21st, stayed around home all day. This evening Frank, Charley, & I went to Baptist S.S. Convention in Chilli.
Jessie Elizabeth Bench Dawkins wrote that her father Jesse was the superintendent at Utica Baptist Church before he met her mother Mary Frances Frazier. That would mean sometime around this summer, Jesse was made the superintendent, but he never mentioned it in his diary. The only thing he has mentioned is that he lead a prayer meeting on July 11th. Now here he is attending one night of a Baptist Sunday School Convention and letting his little brothers tag along. Is he the superintendent at this point?
It is not clear if the Sunday School Convention is at the state or county level. In 1908, The Chillicothe Constitution mentioned having had the state convention in 1901, but didn’t mention this 1900 convention. In later years the county level seems to include all Protestant denominations.
For more context on early 1900s Baptist Sunday Schools in Missouri, read a brief history of it in One Hundred Years of Baptist Sunday School Work in Missouri written in 1906.
