New Britain herald., 1921-05-16
Ladies' Benevolent Aids Southern
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PLAINVILLE A. C. GAMES
Rev. Martin Kneeland Gives Powerful Sermon at Methodist Church Brock-Barnes Post Meeting Tonight Other Items of Interest

| ReN. RamOund A. BeardSley, oI 1 Windsor. Conn.,. gave an interesting sermon at the Congregational church i at the morning services yesterday 1 Rev. MT. Beardsley has occupied the pulpit for several months filling the vacancy caused by the resignation o1 Rev. E. c. Gillette who has gone to Florida The collections at the church yesterday were for the Home Mission ary society.
 The Christian Endeavor society met as usual last evening. The Sunday School Expert Class, under supervision of Miss Bernice Towne has nearly completed it's course of lessons. To- morrow, the Pennington Valley Con- ference will be held at the South church at Granby, Conn. All the Congregational churches of this vicini- ty have beer extended an invitation to attend. It will be an all-day con- ference and delegates will be sent from the local church. They will be: MT. and Mrs. Charles H. Calor, MT. and Mrs. Morris Corning, Deacon McClean and Mrs. B. GetcheI.
 The Womans Foreign Missionary society will hold its regular meeting tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. $. P. Williams of West Main street. Mrs. Frederick Bull len will give a report on the recent semi-annual meeting of the Hartford branch of the Woman's Board of Missions held at South Windsor last week. There were missionaries present at the meeting who had done service in Africa, Turkey and the Philippines. There will be a message from pr. Harriet Parker of India in whose work the ladies and young girls here have been assisting. All ladies of the church have been invited to attend and are urged to be present. Every woman in the church will be asked to assist in making up the quota for both home and foreign missions.
 The Ladies' Benevolent society is gathering material for a, barrel to be sent to Mt. Meigs, Alabama. There is a school at that place for colored boys and girls which is under the care of the Misses Pierce, who were residents of Plainville for several years. They have been devoting their time to this work and are receiving excellent SUD- port from the local church. Summer clothing is especially solicited at this time. Any person who desires to aid is asked to leave articles at the home of Mrs. A. H. Dresse- ox. West Main street. opposite the ch2~-A
 On Tuesday of next weex. T. 7, sistant pastor of the Bristol Congre- gationa1 church is to be ordained S. P. Williams, of this town, will act as a delegate from here as will also Rev Mir. Beardsley. in the absence of the regular pastor.
 The Sunday school food sale held last week for the benefit of the chill dren's Christmas tree, netted the committee s25. There will be a sum- mer festival in the season for the same purpose. There were about 30 teachers present at the teachers tea held last Friday evening and it was pronounced a success. These teas are held occasionally throughout the win ter months for consultation on Sunday school matters. Plans for the chil- dren's day service were discussed.
 PIainvflle A. o. Games.
 In the first league game of the sea son, played at Aliens field, Saturday afternoon, the Plainville Athletic club defeated the Glastonbury nine, score to 4. The battery for the Plainviile team was Goeb and Wadsw orth; for the Glastonbury aggregation, Phillips and Schroeder. Goeb held his oppon- ents down to five hits while the locai team made Is.
 Senator John IT. Trumbull ushered in the season by pitching the first ball. The PIainville Fife and Drum corps escorted them around the center of the town in big league form and marched to the field.
 Yesterday the team journey to Southington where they lost to South ington. The score was 2 to l. It was the opening game for the Southington team. The batteries were: Cunning ham and Wadsworth for Plainville and Lord and Metelli for Southington. Cunningham held down his opponents to four hits. Plainville received five from Lord.
 Manager Allan Bailey has secured the East Hartford players for next Saturday and the game will probab bly be played at Poli field. On Sunday afternoon, it is possible that the fast Independents of Hartford will play on the local diamond.
 Aces Capture Two.
 The Aces baseball team won two more games. making the total of five straight for the season. Saturday aft ternoon they defeated the Tiger A. c. of New Britain at Walnut Hill Park in that city by the score of to o. The batteries were Olson and Marine for the Aces and Wolfe and Benke for the Tigers. The Aces made 12 hits while the Tigers got but ?.
 On Sunday afternoon the Aces played the South Manchester aggre- gation at Rockwelrs Field and de- feated them by the score of to O. Cervini and Noble worked for the