The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-06
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 Miss Henrietta P. Marsh, instructor in history at Boardman Manual Train ing school, has been granted a leave of absence for the rest of the school year. Miss Marsh will go to the Chi eago university, where she will con- tinue her studies during the summer, and resume her duties in the school here in September. F. L. Durfee of the Yale Graduate school has been ap- pointed to take the place of Miss Marsh during her absence.
 Mrs, F. H. Clark has taken the Clark house at East Morris for the summer and will fill it with summer guests. Mrs. Clark is experimenting the work of getting the house open in early sum- mer.
 Miss Helen A, Austin of Strong school has been granted a leave of ab- sence to go abroad. The superintend- ent of schools has appointed Miss Flor ence Sullivan as substitute.
 Mrs. Nellie Carey Reynolds of Hart ford and Miss Marion Lewis of Brook lyn will be the festival guests of Mrs w. F. Futile of 362 Elm street. Miss Lewis is the niece of Mrs, Futile.
 The officers elected at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Forestry as- sociation in Hartford Saturday is as follow.. President Major F. V. Pres ton of Hartford; vice presidents, T. S. Gold of West Cornwall and Professor Henry Ferguson and Willis I. Twtchell of Hartford; secretaries, Miss Mary Winslow of Weatogue and H. F. Gid dings of Hartford; treasurer, Alfred Spencer, Jr., of Hartford; auditor, Ap- peton R. Hillyer of Hartford; advisory board, the above officers and Judge Dwight Loomis, P. Henry Woodward, Nathan F. Peck, John l.. Denison, the Rev. John T. Huntington, Miss Antoin- cite R. Phelps and Theodore Wirth, all of Hartford; Miss Jessie B. Gerard of South Norwalk, George Griswold of Old Lyme, Dr. E. H. Jenkins of New Haven and State Forester Walter Mulford. Major Preston, the society's new presi- dent, Is a prominent Hartford insur- ance man and is we'll remembered by many old friends here as he was sta toned here as recruiting officer for a number of months during the civil war. His office was in the Adelpht building.
 Major and Mrs. Walter M. Wellman of 27 Eld street will go to Clinton the first of June to spend the summer with Major Wellman's father, who lost his wife last fall, leaving him alone in the house where he was born and lived for Ia- ont of the winter with his son and wife and they will go to him for six months, MT Wellman travelling to and from the city each day for business. Mrs. Cum mings and Robert Wellman, the mother of Mrs. Wellman and the brother of the major, will also make their home al the Clinton honest cad for the summer,
 Nineteen years ago Saturday Conduc- tor Frederick E. Dickerman of Ansonia, formerly of New Haven was hired as conductor by Superintendent G. W. Beach of the Naugatuck railroad. Pre- viously he was for several years con- ductor on the Hartford division
 Mrs. c. H. Platt, wife of the super intendent of the Consolidated road, has gone to Litchfield with her son, Allen, to spend an indefinite period for the benefit of the latter's health. He has not recovered his usual strength since a severe attack of double pneu- monia in Philadelphia last February, where he was preparing for Yale, and which nearly ended fatally. They will stop at the United States hotel. Mrs William M. Merwin and her sis ter Mrs. Gillette, reached Milford Sun day evening. Mrs. Merwin left here last fall and has spent the winter at her winter home on Indian River Flor | ida. She was accompanied on her | northern trip by her grandson, A. D. l Merwin. The party left Jacksonville | May l. MT. Merwin stays in town l about two weeks before returning to his | home in Florida.
 Miss A. c. Gardner of this city, who | has spent several summers at the Stew ems house, Norfolk, arrived in Norfolk | 
 William Gilchrist, who was taken i'll while at work at his place in the Win chester armory Saturday and was taken in a carriage to his home on 1 avenue, is nearly well again 1 Professor Henry A. Todd of Columbia