The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-22
THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL MEETING OF CONNECTICUT
 DIVISION HELD YESTERDAY

nectlcut QlVlSlOn or the NatlOnal 1nulall association held it's annual meeting yesterday afternoon at o'clock at the street. There was quite large attend ance. The following officers were elect ed:
 President-Miss M. F. Ives.
 Vice presidents-Mrs. Newman Smyth, Mrs T. H. Bishop, Mrs. E. H. Jenkins, Mrs. E. V. Reynolds. Mrs. G. B. Stew ems, Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge, Mrs. "A. J. Dubois, Mrs. Henry Rogers, Miss c. E. Collins and Miss R. M. Munger.
 Secretary-Mrs. E. w. Scripture.
 Treasurer-Miss Della Bishop.
 Missionary committee-Miss Mary shipman, Mrs. D. B. Thompson, Mrs. S. "A. Booth, Mrs. A. B. Fiefield, Mrs. S. E. Merwin, Miss Daggett Mrs. c. H. Smith, Mrs. Jules Luquiens and Mrs. S. D. Gilbert.
 Mrs. c. l.. Mitchell and Mrs. William Blaekman.
 Petition committee-Miss S. J. Ben- nett and Miss M. DeF. Skinner.
 Entertainment committee--Mrs. J. c. Schwab, Mrs. Charles $. DeForest Miss s. T. Jocelyn and Mrs. F. V. Reynolds
 Auxiliary committee-Mrs. Charles Fabrique, Miss c. M. Galpin, Mrs. s. D. Merwin, Mrs. Simeon J. Fox, Mrs. G. M. Duncan and Mrs. Eli Mix.
 Nominating committee-Mrs. Henry Rogers and Miss P. J. Bennett.
 Advisory board-Dr. Newman Smyth, Dr. T. T. Munger, Hon. H. B. Harrison, Francis Wayland, Professor A. J. Du- Bois, Justus Hotchkiss, pr. E. H. Jen- kins, Professor E. V. Reynolds, Profes- sor George E. Day, Professor G. B. Stevens, Professor J. M. Hoppin and F. B. Williams.
 Mrs. l.. Bishop, the treasurer, report ed that the amount of the years re- ceipts was about $500, and that there is a small balance on hand.
 The report of the secretary, Mrs. b. NV. Scripture, is given below
 An interesting feature of the meeting was an address by Miss Annie Beecher Scoville of Stamford, daughter of Rev. Samuel Scoville, pastor of the Congre- gational church of Stamford and a granddaughter of Henry Ward Beech CT. For the past seven years she has been teaching in the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.
 The president Miss M. F,. Ives, an- nounced that the seventeenth annual meeting of the Connecticut Indian as- sociation will be held on Wednesday. November 30, in the First M. E. church. Meriden. Miss Sybil Carter, we'll known missionary among the Indians, will be one of the speakers.
 The president also announced that the annual meeting of the Woman's Ma t1onal Indian association will be held an Portland, Me, on Wednesday and Thursday December ' and 8. At this meeting Mrs. Kate Foote Coe will re- port for the Connecticut state mission, and Miss M. E. Ives will report con- cernlng the young peoples department. Sara T. Kinney will make the report for the committee on resolutions.
 REPORT OF SECRETARY MRS. E.
 w. SCRIPTURE.
 In looking over a years work if is surprising to find how much has been done, how many littles made this much, how many details some one has attended 10 and how encouraging mat Iers that have often oppressed look when summed up into a whole. We are at this point to-day when the whole can be presented to you in a gratifying form. Although the financial standing Of our branch is far from satisfactory. we all know, nevertheless, that there are other matters worth considering in an association that plans to do some good in this world. The association has had comparatively few meetings this year, but interest has never lag ged and officers have been ever mindful of duty. The last annual meeting on November IS, 1897, when the state an- nual meeting was held here also, prov ed encouraging to all On February 1 we listened to an interesting talk by Mrs. Emily c. Miller, a member of the Springfield branch, long an ardent worker among the Indians in Washing ton territory. Mrs. Miller gave us a very careful and systematic synopsis of how forty years struggling with 1,S00 Indians had formed respectable home-loving community. Her exper- fences among the Indians led her to say that the Indian associations had been the greatest helpers in the Indian civilization. The executive committee of our branch is to be congratulated for its faithful and arduous work done in connection with the readings of James Whitcomb Riley on November 16 last at the Hyperion A most enjoyable evening with the author assisted by the Yale Glee club closed our entertain tnents for the year.
 It is our sad duty to record the death of two of our most valiant work CTS in the cause, Mrs. $. A. Galpin and Mrs. O. F. Winchester.
 Ter our encouragement and further efforts in this Cou1 cause we have only to read one or two of Miss Frost's let tors. TO ba a conscientious house. keerer, loyins and patient mother, 2 wise teacher, faithful friend, a sym. pathetic nurse and a gracious hostess all in one, out in an uncivilized corner of our land sounds almost impossible for one human being to accomplish but through devoted correspondence or the part of our representative at For Hall. we have found Miss Frost to bt capabIe of all these most excellent at tributes. It is astonishing to read al that a willing heart can do in the only too short twenty-four hours of a day If is 9 lesson in endurance, patience devotion to duty, and Christian forti