The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-01-03
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Minnesota State Educational AssO
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A large number OF school superintend.
ents. principals and teachers from all parts
of Minnesota assembled in Minneapo lis
last week to attend the eight annual con
vention IF the Minnesota z iucat;ontl As
ISOLATION. At the opening of the m settings
Prof. B. F. Knerr O. Minneapolis presided.
Addresses were delivered by Rev. Dr.. Sam
pie, Bishop Foss, and Hon. T. w. Bicknell
OF Boston, president OF the National = ,uc.-
tiOnal association. Superintendent b. F
Wright of ST. Paul gave an account OF the
m =et,ng of the National + lucation !
association at Saratoga Springs
last July. Prof Cook. superintendent of
schools of Olmsted county, read paper
upon the evil effec OF the vicious literature
published aud circulated among the chill
dren such as the Days DoiDss. Prof.
Niles of O,msted county moved that q
committee of three be appointed to act as a
medium of commune .tion between teach
ers desiring Situations and principals and
school officers desiring teachers. Adopted,
aud the committee was made up of ,nford
Niles of Rochester, D. L. Kiehle OF Mime
apolis and CIV. Smith Of Minneapolis.
Miss Maria L. Sanford, ofthe State Univer-
sity, read pa er on moral training, max
ing an elaborate and eloquent plea for the
inclusion of methods of the training of
something beside the memory AMI the in
tellecsual facul les. educating the feeling,
the disposition, the will, cultivating habits
of neatness and orde as we'll as entertain
| ing the higher realm of morals. State su-
perinte ndent Kiehle followed Miss Sanford,
speaking to the same point.
There was long debate on Herbert Spen-
GERS education, pro and con, resulting in
| the adoption of a resolution. That this
| convention indorse the action OF the instl-
| tute con iuctors in recommending Herbert
| Spencsr's Education, and that the matter 81
| emitting any injurious doctrine contained
| in the work may safely be lett to the judg-
ment Of the teachers using the same."
President Allen moved, as the sense OF the
| teachers, that some measures should be
( taken to establish q professional staLd ard
| for teachers under the authority of law. The
necessity for this is the fact that graduates OF
! norma III schools have no mig Ter standing in
fact than a teacher in the third grade of the
common schools. GA motion, a commit.
state superintendent in securing such rec
ignition as is above contemplated from the
state legis allure.
| The Or. sident announced President Allen,
st. Cloud; Profs. Wright OF Meeker aud
Tanner of Owatonna, as the committee I'm.
der the IT solution of Presiaent Allen.
Superintendent Wright of Meeker offered
a aesoiatlon providing that the future meet
ings Ut the teachers association shall here.
after be held at the state capitol at St. Paul.
| Prof Gray of St. CT ,ud expressed hts
| opinion that it would be better for he as
ISOLATION to meet at S.. Paul, and the pres.
| i'd mt decided ST. Paul as the next place Of
meeting under the constitution.
| Prot Wright OF St. Paul. from the com
mittee on nomination of officers, submitted
the following list:
| Preslden IT. J. Grey, st. Cloud.
| Vice PIesident-Mrs w. Jenness.
Secrerary-Mrs. +. r. Shepard,
| Correspondent secretary-B. M. Reynolds
Treasurer-W. Ell. Sa ders.
Nearly every train south, says tn
| Crookston Chronicle, is loaded with Man
itobians on their way pack to the fiesh.pot
! of Ontario. On the 25th six COACHES
filled with these repentant Canadians passe,
south on their way to their old homes. 4
considerable portion of them were turnin,
their backs forever on Manitoba. The Dorth
ern parts of Minnesota and Dakota are film,
up with Canadians.
Thomas Cullyford, proprietor of the Ho
tel st. Louis, and Miss Minnie Culver
daughter of the late Mayor J. B. Culver
will be married from the residence of w
r. Stone, in Duluth. They will leave i'm
mediately for the south for trip lastins
| over two months.
Burglars entered the store of Rice & Man
ming, at Wilmar, and took q small amoun
of currency.
C.S. White has bought the Fish Bros. 4
Hall mill at Oneota, the price being abou
$27, 900.
Henry Rotost, of Wykof was killed by
being thrown from a wagon by q runaway
team. ~
Articles Of incorporation of the Backey,
Publishing company have been filed wi Il
the secretary of state. The general natur,
OF the business is the printing and publish.
ing, buying and selling of books, copyrights,
newspapers, or other periodicals or publica'
tions. Principal place of business, Mime
apolis, the corporation to continue thirty
stock, $50, 600, divided into 1000 shares o
| $50 each; limit of Indebtedness, $40, 600
The inoorporators are Alfred g. Wilcox
/ Minneapolis; William NJ. Liggett, Marys
vile, Ohio; Henry D. Wood, d ,yton, Ohio
| who also compose the first board of direc.
| tors.
The state medical examiners board
which has been in session at the state uni
versity in Minneapolis, closed the % b. I
consists Of Drs. G. NJ Hewitt of Red Wing,
Franklin Staples of Winona, d. w. Hand 0
| ST. Paul, Willard of Saltwater; and w. 4
| Leonard Of Minneapolis, ell OF whom were
present. DR.. Hewitt Is chairman, and DR.
Millard secretary OF the board. A large
number of diplomas were passed on, but the
exact number cannot be ascerlained until
| the records shalt have bsen carefully com.
piled. 1t is sure. however, that nearly oil
the physicians il the state have passed be.
| fore the board, and It's labors are practically
completed. During this session seventeen
candidates who had no dipl smas were ex.
amined, and it is thought that about tive
thirds Of them will be passed. The unfor'