Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-25
Willimantic, Danielson and Putnam

erously agreed to exhibit them the balance of this week and all of next.
 The cards prepared for the use of the school children are ready, and will probably be distributed Monday, so that there may be two available weeks for the young people to hustle about for the prizes offered to the best re- suits,
 The-next meeting of the general committee will be held Tuesday eve ming at the Board of Trade rooms, and more definite plans for further ae- tivities will be made at that time.
 Officers Elected by Trinity Chapter.
 At the annual meeting of Trinity chapter. No, g. R. A. M., held in Ma sonic hall Thursday evening. the re- ports were received, and the follow ing officers elected:
 High priest, c. Leslie Nichols. king, William P. Allen: scribe, James liar ries, captain of the hosts, Louis B. Lincoln; P S., Charles A. Taintor; R. A. C., Leroy V. Walker; treasurer. c. F. Risedorf; ;seeretary, c. E, Avery.
 High Priest Nichols thereupon ap- pointed the following: G. M. 3rd V- BurnhaIn: G. M. 1st V. D. c. Bar rows: tyler, J. H. Goldsborough
 Past High Priest James Harries in- stalled the new officers.
 Under Six Heads.
 Mrs. Bennett classified the opposi- ton to suffrage under six heads:
 1. The opposition of the liquor in terests. The liquor interest is an- tagonistie to the mothers interest. Most forms of vice come from the sa- loon and its sister, the brothel, and fifty to one hundred of the sons of women are contaminated by either or both of these Mrs. Bennett stated hot o f-aIv of the street, after a lecture by Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt on suffrage, the ballot stood 3 to 1 against suffrage on the ground that 1t was not lady like.
 9. The political boss, who would have more to handle and who has had experience in suffrage states that the woman's vote cannot be delivered.
 f. Those who sell impure food and drugs, for it is the women who feed the families
 5. Women of leisure who see a mon ace to the home in the most perfect relationship of human beings-where woman is mans friends, companion and co-worker
 G. Phlegmatic non-combatants.
 Mrs. Bennett closed her lecture by saying that when every woman be- came socially and politically conscious desiring for every child that which she desired for her own; when con gress appropriated for the social bet torment of a nation an amount rela- tive to what it now expendS for dis covering the disease of hogs or for equipping a navy-then and then only will there be national betterment
 Melted $26>65.
 Mrs. Gager, president of the w. C., T. IT., conducted a brief business meeting. Mrs. Peckham, acting for Mrs. Scripture, the secretary, stated that the Easter sale had netted $26.65.
 The organization is in a very pros porous condition. Public rest rooms open from the main lecture hall where girls of all denominations are taught to sew in evening classes Several sewing machines and cutting tables have been installed and numbers of girls take advantage of the lessons. There are rest rooms for tired mothers or for anyone who has to wait sev- eral hours at the railway station and wishes a comfortable couch or chair. There is a reading rooms and lunches are served whenever desired. The work of this body of earnest women is greater than is generally realized and certainly productive of a definite and real good to the city of Williman-