The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-11-30
Committee on Education Exhibit
to Be Headed by Prof. H. G.
Brownell of Louisville.
TO COMBAT FALSE IDEAS.
Mean to Prove to the World That
Blue Grass State Has Not Fall
en- Behind in the March of
: Educational Progress.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Louisville, KY, Nov. 9.-Professor II. G
' Browneil, principal of the Manual Training
| High School Of Louisville, has accepted the
craftsmanship of the Committee on Educa-
/ tional Exhibit of the Kentucky Exhibit AS
! ISOLATION, and is now forming his commit
tee.
This insures the success of another I'M
portant feature of Kentucky's display at
the Worlds Fair. No one in the State Is
In closer touch with progressive education
than Professor Brownell. and the men he
will call to his assistance on the committee
will be experts in their different branches.
The Exhibit Association recognized from
the first that education would hgure largely
in the kentucky showing at the Exposition.
because 1t Is the beilef outside kentucky
that this Commonwealth Is not advanced
in education, and that one particular secton
of the State does not know of schooihouses
or the good l%nnuences they bring into a
community.
The educational exhibit from Kentucky
will combat this idea, and successfully, too.
for the display the State Is to make In this
line will be one remembered by ali VINO see
it. kentucky has scores Of educators VINO
will come to the association 8 assistance
through Professor browneiL, and see that
the state Is vindicated in her claims. The
mountains of Eastern Kentucky have their
good schools no less than The Blue Grass
Section OF the STATE, or the western or
southern portions, and they are to told OF In
the exhibit.
EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS.
One of the first contributions to the $780,
0O 1und being raiseu py the EAnlDlt Asso-
claIion was from an educational source
from the reverend w. u. Frost, I'm. D.,
president Of berea College. Writing to
Presluent A. Y. rord, unuer date OF NO
vemDer 70, he says. IN part: Il inciose check
for - as CONTRIBUTION OF Berea College, to-
waro the fund. II We cannot stand near
the TOD IN amount we will try to In prompt
ness. Anu we snail exert ourselves to STIR
up MaulSon and ADJOINING Counties. Cor
alally yours, for the New nenIu.ky."
Mr.. George NJ. Edgar OF RlcnmUnd Is an
other VINO is deeply Interested IN the edu-
nix Of Lancaster. who IS at the head of the
Garrard Graded School,. has rendered his
services in connection with this exhibit.
Indications point to plenty of the states
very best material. from which Professor
Browneil may select his Committee on Glu-
cational Exhibit.
SUGGESTIONS FOR EXHIBITS.
Mr.. John H. Wilson of Barbourville, for
mer member Of Congress from the Elev-
of the Kentucky Exhibit Association. two
old log houses IN this county. which, he
thinks. because Of their associations. are
letter from Mr.. Wilson is as follows:
"Silas Woodson went from this county to
the State or missouri ana was Governor, OF
that State. He represented this county
Knox) and Harlan in the Constitutional
Convention Of this State in 18i9. and signed
his name to the Const tuition. 'Silas Wood
son, Emancipa tionIst. The log house in
which he was born In this county Is still
standing, and is on the farm Of q F. Ar
thur. about one mile from Flat Lick depot.
Mr.. Arthur resides at Williamsburg. Whit
ley County.
There = also standing in this town a
little log house about IA by Is feet, which
was occupied by Woodson as a law office.
and was also occupied as an Office by the
late Samuel F.. Miller. Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Miller practiced medicine here for seven
teen years, was elected town magistrate
and began the study of law to qualify him
self as magistrate. This building belongs
to Alexander Sewer. Of this town. and a
salesman for the firm Of ]. NJ. Robinson,
Morton & Co., Of your city.
would It not be well to send these two
buildings to the st. Louis Exposition? 2"
Mr.. Wilson's letter will have the attention
Of the Board Of Directors Of the Associa-
ton.