The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-11-30
BENNINGTON COUNTY
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
The Forty Eighth Annual Convention
a Great Success

The Forty. Eighth Annual Convention
a Great Success
The 4sth annual convention Of the
Bennington County Sunday School
Union was held at the First Baptist
Church. Manchester Center, on Fri
day, Nov. oath, with the following
program:
Morning Session
Devotional service, led by Rev. Sid
ney X. Perkins of Manchester.
Welcome to Manchester: "The
Worth Of This Convention" by Rev.
J. S. Brown, Manchester Center.
Business: Appointment of commit
tees. Minutes of last convention.
A Sunday School Survey of Ben
nington County conducted by the
county officers.
Address: "The Challenge Sof 0ppor-
tunity," by Rev. c. A. Boyd, general
secretary of Vermont Sunday School
Association.
Adjournment for dinner.
Afternoon Session
Devotional exercises, led by Rev. l.
d. Penniman, of Manchester Center
Question box on general Sunday
school problems conducted by Rev. c.
A. Boyd.
Business: Reports of committees.
The nominating committee consisting
of Rev. S. X. Perkins, Miss Carhart,
Mrs. A. Sidney Edison, brought in the
following names who were elected to
serve as officers for the coming year:
President, A. S. Payne, North Ben
nington; president, Rev. Mabel I.
Winch, East Arlington; vice president,
Manchester district, Rev. J. S. Brown;
vice president, Rupert district, M. Z.
Roberts; vice president, Arlington dis
trict, Rev. Mabel r. Winch; vice presi-
dent, Bennington district, p. T. II.
Pierson; secretary, A. j. Hicks, Man
chester Depot; treasurer, 2. /. II.
Pierson, Bennington; elementary su-
perintendent, Miss Jennette +. Per
kins, Bennington; teen age superin-
tendent, Mrs. Geo. S. Mills, Benning-
ton; adult superintendent, Rev. Peter
Heller, South SALISBURY. home de-
partment superintendent, Mrs. X. b.
Gleason, Manchester Center; mission
ary department superintendent, Miss
Martha Pratt, Bennington; superin-
tendent teacher training, Miss Hllda
Pratt, Bennington superintendent
work, Mrs. Walter White,
North Bennington; state director, r.
T. H. Pierson, Bennington.
Echoes from Northfield and Silver
Bay Conferences and State Sunday
School Convention at Brattleboro were
given respectively: Northfield, Mrs.
A. Sidney Edison, Miss Hilda Pratt;
Silver Bay, Miss Mary Hitchcock;
3rattleboro, report written by Miss
Nellie Hathaway and read by Miss
Marion Hathaway.
The convention next entered into,
differences as follows: Elementary,
ed by Miss Perkins; teen age, led by
Irs. Geo. S. Mills; teacher training,
ed by Miss Hilda Pratt; missionary, s
ed by Miss Martha Pratt.
The last address of the convention /
vas given by Rev. B. M. Kent, D. d.,
istrict superintendent NJ. Z. Church, /
is subject being "The Evangelistic 0
of the Bible School" y
Special music was rendered during G
ne afternoon by Mrs. John Mcclure;
lso by class of girls from the Meth I
dist and Baptist local schools.
At the close of the convention, sup :
er was served, entertainment for the
ay in the way of refreshments hav- !,
lg beenl bountifully supplied by the y
congregational, Methodist and Bap-
st schools of Manchester. y
Owing to the convention being held =
ter in the season this year the at 4
,ndance was not as large as some 4
EAR, but the sessions were interesting 9,
Id instructive and the program one u
orthy of much larger gathering. Il
A. J. HICKS, County Secretary :;
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