JMTHODWT HOOTS, ^ "*??. OrjfjX COKFEBBNCE J Historical Society HoMs iinul *?t log Ob Era of Coherence Opening. ?4. (By T. A. Bikes.) Rocky Mount, Nor. 1? ? The stage is all Bet tonight preparatory to the opening of the eighty-fourth annual session of the North Carolina Confer ence of th* Methodist Episcopal Church, South' which convenes In the First Methodist church here at 9:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. All day today ministers and delegate* have been poring Into the city from every point of the compass, and Bar. J. F. E. Bates, the pastor host of the con ference, sad his One array of assist ants have been busy meeting their guests, placing them In the lon& line of waiting, panting automobiles and whisking then) oft to their homea (or the week. It seems that everything that hu man minds could think of has bean done lor the comfort and- convenience of the Methodist people who are gar tlierlng hare for the moat important church meeting In this section of the State for one year. The city la In tbe hand* of th* Methodists. Every denomination represented here has Joined the followers of Wesley to give the visitors th* bast entertainment tbey have had *1 ce they met her* fourteen years ago.. Every church and parsonage home have been thro wn wide o^eh and the word welcome Is written on the face of everybody in tbe place. Bishop tJ. V. W.' Darlington, who Is to prealds over the conference for the third consecutive time, arrive^ to as did also the nine presiding el < rs who" constitute the bishop's fd -U-cry bbard. 1%e first meeting of tl fcaO waa bald In the blsjtop's room this afternoon at 3 o'clock, when the situation In