Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-21
PUTNAM
Annual Meeting of County Home-Re-
ports of Busy Year-Firemen
Feast on Chicken-EIder Morse Goes
West to Spend the Winter.


There were about fifty people, rep
resenting various towns, at the Wind
ham county temporary home for chill
dren, near this city, Thursday, when
the county commissioners and mem
bers of the town visiting committees
assem- bled there for the annual bust
ness meeting.
Before and after the business SEES
tanned by those in charge of the
home, which houses a constantly
growing family Of young people.
County Commissioner Hall called the
business meeting to order, the ses-
sion being principally devoted to hear
of the home, Job Thatcher, and repre-
sentatives of the visiting committees
from several towns.
Interesting Reports.
This report contained much of in
terest relative to the institution and
to the children who have been placed
in homes throughout the country.
The women who submitted reports
were Miss Anna Tingley of Whitman
tic for Mrs. E. T. Whitmore of the
same CITY, chairman of the town Wis
iting committee, who was unavoidably
absent; Mrs. Charles S. Hyde, Can
terbury: Mrs. James Turner, Sterling,
! MISS CHdIIotle IlOphlUS, MIS-.
| E. H. Lillibridge, PlainfieId: Mrs. NJ
D. Elliott, Thompson; Mrs. Nellie c.
| Cleveland. Hampton; Mrs. Oscar Tour
| telotte, Grosvenordale; Mrs. Emma c.
| Brown, Scotland.
Visitors Speak.
| Among those from without the
! county who attended the meeting and
were heard as speakers were DR.. Ed
| win Down, Hartford, president of the
/ state board of charities; Charles P.
| Kellogg, Waterbury, secretary state
| board of charities; Rev. William S.
| Beard, Willimantic.
| The Years Work.
! The following statistics give a con-
densed knowledge as to the number
| of children at the institution and in
| homes where they have been placed,
| the towns in the country where they
| came from and where they are To-
| Gated:
! Number of children in home. Octo-
Der 1, 1909, SO; new children admitted
| during the year. 80; returned to home,
| 4; total, 1913.
! Placed in families, %; discharged
from homes custody, 6; died, 1 in
county home, October l. 1910, 1903;
committed to home by probate court,
| %; town court, 7; total, 80.
From County Towns.
The children in the home the first
| of the present month came from the
! following towns: Kfllingly IL, Wind
| ham Is. Putnam ~, Thompson 10,
| Pomfret Z, Plainfield 5, Woodstock 5,
| Eastford 3, Hampton 1, Brooklyn 1.
| There are also five private boarders
| there.
| Children in family homes under the
| care of the board of management are
| scattered through the towns of the
| county as follows: Putnam 10, Thomp-
| son 10, Woodstock 8, Windham H.
| PIainfield 4, Canterbury 2, Brooklyn
| 5. Ashford 1. Sterling 1, Scotland 2,
| Hampton 2, Pomfret 4, Essex 2, Cen
| Textbook 2, total II.
Inspected House and Grounds.
| Inspection of the house and grounds
| occupied the attention of the visitors
during their stay, which extended we'll
| into the afternoon, the majority re-
| turning to Putnam to ctatch trains for
| their homes.
Chicken Supper for Firemen.
A satisfactory aftermath of the re-
| cent baseball game between the COM
| panies was a chicken supper served
| in the dining room a fire department
| headquarters Thursday evening to
about so members of Mansfield hose
! company and General Putnam hook
and ladder company The gathering
was such an enjoyable event as tie
| members of the department occasion
ally arrange and all present expressed
| themselves as delighted.
To Locate in Webster.
Henry C. Richardson, who endeav-
| ored to locate an industry known as
| the Composite Boot and Shoe company
| in this section of Connecticut about
! two years ago, has received the back
| ing of Webster men and organized the
| Webster Felt and Rubber company. A
shop is to be opened in that city for
the manufacture of felt boots and
shoes. The company expects to be-
gin manufacturing samples by Noyem
| Der L