Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-08-22
The Institute at Dodgeyille.

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hundred and thirty-tive teachers
throng her streets, and eongregate
in her courtroom daily to gather
new ideas Of their professional work.
The best School-room which Dodge
vile contains having proved wholly
inadequate to the necessities of this
number Of teachers, the Institute
has moved into the courtroom.
This step has subjected the con-
ductors of the Institute, as well as
the teachers, to serious mconveu-
fences, us Il courtroom is destitute
of many Of the appliances which
have come to be considered essen
tial to the work of an Institute rs
well as that of any good school.
All the written work done by teach
ers must bc done without desks,
and the blackboard work done bv
either conductors or teachers is con-
fined to small board placed upon
a table This Institute ought to
suggest to the good people of
Dodgeyillc whether they have not
been little slow in the erection of
a crcditablc school building; wheth-
cr all the the prosperity of u place
ought to be regarded as wholly Of
a material kind; whether all its en-
terprise ought to run in the dircc-
ton of railroads.
The Institute is in charge Of Pres.
MeGregor, of the Plattcville Normal
School, and Mr.. T. c. Richmond,
County Superintendent Of Green
County, The exercises are full of
interest and profit, embracing all
those subjects that most engage the
teacher in his daily duties. This
body Of teachers, though containing
all the grades and varieties of
ability to be found in the profession,
probably represents the better
rather than the poorer class of
teachers; as a larger proportion of
the latter class than of the former
usually absent themselves from
institutes. The outlook for thr
educational interests of Iowa
County would be very promising
were the teachers here gathered
fairly representative Of the force
that will be engaged in teaching
her youth during the coming year.
1t is reasonable to suppose that
the practice of holding us many
weeks of institute rs the Board
of Regents will furnish assistance
for has become fairly confirmed in
Iowa County by this time, and that
the teachers may look forward with
certainty hereafter to the regular
recurrence Of its sessions. The
teachers of the county are to be
congratulated on the fact of the
permanency Of this valuable means
Of assistance.
The city Of Mineral Point is, up.
TO this time, represented by the fol-
lowing teachers: Mrs a. i. Bennett,
Misses Lizzie NJ. Bishop, Amelia Il,
Cdad, Mary Bennett, Ruth 1rebil-
cock, Matte p Hutchinson, Ena
Hutchinson, Ada f. Williams,
Sarah 9. Ansley, Annie L. Prideaux,
Mary Healcy, Martha Commins,
Mary Commins, Lizzie 9. Lcnahan;
Messrs. j II Terry William Brown
ing, John Commins, and Richard
Crawford
This "wednesday evening Supt
Whitford is to lecture before the
Institute and the citizens.
1t is thought that the enrolment
will reach one hundred and fifty
before the close Of the session.
Some of the fellows want to sec
Sam Ryan nominated for Secretary
Of State on the Democratic ticket.
Sam Ryan would make a good
secretary for any State in the Union,
and he could help any governor
that might be nominated amazingly
to pull through. We don't know
what Sans politics are, but his
religion i all hunky We know
that because We have scen ii, and ii
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