The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1904-01-08

Jerk and treasurer, culled some inter-
sting items from the records. Since
The year 1900, GIL persons have had
their names on the roll of the church.
Now the membership is Isl, 1Ol OF
them being women. Twelve have been
added to the church roll during the
year. OF the II funerals which the
pastor has attended but three were
members of the church. The mission
airy collections at communion services
and at the Sunday evening meetings
were the largest given upon the
records of the church. Though quite
sum has already been distributed
among the various missionary societies, |
S74. 16 still lies in the treasury. A. t.
Smith had made special trip from
the up country to be present at the
annual meeting of an institution SO
venerable in years and so filled with
good deeds; and it need only be said
that if travelling so far could in itself
produce SO bright report, some other
Sunday school superintendent might
we'll indulge the going propensity, too.
A few years ago it was thought
splendid showing when the school
raised 800; and it was, for an average
of So a Sunday is not bad record for
small school. This year nearly $3.50
| was raised, and that, too, without any
one growing the poorer. The largest
attendance on any one Sunday was los;
here is where the work of the'two Cos
pei wagons comes in. Besides paying
for uuarterlies and all current ex-
penses, the Sunday school gave, during
the year, to missionary work as follows:
Connecticut Sunday School assOcia-
ton, sS4e; Congregational Sunday
School and Publishing society 1.-THE Of
fering of Children's day., s9.4o; from
tier work in Oregon, s25; Congrega-
tional Home Missionary society, $15. 48;
American Board, S7.64; Gospel wagon,
s25. That the Sunday school,, like the
Christian Endeavor society, works
"for Christ and the Church," and is
only a cog in the wheel Of the church
machinery, is shown by the fact that
when the church was engaged in the
task of raising nearly 81, 900 for repairs,
though most Of the members of the
} Sunday school had gone down into
their pockets in connection with other
) organizations, yet now, through the
Sunday school, they again "chipped
i'm to the tune of $39.75. The ladies
are never to be outdone, and the re-
port of the Ladies' Missionary society
given by Mrs Arthur J. Smith, the
secretary, was as good as any. Seventy
nine dollars and seventy cents was
raised for various objects, again, as
: the other organizations had done
J breaking previous records. A Bible
woman is supported in Turkey fol
whose work s34 was appropriated; s1t
went to the Connecticut Home Mis-
sionary Union. The thank offering Of
$3.50 was the largest the society has
ever taken. Eighteen dollars and
tifty-six cents now in the treasury
makes good start for 1904. The visits
of Mrs Olive Twitchell Crawford, a
returned missionary from Turkey, and
DR. Rose Bowers, of Africa, next tc
Miss Moffat the brightest and most
entertaining lady missionary we have
ever had with US, did much to keep
the interest in the society at flood tide.
Henry M. Smith, who as chairman of
the Gospel wagon committee, has kept
the wheels turning, reported that 1928
has been expended for that work in
the btwelve-mOnth. He made an ap-
peal for continued loyal support, and
showed how not even what is mounted
on wheels goes unless there is a force
behind it to make it 60. @. Oscar
Carlson had been president of the
Christian Endeavor society during the
whole of 1903, and had served the soci-
ETY. we'll. With some misgivings the
society was launched May %, 1898,
with % members; and most of those
charter members have stuck faithfully
to the work ever since, carrying it on,
with GIBBS and flows of success, until
now. Though the ranks have been
shrunken much through removal in
the past three years, SO names are yet
on the roll, and the society is doing
good work to-day. In 1902 S95 was
paid over from the treasury to the
church and Sunday school, $40 going
toward the running of Gospel wagons.
Miss Anna Hamburger, speaking for
the Sunday school library, told of
number of books that must be laid
away in dusty corners. Arthur T.
Nettleton closed the report portion of
the meeting by reading bright paper
that incidentally referred to the ques-
tion Of church horse sheds, and by his
raciness of wit left all in good humor.
Then Mr. Barker, as chairman of the
nominating committee, brought in the
following list of officers: Church clerk
and treasurer, George F. Duncombe:
deacon to succeed George Ruffels,
whose term expires, George Ruffels;
deacon to succeed William Fairchild
deceased, Lefferts W. Lloyd; members
of the church committee, G. B. Tay-