Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-01-23
NINDHAM.
Officers of Congregational Sunday
School-Annual Business Meeting
ard Roll CalI-Fine Work Done Dur
ing Past Year.

ing FaSt IeaTs
The officers of the Congregational
Sunday school recently elected are:
H. c. Lathrop, superintendent; j.
Carleton Tatem assistant superintend-
ent; Dewitt c. Lathrop, secretary and
treasurer; Rev. w. S. Kelsey, Mrs. j.
c. Tatem and Mrs. H. G. Lathrop were
appointed committee to purchase
new singing books for the use of the
as usual for the education of a girl in
India and to make the usual contribu-
ton of IS to the Connecticut Sunday
school union.
Mrs. Andrew Metzger entertained a
few relatives on her birthday on
Wednesday
Successful Year for Ladies' Aid So
ciety.
At a business meeting of the Ladies'
Aid society of the Congregational
church, held on Tuesday, Mrs. Will
liam F. Maine was elected president;
Mrs. f. E. Guild and Mrs. ]. c. Tatem,
LathrOp, secretary and treasurer. The
receipts for the year from socials
amounted to $310.31, of which sum
there remains in the treasury 1920.
Among the expenditures for the year
were $50 to st. Joseph's hospital, in
w lIlnanLci SZ4 10 the earring uahe
sufferers in Italy; $40 for gift for for
airy; Of the remainder, nearly all was
used for furnishings for the parson-
age,
Annual Meeting of Congregational
Church.
At the annual business meeting and
roll call Of the Congregational church,
held on the 14th, a supper was served
to about fifty persons. Rev. Harry
Grimes conducted the business meet
ing. The clerks report showed a MEM
bership Of 140, a gain of 10 during the
year. The treasurer reported a balance
of S102S on hand. Reports were heard
from the Sunday school. senior and
Junior c. Z. societies, Womanis Mis-
sionary society and the Ladies Aid So
ciety, showing all to be in a prosper
Gus condition. The Sunday school has
a membership Of SO, with an average
attendance Of IS. There are 80 mem
bers in the Senior c. Z. society and an
average attendance Of 20 in the junior
society. The latter has been doing
much good work in the home mission
airy line. Encouraging reports were
also given of the branch church in
South Windham. H. C. LathrOp was
elected clerk and treasurer and Chas.
Edward Spencer of South Wlndham
was continued on the church commit
tee for three years. The contributions
for the year to the various mission
boards are as follows: A. B. c. F. M,
$271.79; Home missions, $6415: A. NJ
A., S65.33; S. s. and Publication socie-
ty s4S Church Building society, S35.5S;
Educational society, $15.75; Ministers
fund, S15.29; American Tract society,
S9.O3: Connecticut Bible society, S13.43;
other charities, i$276.07; total, $S17.S7:
of this amount S356.16 was contributed
by the branch church in South Wind
ham. At the roll cali letters were read
from the following absent members:
Mrs. Mary Cook Hanna, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Williams, Mrs. Ida Chamber
lin, Wilimantic: Mrs. Alice Webster,
New Haven: Mrs. Caroline Moulton.
Cambridge, Mass; Mrs. Bertha Lyman
Shellington, Windsor Locks.
Notes.
Mrs. Mitchell of New London has
been spending a few days at The Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Alden Weir of New
York were in town Wednesday.
Col w. S. Chappell of New London
was In town Tuesday.
Doctor Lost His Horse.
Chauncey Wilson was awakened about |
midnight Monday by a noise in his |
and on investigating found |
a driverless horse and sleigh He put |
the team in the barn, and in the morn |
ing found that II belonged to Dr. F. E |
Wilcox Of Willimantic. The doctor |
was returning from a visit to a patient |
and while crossing the trolley track |
In Willimantic the sleigh runner |
caught in the track, throwing the doc |
tor and his driver out and the horse |
got away; and although the doctor |
searched in South Windham and |
Windham for the animal he did not |
find the team until the next day
The Duplicate Whist club meets this |
week with Mrs. Julia Weir Marquette |
Seighing Fine.
The sleigbing is fine, and there are
numerous sleighing parties through |
the Windhams in the afternoon and l
their elders taking their turn in the |
evening, the latter often stopping at |
for supper.
Accident from Icy Walks.
The slippery walks have caused two |
accidents. Mrs. George Challenger |
fell. spraining her right arm SO Sc |
verely as to necessitate its being car
rted in a sling. Little Clarence Ad-
ans has a sprained ankle as the result |
Of a cOasting accident.
Briefs. !
The men are cutting eight-inch ice
on Lyman's pond.
Miss Sarah Johnson attended the |
Yale Junior Prom on Tuesday night. |
There Is to be a social and business
meeting Of the c. z. society next week |
9. A. Barstow, president Of the Wilt |
mantle c. E union, will give an address
and there will be music by an orchestra
from the Willimantic Baptist church.
Refreshments will be served.