The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-26
THE WESTERN WRITERS
ALL THE LITERARY "FELLERS" To
BE AT wINONA THIS WEEK.
Assembly and Summer School Start
Next Week with Brighter Pros
poets than Ever.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
wINONA LAKE,, Ind, June &.-The
Western Association of Writers will hold
their fourteenth annual meeting here this
week, beginning Monday. The Winona Ho-
tel will be the headquarters of the writer's
and their annual reception will be held
there Monday night. A large attendance is
expected. Among the writers of renown
who will be here are James Whitcomb
Riley. Robert ]. Burdette, Evaline Stein,
Eugene e. Ware. Mary E. Cardwill. James
Newton Matthews. Charles Major. Benja-
min s. Parker. William p. Ffshback and
Newton Booth Harrington.
Great preparations are being made for
the opening of the Winona Assembly and
summer school, on July 4. The opening Of
the assembly Is announced for Monday,
July 3. with a lecture by Rev. NJ. Luther
Tressler in the evening. but the real OPEN
ing day will be July 4. Governor James A.
Mount and several other distinguished men
will be present and make addresses. The
morning will be devoted to athletic contests
and the afternoon will be given up to ad-
dresses. and the day will close with a big
entertainment in the auditorium. with
speaking by men of national reputation.
A prize of So cash has been offered to the
Sunday school bringing the largest number
of scholars to the grounds on the Fourth.
The grounds have been greatly beautified
I'm the past year. Many thousands of dol
lars have been expended and the park now
presents a handsome appearance. Secre-
tary Dickey is greatly pleased over the out
look for the coming season and thinks IL
will be the most successful in the history
OF the assembly. Every cottage has been
rented and dozens of applications for rooms
are arriving at the hotels daily Every
thing indicates that the attendance this
year will surpass that of any previous year.
The summer school will open July 4 and
run till Aug. 18. This Ia a unique organiza-
ton, and Is the only one of it's kind in ex-
istence In the United States. 1t is an inno-
walton In the educational world and is being
watched with interest by educators
throughout the country. 1t is a federation
of colleges, each one OF which organizes
and maintains a single department. detail
ing it's best professors to take charge of the
work. With very few exceptions the in
structors are the heads of departments in
their own colleges. The institutions rep
resented are among the best In the West,
and the student at Winona is under the in
struction of the best professors. The or
ganization comprises nineteen institutions,
J a FACULTY or thirty teacnerS ana nineteen
departments of instruction, offering a total
of seventy-fve courses. There are courses
I'm all college and pedagogical subjects. in
art, music, cooking, manual training and
library management. Contrary to the usual
custom of summer schools, the departments
of physics and chemistry Will have fully
equipped laboratories. Inc art department
will have a studio on the grounds, so that
students may see the best works of art. One
OF the most interesting departments is the
school of manual training. fully equipped
with benches and lathes. The gymnasium
will have a complete Spaulding equipment.
| The faculty of the school is as follows: H.
p. Kane, president: W. A. Mills, dean; r.
| q. Graham, treasurer; Prof. Stanley Coul-
ter, Purdue University; Prof. j. N. Swan,
| Monmouth College; President s. F. Scovel,
| wooster University; Miss Harriet GlaZier.
the Western College,; Prof. II. NJ. Kingery,
Wabash College; Prof. s. t. Wilson, Mary
vile College; Prof. w. s.. Sterling. Cincin-
natl College of Music; Signor Romeo Gorno,
Cincinnati College of Music; w. E. Henry,
of the Indiana State Library: George v.
Danforth, librarian of the Indiana Univer-
sity; Prof. Edgar Hanford Sheldon. Chi
Barnes, Omaha Neb.; Mrs. Jennie Ray
Ormsby, Fort Wayne, Ind; Mrs. Ellen
Griesemer, Wooster, o.; Miss NJ. Ellen Lyle
hart, Chicago; Prof. d. +. Bigelow, Chi
cago; Prof. W. A. Mills. Attica. Ind: DIR.
". L. Bryan. Indiana University. DR., r. G.
President George S. Burroughs, Wabash
College; Miss Elizabeth NJ. Pendleton,
Wooster University: Miss Gertrude Longe-
necker, Kindergarten College of Chicago;
Prof. C. de Blumenthel. Culver Military
ington, ILL.,; Prof. Noble Harter, Warsaw,
Ind; Prof. III. S. Hippinsteel, North Man
chester, Ind.