Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-10

W ANA elAA 1SbOH0dHCC OI aDOuI 70 members, the annual meeting of City union, The Kings Daughters. was held on Tuesday evening, beginning at f.SO o'clock, in the social room at the Church of the Good Shepherd The chairman. Mrs w H. Dawley, called the meeting to order and the orlef devotional exercises were open ed With the reading of Scripture selection and prayer by Rev. Joseph K. Cobb. pastor of the church. After the singing of the opening hymn. Miss Ruth Beebe presided at the plano.
 After the singing of another hymn, Mrs Dawley took charge of the meet ing, and the first business was the roll call, followed by the reading of the minutes of the secretary, Mrs. A. W. Davis.
 Roll Call Responses.
 The following circles, responded to the roll call with their usual Scrip ture verses:
 Charitable; Class; Comfort; Euphe- mia; Ever Ready; Grace; Hope; Cliff Dwellers; Loyal; Loving Service; Heartsease, and Home chapter. But one circle, Sophy Weitzel, had no representative to answer the roll call.
 The secretary then presented the annual report in which she mentioned the details of the three business meet ings and one social meeting held dur ing the year.
 Through illness, the treasurer, Mrs. H. r. Palmer, was unable to be present but her report was read by Miss Bee be. It showed q balance of $1 at the beginning of tEs year, total receipts of 34S.29, and present balance of s17.42.
 Mrs. Hegekiah Perkins reported ready responses when she asked for contributions for special benehciaries of the City Union, and a good report was made of another beneficiary in charge of another committee.
 Registration in Three Counties.
 Mrs. John Kukla read a statement from Mss Lucy Geer, the county sec retary, upon the membership In New London, Windham and Holland coun- ties. Two new circles in Jewett City had been added during the year and the total registered membership of New London county was 574, of which Norwich claimed S36. Windham coun- ty has 140 members in circles, Tol- land county 12 in one circle, and with the few independent members the total for the three counties Is TAT.
 The alto solo, Beside Still Waters, was rendered by Mrs. Cora B. Beebe, to the pleasure of those present.
 Reports from the Circles.
 The annual reports from each cir cle followed, beginning with Home chapter. In brief the reports were as follows:
 Home Chapter-This has a member -hdv1 oF Af x.r6{ 1l, and so active. Three losses by death referred to were of Mrs. Sarah N. Church, Erastus Gardner and Miss s. A. Meech. From the last named a legacy of ss50 has been received and including this the receipts were S1,0s9.92 for the year
 Euphemia Circis-Many appeals for help had been answered. one of these responses being to Mrs Ballingtou Booth with a barrel of clothing, Thanksgiving dinners had been given and the circle has been active in wis iting. Through three food sales over $49 was realized and over $30 from a rummage sale and S130 from a Christ mas sale. The membership is 34.
 Comfort Circle-One of the mem- bers made an informal and brief re- port of work.
 Grace CiFcle--A membership of 2i in ths circle was reported. The cir cle celebrated it's 1Tth anniversary ir the past year. There was deep loss in the death of the circles treasurer Mrs. w. F. Hill. The resignation oi the leader, Mrs. J. H. Barnes, Wal mentioned with regret. A cash balance of S54 was reported
 Class Circle-It has held twenty meetings in the year and has had thu same leader for its twenty years O existence. Varied lines of work haC been engaged in.
 Hope Clrcle-It has IA active mem bers and honorary members. Tn, circle had done varied lines of work filling it's assignments at the hos pital and doing other helpful deeds. Sophy Weitzel circle-Ten meetingi have been held and much work il various ways has been done to hell worthy beneficiaries.
 Ever Ready Circle-It has a mem bership of 14, and made a financia success of entertainments and sales The circle had given enjoyable day