Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-09
REELECTION OF Y. M. [. A. OFFICERS
James L. Case For President For Another Annual Report Shows Year of Progress and Activty-Associa- ton Closes 18th Consecutive Year With All Bills Paid and Balance In the Bank.

| 4- At the annual meeting of the Young Mems Christian association held in the association building Wednesday even ing James L. Case was re-elected president of the association. The meet | ing opened at s o'clock with prayer by |. 0. Smith and was followed by the reading of the. minutes of the last meeting.
 | Treasurer L. R. Church read his re- port for the past year, which showed a balance of $203.3e and all bills paid. l This is the thirteenth, consecutive year lthat all bills have been paid and a Esbalanee shown in the bank. Other re- Fborts read at the meeting included the reports of the departments of religion, educational house, rental. physical l junior and the report of the trustees ] Is o: Smith, chairman of the nodninat- 1 ing committee, presented the following | thames for election to office for the ensuing year: President, James l. lease; vice presidents, J. c. Macpher- son. George H. Loring and B. P. Bish Top: secretary. A. F. Cherry; treasurer IL. R. Church; directors for three years ! Philip Johnson, c. E.. Carpenter 1 Charles .Saxton and L. o. Smith; trus- l tees for. three years, William B. Young and Frederick w. Lester. The officers I were unanimously elected.
 I It was voted to ratify the resolution
 of respect adopted by the board on the death of Amos A. Browning. 1 It was also voted to extend a vote I of thanks to James l.. Case for tht successful way in which he had con. | ducted the association during the pas
 year. A vote of thanks was given tht Epress, pastors and the Woman's auxil l iary for their cooperation.
 The association has passed one 0 the most successful years in it's his tory and has a bright outlook for th' looming year. F Presidents Annual Report.
 The work of the year was summar ized in the report presented by Presi dent James L. Case. It was as fol lows:
 | It is my pleasure tonight to call you attention to some of the importan
 features of the work of the association
 during the past year. Because of ex listing world conditions, new oppor
 tunities for service have been offere
 to our association, and it is mos gratifying to be able to report a large and better work in almost every de Epartment of our activities than eve before. It has been our privilege t render service to our soldier boys i
 our own building, our state camps. ou , national cantonments and to our boy
 on the other side. Were there time would be a pleasure to relate in deta a number of instances in which your
 men have been helped to such an ex
 tent. that the whole course of thei | f1J{ 11ac she Inasmuch, however, as 1t is sinpl z the province of this report to call you attention briefly to the work of th several departments, I therefore as your consideration of the work of tn Religious Work Department. . Our Sunday afternoon services hay been regularly held throughout tn lyear. Through the kindness of Judg
 Thayer we were able for a number {
 weeks to hold these in one of his store on Franklin square. The other meet | ings have been held in our own build
 ing, while special events have bee
 held at. the Davis theatre. During th warm summer afternoons. through tE
 kindness of the officers of Sedgwic
 post, G. A. R., our meetings were COT l ducted. on the lawn in front of tf l Buckingham Memorial.
 Bible classes have been regular
 conducted for both men and boys an 8 meetings have also been held at tl 3 county jail during the past year undt l the leadership of Edmund A. Prentie
 who has so faithfully cared for tn
 department of our work for so man
 years.
 A Monday noon prayer service ht also been held in our building. ] H11A r among the many men who have frt
 quented our building has been eager
 availed of by our general secretal = and good advice and counsel have bee e given to many of our young men. s Early in the year this department, e we'll as our entire association wor 0 met with a severe loss in the death
 Hon. Amos A. Browning MT. BroWl
 ing had been chairma nof this depar
 ment for many years and was deep :. interested in the work in order tn the young men of our communi
 might be benefited.
 MT. Browning's interest in
 branches of our association work w
 very great and we haveN during t - past months realized more and mo . the loss we have sustained We fe t sure that the well done, good al
 faithful servant, has been said to hi
 by our common Lord and Master al
 i that our great loss is his eternal gai " Business Department. II For the thirteenth consecutive ye
 we have closed our accounts with d balance in the treasury and with o bills paid.
 t Our special campaign in May, 1e ,e for funds for new building was. su
 cessful and most gratifying and SIP
 900 was pledged for this purpose.
 Of this amount, $63.029g5 has be paid as will be shown by the repC U of the treasurer of the building fu1 r Of this amount, S500G was contribut, sss in accordance with the agreeme 'l made during the campaign, to the N T. tional Y. M. c. A. war work fund a = $1,200 has also been paid for the C tension work of the association iIi t ! foreign field in China.
 Our finance committee has giy careful attention to the business affa
 of our association and as a res ! financial credit of the association is S the highest.
 Our trustees have given careful ;
 tention to the funds entrusted to tn z: and a careful consideration of tn 1T report will be of interest to eve Ie member.
 CT The sum of $1S.5oo was assigned ae e Norwich and vicinity in the seco oe Y. M. c. A. war work campaign a ls as a result of special effort a sum ( t, ceeding $26,000 was pledged of wh eo practically all has been paid to lo sttae treasurer.
 E. Our building committee will also