New Britain herald., 1917-01-13

Thursday evening marked the an-. nual meeting of the First Congrega- tional church when the pastor and his assistants read their reports covering the past year and made recommenda- tfons for the coming one. The fol- lowing officers were chosen: Clerk and registrar-William C. Hungerford.
 Corresponding secretary-Miss Jen- nie l.. Haugh. Treasurer-Philip B. Stanley. Member of standing committee for three years-Ernest w. Christ. 1 Missionary committee-H. s. Wal 1 ter, chairman; Mrs. c. E. Mitchell l Mrs. Marcus White. Mrs. Valentine 5. Chamberlain, Jr., and Robert 5. An- | drews.
 Officers for the church school were elected as follows: Departmental principals: Cradle l roll, Miss Mary Whittlesey; begin
 ners, Miss Bertha Chamberlain; prl-
 mary, Miss w. T. Wells; junior, Mrs.
 c. E. Sawyer; intermediate. Elmer T.
 Thienes; boys, A. Tayson Hancock;
 senior, B. G. Bradley; adult Elmer l T. Thienes; director of home depart
 ment, Mrs. Louis J. Muller; general
 secretary. Herbert Litchf1eld; general treasurer. w. E. Ingham; librarian,
 Marshall Blakeslee; scout master
 Dwight Skinner; scout captain. Miss
 Beatrice Fox; director of service 1 training. Miss Annie Bancroft; direct l or of junior service league, Mrs. E'
 T. Thienes.
 Officers of the Women's Foreign
 Missionary are:
 President--Mrs V. E. Chamberlain, l Jr.
 l Vice president-Mrs. Arthur Bacon. | Secretary-Mrs. Nathan Reed. ,4 1 Treasurer-Mrs. Eldridge Beecher l The following are in charge of the Home Missionary Departments: | President-Miss L. J. Hine. l Vice president-Mrs. F. W. Peck.
 Secretary and treasurer-Mrs. H D. Litchfeld. - | The Foreign Missionary departm ent
 of the Women's society has the fol-
 lowing officers:
 President-Mrs. Marcus White. Vice president-Mrs. H. s. Blake. l Secretar-Mrs. w. B. Parker. Treasurer-Mrs. F. A. Porter. The annual meeting of the Stanley 1 Memorial church Thursday evening showed the, infant among local churches to be growing very rapidly Deacons were chosen as follows: James Service, C., H. Glaubau (newly elected), John Dixon and o. A. Marsh
 (re-elected. Other officers are:
 Standing committee-A. Beebe, T. s. Caldwell and James Service.
 
 Treasurer-John Dixon. -. Sunday school superintendent-C A. Marsh. -..ss. 1 tendent-Rev. J. E. Rees. ] Organist-D. Wicander 'N 1 Primary department Superintend- l ent-Mrs. J. E. Rees.
 1 Assistant primary department su
 perintendent-Mrs. Spencer. -t Deaconesses-Mrs. R. Damon. Mrs
 J. Dixon, Mrs. F. Clark, Mrs. J. serv- ; ice, Mrs. w. Hoffman, Miss Lillian i Schmidt
 I Ushers-H. Gronbach, c. Glaubau.
 Carl Dixon. Fred Robertson. Chairman of music committee with l power to select committee-D. Wican- i der. ......
 l Chairman of missionary with power l to appoint committee-V. Strong
 AAA 1 MT. and Mrs. F. w. Porter of West
 Main street are at the Algonquin in
 New York over the weekend 1 MT. and Mrs. George Hart are
 planning trip to Japan by way of
 the Hawaiian Islands. % ... ] MT. and Mrs. A. G. Kinbau and
 Mr. and Mrs. William Booth are
 among the New Britainites who are
 visiting New York this week end. At meeting of ladies, held at the
 home of Mrs. W. c. Hungerford yes-
 terday preliminary plans were made
 for the dansant which will probably
 be held in the Y. W. c. A. gymnasium, 1 February IT. The affair will be for
 the benefit of the New Britain Gen.
 eral hospital and will take the place
 of the annual card party which has
 been given for the same purpose in 1 past years.