The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-24
EAST HAVEN'S SCHOOLS,
EXERCISES AT CLOSE or PUBLIC
 SCHOOLS FOR THE SUMMER.

School District-ThC Annual Meeting
 c. ". Bradley, the Secretary of the
 School Boards Address to the Scholars
 of the Union District.
 The twenty-flfth calendar week of the present year is a noted one for the public schools of the suburban town of East Haven, and the future Brook lyn of New Haven.
 Nearly every school day in the week was a red letter one, either in FoXon or the central part of the town.
 Valuable prizes were given to the best scholars, and the teachers were not for gotten.
 The annual school meeting of the district was held on Thursday evening. D. w. Futile was chairman and H. II. Bradley clerk, The last named receiv- ed seventy-five majority for the office of district clerk. It was one of the largest public meetings in the history Of the town. A new district committee was elected by a small majority, and some of the minor officers, but no fur ther business was transacted, and tho meeting adjourned to the first Thurs day in August.
 The energetic building committee, Henry T. Thompson (chairman), AL bert Forbes and Ebenezer Gilbert, are rapidly bringing the new school build ing to a finish It will be ready for oc- cupaucy prior to September 1.
 In the FoXon, or north district, also designated as school district No. ?, Charles w. Grannis is district commit teeman. MT. Grannis is also a member of the town school board and the towns representative.
 Miss Mary M. Irwin is the teacher and has been principal of this school for more than ten years
 The new Foxon physician, Dr. Irwin Granniss, is nephew of the teacher.
 At the close of the late summer term Emma Goodrich, Jennie Hurlburt, Lin coin H. Granniss, Mabel M. Thompson, Lyman Hall Goodrich, Lee Roy Page, Minnie Prout, Estelle J. Palmer and Frank Pratt received high honors for excellence in their school work.
 Miss Goodrich received the first prize and was given an autograph letter by the secretary of the board of educa- ton.
 Grove J. Futile is president of the board of town officers, who have the general oversight of the public schools and give the teachers their certificates.
 In the Union school district the Misses Rita F. Lord and Eleanor M. Woodruff are the teachers for the present school year.
 s. w. F. Andrews, T. B. Payne and G. J. Futile are the present district committee, while Messrs. Robinson, Hawkins and Page are the members recently elected and who take their new offices on Wednesday, the 18th day of July next The date is fixed by state law. Some maintain that the present district committee has power to engage teachers for the next school year, while others claim that this prerogative be-
 longs by law and equity to the new officers.
 Tn this district, the largest in the
 town, and which is probably worth
 millions of dollars for taxation pur-
 poses, Bertha c. Huntington. Olive r. Andrews, Grace McLay, Jessie B.
 Huntington, Lee Roy Chidsey, May C. Thompson, Maud F. Sabine, Wilber Curtiss, Ernest H. Stops, ,Luru L'Hom- medien, Joseph Granniss, John Sulli- van, Cecil l. HOmmedien, Annie l.. Sa- bine. Harold Smith, Grace Hart, Alfred Andrews, Marguerite Lee Granniss. Alexander w. Forbes, A. D. Barnes, Al win Sanford Edmund Gilbert, Carrie F, Beach, Martha Estella Coe and Carl M. Robinson ranked high in their stud ieS
 The Misses Huntington and McLay received type written letters from a | representative of the board of educa- tion of a commendatOry nature On Friday evening there was held at the town hall under the auspices of Misses Lord and Woodruff one of the most novel and best school exhibitions ever given in the town. It was a great credit to the teachers and the scholars. The following is the full text of C. W. Bradley's (the secretary of the board of school vsitors) address to the scholars of the Union school district, delivered on the 18th inst, just previ- ous to the permanent closing, for school purposes, Oc the old district school building, after being in use some thir- 1 ty-five or forty years. The one on High street has probably been erected more i than a half century:
 My Young Friends-At this time, on l this suspicious occasion, in these the 1 last eventful days of the present school l year, and in the closing hours of the i summer school term of 1896, there are | elements of sadness and pleasure com 1 bineG. The sorrow comes in a great 1 measure from the fact that district 1 committee, teachers, pupil and school l VisitOrs-as the personnel is to-day 1 may never have the same pleasant re- l lations again. It is hardly necessary
 to say, or to remind you of the well 1 known fact, that changes are constant l ly occurring among individuals in the order of nature and in all things that 1 have a being and existence on earth This is largely illustrated in the four l seasons, namely, winter, spring, sum- 1 ice-bound lakes and rivers that have | been captive in the winter months, l while in the summer the flowers bloom 1 on the hillside and in the valley, and ! are gone when the autumnaI frosts ap- | pear.
 1 Tt is one of the primary and ineX- 1 orable laws of nature which no power, , combinations or individuals can sue | Cessfully combat or set aside. l Tn reviewing your standing in the l various branches of educational work