Westward Bound

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1903

ON Sunday, the 15th inst., the following-named persons took their departure from this city, en route to the General Conference:— Elder A. G. Daniells and wife; Prof. W. W. Prescott and wife; Elder J. W. Collie and his mother, Mrs. Collie; Elders S. H. Lane, W. H. Thurston, H. W. Cottrell, and W. A. Spicer; Brethren W. H. Edwards, E. R. Palmer, H. E. Rogers, R. V. Ashley, H. E. Osborne; Miss Adelaide B. Cooper, Miss S. A. Hoyle, and Mrs. A. J. Bourdeau.

This company was joined in Chicago by delegates, workers, and visitors from near-by conferences, as follows:— Elders J. D. Gowell, E. K. Slade, and A. R. Sandborn, of the East Michigan Conference; Elder A. G. Haughey, of the West Michigan Conference; Elder S. E. Wight, of the North Michigan Conference; Elder R. A. Underwood, of Pennsylvania; Elder and Mrs. I. J. Hankins, of Indiana; Brother Webb, also of Indiana; and Brother R. T. Dowsett and wife, of Wisconsin.

Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, of Minneapolis, Minn., joined the party at Omaha; and Elder L. R. Conradi, of the European General Conference, at Lincoln.

From Chicago the journey was made in a special tourist sleeper, over the Burlington Route, leaving the Union Station at 10:30 P. M., Sunday, the 15th.

The early departure of this company is due to the fact that the General Conference Executive Committee will be in session during the five days preceding the opening of the General Conference on Friday, the 27th inst.

On Sunday, the 22d inst., another tourist car party will move westward from Chicago over the same route. At this writing the following names are enrolled as members of this second party:— Elders O. O. Farnsworth, J. W. Watt, G. B. Thompson, A. E. Place, and S. M. Cobb, of the Atlantic Union Conference; Elders S. M. Butler, M. B. Miller, W. C. Hebner, D. E. Lindsey, H. R. Johnson, H. H. Burkholder, E. J. Van Horn, C. H. Bliss; Elder E. R. Williams and wife, Elder R. R. Kennedy and wife, and Elder N. P. Neilsen and wife, of the Lake Union Conference; Elder G. E. Langdon, of the Canadian Union Conference; also Brother G. W. Mann, of Indiana, and Sister Georgia Manley, of Wisconsin.

Elder William Covert and H. A. Washburn, of Wisconsin, will plan to join this party at Denver and Grand Junction, Colo., respectively.

Both these parties will pass through Omaha and Lincoln to Denver, thence over the Denver and Rio Grande, the famous scenic route, to Grand Junction, Colo., the Rio Grande Western to Ogden, Utah, from which point the journey will be completed over the Southern Pacific. It is probable that both parties will spend a portion of one day in Salt Lake City, in which case Oakland will be reached Friday morning.