Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-05
CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1899
The Joint Institute.
Hor SPRINGS, s. D., Aug. 2, 1899.

Hot SPRINGS, 5. d., Aug. 2, 1899.
Editsr Chronicle:
The institute closed yesterday and
many of the teachers left for their homes
on this mornings train. They all ex-
press themselves as we'll pleased with
the work that has been done in the past
ten days. Prof. Kerr is fine instruc-
tor and model institute conductor.
Supt. Pearse, the "heavy weight" of the
institute, has subtitle humor that will
make his words long remembered by his
classes in Psychology, General History,
and Didactics.
OF Miss r. Anna Morris none have
any but the highest words of praise.
Her instruction in Reading and Physio-
logy was excellent and any who saw her
special class in Physical Culture give an
exhibition in the College Chapel this
evening after only three lessons will
easily see how much study she has given
to the subject, and how we'll she can i'm
part that knowledge to others.
Mrs. Nichols will long be remembered
by the teachers for her excellent in
struction in Drawing and Primary Work.
Supt. Larrabee has the knack of center
ing the interest of the class in any
study Except when a class in another
room is immitating the song of rob-
inP
Miss Foster and her class in Primary
work made excellent progress. All the
teachers say they hope the joint insti-
tute may be a common institution and
hold session every year. Those who
went out before the L. A. took place
regretted it very much, but they had so
far to come and had Leen gone so long
at an expense not suited to teachers
finances, that they could not see their
way clear 70 stay. Altogether there was
an enrolment of l43 at the institute.
Yesterday evening at $40 in rain
storm and amid the frantic cheers of the
citizens of Hot Springs and the teachers,
the special train Of seven coaches and
three baggage cars rolled into the sta
tion with 260 eastern school teachers on
board A committee of about 40 was
employed till late hour in finding
boarding places for them. This morn
ing about $50 teachers and citizens as
sembled in the Chapel to hear the ad-
dress of welcome by the mayor of the
city. DR.. Hargens explained that as he
had typewriter his address and could
not find it, he supposed it was lost. But
if we heard anything very brilliant dur
ing the day to know it was his speech.
DIR. Hargens made q very eloquent
speech and if it was direct result Of
haying lost his paper we wish great
many of our would be speakers would
have the same misfortune befall them.
Mr.. A. j. Smith in the response said
that be knew the association was well
come. He not only saw it in the faces
of the citizens Of Hot Springs, and
heard it when the train arrived, but he
felt the tears of JOY descending on his
head when he alighted As the associa-
tion was triple header"-held in
part in the Chapel, part in Lhe NJ. +.
church and part IN Pres. church we
were unable to attend all the sessions
We can only tell Of what we saw and
heard and believe the rest was as
good.
The annual address by President S.
L. Brown was full Of good thoughts and
was appreciated by his hearers. The
paper Relation of County Superintend-
ent's to School Boards" was read by
Supt. S. g. Hartranft Of Brown county.
He has board meetings where as many
Of the school boards as can, assemble
and discuss matters of interest to them.
A paper "How shall we improve the
country teachers" was read by Miss +.
Belle Conrow. AS we allow that we
need improvements we listened with
rapt attention. She advised county
superntendent's to mark papers closely
so the number Of teachers in the county
would not exceed the number of schools.
This practice making better teachers
the enumeration would be better. The
paper, "Moral Training in the light of
present Child Study" by Alex Strachan
OF Deadwood, abounded in careful OBJ
servations and suggestions and gave eyi-
dence of deep study on the part of Mr..
s. At the business meeting the items
of interest were, electing S. G. Hartranft
president. and deciding to hold the next
meeting at Watertown during the
holidays Of '99, and selecting for the
place Of the next place Of general meet
irg Yankton, session to be during the
holidays of 1900. This evening Miss
Moriss' class Of Physical Culture and
Delsarte gave an exhibition of their
proficiency that was enjoyed by alex
cept possibly the class.
The address, "The State and Higher
Education by Geo. NJ. Smith was en-
ioyed by all. However it was so deep
that we expect to study about it for
some time before we fully understand
his original and masterful ideas.
An excursion for Fall River Falls is
planned for tomorrow morning and
trip to Wind Cave for Friday As we
came back from the cave without any
serious injury it is safe to persume that
state people will.
Tempus Fugit, The Plunge awaits.
So look next week for
YE CORRESPONDENT.