Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-20
PUTNAM
Annual Meeting at County Home Supt. Thatcher's Report Shows 1o1 Children Cared for During Year laparle and Brassord Get Jail Sen tences in Superior Court.

The annual meeting of the board of management and committee of visitors Of the Windham county temporary home for children in the Sawyer dis trict was held at the institution Thurs day, when representatives from nearly every town in the county were pres ent to hear the reports of a year S work and of all the good that has been done. Most of the visitors, number ing about 80 and including the county commissioners, arrived in Putnam on the 1030 train and were taken in conveyances to the home.
 The business meeting was called to order at 12 o'clock by County Conn missioner E. H. Corttis of Thompson. lob Hatcher, superintendent who, with Mrs. Thatcher. has done excel lent work since assuming charge of the institution, submitted his annual report, from which the following sta tistics are extracted.
 Number of children in the home De- tober 1. 1910, 68; received during 1911, 14: returned to county home from families, 19: total 101. Placed in fam flies not relatives 21; placed with rel atives 3; discharged to state school for girls 1 otherwise discharged 10: died l.: in county home October l, 1911, 65 total 101.
 Of the IA children received during the year. were committed from pro- bate courts and from town courts
 The children in the home come from the following towns: killingly 13; Putnam '; Thompson [ Windham l; Pomffet $; Plainfield 6; Woodstock ,; Hampton ?: Eastford |: Brooklyn 1; total 65. There are, in addition, two children at the home as private board CTS.
 Children in family homes where they were sent from the home are divided among the towns of the county -I,sJ T the care of the board of nagement: Putnam Is; Thompson Il; Windham '; Ashford 1: Woodstock 5; Pomfret 5; Hampton 2: Canterbury 1: East ford 1 Scotland ;s Plainfield f; Kill ingly 1 Brooklyn 2 total 5S.
 Town Visitors Reports.
 Mrs E. T. Whitmore. Willimantic, secretary of the committee of visit ors, called during the meeting for re- ports from the various towns All of these showed that good work had been doEe during the past year and that the children placed in homes are do- ing well. Those reporting for the va rious towns follow: Mrs. Anna Wright, Ashford: Mrs. Clarence A. Potter, Brooklyn Mrs. Charles s. Hyde, Mrs. James Turner. Sterling: Mrs. Preston B. SibleJ, Killingly: Mrs. Charlotte Hopkins, Putram; Mrs. George Lor- ing, Mrs. E. H. Lillibridge, Plainffeld; Mrs Emma c. Brown, Scotland; Mrs. M. D. Elliott, representing Mrs. Oscar Tourtellotte North Grosvenordale; Mrs Frank Corbin, Mrs. M. Riddick, Woodstock: Miss Alma H. TinsIay, Windham; Mrs. Nellie c. Cleveland, Hampton; Judge c. o. Thompson, for Mrs. Thompson, Poinfret; Mrs. Oscar Tourtellotte, Thompson.
 State Officers Speak
 Mrs F. A. Mitchell, Norwich, mem Der of the state board of charities, was present and during the course of remarks complimented the members of the board of visitors on the excellent work they had done voluntarily. Charles Kellogg, Waterbury, also of the state board of charities, during the course of his talk mentioned that there are more than 400 children on the visiting list of the state. He asked