The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-27

 Springfield College, soliciting pat ronage from any who expect leaving home to attend school.
 sArlthmetic- Common Fractions" was then called and subject present. ed by ". NJ. Hills, followed by A. D. Lawrence, E. w. Bond and J. H. Frye.
 The president then introduced Prof. Frank Knowlton Of Johnson county, who read an excellent paper on Duties of Teachers"
 The time and place of holding the next Institute was taken up and J. H. Frye nominated Dover, J. R. Lin zy, London and ". F. Turner, Potts Station, the vote being called Dover was declared elected as the place, the time was fixed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the5,6 and 2 of December, 1888.
 The Treasurer, Miss Clemmie Holmes having removed from the state, the office was declared vacant and Miss Viola Bruton of Appleton was elected to fill said place.
 On motion the Institute adjourned until 8 o'clock D. n.
 The Institute was called to order pursuant to adjournment by the rres- ident, the citizens filled the room. and of course, they came to hear the secretary tell of Public Schools in Arkansas" knowing that he was to talk, that the critics were to write and then to tell all that they had written, and in fact, there were many things, no doubt that caused so good an attendance; there were present the old people, the young people, the middle aged people, the widows, the young ladies and to make the scene more enchanting we beheld in one corner long, lean looking widower, of course he never looked toward the young ladies or the "School Marms." Well, all being ready the secretary was introduced and began to tell of Public Schools in Arkansas, he com menced with the requirements of the Constitution of 1859, the laws under tue same relating to pubic schools, stating that the report made by ". R. Miller to Gov. Rector at the time of Secession contained one printed leaf the size of Webster's spelling book and showed that there were two pub lie schools in the state. He then came to the constitution of 1868, and school law, public robbery and general misrule up to 1874, when the state administration was changed and search made for some of the $6,674,511 that had been collected from the people n six years, and among the rubbish and waste was found in the state treasury depart ment $67, 7,00 supposed to have been overlooked in some way. He con trasted the present conditionwith the past failures and said many things that are not written In this report. Dr. J. W. Bruton then made some remarks upon the subject of morals in school. J. H. Frye made some remarks upon the question of free Text Books and County Supervision which had been suggested py the secretary's article. w. A. Baird made some remarks, especially on county supervision.
 Then the critics were called and the blushing and fun commenced.
 On motion the Institute adjourned until o'clock tomorrow morning. The Institute met pursuant to ad- journment and was called to order by the President, w. T. Martin and Rufus Bringle were appointed crit ics.
 Grammar, Relation of Words and Punctuation" was called and pres ented by B. A. Kuhn, followed by F. NJ. Hudson and Rufus Bringle.
 Elocution was called and present ed by J. T. Puckett followed by M. H. Baird and others.
 Branches and Departments of Gov ernment'' was called and presented, very ably, by J. H. Frye giving plan of teaching by using black board forms and exercises. B. A. Kuhn followed, agreeing in the main with the method givenbv Frye. The sec retary made the following financial | statement
 To amount on hand from last re- port $50, amount collected $1.90; by amount paid postage $1.15, Printing Programmes $l.50; To balance on hand .75 cts, On motion the report was approved and the balance 10 cents paid to treasurer:
 The committee on Resolutions pre- sented the following:
 "Whereas, We the teachers of Pope County Institute, now in session at Appleton, have been so kindly and courteously entertained by the good people of Appleton and vicinity, and
 "Whereas, we feel and believe that much good has been accomplished in the work of teaching, by our meet sng in an Institute capacity, and that our energies have been stimulated, that the channel of thought has been made to expand and grasp ideas that will be of great benefit to us In teach ing the children intrusted to our care, therefore be it
 Resolved. 1st, That we the teachers of this Institute go to eur various fields of action with g deeper and more sympathetic feeling for each other, and also, with greater devotion to our work, trying to discharge the duties that we sus- tain to our pupils. and that we use our utmost influence to elevate the grade and making the profession a PROFESSION.