New Britain herald., 1925-04-06

o'clock Saturday afternoon, April 25, and from this time until 2 p. m. will be devoted 10 the registration Of del- egates, and A reception by the mem bers Of the Women's Bartholow Bible class. A lunch will be served to arriving delegates.
 At 2 o'clock there will be 6 song service led by John Thomas of Ruth erford, N. J.
 From 2;l5 to 2;95 p. m, President Jones will make his report and will be followed by an address by Dr, Conger. Prayer by Rev. Edgar Cross land, leader of the Mems Bible class of the Woodstock Presbyterian church. of New York city. Reports of officers and committees will fol- low.
 From 3 o'clock until 430 there will be an open forum and short talks will be made as follows; City Leagues" Elwin II. Rooney, Provi- dence. R. l.; Earl NJ. Dinger, Wor- cester Mass; w. Q. Florian, Bridge port, Conn" Organization" Attor- noy William M. Smith, Staten ls- land; w. F. Norris. Mount Vernon, N. Y. Publicity" George Btoas, Rutherford, x. J.; Ernest R. De- chant, New Britain, Conn" "Wom- cn's classes" Mrs. J. W. Hope, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
 At a banquet to be held at 6:30 o'clock that evening, officers will' be elected and the time and place of the next convention designated. There will be addresses during the banquet by Mayor w. D. MacQues- ten, of Mount Vernon; Rev. o. r. Bortholow, leader of the Bartholow Bible class Of Mount Vernon, father of the Everyman's Bible class of New Britain, and of the Trinity Mems class of Staten Island; Judge Robert Carey, Jersey City; Rev, c. A. Deck CT, leader of Everymans Bible class of Bridgeport, and Rev. L. H.. Clee, leader of Everyman's Bible class of Rutherford, N. J.
 Efforts will be made at this ses- sion to bring the next convention back to Connecticut and a delegation of 25 or more from Bridgeport will be there with that end in view. 9th CT contestants for the convention next year are expected to be Ruther- ford, N. J., which class will have 150 men at the banquet; Providence, R. l., and Cleveland, o.
 A movement is on foot to take a delegation of 25 or more men down from New Britain on Sunday morn- ing, going in the new Mastco bus. The three generals of the class are arranging for this trip.
 On Sunday morning the delegates will attend the regular session of the Bartholow Bible class, when Dr. Bartholow will speak. In the after noon there will be big mass meet ing for men, when B. r. Armstrong of New Britain will lead a chorus of 1900 men in singing Onward Christian Soldiers" This meeting will be In the War Memorial build ing recently built by the Bartholow class. Addresses at this session will be by Dr. Bartholow and Rev. Dr. John L. Davis, former leader of the New Britain class.
 Delegates from New Britain will be Walter R. Fletcher, president and Walter W. Gould, general of the Red Army of Everymans Bible class, and George V. Hamlin. presi- dent and William Tetsch of the Stanley Memorial church brother hood. Other mems classes in this city have not registered yet, but may do so later.
 Next Sunday delegation of 19 soldier boys from Fort Slocum, N. T., will visit the local class. These boys, under the leadership of Ser geant Ernest Forshaw. late of the Panama Canal zone, have organized branch of the White army of the local class and expect 10 hold serv- ices with the cooperation of their chaplain, at Fort Slocum. General Charles A. R. Cooper of the White army is seeking accommodations for the boys over Saturday night.