The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-10
AID FOR INCURABLES.
DOTNGS OF ANNUAL MEETING
 OF STATE SUCTETY.
Reports satisfactory-Rey. MT. Hunt ington of Hartford Unanimously Chosen President.

Hartford, Conn, Oct 1.-The twelfth annual meeting of the Connecticut Chi1- dren's Aid society was held at the Home for Incurables in Newington to-day.
 The Rev John T. Huntington, of Hartford, the president, was in the chair. There was large attendance. Reports were read by Miss Josephine M. Griswold of Hartford, the secretary and assistant treasurer; Mrs. Susan J. Crane, supervisor of the Newington home; Mrs Frances Bacon of New Ha- ven, secretary of the committee on the care and visitation of children; Charles E. Cornwall of New Haven, the treasur- CT, and, Mrs. Dora G. Phelps, the record ing secretary. All showed the affairse of the society to be in satisfactory condition. The, reading of the reports were interspersed with songs by the children of the home. Remarks were also made by number of those promi- nent in the work of the society.
 The officers were unanimously ele:ted as follows: President, the Rev. John T. HHuntington, Hartford; first vice-pras- ident, George L. Chase, Hartford; sec ond vice president, Hon. Stevens Hen ", Rockvillej third vice-p president, ;3av. Samuel B. Forbes, Hartford; treasurer, Charles D. Cornwell, New Haven. sfc- retary and assistant treasurer, Miss Jo- sephine M. Griswold, Hartford
 Board of Directors The above off, cers, ex-officio. and Dr. Francis Racon, George F. Newcomb, New Havert John S. Kirkham, E. Stanley Welles, New ington; George H. Warner, William Francis, Dr. w. G. Crane, Dr. o. C.. Smith, Hon. John M. New, Hartford; i; Mrs. Frances Bacon, Mrs. L. B. New comb, New Haven; Mrs. Fl. B. Camp, Norwich; Mrs. Mary B. Yeomans. Cc- lumbia; Miss Mary Dexter. Danielson: Mrs. Emily H. Glover, Fairfield: Mrs. c. E. filling, Derby; Mrs. Elizabeth Be" win, East Hampton; Mrs. Katherine D. Chaffee, Moodus Mrs. Ella A. Ward, Mrs. Justus A. Traut anI Mrs. $. H. Wood, New Britain; Mrs A. N. Pier son, Cromwell; Mrs. Jonathan S. Curtis, New Milford; Miss Mary F. Lyman, Middlefield; Mrs. Elizabeth C. Warner, Mrs. J. M. Allen, Mrs. B. M. Parsons, Mrs. E. F Hammond, Mrs. Susan J. Crane, Mrs Richard Seymour, Miss M $. Davis, Mrs H. M. Sheldon. Miss Mary 0. Seymour, Mrs. cornella E. Forbes, Hartford.
 VISITATION COMMITTEES RE-
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 Mrs. francis Ba ,on, of New Haven secretary of the committee on the care and visitation of children, presented her report. She said in part:
 The committee on the supervison of children in family homes has held the regular quarterly meetings during the past year. There were under o5serva- tion at the beginning of the year fifty eight children. Sixteen have becl. ada ed to the first, sixteen have been reloea- ted .ina six are adopted. The members of the committee have found their charges as a rule well cared fnr and attending school and church. In err tain cases, however, it has been decided to let kind treatment offset rather poor housekeeping. A fair appearance has been sometimes secured at the cost of some poor little drudge, rescued in time from notable housekeernr.
 Our cblidren were remembered 3t Christmas time with itt.. Gifts and the older ones asaong them reported them selves in notes of thanks.
 In number of instances we can see steady improvement in the children, and unpromising ones are generally turning out well. Two boys in particu- lar, who seemed a year ago likely to lose good homes through their own lazy
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