Putnam patriot., 1918-07-05
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Congregational Church Notes

Entertainment has been pled.red to provide for fifty Fresh Air Children Please hand contributions to Miss Gertrude Perry.
 The Pastor has received interesting letters from pr. and Mrs. Kinnear, which will be read on some public oc- casion. Two of his sons are in the service of the Allies
 It may be of interest to the con- gregation to know that Frank B. Can nell of the Lotus Quartette' has ac- cepted a secretaryship in the Y. M C. A, and Is soon to sail for France.
 Our Pastor has been invited by the Congregational church of Hampton to open the summer series of Vesper services either next Sabbath or the second Sunday in July.
 The appeal that our Pastor made for silk flags to honor the boys who have enlisted from our congregation has thus far resulted in donations amounting to $2.60, While we do not need but two flags just at present it was thought best to order six. so as to have supply in case they should be needed later. The bill was $8 840
 There is a possibility that Rev E. P. Aver, the blind preacher and pas tor of the Congregational church of Mansfield Center, will occupy cur pull pit within few weeks. Mr. Aver IS totally blind ,and yet in spite of this handicap he not only attends to all pastoral duties, but manages quite a farm as well. In his pulpit efforts 1t IS difficult to believe that he Is not reading the hymns, scripture. etc. but all these preliminaries are memorized and his rendering of them is so nat ural that the loss of his eyesight is not noticeable. We shall be glad to welcome him to our church.
 Revs. Williams of Danielson, Bar wick of Plainfeld and our Pastor, mOtored to Crystal Lake yesterday to make plans for boys camp week in the near future. If satisfactory ar engagements can be made the boys from the three churches, Danielson. Plainheld and Putnam. will be invited to spend a week on the shore of the lake Tn Eastford. The building built last summer by the Mems Brother hood of the Wilhmantic Congrega- tlonal church, will be used and a pro gram that will be full of interest 10 tfe bows will be arranged. Definite information will be gwen early this week
 The following officers and com mttees were chosen for the I. r. s. (. r for the coming year:
 Pfesl ent. Josephine Clifford
 Nloe-tresideut. Edith Dingwall.
 Recording Secretary, Lillian Maer- tens.
 Perry.
 Treasurer, Ethel Dingwall.
 Prayer Meeting Committee. Mary wheaton, Lucy Ellis, Ethel Ellis, IT. ma Greene. Jessie Macdonald, Eliza beth Hayward, Henry Brousseau, Al fred Barber, George Child.
 Lookout Committee. Mrs. H. c Meinken, Helen Carver. Lillian Maer- tens, Mary Carpenter, Anna Arnold Helen Phillips, Elizabeth Wheelock Hazel GeeSon, Teddy Brousseau. liar old Elliott.
 Social Committee, Dorcas Bartlett Sylvia Nheelock, Edith Geeson. Will liam Mansfield, Stewart Pease. Wilbur Lown, Clara Maertens, Margaret Maertens, Kenneth Andem.
 Music Committee, Ruth Bartlett Gladys Robbins, Hattie Inman. Harel Clifford, Flora White. Dorothy Bone
 Flower Committee. Bertha Sargent Fife lnman. Gertrude Perry. Bertha Richardson, Chrystable Clifford Doris Carver. James Clifford.
 NJ si9nary Committee, Elizabeth Child. Josephine Greene. Annie Ca