New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 4

Bids for New First Church Buildings Will Be Called for Early In Summer E. Williams; pianist, Miss Frances P. Parker. Junior department, su- perintendent, Mrs. Robert Pattison; assistant superintendent, Misa Mar- jorie Gibney; secretary, Miss Frances 1 Norton; pianisl, Miss Margaret Traver. Intermediate departmensy superintendent, Mrs. A. D. Hein- secretary, Ernest L. Hoyle; pianist, Mrs. Flavia Lemay: senior young people’s department; acting superintendent, Rev. A. D. Hein- inger. Adult department, superin- |tendent, Edward G. Bradle: L Directors of united weck day church schools: For one year, Mrs. the erection of a new edifice for the | Philip B. Stanley; for two years, Yirst Congregational church, to be (corge F. Atwater. | erected at Lexington and West Main | Directors of New Britain Council | streets will be asked to provide bids of Religious Education: For one | after June 1, according to Phillip | year, Mrs. Joseph H. Latham; for B. Stanley, chairman of the building ' two years, Donald E. Leavitt. committee, in his report to the an-| Troop committec, troop 4, Boy | nual meeting of the church last eve- | Scouts: For one year, Bliss W. | ning, Clark, chairman; for two years, Max | The meeting was held in the main |Unkelbach; for three years, Ralph auditorium and followed a dinner in | Howe. the dining room downstairs. | Troop commlittee, troop 2. Girl Rev. Theodore Ainsworth Greene ’I"“"“'“’ Fo S0 Sl “:‘» George | ? . G. Vibberts, who |13 Cutlis, chairman; for two years, e ol N | Mrs. Arthur W. Bampson; for three salo of the present building. He said | years Mrs. Edward A. Holatein. Tegatiations for the sale of the pro Coungellors to Young People's s0- erty ended about the middle of De-|city: Mr. and Mrs. Bliss W. Clark, | cember because it was impossible to | Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Gibney, Mr. agree upon a price «nd Mrs. Herbert 8. Woods, Mr. and | “'he treasurer reported that a total | Mrs. John Hubert. of $5.089.16 was received and dis-| Two new deacons were elected, D. | bursed during the vear. Rev. Mr. B. Litchfield and Robert T. Frishee. Greene reported a total of 1,397 A portion of the report by Rev.| members. Theodore A. Greene was as follows: | wrch Officers Elected Church membership (January & is the result of the elec- | 1029), 1397; church services held in ch officers: 1025, 56; average attendance (Sun- in parenthesis are of day mornings), 3 sermons and unexpired addresscs by pastor, 129 baptisms perfornied by pastor, marriages William €. | solemnized by pastor, 17; funerals Mc- | conducted by pastor, 21; calls made the pastor, §42. (January first to December 31st, | 1928) Contractors- Will Be In- vited to Submit Esti- mates After June 1— 1,397 Membership Re- ported at Annual Meet-| ing. ‘ Contractors who wish to bid on these already serving in terms). Clerk and Hungertord: Cuteheon; tru of African M. Zion church, E ards D. Case Nomination committee for officers of church and church school: Certain other wmatters are worthy one year, (Edward ( nmdh_ | of special mention in the record of chairman) ; for two years, (Mrs. Ed- | /058" Among these intereats are the mund 1. Warren): for threc ye sccond series of Lenten discussions | Mrs. Hubert 8. Blake on modern religious hooks, the sec- Elective nembers of standing | onq tnion serles of mid-week lec- | commitiee: 1or one year, MIS.ureg in November, led this year by | ithy tor one YeAT. | profocsor Lucius (. Porter of the | Mafthews; fOr (WO Years, |1y, vard Peking Tnstitute on “China | Pritchard); for three moqq The total attendance at Iph C. Clapp. the Union Palm Sunday and Holy wember of committee on {\wook gervices held in this church in member 192 was twelve hundred and cighty-three. Further signs of pro- aress are found in the organization of a Scnior-Young People’s depart- ment in the Sunday church schooi, | the marked growth in primary and juniér departments as well as the Young People’s socletics. Our new loard of ushers is rendering excel- | lent service. and this year we are uoble to report an every member | canvass handled to date entirely by mail. At present writing four hun- dred and seventy-six subscribers are | listed as giving to both home ex- penses and benevolences and we Lope to he able to meet our in- | strar missions: Mrs. ¥. G. Platt, t large and chairman Commitice on cooperation hetween the Congregational church of New Rritain: The pastor (ex-officio), Clarence 1% Bennett, Mrs. K. G. Platt. Committee on religious education: For one vear. (Mrs. Hubert 8 Blake, Robert . Frishie, Mrs. Stan- Jey T. Goss): for two years, (Walter Ingham, Miss Millie G. McAuley, | ¥dmund L. Warren, chairs three years, Mrs. Edward W Russell C. Germond, Howe. Officers of fhe, Church School General superinfendent . e lilivg H. t; general secretary | Church Clerk's Report | urer, Ernest L. Hoyle: assistant see- | 7y0 total membershin o this| retary and treasurer, Leslic Hartung: | church on December 31st, 1927 was library committee, Miss Dotha |y 161 of whom 561 were mal andl White, chairman; Miss Ruth 1vans: sio temales. During the year there | Nbrarian, Miss Genevieve Apelgren: have heen added, on eonfession of | cradle roll superintendent, Mis® | faith 28, by letter 19, making the | Mery 8. Whittlesey; beginnc !total number received during the partment superintendent, Miss El vear 57. ‘There have been removed, M. Miles; primary department su- | by letter 15, by request 2, by deatth perintendent, Mrs. A. N. Abbe: as- |13, making the total number re- sistant auperintendent, Mrs. H. & |moved during the year 30. The secretary, Miss Clarissa . [total membership on December 31st, ; assistant secretary, Mrs. A. 1928 was 1,388, of whom 574 were | their Eyes! No Amount of Money Can Replace Them The eyes of children—as of adults—are sub- ject ttr) myopia, astigmatism and other optical ail- ments. Given proper attention these ills may be ad- justed and completely cured. At the first sign of a squint or a complaint of headache take the child in to Albren's. Examination Free! We are specialists in preseribing for eye ail- ments of children. Consult us promptly. | YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD ! | AT OUR OPTICAL | ) DEPARTMEN | Jewelers and Optici 282 MAIN STREET | has had a busy and profitable year. |Coe, Robert S. Buol. | | Home together with 20 dolls for the NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ‘'6z61 ‘I XHVANVI ‘AvVaryd Red Cross for the people in the hur- The total number of baptisms ricane stricken area. 43, of whome 7 were adults and 36 | Thrce complete infant infants. | were sent to Dr. Grenfell Seventeen members of the church | own personal distribution. WEIe, patcied Aurig d:’)‘_“ Jear n,| Three complete infant layettes. | 1985, § childpen soesived Bibies |U7e 0l WNkiveats, Spe quill. end trom the church. /three complete mothers supplies Respectfully submitted. were sent to the Uplands Sanator- A e pORD, |V Pleasant Hill, Tenn. FTLLLZAM G HUNOLE : A Christmas dinner and a bath Church Clerk. | hristys The cemmitiee, on benovalensa of |F2U2 Were Siven 1n. & family in peed. which S8amuel McCutcheon is chair- i’;‘r’n;_”" werp zent 19 the Salvation man, reporfed having spent : 3 TeriTss oth & balance on hand | The clase is now working for Miss 2aT.58, 5 Cowles in Africa. A2, . G. Platt & Joias. Mis V. 0, Pl Respecttully submitted, ported on the missionary acti o0d . and varlous missionary speakers GERTRUDE 8. PASCOE, Secretary. | during the year, including the return - of Miss Clara Labaree sent out by | _ Icport of Men's Association The officers of the Men's Assocla- the local church to India. i Report of the Woman's Soclety | tion for the year, 1925, were as fol- | Among the various activities of [10WS! the Woman's socicty the hospital| President. I Robert Carter. day and the mother-and-daughter | Vice president, Robert M. Parsons. banquet are the two most note-| Kccretary, Harold P. Smith. worthy events of the year. Treasurer, Harry A. Traver. The Woman's Missionary soclety| Members at large, Maxwell A. males and 814 females. layettes for his | No month has passed without its| A program was carried out during missionary activities. Disbursements |the year with the following speak- | during the year totallag $1.656.74. |cTs: The Young Woman's Missienary | Chester &. society holds two supper meetings a | ford, Mass., who spoke on month at which speakers are heard [Tale of the Ancient Wh and much work donc for numerous |and showed picturcs. Ladies’ night. | organizations, Robbins B. Stoeckel, commission- The Mothers® clams is composed of |er of motor vehicles df the state of | 25 members with Mrs. Marcus White | Connecticut, who &poke on “Traffic as teacher. These mothers are do- | I'roblems.” ing & wonderful work at home and | Joint meeting with the South broad. Church Men's association. Prof. Jer- Mre. Fred Latham and Miss Doro- |ome Davis of Yale University, who thy Latham as the flower committee [Spoke on “What Is Going On in have done much to bring comfort | Russia Toduy." to sick and bereaved and have| Roev. Warrens. trimmed our pulpit and decorated |ford, who spokc —on our church most tastily. | Sons.” Boys' night The furnishing committee have | Dr. Edward B. Haskell of & served delicious meals and furnished | kov, Rulgaria, who spoke en the kitchen and pantry with neces- |Cockpit of Europe. sary supplies. William Hung, exchange profess The officors of the Woman's so- Peking and Harvard universiti ciety for 1929 are: | who spoke on President, Mra. R. H. Boardman. |crnment in China Toda First vice president, Mrs. B. D.| The ussociation started the year; Radcliffe. !with & membership of 132 and at 8econd vice president, Mrs. J. H.|the end of the year showed 138. Robinson. Respectfuily submitted, Secretary, Mrs. G. B. Matthews. HAROLD P. SMITH Treasurer, Mrs. R. C. Germond. Secre Chairman of visitors' committee, [ The Armenian Dept. of First C| Mra. Louis Muller. Regular Sunday preaching sel Chairman of flower commlttee, |ices have heen held during fen Mrs. F. W. Latham. months of the year from September Chairman of furnishing commit- | first te June thirticth. Since these tee. Mrs. S. T. Goms. services were resumed last autumn Entertainment committee, Miss|the average altendance has heen Frances Parker and Miss Gertrude |twenty-three person showing a B gain of five over the average re- Respectfully submitted, corded for previous months of the Mrs. B. D. RADCLIFFE, [year. 'Th Communion services President. held and three children bap- Report of Mothers' Bible Class | tized by Mr. Greene. Since Novem- The Mothers' Bible Class is com- (ber first the weekly devotional posed of 25 members with Mrs, | mectings for our Armenian women Marcus White as teacher. The have heen held in the chapel under holds its meetings every v | the leadership of Mrs. Toyajian. morning at 10 o'clock for rcligious| The minister made 210 pastoral | study and a social and work meet- |calls upon members of the congre ing the second Wednesday evening | gation durirg the course of the year of each month. accompanied in some cases by thc The clasa packed a box of cloth- | pastor of the church ing and toys which was sent to a| Respectfully submitted, poor family, also two lundred | YERVANT H. HADIDIAN, Ph.l, pounds of clgthing were sent to the Armenian Ministo Grenfell Mis##bn in Labrador, Committee on Religions Education A crib mattress and books were| The committee on religious cdu- sent 1o the’ Newington Crippled cation has this year found it desiv able to hold regular meelings more frequently than once every threc months. Seven well attended meet- ings were held during 1928, in dition to meetings of the executive sub-committee. The present plan is | Howland of New Bed-| | Archibald of Hart- “Fathers and children. Fifteen dolls were dressed and sent to the Mossop School at Har- rington, Tenn. Five dollars was donated to the The Reliable Store * | gratifying sense land the Young People’s society for | &chool. ' The D. MILLER Co. 26 Church Street 26 to hold monthly meetings, nxcepl"l'he committee feels that the church during the summer months. This s fortunate in having our religious plan keeps the committee in active | cducation interests under his cap- touch with developments as they |able and co-operative dir-:ction. arise. Respectfully submitted, In the Sunday church school the EDMUND L. WARR: intermediate department and senior Chairman. young people's department Report of the which were separately constituted Minister of Religions Education vears ago, have each developed a| Rev. A. D. Heininger, minister of of departmental | religious education reported having unlty and activity. made 141 calls ‘during the year. His The P'eng-Yu club for the young report included fmprovements in people of not over high school age, |the curriculum of the Sunday {school, service projects such as group of young people |flowers to the sick, friendship satisfactory means for |School bags, good will packages to 5 | Mexico and Porto Rico aid during the hurricane period, and ether ac- tivities. He told of the activities of the Senior Young people’s depart- ment, the Father and Son Night, the Peng Yu club. and of coopera tion with the United week: church schools. Report of Secretary of Churcl school the older have been fostering devotional and social ac- tivities among our young people. A new Spencer Delineascope for projecting of glass slides, film slides and opaque pictures by reflection, and a transluxe daylight screen | have been added to our equipment. This lantern and screen have provea valuable aids to education through the eye. | A wotion picture projector origi- | nally purchased for use in China has been returned to our church, and becomes a part of our cduci- | tional cquipment until it is again peceded in China, A newly revised, carefully, graded : published by the Dilgrim as been adopted for use by the beginners and primary depart- ments of our Sunday church schoot. A new policy was adopted this year of giving bibles to the chil- dren of our church upon their grad- uation from the primary depart- ment, rather than at the time they oy N age seven. | The junior choir has pract ind ¢ ied on faithfully, under t direction of Mrs. Robert Pattison. | - = T e o o menve | New Schedule Drawn el 3 " For Local Hockey Loop | and successful year. Our church has taken its usual| At a mceting of the New Britain share in the Community vacation 'Ice Hockey leagne last evening a &chool, the United week- church | new schedule was drawn up due te Britain council |the withdrawal of the Scouts from | { Religious ion, including | Burritt street. The new draw brings its Community leadcrship training the Shuttle Meadow Rink feam school. ageinst Swift & Upson on Saturday Representatives of our church ;i itcrnoon and Berlin against and ol attended summer con- |North Bifds; Sunday the Sachems ferences as follows: will play the Spads. The game will Three at b Congregational |}, pliyed on the Willow Brook young people’s conference at Storrs. | winming pool or one of Towers | One at’ the Women's Foreign (v pits close by Memorial field. Mistionary Society conference at | juji< will ho installed at once so | Doxthfoxd the rink may be used nights | o "':‘"" A 1 g will he sched- AV as the ice One at Connecticut Summer School | of Religions ¥ducation. One at Northfield summer Schoot | Mexico Building Road of Religious Education [ From, Capital to Sea There were also fen of our young | B kel > people at the annual meeting of t Mexico City, Jan. 11.—UP—Work | A eican Toard of Foreign Mis- |lits been resumed on {he road from Sloni in Rrideenort | Mexico ity to Vera Cruz. When The Sunday sehosl lbrary Tas | (inished, it will open the way for | | automobite traffic from the port leen reorganized under the direc- | : fion of Miss Dotha White, beoks |0rer the mountains to the Valley of Mexico, where the capital is situ- have been rebound, and the junior | library compleiely recatalogued, [#ted” at an altitude of 7,500 feet. {herehy greatly increasing the use- | Work on the road had heen aban- POinbostot UhstITolns: doned some years ago. everend Erwin L. Shaver, sEes R — ry of leadership training of (areless Work Blamcd For Making Rare Stamp Congregational education society spent @ day in observing and re- viewing our Sunday church school,| TParis, Jan. 11—(P—The rarest and discussed our problems witl | postage stamp in France is due to the committee on religious educa- |1he carclessness ‘of a government tion. printer who tore a roll of blank During the year Mr. Heininges |stamp paper. To avoid explanations has been regularly installed ag min- | he mended it with a strip of red pa- ister of religions cducation, which |per and wheh the green, 20-centime wa helieve Is a forward looking “fep |stamps came out of the machine | in emphasizing in ourchurch {he |10 of them werc printed on a red | importance of religious education. | hackground. Enroliment and Aattendanco Numher of Sessions .. Average Attendance ..... The average attendance and per- | contage of attendance is as follows: | Department | Reginners' . Sa B0 70 | Primary . | Junior Intermediate Senior-Young Mothers' Class Men's Bible ‘lass .... ‘radle Itoll Enrollment outs Scouts People’s ceretary Atendinee Aftendan that next week nled as fast Congregational ~ Girls' All Prices for Cash Only January Clearance Sale ‘Now In This annual event is now Progress in full swing. There are many, many bargains to be had in every department. Below are a few of the many items offered at bar- gain prices. Ladies’ Silk and Wool Hose, $1.50 value . $1.19 Printed, value $1 sq. yard . Ladies’ Silk and Wool Hose, 98¢ valuc Inlaid, value $1.7. sq. yard Inlaid, value $2.7. sq. vard Men's Silk and Wool Hose 98c value . Men's Silk and Wool Hose 59c A9cvalue. ol ny Men's Silk and Wool Hose 42c S0c value 20% off WINDOW 59" 80 l 50 All Wool Batt for Comfortaples We full cairy a Remnants of Linen up to 12 yds. " 69e Washable Window Shades Men's Wool Union Suits and Men's Shirts and Wool 20% » ¢ / of Pants . Men's Shirts (Faney) in 5 all sizes 7 ¢ 5 for 98¢ $1.25 P $1.50 SHADES -%l.“" 1 Ladies’ Part Wool Shirt and Draw- ers, $2.50 value for ... b inch wide, ¢ a yard for e, He, 25¢ 79¢ Men’s Flannel Night Shirts, 98¢ value for Tontine line of 1 Axminster I ugs . Your Money's Worth or Your Money Back The D. MILLER Co. 26 Church Street 26 Sale Cash Where smart style meets moderate prices 215 MAIN STREET Scores of Women are taking advantage of these sensational values —Are you? Visit our JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE ‘COATS $ 1 5.00 ‘ Values to $32 29.50 Values to $60 N Values to $80 DRESSES $ 5.95 ; Values to $12 $7=¥.50 2 for $11 Values to $13.50 $9.50 Values to $15