Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-27
TIE S|A!E I|GjRERS
Iowa Educators in b.-4t Numbers
at the State Convention at
Des Moines
City superintendent and Normal
People Both Want the Presi-
dency-The Candidates.
Some Interesting "reminiscences OF
Early Educators in Iowa. alt
Whitman Club.

Special to Times Republican.
Ioes Moines Dec. 2l.-This is the
teachers week, and they are coming In
great numbers The general prosperity,
the approach of the legislature and the
increasing interest in making the best
tages, together With an attractive pro-
gram and some new features, have
brought q large and constantly increas-
ing crowd. The Des Moines people have
lhustied hard and made the new audi
itorium fit to use. They stretched can
vasaover the stage 50 as to prevent the
heat from rising. to the top thereof, and
with steam and gas stoves succeeded In
making the place fairly warm. II WAS
very pleasant news to the officers of
loved To use the auditorium, even if it
was not quite what ii ought to be-
In regard to the presidency. there is
nothing definite. The city superintend-
| ii and claim it is their right The State
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/ Professor Arnold j. Gantvoort, OF
Cincinnati, president Of The Music
isieachers Nauonal Association, IS mere
| 70 promote the interests 81 that orsanl-
zation, which holds us next annual
| meeting IN 9es Molnrs next Jiins or
July. This association brings anywheres
from 600 10 1000 good people 70 the city
and II sives entertainments worth go-
4 ing many miles To attend The c9nyeil-
ton viii bring some famous mus cans.
to the city ana VIII be largely attended.
i One of the most iiaferes S4, charac-
ters here is c, C. Nestleiede III Fos-s
torIa o., one OF the first presidents az
the association. He filled a prominent
i place IN the early educational work in.
sllowa During the few years before the
4 war when ther,- were Young men and
women. boys and girls in Iowa Who
8 yond the home district ard farm. there
We're no schools in Iowa fer then8to at
/ tend. They would be sent % st. Louis
or some Other distant point. where they
often got some notions into their heads
4 shat did not please their parents In
those days. it would seem. people cared
more fer their state. III some ways
than they do NOW They did not like
4 the idea of sending their children away
from home 50 FAR TO go TO school. be-
cause it led the youth 70 think that
Iowa did not amount TO nluch. The
southern teaching was not good for
4 them, anyway, so the Union school was
started in Tipion in 1854 hs- Mr.. Nestle
rode and he had good attendance ps
th,. sons and daughters Of people who
had conrictidns No university in the
lIand. or school OF any kind, can boast
) Of a closer feeling among its alumni
Its reunions are attended by men from
far and near, for they loved the teach
, Ter. now the dear. rugged old gen
tleman to whom they all give cheerful
Il credit for starting them Alright Ane
! Mr. Nestlerode knows no keener pleas
t | ure than that of coming back to Iowa
!. Eand renewing these associations.
-
.sAll my boys and girls loved each
/ Ieiher and their teacher said Mr.
: | Nestierod. as ne recalled those happy
2 and eacn others wives Just the same
4 There are no reunions to beat ours. Th'
l boys come from Maine and as far q:
# South Carolina. and even the Second
generation, and now the third. in TIP
e ton. is interested in those meetings
! When ] taught there l knew every
{ man. woman and child in Upton ans
. they knew me, and VIZ got along first,
] rate together. The boys used to thinl
a there Was something Very terrible il
THAT little room where some one or tn,
other was occasionally called for pri
vate consultation. and they would rath
ar not go in there=-but the school nev al
saw what II thought was there, tn,
: switch Sometimes. YOU know. boy.
: vii, vow that when they get big. enough
: thav vii even IN with the teacher W h,
,t,,.aa tbeu,-wel, I don't think any o
n ,,,,,ss nv hoys ever took such a vow. and