Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1915-10-22
Congregational Church Notes

There Is TO be u laymen's Weekend
Conference Oct. % p in connection
with the meeting Of the NationalConn.
ell at New Haven. Various sessions
viii be addressed by such speakers as
Mayor Logan, Alfred Colt, FredSmith,
Oz0rh Davis, Pres. King aud others
equally noted. There is TO be u ban
quet lon saturday evening. We hope
that some OF the men Of our church
will take advantage of this opportuni-
~ ~ attending at least Il part of the
program.
The Cradle Roll meeting is always
delightful affair and one in which the
mothers nre particularly interested.
This year 81 little ones and 81 mothers
and Urnndmothers and quite "A compa.
ny of friends of the little ones were in
attendance. II is surprising how such
large company of children can be
brought together and spend one or two
hours Wllli $50 hit disagreement and
practically ae crying. The mite boxes
OF the Wcm acfs yielded nearly al3.
Mrs J Il Carpenter aud her corps of
helpers deserve Tie thanks of the moth
ers aud Others ion their unwenried at.
tention and successful program.
The mia week service was largely
spent Ia hearing some of the many
letters OF ennefaiulation received 10y
the pastor and the committee ia con
nectiOn with the anniversary. The
pastor stated IT, At he had received over
fifty such letters IL was also stated
tbSt the pamphlet containing an ac-
count of the anniversary and the adj
dresses viii Toe ready for distribution
In the course of a week or ten days,
The following is a list of the officers
and committees of the Mems Bible
class:
Teacher, &. ID. sharpe.
President, George r.. shaw,
Vice president, Leland Bradley.
Secretary, l.. Nj Corbin.
Treasurer, j. Richard Carpenter.
Social committee, w J. Bartlett, +.
{. Kinney, j. q. johnson.
Devotional committee, T.. NJ War
ner, George Cockell, {. &. Brown.
Membership committee, G. ID.
Sharpe, John Warner, W. T.. Dawson.
The following invitation sent to this
church explains itself A more deii-
mite statement of the affair and possi-
bly, program will be given later;
The First Congregational church of
| Pomfret invites you TO be present At
the celebration of the 20Oth anniversa-
~ Of the founding of the church on
Thursday, October 10Th, 1915, Exercises
| will begin at eleven O'Clock.
Gold star classes last Sunday were
Mrs +, ". Barber, Mrs. J II Carpeu-
ter, We Sisters, Mrs. Meinkln, Misses
| Audem, Strahan and Dingwali. Silver
star classes, Misses Murfey and Brad
ford.
The demonstration class held last
Sunday afternoon 10 illustrate the new
credit system TO he installed in the
Bible school was OF considerable inter.
est 10 those present a committee
consisting of the superintendent, +
". Baroer. Miss Murfey, Miss Sargent
and Mrs. w r. Barber were appoint.
ed 70 com plele the details of the plan.
They met on Wednesday evening and
recommended that the Junior, Inter
mediate and Senior classes commence
with The credit system the first sun.
day in November. Certificates will be
issued from time 10 time to scholars
who are entitled TO them. The adop-
ton OF the plan is optional with the
Senior classes. Additional informal
ton will be given later in the month.
The superintendent has been autho-
rized by the sunday school committee
TO appoint two delegates, with ex-
penses paid by the school, 10 the State
Sunday School Convention TO be held
at Stamford Nov. 8 5. Who can at
tend?