Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-21
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
 MADE GOOD REPORT.
Their 18th Annual Meeting Showed Past Year Had Been Successful One.

Pastor J. B. Slocum presided on Thursday evening at the 76th annual meeting of the Central Baptist church, which was held at 7.30 in the prayer meeting room at the church. after a supper that had been served at 6.30 under the auspices of the refreshment committee of the Ladies' Benevolent union There were over 100 at the supper, and most of them stayed to attend the annual meeting to hear the annual reports of the church. officers and the church organizations.
 These were all presented in the usual printed form, but variation was made this year from the usual proceed qre in that not all but only a few of them were read.
 gain and on the financial side. the year was shown to have been a very satis- factory one. The report of Clerk Frank l.. Arnold gave the present membership at 722, of which 54T were resident and 176 nonresident. The net membership gain for the year was 36.
 The additions by baptism had been 39, by letter Il. and by experience 8. The decreases had been by letter, 12 by death and by certificate.
 In the report of Treasurer c. Edward Smith it was shown that the expendi- turtles in the benevoience department had been $1,548.49, and there was a balance on hand of $34.01. In the working department the expenditures had been $14,167.65, which included $6,S741S for the special repairs that had been made on the church In the past year, and there was now a balance on hand of $442.70. The trustees show ed total in invested funds of $27,- 70S-78 from which interest is derived. As the item ofsrepairs had 1been met by a special loan. the finance commit tee presented plan by which this is all to be paid off by raising pledges of $7,000 payable in the next three years, and this was approved and. adopted by the church.
 When the nominating committee, through it's chairman, Arthur F. Wy man, made its report, it was stated that Frank l.. Arnold. who has been church clerk since 1912, found it i'm possible to fill the position any longer because of stress of other business duties. The nomination of Allyn L.. Brown was made and he was elected, while a rising vote of thanks was given to MT. Arnold for his services There was also rising vote of thanks to Treasurer c. Edward Smith for his services.
 Election of Officers.
 The following were the nominations made and all were elected:
 Deacons for 6 years-C. Edward Smith and Shepard B. Palmer
 Clerk-AHyn l.. Brown,
 Assistant Clerk-Andrew B. Davies.
 Treasurer-C. Edward Smith.
 Assistant Treasurer-A. Ernest Cherry.
 Board of Managers-charIes D. Moves, Lucius Brown, Adams F. Car roll, Frank E. Beckwith, Charles W. Gale, Joseph P. Holloway, George w. Hamilton, O.. Frederick Moves, A. Thatcher Otis, George A. Ashbey, Louis Mabrey, Shepard B. Palmer, John H. Ford, Charles C. Treat, Frank l.. Arnold.
 Trustee for three years-Henry E. Church.
 Committee on Annual Reports Charles F. Whitney. A Ernest Cherry and N. Eugene Smith.
 Nominating Committee for 1sf6- Frederick M. Packer, Charles w. Bur ton. Raymond Grant.
 The meeting also ratified the off, cers which had already been elected by the Sunday school and by the Pres ton Chapel Sunday school.
 Had Charge of Supper.
 The excellent supper served before the annual meeting was under the di- reetion of the committee consisting of Mrs Henrietta Tefft. chairman; Mrs. A. F. Wyman, Mrs. c. Eugene Saun- ders, Mrs. c. B. Eccleston, Mrs. J. IT. Ford, Miss Mary Barnes and Mrs. B. H. Purvis.
 Assisting them as waitresses were: Mrs. ". H. Rogers. Miss Helen B. Mrs, George Carter, Miss Belle Rathbone, Mrs. Herbert Rogers. Mr., Ivy Bailey, Miss Bessie A. Grimes. Mrs. Lena Champlin. Mrs. C.. B. Ec- cleston, Mrs. F. D. Vergason and Miss Hall.