The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-13
MAKE PLANS FOR BIC CONVENTION
 OF THE LAYMEN
Efforts to Register 5000 for Meeting to Be Held May
 12-14 in City.
ALL DENOMINATIONS
 ARE TO BE INVITED
Gathering To Be Held in the
 First M. E. Church Build ing in Fairfield Ave.

A meeting of the general registra- tion committee for the coming lay mems convention vas held at the of flee of Executive Secretary William D. Holloway, at the Y. M. c. A. yes terday at D. m. The committee is composed of Albert E. Lavery, chair man, George H. Noble, Judge Paul l.. Miller, c. c. Gaskell, NewSan H. | Hoyt, c. M. Cole, Frank V. Burton, E. w. McCutcheon, H. M. Nichols, Jesse G. Porter, M. H. Chapin, Ralph Sprague, F. B. uCrtis, B. T. Bucking- 1 ham, Tracy B. Lord, G. H. Emery. l The committee has sent out a call to the pastors of about 75 churches in Bridgeport and vicinity for the ap- point1nent of a strong registration committee in each church. A list of these church registration committees is now being sent in by the pastors of | the various churches. Men of all de- nominations, even non-church mem bers, may register by applying to any pastor, Chairman A. F. Lavery or William E. Holloway, executive sec retary at the Y. M. c. A.
 The committee meeting decided, first: To have 10000 blank registra-
 ton applications printed; to secure 5000 registration buttons, which will admit to all sessions of the conven- tion, The personnel of this general registration committee is in itself Iguarantee that this inteTdenom1na- tional movement will not only be 'fput over" but that the registration may so into the thousands In a con vention at Kansas City, February 21-24. the registrations were 4,OII. When the men of the city realize what a wonderful inspiration and up lift the convention means to men and to the churches they very cheerfully register for the convention.
 The registration committee is plan ming for a representative body or several hundred men from the various churches at a complimentary war supper for April 23, 1918.
 The convention will be held May 12-14 in the First M. E.. church Ill Fairfield avenue.
 A mass meeting of the women or various churches in the city met at the Y. w, C. A. last Sunday after noon at 4 o'clock and decided to have a. Women's Convention which will be
 behd in the United Congregational church May 12-14 to hear the noted sneakers that will be here from d1f- ferent parts of the world in attendance upon the Laymen's Convention which
 will be held at the same time. The Committee on Nomination was com-
 posed of Mrs. Stephen F. Sherman,J ,Jf., chairman: Miss Witt, Dr. Van Deusen,
 Mrs. Thornbury and Mrs. J. R. Brown. This committee held a most enthus- iastic meeting and have nominated the following general and executive
 committee of ladies for the Women>s Convention: Mrs. W. H. Day, chair man; Mrs. Stephen F. Sherman, Jr.,
 Mrs. George M. Brown, Mrs. Carl Eos
 ter, Mrs. B. H. Bronson, vice chair
 men and Mrs. George P. Rand, Mrs
 Frank " Burton, Miss Anna John~
 son, Mrs. F. W. Read, Mrs. Frederick
 Rhodes, Mrs. D. M. Lewis, Mrs. $. w.
 GtedhiIl. Dr. H. l.. Van Deusen, Mrs.
 S. c. Jones, Mrs. George c. Goulden,
 Mrs. E. H. Bronson, Mrs. W. J. Grip
 pin, Miss E. C. Rideout, Mrs Paul l..
 Miller, Mrs. Herbert s. Brown, Mrs.
 Joseph J. Rose, Miss Beach, Mrs. H. W. Hincks, Mrs W. Seymour Lacy, Mrs George Sherwood, Miss Tender
 son.
 A meeting of the General Executive Committee for the Women's Conven- ton, of the officers of the various Women's societies of the churches, and leading women from the different churches in Bridgeport and vicinity, is called to meet at the Y. W. c. A, 263 9 Golden Hill street, Wednesday, April IT, at p. m4 A program has been !, arranged and plans will be discussed ) and committees appointed for a par . alled convention for women. Execu- . tive Secretary Holloway has been en- f thusiastic in his praise of the prompt l way in which the ladies have taken hold of the work, and he predicts that r they will have convention as large ., Or larger than the big convention for e men. .ls.oss;