The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-10-28
WooDsr1ELD, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1851.

exercises. ssa
The following persons were appointed a
committee to report candidates for election
as officers for the ensuing year, viz:
Geo. Mason, Isaac Garretson aud John
Brooks.
The evening session was protracted to
considerably in discussing unimportant
resolutions relating to the method of ex-
amining teachers, and to the State Commits
sioner of Common Schools, which were
laid on the table, and subsequently reject
ed by vote of the Association. si8
The house then adjourned till 8 o'clock
Oct. 22d 2 ss ed
OcT. 22.--The morning was occupied
in exercising the class in the several
branches. The house then adjourned till
o'clock P. NJ 4ss
10 O'CLOCK, p. M.-After the regular
exercises the house proceeded to the elec-
tion of officers for the next year, which
resulted as follows:
President--B. Powell;
Vice President-Dayid Campbell;
Secretary-John r. McDivit;
Treasurer-Joseph G. Clark;
Librarian--Wm. F. Hunter.
The house then adjourned till I o'clock
p. NJ.
EVENING SESSION O'Clock, p. M.
The following resolution was offered
and adopted without discussion.
Resolvsd, That in future the property
Of the Association shall not be used for
any purpose except for the use of the As
sociation. And the Librarian shall in
no instance lend or hire anything belong
ing thereto, to any person whatever ex-
cept as before mentioned.
The committee to whom was referred
the subject of Text Books made report,
in which they recommended the following
works in addition to those previously re.
commended: il 0
ORr1oaRApnY-O Oswald,s Etymolegi-
cal Dictionary; Thomas First, Book lin
Etymology, Lovell's Young Speaker;
Schell's Introductionl toaArithmetic; Per-
kin's Elementary Geometry. sela Il ri
CoMposIr1oN--Quackcnbos' First Los
sons in Composition; Quackenbos' Com
position and Rhetoric. His44 /
PHoNoGRAPHY AND PHoNEfTcs-Pitt-
mans Manual of Phenology; Pittman's
Phonetic Readers; Pittman's Sound
Chart; Quackenbos' History ofthe Uni
ted States. $50 s
NATURAL SCIENCE -Winslows' INTEL
lectual Philosophy; Youman's Chemist y;
Davis Text Book in Agriculture, Brockes-
by's ASTRONOMY; Brock esby's Meteorology
SCIENCE OF GovERNMENT.-zShepherd's :
Constitutional Textbook; Mansfield s Po-
litical Grammar; Otis Study of Animals;
Otis Landscape Drawing; Otis Univer-
sal School Register. ss,ell sat
Cutters Anatomy, Phys
iology and Hygicne;. Cutters First Book
in Anatomy; Cutters Physiology; Gram
mar Of English Grammar's; Duf's Book
Keeping. tsl aatl i z,e
Exeeutive committee for 1861 and
l85S--Wm. F. Hunter, jr., ID Campbell
and Milton Black The house then ad-
journed till leo'clock p. NJ. ii ,ssis 80
o'cLocK, p. oM.--Regular exercises.
The executive COMMITTEES then reported
the following persons as lecturers at the
next meeting of the Association. viz:
lst evening, s. A. Grsham- subject
Education 9 2nd evening, A. J. Sutton
snbject Geography l3rda evening". B.
Powsll--snbject I'd sbe selected. .sa
Il, The following resolutions we're adopted:
) Resetvsd, Thatwhsn this Association
adjourns it adjonfns to meet ia this place
on the first Monday of March, A.. D..
1858. Fsailli s7a s90.Is aailssfsKs
Rssolved, That teachers in fntnfe pro-
vide themselves with Text Books on the
several branches, and. receive regular les
sons therein. S naasa ssl4
Rssslvsd, That A. J.. Sattep, Robert
L. Morris and David Campbell, act as .
committee to report on o Textbook i'm
English Grammar, at the next meeting Of
Resolred, That we recommend to the
Board of School Examiners Of this coun-
ty, the propriety of holding regular ex-
aminations, net exceeding four times .
year. sa7Esti SOS s;ssss sees
On motion Of d Campbell vote Of
thanks were tendefedto the retiring off,
GERS for the puuctual discharge Of 1sheir
duties ssH es.ss
NJ. Morrow offered the following.
which was adopted:
Resolped That the President Of this
Association be, and is hereby authorized
10 purchase = silser medal with a. appso-
priate inscription, not exceeding t1n dol