Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
PIKE COUNTY INSTITUTE
Held at the Court House in Mil
ford this Week.

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A Large Attendance at the Annual ses
sion. - Able Instructors Present,
and Much Interest Mani
tested. % Notes, etc.
No fairer skies could have wei.
coined the smiling faces of Pike
county's trainers of young ideas
than those which dawned Monday
The incoming stages were filled
with the happy crowd as representa-
tives from every part of our terri
tory come throngiug to this annual
meeting which of late years by rea.
son of the untiring efforts of the
Superintendent to furnish an in
structive and entertaining repast of
educational lore, has become so pop
ular.
Many new faces were seen among
those who are the regular attend
ants, and no one looking over the
assemblage could fail to realize that
a brighter and more intelligent
corps of teachers would be difficult
to find in any county of the Com
monwealth.
The session was called to order
and fully organized by electing E. F.
Kilcoin, principal of the Matamoras
school Vice-president j. F. Molony,
of the same school secretary and
John G. Watson, of the Milford
Graded School, treasurer.
The roll was called and the fol-
lowing named teachers responded.
Blooming Grove. .-Electa Kirken-
dali.
Delaware .-Lucian b. Westbrook,
Carrie Hornbeck, j. V. Hood, W. H.
Layton, Philip Chamberlain.
Dingman.-Anna Heller, Leroy
Kipp, Arthur Wolf, Lizzie Rochotte
Marion Black, Vivian Struthers.
Greene.-Anna Crooaks, Anna
Gilpin, E, E. Corey, Edith Simons,
Edith Brown, Lizzie Marsch, Agnes
Hopps, Katie Tormey.
Laclawaxen. Grace Barnes, Fred
Tanner, Abbie Edwards, Jennie
Rowland, Media Hansen, Nettie Ed
wards, Estella Smith, Mrs. E. H.
Branning, Carrie Westfall, E. H.
Dabron, Anna Remsen, Chas. Ro-
gers, Ella Westfall.
Lehman.-Anna Madden, Frank
Layton, Jennie Boucher, w. F.
Overfield.
Milford Independent.-John A.
Kipp, John G. Watson, D. H. Horn
beck, Lila B. Van Etten.
Palmyra.-Nina Down, Marion
Williams, Eta Thielke, Lafayette
Killam, Samuel Nevin.
Shohola. Frank Linehan, Phoebe
Wells, Samuel Hazelton, Flora
Rochotte, Olive Swezy.
Westfall. F. Kilcoln, Minnie
Van Akin, Harmie Maloney, Myrtha
Westbrook, Sara Bemey Nellie Lang
ton, Frank Wilkin, Howard Allen,
j. F. Moloney.
The afternoon session was oc.
cupied by singing and an address of
welcome by Prof. G. w. Twitmeyer,
Professor of the Bethlehem schools,
who also spoke briefly on good or
der and discipline in the school
room. He was followed by Prof.
E. l.. Kemp, of the East Strouds-
burg State Normal, who also well
coined the teachers and spoke inter
estingly on school work.
The evening session was occupied
as social season in order that the
teachers might make mutual ac-
quaintances and discuss their vari-
Gus methods.
Tuesday morning, Prof. Twit-
meyer spoke ON the subject, " Cul-
tivation of Moral Power. His points
were that children are largely crea-
lures of impulse and it is best to
chant to them the praise of the
good and never weary in well do
ing to infuse all the sunshine possi-
BILE in your lives and the lives Of
those around you. It was re-
marked that this was one of the best
talks given in an institute for many
years.
Prof. w. H. Detweiler, of the
Bloomsbury State Normal, followed
in talk, I" How to Teach History. 81
He said history is to show how man
has developed into what he is To-
day, it teaches patriotism and. good
citizenship. and should be MAIDS the