Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-26

The seventeenth annual, conference of The Kings Daughters of New London, Windham and Holland counties was held at the Greeneville Congregational church, on Wednesday. It was the most large ly attended conference in years, one hundred and twenty=seven answering to the roll call The decorations of iris, lilies and snowballs were very attractive. The county president, Mrs. George Prior | of Jewett City, presided. Rev. Charles i H. Ricketts, pastor of the church, con ducted the devotional service, reading the Scripture from the fifth chapter of Second Corinthians. His talk was based on the words We are ambassa dors for Christ Mrs. c. D. Foster, leader of the entertaining circle, Euphemian Cir cle gave a most cordial welcome. Mrs. Ida Bragaw of New London, responded. saying we need these conferences for the | exchange of ideas and renewal of en- thusiasm and vigor in the work. Do your best Loyalty and cheerfully and suffer yourselves to feel no anxiety or fear Your times are in Gods hands He has assigned~you your place. He will direct your paths. He will accept your efforts if they be faithful He will bless
 your aims if they be for your souls
 good.
 Committee on Resolutions.
 The minutes of the last conference
 were read by the secretary, Mrs. F. H
 Hiscox and accepted. Mrs. Prior ap pointed as committee on resolutions Mrs Charles Hagberg of Norwich. Mrs. Ed ward Cady of Oxford and Mrs. Hele1
 E. Brown of Wilimantic. Mrs. L. G
 Buckingham of Jewett City sang Tn
 Lord Is My Shepherd by Van de Water
 Miss Letitia Kramer being the occom l Of NAy I
 gave talk on the Use of Literature il
 the Circles A part of the circle report
 were read
 ! Presidents Annual Report. Under the title of How to Become al Expert, the president, Mrs. Prior gay her annual report as follows; Three weeks ago I went to a boar' meeting at Hartford. My experience : going and coming would amuse you if had time to relate them. When my min' had settled after cyclonic dashes owe : country roads and a sprinting matcl : through the station subway, l foEn' an article in a current magazine whlc r interested me. It did not refer in an
 way to The Kires Daughters work; i l fact it referred altogether to worldl : prosperity. My mind having been cen [, tered on our order for most of the da! r I applied one paragrapgh In this articl d to religious work in general and Tn l. Kings Daughters work in particular. = will quote the paragraph.
 ,. Anyone who really eXcels in in pal a ticular lines is made by the slow prt - cesses of experience and industry. Som
 have greater natural endowments tha r. others, some learn faster than other n but no one can beat the law which o1 l. dains that skill comes from ability, pit g study, interest and practice.
 r The dictionary says an expert is or T. who is skilled through practice or CT Is perience.
 Then one skilled in the work of O,
 order might truthfully be called an e h. pert Kings Daughter.
 |, am going to mention a few lin 1s along which the circles of Eastern Go k nectfcut have become or may become e, ,n perts.
 We are looking for experts in mal1iI A out lists and remitting dues. Last ye
 the Kings Bluebirds came flying in
 my hands the goth day of Decembt Through nobody's fault there was a ne
 essary delay in sending out the blanks,
 this year all the circles were a little Ia Id about getting the blanks in, but tn u- have all returned promptly. The Ear d. est Workers of East Thompson were t rs first to respond with Mizpah of Putna es second. Then the rivals. Comfort Giro ts, of Norwich and The Kings Bluehirds lal Norwich. Last year the record of the