The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-05-18
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County Institute Proceedings.

| Injecting wednesday NeVSHlHS at tn0
court house with good attendance.
The program began by music by the
Marine band. Superintendent Bryan
then made his announcements for the
session. Prof S. 1. Pratt, of the Corva1-
! lis public schools, followed with an ad-
dress of welcome In the course of his
remarks he stated that the people of
Co,va. i had been called ON to entertain
numerous conventions, but that there
was no asse1nblage which they accorded
a more hearty welcome to, than a party
of teachers He also stated that next to
the parent the teacher occupies the
wa'n1est spot III pupils heart. Each
teacher was assured of a hearty welcome
and i'll closing Mr.. Pratt made use of the
following appropriate quotation from
Longfellow regarding the hospitality of
| Corvallis residents, ''Whose houses were
open as day and the hearts of the own
ers." These remarks were very elo-
| quently responded to by W. T. Lee, of
the Bellefountain school, who referred
to Corvallis as fosterer of educational
institutions.
well-rendered vocal duet by Victor
and Josie Moses was then given, which
met with hearty applause.
State Superintendent E. B. McElroy
was introduced and delivered an interest
! ing lecture on the topic, ''The Public
| School and the State" "Our free state.
institutions,' he said, 'are the outgrowth
of our public schools. Man being of d.
| vine origin, and the state being an insti-
| tuition created by man, it must be of di.
| vine origin. 1t was not an accident that
the first colonists made provisions for
popular education. They foresaw that
liberty could not be safe except in the
hands of educated people. The supreme
welfare of the state depends on the ciE-
| zens, therefore, the right to levy tax for
schools and make provision for compuL-
sorry education"
THURSDAY MORNING..
Thirty-six teachers from Benton and
Lincoln counties were present at Thur
day mornings session, which began
with talk by State Superintendent Mo-
I;lroy on the subject of Institute work"
The matter of permanent organization
was then taken up. The officers elected
| were as follows: President, E. L. Bryan;
vice-presdent, S. I. Pratt; secretary Miss
Leon Louis; asst secretary, Miss Turney.
'Methods in Fractions," was the SUBJ
ject of a paper handled in an able man
| ner by Miss Augusta Turney, of the Cor
wallis schools Under this topic a gen.
eral discussion was entered into in which
S. K. Adams Of Newport, Rev. Moss.
| G. A. Peterson, Mrs. Bloss and s. !.
Pratt joined. DR.. E. J. Thompson was
the recipient of many congratulations
for his interesting and instructive re-
marks On the subject "rhe public school
as a factor i'll education" Miss Ada
Sharples, of the Corvallis schools,
| closed the morning session with a care
| fully prepared paper on "School Hy-
| giene'' When she had done, few
minutes was spent by w. E. Yates, S. l..
Adams, of Newport, and DR.. Garter, Of
Elk City, in discussion of the subject.
Struck With a Gun.
Yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff
Smith left for Blodgetts precinct armed
with a warrant for the arrest of VIM.
keeIln charged with assault with a dan
gerous weapon. 1t seems that for some
time some i'll feeling had existed between
! T. t,I Nf for1h
named John Freiderichs, which culmi-
mated the other day VIXEN Freiderichs
was attempting to drive from his field
| COW owned by Keehn. The latter was
| lying in waiting for his victim behind
| log and when Freiderichs came along
Keehr arose from his place of conceal
rlent with a shotgun and said, whats
| i'll this is for you." He then made an at
tack on Freideric!1s, who had his hands
i'll his pockets, and struck him with the
gun, which resulted in breaking one of
the bones in Freiderichs left forearm.
| Freiderichs is All elderly German gentle
! man and appears to be peaceable, law
| abiding citizen. He came into Corvallis
| yesterday and swore to complaint In
| Justice Wilson's court and warrant was
at once issued for the arrest of the Of
! fender.
Tuesday at Gravesend, in the presence
of 10000 people, DR.. Rice won the Brook
1yn handicap in 2:o74, making SIS, 5ooin
prizes alone for his lucky owners, who
are Foster Brothers, formerly of this
place and also the owners of Oregon
Eclipse. This is a wonderful victory
when it was considered that DR.. Rice had
been given up as a winner when pur-
chased by the Fosters
| A game of base ball lasting three hours
was played on the college grounds last
Saturday between university of Oregon
team and the Corvallis nine resulting In
a score of 23 to 81 in favor of the latter.
| The last survivor of the theatre royal
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