Mrs. Paul P. Faris has satisfactorily continued language study, making good progress in it. H er great desire 'for many months has been to start a kindergarten for the Chi­ nese children. Friends at home have contributed a small amount of material, and a class has been started, that meets on Sunday for the Sunday School lessons, and on Tuesday afternoons for kindergarten work. A little later the class will be open on other days o f the week. Twenty little chil­ dren are regular attendants and as this is the only kinder­ garten yet organized in this station, this good start is promising. The assistant is a young Chinese girl, attractive and well adapted to the work. Mrs. Paris writes: “A home kindergarten teacher would prob­ ably be much amazed at this class— babies in arms and girls twelve years -old. But all are interested, and little by little the shy ones have been won to friendliness, and my heart is wild with delight, that at last they open their hearts to me and know that I love them.” With Mrs. Hamilton, M iss Emma CHINANFU. Bochne has held a summer class for women of the neighborhood in Chinanfu, which was very well attended. The daughter of a minor official secretly attended the class. H er brother is an in­ quirer at the Street Chapel and he helped her in her study. Another secret inquirer is a middle-aged woman who attends the prayer meetings, coming from a distant quarter of the city. In every town and village o f this section, where the Gospel has been preached, there is much greater interest shown and more attentive hearing given, than in any former year. 108 Miss Boehne has continued her classes in. the country. She has visited eight' different villages, teaching, holding re­ ligious meetings, instructing the women in their homes and visiting from house to house. Her plan has been to go to a village as a center at regular intervals, and from there reach the surrounding country, remaining several weeks in one locality, in order to pursue a course of study among those that could attend. She writes : “ The people are poorer than, ever this year, as for several years the rain has been insufficient and the crops have been small. The policy of the station is to develop self-support for the church and school, so class expenses are met by subscriptions among the people, those attending providing their own food as far as possible. To us they never seem to have enough to eat,and scarcely any variety, but they do not complain. W e need your prayers that the seed sowing and thè cultivating may be done by God’s Spirit, we being but the implements to be completely controlled by Him.”

KIANG-AN MISSION.

Miss Ellen Dresser is spending this NANKING. year far from her .field of labor, but is telling of her work to her friends in America. A report from the girls’ boarding school shows how helpful the girls have been in offering their assistance nearly every day to go with the missionaries to the country stations to teach inquirers. Country women have been com­ ing to the school to stay for weeks or months of study It is hoped there will soon be a Union training school where thorough preparation may be given these women to do Christian work. A year ago Mrs. Albert Gray was one o f the new members of this station, but now she is able to take her place in the active work of the mission. She writes that at the time of the death of the Emperor, the mission school held memorial services and the boys stood for a moment o f silence, while in the government school they were made to kneel and howl. A t Christmas all the missionaries o f the station with those of the Southern Presbyterian Mission had a union dinner at Mrs. Gray’s house. Twenty-one sat down together. March IS, she writes: “The one thing talked of in these 109 days are the meetings Mr. Goforth, a Canadian evangelist, held for ten days. A great mat tent, -seating 1,200 people, was erected and was filled at every service. Instead of ask­ ing one man to pray, Mr. Goforth invited all who wished to do so to pray at the same time. A great volume of prayer would burst forth all over the tent. The last morning, men, women and children cried aloud over their sins, and the for­ eigners cried too. Some fell on their faces in humility. The secrets of the hearts were opened up. Nothing but the Holy Spirit could make these people unseal their lips and pour forth their sins. After six hours of the wonderful presence of God in that tent, Mr. Goforth had to leave to catch his boat, but the audience still sat there and finally towards the close of the day, a brilliant university young man ran to the platform and gave his life to the spread of the Gospel. W e have seen more marvelous things than wireless telegraphy and flying machines. When we talk of new China we mean a China where God loves to covenant with His people and where His poAver is stronger than the prejudices of thou-r sands of years.”

CENTRAL CHINA MISSION.

A t this station M rs. H ayes writes of SOOCHOW. the changes in the past year. “ Dr. Cat- tell who has been with us for ten years went home in -October to take charge of the ‘Margaret Louise Home’ in New York City. Miss Murray was with us last year and was a great help, but she has been sent to another station. W e have a new doctor— Dr. Anderson— who arrived New Year’s eve. She found a very sick patient in the hospital who died before morning with scarlet fever and of course all were obliged to go into quarantine, so we could not see our new doctor until the ten days were over. She sees patients after her study hours three days in the week. We are very happy to have Mr. and Mrs. Judson with us for a year. They are old missionaries from Hang­ chow. The school with the street children opened with a good attendance and a number of women came, anxious to learn to read.” n o Fifty years ago Dr. and Mrs. Farnham SHANGHAI. were united in marriage and became our missionaries in China. Dr. Farn­ ham has been associated with the Chinese Tract Society since its organization and has recently written a history of its growth. Mrs. Farnham writes: “W e are hoping to cele­ brate our golden wedding the fourth of next May, but how little we know o f what may befall us ere that. M y constant prayer is that we may be as those servants who, when their Lord cometh may be found watching. W e know not how to be thankful enough that we have been spared to each other.” A t the Annual Meeting of the Board of the Northwest in Milwaukee, a cablegram of congratulation was sent to Dr. ancT Mrs. Farnham. The demand for education presses up­ on our mission workers. Miss Silver’s letters contain such messages as these: “ The schools which were formerly only able to get pupils in small numbers are now full to overflowing, and promising, eager pupils are. turned away all the time.” “ W e go on with a firmer basis and stronger confidence than ever before.” “Both for schools and to reach a hand to the city and the country, our locality is well adapted.” “W e have secured two evangelists this year and opened a new chapel. I am hoping that this year will see a residence erected so that I can move out of the women’s building and leave more room for those who want to study. The new kitchen and bathroom have given great comfort to Miss Lindholm and her girls. There was enough money to make part of the building two stories. The next plan is to put up another small two-storied build­ ing for class rooms and dormitories. Already friends in America and China have given gifts towards this fund. Three pupils have finished the eight year course.”

Miss Ricketts, our missionary at this sta- HANGCHOW. tion is at home on furlough. A spirit of unrest has been felt in this part of China. It has crept into the girls’ school, but a few con­ scientious Christians, faithful in their prayer lives, are ex­ ercising a power for good. Two have joined the church the past year and two others have reconsecrated their lives to i l l the Master. Several who came into the school as heathen girls are now interested in prayer and read the Bible daily. A great occasion at this station was the burning in public of a great pile o f opium pipes and trays by order of the author­ ities. Old examination halls used by the Chinese for genera­ tions, have been torn down and school buildings erected large enough to accommodate five hundred pupils. The death of Dr. Li Soh-ts’in, a beloved evangelist, has caused universal sorrow and the highest tribute has been paid to his memory by both missionaries and natives.

Although the work savors of “sameness” from year to year, Mrs. Mattox feels that progress is being made. She rejoices in the readiness of the women to receive spiritual teachings and their rapid growth in the Christian life.. Miss Yii has been a great help to the women during two weeks of meetings.

Miss Duncan reported last year “ the NINGPO. ' busiest year since $he reached China.” How about this year, with an enroll­ ment of fifty-four boarders and nine day pupils? “But,” she says, “I find that too crowded, so I am only going to re­ ceive fifty-two next year.” “ The spirit in the school has been so good, I have had to discipline very little.”. A small fire caused great exitement and the little girls, were very much frightened, patting their breasts, as they breathed very fast, so that their “spirit would not take flight” was their ex­ planation. Miss Duncan says: “These girls are certainly very interesting. May I ask for your earnest prayers for me and for them, especially for those who have become Christians and have many trials to overcome in their homes, and often persecutions ?

The Christian Endeavor societies and Westminster Guild Chapters have been much interested in this station and the faithful letters of Mrs. Shoemaker. She writes of a much needed and enjoyable rest which she and Mr. Shoemaker had last summer, visiting Korea and other fields, and meet­ ing the workers in these places. At Yu-Yiao her work con­ sists in teaching the women to read and the study of the

112 Bible. The school there is a boon for the women of that neighborhood, as they could not go as far as Ningpo to study. One woman, whose feet had been bound, walked three miles several times in a month to attend classes.

SOUTH CHINA MISSION.

. The past year has been the “home com- CANTON. ing” year for Dr. and Mrs. Fulton and the reunion of the family after years of separation. It is also the silver anniversary year of their marriage. Surrounded by their family and friends they are enjoying a much needed rest. Their part of the work of the station is being carried on during their absence by the native helpers. The Christion Chinese of Canton give liberally of their means. The letters of M rs. R oss show a spirit LIEN CHOU. o f courage in the effort to resist the weakness of the body and do her part in the mission work. They are rejoicing at this station in a new church, a school building and two dwelling houses. The attendance at school and church has increased and the work is well equipped. The mission is looked upon with more favor by the people and there is a readiness to listen to the Gospel which has not been known before. The Chi­ nese Christians have decided to erect a monument to the martyred missionaries and have eagerly given their offering toward this. There has been erectel a hospital for men, a near-by residence for the physician and the Brooks M em ­ orial Hospital for Women. So “opposition has now changed to opportunity.”

HUNAN MISSION.

Mrs. Lingle writes: “When we look. SIANGTAN. back at our beginnings seven years ago, we thank God and take courage to go on.” A new worker has been added to the force o f the mission, Miss Murray, who with her efficient Bible woman will help in the woman’s work. Also a teacher o f Chinese has been secured who will be able to work among boys. The 113 new school for the boys is convenient and roomy, but a house for the missionary which will be nearer to the school is very much needed, as well as an organ and physical ap­ paratus for the school. A Christian Endeavor society has been organized at the request o f some o f the native Chris­ tians. The girls’ school has been moved to the CHENCHOW. , east gate where the property of the mission is and where ultimately all the mission work will be located. Mr. and M rs. Locke are very happy with the second little one that has come into their home. In the mission, however, there has been an unusual amount of sickness and death during the past year. M rs. Locke writes: “I shall probably be the only woman in our mission in Chenchow next year and shall need a store of strength.” Mrs. Gelwick reports that “this mission HENGCHOW. has had mu«h sorrow and sickness the past months and every station is working with a serious handicap.” Her absence from the station during the furlough which she is now having in America, puts more work upon the missionaries left on the field and it is difficult for them to keep in touch with the women who are scattered and need looking after. “But,” she writes, “ there is comfort in the thought that ‘the smoking flax H e will not quench’ and the lights that have been started will be cherished.” HAINAN MISSION.

The past summer the plague has visited NODOA. every part o f this field where our mission stations are. The schools were dismissed and only a Bible class among the women was held. M rs. M elrose writes: “W e go six miles to buy our food as there is no buying or selling in Nodoa market.” “No fresh meat was safe to eat and only frogs and chickens could be had for weeks. In the fall, the school opened with over one hun­ dred pupils and many boys and young men were turned ■away. Before the opening of the school the rooms were ./used for the catechumens who came for a three days’ study 114 before the communion. Forty men and women with a num- • ber of children were in attendance. W e are praying for a great outpouring o f the H oly Spirit in Hainan this year that many of those who have heard and know the Gospel may be led to accept Christ as their Savior.” The letters from Miss Schaeffer during KACHEK. the year have been bright and full of in­ terest. The happy spirit which she mani­ fests must have its effect on the Chinese women she teaches. These women are very eager to learn to read. “One left her husband and four children and walked 175 miles to Kachek and although forty-six years of age, she made good progress in learning to read the Hainanese Romanized. She is doing this that she may be prepared to carry on some work among the women of her village.” It is the ambition of the Kachek station that there may be a line o f chapels extending from one end o f the station to Lok-lah in the southwest. These are to be used as preaching places by missionaries and native helpers and for schools. The evangelistic work in Kachek aside from the work among women, consists principally o f services held each market day in the street chapel where a changing crowd listens and in this way the message is scat­ tered to the surrounding villages.

GUATEMALA. riTATirwrAT a Guatemala has been brought closer to us CITY ^ an eVer ^)e^ore s*nce Rev- ar*d M rs.- Allison and their children came home this year. They have proved that the missionaries’ furlough blesses us just as much as it blesses them and it may be that they actually do as much for the work itself by coming as they could have accomplished in six months by staying even in Guatemala, where opportunities so outnumber the mission force. They worked indefatigably all the time they were here and never missed an opportunity to speak of their work if it were at all possible to do it and besides taking back as as a result o f the interest they awakened, a fine printing press, they have left behind them a band of those who are making special prayer for Guatemala. _ Surely these prayers must bring an answer; surely a way must come to send the 115 helpers their work demands and to open a school for girls and a hospital. While they were at home Dr. Mary Gregg was the only missionary in that great city. Her medical work is growing in size and efficiency and is in part self-supporting. Surely God is giving us a wonderful chance to work mightily for H im in this country and we are ashamed to let so much go by absolutely untouched. There is no field in the wide world which offers greater promise right now than this one!

INDIA.

“ The unchanging East.” A s such the Orient can no longer be described. Change is written every where. In India the spirit of unrest is becoming more and more mani­ fest. Those who are watching the' indications o f this transi­ tion period feel that good must come out of it. One who has just returned from a stay of some months in the north­ ern provinces says: “The half cannot be told of the condi­ tions there. It is impossible to, describe the transformation that is taking place.”

# P U N J A B M IS S IO N . Like all the older stations o f this mission AMBALA. Ambala early became a center for educa­ tional work. The first institution estab­ lished there was a school for boys which has become a high school and has been self-supporting for many years. It is in charge of M r. McCuskey and it closed this year with an enrollment of five hundred and thirty pupils. The school building was originally a church and is crowded to overflow­ ing. Classes occupy every spot of available room and extend out o f doors on every side. In spite o f the lack o f suitable accommodations the school can point with pride to a good record in the last Government Examination. As the wife of the superintendent, Mrs. McCuskey finds many opportuni­ ties for usefulness. Her work among the women is en­ couraging. After thirty-six years of missionary service, Miss Pratt’s

116 tireless energy, enthusiasm and zeal for organization are un­ abated. The death of Mrs. Calderwood, her dear friend and fellow passenger to India so many years ago, and the fur­ lough of M iss Carleton, with whom she has lived and worked for fourteen busy years, have necessarily increased her labors. N o worker can drop out in missionary circles without overtaxing others already burdened. The place must be filled as soon as possible but in the meantime the need is urgent and the pressure great. Miss Pratt’s energies are now directed to the acquiring of another school building, the necessity of which has long been felt by the ladies o f this station. Part o f the money required for this purpose has been given, plans for a suitable building have been made and the work has been begun. The school is to be for the training of native Christian workers. More money is needed to make it a success. W ill not some v^nristian man or woman in this country come to the help of this devoted missionary and assist her in accomplishing what will be the crowning achievement of her life? The state­ ment made in one of her letters that for the first time in her experience she has this year had the comfort of a trained teacher in the middle school, throws light upon the disad­ vantages under which she, in common with our other mis­ sionaries, has had to work.

M rs. Kelso writes of the delightful circle DEHRA. o f Christian ladies at this station. It is a privilege to be associated with them. Dehra is not the only place thus blessed. They enjoyed greatly the visit of Mr. and Mrs. Cole of Chicago. It was refreshing to meet these friends from the home land. In the Christian Girls’ School, Miss Donaldson has been welcomed back to her position as principal after her absence on furlough. Pupils, teachers, fellow missionaries and the Christian community separately and unitedly joined in this welcome and wished her blessed success in renewed service. During her absence her place was filled most efficiently by Miss Woodside. She reports a year of encouraging work. In her personal report M rs. Kelso says of the women especially associated with her: 117 “ The assistant missionary and Bible women have all labored without any interruptions even in the rains. We record with gratitude God’s loving care over the workers. While cholera,, small­ pox and plague were in the mohallas, they were preserved. Mrs. Emily Alexander and Mrs. Lilia Sircar visit in thirty-nine houses. Sometimes they have as many as twenty-five hearers. The women enjoy listening to the gospel story and join in singing bhajans. The books used are published by the Christian Literature Society. The pupils pay for all the books used.”

The H igh School at this station was JULLUNDUR. opened more than half a century ago and for many years was the only school in the district. It is for boys and is in charge of Mr. Newton. H e is assisted by a Christian head master and twelve teach­ ers. It is doing fine work for the youth of India. The schools for non-Christian girls are still in charge of M iss Given and M iss D ow n s, although during their absence on furlough they are superintended by Miss Newton. There are three girls’ schools, two of which are in charge of effi­ cient Christian teachers. Miss Newton has been teaching regularly in the third, while superintending the other two as well as the widows’ school. The number of pupils enrolled is one hundred and fifty- one, which with fifty-eight in the zenanas, makes a total o+" two hundred and nine. The number should be much larger, but the pupils come to school or stay away just as they please. All pupils learn the catechism and are taught the Sunday school lesson. As to the importance of these schools •ihe missionary ladies say: “ They open up the best' way to reach the girls, and for most of them the school is the only way. Through the schools we gain entrance to the homes.” The success of missionary effort can never be estimated by numbers. They may be small, but the work that is going on in the heart, the influences that are set at work in each individual soul, and that are widening forever, are beyond computation. Dr. C. W . Forman, formerly in charge of KASUR. the medical work at Saharanpur, has for the last year been at this station. A room in his house has been fitted up as a dispensary and when at 118 home in the intervals between his trips to the district, he has done much in the line o f medical work. H e always travels provided with medicine chests and gives aid to all who ask for it. W e have had no report from Mrs. Forman.

M rs. Clark is rejoicing in her restoration LAHORE. to health after months-of illness. She has been sounding a paean of thanksgiving not only for herself, but for her husband, who was also brought very low. They are now well and strong and are ready for strenuous work. M rs. Clark’s. letters are always so full of interest it is difficult to make selections from them of what is best to report. She too writes of the blessing to the mission in the visit o f M r. and M rs. Cole to their daughter, Mrs. Fleming. O f the work at this station she says: “ We are thankful for the faithful service of the little group of Christians that live near by. Most of the men are preachers or teachers, and almost every woman does some • school or zenana work. Our pastor’s wife is a marvel. She has a family o f eight children and her husband’s mother lives with her. With this large family and her many duties she is able to give to the zenanas five mornings every week and visits the sick in their homes. All this she does quietly without a shade o f worry on her sweet face.” Of the work of the Dispensary at the Delhi Gate, of which she has charge, M rs. Clark sends an interesting re­ port : “ Our Dispensary during the past year has been thronged by large numbers o f women from all classes and religions. The new patients have been nearly five thousand, over eleven thousand in all having been treated. The women have a growing attachment to the dis­ pensary and its workers, and through it are becoming more friendly to Christianity. W e are glad to see an increasing inner circle of deeply interested women who say that they accept Christ as their Saviour.” The presence of her father and mother in her home has been a delightful episode in the missionary experience of their daughter, Mrs-. Fleming. A s vice-principal of the For­ man Christian College, M*r. Fleming has had great oppor­ tunities for usefulness. O f the. work of this great institution he says: “ Through personal dealings with the men, through mottoes and 119 pictures o f a helpful character, we have endeavored to raise the tone of the students. There is no place where I feel that one’s opportunity is greater, nor where I personally feel more need of your prayers than in the daily and varied exigencies of this large Dormitory.” Owing to the readjustment o f territory on LODIANA. the union o f the Cumberland Presbyterian Church with ours, Utah no longer belongs to us. In consequence of this we have surrendered our missionary, Mrs. Fife, as the ties binding her to the socie­ ties supporting her in this state are too strong to be severed. W e have given her up reluctantly, but the work at this sta­ tion can still claim her.

One of the sub-stations of Lodiana, Ja- JAGRAON. graon, may be regarded as a “ woman’s rural mission to women.” The Mission House is near the railway station. On the same compound is the school house and dormitory o f the village girls’ school. O f her work in'this district M iss Jenks writes: “ Itinerating was continued during the winter till the end of February. Nine different centers were visited, together with many o f the surrounding villages. The people are more friendly than formerly, and the district seems ripe for an ingathering from among the low caste people, if only we had more native evangelists and teachers working in the villages all the year round. We need to work and pray more for the finding and training o f such men and women. , “ W e have been able to do a little work in the city this year. The dispensary, opened a year ago, draws many women daily to whom we try to give the Gospel. All of the workers from the district at­ tended the summer school with their families, as well as many village Christians.”

NORTH INDIA MISSION.

W e have had no report of the Mary Wan- ALLAHABAD. amaker School, although we hear that M iss Tracy is back and has entered into her work with her usual zeal. It goes without saying that this school is prospering. It cofild not do otherwise under the supervision o f M iss Forman. Nothing has been heard from Dr. Binford o f the Seward Memorial Hospital since her pathetic appeal for dolls last summer for the child 120 women of India, as a means of bringing some brightness into their stunted lives. This appeal was responded £o most generously by the women of the Iowa Synodical Society sup­ porting Dr. Binford. M rs. Lucas tells of the changes in the station and of the rest and refreshment o f the yearly migration to the hills. But for this interval o f a higher temperature the heat could not be endured. She w rites: “ I have a little verandah school for the children living in the compound and also a verandah Sunday school on Sunday morn­ ings for the women and children. Some o f them say they believe in Christ and do not . worship idols any more. So many going home this year leaves our force very weak and the work must suffer, as we have -no new recruits to take their places. It is rather de­ pressing when the workers here have already more than they can well do. It is a comfort to know that it is all in the Lord’s hands.” W e shall hope another year to have a report of her work from Miss Mary Robinson, who is stationed at this place.

Reports of the work at this station are at ETAH. once inspiring and depressing. Inspiring because of the great movements for ele­ vating the masses that have been inaugurated, depressing be­ cause of the lack of funds and helpers to carry on the woil-c so successfully begun. M r. M cG aw writes with enthusiasm of this immense field and of the sacrifices that must be made to help its need. “W e are making ourselves poor, giving to the utmost o f our means, trying to push the work for the depressed classes to a successful issue, and were never happier in our lives, but we do want help and want it bad. Pray for us and for Etah’s immature Christians. Our ambition is for the evangelization o f the non- Christians of this district. Some o f us hope to see this well on its way before we leave this glorious service.” The two missionary families of this station are thankful for at last having homes in which crowding is not necessary. Their number has been increased by the birth of a daughter to Mrs. McGaw.

W e have had no report o f work here. ETAWAH. Mr. and Mrs. Enders have returned home on furlough on account o f the breaking 121 down of the health of M r. Enders. It is thought a year in this country will restore him to his usual vigor.

The report of Miss Mary Fullerton of her FATEHGARH. own work in combined day schools at this station and of the medical work of her sister, Dr. Fullerton, is brimful of interest. A few o f the items that enter into the busy lives of these sisters may be summed up as follows : “ Superintending the city girls’ school, visiting the parents of the pupils in their homes, superintending the Sunday school, teaching a class o f boys there, playing the organ at three Sunday services, assisting my sister in her medical work, visiting patients in their homes, buying supplies for the dispensary, directing the studies of young helpers, assisting in oiling and keeping in motion the ma­ chinery of our household and disnensary— these have been some o f my duties during the past year.” We have had no report of the Girls’ School at Rakha. Miss Morrow is at home on furlough. In her absence the work Is doubtless in competent hands. Here as elsewhere better accommodations and more helpers are needed. A recent letter from M rs. Bandy has been given in full 141 Woman’s Work, as well as extracts from Mr. Bandy’s report. Nothing can'be added to deepen the impression made bv this graphic description of “ a sweeper easte parish o f ten thousand, and "its needs.” M rs. Bandy writes as she works, with enthusiasm. Her letters always bring with them an atmosphere, breezy, inspiring and optimistic. In her lexicon there seems to be no such word as fail.

WESTERN INDIA MISSION.

We have not had the usual report from KOLHAPUR. Miss Patton, of the girls’ boarding school. A copy o f the report presented to the Mission failed to reach us. This was owing to Miss Patton’s ill health and the pressure of numerous duties in her weak­ ened condition. The year just passed has been much like the year before, only the girls have kept wonderfully well. The number of girls enrolled keeps about the same. Of herself Miss Patton says : 122 “ I knew I was tired; but I did not know I was sick or that my heart was overstrained until about eight months ago. I have tried to obey orders and ‘never hurry and never worry’ from that time until today. I have not had to give up my work, except for a few days at a time, but I have had to become an Oriental in putting off until tomorrow’ everything that I could. I wanted to put off going home until Miss Seiler could come to us, but I have not been able to convince our doctors that I am right about that.” “Miss Seiler, I understand, will' not' come until the autumn. In the meantime the burdens will fall on Miss Browne and Mrs. Simpson, both of whom have now all they ought to carry.” “ Please remember,” writes Miss Patton, “ that I am much better and our doctors say I shall be quite well when I am rested, arid fit for more years o f service. I expect to sail from Bombay May 25th.” That this sorely needed rest will restore her to health is the prayer o f all her friends in India and the homeland. Dr. Winifred Heston, whose medical work at this station has been so successful, is now home on furlough. She, too, has broken down in health, although at the present writing she has won.back a fair measure of strength.

Miss Patterson is back at work in the hos- MIRAJ. pital at this place after her months of fur­ lough, months that were’well put in in rest and work and recreation. Upon her arrival at Miraj her heart was gladdened by finding that the beds so sadly needed for her women had been put in the ward and Avere in use. The desire for these beds has been on her heart for a long time and while at home the generosity of a few friends made it possible to realize it. Miss-Patterson returns to her strenuous work rested, refreshed and strengthened, with many ideas she longs to make practical if only the nec­ essary funds can be obtained. The nurses working under her are too crowded in their quarters and are rendering good service under great disadvantages. It is hoped that better accommodations may come in time.

Owing to failure in health, Miss Johnson KODOLI. was obliged to resign her work and come home for rest and medical treatment. A few extracts from her annual report will give a glimpse of life in the girls’ dormitory. “ Let us visit the dormitory out of school hours and you will see 123 happy little girls at play. The new swing for the older girls has been a great attraction just as the one on the verandah was for the little ones when it was first .put up, and as it continues to be a source o f pleasure. “ See the groups of two, three and four, and watch the grace and rhythm with which they swing around and clap each other’s hands. The children all seem to love their new house-master and house­ mother. They, too, are very fond of the children and are very kind to them all. All the older girls in the school are asking for church membership. W ill you join us in prayer that each little girl may learn to know and love our Lord?” Another most interesting report of the medical work here has been received. Dr. Wilson finds much to rejoice over. Entire freedom from plague has marked the year. With a thankful heart he writes that Western India is freer from the scourge than at any time during the past ten years. In the Christian community there has been a considerable growth in numbers and in true living. Dr. Wilson writes in regard to the.work of the Hospital and Dispensary: “ The attendance has been fair and to all in-patients the Gospel has been faithfully presented. There have been many happy features. The gratitude of patients restored to health and able to take again their place at home is sometimes very touching. “ One o f the "school teachers who showed special fitness for evangelistic work was set aside to give most of his time to preach ing and teaching the Word. He has been very acceptable and faith­ ful. People seem more ready than ever to give respectful attention to the Gospel and ponder its claims.”

JAPAN.

There has been 110 halt in the well-established work in Japan. Our Board is represented by fourteen able mission­ aries in nine stations. Schools and kindergartens are full, with often a waiting list, as there is not room for all the pu­ pils who apply. Our missionaries are teaching or serving in some way, daytime and evening, work days and Sundays. O f the four­ teen, all are on the field with the exception o f Mrs. Weston T. Johnson, who is at home on furlough on account of her husband’s serious illness. M r. Johnson is now almost a well man and has been asked by tfie Board to take charge upon his return of a fine work in the new part o f Mororan. 124 There have been no resignations this year, and only one permanent change made in stationing our missionaries. Miss Mary Belle Sherman was transferred from Yama- guchi to Tsu, Ise. Although all our workers are at their posts, it has been a year of furlough for members of other Boards, so that much more care and responsibility has been laid on teachers left in charge. A need of money for outside help and teaching in the schools has been felt— and in some places a very crying need. The vital question of co-operation versus independence between the organized native churches and the supporting Boards is still unsolved. A t the mission meeting last fall at Karuizawa each branch of the mission in Japan was asked to send in a proposed plan o f action. The Board of M is­ sions is to scrutinize this variety of opinion in hopes thus to find the best solution. M r. and Mrs.. A . D . Hail and M r. and Mrs. Worley were sent upon their return from furlough,— the Hails to Osaka, the Worleys to Yamada. M iss Hail, who went out as a missionary to Japan with her parents, has been stationed at Kanazawa. . Miss Isabella Mae Ward is 'for the present in T o k y o ,' where she will remain until permanently stationed. Our missionaries are servants with ten talents. Let us not fail them in appreciation, or In their equipment for profitable service.

This has been a year of effort and care in TOKYO. the Joshi Gakuin. Miss Lila Halsey has had charge, as Miss Milliken, the prin­ cipal, is on furlough. M iss Halsey has taken most coMsrien- tious care of her health, lest she should give out at this im­ portant time. She now hopes to be able to stay two years more before furlough, thus, she writes, “ getting the coveted six years of continuous study of the language.” Up to January Miss Isabella Mae Ward was with Miss Halsey in Tokyo. Together they dramatized Van Dyke’s “The First Christmas Tree” for the Christmas entertainment. The school work has gone on well,— though short of teachers and funds. Miss Ward’s assistance was great in 125 many ways. She forgot her disappointment in not going back to her work in Sapporo in the aid she was able to give where she was so much needed. There have been some crit­ ical moments, Miss Halsey has written; once two cases of diphtheria in the school,— also a constant lack of funds; but great sympathy was always shown by the Japanese co­ laborers and wisdom was always given. Now things seem brighter for the development of the school. There are nearly 2-50 pupils in. attendance, among them five Chinese girls, four Korean, and the young wife and sister of the chief of the educational bureau of Korea. In one of Miss Halsey’s letters she tells of enjoying one old Bible reader, Aoki San, who works in an independent church among a circle of very earnest Christian workers. Miss Halsey has also written of a work some of the mis­ sionaries and Christian Japanese are personally carrying on in the small island o f Sado. For two years they have had a young evangelist there. This year they hope to have dif­ ferent teachers sent for a month at a time. Miss Halsey hopes that she may go herself, for a few weeks. Mrs. A. K. Reischauer, our only other missionary here, ‘ is working mainly among the young men of the M eiji Gakuin. There is a larger number of fellows in the Theo­ logical Department there than for some years, and a finer class of students. In the C. E. work one evening, out of an attendance of 33, fifteen took part. There is a wide influence to be gained over these young men. Mr. and M rs. Reischauer are at home to them every Friday night, and as they are living in the compound again this year they are constantly associated with the life of the boys. M rs. R eis- chaueu wrote of her work at Christmas time. She had charge of four trees, besides giving pleasure to many who were in special need of cheer by sending gifts and making timely visits. After an absence of several'weeks at Tsu, M iss W ard returned to Tokyo, where she will remain until she is per­ manently placed. She is feeling quite well. Much o f the work in Tsu was night classes, and much of it in neighbor­ ing villages, necessitating mid-night trains. It was too hard for a convalescent, and we feel that the exposure must 126 be very hard on Miss- Garvin, who has undertaken it this winter. M iss W ard found her girls rejoiced to see her again at the Joshi Gakuin. They greeted her with great enthusiasm. Miss Ward is much beloved always by her pupils. She hopes her new appointment may be in a girls’ school. We hope so too, as she is peculiarly fitted for it.

Miss Alice M. Monk is our only mission- SAPPORO. ary at present at this station. W hen we heard that Miss Smith, the principal of the Hokusei Jo Galcko, was to come home on furlough,— that Mrs. Johnson must also come home on account of her husband’s health, and that M iss W ard would not be able to go back to her work in Sapporo, we felt that Alice M onk was indeed left with a burden that even her brave spirit might not be equal to. W e who heard Miss Smith speak at “48” one morning, when she begged us to pray that strength and aid might be given to M iss M onk, shall not soon forget her tribute of love and admiration paid the one left behind alone at her post. In her first letter written soon after Miss Smith left, M iss M onk expressed the hope that she might keep up the school until reinforcement was sent. In November she wrote that Miss Moore, a very congenial co-worker, had been sent and she was enjoying her greatly. In that letter she gave a little glimpse of one evening’s work. She sa}'s she does not often have anything to do evenings, but she was to have a little lesson in hymn singing for the middle school boys at the Y . M . C. A ., and later in the evening a Bible class with some of her own teachers. In January M iss M onk wrote: “We are fortunate to secure Mrs. Morgan, wife of the English professor at the University, for extra classes. Our tuitions will cover the small amount we pay her this term, and I think for next. W e are losing at the end o f the term two of our faithful, well- trained teachers. Family duties call them, and a third teacher leaves the dormitory. T o supply these places we must use newly graduated girls, who are willing and able to teach the preparatory classes, so we shall manage, but we shall miss the experienced teachers in the manifold cares of the dormitorv, namely, escorting girls to doctors, dentists, eye and ear and nose specialists, for there is much o f these troubles in Japan, going shopping, getting money 127 orders, receiving calls, writing school letters; having oversight over students’ mail, of the small library, corridors, etc. All these take time, patience and a certain maturity to do w ell” M iss M onk adds: “ Happily Miss Moore and I- keep well and all will somehow work out God’s will for us all.” This letter is valuable as it gives us a distinct idea o f the duties and difficulties of a Christian mission school in Japan, and the strain sometimes put upon the few during th,e neces­ sary and so often untimely absences on furlough of not only our own but the missionaries of other Boards occupied together in the schools. In the last mission report 163 pupils were reported at morning service at the Hokusei Jo Gakko.

Our report comes this year from M iss KANAZAW A. Annie Hail, who went out to Japan last spring. Miss Luther, of the Philadelphia Board, who has reported to us for so long, has been very ill in Japan. A s she is making a slow recovery and not yet able to return to the Hokuriku Jo Gakko, Miss Mary Belle Sherman has been sent to help out for a few months. M iss Luther’s faithful life and Christian fortitude have made a lasting impression upon M iss Hail, who worked for a while with her in the school. The inspiration of such a personal­ ity gives a fine impetus to the outset of a missionary career. It breathes in Miss Hail’s letters. Miss- Hail writes us of the beauty of Kanazawa and of her great happiness in her work. The school has had a prosperous year. All'the ladies of the station have Bible classes inside and out of the city. M iss Hail has found plenty of work,— her own and that of absent missionaries, — rather a heavy burden, but put on willing shoulders. There is an interesting, bright class of pupils in the school. The Christmas preparations led to much planning and re­ hearsing. The girls who are Christions teach in five Sun­ day schools of the city, and their efforts to entertain their scholars at Christmas time were interesting. M iss Hail wrote of one entertainment in which she was particularly interested because of a young girl, the daughter af a “geisha”. After this girl’s birth the father took her 128 from the dancing girl mother and adopted her as his own sister. W hen she had finished the primary school work he sent her to this school to be further educated. She is a Christian now and a faithful teacher in the Sunday school. M iss Hail says it is certainly a tribute to the purity and power of Christianity that more than one girl whose father is not a good man, has been placed in our school as being the best place for her.

Miss A. E. Garvin, Mrs. David Murray OSAKA. and Mrs. A. D. Hail are stationed here. Miss Garvin was sent to Tsu and reports this year from there, but only temporarily. Mrs. Murray writes of her busy life, of her household cares and of little Margaret. Poor service in the house is a sad handicap, but Mrs. Murray has been able to take M iss Garvin's young men’s classes for English and Bible study. She devotes two evenings a week to these young men, many of whom attend Mrs. Murray’s Bible class at the North Church, Sunday mornings. . The Dendo Doshikan, where Dr. Murray is engaged, is in a flourishing condition with thirty students for the ministry. Eleven graduates are now preaching the Gospel in various fields,— some employed in our own missions, some by other missions and some by the Japanese. One is working in the Home Mission Board of the Japanese Church, his field being Mukden, Manchuria. Mrs. Murray finds many ways of being an inspiration. Her Christmas trees seem to stretch out their branches wider each year. Last year she had a little tree for the baby, to which she invited the wives and children of the married students, which made a nice little group for a baby’s party. This Christmas she trimmed up a much larger tree and invited all the married students with their families, and the pastors with theirs,— twenty-five children and as many grown-ups. M r. and M rs. Hail returned to Japan last spring. It was like going home to them. After a pleasant voyage M rs. Hail wrote that for four weeks almost every day was celebrated as a welcome to them by their friends. She is rejoiced to be in the midst of work again. The time is all 129 too short for the mothers’ meetings, the blending of Bible and cooking classes for women, Sunday school classes, open house for workers— evangelists and others, receiving and making calls, and all the daily events. She writes that the opportunities are far in excess of anything she has ever known before. M rs. Hail speaks o f the wonderful value of the Christmas celebrations, to the Japanese convert. The extra labor and the excitement of the children may seem often a hindrance to the general routine but it serves a great purpose also in filling a vacancy made in the usual Japanese social life by the dropping out of so many of their festival days connected with their old re­ ligion.

After an absence of three and one-half YAMAGUCHI. years Mr. and M rs. A yres returned to their old station. They found many changes, and much dilapidation in their own home, but are now fully es­ tablished in their work and interest. Mr. Ayres was president of the Council Meeting this year and has charge of three missionary fields. M rs. A yres has again taken up her old street S. S. in the same place. About forty children are in attendance. Her teachers meet every Friday for a lesson study together with the Church S. S. teachers. Her moth­ ers’ meetings in connection with the kindergarten are well attended and seem to be much enjoyed. At one meeting all the time was taken up with a talk on Christmas and why we celebrate it. Pictures were passed around and everything done to make it real to these women. Six were unbelievers and probably heard all this for the first time. Mr. Ayres spends much time traveling about preaching. He visited one village in the mountains where he found about ten Christian families who seem to have become such without aid from man directly. They have had the Bible to read but with little if any preaching, so it seems the work of the Spirit surely. Miss- Mary Belle Sherman was transferred to Tsu, Ise. It was hard for her to leave her pleasant home and much hard work, but M iss Garvin needed help and M iss Sh.erman cheerfully took up her staff. 130 W e cross the sea to Manchuria. M r. DAIREN. W inn is settled there over a church o f 100 members, independent of outside aid, except the work of the missionary and his wife. M rs. W inn writes that their hearts are bound more and more to these new Japanese possessions and they thank God every day that they were permitted to go to Manchuria. Last year she wrote us o f a trip she and M r. W inn took visiting the Japanese Christians in the large cities. They had often been invited, but had never before been able to arrange the visit. In one plaie they were rejoiced to find a group of thirty or forty Christians of different denomina­ tions meeting together for worship and taking turns in the charge o f the services where there was no one to assist them. They have flourishing meetings for women in four of these places, as well as Sunday schools. The W inns are welcome everywhere,— either entertained at the homes or expenses paid at the hotels. M rs. W inn hopes they may visit these places again and help them to organize strong churches. In August M rs. W inn visited Korea with her daughter, Mrs. Erdman. This necessary and unexpected journey was a great privilege, and M rs. W inn was re­ minded by the missionary movement in Korea of the simi­ larity to that in Japan during her first years there. There was a similar turning of the masses towards Christianity in Japan at that time, but the delay of treaty revision sud­ denly turned the people against everything brought them by foreigners. Since the war with China the tide has turned and the Russian war has brought Christianity into greater favor, so that now the thinking classes everywhere acknowl­ edge it is a good thing, although they themselves may not accept it. “ The Japanese have passed the stage where they can be expected to turn in large groups to accept the truth; it is more a question o f individuals as in our own country.” M rs. Winn says she has never, it seems, been so busy with direct missionary work. English teaching makes some heavy demands upon their time and patience, but it becomes endurable, she writes:

131 “ When it opens the way for us to give the W ord o f life to many we could otherwise never reach.” She has had more little meetings in homes, where a few women meet for Bible study, than ever before. Mr. and M rs. Winn have spent a good deal of time in holding meet­ ings in six places north of them, where there are little groups of Christians who welcome them. She says wher­ ever they go they are encouraged to find some Christiana and they always seem to them to be the salt o f the nation. Two weeks before Mrs. Winn's last letter was written thirteen joined the church. M r. W in n ’s illness during their life in Manchuria was the means of bringing to Christ the physician who attended him, and he in turn brought one o f his patients to study the truth and become an earnest Christian. M rs. Winn exclaims: “ H ow dear every one of those who learns through us to love the Lord becom es! None can know who has not had the same ex­ perience of travailing in pain for the new birth of a soul!”

M iss Julia Leavitt, our missionary, defines TAN ABE. her work as being, much of it, ‘‘just neighborliness.” It is a work full of grace .and love. She writes a great deal about little children, and the incidents she relates are very sweet. She has a little Japanese boy she has taken for her own. She makes his clothes and sews as she hears the lessons or talks to the neighbors. She writes that a num­ ber of homes have lately been opened “through a little kindergarten established in the church and S. S. room s.” “ I am not responsible for it,” she adds, “but both my Bible women help in it, and the pastor started it. It is poorly equipped and the teachers have had no regular training:” but the interest and friendship shown by the parents and children, she feels, are out o f all proportion to the work put in it. The-little ones seem to think M iss Leavitt’s home, as well as the kindergarten, belongs to them, and they come as early as seven in the morning to wait for teachers to go with them at nine o’clock. The children recognize the neighborliness. Miss Leavitt says that the sentiment in the public schools

132 is favorable now to Christianity. Seven o f the teachers are Christians and others are inquirers. She writes: “ Just now I must stop to receive a class pf them who come on Thursdays.” After Christmas Miss Leavitt wrote : “ After all, the greatest joy at this time is in giving. The little folk of our S. S. found the same thing true, for they really seemed to enjoy preparing their exercises to show their parents more than they did the gifts the teachers had so carefully prepared for them.” It was a busy time for many weeks. Miss Leavitt wrote there were so many children that they had to have four different celebrations; they could not crowd them into the church. She touchingly described’ the fourth tree, which was not in the church at a ll: “ The little ones on the beach were too wild to toll into any building, so they had their treat at the usual meeting .place under the pine tree.” Seventy-three were present,— fifty-six who had given in their names as pupils. “ But we cannot count on numbers there; it is like sowing seed broadcast,— a whirling breeze may carry it away.” If there are any lovers o f little children who do not be­ lieve in teaching the Gospel of Jesus in heathen lands, the following story told by Miss Leavitt will surely give food for reflection. She says : “ Last Sunday when I went down to the pine tree on the beach only a few children were in sight and all seemed shy. One wanted his name to be marked out, which was promptly done. The reason came out later. A Christian girl had died the week before and was buried in the little cemetery the church has pro­ vided out in the fields. The ignorant are always imagining mon­ strous things. When I questioned more closely about the reason the other children did not come one girl spoke out: ‘Yes, but teacher, a girl died the other day,—a Jesus girl, and she couldn’t be buried in the temple but had to be put in a hole in the field and they say she had to have nails driven in her head’— this last with a shudder and hiding her face in her sleeve. It was a good time to tell the few there of the beautiful and peaceful death o f the girl,—how she had been gently laid awav to sleep ’til God should call her, how she was glad and unafraid to go. W e are praying that this may be but a chance for the poor people o f the fishing village to hear a little o f the truth and cast away the foolish lie told to frighten them. . They were afraid that' if their names were 133 on the roll sonic dreadful thing would come to them. I promised that I would keep no roll o f names,— they were free to come or not.” Miss Leavitt s&ys all the other Sunday schools have in­ creased since Christmas. That is contrary to the general rule, but Christmas day is a great factor in foreign missions. Since their return to Japan Mr. and Mrs-. YAMADA, ISE. W orley have been doing some work for the Board in China and also in Manila. Since that work has been completed they have been stationed at their old field of Yamada. M rs. W orley writes that we cannot know how good it is to be back again. They find .many changes, but quite a growth in the work. Yamada is a beautiful place of 40,000 souls. It is in Ise, Mrs. Worley writes, where the imperial shrines are. A great many pilgrims visit these shrines, sometimes 10,000 a day. A great deal of missionary work has been done among them. M r. and Mrs. Worley started a church fund before they came home on a furlough. Upon their return they were present at a dedication. It is a very modest frame building, Mrs. Worley writes, but it was greatly needed and longed for, and she “knows the Father of us all meets there with them.” On dedication day she says the faces of the people fairly shone with their happiness. Mrs. Worley wrote us of the fatal illness of one o f their Christian girls. She says: “ Generations o f Christian forefathers could not have shown a child spirit o f greater sweetness, love and resignation than was shown by this little Japanese girl.” M r. and Mrs. Worley have been for some time this past winter at work in Osaka, as so many missionaries have been away for the year. They have done “some filling in” and language study, which Mrs. Worley says, although she “loves the soft and musical sounds, as a study is enough to turn one’s hair grey.” Miss A. E. Garvin went out to Tsu last TSU. spring to take M r. J. B. H ail’s place dur­ ing his furlough. In September, at Mis­ sion Meeting, Miss Sherman was appointed to go to Tsu 134 permanently. M iss Garvin and Miss Sherman kept house together in M r. H ail’s house. Miss Sherman had charge of the household, which care, in spite of many exigencies (and some very amusing to hear about), she always enjoys thor­ oughly. Miss Garvin writes that so many opportunities seek the missionary in Tsu that there is little time left for other things. The city and its five out-stations have always been in the hands of the Cumberlands. The Drennan Church is only a year old. The funds for it were raised in memory of Mrs. Drennan, who was long in charge of the work. This winter her friends in America presented the church with a bell. The church cost 6,000 yen and is free of debt. Miss Garvin reports sixty young men from school engaged in Bible study, a Y. M. C. A. organized with eighteen mem­ bers, fifty-one baptisms in two villages. Her evangelistic work and itinerations— with Bible women and native pastors — cannot be enumerated in a short report. Mrs. Murray wrote of spending a night in Tsu with M iss Garvin and Miss Sherman. Miss Garvin was just up from an illness brought on by the fatigue of an itinerating trip. There was a snap shot in the letter taken in the garden of Miss Garvin with little Margaret Murray in her arms. Miss Sherman had been so happy in her home and work in Yamaguchi that it must have been a trial to leave it and transfer her affections to Tsu. Hardly had she organized her housekeeping with Miss Garvin and begun to feel at home with her classes before a call came for her to go to Kanazawa, where help was much needed until Miss Luther should be able to return. A fter a school term she will re­ turn to Tsu. Such ready service as this of Miss Sherman’s can hardly be rightly appreciated. One is reminded of a line in Milton’s sonnet— “Thousands speed and post to do his bidding.” In one o f Miss Sherman’s last letters she says that in her heart she feels this year to be crowned with blessing,— • but more than all she longs to have it a soul-winning year. “Pray” she says, that “it may be counted for that.”

135 KOREA.

It was deemed wise that the Christians in the home land should be made acquainted with the present needs and pos­ sibilities of Korea, in the hope that knowledge would increase interest and open the purse strings. For this reason, a num­ ber o f cities have been visited by a committee o f Korea missionaries. Dr. and Mrs. Underwood prolonged their stay in this country to assist in this work, which has been signally blessed. Dr. Lilias- Underwood has been an important factor in the campaign o f the committee. M any times she has spoken to the women of the churches where her husband and his associates were endeavoring to interest the men. Since Dr. Underwood’s restoration to health, their eyes have turned longingly to their adopted land. They now expect to sail for Korea early in May.

It has been necessary to readjust the work SEOUL. of the Seoul station, to prevent the over­ lapping of our work and that of the Southern Methodist Mission. Notwithstanding these changes, the reports which come from Seoul tell o f more new churches, more new communicants, and more contribu­ tions than ever before. Dr. Eva Pieters has ably assisted M r. Pieters in his work as pastor and in his duties as Mission Treasurer. Fre­ quently the news comes that a building is inadequate to ac­ commodate the rapidly growing congregation. This was the experience in Mr. Pieters’ church. With the report, however, came the word that in two collections the poor Koreans raised $150.00 gold. They were given the site of an old heathen temple, upon which they have erected a new place o f worship. Mrs. Pieters has assisted in the W om an ’s Academy and has revised her arithmetic. Mr. and Mrs. Pieters have moved into “a comfortable house” in the South Gate Com­ pound. A little son has made his appearance to add to the joy of this new home. Mrs. Pieters writes : . “ W e are all grateful for the new workers. If the first arrivals are a sample, they will be a fine company of missionaries.” 136 Under Mrs. E.- H. Miller’s capable management the Woman’s Academy has had its best year. There have been about seventy-five in attendance— a large increase over the previous years. The school has been full to overflowing, and notwithstanding the abolishing of the Industrial Depart­ ment and the charge, in cash, for board and tuition, it has been necessary to refuse many applicants. Am ong the scholars are several dancing girls “all o f whom have developed into strong, earnest Christians.” Thirty-five girls are receiving instruction in music, in which they manifest much enthusiasm. The standard of the school has been raised, giving the girls almost the identical course of study pursued in the Academy for Boys. Mrs. Miller is particularly interested in a class of married women who are very appreciative of the opportunity for improvement. She writes: “ W e have been helped during the year by Mr. Yi W on Goon, one o f the eminent Chinese scholars of Korea, who has taught three hours a day free of charge.” Some of the girls, with true American enterprise, realiz­ ing there would not be room for all the applicants, arrived in Seoul some time before the opening of school, in order to make sure of their accommodations. With thankfulness we record Mrs. Charles Clark’s restora­ tion to health, and also the great blessing which has come to her twice bereaved mother-heart, in the person o f a sturdy little fellow, Allen de Gray. Never was a baby more wel­ come. M rs. Clark has engaged in evangelistic work, spend­ ing much time visiting the Korean women in their homes. From M r. Clark’s, report one gathers some idea o f the variety of work which may confront a missionary. He speaks of performing the duties o f a practical plumber and farther on in the report, mentions his translation of Dr. Herrick Joh n son ’s work on Homiletics with the added “necessity of creating a vocabulary as one goes along.” Greatly to the satisfaction of Mrs. E. H. Miller, our two new missionaries, Miss Helen Taylor and Miss Mabel Ritt- gers, are to be connected with the Women’s Academy. They are to have a home next to the school, and both write with enthusiasm o f their bright, sunny rooms, and o f the pleasure

137 they are having in furnishing their new home. At present, acquiring the language is their most important work. With sincere regret the Board of the Northwest has yielded to the request of Miss Rittgers and she has been transferred to the N ew York Board. Seoul is a center for medical work. The receipts of the Severance Hospital last year were $9,344.35, an increase of fifty per cent over the previous year. “ No money was received from the Board except the salary o f the hospital evangelist and that of Dr. Hirst’s language teacher” and no money was received from the government.

The work of our missionaries in Korea CHONG-JU. has been so blessed that we have learned to expect nothing but encouraging news from that country. Our expectations are more than justified by the report which comes of the work carried on at Chong- ju, where our Board has but one representative, M rs. F. S. Miller. Other Boards are sending out recruits to aid the small pioneer force. Mrs. Miller’s letters tell of increasing interest in the Bible classes. The Koreans do not neglect meetings for thanks­ giving, appreciating that a more hopeful, broader outlook has come into their lives as the result of the knowledge of a loving Heavenly Father. Mrs. Miller’s “ Thursday’s class, followed by- a ‘sight-see’ for new comers, has drawn many hearts nearer to their Saviour.” H er home is always open to the women and she has an important part in all the evangelistic work of the station. Mrs. Miller is in this country on her furlough, after an ab­ sence of twelve years. The need of a hospital at Chong-ju was most pressing and the generous gift of $5,000 from Mrs. Duncan, of New York, was greatly appreciated.

Although there is no longer a representa- FUSAN. tive of the Board of the Northwest at Fusan, we rejoice over the reports which come to us of the constantly increasing number of converts. W e shall always have a deep interest in this station, where M r. and Mrs. R. H. Sidebotham worked so faithfully for 138 their Master. Last autumn Mr. Sidebotham was suddenly called from this life to his Heavenly Home. Our hearts are filled with tenderest sympathy for Mrs. Sidebotham in her overwhelming sorrow.

While reading Mrs. W. L. Swallen’s re- PYENGYANG. port, one wonders if the days are longer in Korea than in our land, or whether our missionaries have made some compact with old Father Time. M rs. Szvallen writes that her work for the past year has been varied. In connection with her home duties, she has had charge of the Women’s work at the South Gate Church, superintending the Sabbath school and helping the teachers on Saturday prepare their lessons for Sunday. Mr. Swallen has charge o f the Western circuit, where thirty-seven Bible classes for women have been held. The classes have been taught by women who were members of the training class. Before starting out to teach, they have come to M rs. Szvallen for special instructions and to receive the lesson sheets and catechisms. She writes: “ W e pray together and they start off happy with their commis­ sion. On their return they come to me to report and we rejoice together and unite in a prayer of thanksgiving.” M rs. Szvallen has commenced a new work “ among the little folks who never yet have learned to sit still.” Fifty children are already enrolled, with the consent of their parents. Mrs. Graham Lee has had an active part in the different branches of work of this busy station, devoting much time to the Sunday school and Bible classes. M rs. L ee has also had charge of the Boarding Department of the Girls’ Acad­ emy. “ This department is self-supporting and conducted on the plan of a model Korean home. The purpose is not to foreignize the students but to improve their environment.” Mrs. Webb has been so long associated with our mission­ aries in Korea, that we think o f her, not only as M rs. L ee’s mother, but as an active factor in their absorbing work. Miss Velma Snook is in this country, enjoying her well earned furlough. Any one who has listened to her en- 139 thusiastic account of the one hundred and fifty girls en­ rolled in the school of which she is principal, girls whose hearts have been turned to their Saviour, whose minds are opening up to the delight of knowledge and to the real joy of living, and whose spare time out of study hours is spent in useful employment, must sympathize with her in her great desire to secure funds for a new school building. At pres­ ent, some of the class rooms are used for sleeping apart­ ments. M iss Snook cannot look forward to the close of school as a time of leisure, for then the Spring Bible Class is held, followed by .the Normal Classes, so one absorb­ ing work follows another in quick succession. Preparation must be made for these classes, in which most of our mis­ sionaries take part. Besides all this, which might be termed the missionaries’ home work, we find M iss Snook and others cheerfully responding, if possible, when extra help is needed in other stations. The railroad has greatly facilitated this interchange of needed help. There is a Government school for girls in Pyeng Yang, but the superiority of the Chris­ tian schools is acknowledged and the graduates are in de­ mand as teachers. A new feature of work is the Woman’s Home Missionary Society, which holds quarterly meetings and employs women to work in the heathen villages. Pyeng Yang has a library association with nine hundred books, which'are in constant demand. It has also a beauti­ ful new building, which will probably be called “The W om ­ an’s Bible Institute.” The funds for this building were contributed by Mrs. Borden and Mr. Crowell, of Chicago. We are pleased to hear that after two years of waiting M r. and Mrs. Bernheisel have a new home, large enough to be comfortable. Mr. Bernheisel has had a very busy year, but one filled with very encouraging results. The Caroline A. Ladd Hospital is an increasing power for good to both the bodies and the spirits of the Koreans. “Thousands have gone back to their homes to witness for Christ,' of whom they heard while at the hospital.” During the past year Miss Maria L. SYEN CHUN. Chase has devoted the greater portion of her time to educational work. The 140 Girls’ Academy, of which she is principal, numbers forty pupils. This number, however, conveys no idea of the breadth of knowledge and the adaptability required in a teacher, for these students are of all ages— from little girls just out of the primary schools, to middle-aged women, who must be fitted for immediate usefulness. The Koreans of all ages and classes, heathen and Christian, have developed a sudden appreciation of the incalculable advantages of an education. In addition to the duties in connection with her school, M iss Chase has found time to aid in evangelistic work out­ side of her own station, to take part in the Bible classes, and to keep up her work in connection with the W om an’s Sabbath school. Mrs. Cyril Ross’ medical training makes it possible for her to be of great practical assistance to the Korean moth­ ers in the physical, as well as spiritual care of their chil­ dren. She has classes for the new believers and for the catechumens; she gives lectures on Hygiene, and teaches in the Sabbath school'. A missionary who assisted in the Women’s Bible Classes at Syen Chun writes: “There was no listlessness or drowsiness or inattention. A spectator must have gotten the impression that Bible study was most absorbingly interesting.” A great change has been wrought in the neighborhood of Syen Chun. Just above the town sacrifices were formerly offered to the devil. Some time ago the building was for sale. The Christian business men took advantage of the opportunity, destroyed the building, burned the images, and the town gave the mountain side to one of the schools of the local church as an endowment. M rs. R oss writes that the carpenter who built the homes for the missionaries has introduced into his own home some of the foreign ideas. It many ways missionary homes are proving an uplift to the Koreans “who are not a degenerate people but a primitive, undeveloped people.” One of our new missionaries, Mrs. Ralph Mills, writes: “ Notwithstanding the vast ocean is between us and our home 141 friends, we had a very happy Christmastide and know tkat this is the beginning of many more.” M r s . Mills is to be one o f the pioneers at the new station of Kang Kai. She is busy preparing for the work. Owing to the distance and comparative inaccessibility of this new station, it is necessary to give much attention to the de­ tails of preparation. M rs. M ills writes: “ I had always heard o f the genuine brotherly feeling that exists between missionaries, but I never understood it until I had been among them and in some of their homes.” For a long time the people of Kang Kai have been hoping and praying for missionaries. A church is already estab­ lished, carried on by the Koreans under the supervision of missionaries from Syen Chun. Money has been appro­ priated for missionary homes and land for most of the com­ pound has been given by California ladies. Mr. Kennedy, of New York, has donated $5,000 for a hospital. The sta­ tion will be opened under most favorable circumstances.

We have especial pleasure in thinking TAIKU. o f one house in Taiku, which at present serves as the home of two mission­ aries, Mrs. Walter Erdman and Mrs. Chase C. Sawtell. W e are glad that it is situated on a hill, from which there is a view, not alone down into the valley, but up to the everlasting hills which surround Taiku. The history of this station, which covers but ten years, is encouraging, for it tells of a constant healthy growth in every department. Mrs. Sawtell writes that their new church will soon be com­ pleted. This building will be endeared to the Korean Chris­ tians not only as a place of worship, but as a monument of their true consecration, built at great sacrifice. Mrs.. Sawtell has been in Korea only a year and a half. W hile language study has necessarily been her pressing duty, she has taken part in the women’s classes and other evangelistic work of the station. Mrs. Erdman (Miss Julia Winn) on account of her inti­ mate knowledge of the Japanese, acquired in her father’s missionary home in Japan, is peculiarly adapted to meet the present conditions in Korea. The Japanese and his relation 142 to the Korean is a daily problem, not alone to the politician, but to the missionary, who must encourage the Koreans to meet with Christian tact the peculiar difficulties which daily confront them. The Woman’s Winter Bible Class is an important factor in bringing the women to Christ. During the past seven years the attendance at this class has gradually increased from eight to three hundred and fifty. The girls and women have become so anxious for an education that while four years ago there were no girls in the primary schools, now there are one hundred and forty. The Koreans give liber­ ally to the cause of education, and as nearly as can be as­ certained, the Christians have one-third of all the school children in Taiku. Middle aged and old women are making heroic efforts to learn to read, that the Bible may become an open book to them. A n instance is given of a woman who posted a copy of the alphabet where she could see it while engaged in her domestic duties, changing the place from time to time as she went about her work. The women of Taiku have a Bible class and Dorcas Society which meet every week. Gradually the Koreans are fitting themselves to take the positions of trained nurses, doctors, teachers and ordained ministers. Each year they give more liberally, building churches and contributing to hospitals and schools. If this interest continues to increase in the same ratio it has the past few years, some o f us may live to see Korea a Christian nation.

MEXICO.

A fter a six months’ furlough in the home IENTES " Rev. and Mrs. Petran and their three children returned to Aguascalientes, but they have not a very settled feeling, for in a few months they are to go to Saltillo to live. There has been no mis­ sionary family living in Saltillo since R ev. and M rs. W il­ liam Wallace left there to go to Coyoacan, so it is with great pleasure that Miss Wheeler anticipates the coming of the Petrans, for although Miss Wheeler is as busy a woman

143 discouraged over the spiritual condition o f us all: they were nice boys, doing comparatively good work, but the thing was lacking and we felt that we had labored in vain. But' in November came our day of Pentecost. I knew the boys better after those hours spent in prayer and testimony than in the two years we had been in the Seminary.^ . . . Many o f the students are the only mem­ bers o f their families who are Christians and nearly all had some one at home who had not been converted. How they did pray for them ! And the first answer came from way down in Yucatan. The best part of the revival is the transformed lives o f the boys and in that it has lasted.” Mrs. Wallace reports a very busy, happy year, saying that she “ never worked harder, never had such splendid health, and never enjoyed life better.”

Miss McDermid and Miss Cathcart in MEXICO CITY, our Girls’ Norm al School in Mexico City had a most successful year. There were enrolled a larger number of boarders than ever before, and the primary department (day pupils) has been larger than formerly. The graduating class of twelve was the largest ever sent out. This year, in addition to the scholastic and domestic training, the seniors have also had a training class in evan­ gelistic work, under Dr. Morales, who has entrusted to them some of his city mission work. They visit in the homes, teach the Sunday school lesson and infant cate­ chism, read the Bible, sing and pray. They have had special instruction and practice in personal work. Miss McDermid was at home on furlough last summer and aroused great interest in the school. After returning in October she worked with renewed vigor, and during winter vacation did all possible to get the school in readi­ ness for its opening in February, and when all was ready she bade good bye to Old Mexico and to the school and Mission which she had served with such ability and faith­ fulness for eleven years, and became the wife of Rev. W . B. Minton, D. D., of Silver City, New Mexico. By her going we have lost one of our best and most loved missionaries, but we do not begrudge her to Dr, Min­ 144 as can be found in Mexico, that does not prevent her from longing for a missionary neighbor.

This last year has been both the hardest SALTILLO . and the best in the Girls’ Normal School at Saltillo. The hardest financially, for the hard, times which have been felt in this country have been even more keenly felt in Mexico and South America, hence many parents have been unable to pay the tuition of their daughters. But it has been the best year in attend­ ance, in work and in spiritual growth. There were nineteen graduates, the largest class in the history of the school. All but one of these girls were members of the church. Again Miss Wheeler is left without a missionary assistant, Miss Boyce having left the school in January to be married.

SAN LUIS year stand out vividly in the POTOSÍ memory of many of our workers in Mex­ ico, but especially to R ev. and M rs. C. Scott Williams, in whose home a body of thirty-five men and women, representing twenty-one denominations (all but one) working in M exico, gathered to seek a special blessing. While they waited in prayer more than fifty con­ gregations throughout the Republic were also praying and, as is always the case, they did not wait in vain, for the H oly Spirit came and brought the sought-for blessing. The meet­ ings lasted a week, then the delegates went to their own homes, carrying with them the holy fire and revivals mul­ tiplied. Senor Euresti, who is one of the teachers COY O AC AN. in Coyoacan College and Seminary for Boys, attended the San Luis Potosi meet­ ing and returned a “ transformed” man, as he said. In the fulness of the Spirit he preached a sermon of remarkable tenderness and power to the students. The following day proved to be an unforgetable date in the religious experi­ ence of students and professors. Mrs. William Wallace, who is the president's wife, says in writing o f the revival: “ It was the crowning event o f the year; we had been very much

145 ton, ‘instead we congratulate ourselves upon having had those eleven years of splendid service. Miss Cathcart has had a busy year, both within and with­ out the school, for in addition to her teaching of English, music and Bible in the school she has continued the music class she began last'year for some of the boys at Coyoacan, having an average of sixteen pupils there each week. She has also assisted with the music in the services of the American and the Spanish church in Mexico City. In De­ cember she went to a couple of Indian villages up in the mountains to help them with their Christmas programs. O f this unusual and interesting experience she says: “ W e practiced choruses until we were nearly exhausted, and then to rest we would learn new songs that they could use in Sunday school. I never saw such enthusiastic people, they seemed just hungry to sing. On Christmas eve the first entertainment was given at San Salvador; there were two hundred and fifty present inside the improvised auditorium, and more than that listened on the outside. The church in San Pablo is larger and the program was better. About the same number attended. They told me I was the first white woman who had ever visited them.” In a city so full of interesting places as is Mexico City there are many opportunities for special pleasures for both pupils and teachers. There have been several excursions the past year to the museum, the cathedral, the Castle of Chapultepec (President Diaz’s summer home), and to the Hill of the Star, a small mountain of historical interest near the city. Many tourists from the United States visit Mexico in the winter, and they are always gladly shown the work of the school, and other work of our mission. Rev. and Mrs. Newell J. Elliott have made their home in Mexico City, although Mr. Elliott’s field was far to the south, and he was away a great deal. They have had better facilities for studying Spanish than could have, been ob­ tained elsewhere. M r. Elliott has supplied the pulpit in the American Presbyterian church for Some time. Mrs. Elliott’s health has not been good, and she is about to return to Lincoln, Neb., for a while to regain her strength. Let us pray that it may come speedily.

14G PERSIA.

Notwithstanding- the continued political TEHERAN. unrest, greater opportunities for service confront the missionaries to-day than ever before. They regret that the inadequacy of the force makes it impossible for them to fully avail themselves of the enlarged possibilities to tell the gospel story, in the hos­ pitals, and dispensaries, as well as in the increasing num­ ber of homes, where they are welcomed. Unusual conditions prevailed in the American Presby­ terian Hospital this past year. N ot only was Dr. Wishard detained in America, but Dr. Frame became ill, and was obliged to return to Resht in June. Then, two native as­ sistants left, one of whom after ten years’ connection with the hospital, opened one of his own. Consequently tre­ mendous responsibility came upon Dr. Mary J. Smith, who not only carried on her large work in the Woman’s De­ partment, but she assisted and advised in the administration o f the entire hospital. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the assistance given by Dr. Neligan, of the English Legation. Dr. Lindly, of the Shah’s staff, and Dr. Scott, of the English Telegraph. The latter took entire charge of the surgical work in the Woman’s Department, and assisted in that of the men’s. One hundred and ninety-seven men were admitted to the hospital; twenty less than last year. The average daily calls at the dispensary were thirty-five— varying from fifteen to seventy in a morning. The two small medical classes were taught by Doctors Neligan, Lindly and Scott, thus relieving Dr. Frame. W hen he left in June, the hos­ pital was closed, but the dispensary, under the care o f Mirza Israel, continued its work. One of the greatest needs is more native assistants. Dr. Smith kept the W om an ’s Department open until late in the summer, Avith about the same number of patients as last year. She had a large dispensary practice also. It is with deep regret we report the hospital again with­ out the much needed professional nurse; Miss Flora Brad­ ford being compelled to resign on account of ill-health. 147 Earnest efforts have been made to secure a successor, and it is hoped that M iss M ary Cowell, o f Indianapolis, will go this summer with our returning missionaries. Dr. and M rs. . Wishard’s return in December was an occasion of rejoicing and thanksgiving. The need for, more laborers and money is keenly felt in our school. The much prayed for open door has swung wide open, and “ we might think the church was refusing to en­ ter, preferring to keep on praying,” when the sum of $400 could not be spared to provide enlarged accommodations. Thanksgiving is expressed for some improvements that were made, but the year had scarcely begun until methods had to be devised, in order that the constantly- increasing numbers could be cared for. A teacher from one of the schools which have been , opened by the Persians for their own girls, since now they value education, was so impressed by a visit to our Iran Bethel, she exclaimed, “ I f this school in its perfection were known, you would have one thousand girls begging for admittance. I have visited every school in the city and only hère have I found learning.” It was a good year for the Iran Bethel with 97 Armeni­ ans, ()2 Moslems, 9 Fireworshippers enrolled ; 180 in all. The four graduates of 1907 came back as teachers. A large portion of the tuition could not be collected last year, because so many are hopelessly poor, and the rich haven’t ready money. Miss Cora Bartlett closes her report thus : “ W e are starting out on a new year, knowing ’we cannot take a single advance step. Oh ! it is bitter hard. Pray not so much for a wider open door, but for force and means to use the splen­ did opportunities that are ours now. Pray for the power that cometh from above, so to move and control all, that God’s name shall be glorified.”

Peace and quiet have prevailed through- Ô A M A D A N . out the year at Hamadan, and there the annual meeting of the Eastern Mission was held. The prayer sessions, as well as the conferences about the work, were inspiring and helpful. It was not only a very suggestive but a very spiritual meeting.

148 Dr. and M rs. Funk were thankful their new and com­ fortable home could accommodate many guests, and its hospitable doors were wide open. Mrs. Funk's time is fully occupied between her home and the Lilly Reid Holt Memorial Hospital, where her ver­ satility displays itself. Besides being as it were, matron or housekeeper, she makes garments for the needy patients. Even in the unfinished state of the building, and conse­ quent lack of facilities, there wrere 44 patients in the hospi­ tal to the first of August, 33 surgical operations were per­ formed there, 36 elsewhere. A native interne has given valuable assistance, and Dr. Clara Field has taught three medical classes. Efforts are being made to find her suc­ cessor, as she expects to resign, to assume other duties else­ where. Although the station will be left without a phy­ sician, it has been finally decided best for Dr. and M rs. Funk to take their furlough, which is due this year. They regret leaving such a situation, but the outlook a year hence is not more promising. Mrs. Euwer, who is in ill health, returns with them, enabling Mr. Euwer to stay another year. The lives of the pupils are a testimony to the work of the Faith Hubbard School, “which,” writes Miss Holmes. “ serves the homes of Hamadan and is commended by the mothers for what it has done.” The Persian girls are wanting an education. Ten Armenian and two Moslem girls confessed Christ. W e are sorry to report that since June, the Boarding de­ partment o f the school is necessarily closed until Septem­ ber, 1909, for financial reasons. O f the 78 pupils enrolled before the change, 33 have withdrawn for valid reasons— the 15 Moslems because of the distance of the Moslem quar­ ter from the school. The consequent loss o f influence with the Moslem girls is greatly regretted. Persian teachers are needed, and a possible two have been hindered finishing their course by the closing of the Boarding Department.

149 Doing medical work without the proper " equipment and entertaining welcome guests, are some of the things that occupy the time o f Mrs. F. M. Stead, M. D. Many of the morn­ ings are given to the dispensary calls, the afternoons to the much valued visiting in the homes, which is one of the best ways of getting close to the people. After the formal salutation, refreshments are served, then comes the oppor­ tunity for reading the Scripture and telling the gospel mes­ sage which is" listened to eagerly. But not until religious liberty is given can the results be really known. In one place, where a Moslem convert was located among his people as an experiment, very much to the surprise and great satisfaction of the missionaries the result was twenty baptisms in ten months. Mr. and Mrs-. Stead did some itinerating during the year, and M rs. Stead graphically de­ scribes a thrilling experience of finding themselves sur­ rounded by 200 Loors, and after a fearful skirmish they were thankful to escape with their lives. M r. and M rs. Stead expected to leave Persia about March 1st, coming home for a well earned and much needed rest.

Dr. Emma Miller, our only missionary URUMIA. in XJrumia, after a prolonged stay, came home in July, immediately after com­ mencement, and the dedication of the new part of the hos­ pital. Besides having the “ Howard A nnex,” a hospital for women, including a dispensary, under her care, she taught a medical class, and did medical itineration. The new building donated by S. M. Clement, of Buffalo, in memory of Dr. Cochran, connects the two older ones, and gives a new operating room, and additional rooms for patients, so that 75 can now be accommodated. The large and distinguished audience that attended the dedication of the building was a fitting tribute to the Mis­ sion. “ The statistics for the medical work show 103 in-patients, 4,308 dispensary patients, 1,812 seen in city and villages and 1,175 seen on tours; total 7,408. Fees received were 1,419 tomans. This is quite an increase over last year, and- the work o f the station is very encouraging.” 150 Civil war conditions have been more cril- TABRIZ ical in Tabriz, than elsewhere, with every day new and conflicting- rumors arising. While the confusion in the city has interfered with some of the work, and the political unrest caused irregular. attend­ ance, the number of pupils in the Memorial School was doubled last year. “The Nationalists are favorable to the new system of education, while the Reactionists would retain the old sys­ tem of Mosque schools.” Mrs. Wilson writes, “ I am not used yet to the wonder and joy of it, that after so many years’ waiting we have Moslem scholars at last, and our opportunity to teach them is not restricted.” Mathematics, the sciences, history,— secular and religious — are taught in English, and school opens every day with a half hour devotional service. Warm appreciation of the school is heard on all sides. The sudden enlarged oppor­ tunity for education, calls for increased financial support. To all regular, as well as new contributors, thanks are ex­ pressed, and we report with gratitude the gift from Mr. Dulles, of land adjoining the Mission premises, thus making much needed enlargement possible. During Mrs. Wilson’s twenty-two years in Persia, she has had a Sabbath school class of Armenian boys, until this year, her class is composed of about fourteen of the younger Moslem boys. Sunday afternoon the younger boarders spend a profitable hour in her home. And in the evening around the same table the older boarding pupils gather for a Bible reading. Twice a year, Mrs. Wilson and others visit the Leper village, and from their ministries these hopeless ones recognize it is in His name our missionaries go to them, and they exclaim “ N o one else pities us.” Mrs. Van Hook’s word pictures give a realistic impres­ sion of the situation in and about Tabriz. Notwithstanding the unrest and turmoil the opportunities for service can not be met, and the burden of her letters is for re-enforcements. It is hoped Dr. Cora White-Carpenter will go to Tabriz this summer, and that the Whipple Memorial Hospital (closed since Dr. Bradford’s return) will be opened, enabling the 151 women to be ministered to spiritually as well as physically. Miss Beabcr, the efficient principal o f the girls’ boarding and day school, left Tabriz the middle of May, for her furlough, and Mrs. Van Hook assumed charge of the well organized work. The cares and responsibilities, while pleasant, have been arduous for one who has been out of the school work so long. Mrs. Van Hook found one little girl among the fourteen boarders and fifty day scholars, whose mother and grand­ mother had been her pupils. The closing exercises, including a calisthenic drill, ‘‘showed the result o f Miss Bcabcr's careful training.” The general awakening of the nation promises a bright future for this school, which was opened again in September. There have been many applications for the admission of Moslem pupils. Parents are willing to pay tuition and board as never before. Men o f the upper classes are de­ manding wives educated, not only in English, but needle­ work and music, making the work of the schoolroom the smallest of their requirements. After thirty-two years in Persia, Mrs. Van Hook writes of “ a cup running over with faithfulness and devotion, on the part of those for whom I have spent my life, and only wish I had another to give to their children and grandchildren.” W e report with sorrow the sad bereavement which came to M r. and Mrs. Pittman in March when their only child, Clement, passed into life eternal, and our hearts go out to them in loving sympathy. During the past year Mrs. Pittman visited much in the homes and she saw much suffering caused by the scarcity and prohibitive prices of fuel and provisions. Besides her home duties, she taught three English classes in the girls’ school. Mrs. Pittman writes of the good attendance of Moslems at the church, and five young men, very much in earnest, have met regularly with Mr. Pittman to discuss Islam and Christianity, and she says: “ Pray for them, that they may be brought into truth, regardless o f consequences. W e see that these people are willing to suffer 152 everything for freedom and progress. May they have the same fearless spirit to be willing to suffer and die if need be for the things of Christ.” Last year Miss Holliday wrote of her visits to all sorts and conditions of homes, the humblest and the highest, telling of the sad consequences of war, famine and pestilence, and the victims claimed by fever and cholera. While such circumstances affected the attendance at the church services, Christians contributed to foreign missions, and their money was sent to Korea, where it supports a native pastor. Following professional advice, Miss Holliday went to Berlin in July, to c&nsult her oculist, who recommended a rest, which is not surprising since her last furlough was twelve years ago. Accordingly Miss Holliday came home, and is hoping to return to Persia this summer.

THE PHILIPPINES.

Ow ing to ill health M rs. Lamb is to re- M AN IL A. turn to the United States this year m May. She writes that -she has been un­ able to do her full share of work on the field but has assisted with the vocal and instrumental music in the Ellinwood girls’ school, and when able, has sung in the choir of the American Church. Last September she visited the Silliman Institute at Dumaguete and found that splendid work was being done there. O f the four hundred students enrolled, thirty expect to be ministers. It is hoped that the visit to this country will soon restore M rs. Lamb to complete health and that she and her husband may be permitted to return to the work where they have been so useful.

Quite recent news has come from this sta- ALBAY. tion where Air* and Mrs. Roy Brown are working. Air. Brown goes about the coun­ try a great deal, and finds his wheel o£ most valuable assist­ ance. In a town near by a new chapel has been built, the work and material entirely given by the native members of the church. In one of her letters Mrs-. Brown tells o f ’ an elaborate feast given by a native Christian at the baptism of 153 his child and which she greatly enjoyed. “Another big occa­ sion,” she writes, “was the Christmas entertainment and feast for the children.” The exercises consisted of recitations by the children from the Life of Christ as arranged by Mr. Brown. The supper was arranged by each one bringing a donation of prepared food. In the missionary’s home the Christmas was a very happy one and “little Barbara was well supplied with gifts.”

This quotation from Mrs. Brinton’s letter ILOILO. will show the spirit in which this mission­ ary works: “I love the Islands, and Iloilo especially.” “I am glad my work is here.” In charge of the nurses in the Union Hospital she finds time to write o f her work. She is proud and fond o f her “ little nurses.” The description of the hospital is that “it is quite pretty with roses over the porch and arbor, and the lawn, is the prettiest in town.” One night six earthquake shocks frightened them a good deal, but did no injury. The need of money for the work is felt in this station as in many another. It is only through outside gifts that poor patients can be treated at the hospital. There is much need for more rooms for patients, now that the Baptists have joined with the Presbyterians in forming a Union Hospital. Notwithstanding cramped quar­ ters and limited means, great good is being done by th- faithful members of this station.

SIAM.

By a recent treaty, three more provinces have been ceded to England, which has caused much excitement in Siam, although it is generally supposed there are privileges to be gained, such as the capitalizing of a railroad on the Malay peninsula which shall eventually connect Bangkok with Singapore. All the work of the Siam Mission has been progressing well this last year, while the health of the missionaries has been maintained. Extended tours have been made in the Puket region by Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Dunlap, Rev. Mr. Snyder and Dr. Bulk- 154 ley. As the old schooner “Kalamazoo,” which has served so many tours is fast becoming- unsea worthy, the Mission has ordered it to be sold, consequently these trips have been . taken by launches, ponies and on foot, for the purpose of visiting scattered groups o f Christians. Some of these have waited long and patiently for the coming of a missionary.

Preaching services have been maintained BANGKOK. in two chapels, besides the three churches and .there are eight Sunday schools in Bangkok with an attendance of 450 pupils. At the Harriet M. House School, Miss Edna Cole and M4ss McCord have done the work of three well-equipped missionaries. The recent arrival of Miss Blount from America has gladdened all hearts, although they need a third teacher to fill vacancies in the teaching force. In November when the whole country was rejoicing over the return of His Majesty, the King, this school joined in the grand festivities and boldly attempted to reproduce on the river landing a statue of “ Liberty enlightening the world.” Each pupil received a silver medal bearing, the portrait of His Majesty, and the girls were proud to have a part in this celebration. In addition to the regular course o f study a normal class has been formed with two lecture hours every day for Siamese teachers. The Christian graduates o f this school are also interested in three day schools which are open to both boys and girls and taught by some of their own number. The Boys’ Christian High School has had another year added to its course o f study, the student fees have been slightly raised, while at the same time a school uniform has been adopted. The new gymnasium was completed and furnished without expense to the Board and already a change is noticed in the muscular development of the students. M iss Annabel Galt is not only assistant in this school but also treasurer of the Mission and teacher of the Normal Class for Siamese teachers. The total enrollment is 293 and the attendance of the Sunday school 100. The first Teachers’ Conference was held in Bangkok this year from March 23rd to April 1st, followed by another conference for Christian workers. As school closed March 15th, it was vacation time 155 and delegates could be accommodated in the dormitories while the meetings were held in the High School Hall. All the meetings were helpful and proved a spiritual blessing to both teacher and pupils. The Boon Itt Memorial Young Men’s Institute is nearing completion and Dr. C. E. Walker is the General Secretary. Funds are needed for the lighting and furnishing of this new building and 4,000 ticals have been subscribed in Siam toward the 10,000 ticals which will be needed. Dr. E. P. Dunlap is the President. A number of missionaries have passed PETCHABURI. through Petchaburi this year, on their way to the new sanitarium at Bangtaloo, which is now being built as a health resort on the seacoast. The cool sea breezes have brought new strength and vigor in cases of protracted fever. Mrs. J. A. Eakin has assisted Miss Bruner in the work of the B oys’ School and also conducted a Aveekly prayer meeting for women, which brings reli­ gious instruction to those who do not attend church. About forty women have been reached in the course of the year. There is also some definite work started for the women and children living in two Laos villages near-by and*a Mission Sunday school has been started at the Market Chapel. Dr. Eakin feels it is very important to tour among the villages. There are thousands of Karens living in the * foothills near Petchaburi who know little of Buddhism and are ready to accept salvation through Christ. The Mission also asked Dr. Eakin to tour down the west coast and it remains for M rs. Eakin to carry on the work at Petchaburi in his ab­ sence. In this way the Gospel has been preached in fifty villages and large towns where groups of Christians may be found and sixty-two new names were enrolled as candidates for baptism. Miss Edna Bruner has charge of the Boys’ School assisted by M rs. J. A . Eakin. Sabbath services here and the Boys’ RAJABURL. School are under the special charge of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cooper, while the Girls’ School in Mrs. Wachter’s absence is carried on by Christian Siamese teachers. 156 The little dispensary has had 1,800 out-patients and a medical revenue of 1,560 ticals. The day schools report an attendance of 138 pupils. N o new workers are yet ap­ pointed to take the place o f Rev. and M rs. Hugh G. M oody, so that there is little touring to report this year, in this im­ portant, prosperous locality. Mrs. Cooper writes that “the government has sent a fine Christian teacher and his wife to open a school at Piiket on the peninsula.”

There have been three families here on NAKAWN. the Malay peninsula this last year occupy­ ing two houses until the third shall be built. This makes touring possible to reach Christians in five different cities, and seven communion services have been held in these remote places this year. Chit of the 164 communicants on the church roll less than one-third live within ten miles o f the city. The religious work at the Hospital is encouraging. Nine persons have publicly con­ fessed Christ and the in-patients number 171, with daily services for all in the Hospital Chapel. Miss Cooper has charge o f the boys’ school. A t the time of the “ Three Days Idol processions,'’ Mrs. Eckels writes, “The confusion was something dreadful. I felt that the fight is on between this old idolatrous worship and the religion o f our Lord Tesus Christ. The Chapel was well filled with people who do not take part in this heathen ceremony. W e sang one hymn after another and so kept up a brave front in face o f the enemy.”

The severe illness of Dr. Carl J. Shellman PITSANULOKE. early in the year was the cause of much anxiety to Mrs. Shellman, as the continu­ ous fever kept him out of the medical work for about two months, but his recovery was fully assured after a rest at the Bangtaloo Sanitarium. Mrs. Shellman writes in Feb­ ruary, “ Dr. Shellman had so many severe cases we were out only ten days for our little tour up river. The stereopticon was used every night to show, the views of the Life o f Christ. Usually the pic­ tures were shown in Buddhist temples, always with priests in the audience. During the day, portions of Scripture, tracts and medi­ cines were sold and the sick treated. The hot season has come on with a vengeance. I am going to try to keep away from the 15? thermometer this year. It doesn't help anyone to know that it is 99° in the ‘cool’ room.” Our next news from Pitsanuloke was the announcement, “Little John Laurence Shellman arrived March 10th, 1909.” LAOS. During the past year there has been severe illness among the missionaries of our Laos stations. This has caused much anxiety but: now that the sickness has passed, we rejoice that all these precious lives have been spared, for the depletion of the missionary force is a serious hindrance to the work. The following changes have taken place during the year : At Chieng Mai, Dr. and M rs. J. W . M cK ean are now on furlough. Rev. and Mrs. David Park have been obliged to resign from the Nan station. Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Taylor have been transferred from Lakawn to Nan. Dr. and M rs. Charles H. Crooks have been assigned to medical work at Lakawn, where Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Vincent are to have charge of the Kenneth McKenzie Memorial School. M rs. Hansen and Miss Edith M. Buck are still in this country. While all hearts were rejoicing over the return of Dr. and M rs. W . A . Briggs to Chieng Rai, the sad news came of the death of their youngest child, Adella, after a very short ill­ ness on the Menam River. This was indeed a sharp afflic­ tion and the burial services took place at Lakawn, just as our missionaries were assembling for the Annual Meeting in December. Two new missionaries have arrived, Rev. Lyle J. Beebe, who goes to Chieng Rai, and Dr. Edwin C. Cort, who has been assigned to Pré with headquarters at Lakawn. The total membership of the Laos churches is 3,705, of which 331 have been added this year, a gain of fifty over last year.

Here we have Prince Royal’s Collegè, CHIENG MAI. which is our boys’ boarding school with 122 pupils. A higher class of trained teachers is needed, to whom fair wages shall be paid. Dur­ ing the summer there were forty native teachers who came from Lakawn and Chieng Mai and were under special in­ struction for four weeks. Miss Mabel Gilson assisted in this summer school while superintending the arduous work of carrying on the Chieng

158 Mai girls’ school alone. There are sixty-six boarding pupils and forty-six day pupils in this girls’ school. Every line o f work is expanding, English, Siamese and Industrial. It is earnestly hoped that when Miss Edith M. Buck returns, she will bring with her a third teacher to relieve Miss Gilson. Miss Gilson writes, “ Today is Saturday. The girls have scrubbed the dormitory,, washed their clothes and hair. The ironing still remains to be done. W e are weaving glass towels, cloth for skirts and cloth for mattresses, and we are all the time taking in plain sewing. I could use two or three more machines if I had them. Mrs. Mason has begun teaching lace-making to the teachers and they are learning very rapidly. Do you think you could help me find a market for it in America? W e can furnish some very pretty patterns for nine or ten cents a yard. With this industry, the sew­ ing and the weaving on the new Indian looms, we hope to be able to take in every girl who is willing to work. Our morning Bible Lessons will be the study of First Samuel. The translation has just been finished. My highest class is studying the ‘Acts of the Apostles’ according to Blakeslee. I translate the lessons and give them to the class in the form o f lectures, which they take down in a note book and recite upon it. This class is in the 2nd English reader, having completed a primer and first reader and one year of language work. They are also taking English, Arithmetic and Geography and second year Siamese. Most of them sew well by hand and machine, can crochet and weave and do drawn-work. They also read their own language and have completed Bible stories and a thorough Life o f Christ. Three o f them are also studying music. They are studying the same books as the Siamese teachers, so you can see that all their future work must be done by the missionaries.” Up to the time of her illness, Mrs. McKean edited the monthly native paper and also prepared a manual for the instruction of new believers. After months of suffering, she is slowly recovering and she is now on furlough with Dr. M cK ean in this country. Mrs. C. W. Mason writes, “ When we came here two years ago, the railroad was finished to Paknam, now it runs up to Utaradit, a short distance from Pré. This journey is three days from Bangkok by rail. W e have had a visit the last week from the brother o f the King, who is now in charge o f the mail department, and he told us that from now on, our mail will go via Bangkok in fifteen days from Bangkok to Chieng Mai and that we are to have semi-weekly mail ”

159 This station requires much touring, for CHIENG RAI. there are twenty-three villages containing groups of Christians, and M rs. C. H . Crooks writes of her great joy in making these tours. Peo­ ple who were only interested last year, are now ready to believe in the “Jesus Religion.'’ Mrs. Crooks w rites: “ I wish you could see the dear Laos women. I know you would love them just as I do. W e do have such beautiful Christian women here. If you could hear them teach their classes on Sun­ day and see their faces glow with heavenly light, you would be glad of the work in which the Board of the North-West have such a large share. They are worthy for whom you labor. At last annual meeting we were stationed in Lakawn, where we hope we will be to the end o f our missionary lives.” Mrs. H. S. Vincent has written of her school and her work for the study classes and the daily Bible class for women in Chieng Rai. They moved into their new brick house in July, which has been a great curiosity to the natives. On one tour last October they received fourteen into the Chieng Sen Church. The total membership of the Chieng Rai churches is 137 and they contribute exactly one rupee per member. By the removal o f Dr. and Mrs. Taylor LAKAWN. to Nan and the furlough of Dr. Hansen, several changes were made in the Lakawn station. Dr. and Mrs. Crooks take up the medical work and Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Vinccnt have charge of the Kenneth McKenzie Memorial School. Both Mrs. Crooks■ and M rs. Vincent have written letters descriptive of their feelings in touring on the long journey from Chieng Rai to Lakawn. They arrived in time for the Annual Meeting in December. Dr. and Mrs. Crooks not only teach and visit in the hospital wards but provide chapel services for patients and distribute books and tracts to all who can read. Prince Nares lately visited the hospital and showed his appreciation of the work by a donation of 100 ticals to the hospital fund.

The departure of Mr. and M rs. Park and NAN. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett have left the sta­ tion at Nan desolate. In their extremity Dr. and Mrs. Peoples made a most urgent appeal for rein- 3 eo forcements. Their beautiful chapel still lacks a desk and pews, while it has a debt o f one thousand ticals, but it also has a total membership of 190 members. Dr. and M rs. Taylor arrived from Lakawn in August to continue the boys’ school established by Mr. Park and care for the church at Nan. We quote from Mrs. Peoples’ letter, dated Novem­ ber 24th, 1908 : “ The hospital is overflowing with cases. Litter after litter arrives, but after a few days or weeks the patients walk away with grateful hearts and the litters make fire wood instead of biers. All the Christians are doing their best, for they want to help us in our extremity. I have had such good talks with Nai Tun, once a Buddhist priest, now the dispensary accountant and collector. I try to be faithful to the lepers at our gate. One day when I had asked Nai Tun to take out the money for them, he said, ‘You have great merit.’ I was distressed that he retained such a conception and told him the beautiful story Jean Ingelow expresses in ‘Monitions of the Unseen.’ It was worth many suf­ fering days to see the light of tender joy in his eyes, for he com­ prehended.” The station at Pré is no longer to be neg- PRE. lected, for Dr. Cort is assigned to this work, with headquarters at Lakawn. Dur­ ing the last year the Christians at Pré have been visited several times by Dr. Hugh Taylor and Rev. Henry White. They cannot understand why they shtpuld have been left alone for the last three years.

SOUTH AMERICA.

BRAZIL.

After leaving San Joao de Paraguassu last BAHIA. spring Miss Belle McPherson went to Bahia and supplied M r. Eells’ place in the school. This work she enjoyed greatly, for she found the children such responsive little people. In July she reached her home in Michigan where she has been resting, but com­ bined with her rest have been a number of talks on her work and several weeks of study at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. W e were very happy to welcome her to Room 48 and to hear her tell some o f the inspiring incidents of' her work. 161 CHILI. W hen there are as few missionaries in a SANTIAGO. field so large as Chili it is a difficult prob­ lem to apportion the work when some of the workers must take their vacation. So it took a large amount of shifting about when Rev. and Mrs. Boomer and .family came home for a year. R ev. and M rs. Garvin went from Copiapo to take charge of Mr. and Mrs. Boomer's work in Santiago and they have had a very successful year. M rs. Garvin’s letters are full of enthusiasm. It was such a pleasure to those who met at Room 48 to have Mrs. Boomer there week after week, always ready to tell the latest news from Chili and always so interested in our work at this end, too.

It is strange to think of the Boomers liv- CONCEPCION. ing anywhere but in Santiago but on their return they went to Concepcion to relieve Mr. McLean, who has been there for two years. It is a very difficut field but M r. and M rs. M cLean have endeared themselves to the people and in spite of the difficulties were loath to give it up. W e shall wait with eagerness for M rs. Boom er’s letters from her new home, and hope that Mr Boomer's health will be greatly benefited by the change.

Rev. and Mrs. Spining have bravely con- VALPARAISO. tinued their work here under great diffi­ culties this last year. In September their baby, Kenneth, who was a little over a year old, became ill and on the fourth of October, after much suffering, he quietly slipped from his mother’s arms into the peace and joy of One who loves little children with Divine love. Even from the depths of their grief his parents write: “He doeth all things well.” On Christmas Eve, a new baby— William Duncan Spining — came to them and has been doing his best to cheer their sad hearts. Mrs. Spining"s life was almost despaired of but the latest word is that she is gaining in strength. It is very hard for her to be laid aside from the work which is so much to her. W e have no mission station which carries on a greater 162 variety nor more interesting work than Valparaiso. The last report is brief but significant: “Pentecostal blessings in Valparaiso.” Rev. and Mrs. Jesse S. Smith have been COPIAPO. at this station a little over a year. M rs. Smith, in a recent letter, says: “ This has been such a good year for us in so many ways, even though we are so far away from the center o f Chili that I could not attend the annual mission meeting and Presbytery. This year there was a splendid C. E. convention, too. . . . My principal interest and work in Copiapo is with the girls. Pray for them that they may learn to distinguish between right and wrong and do the right, and that they may be able to withstand the taunts of their companions.”

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.

W e congratulate ourselves that the work BOGOTA. in Bogota has become more o f a reality to us during the past year on account of our closer contact with it through hearing Miss Mary I. Freeman tell of it at Room 48 and through Mrs. Charles S. Williams’ graphic and intensely interesting letters. Both tell o f the hard times and some discouraging phases of the work and both urge the great need for more workers and have opened our eyes to the immense opportunity before us. O f the girls’ school Miss Freeman says: “ There' have been fewer girls in the school than usual on ac­ count o f the hard times and the unusual amount of work the priests have done against us. I f only we had funds to give schol­ arships, what a blessing it would be, as there are many bright girls who ought to be in the school and some who could grad­ uate this year, but their parents simply cannot pay even the small tuition. “They are Protestants—girls from the families in our church— and yet we cannot help them, for it is a pinch to make things come out even. . . . I long to educate them and use them in our work. It is gratifying to see how some who come into the school, and especially the Bible classes, with fear and trem­ bling, change and become the most interested members. . . . The work here is very slow, but perhaps it is better so, for the people have the fiery enthusiasm of the Latin races, and it is better that they should take time to think and understand what they do.” Mrs. Williams’ chief interest is in the school for boys, of 163 which M r. W illiam s has charge. Some of their time is still taken up with language study. A baby boy came to them in August and of necessity he takes a good deal o f time and attention, but in spite o f him Mrs. Williams has time to do some visiting among the. church people and to help Mr. Williams in the management of the school, and to teach some of the classes, and last but not least, to write thrilling letters home.

SYRIA.

Our missionaries are face to face with the political dis­ turbance that has resulted from the setting up of the con­ stitutional government. In the Syrian Protestant College the students claimed the right under their new found liberty to refuse attendance upon chapel and religious exercises and there was danger even o f rioting, but by the exercise of wise judgment the danger was averted. These same difficulties have arisen in our mission schools, but not in the same degree. “Affairs cannot go backward, but we must expect many startling events yet to occur, and after that the long, ha>rid struggle to realize the liberties that exist only on paper an I in the minds and hearts o f real patriots.” This political change is considered the most important thing that has happened in many years for mission work. After eighty years o f waiting the missionaries see a pros­ pect o f being able to preach the Gospel to the Moslems. Th,e Mission is prepared to take advantage of the opportunities offered as far as the means and force at their command will permit, but with these opportunities are linked responsibili­ ties ; upon the church at home depends whether we shall enter this open door prepared to conquer for Christ. What is needed at once, is money, generously, gladly given. The prayer for an open door is answered. The “cloud of witnesses” is watching to see how much our prayers have meant. The Mission reports revivals in progress which will doubt­ less show results in increased numbers added to the church another year. The reports of other lines of work are in­ teresting and encouraging. There are 136 more Syrian 164 laborers, three more out-stations, one more church building, eight more Sabbath schools, and $7,904 increase in gifts and tuition from Syrian sources, this year. There are fif­ teen more schools and 573 more pupils, more books printed and about 30,000 more volumes of Scriptures issued than last year; this is what freedom of the press has already meant.

W e regret that material for a report of BEIRUT. Dr. Mary Eddy’s work has not come to hand. Another year arrangements will be made to correspond with some one at the station and re­ ceive direct reports. One of the events of the year at Beirut was on the day of the opening of Parliament in Constanti­ nople, the first holiday in the history of the Turkish. Empire. The city was gaily decorated, the celebration taking the form of speechmaking, processions and firing of salutes. One of the principal addresses was made by Dr. Post of the Syrian Protestant College, it being his own seventieth birthday. A prominent place in the procession was given to the 800 students of the college, among whom are Moslems. Jews, Armenians, Russians, Greeks, Syrians, Hindus and Egyptians. In connection with this it is interesting to learn that 500 Moslems are studying the Bible in Damascus, for while this is not our own work it cannot but influence it.

Mrs. William Bird reports that the usual LEBANON. lines of work were carried on at Abeih last winter, Sabbath School celebration, week of prayer services, women’s Sabbath class, sewing society and lace making, the latter industry employing about twenty-five needy women and girls, the profits from the work being devoted to charitable purposes; the only varia­ tions in the work being in details to fit change in circum­ stances. One very interesting event was the Christmas cele­ bration, a tree with home-made decorations, appropriate re­ citations by the children from the Scriptures; Bibles, Testa­ ments and other books given as prizes, and a contribution taken to teach that Christmas means giving as well as re­ ceiving, were some of the features of the occasion. The presence of two heavily veiled Druze women was a surpris­ ing and encouraging occurrence. 165 The Girls’ School opened with the largest TRIPOLI. attendance in its history. Four fine young women, graduates of the school and in thorough sympathy with its aims, were engaged to teach, but two were obliged to leave the school temporarily, one on account of trouble at home, which she embraced as an opportunity to make a good witness, professing her faith and uniting with the church before leaving the school. A re-arrangement of school work was necessary. M iss H unt­ ing, as usual, threw herself into the breach, and the neces­ sary adjustment was accomplished. Personal wonc among the girls brought gratifying results, and on the whole the school year was considered very satisfactory. Miss Hunting also assisted the Christian Endeavor Society in evangelistic work, making about seventy calls, reading and explaining the Gospels to Moslems, Greeks and Maro- nites. She also made a visit to Akar, during the Christmas vacation, touching four villages and holding inspiring meet­ ings. Another trip was made in the Easter vacation, when many former pupils of the school were visited, and encour­ aged and strengthened in their Christian purposes. During the summer vacation at Besherrie Miss Hunting made con­ stant visits from house to house. Mrs. Nicol, another of our missionaries, also at Tripoli, wrote of having driven over to Besherrie last summer to see Miss Hunting and while there a man came in to have his child baptized. This man, a converted murderer, was the only Christian in all that district, and was bravely standing alone for his belief in the little mountain village; his wife, as yet, is unconverted. M rs. N icol was appointed in 1906. She has two little ones, the youngest a year old last March, but writes of “making calls, daily lessons in Arabic, a Sunday school class, and lessons on the organ.” She also says: “I have doctored a baby, read a little to some of the women, fixed a few peoples’ eyes and read and talked with a man who was be­ ing treated for some eye trouble.” M rs. N icol tells a won­ derful story of a blind man of Hakkur, who having no one to help him, became a Christian by his own reading and thinking. He has become a power in his village, four have been led to Christ and others are inquiring. M rs. Nicol should serve as an inspiration to young mothers in this J66 country who think they are too busy for mission work. A Moslem soldier who came into the Tripoli Church one day was asked what his sheikh would say. He replied: “I do not care now that I am f r e e ” and said he would bring others. Those whose hearts go out to missionary SIDON. children will be glad to learn that M rs. Doolittle’s twelve-year-old son has united with the church, is attending a fine school for the mission children in Beirut and has delightful companions. Mrs. Doolittle writes of many plans the missionaries have formed to take advantage o f the new liberty— popular lec­ tures and a reading room where religious discussions will be held, among other things. One of the ladies has been going out every Sunday afternoon to call at some Moslem house, reading the Bible and telling of salvation, and reports being cordially received and asked to come again. Mrs. Doolittle has a daily class in the Girls’ School, a daily singing drill, plays for morning prayers, has three music pupils and plays the organ at the regular church meetings, of which there are from four to six during the week. She has many other missionary employments, besides the care of her home and children. She has a sewing society made up of needy Chris­ tian and Moslem women who make their own garments, earning the material and hearing meanwhile the Scriptures read and explained. There are so many encouraging incidents, it is a pity not to be able to tell them all. Meanwhile the Syria M iss fan has suffered for want of funds for some time. Now, if our prayers and labors hitherto have meant anything, is the time to show it by a large increase of gifts.

167 REPORT OF HOME SECRETARIES. Dear Friends: The world speaks to us in changes. M an comes on this sphere, does his appointed task, lives out his short life and then goes to his long home. So in the life and actions of this our beloved Board changes occur. And yet this is the satisfactory and underlying thought— God standeth sure and steadfast— the same yesterday, and today and forever. The individual changes come and go but'there is only one path­ way for God’s work and that leads on. For Thine un­ changeableness we thank Thee. During the latter nart of the.year just closed our beloved leader saddened us with her prayerfully reached decision that she felt it her duty to resign. H er record while our leader was one of earnest devotion to her Master’s will. Her courses in Bible study give evidence of what she is and show deep stud)’ and careful thought of His written words to us. To our new President but tried friend we pledge our hearty co-operation and support. Her proven ability in the Westminster Guild work assures us of a faithful executive head. We feel confident that under Mrs. Lincoln Coy’s leadership our work will advance still further. H om e ties are ever strong and so it was with reluctance that dear old "48” was moved from the LeMoyne Block which had housed and homed us since 1900. W e come, how­ ever, home, as the Ohio Building is our denominational headquarters in Chicago. Miss Glenn, our Secretary for Young People, resigned her position early last December in anticipation of her mar­ riage at Christmas time. Our loss will be Fort W ayne Church’s gain. The impaired health of our efficient field secretary, Miss Minich, having caused her resignation, she took with her our best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery. Miss M yers, our new field secretary, is now in active service. W e 168 have every confidence that her share in our work will not be a small one. And now it is my painful duty and yet privilege to refer to those who have passed beyond and who though unseen we feel are still watching us and remembering us in our work. Mrs. W - L. Moss of Chicago went to her Home the middle of April. A member of the Board and secretary for Africa and Syria for a number of years, she proved her consecration by her devoted service. Another one to leave us was Mrs. R. P. Lewis of Minne­ sota, who was a vice-president of our Board. Filled with enthusiasm for the spreading o f the Gospel in foreign lands her influence was widely felt. These two noble women have left us precious examples alike to the ones now bearing the burdens o f the day as well as to the many who will arise to carry on H is work when we here present shall have answered Adsum to the last roll call.

ORGANIZATION.

If history repeats itself, our mission work surely does. W hen in the spring we pick up the threads of the year’s work and weave them into one strand, the colors are always much the same, varied only by lights and shades. Reports of the fall Synodical meetings always give us courage for the winter’s work— they are so full of inspiration, and can we wonder when we realize the great distances many of these good women travel to attend these meetings. The usual letter to the Synodical societies with its requests did not bring as full response as usual, possibly because the questions were difficult to answer. For the first time we miss Utah from our number, for we have given her to our Sister Board. W e are glad we did not have to part with the other states in the readjustment of our borders. Colo­ rado remains with us, to our joy, and this year she gives us Mrs. E. C. H. Hensley as secretary, Mrs. Danners having moved out of the state. In Indiana, M rs. Charles Finney takes Mrs. Duke's place, and Mrs. J. R. Ratcliff of Nebraska follows Mrs. Margaret C. King. To each of these new officers we give a most cordial welcome, only asking that when these changes come, your Synodical Secretary be soon 169 notified so that all letters may reach their destination without delay. W e report 156 new auxiliaries, making in all 2,686 in our eleven Synodical societies. If “every attainment is to be a footing for new attempts, and every goal a point of depar­ ture” shall not next year add largely to these figures ?

VISITATION.

It is a real pleasure to the Secretary of Visitation to re­ port that this year the usual difficulties with which she has heretofore struggled have been more easily surmounted. There have been so many of our missionaries home on fur­ lough and they have so willingly given of their time and services that the many requests for forceful, magnetic speak­ ers have been more easily granted. Early in the fall and winter, Mrs. W . B. Allison of Guatemala and Mrs. Paul W . McClintock of Hainan, brought much enthusiasm and inspi­ ration to many societies. Since then Miss Holliday and Miss Beaber of Tabriz, Persia, Miss Snook of Korea, Mrs. Schwab of Africa and Miss Mayo of Japan have answered many requests and since March 1st, M iss Myers and Miss Mayo, as our Field Secretaries, have visited many Presby- terial societies in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, besides meeting many engagements in Illinois and Wisconsin. To each one and to Mrs. B. Y. George, who last fall visited as many Synodical societies as desired a Board representative, we extend most grateful thanks.

Y O U N G p e o p l e ' s SOCIETIES.

The importance of missionary organization among the children cannot be over-estimated. The Board depends upon the Synodical Young People’s secretaries to create enthu­ siasm for this work in their own territories, so when a Synodical Y. P. secretary writes: “I have nothing to do with Bands” the question arises— who has? If today there is a Synodical society whose Young People’s secretary has time only for work among young people (not including the children), should not another secretary be appointed to supervise the children’s work ? Likewise in the Presbyterial 170 society; some one must oversee the children’s organizations. In response to a call, the Board organized one year ago, “ The Baby Brigade” o f children up to five years o f age. Judging from reports, enlistments have been few, but the Indianapolis Brigade with contributions amounting to Twelve Dollars ($12.00), deserves to be heralded. Who is responsible for the training of children along missionary lines, in our local churches? When we consider 1,424 Women’s Societies and 191 Children’s Bands, we won­ der if the women, generally speaking, feel any obligation to the children in their midst. Leadership is not so difficult as many imagine. Even though one cannot attend the inspiring Summer Confer­ ences for leaders, helpful suggestions can be obtained through our Literature department, and with the desire and effort to lead, comes the capacity. “Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for power equal to your tasks.” “Over Sea and Land” contains carefully prepared out­ lines for leaders, and with this magazine in the children’s hands, interest is ever alert. T oo much cannot be said in favor o f the mission study courses for children, and the leader's manual enables an earnest worker not alone to arouse a permanent interest in missions, but also to stimulate the children mentally and spiritually. In order to insure credit on our books in the children’s column, each band treasurer when remitting to her Presby- terial treasurer (who in turn remits to us) must indicate that the money is from a band. Some names are descrip­ tive, but contributions from “The Club,” for instance, unless designated as from a band, will naturally be credited to the women’s column. N o special word has been received from our fifty-seven Young Women’s Societies this year. With our young women as with the children, we feel that “There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.”

y . p . s. c. E.

“ The societies are so willing to take up work and so in­ terested in missions. The study classes are increasing, and 171 that means so much.” This, the report of one Synodical Young People’s secretary, is, we believe, what we are to expect from all some day. This year the C. E. missionary representatives have re­ mained the same. Rev. W . Y. Jones is at present the only one home on a furlough. The ties between the societies and their missionaries are very close in some cases, where ‘the missionary letters are always acknowledged and answered; where pictures of the missionary and his family are circu­ lated; where gifts go over the sea at Christmas and where the societies pray for their representative and his work. The ties are weak and formal in other cases where, as in one instance, the missionary had never had a reply to her letters. Of course there can be no personal relation between mis­ sionary and society where such conditions exist, „nor deep interest on the part o f the society. The work of the Christian Endeavorers has gone forward this year for the most part. Some societies have disbanded, but some have formed, and the balance is a gain. The in­ complete reports indicate that mission study classes have become a regular part o f the work in many places, and that the support of assigned objects is faithfully continued. In Colorado, the number of study classes has about dou­ bled, a notable gain. A Presbyterian rally was held at the State C. E. Convention under the leadership of the Young People’s Secretary at which 160 delegates were present. The result in quickened enthusiasm as well as in knowledge, proved the wisdom of taking advantage of such opportuni­ ties to reach our young people. The Senior societies being now strong enough to support their missionary alone, the Juniors are going to contribute to Canton Station where there is much'work for children. Indiana reports that two Presbyteries have carried out the plan of having all the local societies visited by the Young People’s secretaries. This systematic visitation has yielded such helpful results to both societies and secretaries that it deserves to be adopted wherever possible. The Iowa Y oung People’s secretaries o f the home and foreign societies have co-operated to systematize the Young People’s work. A contingent fund is needed for visitation and for the circulation of information, and our secretary is 172 planning to secure it. She finds it as difficult to secure re­ ports from some of her Presbyterial secretaries as they often do to hear from local societies, but there is faithful work done. One society reports “practically all members con­ tributing”— a model record. Michigan Christian Endeavorers have continued to feel the impetus gained by the visit of their missionaries, and have had again a day of prayer for them. Nearly all Pres­ byterial reports show interest among the societies, and the receipts are larger than last year. The Nebraska Secretary tells of the successful Young People’s Hours in connection with Presbyterial meetings and o f the morning devoted to Young People’s work at the Synodical meeting where secretaries, pastors and missionary united to furnish a fine programme. North Dakota has added to its societies, and reports great interest in missions and mission study. If full reports from other Synodical societies were at hand they would contain other items of encouragement and suggestion, for the work is everywhere full of promise. The Secretary would be greatly helped, if she could re­ ceive more complete information about the conditions in the different states. Send her all items o f interest about new methods, plans for reaching new societies, literature found helpful, the programmes of mission study work, the needs of the Juniors, etc. In this way she may serve as a clearing house, to give one Synodical society the benefit o f another’s experience. “They helped everyone his neighbor and everyone said to his brother, ‘Be of good courage.’ ”

ADOPTION AND SUPPORT OF MISSIONARIES.

Miss Clara Seiler, bom in India, is to be sent to the Western India Mission. The expenses for the first year are to be given by a friend in New York. T w o hundred dollars annually toward her support has been pledged by the Iowa City Sunday School and the Y. P. S. C. E. Miss Leada B. Newman will be sent to Hunan, supported by the Lincoln, 111., Church. Miss Edith Fulton, appointed to China, will be supported by the Second Church of Evans­ ton, Illinois. Miss Mary Cowell, of Indianapolis, will go to 173 Teheran, to be supported by the friends who supported Miss Bradford. Mrs. Ross, of Syen Chun, has been adopted by the First Church of Joliet, Illinois, who contribute $200 toward her salary. Mrs. Winn and Mrs. Throop have been appointed to Korea, and will be supported from the Korean fund. Miss Mabel Rittgers has been transferred to the New York Woman’s Board.

CANDIDATES.

The past year's correspondence in regard to work in for­ eign lands has been carried on with forty-eight persons as against thirty last year. As against six last year we have accepted seventeen this year, one of whom will take a medical course before going out. Not all of the sixteen have received appointments from the Assembly’s Board. If with every name sent on to New York we could have enclosed a checque to pay for outfit, traveling expenses and the first year’s salary, no doubt every one would have received an appointment ere this. During this year Miss Nellie M. Coddington and Miss L. B. Newman of Illinois have been appointed to China; Miss Mary L. Jenkins of Iowa, also; Miss Susan F. Eames of Illinois to Japan. Miss Clara L. Seiler of Michigan will go to India. Miss Edith M. Fulton of China has been appointed to the Canton Mission. Mrs. R. E. Winn of Illinois, with her husband, has been assigned to Korea; also Mrs. Frank Throop of Chicago. Miss Mary L. Thomas of Illinois, will go to China as the wife of Rev. E. W. Mowry. Miss Margaret E. Elder of Illinois, to India as the wife of Rev. W . E. Weld. Mrs. Cora White-Carpenter, M. D., of Indiana, to our Hospital in Tabriz, Persia. Miss MaryCowell of In­ diana, trained nurse, to our Hospital in Teheran, Persia. Miss Mary McKenzie of Canada, trained nurse, to Korea. Pray that these who carry the glad tidings to different lands may realize what a precious privilege is theirs and that we may sustain them with our prayers and our gifts.

174 LETTERS AND INFORMATION.

Your secretary for the distribution of letters is very glad to be able to report increased interest and work in her department. More requests for information were received, more letters were sent out giving this information and these more promptly. While, therefore, there has been consider­ able advance there is still much more room for improve­ ment. Every society in our territory should be supplied with the fullest and latest news from the front. This is our aim. M any times it is most difficult to do this for the simple reason the information is not to be had. Your Board sends out as fast as possible all letters and news to the societies. W here the word from your missionary or special object seems a long time in coming, just write to your secretary at “ 4 8 /’ who is anxious to do all in her power to help you.

MISSION STUDY.

One hundred and ninety-seven classes are reported for the district o f the Board of the Northwest. The largest number in any class is forty. The classes of ten and over are predominating. The smallest class has five members. The report from our own office shows o f the books sold as follows: “Nearer and Farther East,” 1,317 copies; “Moslem World,” 1,256 copies; “Why and How,” 200 copies; “Springs in the Desert,” 120 copies; Miscellaneous, 700 copies. This gives the number of individuals studying, probably nearly 4,000. All these classes we have reason to believe are genuine mission study classes, and there are doubtless many others which are not reported to us.

PUBLICATIONS.

Six new leaflets for sale have been published this year: “The Wonderful Story of Korea” (re­ printed from “The Missionary Review”) ; “Fresh News from Persia,” consisting of excerpts from missionary let­ ters; “Our Work in Moslem Lands,” by Robert E. Speer; 175 «

“Glimpses of Mission Work in Syria,” by Mrs. George L. Robinson, of our Board; the Westminster Guild Bible Study Program, prepared by Mrs. A. L. Berry, retiring Presi­ dent of our Board; and “A Larger Laos,” by Rev. J. H. Freeman, Lampoon, Siam. Of free publications, we have printed a series of three programs for Christian Endeavor Societies: “Heroes of Missions in India,” “Heroes of Missions in China” and “Great Missionary Books,” which were much appreciated by the young people of our territory. “Westminster Guild Aims and Methods,” “A Board Catechism,” “ Baby Brigade” cards and certificates and other leaflets giving necessary information and instructions have been printed this year. In all, 67 leaflets have been added to our catalogue and we feel that we have a splendid supply of missionary liter­ ature of every kind. Miss McCalla still writes our weekly report for the Interior page, which has a wide cirtle of readers. Total receipts for Study Literature, Leaflets, Year Books, etc., during the year have been $3,095.63; total disburse­ ments, $2,777.40, leaving a balance of $318.23.

SPECIAL OBJECTS. In the early months o f this year, the Board decided to make an extra effort to meet the deficit announced at the General Assembly, and urged the Synodical societies to take that up as their special work for the year. Later the Assembly’s Board of Foreign Missions decided that money so contributed could not be credited to the societies as gifts to missions, but must rank with other outside gifts. Notice to this effect was sent to the Synodical societies which had loyally taken this work up. It will, therefore, be under­ stood that money sent for the “deficit” will not hereafter be credited among the regular gifts. W e have increased our pledges at several stations: Nodoa, Hainan $ 550.00 Lahore, India . 20G.00 Teheran, Persia 2,OOOtOO

$2,750.00 1.76 In several of the stations there are small reductions. The pledge made by the Minnesota Synodical Society as a memorial to Mrs. Van Cleve, has been completed and the money— $1,000.00— will be held as an endowment fund for a scholarship in Shantung College. The Junior Christian Endeavor Societies of Colorado have pledged about $500.00 to the Mission Station at Canton, China. The resignation of one of our Special Object secretaries, Miss Grace Coulter, on account of prolonged absence, is a serious loss, which will be felt not only by the Board, but by very many of the Auxiliary officers who have learned to depend upon her prompt, clear sighted, painstaking and helpful letters. A prayer of thanksgiving went up when we learned that her life had been spared, for both Miss Coulter and her father and mother and brother were on board the ill-fated steamship “Republic.”

w o m a n ' s w o r k .

It is a satisfaction to some of us, who have an “ eye to business” to know that while our magazine cannot pay divi­ dends, it can show a net balance on the right side. It leads us to hope that, at some time in the future, we may add a few pages. We are still more pleased that the number of our sub­ scribers has increased by 780, making a total of 22,045. The following is the subscription list for the Board of the Northwest : Colorado ...... 353 Illinois ...... 1,865 In d ia n a ...... 678 Iowa ...... 1,027 Michigan ...... 638 Minnesota ...... 645 Montana ...... 63 Nebraska ...... 361 North Dakota ...... 89 South Dakota ...... 105 177 Wisconsin 197 Wyom ing- 15

Total 6,036 This shows successful effort made by the Secretaries of Literature. From the editorial report sent to the Board by our most efficient editor, M iss Ellen C. Parsons, I glean the follow ing: “The greatest' advantage to Woman’s Work this year was the space set free in The Hom e Department. This was accomplished through the agreement of all the Boards to print their Treasurers’ Reports in the present condensed style.” Please observe in the April number the article from our own Secretary of Literature,- Mrs. Bryan Craig, of which Miss Parsons says: “It is full of vitality, freshness and practical usefulness.” This is true not only of this article, but of the whole magazine from cover to cover, and indeed on both sides of both covers.

OVER SEA AND LAND.

For the past two years our little magazine has made steady progress and we rejoiced that so large a share of increase in subscriptions was ours. This year we have to tell a different story— that of loss of 1,391 subscriptions and of those 486 are from the Board of the Northwest, every state except one bringing report o f loss. Can it be that we rested on our laurels and re­ laxed our efforts? Let each Secretary of Literature take the question home to herself and her society and let us all see that our next report brings greater numbers than ever before. When our enthusiastic editor again took up he'r pen, after months of enforced rest, new and special needs of the mag­ azine seemed apparent. I. M ore definite information relative to our Mission work. II. Hand work of two grades— Primary and Junior. III. More detailed material for the Sunday school teachers and leaders. The first two were met by the use o f maps, statistics and 178 illustrative incidents and outline pictures to be traced and colored, but the standpoint led to a radical change in the magazine_ for 1909, as it seemed impracticable to present in one single number adequate material for children and teachers on two such large subjects as had heretofore been included. W ith consent of all the Boards it was decided that Home and Foreign Missions should be presented on alternate months. The February number was the first un­ der the new plan, the eight pages being used for one sub­ ject— China. March treated o f the Indians. By this plan the editor will cover in the year all the fields. Twenty-five thousand circulars and slips and six hundred letters have been sent out to do this work among the secretaries and auxiliaries. Did they reach the individual members? If so, it would seem there should have been greater results. W hat answer shall we give to the earnest plea of the editor that we double the circulation of Over Sea and Land in the coming year?

WESTMINSTER GUILD.

The Westminster Guild Committee reports an encouraging year in many ways. Our membership has increased to one hundred and fifty-six Chapters. If Miss Glenn had not left us for a happier work of her own, we might have doubled our numbers of last year. That we have done what we have, is due to the splendid work of our Synodical secretaries. During - the year we have secured a secretary for every state but two. and almost every Chapter has been visited by its secretary. The Guild is interested in the station at Ningpo, China. The gifts this year have amounted to one thousand one hundred and sixteen (1,116) shares, one-half of which goes to this work. The committee has presented three programs during the year. First: “The Moslem World.” Second: “The Frontier” (prepared and published by the Home Board). Third: “A Bible program on Prayer,” written especially for the Guild, by Mrs. A. L. Berry. 179 One o f the greatest encouragements in our work has been the deepening interest in the programs. The Field Secretary would like during the coming year to visit every society that contributes to the Board of the Northwest. She hopes that the women of our churches will remem­ ber that she stands ready to help them, not so much to raise money, as to develop an intelligent interest in the worth o f the Board and the need o f the field. H aving been a foreign missionary, she knows the need. She believes that our God is calling us to “Go forward,” and she hopes you will keep her so busy that she will have no time to get discouraged. W e still have churches in our territory without societies. Let us cultivate and develop this virgin soil. Then as we enter upon this new year, let us devote more time to our work among the children, remembering that the “ Girls o f today are the women of tomorrow.” So the Field Secretary pleads that you plan for a large meeting for the children if possible when she is to be in your vicinity. Let her be the “ live wire” that connects the women and children of our churches to the great Board of the Northwest.

OUR OFFICE.

From April 1, 1908, to March 31, 1909, there have been received in the office 7,752 ietters and *1,156 postal cards, and during the same period of time 2,863 letters and 2,460 postal cards have been sent out. In addition to the letters and cards, 10,375 packages of literature have been sent out either by mail or express. This includes 3,200 copies of the Annual Report mailed in June. W e are still receiving and forwarding subscriptions for our magazines, having sent to Woman’s Work 510, to Over Sea and Land 105 and to the Missionary Review 12 sub-' scriptions. And this reminds us to reiterate with greater emphasis the statement made last year that subscriptions for Woman’s’ Work and Over Sea and Land should be sent direct to the offices of the magazines, and not through the medium of the Board o f the Northwest. 180 During- the year we have sent 11 packages of literature to synodical meetings and 99 to Presbyterial meetings. Changes in dates of meetings have made some irregularity in ordering, hence we have sent more orders to Presbyterial meetings during one j^ear than there are Presbyteries in our territory. The receipts for literature for the year are as follow s; For leaflets, $1,218.64; for study literature, $1,603.02; for Year Books, $274.04; for Woman's Work, $267.05; for Over Sea and Land, $31.75; for the Missionary Review, $14.00; for postage, $120.15; total, $3,528.65. The total for last year was $2,760.77, and thus we have a pleasing increase along this line as well as along the line of gifts. And now what of all these reports ? What do they mean ? What lessons do they carry? The personal answer comes clear and strong: "G o ye into all the world and proclaim His death and resurrection until H e come.” REPORTS OF SYNODICAL SECRETARIES.

COLORADO.

M r s . E. C. H e n s l e y .

W e of the Synod of Colorado, with a backward glance at the last year’s effort, and a forward look at the privileges and possibilities o f the future, realize a definite call to earnest and prayerful attempt to achieve greater things. Our aggressive and capable President has left nothing untried for the advancement of the work. The Synodical meeting at Boulder was an interesting and profitable meet­ ing. Mrs. Berry, with her earnest sympathy and message of encouragement and hope, was most helpful. Miss Helen Taylor and Miss Mabel Rittgers, on their way to Korea made impressive addresses, thrilling us with admiration and love for our devoted and self-sacrificing missionaries. The campaign for unification of business methods, and a definite policy and standard of excellence is to be continued. Our ever faithful Secretary of Literature notes subscrip­ tions for Woman’s Work about the same as last year, with a gain in Over Sea and Land, and books and leaflets, and a special effort in all departments to increase interest in all publications o f the Board. Our missionaries send us encouraging letters from the field, inspiring us in the homeland to greater efforts in sup­ port o f the cause. • Our force in the foreign field remains the same as last year. We hope to be privileged to wel­ come Mrs. Mateer, as we hear, soon to be home on fur­ lough. With the idea of increasing interest, and strengthening the bond of union between our societies, our Synodical Presidents— Home and Foreign— have undertaken the Jication o f a Quarterly News Letter, the first issue synodic«!, the second relating to Presbyterial matters, the third de- 182 voted to Boulder Summer School of Missions and Young People’s societies, and the fourth, letters from our mission­ aries, and that part of the field to which our contributions go. This publication promises to be an important factor in our work. W e most cordially welcome the General Assembly in May, and hope and trust its coming will prove an inspiration and a blessing, to which we shall respond with enlarged vision and increased spirituality, leading us on to the achieve­ ment of things which we had not before had courage to attempt. A n effort in behalf of systematic giving in C. E. societies is being made with encouraging results, and great interest is manifested in Westminster Guild work in all but the weakest Presbyteries. Pueblo Presbyterial Society has one new auxiliary at Holly, and three new Westminster Guild Chapters. The majority of their C. E. societies contribute to missions. Study classes were very strongly urged at their presbyterial meetings and delegates were enthusiastic where they have been tried. Money conditions were reported hard but they made an advance, doing some special work. Boulder Presbyterial Society reported sixteen Foreign study classes at Presbyterial Meeting. All pledges are met with 15 per cent advance and more. They also report a gain in subscriptions to Over Sea and Land. The Summer School of Missions at Boulder, interdenominational, is put­ ting out the usual strong program with Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery and Mrs. D. B. Wells for Lecture Study Courses, and the inspiration and incentive to higher things will be far reaching and widely felt. Cheyenne Presbyterial Society reports two new societies, and an increase in gifts. Denver Presbyterial Society is forming new study classes at the rate of one a month. An increase in gifts is shown, only missing 15 per cent by a very little. T w o new socie­ ties have been formed, and there is a marked increase in Westminster Guild Chapters and Circles. Dr. Mary Noble of Lodiana, India, was present at presbyterial meeting and gave an instructive and inspiring address, Dr, Noble was

*83 also present at Pueblo presbyterial meeting. Central Church, Denver, retains her two missionaries as before. Gunnison Presbyterial Society has one new society, and has met the 15 per cent advance. C. E .’s and auxiliaries have adopted monthly pledge system and have given more liberally than ever before and very encouraging reports come from the presbyterial president. W e close the year’s work with a prayer of thanksgiving for the past, and hearts full o f hope for the future.

ILLINOIS.

M r s . S. O. L o u g h r i d g e .

Service— the watchword of our Synodical meeting— intel­ ligent and enthusiastic, has been crowned with success, abun­ dant in some, encouraging in all of our societies; and we are rejoicing that the patience, perseverance and consecra­ tion o f the few have gathered in such a goodly company of givers and doers of the work. Reports have been received from the twelve Presbyterial organizations; eleven of them have gained in gifts, and in the one that seems to be remiss the women’s societies really advanced, but the individual gifts, with those of the young people, had diminished and so their noble progress is hin­ dered. Ten of these Presbyterial Societies made a decided advance during the summer months; there are 21 new auxiliaries, 38 Westminster Guild Chapters, and 62 Study Classes reported. Presbyterial meetings have been inter­ esting and edifying; four had each complete reports from every society. Among the many helpful hints reported— Oak Park has a society of which every woman member of the church is a contributing member; it varies its pro­ gramme with an evening for gentleman guests, a “Recip­ rocity Day” with friends to speak of their work in other denominations, and the Home and Foreign Societies united to give object lessons by booths illustrative of the countries studied, with women and children in costume. A sugges­ tion was made to have each society a committee to look after the “ silent members” in each congregation, unable to attend the meetings— supply them with leaflets and ask foe 184 contributions where it seems to be wise. Peoria Presby­ terial society held its thirty-fifth anniversary in the place where it was organized. Its record of the years was stir­ ring and its total amount contributed made the gatherings of the little very much worth while. Its “Reminiscence Hour,” too. as well as that with “Some Missionaries I have Known" was most tender and inspiring. It is scarcely necessary to add that this organization has had the unique experienece o f a mother and daughter as its only two presi­ dents, their praise being in all the churches. Springfield reports the sending o f two. “ wonder boxes” this year, to Persia and to Korea, giving great pleasure; each society is asked to write a letter to their Presbyterial missionary at stated seasons; the holding of District meet­ ings is considered a distinct gain in strength. Our Synodical meeting was held at Paris, being the first to be held separately from Synod. W e deeply regret­ ted the resignation of Mrs. Rankin, who has been our efficient Secretary of Literature, magnifying her office for fifteen years. Representatives of the various, Presbyterial societies were present, and the programme was carried out in interesting fashion. W e enjoyed especially the talk of Mrs. Candor of South America as well as her singing in Spanish. Our Synodical Secretary of Literature reports a total number taken of 683 Year Books, 1,910 copies of Woman’s Work, 1,671 of Over Sea and Land, besides 133 Study Classes. An advance was made in three of the four columns of the statements, by Bloomington, Chicago, Rush- ville and Springfield. The Synodical Secretary o f Young People reported as the total of their gifts $5,733.98. With but fewT exceptions the societies have special missionary committees and hold monthly missionary meetings. Forty- one missionary lectures have been delivered, 21 Study Clas'ses are reported, 127 Tenth Legioners, and 643 Two- Cents-a-Week givers make an advance over last year’s rec­ ord. Presbyterial secretaries as a rule report interest, and a desire to keep in closer touch with our own Presbyterian work. The whole amount of contributions from Illinois for the year ending April 1st is $51,189.63, a decided gain over last year.

185 INDIANA.

M r s . C h a r l e s F i n n e y . Indiana is glad to demonstrate the wisdom of her Pres- byterial officers. A fter making so decided an advance three years ago, it was voted at the October synodical meeting in New Albany, not to pledge above our previous record but to steady ourselves for future effort and rely for this year’s increase on the natural growth which has not failed us for many years. Special attention was to be devoted to can­ celing the Board debt at the suggested rate o f fifty cents per member. The reports from the April meetings of the eight Presbyterial societies show that over $800 has been paid on the “ Synodical Special” as the Board debt is termed. For two things this year we are especially thankful. First: For the fresh, enthusiastic strength of the Cumber­ land societies, throughout the state. The presence of their former president, Mrs. W . J. Darby at New Albany was like sunshine and the spring meeting of Indiana Presbyterial Society has'never been equaled in its history. Second: The midsummer conference o f synodical officers— all eight Presbyterial Presidents are Synodical Vice-Presidents— and the Summer School of Missions for the Middle West occur simultaneously in June at that hub center of Christian influ ence, W inona. As to organization: Seven out of eight presbyterial soci­ eties report an increased membership. Whitewater has gained one new society, New Albany three Westminster Guild organizations, Indiana is reinforced by fourteen Cum­ berland societies, but Indianapolis Presbyterial carries the banner for real progress. The gain consists in one Woman’s Society, six Westminster Guild Chapters (thanks to Miss Glenn’s tour) and one Baby Brigade, an increase in gifts by more than half her societies making a total advance of $1,240. Crawfordsville Presbyterial rejoices in the gener­ osity of the Frankfort church, which made a gift of two hundred dollars and also sent the much needed buggy and harness to Dr. Mary Smith of Teheran, Persia, as a Christ­ mas present. Financially, all preesbyterial pledges have been met 186 throughout the state. One new life membership conies from Muncie Presbyterial and five from Indiana Presbyterial. Our total financial gain is $1,300 over last year. At Synodical Meeting in New Albany we were fortunate in the presence of three associates in service, Miss Holliday and Miss Beaber of Persia and Miss Snook of Korea, whose support has been our pleasure for eight years. Miss Beaber’s endearing presence in her home presbytery of Fort W ayne has been the cause of more questions for in­ formation and financial management than the Foreign Sec­ retary has ever before received. Miss Holliday’s furlough is a benison to the state. H er long service and magnetic personality add to her spiritual influence. W herever she goes there is a song of praise. Miss Snook’s description of "poor despised Korea” as an object lesson has been profitable to all who heard her. M rs. Wishard o f Persia and Dr. Curtis of China have made pleasant but fleeting visits. The local meetings as well as the presbyterial programs have been unusually attractive. Plans have varied from the plain survey of the field followed by a social hour to one loyal society who studies “Presbyterianism, its origin and growth.” Others have enjoyed picnics and guest days, stereopticon lectures, “neighborhood meetings” where differ­ ent societies have exchanged programs, and the always pleasant, all day county meetings where each society takes its turn in entertaining and some foreign speaker delivers the address. There have been more praise meetings this year than ever before and consecrated officers have on their hearts the deepening and broadening of the spiritual life of each member. A larger percentage of membership is earnestly desired for general attendance and the Spirit is with those who labor for it. From every quarter of the state have come messages of good cheer, of gains in members and money, of versatility in method, of growth in grace, for which we thank God, take courage and go forward.

IOWA.

M r s . W. W. H a l e . The work in Iowa has gone steadily forward during the 187 past year, every Presbyterial society save one reporting an increase in receipts, Sionx City leading in a gain of $289.21; the total increase from all Presbyterial societies being over $1,000. Cheering and encouraging reports have been received from all secretaries, showing a close sympa­ thetic touch with their local societies. Through quarterly reports the standard and purpose of each local society to meet the Board’s request for prompt remittances is kept in view, a marked improvement being shown where the plan is adhered to. In response to an ap­ peal for dolls from Dr. Nellie Binford’s native assistant in Allahabad, India, societies in several Presbyterial societies sent about four hundred dolls and two hundred yards of cloth to the orphans in the hospital at Allahabad. Other societies and individuals contributed money to pay cost of their transportation to India. This personal work for the hospital was greatly enjoyed and delightful letters from Dr. Binford and her^ native girl assistant telling of the happy Christmas given to the orphans and other children among Hindus and Mohammedans for miles around have added much to the interest in Dr. Binford and her work. A result is that Ft. Dodge Presbytery has two hundred more dolls ready to send for next Christmas. Reports from the Secretary of Young People’s work are encouraging. The Presbyterial Secretaries seem to have got better acquainted with their work and into touch with more societies; resulting in thirty-seven more Senior and twenty more Junior societies reporting than last year. Secretaries of local societies have been more prompt in correspondence and remittances, and several Presbyteries report increase in gifts, Des Moines Presbytery leading in a gain of $100. There has been a glad and eager response to the influ­ ence and leading of our new Westminster Guild Secretary during the year. All through our state there have beer, many o f our “ daughters at ease”— just waiting to be called together to learn of the Master’s waiting work, and as a result of two “tours” through the state by our Secretary, fifteen new Chapters and five Westminster Circles have been organized with a membership of 271— while-ten previously existing Chapters have been strengthened and led in the 188 definite work o f assisting to supply hospital, kindergarten, and school needs in foreign lands, besides contributing $181.25 to the Ningpo Station. Does it not mean much to the work of our state that so many of our young women have been led to study the needs of the world during the past year? W e rejoice in the encouraging reports received by our Secretary of Literature. Presbyterial and local secretaries are realizing the importance o f their opportunity and are working hard. One hindrance, however, they have to meet is the indifference of many local society presidents to the importance of the use and diffusion of our magazines and literature. Surely this “ stone will be rolled away” when it is known. The laudable ambition to win the beautiful Chinese ban­ ner offered by Mrs. J. C. McClintock to the Presbyterial society securing the largest number of new subscribers to “Woman's Work” has resulted in an increase of subscrip­ tions in many societies. Iowa Society gained the banner this year— the Fairfield auxiliary winning the honor of being its custodian. In looking back through the year, through Synodical, Presbyterial and local influences and activities with which we have been in personal touch, we believe that while we have not accomplished all we hoped to, there has been the keynote of “faithfulness,” and is not this the acceptable and “well pleasing” service desired by our Lord, and that which leads His own to greater devotion and proof of their love to Him?

MICHIGAN.

M r s . W . W - W e t m o r e .

The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Synod of Michigan sends most cordial greetings to the Board of the Northwest. Another year of opportunities and precious privileges has passed; have we improved the privileges and grasped the opportunities? The work of our nine Presbyterial societies continues on the up grade, perhaps in some cases amid discouragements,

189 but resolute and courageous are the women that have the work of missions at heart. Our Synodical meeting, held in Jackson, was well at­ tended and full of interest Miss Dresser of China, sup­ ported by Saginaw Presbyterial Society, was with us, also Miss A. Belle McPherson of Brazil, who is supported by the Lake Forest society. Through them we were brought into touch with the people among whom they are working. Mrs. B. Y. George of Elmwood,. 111., was also present, and gave us many practical suggestions. Two of the missionaries supported by Michigan societies are now at home for a much needed rest, Miss Dresser and Mrs. Schwab. Death has entered the homes of three of our loved ones and taken Dr. Calvin Mateer, who gave long years of service to China, Rev. R. H. Sidebotham, one of the most successful workers in Korea, and dear little Kenneth, son of Rev. and Mrs. Spining, of Valparaiso. W e hope to adopt a new missionary in place of Mrs. Side­ botham, who will not return to Korea. Detroit Presbyterial society loses two of its efficient officers, after many years o f valuable service: Mrs. Graves, President, and Miss Mary Clark, Corresponding Secretary. They both must take needed rest. This Presbyterial is, as usual, up to date, working along all lines in a business-like manner. Its pledges are all paid, and an advance over last year has been made in gifts to the Synodical special objects. Grand Rapids Presbyterial Society has had a trying year, as the secretary has been in California, the treasurer has moved away and the Y. P. secretary has resigned. The new president, although almost a stranger to the work, has car­ ried on the labors o f her office and those of the secretary with great courage and has gone forward with hopefulness. W e have lost in the Saginaw Presbyterial society one of our most earnest and consecreated workers, Mrs. Stone, for many years corresponding secretary of that society. Last year she gave her time and strength to a trip among many of our missionaries in the foreign field, giving cheer and a God bless you to each one. Kalamazoo Presbyterial reports the year’s work as most encouraging. New life seems to have entered some of the societies. T w o societies have been revived, so that now all 190 but two of the churches in this Presbytery have missionary societies. The gifts of the year show an increase. Mrs. Geo. Schwab, their missionary, is soon to visit their socie­ ties, and this will no doubt give added interest to all that hear her. The Flint and the Monroe Presbyterial Societies have also advanced in gifts, and in some instances more interest is being taken in the work. Lake Superior, Lansing and Petoskey Presbyterial Soci­ eties have advanced along various lines. Larger gifts have been made and continued zeal is manifested. Westminster Guild Chapters and Study Classes are on the increase, and we look for much good from their services. It is with much difficulty that interest in the Young People’s and C. E . societies is kept up. The frequent changing of officers and the lack of information in some cases perhaps account for this trouble. The minor chords are touched very lightly this year in the reports received by me. Full of hope and encouragement seems to be the note sounded from Michigan. M ay we continue to labor and pray that the work may grow, and that more of our Presbyterial women may help to swell the rank and file of this missionary army.

MINNESOTA.

M iss I d a V . M a n n .

Minnesota sends most cordial greetings-to the Board of the Northwest. On the whole the year has been one of real growth and gain. All presbyterial societies that have reported have gained in membership while St. Paul, Man­ kato and Minneapolis have each gained in both the number of societies and in membership. As usual large gains have been made among the young people and children. Westminster Guild Chapters have increased, bands have been multiplied and, best of all, mis­ sion study classes have been organized among both adults and young people that are already proving sources of power and giving great promise for the future. Duluth has suffered the loss of her faithful and efficient 191 Y. P. Secretary, Miss Abbie Upham, who has done such a marvelous work among the young people the past two years and who has recently been called to a wider field by the Home Board. As a state our sympathies have been broad and have em­ braced nearly every country on the foreign mission roll, though we have especially worked for two things— a greater share in the work of our Synodical missionary, M rs. Lingle, of Siangtan, China, and the .completion o f the V an Cleve Memorial Fund, in honor of our beloved Mrs. Charlotte O. Van Cleve, the “Mother of Missions in the Northwest/’ as we love to call her, and still our inspiration. This fund is to be devoted to a scholarship in the Shantung Union College, at Wei Hsien, China. St. Paul has been called upon to rejoice and to mourn— to rejoice that one of her dearest, Miss Margo Lee Lewis, of t)ayton Avenue church, has been called by the Master to work for Him in one of the parched places in His garden and has offered herself and been accepted by the Board for Korea, and is to go as soon as funds can be secured for the purpose; to mourn in that one of her most beloved and ripest saints, M rs. R. P. Lewis, for so many years her talented Presbyterial President, has passed on to join the number of those who “do always behold His face.” In her mourning the whole state and the Board of the Northwest join, for Mrs. Lewis was broad in her sympathies and closely in touch with much of the work outside her own presbytery and for years has represented Minnesota as one of the vice-presidents of the Board. W e cannot but miss her, but we count it one of our greatest blessings to have the inspiration of her noble life as our precious heritage. Surely, surely, we who have had the priceless gift of asso­ ciation with such rare souls as Mrs. Van Cleve and Mrs. Lewis, as we close the ranks and touch shoulder with shoul­ der, must be more earnest and faithful. They, though dead,, shall speak through us. In Minneapolis the men are being enlisted, as honorary members, in some societies and occasional evening meetings planned for their enjoyment and participation.

192 MONTANA.

M r s . G. E. B l a c k b u r n . The Synodical Society of Montana sends the greetings of its three presbyterial societies, Butte, Great Falls and Helena, to the W om an’s Board o f the Northwest. Only one presbyterial society reports a gain in contribu­ tions, yet there is evidence of true progress in many direc­ tions. Faithful, consecrated work has been done by the officers o f the auxiliaries, not the least of which is the foster­ ing care of societies already established, which require con­ stant care and watchfulness lest they fall behind or die, owing to the well known shifting character of a mining com­ munity. One new auxiliary has been formed the past year, making the total number twelve. Our synodical meeting was held in Anaconda last Sep­ tember with a good attendance considering the great dis­ tance and consequent expense. The enthusiasm and zeal manifested by those present was most gratifying. Miss Glenn was present and gave an intensely interesting talk on the Sabbath schools, giving plans and methods of getting them interested in missions. The resignation of our treasurer, Mrs. H. R. Whitehill, who had removed to California, was accepted with regret. Mrs. Whitehill, whose name is synonymous with the mis­ sionary work of Montana, was an officer for twenty years, first in the Presbyterial and later in the Synodical society. W e shall miss her counsel and helpful words. An effort is being made to have our members give sys­ tematically and to take more missionary literature. W e are hoping much from the Westminster Guild. Owing to the unfavorable conditions which up to this time have prevented spring meetings, the presbyterial so­ cieties met and elected officers at the close of the synodical meeting. M rs. Trippet writes, “ A s the reports come in from the local Christian Endeavor societies we are led to say ‘Thank God for the young people of the Presbyterian church.’ Some o f these societies are languishing but it is simply because they have no one to lead them and tell them what to do. W henever a definite work is placed before the young people 193 they enter upon it with enthusiasm. Anaconda, Butte, First, Bozeman and Great Falls report encouraging conditions.” A s we sum up the work of the year we are sure we have made an advance even if the results can not be measured by figures. May the Lord revive His work in our midst! NEBRASKA.

M rs. J. R . R a t c l i f f e . T o the Board o f the Northwest Nebraska sends most cordial greetings. The withdrawal of Mrs. George Tilden, for seven years our beloved leader, and the absence of Mrs. S. M. Stone, our new president, now in the South, leaves our synodical force rather crippled, but we have just closed an all-round fairly successful year. As application of scripture truth along mission lines is made, and better understanding of world­ wide conditions becomes general, interest in missions in­ creases. Our six presbyterials are awakening to their priv­ ileges in regard to missions. We believe that our people can claim the three-fold blessing suggested in the lines— “Who gives himself with his alms, feeds three; Himself, his hungry neighbor and Me.” The presbyterial meetings have been well attended and a hopeful spirit prevails. W e anticipate renewed interst from the presence and helpful addresses of Miss Lucy M ayo; also from Mr. and Mrs. Miller, of Korea, who will visit some points in Nebraska soon. To be engaged in a work so worth while makes one feel that life is more worth living. We are glad to he in touch through our Boards with sister states, and send congratulations that Milwaukee has the honor of receiving a special agency transacting business for two worlds— Earth and Heaven— and that you have the honored distinction of serving as that embassy. We hope you will enjoy your short sojourn in the re­ gion described by Longfellow in the w ords: “ Fair lakes serene and full of light, Fair town arrayed in robes of white,” while you plan to point the way for the whole world to “The city that hath foundations Whose builder and maker is God.” 194 NORTH DAKOTA.

M r s . A . J . G o o d a l l . Greetings from our Synod of. North Dakota to our be­ loved Board. W e have now seven Presbyterial societies in­ stead o f five, as reported last year, and although we seem to feel the financial depression more this year than last, yet we are greatly encouraged by the reports from our pres­ byterial societies; some haye advanced in knowledge, some in gifts and others in numbers. Many loyal hearts and true are found in our midst, one secretary deploring the fact that a subscription for the earthquake sufferers had been taken in the missionary so­ ciety, while the pledges were not all met. There has been lamentation over the removal of officers to other states .and in one or more instances this has meant the disbanding of the local society o f which the officer was the one-woman power. One secretary caused, an indulgent smile by saying she forgot she was an officer until the “ blanks” came, as since the time she was elected she has been absorbed in the care of her first baby; she is now eager to know and do her duty in the M aster’s vineyard and we pray the wee plant may grow up a fruitful vine. Synod was held at Bismarck and the Board was ably and acceptably represented by Mrs. George, who afterwards visited Mouse River Presbyterial Society with the result that seven societies are reported where there was but one before. The secretary adds that “Presbyterial and Synod- ical visits are for the few, but it is the individual church which must be reached before we have results.” Fargo reports two flourishing Westminster Guild Chap­ ters and two societies recently organized, so is very hopeful of the future. Minnewaukon reports some very live societies, especially at Devil’s Lake, Bethel and Bisbee. Minot, which is made up principally of weak Home Mis­ sion churches (as indeed most of our presbyteries are) finds it difficult to make any advance, but it is slowly climbing up, and hopes for better days ahead. Bismarck finds it hard to interest people in Foreign M is­ 195 sions as most of its people believe in Home Missions and that means the local church, but they are growing in knowl­ edge and zeal. We know Oakes and Pembina are faithful and true. More interest is manifested in Mission Study and more are coming to know and love our own Miss Monk, whose earn­ est, faithful work in Japan has been an inspiration to us. Pray that the little work done here and there may be like the “handful of corn on the top of* the mountain whose fruit shall shake like Lebanon.”

SOUTH DAKOTA.

M r s . H . P. C a r s o n .

The four Presbyterial societies of South Dakota send greetings with this brief report. It means much for us to be able to say that we have had even small gains. Our special pledge was more than met, but we failed in our effort to advance the general fund 15 per cent. In membership we little more than held our own, but we have received more contributions this year from the Ladies’ Aid Societies of the weaker churches. This means a great deal of sacrifice, for the burden o f local support is very heavy upon these faithful women so filled with the true missionary spirit. There is a greater call for our literature, more interest in the study-class work, more little ones being trained and the same earnest spirit manifested by the faithful ones. The praise services and all day prayer-meetings have contributed to this result. May we more and more strive for the coming of His king­ dom into our own hearts and into all the world!

WISCONSIN.

M r s H o r a c e P . Y a l e .

The Woman’s Synodical Missionary Society of Wisconsin extend most cordial greetings to the Board of the North­ 196 west and appreciate the privilege we enjoy in having the thirty-eighth Annual Meeting held within our state. The addresses given by our missionaries have aroused great interest and enthusiasm. A t the June quarterly Miss McDermid, of the Girls’ Normal School in Mexico City, gave a most interesting talk on her work and told us some of the problems which are soon to be met in that field. In the evening at Calvary Church, Miss McDermid again ad­ dressed a large audience. The annual meeting held last October was full o f help and inspiration and proved an in­ centive to greater effort along all lines. W e had with us as speakers, Mrs. W . B. Allison of Guatemala City, who gave us an insight into the difficulties and successes en­ countered in her work; Mrs. P. W - McClintock of Hainan, China, whose address was so instructive and delightful; also Miss Grace Glenn of the Board of the Northwest, who told of “The Plans and Purposes of the Westminster Guild.” In December we had in Milwaukee, Rev. H. G. Underwood, Rev. W . M. Baird, Rev. C. E. Sharp and Dr. O. R. Avison, missionaries in charge of the Presbyterian work in Korea, under the auspices of the Assembly’s Board. Addresses were given in many churches and a broader un­ derstanding and a greater interest in Korean missions is the result. The loss through death of Rev. R. W . Side- botham caused deep grief and sorrow. In Chippewa Presbyterial society two missionary societies, three Chapters of the Westminster Guild, two Westminster Circles, four Endeavor societies and six Bands have been organized. La Crosse Presbyterial society reports four missionary societies formed during the year. In Madison Presbyterial Society two Chapters of the Westminster Guild have been added to that growing or­ ganization. Winnebago Presbyterial Society reports an increase of three missionary societies, two Chapters of the Westminster Guild, twelve Endeavor societies, three Intermediate socie­ ties, four Junior societies and two Mission Bands. In Milwaukee Presbyterial Society twenty-one woman’s and thirty-two Young People’s organizations have con­ 197 tributed to Foreign Missions. One neAV missionary so­ ciety has been organized and eleven societies have made an advance in gifts. This is due, in part, to the fact that the presbyterial officers met immediately after the last Annual Meeting and decided to ask for an increase in all depart­ ments. The societies responded promptly and reports at hand show the woman’s missionary societies have very nearly accomplished what was required. There has been a decided gain over last year. The Foreign Missionary So­ ciety of Immanuel Church has had adresses given by four foreign missionaries. A t the Annual Praise Service, Mrs-. P. W . McClintock of Hainan spoke, and representatives were present from five woman’s missionary societies. At the December meeting, Rev. Wm. Baird of Korea made the address. One young Woman’s Missionary society, two In­ termediate, three Junior Endeavor societies and one Mis­ sion Band have been organized. The Young People’s societies have also made an advance in gifts— due to special effort. In January the Y oung People’s Secretary held a well attended “Rally” at her home at which the members o f all the Y oung People’s and Chris­ tian Endeavor societies listened to a most interesting talk on China given by Miss Etta Montgomery of Hainan. In addition to the three Westminster Guild Chapters previ­ ously organized, there has been a Westminster Circle formed ¡n Calvary Church. For the year just closed the Woman’s Missionary societies have contributed $5,967.05; the Young People’s and Senior Christian Endeavor societies, $181.52; the Intermediate Christian Endeavor and Junior societies, $32.25, and Bands, $220.68, making a total of $6,401.50 for Foreign Missions.- At the March quarterly meeting a resolution conveying the good wishes of this society was sent to Miss McDermid on her marriage. Realizing the measure of success that has crowned the faithful efforts of this society in the past, let us go forward with higher ideals and greater endeavor to the work of the coming year.

198 Miss Mae Henderson ...... Cherokee, la. Mrs. George C. Higbee...... Marquette, Mich. Miss Elizabeth Jenkins ...... Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. Sade E. Johnson ...... Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs. S. J. Johnson ...... Sioux City, la. Mrs. E. R. Jones ...... Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. Morris Jones ...... Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. Perry King ...... '....Bridgeport, 111. Mrs. Hugh T. Kerr ...... Chicago, 111. Mrs. Isabelle Leach ...... Groton, S. Dak. Mrs. Mary E. Lockwood . ' ...... Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Robert McClelland ...... Tabor, la. Mrs. J. C. McClurkin ...... Evansville, Ind. Miss Clara McCord ...... Lincoln, 111. Miss Sara J. M cC oy ...... Peoria, 111. Mrs. E. L. McDonald ...... Groton, S. Dak. Mrs. Amelia Mahard ...... Loami, 111. Mrs. Jessie McKennon ...... Canistota, S. Dak, Miss Lucie Manning ...... Canton, 111. Mrs. J. J. Mathews ...... Cherokee, la. Mrs. Alfred Nash ...... Joliet, 111. Miss M. Jennie Neely...... Muncie, Ind. Mrs. M. E. Newcomb -...... Omaha, Neb. Miss Ella Olmsted ...... Evansville, Ind. Miss Mary Patterson ...... •...... Cherokee, la. Mrs. Thos. H. Patterson ...... Joliet, 111. Mrs. E. H. Pence ...... Detroit, Mich. Miss Bertha Provine ...... Taylorville, 111. Mrs. J. Queggle ...... : ...... Groton, S. Dak. Mrs. Frances P. Ramsay...... Vincennes, Ind. Miss Nellie Record ...... Decatur, 111. Mrs. Matthew Reinhardt, Jr...... Lincoln, 111. Mrs. A. P. Ritz ...... Evansville, Ind. Mrs. Ella Giddings Root...... Rockford, 111. Mrs. Jean Seaton ...... Taylorville, 111. Mrs. Wm. Shardlow ...... Cherokee, la. Mrs. Enoch Small ...... Wabash, Ind. Mrs. Howard M. Snapp ...... Joliet, 111. Miss Helen Soper ...... Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. H. D. Stearns ...... Joliet, 111. Mrs. A. M. Stephenson ...... Joliet, 111. Mrs. P. O. Stiver ...... Freeport, 111. Miss Alida C. Stocking ...... Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. A. T. Sutton ...... Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. K. M. Sweetser...... Evansville, Ind. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Switzer...... Lincoln, 111. Mrs. H. P. Townley ...... Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs. Euphemia Turner ...... Taylorville, 111. Mrs. Julia A. T u r n e r ...... Lincoln, 111. Miss Sadie J. W e b e r...... Evansville, Ind. Mrs. R. E. Whitlock ...... Sioux City, la. 223 Mrs. B. M. W i s e ...... Freeport, 111. Mrs. Robert Yost ...... Joliet, 111 Mrs. Octavia J. Young Taylorville, 111.

SUMMARY.

Illinois ...... 41 Minnesota ... Indiana ...... 21 Nebraska ___ Iowa ...... 9 South Dakota

Michigan ...... 4 W isconsin ... 00 Ul M- tO

224 CONSTITUTION

OF T H E

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WOMAN’S PRES­ BYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.

ARTICLE I. This Socicty shall be called the Woman’s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest.

ARTICLE II. The objects of this Board shall be to promote an interest among the Christian women and young people of the North­ west in the work of Foreign Missions, and to work in co­ operation with the Assembly’s Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church.

ARTICLE III. The officers of this Board shall be a President, Vice-Presi- dents not exceeding fifteen (15), Managers not exceeding thirty-five (35), Corresponding Secretaries not exceeding twen­ ty-five (25), a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Audi­ tor, all of whom shall reside in Chicago; or within such dis­ tances as shall enable them to attend the weekly meetings of the Executive Committee. These officers shall be elected at each annual meeting, and shall constitute an Executive Committee, with power to ap­ point such Committees from their number as shall be necessary for the furtherance of the work in which the Society is engaged. They shall define the duties of all these Committees in by­ laws as may hereafter be required. They shall have pow er to fill vacancies occurring in the Board, and appoint correspond­ ing members when the interests of the Board demand it. There shall be from one to four additional Vice-Presidents in each^Synodical Society where the work of the Board is car­ ried on; and one Secretary of each Synodical Society shall be ex-officio a manager. These shall be nominated by the Synodi­ cal Society in which they are to serve, and their names shall 225 be sent to the Nominating Committee of the Executive Com­ mittee at Chicago by February first of each year. They shall be entitled to sit in Executive Committee and to speak upon motions, but not to vote. Senior officers of the Board may. from time to time, when it is desirable, be placed upon a list of honorary Vice-Presi­ dents, who shall be always welcom e to sit in meetings of the Board, and to speak upon its policy and upon motions, but shall not vote. This article, as amended, shall not affect the standing of any members of the Board chosen previous to 1893.

ARTICLE IV. The payment of twenty-five dollars at one time by one person to a local society auxiliary to this Board entitles the giver to a Life Membership o f this Board; the payment o f twenty-five dollars at one time by a society to this Board gives them the privilege of nominating a Life member; the payment of one hundred dollars at one time by one person entitles the giver to an Honorary membership. In each case, the sum paid must be over and above the pledges of that individual or if the society is not pledged for a definite amount, then the sum must be over and above the gifts of the preceding year. The acceptance of a life or honorary membership is a pub­ lic acknowledgment by the recipient of the desire and deter­ mination as long as life shall last to work and pray and give for the upbuilding of Christ’s Kingdom through the conversion of the heathen. At each annual meeting there shall be a time assigned for the recognition of life and honorary members. Every person becoming a life member, or an honorary member, shall receive the Annual Report, upon request.

ARTICLE V. The financial year o f this Board shall close April 1st, and the annual meeting shall be held on the fourth Wednesday and Thursday of that month, at which time the Executive Com­ mittee shall report the progress of the Board, the condition of its treasury, and make such suggestions as, in their judgment, the interests of the Board may require. At any annual meeting of the -Board, if a majority so de­ cide, the next annual meeting may be postponed for one year or two. During the interval decided upon, the Executive Commit­ tee shall be competent to conduct all needful business usually done at an annual meeting.

ARTICLE VI. A meeting of this Board shall be held every week at 10 o’clock on Friday morning, for mutual consultation and the 336 adoption' of such measures as the prosperity of the mission work may suggest.'

ARTICLE VII.

At the weekly meetings five members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum.

ARTICLE VIII. No special meeting shall be called except by the consent of the President, one Vice-President and one Secretary.

ARTICLE IX. Any number of women and young people who may form an organization for the same purpose as the Woman’s Presby­ terian Board of Missions, and desire to co-operate therewith, may become auxiliary by reporting the same to one of the Home Secretaries of the Board.

ARTICLE x . This Constitution may be altered or amended at an annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the voting members present.

ARTICLE XI.

S e c t io n 1. This Board will work in harmony with and under the supervision of the authorities of the Assembly’s Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and shall be subject to their approval in the employment and re­ muneration of missionaries and in the designation of their fields of labor, and in the support of Bible-readers and pupils in the foreign field. S e c t i o n 2. All the missionaries supported by this Board shall be approved by the constituted missionary authorities of the Presbyterian Church, and shall labor under their direction, and shall be subject to the same rules and regulations as those that govern the other missionaries of their particular mission. S e c t i o n 3. The Treasurer shall receive all contributions of this Board and pay them into the treasury of the Assembly’s Board of Missions, as designated by the Auxiliaries, and all funds not thus designated shall be appropriated according to the decision of the Executive Committee.

a r t i c l e x i i . The President or one of the officers shall preside at all meetings of the Board. The Recording Secretary shall keep a full record of the proceedings of all meetings of the Executive Committee, notify new officers of their election and committees of their appoint­ 327 ment, and shall perform such other duties as are incident to the office. The Corresponding Secretaries shall, under the direction of the Executive Committee, conduct all the correspondence of the Board. It shall also be their duty to present to the annual meeting of this Board a report for publication of the work accomplished during the year.

ARTICLE XIII. At the annual meetings of the Board the officers of the Board shall ex-ofiicio be entitled to vote. Each Presbyterial Society and each Auxiliary shall be entitled to one delegate to the annual meeting of the Board, who shall be entitled to vote, and who should be chosen with reference to this responsibility. None but officers of the Board and delegates are entitled to vote.

BY-LAW NO. I. Members of this Board shall be chosen because of superior fitness to carry on the work of the Board. This fitness in­ cludes personal consecration to the Master; intelligent interest in foreign missions; promptness, persistency, courtesy, self- control, ability to work harmoniously with others, and loyalty to constituted authority. In choosing President, Secretaries, Chairmen of Committees, etc., reference should be had to spe­ cial fitness for special work.

BY-LAW NO. II. All names suggested for membership on this Board should be sent in writing to the Chairman of the Nominating Com­ mittee not later than’ February 1st. These should be considered confidential, and should not be made public except by the Chairman of the Nominating Committee or her accredited representative. BY-LAW NO. III. The absence of any member of the Executive Committee from executive meetings for one year, except in case of illness or by previous notification, shall be considered equivalent to a resignation, and it shall be the duty of the Nominating Com­ mittee to inquire of such member if she so intends it. This By-law refers only to such members as are near enough to Chicago to attend the executive meetings.

BY-LAW NO. IV. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary, every year, after the arrangement of Standing Committees, to see that the chairman of each committee has a copy of the list of duties of her committee. 228 INDEX

Certificate of Incorporation...... 2 Executive Committee...... 3 Division of Correspondence ‘ ...... 5 Standing Committees...... 1 List of Annual Meetings...... 8 Statement of Investments...... 10 Tabulated Reports— Treasurer’s Report ... 12 Colorado ...... 14 Illinois ...... • •...... 18 Indiana ...... 35 Iowa ...... 45 Michigan ...... 56 M in n esota ...... • •...... 64 Montana ...... 72 Nebraska ...... • • ...... 74 North Dakota ...... 80 South Dakota ...... • •...... 84 Utah ...... 87 W is co n s in ...... 88 Unclassified Receipts ...... 93 Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting ...... 96 Foreign Secretaries’ Reports...... 100 Home Secretaries’ Reports...... 168 Synodical Reports— C o lo r a d o ...... 182 I llin o is ...... 184 Indiana ...... 186 Iowa ...... 1ST Michigan ...... 189 Minnesota ...... 191 Montana ...... 193 Nebraska ...... • •...... 194 North Dakota ...... 195 South Dakota ...... • •...... 196 W isconsin ...... 197 List of Missionaries ...... 199 Pledges for Special Objects...... 210 Life Members ...... 222 Constitution, Roard ...... 225

229 Press of Chicago Printing & Embossing Co. Chicago. LIST OF SUBJECTS

RECOM MENDED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR EACH MONTH

January...... General Survey. February...... China. M arch...... Africa. April...... India. M ay...... Siam and Laos. June...... South America, M exico and Guatemala. July...... Hainan and the Philippines. August...... Chinese and Japanese in the United States. September...... Japan. October...... Persia. November...... Korea. December...... Syria.

FORM OF BEQUEST AND DEVISE

Personal Estate.—I give and bequeath to the W oman's Presby­ terian Board of Missions of the Northwest, incorporated in the State of Illinois, the sum of ------, to be appropriated and applied to the Mission purposes of said Board. Real Estate.—I give and devise to the W oman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, incorporated in the State of Illinois, all that certain [here insert a short description of the house, lot, ground-rent or other real estate], with the appurtenances, in fee simple, to be appropriated and applied, with full power of sale or mortgage, to the Mission purposes of said Board. WOMAN’S WORK

Is the only Woman’s Foreign Missionary Magazine of the Pres­ byterian Church. It is published monthly, under the direction of all the woman’s Boards and Societies, at 156 F if t h Avenue, New Y o r k . Terms, 50 cents per annum, including postage, and payable in advance. No club rates. Each magazine is discontinued when the subscription has ex­ pired. Give your exact address in every letter (including the Mrs. or Miss) and when your address is to be changed, send both the old one and the new. If any mistake occurs, let us know of it at once, that it may be corrected. All orders must be accompanied by the money. Fractional parts of a dollar may be sent in postage stamps, when the amount cannot be sent in any other form. Address all orders and subscriptions to Woman's Work, Room 822, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. Address all communications for the editor to Miss E llen C. P a r so n s, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York.

OVER SEA AND LAND

Over Sea and Land is under the joint direction of all the Woman’s Board and Societies, and is published monthly at 503 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. Price, 25 cents per year. Subscriptions should be sent to Over Sea and Land, 503 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa., and communications for the editor to M rs. A. W. D im o c k , Peekamose, N. Y.