Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-07-25

nuM Teachers Institute Ter Jefferson
county will be held at Shepherdstown,
beginning Tuesday morning next ut 9
o'clock and continuing five days. The
County Superintendent, Mr. John Hess,
will preside, and the Institute will be
conducted by Prof. Joseph McMurran.
The first exercise will be short address
by the conductor, outliping the manner IN
which the Institute win be conducted and
indicating the parts that the teachers are
expected to take. After the appointment
of officers and the formal opening, the
various subjects taught In our public
schools will be taken up and the best
methods of teaching them discussed by the
teachers and others. Lectures on'arith-
metic, geography, grammar and history
will be given, and class reviews OF these
topics will be had from day to day, so that
the teachers may refresh their memories
on these subjects and be better prepared
for the examination that is to follow. The
exercises will be made interesting 10 all,
and the discussions on teaching and gov
erning pupils will be especially beneficial
and instructive to the public.
Tuesday and Tharsday nights public
exercises will be held ia the College Hall
aud informal addresses mado by RevS.
NcLaren, Ghiselin aud Armstrong, Mr..
Beitzhcover and others.
Wednesday, the 3oth, ia the day APP
pointed by the State superintendent as the
"Schoo, Officers Day" and they arc earn
estly requested to be present to discuss
subjects relating specially to their several
Offices. IL they are not present, their
school-day will be a blank.
We trust that nll the teachers Will at
tend and all persons who may wish to re-
view their studies and learn what work
teachers have TO do to get along in their
profession and keep up with the advance
ments of the age. Let the citizens gener-
ally attend to encourage the teachers In
their work and show All appreciation OF
the efforts made by the teachers to I'M
prove themselves in the art Of teaching.
Let them show by their presence from day
to day that they arc interested In our pub
lie schools and that they Will do all they
can to improve and sustain system that
affords the only means by which nineteen
twentcths of our youth can receive any
education at all, and perhaps we can i'll
duce the State perintendent TO hold the
Institute here again ut some future time.
Tcmpcrancc Pic Nic.-Thc annual
temperance pic nic Of Loetown and Wood
lawn Lodges OF Good Tcmplars was held
in DR.. Balch's woods, near Lcctown, OIL
Saturday last. There WAS very large
number Of people present, and the day
was one of enjoyment to all-nothins dis
agreeable occurring to mar Its pleasures.
State Lecturer James A. Chapman, OF
| Berkeley county, Rev. J. 2. Stump, OF
Gcrardstown, and Revs. r.. III. Pitt and
+. VI. Woods, Of Martinsburg, were pres
ent and mace addresses. The addresses
wore listened to with great attention by
large audiences, and were of an unusually
/ high order-in fact, we have nevor heard
speeches OH this subject that were moro
pointed or practical. They had great
effect on the listeners.
We accepted All invitation to dinner
froul ex-Sherifr Baker, aud did justice to
tho boum,iful rcpast which his good wife
| had provided. We had tho pleasure of
meeting n number Of the citizens Of that
vicinity, among them DR.. Thos. II. Buck,
tho head of the Good Tomplars In this
! State, our occasional correspondent, Mr..
III. C. Evans, D!. Balch, and others. The
candidate was there to 4 considerable ex-
| tent, and seemed TO bo getting IN some
pretty good ticks in the way OF securing
votes. After q day OF delightful rccrca-
ton we had to take our departure, but we
were 80 much pleased with the people up
that way that wo intend to make our visits
! oftener. .....
Vhcat.-The farmers OF this county