Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-19

boys. Edgar c. BrowneII, Monroe |
Blake, Kingsley Luce.
Ladies' potato race, Mrs. D. F.
Dodd. Miss Robertson, Miss Eaton:
Florence Gilbert, Edith Bradley, Eliz-
abeth Buzzell. Rose Wilson, Gertie
High jump. men, H. c. Jeners. X. II.
Stearns, z. ". II. Wheeler Il. w.
Baii throw. ladies. Mrs. w. J.
Stephens, Mrs Harry Holmes, Mrs. d.
F. Dodd. Dorothy Salisbury. Miss
Shot put. men. LETTERS. stearns,
wheeler, sprague. Hartley. withee.
Winners in Contests.
In the running high jump E. v. r,
Wheeler won by clearing the bar at
/ it. in.
In the hundred yard dash for men
Naftzger was first and LETTERS second
| In the sack race for men and boys,
| Arthur Seekins and Franklin Smith
| were first and second
| In the ladies' potato race Mrs; y. r
Dodd was first and Florence Gilbert
/ second.
In the girls potato race Bessie
/ Boardman was first and Gladys Board
| man. her sister, waS second.
In the boys potato race Gordon An
drew was first and Kingsley Luce sec
| ond.
| In putting the eleven pound iron ball
out of eight men, each with three puts,
/ Thatcher was first at 81 IT. in, and
LETTERS second, at % It. in
| In the ladies' ball throwing contest
| the Misses Ellen and Edith Sand
/ strom, of West Thompson. were win
ners. SO It. 7 in. and Sc # in
In the girls throw Dorothy Sails
bury. of Moosup, was first, 104 IT. .
in. and Grace Goddard. Willi9antic,
| second. 81 # 4 in
In the so yard dash for boys. Stan
ley Putnam was first, and Kingsley
In the so yard dash for girls Dorothy
Salisbury, Moosup. was first, and
Gladys Boardn1an. Norwich, second.
The introduction of these innocent
| feature of institute week The wealth
er was beautiful and the temperature
cool A large number witnessed the
games.
Tuesday Evenings Service.
Another of the institute teachers
was the evening preacher, Tuesday,
Rev. Ralph W. F1ewelling. Psalm 139
was the text The Unacceptable
Love-
The presence of the loving God is
the joy OF Heaven Only in heaven
can love progress without the hin
drance of hate and malice. On earth
love meets many crosses Hate is the
great separator, only love can unite.
If We build our characters on hate and
become unresponsive to love. and
make our bed in hell the bliss of the
redeemed will be our eternal agony.
For We cannot escape God Now is
the time to make our heaven by re-
spending to God At the close Of this
| brief but impressive sermon, Mr..
Naftzger sang, The Valley of the
Shadow" Owing to the decided drop
in the temperature, the meeting was
| held in the tabernacle which was we'll
filed.
About the Grove.
Costello Lippitt, treasurer of the
| Norwich Savings society, spent Old
Home day on the grounds. He and
Mrs. Lippitt greatly enjoy their sum-
mer house on the grounds. They call
their attractive cottage Pinehurst. 1t
, is situated on Haven avenue, on the
highest land in the grove
Mr.. and Mrs. a. D. Zabriskie and
| afternoon on the grounds, and open
up the restaurant today for the re-
manning days of the campmeeting.
| A pleasing feature of the week was
: the baptism by Bishop Quayle just
before his sermon Sunday morning of
J. E Priestleys of Mapping. She was
christened Faith Orrie. Their pre-
vious child was baptized by Bishop
Hamilton at the annual conference.
? | Sdpl- stewart ana
; Hurlbut of Portland, came yesterday
and are to remain over Sunday. They
, are at the Norwich Town house
In the Uncasville house, Mrs. L. L.
Brown, matron, are the Uncasville
: pastor, Rev. Dwight w. Adams and
! Mrs. w. ]. Stephens and daughter
Marjorie, Mrs. James Comstock and
Miss Lizzie Crocker. As a decoration
for Old Home day there was stretched
upon the piazza railing a piece OF the
cloth of the original tent bearing the
: printed words, Uncasville Tent, 1860.
the year the Campmeeting started Mr.
Green helped put up the Windsor
Vile tent in that commencement year.
/ Annual Meeting of Campmeeting As
, ISOLATION.
The meeting was called to order at
8 a. m. in the Mantle house Wednes-
day by the district superintendent
Rev. George G. Scrivener, Norwich,
/ who offered prayer. The secretary,
, Rev. F. c. Baker, being absent, r. n,
3 Stanley was elected secretary pro tenn
He read the minutes of the several
meetings of the executive committee
i Arthur Newell, Rockville, read the rec
!, ommendation made by the cottage
: holders the previous day that the store
r be opened again on the grounds next
4 year, and it was referred to the exec
L utive committee Resolutions from both
t meetings were read in memory of one
of the trustees, the late b. B. Gard
l ner, of New London. The president
appointed as nominating committee
= Costello Lippitt, Rev. w. P. Buck and
Mrs. Jacob Belts. They brought in
: the following list of officers for the
t ensuing year and they were elected:
President, Rev. G. G. Scrivener; vice
|, president. Costello Lippitt; secretary
= Rev. F. G. Baker; treasurer, Rev. E
= N. Anthony; assistant. Van r. Wheel
e er; auditor, William H. Grout; execu-
tive committee for three years, Henry
L. NJ. Randall, Brooklyn, n. Y, VI. C.
> Walter, Willimantic, w. H. Grout
- Providence LutheK P. Pilling, Daniel
son, was elected triistee for five years
and William Gordon, Hazardville, tc
fill out the unexpired year of B. b
tGardner.
The report of Treasurer E. NJ. An
| thony showed a gratifying balance OF
| some 1925 in the treasury. Mr.. An
thony, though on the grounds, was un-