Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-15
81. Patrick's Church Annual Statement
Sunday by Rev. J. FL Broderic-Total Receipts $685.
Expenditures. $27, Balance of $5911.-
41-AH Debts Paid and All Church Property Clear.

! and the rent for single sittfngs brought
| In $10,42S.57;. collections for church
| purposes, $3,939.02; donations for mar
| BILE statues, $1,240.10; legacy from the
estate of Mrs Mary Fahey-minus 500
for perpetual care of cemetery lot
S2,650.74; contributions at time of mis-
sion, $1,000; for orphans and poor
largely through the efforts of the Cath
nary revenues, through special offer
ings,. ct al, $11 ,S01.89;l diocesan collec-
tons, $937.08, with smaller amounts
from various sources, making the total
receipts $S3, 210.04.
Annual Disbursements.
On the debit side. of course. there
were large amounts also. including the
item OF 81, 1880 for coal and wood,
over $534.34 for orphans and poor, the
Christmas expenditures being extra;
repairs of school and church, including
work of plumbers, carpenters, painters
and others, well toward $4,000;
purchase of the lot and barn at the
rear of. the church, $4,000, and $3.50 for
moving the barn to its permanent site;
$500 for grading, etc. Expenses for
houses, and other ordinary expenses
were in the list, the total expenditures
reaching the sum of $27 ,29S.63. There
remains. to begin 1917, the handsome
balance of $5,911.41.
Plans for 1917 Work.
the coming year, Father Broderick
stated that there was need of laying
out and grading another section of the
new st. Josephs cemetery, so quickly
has the portion already opened been
taken up. A new floor is needed for
the basement chapel, which is also the
Sunday school room. Four of the
rooms in the parish school will require
new flooring. after their 80 years of
use by the thousands of children who
have been pupils therein, and the same
vooms will need new desks.
Praised Catholic Woman's Club.
To the Catholic Womans club the
rector again expressed his obligations
for valuable aid, in referring to the
fact that this active organization for
the future would be unable to hold
the annual charity ball, which has
done so much each year toward meet
ing the needs of the parish poor and
orphans. He explained the plan of the
club to hold a bazaar this year to take
the place of the charity ball, and COM
mended the generosity of twoAof the
parish societies, the Young Ladies' So
dality, which has appropriated $27,
and st. Anne's Temperance society,
which has donated SO, toward making
the bazaar a success. He expressed
the hope that every other organization
in the parish would follow this fine
example, and that the members, indi-
viduals and as organizations. would
combine to aid the Catholic Woman's
club in carrying out the proposed en-
so that in this way a |
fund may be secured to
provide for the wants of the needy |
incidentally, he spoke of the value and |
desirability of true parish spirit and |
parish unity, especially in working for |
such a laudable object as aiding the |
poor, who, the Saviour Himself has |
said, we will always have with us, |
and for whose wants the ladies of the /
club have always been so solicitous in |
providing.
Next Sunday Father Frederick is to i
read his report on the spiritual condi- |
lion of his parish. conditions apart !
rom the merely material side of the |
parish life and activity.