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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1909
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VOL. XXI. NO. 23
NEW STOCK REPORT OF IRE METHODIST UNCLE SAM SAYS WE ARE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN BRIEF! BECOMING MORE
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W arrant Your Inspection
Before You Buy Fall Outfits
Ladies’
Men’s
H eavy fleeced uuderw ’r...50c
Striped wool.....................$1.40
Pall needle rib b ed .......... 1.00
Fam ous N orth S tar wool 1.00
E lastic ribbed .................. 50c
Hoy’s heavy fleeced.................. 25c
Cotton sw eaters.............. 75c
M en’s wool ja c k e ts........$1.25
“ golf coats.............. 2.50
W a y ’s scarf m uffler.................. 50c
Jet hair p in s........................25c
“ brooches........................25
D utch collar p in s............... 25
Dress pin set........................45
N eckless................................25
Black law n w aists..............50
Blue do tted ...........................50
M adras, $1.25 to ............$1.50
Celebrated Brighton outing
flannel night robes, 75c,
$1.00, $1.15, $1.25.
North S tar flannelette skirts
35c and 50c.
C hildren’s ltear
$2.50 to $7.50.
skin coats
C hildren’s fall and winter
coats $.1.00 to $6.50 in late
style trim m ing.
Misses’ English Piccadilly
coats, latest styles both long
and short $8.50 to $15.00.
Fleece lined hose, black
cashm ere, a large selection of
fall and winter hose to select
from, 15 and 25c.
T he fall styles of Cluett
S hirts are nobby and a ttra c ­
tive with colored pleated
stripes; p rices$1, $1.25, $1.50.
H art, Schaffner & M arx
and K irschbaum Tailor-M ade
clothes and overcoats $12.00
to $.10.00.
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W. 0. W. Degree Team Honored.
Barn and Team Burned.
H ead Consul Iloak, W . O. W.
will spend the day Oct. 11, at
Drain where a num ber of caudi-
dates will be initiated in the even­
ing and the Consul has applied to
the Cottage Grove degree team , F.
H . Rosenberg, captaiu, to put on
the floor work at D rain on this
occasion, declaring the Cottage
Grove team to be one of the very
best in the state.
T hursday night the barn of Ben
Jackson at Saginaw caught on fire
from a nearby brushpile which had
been burned earlier in the day and
th e flames were beyond control be­
fore it was observed. Mr. Jackson
lost a fine span of heavy bay mares,
harness and considerable feed, in ­
curring quite a heavy loss to the
young m an, who is a son of F rank
Jackson of Cottage Grove.
W e again wish to call
your attention to this
space. Watch for it
Tuesday, Sept. 21.
Too busy watching
our hen roost to write
an ad this week.
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A Most Interesting and Largely Attended Session. Some Surprising Figures Concerning American
Churchgoers, Which Were Secured From
Hillsboro Chosen as Next Meeting Place.
Commercial Club’s Watermelon Feast.
T uesday the fifty-fifth an n u al
session of the Oregon Methodist
Episcopal conference opened in
the Methodist church in this city,
the afternoon being devoted to the
exam ination of undergraduates,
Rev. T . B. Ford delivering his
splendid lecture on “ A braham
L incoln” in the evening. Besides
the conference memliers an d c iti­
zens of the town assem bled to
listen to th is lecture was m any
members of the local Post CL A.
R . , all of whom were greatly im ­
pressed with I)r. F ord’s eloquent
effort. On W ednesday m orning
the real business session of the
conference opened with Bishop
C harles W. Sm ith, presiding, and
following the sacram ent of the
L ord’s supper organization was
effected.
Bishop Sm ith finished with the
Puget Sound conference at Bell­
ingham , S unday an d cam e direct
to Cottage Grove. Dr. W . B.
H ollingshead, superintendent of
th e P o rtlan d district, is at the seat
of conference, as are also I)r. B.P,
Rowland, of Salem district; Dr.M.
C. W ire, of E ugene district; and
Kev. R. E . D unlap, of K lam ath
district. T he four superintendents
com prise the bishop’s cabinet,
an d assist him in adm inistering
th e affairs of th e conference.
Bishop Sm ith, however, having
been in the field a great deal him ­
self since beiug assigned to P ort­
land, u nderstands quite well the
problem s
before
the
church
throughout Oregon, and is there­
fore able, in a large m easure to
decide for himself w hat to do in
regard to the various questions
th a t are for him to decide.
I.OCAI. PA ST O R IION O R K D .
Mrs. Daniel Oustott, of M ans­
field, Ohio, on behalf of the con­
ference, presented Rev. S. M.
Nickle, of Cottage G rove church,
with a John Wesley teapot.
C L A R K E A I.LO W K D T O R E S I G N .
T he conference accepted the
resignation of Rev. George Clarke,
who eloped with a woman from a
former T exas charge, an d who
lived in the Oregon conference
preaching at G ardiner before lie
was discovered. T here was some
criticism of this action am ong the
pastors, some of whom felt that
the man should have been “ thrown
o ut” instead of being perm itted to
w ithdraw
under charges. Dr.
Wire, superintendent of the E u ­
gene district, moved th e action
that was taken, as C larke was
here under Dr. W ire’s charge,
having come in under false pre­
tenses after falsifying his official
m inisterial parchm ents.
H IL L S B O R O
NEXT
RENDEZVOUS.
Hillslxiro will be the seat of the
conference n ex t fall, th a t place
having been designated Tuesday
m orning when Rev. I.. F . Belknap
again extended an invitation. He
said lie did not know w hether he
would lie there as pastor, and
Bishop Sm ith rem arked th at it
would be safe, as H illsboro prob­
ably will still be there. T he con­
ference voted down a proposition to
iucrease from three to four per cent
of the pastors’ salaries for the con­
ference claim an ts’ fund. F rater­
nal greetings were read from Dr.
J. A. Ellison of the Church of
South Columbia conference and
Dr. C. T . Wilson of Centenary
church, Portland, was elected fra­
O R GANIZATION.
ternal delegate to tliat'conference
T h e conference opened with a
from this conference.
brief talk by the Bishop, who said
A N N I V E R S A R Y IS H O N O R E D .
he w anted all work done promptly
so as not to crowd business too
A nniversary of the W om an’s
h ard at the close of the session. Home M issionary Society took
Rev. C. C. Barrick of A storia, was place T uesday afternoon. Mrs. T.
elected secretary and the confer­ J. Abbett of Portland presiding.
ence settled down to business at Mrs. E. L. A lbright, b ureau secre­
once. A resolution opposing S u n ­ tary of the East Central states,
day sessions of the Bishop’s ca b i­ and who is going to India as a
net brought about an anim ated missionary, spoke. T he principal
discussion, but finally passed. address was by Rev. A. E . Ayres
Representatives reports from P o rt­ of Bombay.
land, K lam ath and E ugene dis­
T hursday the anniversary of the
tricts were read, show ing m arked Board of Home Missions and
progress and everything in first- Church E xtension was observed.
class condition, finances l>eiug Rev. T . H. Downs presided and
above the usual.
Dr. W . B. H ollingshead of Port­
T h is h as iteeu a record-breaking land and Dr. W. H. W . Rees of
year in th e church, prosperity b e­ Seattle spoke. Today th e session
in g everywhere m arked.
of the L aym en’s Association of
T uesday afternoon the anniver­ the Oregon conference began. R.
sary of the W om en’s Home Mis­ A. Booth of F.ugeue, is president.
sionary Society was observed, Dr. T his organization meets with the
S. E. M eminger of Portland, pre­ conference annually, delegates be­
siding. Rev. D. If. Trim ble of ing present from every ch u rch , it
E.ugene preached the sermon.
will lie in session tw o.days.
T uesday evening the an n iv er­ O R E G O N ’S O L D E S T C L E R G Y M A N ,
sary of the Foreign M issionary
A prom inent and distinguished
Society was observed, Dr. C. T. member or guest of the Methodist
W ilson of Portland, presiding. conference at its session in this
Dr. Homer C. Stuntz of New York
city is F ather John Flynn of Fort-
delivered the address and it was land, a superannuated Methodist
declared the most m asterly address m issionary and clergym an 95 years
on this subject ever delivered b e­ of age, who gets about sprvly
fore an Oregon conference, the without th e use of a cane and is
doctor’s graphic account of early enjoying good health.
m issionary work in India and the
He cam e to Oregon firmi Maine,
Phillipines in w hich he p articip at­
e d being intensely interesting.
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Latest Government Census.
T h a t the church members in the
U nited S tates num bered nearly
thirty-three m illions in 1906: th a t
there were a billion and a qu arter
dollars invested in church edifices;
th a t every day eight new churches
Sent their spires skyw ard; th at
m ales formed considerably less
th an half the total church m em ­
bership: th a t a larger percentage
of Catholic m ales th an Protestant
m ales were m embers; th at in s ix ­
teen states the m ajority of the
total church m em bership were
Rom an C atholic; but th at of the
g rand total of church members re­
ported for the United States (>1.6
per cent were Protestants and 36.7
per cent Roman Catholic: these
are th e salient an d conspicuous
facts appearing in the proof sheets
of a United S tates census bureau
bulletin.
It is stated th at United States
ceusus statistics of church m em ­
bership by sex were collected for
the first tim e in 1906. Of the
total num ber of memliers reported
by th e various religious Ixxlies and
classified by sex, 43.1 per cent
were males and 5(>,9 per cent
females. Among the P rotestants
the difference was greater, only
39.3 per cent being males. In the
Roman Catholic churches there
were relatively more males, the
num ber form ing 49.3 jier cent of
the total membership.
Fewer m ales than females were
am ong the L atter Day Saints, the
Lutherans, Disciples, Methodists,
Baptists, Presbyterians and Pro­
testant Episcopalians, the jierceii-
tages of m ale memliers decreasing
in the order show n and there lieing
hut 35.5 per cent m ale am ong the
Episcopalians. A m ong the C hris­
tian Scientists, only 27.6 jier cent
were males: and of the S hakers
but 21.3 per cent: but in the Greek
O rthodox church 93.9 ]>er cent
were male, a* practically all G reek
im m igrants have been males.
O f the total estim ated population
of continental United States in
l ‘H)6, the church members formed
39.1 per cent as against 32.7 per
cent for 1890, am ounting to 6.4
per cent .more in 1906 th an in 1890.
Of this 6.4 per cent iucrease, the
Roman Catholic church is credited
w ith 4.4 per ceut, and the Protest'
an ts w ith 1.8 per cent; th e rem ain­
der being divided am ong all other
denom inations.
It is stated in the bulletin th a t
the total num ber of memliers re­
ported by the various religious
bodies for 1906 was 32 936,445 of
w hich num ber th e P rotestauts
were credited with 20,287,742 and
the Rom an C atholics with 12,079,-
142. O f th e Protestant bodies,
the M ethodists num bered 5,749,-
838; th e Baptists, 5,662,234; the
L utherans, 5 ,I t 2,494; the Presby­
terians 1.830,055; an d the Disciples
or C hristians. 1,142,359.
Of the total of 32,936,445
church members, 61.6 per ceut
were P rotestants; 36.7 per cent,
Roman Catholic and 1.7 per cent
mem bers of other religious o rg an i­
zations. T h e rate of iucrease
shown for the Roman Catholic
church is 93.5 per cent, w hich is
more th a n twice th a t for ail the
Protestant bodies com bined. T he
M ethodists reported 17.5 per cent
of all Protestant church m embers;
the Baptists, 17.2 per cent.
T he total num ber of religious
organizations in 1906 is given as
212,230, an increase since 1890 of
47,079, or 28.5 per cent. T he
Protestauts are credited with an
increase in th is p articu lar am o u n t'
iug to 27.8 per cent; the Roman
Catholic ch u rch , 21.9 per cent; the
Jew ish congregations, 231.9 per
ceut; an d the L atter-D ay Saints,
38.3 per cent.
T h e M ethodists reported the
largest num ber of local organiza«
lions, 64,701; the Baptists reported
54,880; the Presbyterians, 15,306;
the L utherans, 12,703; and the
Roman C atholics 12,482.
O ther interesting features of the
bulletin are those show ing th a t the
total seating capacity of churches
was 58,536,830, an increase over
the 1890 United States census
figures of 34.4 per cent; th a t the-
rate of increase was practically the-
sam e for both P rotestants an d
Rom an Catholics, and kept pace-
w ith the iucrease in population;
aud th a t $1,2.57,575,84,7 was in ­
vested in church edifices in 1904,.
T he total am ount of debt was
$108,050,944) or 8.6 per cent of
the total value; of this total the
Protestant Ixidies owed $53,.101,254
and the Rom an C atholics $49,488,«
05.5. In sixteen states a m ajority
of the church memliers were Ro­
m an Catholic; in tw enty nine
states, Protestant, and in one,
U tah, L atter-D ay Saints.
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