Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State June 15-1891 Children's Day at South Alabama. It was Children's Day in earnest yesterday at the South Alabama Baptist church, which was crowded far beyond the seating capacity at both morning and evening services. The church was very tastily decorated with flowers and set with oil paintings. The Rev. G.F. LOVE announced that the children collected for the day $18.33 and he awarded a handsome illustrated Bible to Henry DANIELS and presented to Mrs.. W.H. MARTIN, the organist, the complete works of Shakespeare, Byron, Browning, Moore, Tennyson, Mrs. Heman, Mrs. Browning, and George Elliot as a gift from the church and congregation. Although the new organ failed to arrive, both the morning and evening services reflected great credit on all concerned, and were augmented by the recitations of Miss LOVE. * * New Teachers at Alexander. At the special meeting of the trustees of the Alexander Union School, teachers were hired to fill the places of Mr. GLENNY, Miss SOMERS and Miss BELL, who resigned. Alman ANDREWS of the Buffalo Normal School was engaged as principal, Miss CHADSEY of the Rochester University, preceptress, and Miss SUMNER of Darien as primary teacher. Children's Day exercises were held at the M.E. church last evening. An entertaining programme was rendered. * * A Corfu Boy on Fire. One of C.O. PALMER's little boys, aged four years, met with a painful accident yesterday morning when a neighbor's boy of about the same age in some manner set his clothes on fire, and but for its timely discovery by Mr. PALMER he would have been burned to death. As it was the skin was burned from one leg from the knee to the hip, and Mr. PALMER's hands were so severely burned in putting out the fire that he will be unable to do any work for several days. * * Death from Consumption. Horace A. STANARD, who resided with his father, J.P. STANARD, on the Stanard farm in Alexander, died at 9:30 o'clock last evening from consumption, after a long illness, in the thirty-third year of his age. He was a brother of Willis Z. STANARD of Buffalo, B.R. STANARD of Alexander and Mrs. E.L. GRISWOLD of Batavia, and leaves a widow, but no children. The funeral services will be held at the house on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. ** Death of Thomas Nolan. Thomas NOLAN died at his home, No. 108 South Main street, Saturday night, aged 55 years, of inflammation of the lungs. He leaves a widow and four children. The funeral will be held to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock from St. Joseph's church. The C.M.B.A., of which the deceased was a member, will meet to-night to make arrangements for attending the funeral. ** Sadie N. Palmer's Death. The San Mateo (Cal.) 'Leader' of June 6th announces the death on the Thursday previous of Sadie N. PALMER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George PALMER, at the age of twelve years. The remains were taken to San Francisco for interment. George PALMER was formerly a resident of Batavia and will be remembered by man friends. ** Funeral of the Rev. Mr. Leavenworth. The funeral of the Rev. Hobart LEAVENWORTH, whose death occurred in Port Alleghany, pa., on Friday, was held from the residence of his son, W.W. LEAVENWORTH, No. 28 Ellicott avenue, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the interment took place at Elmwood Cemetery. ** Samuel T. Curtis's Funeral. The body of Samuel T. CURTIS, who committed suicide at Tucker's Hotel in Buffalo on Friday afternoon, was removed from the Morgue on Saturday and taken to Darien City, where funeral services took place at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The burial was at Bethany Center. ** Died at the County House. Robert THOMPSON, an old resident of the town of Bergen, died yesterday morning at the County Almshouse in Bethany, of which he had been an inmate for several years. He was 82 years of age and leaves a son in Bergen. ** The New Schools. John Pickert to Put up the East Main Street Building A Trade. A meeting of the Board of Education was held Saturday evening. There were two bids received for the contract to build the East Main street school building--one from John PICKERT for $8,860 and the other from H.W. HOMELIUS for $8,992.36. On motion the contract was awarded to John PICKERT. A bill of $100 from Architect HOMELIUS for drawing plans and specifications for the new buildings was audited and ordered paid. The President was authorized to make a note for $3,500, payable on demand, with which to pay for the Trumbull CARY site on East Main street; also to purchase a seal for the Batavia Union School, and the President and Clerk together were authorized to execute the contracts with the different builders. Contractors KING & REDSHAW, who were awarded the contract to build the new West Main street school house, and DELLINGER & GLADE, who secured the job of building the William street school house, have exchanged contracts. ** submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************