W. A. Mercer forwards thirty-nine reports on leave of absence taken by employees: Frances R. Scales (teacher), Kate S. Bowersox (principal teacher), Angel DeCora (teacher Native Indian Martin L. Lau (carriagemaker), William Nonnast (tailor), E. H. Colegrove (disciplinarian), James E. Henderson (teacher), George L. Gottwerth (fireman), Susan Zeamer (assistant seamstress), W. Grant Thompson (superintendent of industries), Ferdinand Shoemaker, M. D. (physician), Claude M. Stauffer (band leader), E. Corbett (assistant seamstress), Frank Hudson (financial clerk), Ida Boger (assistant laundress), Harry W. Leaman (florist), Ella Albert (assistant laundress), Rosa Dillon (assistant matron), Lydia E. Kaup (teacher), Emma H. Foster (teacher), Amelia D. McMichael (teacher), Sarah E. Gedney (teacher), Emma K. Hetrick (teacher), Bessie B. Beach (librarian), Ella G. Hill (laundry manager), W. S. Dysert (shoemaker), Hattie M. McDowell (teacher), Emma A. Cutter (senior teacher), Mariette Wood (teacher), M. I. Zeigler (harnessmaker), Bertha Canfield (seamstress), Sadie E. Newcomer (teacher), Lizzie James (cook), Beckie L. Goodyear (assistant seamstress), Nellie V. Robertson (clerk), Margaret O. Eckert (assistant matron), M. S. Barr (nurse), Mary A. Yarnall (teacher), and Cora B. Hawk (teacher).