Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-14
NEW LONDON COUNTY.
GALES FERRY
Annual Financial Statement of NJ. e.
Church-Home Missionary Society
met-LocaI lettings.

Copies of the annual financial state
.ment of the Gales Ferry NJ. E. church,
as com piled by the recording steward
and treasurer, Dudley c. Perkins, for
the conference year ending April 1,
1870 were distributed to the cOngre-
cation at the Sunday morning service.
The statement follows: Receipts-Cash
on hand at beginning of conference
year $4,000, COLLECTIONS $107, bank div
idends $3S2.34. Bridget Huributt estate
IS, pew rents S193, course of entertain
ments 1929, picnic s11, individual gifts
$3.50, raised. by Ladies' Aid society
ss2.3sE; total sss243. Expenditures
PASTORS salary $500 district superin-
tendent $32, Episcopal fund 80, fuel
$3.50. organist $3.50. sexton $4S, in
surance $3.50, repairs s8S-11, lights
$11.4O, communion $3.50 miscellaneous
S114. cash on hand s2S.39, expended by
Ladies' Aid society on parsonage
s3239; total SS22.43. Benevolent coll
lect5ons ses. Trust funds, sS,244
Personals.
Miss Amelia and Miss Susan Math-
ewson returned last week from visit
with their sister. Mrs Scranton, at
their former home in Durham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rowland H. Perkins
and son Harold of New London spent
the week end with relatives in the vii
lage-
Mrs William Brooks of Hartford ar
rived last week to visit relatives at her
former home here.
ChiIdrsn's Day Exercises.
Miss Kate B. Colver's Sunday school
class was appointed on Sunday to have
charge of the Children's day exercises.
Miss Mary Hurlbutt and Miss Laura
Perkins will assist the class with the
decorations.
May Missionary Meeting.
The local auxiliary of the Woman's
Home Missionary society of the M. e.
church held the May meeting at the
Ichabod. Mrs Thomas Iathams cot
nj clf Nf1c41 7IIs
ponlary devotional exercises opened the
session and the rollcall was responded
TO by the members with the names of
missionaries III the southern field. The
Negro. a symposium. by Miss Sara h
Datimer, was followed with a paper,
How Our Society Seeks to Help, by the
president, Mrs. Thomas Latham. Mrs.
Sarah Perkins gave reading. A
gave readings on The Student, the
subject assigned for the meeting. Re
freshments We're enjoyed during the
social hour.
Local Mention.
Major Charles BuckIee of Hartford
was a guest last week. of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nathan A. Gibbs.
Mrs. Joaab Rogers and Mr.. and Mrs.
their home in New London the first
of the week from few days stay at
their summer home in the village.
Mrs. De4plrine Fish, who has been
Mrs Sears, at Jamaica, L. L, returned
TO the village Saturday. She was ac-
companied by her nephew, Alfred Da-
Wis Sears.
Yates Varsity Quarters Competed.
The addition to the Yale varsity
quarters, which George st. John Shelf
field of Attleboro. Mass, has had built
q gift to the Yale navy was COM
pleted Wednesday. MIR. Sheffield was
a caller here last week, inspecting the
work.
The work on Artist Bisbing's prop
erty near Red Top is also progressing
rapidly The walls and piers of the
house to the first story are completed
and the founda ions for the studio
have been commenced A new woven
wire fence is being placed about the
property.
Mrs. Fannie Adams Molthrop of
Norwich opened her home at River
Bend place last week for the month of
May.
Coroner and Mrs. Franklin II. Brown
of Norwich We're over Sunday visitors
at Redfern, their summer home, in the
village
Mrs. Horace Sears of Jamaica, l.. l.,
arrived al her home here Tuesday
evening.