Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-21

and Porto Rico. The benedictfon was | pronounced by Rev. G., G. Scrivensr, | the district superintendent.
 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. |
 At o'clock a fair sized audience | gathered at the tabernacle. The wealth 1 CT was much warmer. A number of | visitors were noticed. Mrs. Costello | Lippitt, president of the camp ground l auxiliary, introduced the speaker after l the song service. Scripture was read | by Mrs. E. F.. Colver of Manchester | and prayer was offered by Mrs. B. F. | Currier of Chelsea, Mass. Brother | Naftzger sang a salo. Miss Sadie L. Davis of Providence, who has visited mission fields, gave incidents of her trip to Manila, Korea and China. 1 Among several exhibits shown were a l Filipino dress, a Korean cap and a pair of tiny shoes formerly worn by a them when embracing Christianity.
 At the close of the service District Superintendent Scrivener alluded to the fact that Rev. D. F. Dodd was not present because he was preaching his farewell sermon to his people at Man tic, as he is to sail shortly with his wife for China, where they are to take l up missionary work.
 Children's Meeting.
 The first childrens meeting was held in the tabernacle at 1 D. m. under the leadership of Miss Florence Thatcher D.. O, who for 35 years led this important meeting, resigning last year on ac- count of her health, was on the plat form and led in prayer after the 23d Psalm had been repeated in concert. Her many friends are rejoiced to see that Mother Read has recovered from a recent very severe illness in which
 her life was despaired of.
 Mrs. F. Henry Bushnell of Norwich
 Town was at tn epiano. Miss Davis
 0Igo %N 1T,
 little Chinese boy sing in China Jesus Loves Me, This Know
 Mrs. Annie O. Clark told about a
 little Indian boy in the kest whose
 first experience in a clean bed was
 ludicrous. There were hardly more
 than a dozen young childre min the
 meeting, although there were more of
 a larger growth. The prevailing cpl
 demic has interfered considerably with
 their attendance.
 weeks past has hardly averaged a quarter of a hundred from week to week, so far as children are concerned.
 Saturday Evening Entertainment.
 The tabernacle was well filled Sat urday evening when Ernest Naftzger conducted a fine literary and musical entertainment. Rev. Duncan F. Dodd triCt EpWorth league, made a few in uOductOry remarks in a pleasing vein, and then presented the following pro- gramme: Piano solo, by Miss Ruth F. BjOrklund of Higham; vocal solo, choir 1 leader, If All My Ships Came Home to Me, which was encored; violin solo, by Miss Elizabeth Lane of Norwich, CantO AnlOrOsC, by Sammartini; for an encore she played an English dance. Next an African Love Song, words by | Paul Lawrence Dunbar and music bv 1 NeVin, was rendered by MT. Naftzger l An amusing encore, Negro Preachers 1 EXhOrtatiOn, set to music. Rev. J. H. 1 PrieStly of Mapping gave a humorous
 reading, The Tiger. His encore was another amusing Tiger story. Mr. 1 Naftzger then sang two solos, Morning i and For Day. The next number was a flag drill prettily executed by sixteen young ladies of the New London Ep- worth league with R. B. Hayes leader l and Mrs. Thomas Vickery pianist. Each 1 of the performers was clad in a large 1 flag and carried a white pennant bear | ing the words Epworth League. On 1 their heads they wore tasseled tiles of i red and white, the league coIors. Part 1 of the march and the Greek cross drill | were repeated for the encore. 1 Past second of the programme con- 1 sisted of a piano solo by Miss BjorI1- 1 lund; song, When We Go Home, by l MT. Naftzger; violin solo, by Miss l Three for Jack was then rendered by i MT. Naftzger. For an encore he sang 1 An Explanation. Rev. MT. PriestIy 1 then gave four humorous selections
 MT. Naftzger sang for the closing mum l Der Kiplings Recessional. Miss Bjork- | lund acted as pianist throughout the 1 evening, save in the flag drill 1 Get Acquainted Social. 1 The raising of the flag while Amer 1 ica was sung constituted the opening 1 of the institute Saturday afternoon i Next came apt words and a prayer by 1 T Y rho 1 stated it was his last institute here, 1 and he wanted it to be the best. Rev. 1 and Mrs. Dodd leave in September for 1 China.
 i Personals.
 Christopher GIenny drover over from l Manchester and brought a party of i eight in his autotruck Saturday, re- l turning last evening.
 Earl Howe of Jewett City is visit l ing with his aunt, Mrs Sarah Tracy, | at her cottage on James avenue. l Rev. R. J. Chrystie and Miss Mattie 1 Horsfeld of Mapleville are on the l grounds for the week.
 1 At the Manchester house, with Mrs l Rogers in charge, are the Misses Mar l jOry Sellew and Maud Bates of Burn 1 side and Arthur Potter of Portland. l Walter Brozyna of Norwich and Miss | FlOssie Bennett of Norwich Town are
 walters at A. D. Zabrislzie's restaurant
 Elijah Harris of Preston acts as cook. MT ana dfS. l.. A, Nerr1il, MrS. l Emma Mothes, MT. and Mrs. Oliver
 Avignon motored from Vernon yester- 1 day for the day.
 Mrs. Esther Abbey of Manchester
 has been on the grounds four weeks
 and will remain until just after the 1 camp meeting closes.
 1 E. L. Tucker of Chestnut Hill is here i for all the meetings. He stops at the l Johnson house in WillimantiC nights, | coming to camp daily.
 At the South Manchester house,
 whose caretaller is Mrs. Herbert Hoots,
 are Mrs. John Humphries, Misses
 Edith Humphries, Annie Orr, Mary
 Ritchie, Irene and Elizabeth BuzzeII, | Gertie Jackson, Christopher Glenney,
 Leslie House, Olin Gates and Ralph i TOwle
 pr. Frank D. Maine of Springfield is | at the East Greenwich academy cot
 tage on Church circle. Although he 1 has passed his 76th milestone, the doc | tors intellect is as keen as ever, as | eVinced by a recent publication from his pen with the somewhat formidable title Evolution and CorreIlationship of | Phenomena-the Latter Developed and Maintained Largely by Means of E9I~ 1 ternaI Stimuli