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1888
TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION
Conference met at Hiawatha, Kan., March 15, 1888, to hold her twenty-fourth session with Bishop J. J. Esher as chairman.
Peter Schumann, who, for a number of years had served as assistant secretary, was appointed Conference secretary to succeed C. Berner, who held the position for 20 years. C. F. Erffmeyer and H. J. Bowman were appointed English assistants.
M. W. Harris died during the year. C. Berner, one of the charter members of Conference, as well as one of the first mission- aries sent to Kansas by the Illinois Conference in 1858, and for many years a leader in the western branch of the church, serv- ing as presiding elder, and representing the Conference in Gen- eral Conference on various occasions, was compelled, on account of failing health, to change his residence to a more congenial cli- mate. He received his credentials to the California Conference, whither he had planned to move. His farewell remarks to the brethren were touching as he referred to the small beginning, the splendid development, and the great possibilities of the Con- ference, as also his regret over leaving the organization in which he spent so many of the best years of his life. He would leave the Kansas Conference, but he would never forget her, nor her interests. He was assured of the sympathy and prayers of his brethren in the step he was taking.
H. Mattill, who had been elected Junior Publishing Agent at the recent General Conference, received credentials to the Erie Conference.
The brethren H. J. Bowman, L. Wenger, D. R. Zellner, J. W. Keiser, A. W. Platt, C. W. Snyder and J. H. Kiplinger were re- tained in the itinerancy without appointment.
The following candidates received license to preach: Ernst Yaeck, A. Rodewald, M. J. Steinmetz, C. E. Platz, I. H. Haupt- fuehrer, J. R. Nanninga, S. W. Harris, A. J. Engler and C. Meeder.
J. J. Kliphardt, from the Canada Conference, J. H. Vogt, from the Pittsburg Conference, and J. H. Keeler, from the Michigan Conference, were received.
The brethren R. R. Brand, M. Manshardt, G. J. Schumacher, D. Swart, A. E. Flickinger, S. J. Luehring, Otto Rohrig, F. M. Peek and D. E. Hoover received deacons' orders, and W. F. Wolt- hausen elder's orders.
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J. H. Keeler, J. J. Kliphardt, E. Brown, W. F. Schuerman, R. R. Brand, M. Manshardt, D. Swart, A. E. Flickinger, Otto Rohring, F. M. Peek and D. E. Hoover were received into the itin- erancy.
J. H. Tobias, A. Brunner and J. F. Schreiber were elected presiding elders and stationed as follows: Holton District, J. F. Schreiber; Kansas City District, J. Wuerth; Emporia District, A. Brunner; Abilene District, J. H. Tobias.
A. Brunner was elected Conference trustee for five years; J. F. Schreiber for three years, and J. H. Tobias two years.
A. Brunner was elected Conference treasurer and E. J. Troyer statistical secretary.
The directors of the Fire Insurance Company reported that they were able to secure but $34,000.00 worth of property to in- sure, and since that was not sufficient to warrant success, the project was dropped for the present.
Since H. Mattill was called to Cleveland, Ohio, during the winter to assume his duty as Junior Publishing Agent, his district in the Conference became vacant. Rev. A. Brunner was chosen to serve the same until the spring session.
The Kansas City District House was completed during the year at a cost of $2,437.60.
Again the duty was imposed with emphasis to raise at least $1.00 missionary money per member for the Kansas Conference during the coming year.
It was ordered that 500 German and 700 English Conference journals should be published and sold for ten cents per copy. P. Schumann and C. F. Erffmeyer were appointed as editors and pub- lishers. This was the beginning of the published Conference jour- nal and contained a brief sketch of the origin of the Kansas Con- ference.
MISSIONARY DEFICIT
A deficit in the missionary treasury made it necessary to cut the appropriations four per cent in order not to increase the mis- sionary debt. A committee was also appointed to devise a plan by which a similar condition might be avoided in the future.
NORTH-WESTERN COLLEGE
A recent law enacted in the State of Illinois made it unlaw- ful for the trustees of colleges to be non-residents of the state. It
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therefore became necessary for Conference to choose another trus- tee for North-Western College. H. Mattill, the present incumbent, resigned, and Rev. Wm. Goessele, of the Illinois Conference, was elected to represent the Kansas Conference in that institution.
BOUNDARIES
a. Conference was divided into four districts as follows : Holton, Kansas City, Emporia, Abilene.
Holton District
a. Four Mile, Dreisbach, and Sabetha shall constitute Sabe- tha Mission, and Spring Creek Circuit shall be discontinued.
Kansas City District
a. The city appointment of Oregon Circuit shall constitute Oregon Mission, but shall be served with the circuit for the pres- ent.
b. Clinton Mission shall be changed to Windsor Mission.
c. Bloomington Circuit shall be called Shelby Circuit.
d. Denver shall be served with Oregon Circuit for the pres- ent.
Emporia District
a. Americus shall be added to Emporia.
b. Earlton shall be taken from Humboldt and added to Par- sons.
c. The city of Carthage shall be taken up as a new mission and be called Carthage Mission.
d. Halstead Mission shall be added to Newton Mission except Christian and Halstead appointments.
Abilene District
a. Turkey Creek shall be taken from Salina Mission and added to Marion Mission.
b. The appointments Christian and Halstead, of Halstead Mission, shall be added to Salina Mission and be called McPher- son Mission.
c. Big Medicine shall be added to Osborne, and Stockton Mission shall be discontinued.
d. Hiawatha shall be changed to a station.
e. The appointment Norway shall be served with Jewell Mission.
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f. Lone Star and Carson shall be taken from Spring Creek Circuit, and in connection with Prairie Springs, and McCauley's shall constitute Hiawatha Circuit.
The amount of $4,114.00 was raised the past year for mis- sions in the Conference, and $7,680.00 was appropriated for the coming year. J. Wuerth was elected delegate to the Board of Missions, and the old board of officers were re-elected for the So- ciety.
STATISTICS
Conversions, 775 ; accessions, 1,081 ; membership, 5,177; intin- erant preachers, 55; local preachers, 36; churches, 61; parson- ages, 33; Sunday-schools, 98; officers and teachers, 980; scholars, 4,832; catechetical classes, 36; catechumens, 163; Botschafters, 929; Messengers, 630; Magazins, 512; Epistles, 88; total for mis- sions, $5,484.81.
APPOINTMENTS
Holton District-J. F. Schreiber, P. E.
Holton Station, S. Mueller.
Leavenworth, J. J. Kliphardt.
Atchison Mission, C. Brandt.
Atchison Circuit, J. Schmidli and J. R. Nanninga.
Preston, F. Harder.
Falls City, Otto Rohrig,
Sabetha, D. Swart.
Westmoreland, R. R. Brand.
Leonardville, H. W. Hartmann.
Swede Creek, G. Sorg.
Kansas City District-J. Wuerth, P. E.
Kansas City, Oak St., C. F. Erffmeyer.
Kansas City, Highland Ave., W. F. Wolthausen.
Eudora, P. Schumann.
Oregon Circuit, A. J. Voegelein.
Oregon Mission, M. J. Steinmetz.
Platte River, A. Yockel.
Shelby, L. Holzgrafe.
St. Joseph, John Kurtz.
Glasgow, J. Neuffer.
Warrensburg, S. Luehring.
Downs Mission, C. Linge.
Gove, to be supplied.
Deer Creek, F. J. Shafer.
Winston, D. G. Rinehold.
Windsor, J. K. Elmer.
Denver, to be supplied.
Emporia District-A. Brunner, P. E. Emporia, L. Wenger and A. Rode- wald.
Yates Center, T. R. Nanninga.
Humboldt, C. Meeder.
Golden Valley, E. J. Troyer.
Parsons, H. S. Bower.
Carthage Circuit, C. W. Snyder.
Carthage Mission, W. S. Harris.
Peabody, J. K. Young.
Eldorado, D. E. Hoover and C. Hart- man. Derby, M. Walter.
Newton, A. W. Platt and C. E. Platz.
Rice, J. H. Keeler.
Kingman, S. H. Dunkelberger.
Pawnee Rock, B. J. Fehnel.
Offerle, E. Brown.
La Porte, to be supplied. Abilene District-J. H. Tobias.
Alida, D. R. Zellner.
Marion, W. F. Schuerman and sup- ply. Canada, C. W. Stauffer.
McPherson, H. Toedman.
Wilson, L. E. Becher.
Lincoln Center, F. M. Peek and A. J. Engler. Osborne Circuit, C. Linge.
East Lynn, to be supplied.
Jewell Station, G. J. Schumacher.
Jewell Mission, to be supplied.
Washington, W. Daeschner and M. Manshardt.
Clay Circuit, D. F. Honstedt.
Abilene, M. C. Platz. Hiawatha, A. E. Flickinger.
Hiawatha Circuit, J. W. Keiser.
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MEMORIAL
M. W. Harris
Brother M. W. Harris entered the Conference a year ago and was assigned to Carthage Circuit, where he had hardly taken up the work when the Lord called him from his labors here below to the realms above. He had hardly formed an acquaintance with his co-workers and the members of his flock when he was taken away. He came from the East Pennsylvania Conference the previous year, where he held the relation of a local elder. Brother Harris was an elderly man and left to the Conference a son, S. W. Harris, who received license at this session, succeeding his father in the work at Carthage.
JEWELL MISSION Concordia, Calvary
The first missionaries to Calvary Church, Concordia Mission, which was formerly Jewell Mission, were John Richards and Brother Nye, who were appointed by C. W. Anthony, presiding elder of the Platte River District, Des Moines Conference, in 1886. In this year John Richards began to preach at Randall, Jewell County, Paradise school house and Pleasant Valley school house. He was succeeded in 1887 or 1888 by Rev. Nye. Two families, Rev. Joseph Hout and Brother Dickey, moved from Story County, Iowa, to Jewell County, Kansas, at this time; in consequence of which the Des Moines Conference, sent those brethren to look after their members in Kansas.
In 1886 the Kansas Conference located a mission in Jewell County, but it was not supplied until 1889, when General Con- ference had fixed the boundary line between the Kansas and Platte River Conferences. G. A. Manshardt was the first minis- ter assigned by the Kansas Conference in 1889, and the following year Wayne Mission of the Platte River Conference was, by re- quest, attached to Jewell Mission.
The class was organized in 1886 by John Richards with the following members : Rev. J. Hout and wife, Bartley Hout and wife, Thomas Lowe and wife, Mrs. Belle Blackburn, Joseph Blackburn, Dolly Blackburn, Parker Moore and wife, Chas. Wilson and wife, Peter Paton and wife, and Simon Slaughter and wife. Rev. J. Hout was elected class-leader and Belle Blackburn exhorter. A Sunday-school was organized with Fern Lowe superintendent.
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A church was built in 1898, during the pastorate of J. K. Young, who was serving the work at that time in connection with Jewell Station. The building cost $2,200.00, and was to be dedi- cated in September of that year by S. P. Spreng, editor of the "Evangelical Messenger," who arrived in due time, but in conse- . quence of a continuous rain was not able to hold one service, so that several weeks later it was dedicated by Rev. J. H. Tobias, presiding elder, as the Calvary Church of the Evangelical Asso- ciation.
BERN
During the past year Rev. D. Swart, who was serving Sabetha Mission, organized a class in the village of Bern, and the follow- ing year Sabetha Mission was changed to Bern Mission. About this time a Sunday-school was organized with J. M. Dreisbach superintendent. Bern became the central point of the work, and gradually assimilated the old time Four Mile Point, which was one of the old landmarks in the Kansas Conference, having been one of the early organizations.
In 1892, during the pastorate of I. H. Hauptfuehrer, a church was built at a cost of $2,600.00 and dedicated by Bishop Wm. Horn.
AMERICUS
In 1872, while serving Humboldt Mission, Wm. Lingelbach traveled westward as far as Americus, in Lyon County, where he found members of the Evangelical Association, whom he organ- ized into a class with the following charter members: D. F. Tres- sler and wife, M. F. Noll and wife, A. Tressler, Rebecca Tressler, W. H. Flickinger and wife, Elizabeth Scherer and Jacob Durn. M. F. Noll was chosen leader and D. F. Tressler exhorter of the new- ly formed class.
Brother Lingelbach at first preached in the Methodist Epis- copal Church, but, in 1874, the little band bought a building which had been used for a drugstore, and after remodeling used it for a place of worship. The first board of trustees was composed of M. F. Noll, D. F. Tressler, Wm. Durn, Gottlieb Burkit and George Wise. A Sunday-school was evidently started at the time of the organization of the society, but no record is available of its early history.
In 1902 the old church was removed and a larger and more commodious one erected on the site during the pastorate of A. Solt.
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During this period the society experienced a season of prosperity, and for a series of years very successful camp-meetings were held north of Americus, where the greater portion of the membership lived. Many souls were saved at those meetings, and the work was strengthened in all its parts at the several appointments. In later years a disastrous exodus took place, weakening the work numerically and financially. On various occasions Americus ap- pointment was transferred from one field of labor to another, at one time assuming the name of Americus Mission, until 1888 it was attached to Emporia Mission, of which it has since been a part.
1889
TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION
On March 28th, 1889, Conference convened at Yates Center, Kansas, to hold her 25th session, with Bishop T. Bowman in the chair. P. Schumann was appointed secretary.
J. C. Burton, a local preacher, was deposed from the minis- try and expelled from the church, and Jesse Poe, also a local preacher, withdrew from the church.
D. G. Rinehold received credentials on condition, and E. J. Troyer and A. Yockel were placed on the supernumerary list, while E. Evans and J. Hout were continued in that relation.
The brethren H. J. Bowman, J. H. Kiplinger and Otto Rohrig were retained in the itinerancy without appointment.
B. H. Hobbs, J. S. Miller, D. W. Workings, G. A. Manshardt, Chas. Bunse, Omer Butler, David Jones, C. S. Steinmetz and C. F. Harder received license to preach on probation. To this list was added the name of Brother Murakam, a candidate from the mission in Japan. This was the first Japanese candidate licensed by the Kansas Conference.
John Beck, who, years ago, had been a member of the Con- ference, was again received as a local elder, and August Zoeller was received from the German Methodist Church.
B. J. Fehnel and H. L. Holzgrafe were received into the itine- rancy, and C. Linge and P. Fricker were reinstated.
Deacons' orders were voted to H. L. Holzgrafe and B. J. Feh- nel, and elders' orders to J. K. Young, W. F. Schuerman, J. K.
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Elmer, E. Brown, J. W. Keiser, C. W. Stauffer, M. C. Platz and M. Walter.
E. J. Troyer was again elected statistical secretary, and also Conference trustee for 5 years.
The publishers of the Conference journal reported a deficit of $72.60 for the printing of the journals. This was ordered paid out of the Conference treasury. It was also ordered that 500 Ger- man and 500 English journals should be published this year, P. Schumann and C. F. Erffmeyer again being editors and publishers and each to receive $10.00 from the Conference treasury for their work.
C. F. Erffmeyer and W. F. Wolthausen having purchased two lots in Wyandotte, Kansas, upon which a chapel had been erected. Conference accepted the same with the remaining indebtedness and ordered the transfer made to the Conference trustees.
MISSION CHURCH DEBT
A heavy mission church debt resting on the Conference at this time, the presiding elders of Holton and Kansas City Dis- tricts and the pastors of Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph were appointed a committee to superintend mission church debts. This committee was authorized to appoint two men to canvass Holton and Kansas City Districts to raise money for the liquidation of such indebtedness.
A committee was appointed to prepare a plan for the organ- ization of a church extension society in the Conference, and to report at the next annual session.
A number of the brethren were called to account because they failed to raise the required $1.00 per member missionary money the past year, but were excused after stating the reasons for their failure. The rule was continued for the ensuing year.
BOUNDARIES
District Changes
a. Topeka shall be added to Emporia District.
b. Osage Mission and Eudora Circuit shall be taken from Kansas City District and added to Holton District.
c. Carthage shall be taken from Emporia District and added to Kansas City District.
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Holton District
a. Luecks appointment and Horton shall be added to Sabetha Mission and Sabetha Mission shall be called Bern Mission.
Kansas City District
a. Kansas City, Kansas (Wyandotte), shall be taken up as a mission and be served in connection with Oak Street.
b. Topeka, Kansas, shall be taken up as a mission.
c. Deer Creek appointment shall be added to Eudora Circuit
and the remaining appointments shall be called Osage Mission.
Emporia District
a. Cambridge shall be taken from Eldorado Mission and with the surrounding country constitute Cambridge Mission.
b. Potwin shall be taken from Peabody and added to Eldo- rado Mission.
c. The country appointments of Newton Mission with Chris- tian and Halstead of McPherson Mission shall constitute Halstead Circuit.
Abilene District
a. The appointments of Downs Mission shall be added to Osborne Circuit and Downs Mission shall be discontinued.
MISSIONS
The amount of $5,435.94 was raised for missions the past year and $8,050.00 was appropriated for the ensuing year. The amount of $2,000.00 was received from the General Treasury. From the Conference treasury there was appropriated $1,335.00, not included in the above, of which $175.00 applied to Conference claimants.
J. Wuerth was elected delegate to the Board of Missions, and the society was reorganized by electing H. Mattill president, P. Schumann secretary and J. Schmidli treasurer.
STATISTICS
Conversions, 893; accessions, 986; membership, 5,549; itine- rant preachers, 60; local preachers, 33; churches, 65; parsonages, 36; Sunday-schools, 105; officers and teachers, 1,106; scholars, 5,273; catechetical classes. 26; catechumens, 378; Botschafters,
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977; Messengers, 698; Magazins, 524; Epistles, 87; total for mis- sions, $6,453.54.
For the first time the Sunday-schools have reached and passed 5,000 in the number of scholars, while the officers and teachers run over 1,000 in number.
APPOINTMENTS
Holton District-J. F. Schreiber, P. E.
Holton, S. Mueller.
Leavenworth, J. J. Kliphardt.
Atchison, C. Brandt.
Atchison Circuit, J. Schmidli and A. Rodewald.
Preston and Falls City, J. Harder and J. R. Nanninga.
Bern, D. Swart.
Westmoreland, R. R. Brand.
Leonardville, H. W. Hartman.
Swede Creek, G. Sorg.
Eudora, P. Schumann.
Osage, F. J. Shafer.
Kansas City District-A. Brunner, P. E.
Kansas City, Highland Ave., W. F. Wolthausen.
Kansas City, Oak St., C. F. Erffmeyer and D. Jones. Oregon, J. W. Keiser and J. S. Miller. Platte River, J. Neuffer. Shelby, L. Holzgrafe.
St. Joseph, A. Yockel.
Glasgow, C. E. Platz.
Warrensburg and East Lynn, S. J. Luehring and C. S. Steinmetz.
Winston, Omer Butler.
Windsor, J. K. Elmer.
Carthage Circuit and Mission, D. E. Hoover.
Denver, to be supplied.
Emporia District-J. Wuerth, P. E.
Emporia, A. J. Voegelein.
Yates Center, T. R. Nanninga.
Humboldt, Chas. Meeder.
Golden Valley, M. J. Steinmetz.
Parsons, H. S. Bower.
Peabody, A. W. Platt.
Eldorado, B. J. Fehnel.
Cambridge, C. W. Snyder.
Derby, M. Walter.
Newton, J. K. Young.
Halstead, C. W. Stauffer.
Topeka, P. Fricker.
Rice, J. H. Keeler.
Kingman, S. H. Dunkelberger.
Ellinwood, H. Toedman.
Offerle, E. Brown.
La Porte, to be supplied.
Abilene District-J. H. Tobias, P. E.
Abilene, M. C. Platz.
Alida, D. R. Zellner.
Marion, W. F. Schuerman and B. H. Hobbs.
Canada, John Kurtz.
McPherson, I. H. Hauptfuehrer.
Wilson, L. E. Becher.
Lincoln Center, F. M. Peek and C. H. Hartman.
Osborne, W. Daeschner.
Gove, to be supplied.
Jewell, G. J. Schumacher.
Jewell Mission, G. A. Manshardt.
Washington, M. Manshardt and A. J. Engler.
Clay, D. F. Honstedt.
Hiawatha Station, A. E. Flickinger. Hiawatha Circuit, C. Linge.
FALLS CITY
Prior to 1887, several families who were members of the Evangelical Association, most of them on the Preston charge, moved to Falls City, where they located and requested the Evan- gelical preachers to preach for them. In the spring of 1887 Falls City appointment was taken from Preston to form Falls City Mis- sion and supplied with F. Harder and J. Ehrich, who preached reg-
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ularly every two weeks on Sunday afternoon. The charter mem- bers were F. Hilgenfeld and family, Louis Hilgenfeld and family, L. Wulf and family, Wm. Goldner and family, and Mrs. Louise Plege.
A Sunday-school was organized at the time, but no record of the officers is available. In 1892 a neat church was built on the corner of Harlan and 19th Streets at a cost of $3,500.00, including the lots, and dedicated by Bishop J. J. Esher. Much credit is due to the Hilgenfeld brothers for the beginning and development of the work in Falls City. Especially is this true of Frederick Hilgenfeld, who contributed most liberally toward the erection of both church and parsonage.
A Woman's Missionary Society was organized July 16, 1900, with the following officers: Mrs. J. Schmidli, president; Mrs. Schloeder, secretary; and Mrs. Voegelein, treasurer. Falls City enjoys the distinction of having organized the first Young Ladies' Missionary Society in the Conference. This occurred on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 16, 1913, under the direction of Mrs. M. C. Platz. Fifteen young ladies united as charter members and chose Miss Mary Bickel as president and Sarah Fredrick, secretary. The organization has developed into a strong factor for missions among the young ladies of the congregation.
TOPEKA
In the early summer of 1888, Rev. P. Fricker, who, at the time, was not in the active work, was requested by several mem- bers living in Topeka, to preach for them. Brother Fricker re- sponded, feeling it was God's call to him, and he should obey. He preached his first sermon in the home of Henry Meyers, on Polk Street, taking for his text Rom. 1: 16. There were ten or twelve persons present. Brother Fricker continued to preach there dur- ing the summer, holding services in various homes, and organized a class in the month of August with the following members: Adam Waidelich and wife, and two children, Jacob and Lydia, Henry Diehl and wife, H. S. Pruesner and wife, J. Miller and wife.
Adam Waidelich was chosen class-leader, Henry Diehl ex- horter, and H. S. Pruesner steward, C. Kaser and wife united with the class the Sunday following its organization. In the spring of 1889 Conference located a mission in Topeka, and sup- plied the same with Rev. P. Fricker, who labored with encourag- ing success, so that the membership was increased to 26 in num-
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ber during the year. A Sunday-school was organized immediate- ly, the pastor serving as superintendent until the following year, when A. Waidelich was elected to that office. There were 21 schol- ars and 7 officers reported at the close of the year 1889, with an average attendance of 17 for the year.
The first Quarterly Conference was held Dec. 29, 1889, with Rev. J. Wuerth, presiding elder, as chairman, and Rev. Fricker, pastor, as secretary. A. Waidelich, Henry Diehl and H. S. Prues- ner were the lay members.
Prior to 1895 the services were held at various places in the city, for a while in a hall on Topeka Ave. and 6th St., then in Lin- coln Post Hall, and, later, in the opera house, 515 Kansas Ave., when, finally, a church was built on the corner of Monroe and Fourth Streets, which was dedicated by Rev. A. Brunner, presid- ing elder, July 28, 1895, Rev. S. Mueller being pastor. The lots were purchased for $1,150.00, and the building erected at an equal cost.
1890
TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION
Conference convened March 20, 1890, at Holton, Kansas, to hold her 26th session with Bishop T. Bowman in the chair and P. Schumann as secretary.
H. R. Price, a local elder, was expelled from the church, and C. W. Snyder was placed on the list of local elders.
Since J. H. Kiplinger had lived in Cleveland, Tenn., for the past two years, his credentials were issued to the Indiana Confer- ence, to which the mission in Tennessee belonged. Otto Rohrig also received credentials.
P. Fricker was placed on the supernumerary list, and the brethren G. Sorg, L. Wenger, H. Toedman, H. J. Bowman, and A. W. Platt were retained in the itinerancy without appointment.
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