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lllll GRADUATES.
Six Young Ladies at Miss
Baird’s Institute Gradu-
ated.
ROOMS CROWDED.
Essays Read, instrumental and Vocal Music,
the Programme.
Tuesday night Miss Baird’s Institute
was the scene of the Graduation Exer-
cises of the class of ’99 and in spite of
the extraordinary hot weather the re-
ception rooms of the West avenue house .
were thronged with the relatives and
friends of the Faculty and Graduates.
The guests were received on their
arrival and entered into the rooms
where chairs had been placed for their
comfort in enjoying the exercises and
the following programme was rendered:
Instrumental —Melodie, Grieg
Miss Florence Esther Myers.
Invocation——
Rev. 8. B. Pond.
Salutatory with Essay—Sermons in.
Stones.
Miss Jane Gilbert Cooper.
Vecal—Greeting Waltz. Macy
School Glee Club.
Essay 1From Shore to Shore.
Miss Abbie Callendar La Vake
Essay—Leaves from an Old Note Book.
Miss Adah Martin Nicholson.
Instrumental—Spinning Song. (from
Flying Dutchman,) Wagner-Liszt
Mr. Harry Zehm. "
Essay—Earth’s Gardens.
Miss Lena Benjamin Stevens.
Vocal—Invocation Guy (1’ Hardelot
Miss Rose Marie Newcomb.
Essay-«A Name’s Significance.
Miss Elizabeth Annie Carmichael
Instrumental—r—Rhapsodie Hongroise,
xii, Liszt
Miss Florence Esther Myers.
Address and Presentation of Diplomas,
The Rev. Charles M. Selleck.
Essay—Norwalk in the Year ’1 wo Thou-
sand-with Valedictory.
Miss Blanche Rockefeller Aiken
Vocal—“I Know a Bank,” Horn
’ The School Glee Club.
Benediction——
The Rev. Dwight M. Seward, D. D.
All of the numbers were perfectly
rendered, the Essays showed careful
study and training and the school Glee
club was remarkably fine most of the
young ladies having very sweet voices.
Miss Aiken in her valedictory ex—
pressed the class sentiment in regard
to the way they had enjoyed their
Studies at M. B. I. and how much they
regretted parting from their charming
princi ".1, Miss Baird, the others of
the cc: of teachers and their school
lifeoat the Institute.
After the exercises an adjournment
was taken to the School Hall on.
Orchard street whereWeidenhammer’s
orchestra furnished music for dancing,
which was kept up until midnight
when the good-byes were said and
Commencement week at M. B. I. for
the year ’99 was ended.
Norwalk can well be proud of pos-
sedsing such an institution as M. B. I.
and each year adds fresh laurels to its
record of success and the year of 1900
is certain to prove no exception.
scnoof ME‘ETlNGS.
Several Districts Meet and Elect Officers for
the Ensuing Year.
C ENTER DISTRICT.
About 100 voters of the Center school
district met last night and elected the
following officers :
Treasurer, C. L. Glover.
' Clerk, C. N. Arnold.
Collector, C. A. Burr.
Committee, ‘E. H. Fillow, C. N. Ar-
nold, C. W. Daniels.
NORTHEAST DISTRICT.
At the meeting of the North East
district. the following officers were
elected:
Committee, Charles F. Bouton.
Treasurer, Frank W. Gregory.
Clerk, Willie T. Gregory.
Collector, Benjamin Allen.
Auditing Committee,William Coggs-
well, Frank W. Gregory, Willie T.
Gregory.
UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The South Nor-walk Union School
district met in the Franklin street
school and elected the following offi?
cers: ‘
Committee, A. Blanchard.
Clerk, Nelson Dickerman.
’I‘rcasurer, Jacob M. Layton.
Collector, F. A. Tolles.
AuditOl-. John W.'Dake.
A tax of 1% mills due in May 1900
was also laid.
Mr. Henry R. Greene, of Bridgeport,
has been a guest of Frank -C. Bundle,
at The Elms. j?
WEEKLY -' nonwn'Ln - unmet.
[108th lXiHEISlS.
l Those'inattendances: the meeting
lo.2 the State Federation of Women’s
clubs in the South Norwalk Congre-
gational church Tuesday and Wednes-
day were deeply impressed with the
.progress women have made within a
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remarkablyshort time. The exhibition
of wisdom which characterized the
addresses made by the various speakers
. at the convention, the earnestness with
which they were delivered and the
dignified as well as forceful arguments
were not small features in the progress
of which we speak. There was no
ranting nor yet were there many
ludicrous remarks made, as sometimes
have been reported from clubs of other
states.
Perhaps we are somewhat prejudiced
in favor of our own beloved common-
wealth but be that as it may we are not
blinded to what is fair and just. Con-
necticut may boast of a larger number
of brilliant women in proportion to her
size th‘an any other state.
The multiplication of women’s. clubs
for purposes intellectual, social and
benevolent or philanthropic have
brought our women forward, discovered
to them the opportunities for work
that has hitherto been entirely neglect-
ed and has infused in them a desire to
not only improve themselves in mind
and health but to spread their influence
in behalf of others. This is the chief
work of the federation.
The ability to speak from a public
platform is a gift not to be despised.
There are many truly brilliant con~
versationalists who have not the ability
to express their opinions in fitting
language before a large audience.
This ability to speak 15 largely due to
the practice acquired from the floor of
the women’s clubs.
At the meetings Tuesday and Wed-
nesday the deliberations were conduct-
ed by the presiding officer Mrs. Noble,
with a knowledge of parliamentary pro
cedure rarely exhibited by a woman.
Thus we find that woman is no longer
‘to be looked upon as of no significance
in the large problems of life but rather
we are forced by her own steady ad-
vancement to admit her to her proper
place on the world’s stage.
Her mind is capable of logical ad-
vice and her voice is to be heard in the
many discussions of vital questions of
.ife with no uncertain or faltering
accent.
At the \N'ednesday morning session
the attendance was largely increased
many out of town women arriving for
the purpose chiefly,to hear the speeches.
The heat of the previous day had not
abated but- was rather more intense.
The enthusiastic. club women, how-
ever, bore up well and at the afternoon
well filled.
There were a few geintlemen to be seen
in the audience and no doubt the male
attendance would have been larger but
service the church was
for the depressing atmosphere prevail-
ing. The morning session opened with
the following programme:
MORNING SESSION, 10:00.
South Norwalk Congregational Church.
1. Organ Prelude—March in B flat,
Silas,
Mrs. Jennie Nash Dewsbury.
2. Invocation by the Acting Presi-
dent of the Women’s Press Club, of
New York City, Rev. Phebe A. Hana-
ford.
3. Address of Welcome by the Pastor
of the South NOrwalk Congregation-
al church, Rev. Gerald H. Beard,
Ph. D.
4. Address of Welcome for the Fed-
erated Clubs of Norwalk by the ex-
President of the Woman‘s Club,
Mrs. Dexter Hitchcock.
5. President’s Address,—“The Sym-
metry of Character.”
' Mrs. Thomas K. Noble.
6. Discussion of Educational Problems,
under the Direction of the Educa-
tional Committee of the Federation,
led by Miss Mary M. Abbott, Chair-
man, Waterbury.
I. What the State Demands of Us
and Does for Us in Education.
Mrs. John P. Kellogg, Waterbury.
II. Boards of Education and Methods
5 Appointing Teachers.
1. Common Methdds.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sheldon Tilling‘
hast, New Haven.
2. Women on School Boards.
Discussion opened by Mrs. H.
H. Barroll, Danbury.
3. Suggested Changes.
Discussion opened by Mrs.
Grace Brown Salisbury, New
Haven.
m. The Educatiodal Value of the
Literary Club. _
Discussion opened by Miss
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Charlotte 8. Bennett, New
Milford.
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.United States Hospital service.
The Use of Public Libraries by
School Children. ' ‘
Discussion opened by Mrs.
Agnes T. Hills. Librarian of
the Public Library, Bridge-
port.
IV.
The address of welcome by Mrs. Dex-
terHitcheock and the speech by the
President, Mrs. Noble were especially
delightful and showed these ladies to
be equal to the occasion and peculiarly
fitted for the places they filled.
The address on “TheUse of the Public
Libraries by School Children,” by Mrs.
Agnes T. Hills was very fine and the
short talks on “Boards of Education
and Methods of Appointing Teachers”
were excellent,
The third number on the programme
of the afternoon session had been look-
ed forward to with much anticipation.
The subject of the paper was “The
Economy of Reserve” which was to
have been, read by its author, Mrs.
Margaret Hamilton VVelch, Editor
“Club Women and Club W'ork"
Harper’s Bazar. Mrs. VVelch
unable to be present. but she sent an
excellent substitute in the person of
Mrs. Kate Upson Clark who read the
of
was
paper.
The soprano solos by Mrs. Kileski
Bradbury were greatly enjoyed. Mrs.
Bradbury has an excellent voice. the
tones of which are clear and true with
a sweet and strong quality combined.
1. Organ Prelude, Triumphal March.
Dudley Buck
Mrs. Jennie Nash-Dewsbury.
2. Recitation—“Mother and Poet,”
' Mrs. Browning
Mrs. F. W. Norris, South Norwalk.
3. Paper—“The Economy of Reserve”
Mrs. Kate Upson Clark.
4. Soprano Solo—Ave Maria,
Gounod-Bach
Mrs. Kileski Bradbury.
(Violin obligato and organ, Miss Agnes
Liltlejohn and Mrs. Dewsbury)
5. Original Poem—-“The Wind Across
the Wheat,”
Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster.
G. Address—"Our Privileges,”
Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley Ward of
Chicago.
7. Address——
Mrs. Sarah S. Platt, Denver, Vice-
President General Federation of
Women’s Clubs.
My Dearest Heart,
Sullivan
(b) Daphne’s Love, Ronald
(0) Irish Folk Song, ' A. Foote
Mrs. Kileski Bradbury.
At the conclusion of the programme
the convention was adjourned sine die.
Mull':ngs—Sl.lohn.
A quiet wedding took place Vl’ednes-
day at 9 a. m., at the residence of Mrs.
Addie A. St..lohn, in Cliff street. The
bride was Miss Edna St.J0hn and the
groom Dr. {obcrt Morgan Mullings,
of East Norwalk. Rev. Charles M.
Selleck performed the ceremony. Dr.
Mullings holds a commission in the
He
and his bride boarded the 10 o'clock
express train for Washington, where
they expect to reside.
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Bicycle Lantern Bill Passed.
The bicycle lantern bill was passed
by the house yesterday ‘hfternoon,
exactly as it came from the senate.
This bill provides that all bicycles and
other rubber tired vehicles shall carry
lighted lanterns between sunset and
sunrise. .
The bill now goes to the Governor
and after his signature is affixed will
become a law.
ConferenoeAF‘aihu-ie 'Regretted.
LONDON. June 8.——The Right Hon.
Arthur J. Balfour, first lord of the treas-
ury and government leader in the house
of commons. in the course of a speech at
a political banquet last evening said that
the failure of the Bloemfontein confer-
ence was a source of deep regret to the
government. It was England’s duty, he
said,‘not to allow her rights to be tram-
pled upon. but he did not believe that
the controversies were incapable of so-
lution.
Boston University Commencement.
BOSTON. June 8.—’I_‘he commence-
ment exercises of Boston university for
all departments were held in Tremont
temple yesterday. Degrees were confer-
red upon 203 students. President D. C.
Gilman of Johns Hopkins university de-
livered the commencement oration.
Roosevelt Gets a Degree.
NEW YORK, June 8.——Degrees were
conferred upon nearly 500 young men
and women at the commencement day
exercises of Columbia university yester-
day. Governor Roosevelt received the
honorary degree of doctor of laws.
Murderer Kindred Hanged.
PRINCETON, Mo.. June 8.—Peter
Kindred, who shot and killed Andrew A.
Alley and dangerously wounded his
cousin. Joseph A. Alley, at Mercer on
Feb. 5, 1898, was hanged here yester-
day. Kindred was carried to the scaf-
fold and held in position while being
pinioned.
Nominated For Assembly.
PLATTSBURG. ‘4: Y.. June 8.——Yel-
terdny Charles E. Johnson was nominat-
ed for member of the assembly by the
Republican convention for the county of
Clinton. Mr. Johnson-is a son of E. T.
Johnson, cashier of the First National
bank of Glens Falls and a nephew of
(ax-Congressman Fred Johnson, who rep-
resentcdvlthis district for four years.
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Mary Nichols Wants to Be
Separated From George
Nichols.
GIVES HIM BAD NAME.
Denied That Her Troubles Commenced When
George Found Some Letters.
Judge George Wheeler VVedn‘esday
heard the divorce case brought by
Mary F. Nichols agalnst George H.
Nichols, both of Norwalk. '
Mrs. Nichols based her complaint on
the grounds of habitual intemperance
and intolerable cruelty.
Mrs. Nichols married George fifteen
years ago on January 3, last. It was
heresecond matrimonial venture, the
first having proved as unfortunate as
the second was to be.
Mrs. Nichols took the stand and she
proved a very interesting witness. She
sat back easily in the chair and gently
waved afan while the lawyers plied
was
She
ready with an answer every time and
after the words had left (her lips she
her with questions. There no
such thing as feazing her. was
would glance slyly under her eyelashes
at the questioner to note the effect of
her reply.
She began by telling her first exper-
ience with George when he took to
drink. She said he would come home
late in the evening and she would have
to put up the horse and put her hus-
band to bed. George had strange
freaks when he was driink. He used
to wander about the house like a lost
soul and he always tried to get hold of
a lighted lamp or match, to carry
around in his hand. She feared every
minute he would set the place on fire.
Mrs. Nichols mentioned three occa-
sions when her husband had ill treated
her. Once he knocked her down and
kicked her. During the past two years
he had been drunk more than two-
thlrds of the time.
Cross examined, Mrs. Nichols
asked by Attorney Gray, who appeared
for the husband:
“Didn’t your trouble with your hus-
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band commence when he found some
letters which you had received from
other gentlemen ‘9”
“No sir,’.’ said the witness, with an
accent on' the last word long drawn out.
“Were you not in the habit of going
off with other gentlemen ?”
“No sir,” with as much accent as be-
fore and a side glance at the court.
The witness was questioned some
more about the letters. She said her
husband had only got hold of one of
hers. It was a letter from Thomas
Gregory who wanted to borrow some
money. She did not know of any oth—
ers that he got hold of.
Officer Morehouse was next called.-
He saw a good deal of Nichols. In his
opinion the husband was drunk at least
two-thirds of the time.
Capt. Dann was of the opinon that
Nichols was an intemperate man, Ex-
officer Charles Adams told the court
that he always put Nichols dowu as a
sot.
After a few more witnesses had tes-
tified in a similar line the plaintiff
rested. Counsel for the defendant said
he was unable to go on as he did not
suppose the cas: would be taken up
ahead of the one above it. The court
then adjourned until Thursday when
the trial was resnmed.
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. Harry Hoyt has completed the grad-
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