The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-02

plantation at Miami, and will probably remain a month or more. MT. Geiger is the owner of several acres of land which is devoted to orange culture Thomas Trefry, the druggist on the corner of State and Edwards streets, has quite an extensive plantation; the late Joseph Gilch, who was buried last week, owned several acres, and Frank Montz, of Edwards street, has just pur- chased several acres at Miami. Miami is so far south in situation that 1t IS not visited by the frosts which have caused so much damage in other places, anu Mir Geiger writes that the temperature is delightful and a walk under the palms is exceedingly pleasant.
 Saturday afternoon at 1S9 Orange street the Womans School association enjoyed an interesting programme. MISS Rebecca Beach, the president of the as sociation, presided. The programme was arranged for a report of the meet ing of the Council of Education In Hartford, February 14. by Mrs. Brown ing, and a paper by Mrs. F. s. Boltoh' president of the Mothers club, on the
 juvenile court bill now pending before the legislature. Mrs. Browning was unable to be present and in her place
 Miss Smyth gave a report of the Hart
 ford meeting. She was followed by
 Mrs. Bolton. who presented some eX-
 ceedingly valuable and interesting facts in regard to the working of juvenile courts which are now conducted Ill ten
 states.
 Dr. Paul C. Skiff, the owner Of the New Haven opera house, said last night that the story that the building was to be fixed up for use as an auto- mobile station was not true. A piece UT the tin roofing of the structure, about 60 by 100 feet, was blown off by the wind Saturday.
 On next Wednesday morning MISS
 Rebecca D. Beach will begin her serles
 of lectures on the civil service reform in room 1, 139 Orange street. The SUD- iects of these talks are as folloWs'
 March 4th, introductory and histori-
 cal from the adoption of the constitu-
 tion to the annexation of Texas;
 March Il, Slavery and Legislation af- ter the Civil War: March Is, "Prog- ress under Difficulties at Home and III
 Great Britain: March. 25. Resume
 Practical Aspects of Civil Service Re
 form; What Women can do.
 Judge Simeon E. Baldwin of this
 city and of the supreme court, will reao
 a paper before the Connecticut Historl'
 cal society in Hartford tomorrow even
 ing, on "The Rev. John Higginson, FITS
 School Teacher of Hartford" The reg
 ular business meeting of the society | will be held before the reading of tht paper.
 , Mrs. Arthur $. Losey, who for tw' l years has been contraito in the quar tette of the choir of the Church of th , Redeemer, has resigned her position the resignation to take effect on May l No. successor has yet been chosen.
 Dr. D. A. Jones has been re-engaget as choirmaster of Davenport church E making his fifteenth consecutive yea in that capacity.
 The Woman's Baptist Foreign Mis 1 sionary Conference of Southwestern ) Connecticut will hold its thirtieth an l niversary at the First Baptist churc - on Thursday, March 12, beginning a - l10:SO and closing at D. m. An inter 5 esting programme will be presented g among the addresses being one by MT: Waterbury. An important exercise c - the day will be a devotional thank of e fering conducted by Mrs. William F Bawden of Olivet Baptist church. Thi f offering is to be presented to the Has a seltne House and it is hoped that tn = amount raised will be large A baske :, luncheon will be eaten at noon. the Ia !, dies of the church furnishing hot te s and coffee.
 8 About thirty of the former pupils 0 ;, the primary school conducted by Mis g Kate Churchill during the period be - tween 1861 and 1875 attended reunio g Saturday afternoon at the residence ( n Mrs Frank c. Porter, 266 Bradle '- street. The affair was the first of tn Il kind ever held and was extremel t pleasant. The school. conducted b e Miss Churchill was located on the sit > of the residence of Rutherford TroN Il bridge on Grove street Many Of til o most prominent families of those day '@ sent their children to Miss Churchill school and all agree that they wei :, given an excellent start under ht ,'' care. Miss Churchill has been spend 7, ing the winter in this city as the gue :, of Mrs. Charles l.. Ives on Trumbu . street and many of her former pupil ,a have called on her and renewed old a s ouaintances. It has been very pleasal ,d both for the pupils and the form'
 teacher to discuss "reminiscences Of u y. days when the school was in existenc D. Many of Miss Churchilps former pupi l- have become distinguished citizens y- the country. Among those who recei' of ed their elementary education at u O. school were President Arthur T. Ha g, ley of Yale, Lawyer John Bristol, Pr s, lessor Williston Walker, Lawyer Jol g. K. Beach, Thomas Osborn, Nathani $. Hayes, Dr. Louis DeForest, Dr. Lou in Bishop and Eugene DeForest, all h. this city: Dr. Edward Whitney form
 attorney general of the United State st and Alfred Thatcher of New York. T CT programme of exercises Saturday q op ternoon was very interesting. The fo
 mer pupils of the school joined hearti ct. in singing old songs, the Silver Bel ay and Forest Chain," which were Ve of popular with children of the schc ng during its existence, were sung. Sc ed eral old war songs were also rendert ;er Original poems apropos to the occ ed, sion and "reminiscences occupied nS greater part of the afternoon. M ge Churchill was present and none C