Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-21
Annual Meeting At County Home.
Institution Found in Excellent Condition and Reports
 Show Children Being We'll Looked After Dinner X Served to the Visitors.

est degree mas dQQeu 10 Jnelr pleasure or done aught for their benefit, the cordial and appreciative thanks.
 She also reported:
 In family homes, October 1, 1908, 127; placed. s2; replaced. r; total.
 In family homes, October l, 1909, 11S; of age, 21; returned, 2S; to friends 2; adopted, I; St. Johns school, 1; ran 176.
 Matron's Report.
 The report of the matron, Mrs. Della H. Graves, was read as follows:
 In home, October l, 1908 79; boarded in families October 1, 1908, 3; board ed in Catholic asylum, October l, 1908, 8; received new cases, 33;ss returned to county home different ctildren), 31; total 149.
 Placed or replaced in families (not relatives). 3S; placed with relatives, | II; sent to industrial school, 8; dis charged from home's custody, 1; re- called by selectmen, 9; in home Oc- l tober l, 1909, S5; boarding in fami- lies October 1, 1909, l; boarding in Catholic asylum, October l, 1909, &, total 149. 1 A.
 Visitors Make Reports.
 The reports of the committee of wis., { itors were then heard with interest, | fourteen of the tWenty-three visitors giving their experiences in person. | Mrs. Mitchell told first of a colored | girl in Brooklyn, who is fast develop ! ing into a jewel. Mrs. William F. | Clark of Old Lyme wrote 4that one ! little girl she visited was very happy, ! and talks much more clearly than she did. There were no complaints of the boy. Mrs. S. W. Haughton of Bozrah said that one. girl had gone to work in the mill at Bozrahville, and that one boy, becoming of age, had struck out for himself. In Col | chester Miss Abby G. Willard writes | that one girl who had a temper is | correcting it and that she finds one boy very helpful to the farmer he | is with. Another is going to church and Sunday school and is growing very strong. Of the two children in East Lyme Mrs. G. K. Luce reported | that one is doing very well and that the family the other girl is with think so much of her that they may adopt her. There are no children in East l Norwich this year. was the report of Mrs. Austin Chapman. Miss Ella I. Smith of Franklin says the, three chill dren there are happy and contended In Groton Miss A. M. Clark finds the two girls and one boy well and happy. For Lebanon. Miss Mabel Moves wrote and Miss Hattie F. Hewitt spoke. They had good words for the boys in their town. One man says his boy is beautiful and he couldn't get along without him, MT. Babcock, who for many years was visitor in Lebanon, was present. according to his annual custom.
 Wants to Go South.
 A letter from Thomas P. Norman of Ledyard stated that he visited a boy who had a great ambition to work in livery stable. A colored girl down there is anxious to go south. One boy returned to the home because he was not sent to school Anoth- CT became a companion to a Meriden girl, and is now with a relative of this girl in New Haven. She is at- tending high school, taking the aca- demic course. She goes to school in the afternoon and works in the morn- ing. The girl writes that she studies ancient history for change. Mrs. A. P. Mitchell reported for Montville and c. E. Tinker for New London. One boy in the latter place is particularly steady and industrious, earning his clothes and gives his grandmother the rest of his wages Mrs. Frank flaw kins of New London said that one girl was in a box factory, another a nurse BHls two go to SCHOOL
 One North Stonington boy is much interested in farming, said Mrs. J. D. Avery.
 Norwich Children.
 Mrs. R. w. Perkins made an inter- esting report of the children in Nor wich. Three are with their mother, one boy is developing epilepsy, but he may outgrow it, as he is but Is. Two girls have taken up millinery and dressmaking and will soon move to Wallingford with their father.
 A brother has returned from the navy to help them. A coIored girl who is with a Laurel Hill family Is very trust worthy. One girl is with an Academy teacher. The others, over dozen of them, are all well placed and are hap py. One family calls their child a sweet, lovely boy. Mrs. Perkins said that quite often boys on farm, as in the case of one formerly on the Scot land road, fancy they are going to do great things when they get out into the world. But they come back to visit one Sunday, and then every Sum day, and they realize their former comfortable home
 Mrs. G. A. Haskell of Jewett City had most interesting report to make. One girl has every advantage in her home-goes to school and was the only
  high stand in branches was remark able. Another girl, IS years old, pass- ed the Norwich Free Academy entrance papers and didn't miss a question. She Is a bright, ambitious girl. and is try ing very hard to get a place fin Nor wich where she may make her home while she attends the Academy. Prin- cipal TirrelI will give her books and tuition. The three girls are all doing well and their brother is industrious.
 Mrs. Ogden Stanton of Preston, G. F. Allyn of Salem, Mrs N. B. Trum- bull and Miss Nancy Cheseborough of Stonfngton wrote interestingly.
 From Canterbury Mrs. Hetrick writes of 8 boy who is thinking of uniting with the church. Last summer he wanted to help for the Sunday school picnic. and he sent all the money he could afford--one cent. Mrs. Owen C. Williams of Waterford had another in teresting report One boy went to New London with a wagon on an arrand, and incidentally took a load of pas sengers out to Golden Spur. The mon ey he thus earned he kept silent about. He is good mechanic and will make his way. Another boy left last sum- mer and postal card has just been received from him from Kansas City.
 Before closing the reports, Mrs Mitchell told of other children, many of them now outside the county. who are still objects of kindly interest She said that in the reports they used the methods first introduced many years ago by Mrs. F. s. Camp, who was pres ent and took a keen interest in the proceedings.
 MT. Williams said in closing the meeting that he had never heard better thoF I1 tI,n@