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16. Tabulated Report of Churches
Churches
No. Members
No. Min., 1st De.
No. Min., 2d De.
No. Elders
No. Deacons
Places of Ap.
No. Appoints.
Ap. per Month
Evergreen S. S.
Summer S. S.
Add's by Bap.
Add's by Letter
Reclaimed
Crooked Creek
27|
0
1
0
2
1|
45
2
1
0|
0
2|
0
East Nodaway
14
1
3
English River
193
1
2
4
11
3 220
14
2
5
5
0
Fairview
64
1
1
2
4
2 128
6
1
11
1
1
Franklin
35
1
2
1
2
2
Middle Creek
2
1
1
2
Monroe County
95
1
2
1
6
3
80
5
1
.
1
2
Mt. Etna .
37
1
1
6
1
66
4
1
Nishna Valley
29
1
1
3
1
75
4
1
1
4
Salem
26
2
8
2
95
6
1
5
2
South Keokuk
49
2
5
1
90
6
1
2
2
South Ottumwa
19
1
1
1 104
8
1
4
1
South River
25
1
3
2
4
1
7
2
85
Libertyville
60
4
Pleasant Hill
2
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HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
17. Missionary report of Southern District of Iowa :
Receipts. on hand at last report, $108.57; total receipts, $630.68; expenses, $500.95; balance on hand Oct. 1, 1904, $129.73.
Sermons, 180; members received by letter, 1; baptized, 6. En- dowment at last report, $1,677; endowment received, $125; total, $1,802. J. D. Coffman, Secretary.
18. Treasurer's Report :
Receipts, on hand Oct. 2, 1903, $29.01; total, $87.01; expendi- tures, total, $49.07; balance on hand, $37.94.
D. F. Kingery, Treasurer.
21. Sunday School, Ministerial, Missionary and District Meet- ings of 1905 to be held with the Fairview church on Thursday and Friday before the first full moon in October.
D. F. Sink, Moderator. H. F. Caskey, Reading Clerk. S. F. Brower, Writing Clerk.
MINUTES OF 1905
Meeting held in the Fairview church, Appanoose County, Iowa, Oct. 6, 1905.
Eld. Peter Brower, moderator; E. G. Rodabaugh, writing clerk; J. D. Brower, reading clerk.
The churches were called and responded as follows :
Crooked Creek .A. Sanger
East Nodaway J. P. Bailey
English River H. C. Wenger, A. H. Brower
Fairview O. Ogden, D. A. Wolf
Franklin A. L. Sears, L. M. Kob
Libertyville
D. Holder, W. N. Glotfelty
Middle Creek C. M. Brower
Monroe J. J. Miller, W. Rodabaugh
Mt. Etna D. F. Kingery
Nishna Valley
Not represented
Pleasant Hill
E. G. Rodabaugh, V. Anderson Salem
.Mankin Wray, C. L. West
South Keokuk
South Ottumwa Elizabeth Gable, Grace Brown
.. C. E. Wolf South River W. W. Folger
Queries
1. Inasmuch as the church is throwing her influence strongly
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MINUTES
against the use of tobacco. is it prudent to employ ministers ad- dicted to this habit to hold series of meetings or install officers ?
Answer .- No. See Revised Minutes of Annual Meeting of 1889, Art. 20; also 1890, Art. 10.
2. This query asks that the elders of District appoint the committee on credentials instead of the moderator of preceding meeting.
Answer .- Passed.
3. This query asks that steps be taken to have the minutes of District Meeting, since the organization of the District to the present time, published in book form and sold at cost.
Answer .- A committee of three is appointed to look the matter up and report at next District Meeting. Committee as follows : H. C. N. Coffman, E. G. Rodabaugh, W. N. Glotfelty.
4. Is it allowable, according to the decision of last Annual Meeting (see Art. 4, Minutes of 1905), for the Brethren to take part in union Sunday-school conventions and allow our houses to be used for same under proper limitation ?
Answer .- Passed to Annual Meeting.
5. We ask District Meeting to decide to have full reports of committees sent to churches made at elders' meeting where the committees are appointed.
Answer .- Passed.
6. The Mission Board ask that each elder, who has not al- ready done so, have live solicitors appointed, whose duty it is to see and solicit each member at least once a year for home mis- sion funds in their respective congregation or congregations.
Answer .- Passed.
7. We. the Mission Board of Southern Iowa, recommend that each congregation set apart one or more young members, who are consecrated to be trained for the Master's use, to be in readi- ness and prepared to be used by the board in the field, and that the elder in charge cooperate with the board in this important work.
Answer .- Passed.
8. Report of Old Folks' Home read and accepted.
9. Trustees of Home ask for a plan for raising funds for fu- ture improvement of the Home.
Answer .- The trustees of the Home shall act as solicitors to raise said fund.
10. Bro. Mankin Wray is reelected trustee of Old Folks' Home for two years.
11. Treasurer's Report :
Receipts
On hand Oct. 6, 1905
$ 37.85
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HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
South Keokuk
5.30
English River
19.00
Libertyville 6.00
Monroe County
9.40
South Ottumwa
2.00
Middle Creek
2.00
Franklin
3.60
Salem
3.00
South River
2.50
Fairview
7.00
Mt. Etna
4.50
Crooked Creek
1.50
Pleasant Hill
2.70
East Nodaway
1.20
Total $107.55
Expenditures
Publishing House, District Meeting Minutes $ 7.09
Publishing House, Annual Meeting Minutes 6.66
C. M. Brower, delegate to Annual Meeting 33.50
Sunday-school secretary 15.68
S. F. Brower, printing 1.30
Total
$64.23
Balance on hand
43.32
13. Tabulated Report.
(See next page for this report.)
14. Report of Mission Board :
Receipts
Balance on hand
$ 129.73
District Meeting collection
70.00
Interest on endowments
104.12
English River 286.48
Salem 47.50
Ottumwa
19.50
Fairview
31.10
New Market
1.05
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MINUTES
13. Tabulated Report
Name of Church
No. Members
No. Min., 1st De.
No. Min., 2d De.
No. Elders
No. Deacons
Places of Ap.
No. Appoints.
Ap. per Month
No. S. S.
Add's by Bap.
Add's by Letter
Reclaimed
English River
186
21
1
4
11
2 228
17
2
9
2
Monroe
89
2
1
6
10
5
1
4
3
Fairview
74
2
1
3
2 129
9
1
5
Libertyville
50
1
1
2
6
2
90
6
2
2
1
1
South Keokuk
44
1
5
76
6
1
2
Franklin
30
1
1
1
1
Salem
29
2
10
2
83
6
1
4
Crooked Creek
28
1
1
1
38
2
1
5
Mt. Etna
26
1
1
3
1
66
4
1
1
South River
23
1
2
3
1
Pleasant Hill
23
1
1
3
1
50
4
1
Middle Creek
21
1
1
2
1
1
South Ottumwa
20
1
1
1 132
1
1
East Nodaway
12
Nishna Valley
Monroe County
5.35
Libertyville
25.50
South Keokuk
53.90
Middle Creek
6.00
Crooked Creek
1.00
Mt. Etna Sunday-school
6.00
Sisters' Mission Circle
4.60
Individuals
18.85
General Mission Board
250.00
Total
$1,060.68
Expenses
Ottumwa Mission, C. E. Wolf
$448.00
Ottumwa Mission, J. M. Follis
10.00
Ottumwa Mission, D. F. Sink 28.00
Ottumwa Mission, sidewalk 40.00
Ottumwa Mission, J. D. Brower
3.60
Ottumwa Mission, W. D. Grove
4.00
-
2
4
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HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
Cttumwa Mission, repairing chimney 13.92
New Market Mission, J. P. Bailey 22.00
Middle Creek Mission 8.32
A. H. Brower, interest 6.00
Total
$583.84
Balance on hand 476.84
Sermons
Middle Creek 20
New Market
14
South Ottumwa
132
Total
166
Council Meetings
2
Ottumwa
Visits
689
Tracts distributed
229
Sessions of Sunday-school
51
Preaching services
132
Prayer meetings
54
Meals given
182
Beds given
87
Love feasts
2
Councils
4
Gospel Messengers distributed
34
Inglenooks distributed
33
Missionary Visitors distributed
20
Baptized
1
Endowment at last report
$1,802.00
Endowment Oct. 1, 1905
2,468.13
Peter Brower, Secretary.
15. Sunday-school Secretary's Report :
Churchhouses
12
Preaching places 15
Sunday-schools
Pupils enrolled 11
587
Average attendance
438
Teachers
51
Total amount of offerings . $352.56
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MINUTES
Amount given for missionary purposes
165.81
Sunday-schools using Brethren Literature 11
Sunday-schools continuing entire year 9
Scholars converted 23
Sunday-schools having teachers' meetings 1
Sunday-schools having home department 0
Teachers using quarterlies in class 5
42
Per cent of children in schools under fourteen years of age 14 to 24
20
24 and over 38
Number Sunday-schools commencing on time
5
0
16. Bro. D. F. Kingery reelected District treasurer for one year.
17. Bro. S. M. Matthews was appointed for an endowment solicitor for the Fairview church, Appanoose County, Iowa.
18. Bro. H. C. Wenger was reelected District Sunday-school secretary for one year.
19. Bro. W. D. Grove. South English, Iowa, was reelected as treasurer of Mission Board for three years.
20. Bro. Peter Brower, South English, Iowa, was elected secretary of Mission Board one year to fill vacancy.
21. Eld. Peter Brower was elected as member of Standing Committee and Eld. C. E. Wolf alternate.
22. Decided that the Sunday-school, Ministerial and District Meetings shall be held in the Monroe County church on Thursday and Friday before the first full moon in October, 1906.
Peter Brower, Moderator.
J. D. Brower, Reading Clerk.
E. G. Rodabaugh, Writing Clerk.
MINUTES OF 1906
Meeting held in the Monroe church, Monroe County, Iowa, Sept. 28, 1906.
H. C. N. Coffman, moderator; W. N. Glotfelty, writing clerk ; A. W. Miller, reading clerk.
The reading clerk read Acts 15, after which the churches were called and responded as follows :
Crooked Creek David Rittenhouse
East Nodaway Not represented
English River
J. H. Brower, W. D. Grove
Number Sunday-schools perfect H. C. Wenger, Secretary.
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HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
Fairview O. Ogden, Ella Matthews
Franklin A. L. Sears
Libertyville .H. B. Johnston
Middle Creek' Not represented
Monroe W. Miller, Frank Roberts
Mt. Etna J. P. Bailey
Nishna Valley
Not represented
Pleasant Hill
Victor Anderson
Salem
D. F. Sink, Mamie Sink
South Keokuk
South Ottumwa H. N. Butler, D. F. Shelly
Lena Wolf
South River Not represented
Queries
1. The Libertyville church asks that the form of credentials used by delegates to Annual Meeting be adopted for delegates to District Meeting.
Answer .- Passed.
2. The South Ottumwa church asks the Mission Board to build an addition to their churchhouse with a baptistry in it. Mis- sion Board in session passed this to District Meeting.
Answer .- Deferred one year.
3. Report of committee under No. 3 of Minutes of 1905; said committee made a partial report and was continued and instructed to act in connection with committee on church history.
4. Report of trustee of Old Folks' Home read and accepted.
5. Adam Brower was elected as trustee for Old Folks' Home for two years.
6. D. F. Kingery was reelected as District Treasurer for one year.
7. District Treasurer's Report :
Receipts, on hand Oct. 28, 1906, $43.23; total, $107.23; expendi- tures, $42.36; balance on hand, $64.87.
9. Tabulated Report.
(See next page for this report.)
10. Report of Mission Board :
Receipts, balance on hand, $476.84; total, $970.18; expenses, $657.25; balance on hand, $312.93.
Sermons, 197; baptized, 14.
During the year J. D. Brower and wife have been located at Mt. Etna, where the interest is good, with one reclaimed. Endowment at last report $2,468.13
Endowment Sept. 22, 1906
2,668.13
Peter Brower, Secretary.
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MINUTES
12. D. F. Shelly was elected as District Sunday-school secre- tary for one year.
13. Peter Brower, South English, Iowa, was reelected a secre- tary of the Mission Board for three years.
14. H. C. N. Coffman was elected. as member of Standing Committee and Abram Wolf alternate.
15. Decided that the Sunday-school, Ministerial and District Meetings shall be held in the Mt. Etna church, Adams County, on Thursday and Friday before the first full moon in October, 1907. H. C. N. Coffman, Moderator.
W. N. Glotfelty, Writing Clerk. A. W. Miller, Reading Clerk.
9. Tabulated Report
Name of Church
No. Members
No. Min., 1st De.
No. Min., 2d De.
No. Elders
No. Deacons
Places of Ap.
No. Appoints.
Ap. per Month
Add's by Bap.
Add's. by Letter
Reclaimed
English River
177|
2
1
4
9
2 220
17
2
3
9
Monroe County
86|
2
1
5
3 65
5
1
Fairview
66
2
1
4
2 131
9
1
4
3
1
Libertyville
50
1
1
2
6
2|110
8
2
2
South Keokuk
47
1
5
1 104 1 154
8
1
4
South Ottumwa
31
Franklin
30
1
1
1
1
35
2
1
Salem
30
2
9
3
84
5
2
2
Mt. Etna
30
2
1
4
1
59
4
1
4
1
Pleasant Hill
19
1
1
2
1
60
4
1
Crooked Creek
15
1
1
1
1
3
South River
Middle Creek
East Nodaway
Nishna Valley
MINUTES OF 1907
Meeting held in the Mt. Etna church, Adams County, Iowa, Oct. 18, 1907.
D. F. Sink, moderator; J. H. Brower, writing clerk; Homer Caskey, reading clerk.
The churches were called and responded as follows : Crooked Creek
David Rittenhouse
East Nodaway
B. J. Bashor
1
1
8
1
14
No. S. S.
228
HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
English River A. W. Miller, H. W. Coder
Fairview Abram Wolf
Franklin .L. M. Kob
Libertyville Daniel Holder
Middle Creek . Not represented
Monroe J. J. Miller, Arthur McMullin
Mt. Etna J. D. Brower
Nishna Valley . Not represented
Pleasant Hill Not represented
Salem
Metta Wray, Mankin Wray
South Keokuk
Roy Shelly
South Ottumwa Nellie Wolf
Osceola
Homer Caskey
Queries
1. We ask District Meeting that there be no queries accepted from the Mission Board unless they are published in program with other queries.
Answer .- We advise when possible the Mission Board have all their queries published in program with other queries.
2. We ask District Meeting to decide whether it is wrong for our members to attend Chautauquas.
Answer .- This meeting is of the opinion that it is best not to attend Chautauquas.
3. We ask District Meeting to appoint a committee to get up a tabulated report to take the place of the one which we now have and report the same to District Meeting of 1908 for adoption or rejection.
Answer .- Passed.
Committee : A. H. Brower, Roy Shelly and D. P. Miller.
4. Will not the District Meeting of 1907 recommend that each congregation in the District take an annual collection for the Dis- trict missionary collection ?
Answer .- Passed.
5. A sister was reported living at a distance, who wants to unite with the church, has no letter of membership, and the church where she had lived has been disorganized. Passed to District Meeting.
Answer .- Inasmuch as the elders where she formerly lived are dead, we recommend that she be received by her confession provided there are no other hindrances.
6. Decided to continue committee on church history another year.
7. Report of trustee of Old Folks' Home read and accepted.
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MINUTES
8. Mankin Wray was reelected as trustee of Old Folks' Home for two years.
9. D. F. Kingery was reelected as District treasurer for one year.
10. District treasurer's report :
Receipts, on hand Oct. 20, 1907, $64.84; total, $138.34; expendi- tures, $78.58; balance on hand, $59.76.
12. Tabulated Report
Name of Church
No. Members
No. Min., 1st De.
No. Min., 2d De.
No. Elders
No. Deacons
Places of Ap.
No. Appoints.
Ap. per Month
No. S. S.
Add's by Bap.
Add's by Letter
No. Reclaimed
No. Disowned
No. Deaths
No. Lettered Out
9
English River
174
2
1
3
8
2 260
22
2
18
7
Monroe
75
2
1
5
3
72
6
1
8
1
Fairview
66
1
1
2
6
110
8
2
2
4
So. Keokuk
55
1
2
5
123
8
1
7
3
Franklin
30
1
1
1
35
2
1
3
2
1|
4
Salem
24
2
1
73
4
1
2
2
2
Mt. Etna
23
2
4
Pleasant Hill
Crooked Creek
17
2
1
15
1
1
1
Osceola
18
1
3
Middle Creek
East Nodaway
Nishna Valley
So. Ottumwa
30
1 3
1|133
8|
1
3
5
Endowment at last report, $2,668.13.
Endowment Oct. 1, 1907, $2,868.13.
13. Report of Mission Board :
Receipts, balance on hand. $312.93; total, $1,331.88; expenditures, $748.92; balance in treasury, $582.96.
Sermons preached, 312; baptized, 5.
Peter Brower, Secretary.
15. Homer Caskey was elected as District Sunday-school sec- retary for one year.
16. D. F. Sink, Lenox, Iowa, was reelected as a member of the Mission Board for three years.
17. D. F. Sink was elected as a member of Standing Commit- tee and Abram Wolf alternate.
1
Libertyville
56
1
1
1
85
4
1
3
2
230
HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
18. We, the District Meeting desire to say that the Mission Board had nothing to do in putting a baptistry in the Ottumwa churchhouse and this District Meeting entirely exonerates them from any blame whatever.
19. Decided that the Sunday-school, Ministerial, and District Meetings shall be held in the South Keokuk church, Keokuk County, Thursday and Friday before the first full moon in October, 1908.
D. F. Sink, Moderator. J. H. Brower, Writing Clerk. Homer Caskey, Reading Clerk.
MINUTES OF 1908
Meeting held in the South Keokuk church, Keokuk County, Iowa, Oct. 2, 1908.
Peter Brower, moderator; W. N. Glotfelty, writing clerk; A. W. Miller, reading clerk.
The churches were called and responded as follows :
Crooked Creek David Rittenhouse
East Nodaway . John P. Bailey
English River D. P. Miller, W. F. East
Fairview O. Ogden, Theo. Price
Franklin
.A. L. Sears
Libertyville
T. J. Looney, S. M. Burger
Middle Creek
Not represented Monroe
Mt. Etna .J. B. Bruere
D. F. Kingery
Nishna Valley
Not represented
Pleasant Hill
E. G. Rodabaugh Salem
Jessie Walters, Mamie Sink
South Keokuk Susannah Brown, Elizabeth Gable
South Ottumwa Ellen Dale
Osceola
W. W. Folger
Queries
1. The committee appointed under Art. 3, Minutes of 1907, make the following report :
Tabulated Report
Name of church. Number of members at last report. [ By baptism.
Gain By letter. Reclaimed.
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MINUTES
Loss
By death. By letter. Disfellowshiped.
Number members at present.
Number of deacons.
Number ministers in first degree.
Number ministers in second degree.
Number elders.
Places of appointment.
Number of appointments for month.
Total number of appointments.
Number of series of meetings.
The report was adopted by adding number of minutes needed by each church.
2. Art. 19, of Minutes of 1907, in regard to time of holding District Meeting, was amended by inserting the words "on or just after Friday in third line of said article, making it read Thurs- day and Friday on or before the first full moon in October.
3. The elders of the District recommend the following com- mittees :
(1) To Nishna Valley church to arrange for disorganization of same. Committee : J. D. Brower, D. F. Sink.
Answer .- Passed.
(2) To the Pleasant Hill church to arrange, if thought best, for connecting it with the Libertyville church. Committee: A. Wolf, W. N. Glotfelty.
Answer .- Passed.
4. W. D. Grove, South English, Iowa, was reelected as treas- urer of Mission Board for three years.
5. The committee on printing church history and District Meeting Minutes was continued. Adam Brower was appointed on said committee in place of E. G. Rodabaugh.
6. Report of Trustees of Old Folks' Home read and accepted.
7. Adam Brower was reelected as trustee for Old Folks' Home for two years.
8. D. F. Kingery, Mt. Etna, Iowa, was reelected as District treasurer for one year.
9. District Treasurer's Report :
Receipts, on hand Oct. 18, 1907, $59.76; total, $84.96; expendi- tures, $64.08; balance on hand, $20.88.
12. Report of Mission Board :
Receipts, balance on hand, $571.91; total, $1,291.67 ; expenditures, $845.88; balance in treasury, $445.79.
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HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IOWA
11. Tabulated Report
Name of Church
No. Members
No. Min., 1st De.
No. Min., 2d De.
No. Elders
No. Deacons
Places of Ap.
No. Appoints.
Ap. per Month
No. S. S.
Add's by Bap.
Add's. by Letter
No. Reclaimed
No. Disowned
No. of Deaths
No. Lettered Out
English River
175
1
1
4
9
2|210
4
2
15
2
2
1
13
Monroe Co.
68
2
1
5
4. 72
6
1
Fairview
67
1
1
1
5
3|102
7
1
3
6
Libertyville
58
1
1
2
10
2 125
6
2
3
8
1
4
So. Keokuk
50
1
2
4
1 133
8
1
1
Franklin
35
1
1
4
1
24
2
1
5
2
1
1
Mt. Etna
28
2
1
4
1
90
1
5
1
3
2
Osceola
28
2
3
2
6
1
4
4
1
So. Ottumwa
30
1
3
1 141
8
1
2
2
Pleasant Hill
18
1
2
1
25
2
1
1
3
Crooked Creek, Middle Creek. East Valley not reported.
Nodaway and Nishna
Sermons, 286; baptized, 7.
Peter Brower, Secretary.
14. Roy Shelly, Ollie, Iowa, was elected as District Sunday- school secretary for one year.
15. W. N. Glotfelty was elected as a member of Standing Com- mittee, and H. C. N. Coffman, alternate.
16. Decided that the Sunday-school, Ministerial and District Meetings shall be held in the Libertyville church, Thursday and Friday on or before the first full moon in October, 1909.
Peter Brower, Moderator. W. N. Glotfelty, Writing Clerk. A. W. Miller, Reading Clerk.
MINUTES OF 1909
Meeting held in the Libertyville church, Sept. 24, 1909. D. P. Miller, moderator ; J. H. Brower, writing clerk; Homer Caskey, reading clerk.
The churches were called and responded as follows :
Crooked Creek David Rittenhouse
East Nodaway Isaac Webb,
32
2
6
2
80
6
1
6
3
3
Salem
233
MINUTES
Fairview Abram Wolf, J. H. Keller
English River W. D. Grove, H. W. Coder
Franklin
Mattie Johnson
Libertyville .D. Holder, Jerry Wolf
Middle Creek Not represented
Monroe J. J. Miller, Martha Rodabaugh
Mt. Etna .J. D. Brower, D. F. Kingery
Salem
Almeda Caskey, Mankin Wray
South Keokuk H. N. Butler, F. A. Heilman
South Ottumwa Geo. Burgin, J. A. Moorhead
Osceola . Emma Folder
Queries
1. The committees appointed under Art. 3, Minutes of 1908, make the following reports :
(a) Committee No. 1, having not completed their work, was continued until said work is finished.
(b) Committee No. 2, having completed their work, was dis- continued.
2. Committee under Art. 5, Minutes of 1908, was recontinued one year.
3. Inasmuch as Annual Meeting has appointed a temperance committee, we ask District Meeting to appoint a committee in our District to cooperate with the general temperance committee in its work.
Answer .- Passed.
(a) Committee appointed for the following periods of time :
Peter Brower, 3 years ; Homer Caskey, 2 years ; Almeda Caskey, 1 year.
4. The Mission Board asks the District to build a parsonage in Ottumwa.
Answer .- Passed.
Decided to raise the money by solicitation throughout the District. Solicitors, Geo. Burgin, J. A. Moorhead.
5. South Keokuk church asks District Meeting of 1909 to change time of holding our District Meeting to Friday on or after the first full moon after the 15th of September.
(a) Answer .- Passed, with the following amendment, insert- ing the word " before." so as to read "on or before the first full moon after the 15th of September."
6. Decided for each congregation in the District to raise an average of 58 cents per member to aid in the support of the Old Folks' Home the ensuing year.
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7. Decided that the proceedings of the Sunday-school, Min- isterial, Christian Workers', and Missionary Meetings, hereafter shall be published along with the minutes of the District Con- ference.
Miscellaneous
8. Peter Brower was reelected as secretary of the Mission Board for three years.
9. D. F. Kingery was reelected as District treasurer for one year.
10. Mankin Wray was reelected as trustee of Old Folks' Home for two years.
11. J. H. Brower was elected District Sunday-school secre- tary for one year.
12. J. D. Brower was elected as member of Standing Com- mittee, and D. P. Miller alternate.
Reports
13. District treasurer's report, receipts, on hand Oct. 2, 1908, $20.87; total, $114.37; expenditures, $55.97; balance on hand, $59.40. D. F. Kingery, District Treasurer.
15. Report of Mission Board, receipts, balance on hand, $445.79 ; total, $1,343.15; expenses, $1,049.06; balance on hand to date, $294.09. Sermons, 177.
Peter Brower, Secretary.
15. Tabulated Report
Name of Church
No. Members
No. Min., 1st De.
No. Min., 2d De.
No. Elders
No. Deacons
Places of Ap.
No. Appoints.
Ap. per Month
No. S. S.
Add's by Bap.
Add's by Letter
No. Reclaimed
No. Disowned
No. Deaths
No. Lettered Out
English River
180
2
2
4
10
2|176
12
2
2
13
4
1
5
Monroe
61
2
1
6
3 90
1
7
2
2
10
Fairview
76
1
3
8
2
95
9
1
2
2
1
Libertyville
76
1
1
2
10
3|130
6
2
3
4
1
1
4
So. Keokuk
68
1
2
4
1 104
8
1
15
1
2
1
3
1
Franklin
34
1
1
4
1
24
1
1
2
5
1
1
Mt. Etna
46
2
1
4
1
94
4
1
21
3
5
Osceola
So. Ottumwa
35
1
2
1
8
1
8
4
1
5
Crooked Creek
E. Noda way
15
2
2
2
75
6
2|
1
3
2
Salem
40
2
8
2
97
6
1
. .
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17. Decided that the Sunday-school, Ministerial, Christian Workers' and District Meetings shall be held in the Salem church, Thursday and Friday, on or after the first full moon, after the 15th of September, 1910.
D. P. Miller, Moderator. H. F. Caskey, Reading Clerk.
J. H. Brower, Writing Clerk.
MINUTES OF 1910
Meeting held in the Salem church, Sept. 16, 1910.
Eld. Geo. W. Burgin, moderator; Sister Mamie Sink, writing clerk; Sister Lulu Johnston, reading clerk.
The churches were called and responded as follows :
Crooked Creek David Rittenhouse
East Nodaway Mollie Bashor
Fairview Orlando Ogden
English River D. P. Miller, Henry Brower
Franklin County A. L. Sears, L. M. Kob
Libertyville H. B. Johnston
Middle Creek
Not represented
Monroe County
.E. S. Fouts
Mt. Etna
D. F. Kingery, J. P. Bailey
Salem D. P. Bailey, Mamie Sink
South Keokuk
H. N. Butler
South Ottumwa Roy Jennings, Geo. W. Burgin
Osceola Lee Fisher, W. W. Folger
Queries
1. The committee appointed under Article 5, minutes of 1908, report that they have completed the work given them; and the committee is relieved from further duty.
2. Report of Temperance Committee is that not much has been done, except in a general way ; in correspondence with the General Committee and in encouraging temperance programs in the churches.
3. Sister Almeda Caskey is reelected on the Temperance Committee for a term of three years.
4. Bro. Geo. W. Burgin is elected to fill the unexpired term of Bro. Homer Caskey, on the Temperance Committee-term 1 year.
5. The Libertyville church asks District Meeting to make it the duty of the District clerk to send to the Gospel Messenger for publication a brief report of District Meeting, promptly, each year.
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Answer .- Passed, with the amendment that a brief report of all the meetings held in connection with the District Meeting be also given by said clerk.
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