TML W. Norris, nee Miss Mary Wood, a The Transer devation in the Normal, after spendLos de de Talapoca, Ga., has returned north and Saga Fekete, N. Y.

1 → In: Brings Las gone to California.

TeX Even Las been ill for some time with

hat is slowly recovering. We are

zene der zwo boys are good youthful AmeriFA . fished his lessons with a satisIVANA ed over in this announcement: "I am dover Premionet of the U.S." Merrill, his four year old

band to be out-done, shouted, "I am your

Imed is Supervisory Principal of the Public
Nams Pa

~SN who was at Orange, Cal., last
CAT NETTE CET Cal, this year.

1. Hate is s: 135 Monmouth St., Newark,

Cho has been at Abercrombie,

esme time, is this year at Minnewakon, N. D. 50 Swer Parker, 95, is living at 40 West Sty St. New Y

1- Theus Sean, who was at Wickes, Montana, 17W $7 Sver Star, Montana. ising1. Benson is at Norwood, N. Y.

Jane Fran Drake, of Dolgeville, N. Y., is TENCENTE w friends in Potsdam.

Very & km Jr. has again received the usual phatting from this assembly district, thereby giv 12140 Olet tem in the councils at Albany. Mr.

--> pemminent that there is considera

*****) being elected Speaker of the Assembly Summit at Speaker Nixon. The New York Sun most sorg dfs vomplishments in the following Probably the man in the Assembly

my las cued more than any other wit'

attinen då vende hp is Edwin A. Merritt Jr.,

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the son of General E. A. Merritt, so long prominent in the councils of the Republican party in the state. Mr. Merritt is a graduate of Yale College, a lawyer and a business man. He has seen four years service in the Assembly and is as popular as he is forceful and able."

We note also that Charles F. Murphy has again been elected upon the Republican-Municipal Ownership ticket in Brooklyn to be one of its representatives in the Assembly. Mr. Murphy made a good record last year and we are pleased to congratulate him upon his re-election.

E. F. McDonald of the State Department of Education visited Potsdam recently inspecting the new order of things.

H. H. Fay and F. L. Cubley were recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Potsdam Clothing Manufacturing Company.

Dr. Wm. W. Wright, '95, of Philadelphia was looking up old friends in town recently Dr. Wright has been the past year in a large hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now looking up a permanent location

He

Prof. Allen is the person all smiles just now. went hunting on a recent Saturday and before his guide and he had been out two hours he had bagged as fine a deer as one could wish for. It tipped the scales in Barclay's market when brought to Potsdam at 195 pounds.

The three candidates for school commissionerships in Westchester county, N. Y., were all elected. Mr. John Rockwell in the first district, re-elected. Mr. Charles

Cheney, in the second district, made a good fight and received about 1200 majority. Mr. Herbert G. Covey, who last time won out by 30 votes, this year carried his district by over a thousand against the same candidate. Normalites about New York seem to be holding their own.

Frederick P. Close of South Colton, who studied law in the office of Charles A. Murphy of this village, has recently received notice from the State Board of Law Examiners, that at an examination for admission to the bar, held at Syracuse on the 19th day of October, he was one

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of the candidates who passed, and he is now a full fledged lawyer. Mr. Close was Principal of the Union Free School at Colton for a term of five years, which position he filled most acceptably, until June, 1905, when he resigned his position to complete his law studies. He now has a position with a law firm at White Plains, N. Y.

A handsome program of "The Pink Hussars" now being played at Chicago Opera House, has been received, and we note the cast contains the name of Mr. Lelon P. Botsford of this village, who is playing the part of "Jozeef waiter at Margitszeget." Mr. Botsford also writes, "I have a good position in the Pink Hussars, and am understudying John Savin the leading man.

Alumni Weddings.

At

YONKER-SABIN.-Saint Johnsville, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1995, Miss Lena Sabin to Mr. Wilfred Earl Yonker. Home 4 Canton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

BOYD-POWLES.-At Sparkill, N. Y., July 19, 1905, Miss Estelle E. Powles to Mr. Asheton Stratford Boyd.

Alumni Babies.

To Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Burdick, Oct. 24, 1905, a son, Edward Douglas Burdick, 9 pounds. Congratulations may be sent to No. 507 W. 158th St., New York City.

To Mildred Frauton Sanford '98, and Frank B. Sanford, at Morley N. Y., a daughter, Ethel Mildred Sanford, July 23, 1905.

Crane Normal Institute Notes.

A letter from the south says: "No doubt Mrs. Allen was too modest to tell you how truly successful she was with her summer school work. She was an inspiration to many teachers, her classes being largely attended, and very enthusiastic." It will be remembered that Mrs. Norma Allen, June '05, left before the close of the term to teach in a summer school at the Alabama University.

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We hear excellent reports of the work being done in Amsterdam by Miss Erva Skinner, '02. Miss Skinner is one of the most earnest and devoted of teachers, and the results she secures are making a fine reputation not alone for herself, but for the school she represents.

Miss Pauline Phillips, '98, Supervisor of Music in Johnstown, N. Y., spent part of her summer vacation in Boston; and in addition to her teaching is studying voice culture this season. We congratulate her upon the opportunity to combine study with teaching.

A mistake was made last month in regard to Miss Netta Williams, June '05, who is teaching in Moira, not Brushton. She writes most enthusiastically of her work and is certainly most profitably occupied in teaching music throughout the school and in finishing her High School course. She is evidently in a musical community, as there is a demand for a choral club, and some talk of earnest study of choral works.

Miss Eugenia Adams, '01, is Supervisor of Music in Norfolk, Virginia. She has under her supervision eleven scholars and eighty-seven teachers, and writes most enthusiastically of her pleasure in her work. The south is awake to the demands of the times educationally, and much improvement in schools is being made. Miss Adams deserves congratulation that she has the opportunity to help in this great work.

Miss Margaret Garrity, '94, has had charge of the music in the Plattsburgh Normal School for several years We hear from many directions of the success of the Plattsburgh graduates in teaching music. Their work reflects great credit.upon Miss Garrity.

Miss Ella Fink, '00, has been in charge of the music of the Normal School at Stevens Point, Wis., for several years. She spent four weeks at Chautauqua this summer, and then returned to Wisconsin to teach in a sunmer institute. She has been very successful both with her Normal work and her Institute work. She has kept in touch with the advance in methods of teaching, and has

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thus made her music teaching a real inspiration to those under her care.

Miss Gladys Botsford, '05, finds her work at Rahway, N. J., very interesting, and has already had an opportunity to meet Miss Florence Birdsall of her own class, who has a position similar to hers in Belleville, NJ.

Miss Leora Nims, '97, who spent last spring here in study, is teaching at Dobbs Ferry. The school is not a large one, but contains a delightful class of pupils. She is organizing an orchestra and glee clubs in addition to the regular work. She writes: "Our Superintendent told me that in taking a trip in the eastern and middle states this summer, 90 per cent. of the public school music teachers of whom he heard in those states were from the Crane Normal Institute of Music."

The Normal School had a visitor from Watertown, one of the Primary Principals, She spoke in the most enthusiastic terms of the success of Miss Barbara Moore '05, as Supervisor of Music in their schools.

Mrs. Grace Walseman, '93, is spending some time in Potsdam, observing the work in music, and studying the advanced methods that have been adopted since she was in school. Her own successful experience makes her very appreciative of every improvement in plans of work Mrs. Walseman has a sweet voice, which has developed quite remarkably in the years since her school life here.

Miss Elizabeth Humphrey, '96, is teaching music in the public schools of Somerset, Kentucky. She says the public school system is young in that state but they are ambitious for advancement and Somerset is acknowledged to be the best in the state. We congratulate Miss Humphrey on her pleasant location and upon her opportunity to help in the introduction of good music into the southern schools.

Miss Florence Chapin, Feb. '05, is in charge of the music in the public schools of Salamanca. She writes that the music is in good condition and she is enjoying her work.

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