New Britain herald., 1916-10-30
FadhnVlaa2 News LOCAL PASTOR WILL
 RESIGN ON NOV. Y Rev. E. |. Grant Announces His
 Intention to Leave PlainVille CONSIDERING TWO OFFERS

Church Officers to Act on ReSlgnatlOn
 Friday Night-Voting Machine In-
 struction-Proves Value of Spray l ing-More Negroes Shipped Here. l Formal confirmation Of the report
 recently printed in the "Herald' con-
 corning the intention of Rev. Fred
 erick l.. Grant to leave Plainville, was given to the Congregationalists yes- l terday morning when the minister at the close of his sermon presented his
 resignation as pastor of the church. l Mr. Grant read a letter in which he announced his intention of giving up
 the pastor on November 15, leav- l ing the town to accept a pastoral po-
 sition in a wider field. The clergy
 man gave no intimation as to where he proposed to locate, confining him.
 self to the statement that he has two calls under consideration and will | probably make his decision during the | week.
 MT. Grants resignation will mark ! the closing of eleven years of serv- l ice as pastor of the local church and | will be received with general regret l by people of all religious beliefs. Members of the church will meet Fri day night to take action on his letter and to appoint a committee for pulpit supply until the pastors successor is ] chosen.
 1 While MT. Grants resignation had 1 been expected for several days and caused no surprise among members of the church it was received with | at yesterdays service. In connection with his resignation MT. Grant gave a sermon on "The Philosophy of ! Change" treating the position of pas
 tor and the duties with which he be- l comes involved. In his letter he ex-
 pressed his appreciation of the CO.,
 operation given him during the period | he served as pastor and explained ! that his action was the result of his belief that he would be more useful l in a new field rather than to any dis l satisfaction with local conditions. i Mr. Grant said this morning that
 while his esignation will become ef- fective in about two weeks he will | probably remain in Plainville for some time. He plans to take rest before assuming the duties of his new place and will probably be here 1 until about the first of the year He expected to be able to announce his plans for the future in a few days. 1 Besides being active in church work, MT. Grant has occupied a posi- l ton of prominence in the civic life
 of the community. He has been as-
 sociated with many of the towns
 governing boards and has given up
 a great deal of his time and talent to l Pla1nVille's affa1rs Eor ,o,,,,o 1 of years he has served on the school
 and library boards and the success l attained by both committees has been l in 8 considerable measure the result 1 of his personal efforts. He has been 1 conspfcuously identified with the | Business and Improvement associa-
 tion the Congregational club the
 Grange and the New Britain Camera 1 club. He has served on the com- l mittee having been in charge of the l disbursement of money from the Strong fund for over decade and during large part of the time was
 chairman of the board. During re-
 cent years he has been active in the | prohibition cause and has been recoe- l nized as one of the leaders of the mo- l license forces
 MT. Grant came to P1ainville to | serve as minister Tor the COngrega-
 tionalists from Northf1eld, Mass. He l succeeded Rev. Clement G. Clark, who
 resigned to go to Minneapolis.
 l While there will be general regret
 over the departure of MT. Grant and l his family from PlainvilIe the towns
 people will unite in extending them ] thei- best wishes for success and ham, 1 piness in the field they select for l their labors.
 Voting Machine Instruction
 1 Arrangements have been nade hv the selectmen to have demonstrations
 of the new voting machines given in
 the Town hall every evening this
 week. Men familiar with the ap psratus will be on hand every nigh+
 to explain its workings to the voters
 On Friday, Saturday and Monday
 the machines will be open for insnec-
 t1on all day and the citizens of inc
 town will be given every opportunity
 to familiarize themselves with them
 General satisfaction with the ma
 chimes has been expressed by prac-
 tically all the voters who have thus
 far received instructions. Many of
 them have expressed surprise over
 the simplicity of the apparatus and
 they predicted that there will be but ! little confusion when they are tried
 at the election.
 While the seIectmen rented a sec