Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-17

A Seventh Day Baptist publication has pictures of the old Westerly church, 16s0 the church edifice of sixty years ago. and the present Westerly church; also of Judge Alberti R. Stillman, pres idert of the Westerly church and chairman of the conference executive committee, and a cut of Representa- tive Albert H. Langworthy, chairman of the commissary committee. iThe ac- companying article says:
 Westerly, where the general confer ence is to be held this year. is rich in historic interest. The old homes. the old scenes and the location of the old churches will attract many who go to Westerly gor the conference, which opens next Tuesday. From the churches at Newport and Westerly sprung the ancestors of the Seventh Day Baptists of today. It was there that the few forefathers settled. that they might practice religious liberty and worship as their conscience dictat- ed There. it was that the few families grew into communities. all members of one church. the Westerly church. That was as far back as 1880, for it was then that the first meeting house was built. Here the people of Westerly and Hopkinton worshipped for 155 years, when another took it's place that there might be room for the growing church. Up to t70S the churches of Westerly and Newport were one, but then thev
  became known as the Hopkinton church. The membership continued to grow as did the section of country until 1916, when the membership was the largest. numbering 941. In fact, the denomination had grown to such an extent that they soon began to leave the mother church and to form new churches, that they might find it more convenient to meet.
 From the mother church. when in I.,&A lyynnt a Hopkinton church, there sprang many churches. Members from this church settled in Brooltfield. De Ruyter, Verone and Little Genesee. and there formed churches. But it was not until 1770 that the people of HoplSinton and Westerly began to separate themselves from the mother church. It was in that year that the meeting house was built at Rockville. ten miles north of Hopkinton church. Other churches were started in Hopkinton City. Dunn's Corners, South Kingston, Mantle. lMys- tic and Waterford. In all there were 10 churches which left the mother church.
 Tt was II years ago that the West erly church broke away from the old ties. The church has had 12 pastors, the present one being Rev Clayton A. Burdick, It is this old church which welcomes now the Seventh Day Bap- tists to the general conference"
 The White Rock mill is one of the eleven B. B. and R. Knight mills that commenced work this week on the three- quarters time schedule In the eleven mills affected there are 3.S75 op- ratives. Five other mills of this firm, employing 2,300, are still running on full time, 66 hours, owing to contracts that will lSee~ them on this time to the end of the year. The one-G quarter cut A. will probably mean until November, when the coming crop of cotton will be available.
 It is officially stated that the chief reason for curtailment is to avoid buy ing any more old cotton the mills at the present time being about one month behind in cotton. It is expected that by running only 42 hours a week this will allow the mills to piece out t11e season on the raw material now on hand. It is impossible, to buy cotton at the present high price and break eXen
 It is the belief of the firm that op- crates 16 cotton mills that the curtail- men! piar adopted will result in mutu- al justice to the operatives and to the firm, and will oe much less hard to bear than would be complete shut down of even shorter period.
 It is now officially announced by the school committee that R. A. H. Clarke will succeed Robert M. Howard as teacher of music in the public schools Mir. Clarke resigned the position two years ago and was succeeded by MT Howard. c. T. Jones, a Dartmouth graduate, will be teacher of mathenlat- ics in the high school in place of Miss M. Louise Shaw, and Marjorie NJ. Stone, graduate of Brown will teach history and English, succeeding Miss Olive Ryan
 lTnr I -ic I,xv- T uate. will have charge of the eighth grade in the Elm street school, sue ceeding Miss Nathalie, E. Upton.
 In the Pleasant Street school Miss Carrie Saunders will succeed Miss An nie J. Kennedy in grade 1 and Ia, Miss Kennedy being transferred to Park avenue school in place of Miss Jennie Meikle, in grade I.
 Miss Seressa Norman of Somerville, Mass. will be acting principal of the Quarry Hill school in place of Phoebe A. Barber. Miss Zella Ennis will sue ceed Katharine Bransfield-Lenihan in