The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-18
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l of the Exterior of the SchOOl-0ne Hundred and Twenty-Five of the Pu- I pills of Strong School to Take Part in
 WOOlsey Programme Friday After noon-Matinee at the Speedway This
 AfternOOn-Othcr Notes.
 This afternoon will be held the sec- ond fall matinee at the Clinton avenue speedway, and it is expected there will be two special races, the first for fifteen bushels of oats, three in five. If there
 are no entries received up to p. m, committee will be appointed to select three horses to compete, the races to
 start half an hour later. The second race is for trot around the block, about quarter of a mile to see which horse can make it nearest to the time that will be given just before the start. The starters are not required to start to- gether, but a horse can make the race lany time during the afternoon. A start CT and three competent judges will be stationed near the finish line. The course has been measured by Walter Clark and B. s. Bradley, and the time will probably be taken. The second race will be for one bag of oats, with no entrance fee. Between the heats there will be opportunity for all who wish to speedthelr horses.
 | At the meeting of East Pearl Street Chautauqua circle held Monday night at the home of Mrs. and MT John Wetherwax in Houston street. about thirty were present, and the study was on the English Form of Government. " Papers were read on Wadsworth by B. R. Slater and on Gladstone by Mrs. George R. Stevenson. There was also a roll call, the members responding with verse from Wadsworth.
 About forty members of Quinnipiac Hose, Hook and Ladder Co.,, and the drum corps, went to Westport yester- day to participate in the parade of the firemen.
 This evening in the chapel of the 1 Grand Avenue Baptist church will be held meeting of the Outlook club, and the members will tell some of their ex- periences during the summer vacation. There will be music and other numbers on the programme.
 The Rectors Aid society of Grace church will serve the first supper of the season at the parish house on Exchange street. at 6:9O this evening.
 As the result of the accident at the Roger sherman school field Saturday, when a member of the Strong school football team had his leg fractured, there will be no more football at Strong school this season. It required no urg- ing from the principal to decide this question. The members of the team feel very badly about the accident to their comrade, and the team will not play any more. They know what Prin- cipal Graves thinks about the matter, however, as he has told the upper grade boys that he does not approve of the sport, which he considers too rough. He stated yesterday that for a gram mar school team to play, they should have the care of the supervising prin- cipal at all of their games, and he could not do that. He says the boys of the grammar school are too young and frail to put team in the field and compete with another team He does not care so much about friendly prac- tice game between the boys, but the playing of two rival teams develops | too much rough play, and there Is dan ger of serious injury to the players, as was the case on Saturday. MT. Graves has called on Mir and Mrs. Jenniker and told them that the school was not responsible for the game nor the acci- dent. The Jenniker lad had not been forbidding from playing by his com rades,
 There will be meeting next Mon- day evening at the home of sherman II, Graves, principal of the Strong district, of the officers and executive committee of the Strong Alumni associ- ation, to make plans for work for the improving of the interior of Strong school. About $125 was put out last year in improving the corridors, and | it is expected that at least S100 will be used this year. One plan is to lay out about $50 on the office of the Strong school, which is very much in need of some improvements to the walls and ceiling. The officers of the association and the executive committee are as follows: President, Maude Kelley; vice president, Lewis Harrison secre- tary and treasurer, Augusta White; executive committee, Evelena Rockwell. Sarah Wright, George R. Sturges, c. I. Clark, Forcyth Shepard, Blanche Hume, Alice Connor, Irmagard Schneider, Ar. thur Phillips, Marcella Quinn, Freder, ick Musch, Everett Smith, Katherine Westman, Louise Wrinn, Harry Hall Herbert Seward, Harry Daggett, Claude Dibble, Georgianna Scott, Beatrice Hemingway.
 After the board of burgess had Ivoted to place the chemical apparatus of the Fair Haven East fire depart ment in John Parker's barniat Heming- wayton so that that part of the bor- rough might receive better protection, vote was passed that 1t be returned to the fire house in East Grand ave- nue. Uu to last night the chemical re- mained in the barn. The chief of the department hardly knows what to do in view of the two orders. The firemen believed that it would be better to keep the apparatus where it Is, and the peo- pie in Hemingwaytown would like to have it remain in their neighborhood. But the burgesses have voted to re- turn it, and there you are. Just what will be done in the matter cannot be stated inst vel