Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-19
HoNoRs MEMORY OF
 MRS. FRANCES E. DOVE
Richard Q. Hall Tells of Her Influence
 On Lives of Others.

At the Sunday afternoon meeting in the |. M. c. A. hall Richard D. Hall international secretary of the Y. M. c. A for work among the Indians was 1 charge of the meeting, the first part of which was devoted to a memorial service for Mrs. Francis E. Dove who was president of the Norwich Indian Hugh Kinder played the accemp- aninents for the singing and sang most feelingly the solo Thy Will Be Done" MT. Hill spoke of Mrs. Dowe's devotion to the works of charity in which she was so deeply interested and touched on the beauty of her life Mrs. Bella P. Learned read a Beautiful tribute to Mrs. Dowe's memory. writ ten by Mrs. George Lane and gave also that expressed by Rev. Mir Wor- cester if his last words delivered over Mrs. Dove, adding her own personal sense of bereavment and sympathy in the passing of Mrs. Dove.
 MT. Hall, in whose work Mrs Dove
 had. taken the greatest interest and
 furthered it in every way in her power
 spoke af the influence her life had had
 on all whom it had touched and on all
 life. - -
 It had contributed to and had it's share in the good of the world and was
 never ending. And her death should bring no sense of sorrow, since death is
 to the Christian believer only a chang
 ing of life's activities, when they are
 finished, into wider opportunity for
 service.
 ! MT. Hall. whose lecture had been
 planned for, earlier in the season by sthe Indians in the west, Illustrating it sl1y Stereopticon. ,es'.7 He told of the three thousand In- 'dians already enlisted in this war with
 thousand. A number of personally
 known young men have already been mentioned as standing for an unusual .iy fine type of manhood in the com puanies in which they serve. As for the money raised for war work, these Indians have given almost unbelievable amounts at great sacrifice. At one school of 125' students they raised $l7 900 to send across. Carlisle, which had raised $450 for the Red Cross. pledged $1200 the. next week. The In dian students of North America were asked to give s100,0O0 and responded with over f2eo coo. This year they are to De asked to raise a million. When they gave $lGo, 900.
 Their fathers sacrificed their own blood, but the sacrifices of the chil- dren are of different character They are giving up the things they want need. to serve their country Five hundred boys went from Carlisle last week to join the army.
 The Indians are going through a 1 .1 1of'sAe+oH pcIioO ana many or them have nearly wrecked in the process. In l the schools much has been done for them in the way of teaching citizen ship and loyalty and habits Of refine mef1t as we'll as instructing them in | tFades. It has produced some splendid l young men, These Indians support | a great many Christian projects and i the workers carrying them en- We | must help and stand back of them. l
 MT. Hall spoke of the pleasure it | would afford the Indian soldiers to be i 'emembered by Christmas paekagesI md the suitability of sending such to hase native Americans
 He also urged the support of the Anferfcan Indian Y. M. c. A bulletin. ! publication to be sent to the Indian r ,oys in the trenches F
 At the suggestion of Secretary Hill i he collection taken at the meeting F rtil be used for the furtherance of the ndfan work.