Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-16
OTTUMWANS TO GO.
Many Local Instructors VIII Attend
State Teachers Convention.
TO BE HELD INDIES MOINESNEW YEARS
Forty-Eiehth Annual Gathering of the
Iowa State Teachers Association
Promises to Be Successful One
Program in Full of General Sessions.

Des Moines will be the mecca of the
school teachers throughout the state
the latter part of this month as that
time the annual session of the Iowa
State Teachers association will be
held. This will be the forty-eighth
meeting of this organization and it is
anticipated that all former gatherings
Will be surpassed by this years meet
Ing A number of Ottumwa instruct
ors are on the program during the
three days session. Principal E. G.
PIERCE of the Ottumwa high school
Will lead the discussion on the paper
How Can the Public Schools Most
Effectively Make for Character Build
ing?" which will be a part of the
Thursday morning program. Miss Eft
ia Bardwell, teacher in the high school,
is down for an address on the subject,
Laboratory Work in Science in the
High School. How Much and of What
Nature" This will be delivered be-
fore the meeting of the normal depart
ment Miss Laura George, supervisor
in drawing in the local schools, will
also talk on Decorative Drawing at
the meeting of the penmanship and
drawing section. A large number of
the local teachers will attend the con-
vention.
All the meetings will be held in the
auditorium of the Central Church of
Christ.
4 The program for the three days ses-
sion is as follows:
Wednesday Evening.
7:45-Invocation, Rev. j. Everst
Cathell.
Violin solo-Henry Given Cox, direc-
tor violin department Des Moines mu-
steal college.
Music-Simpson college glee club.
8:00-President's address, Charles
Eldred Shelton, Indianola.
Piano solo, Tannhauser March, Wag-
nerLiszt-Miss Heaton, pupil of F. e.
Barrows, director Simpson Conserva-
tory of Music.
IS: 45-Address, Nathan c. Schaeffer,
superintendent of public instruction,
Thinking and Thinking in the Grades. %
Appointment of committees.
Reception at the Slavery.
Thursday Morning, January 1.
9:OO-Invocation Rabbi S. H. Son
nenschein.
ic-Minnesingers, Iowa State
Normal, C. A. Fullerton, director
9:15-Paper, How Can the Public
Sch ols Most Effectively Make for
Character Building Pr. E. Palmer,
Villisca. twenty minutes.
Observation-Disclosures PIERCE, Ottum.
wa, ten minutes.
General discussion, fifteen minutes
I0:00-Paper, What May the Grade
Teacher Expect from the City Super.
?"-F. e. King, Centerville
twenty minutes.
D,iscussion-Mrs Nina j. Faulk,
Sioux City, ten minutes.
Miss Nina B. Ogden, Boone, ten
minutes.
1O:4O-Address, Orville T. Bright
county superintendent, Cook county
Illinois, subject, "Our Duty to the
Country Schools"
11:40 to Ii: 50-Address, Hon. w. w
Wilmer, Des Moines; subject, "Iowa's
Schools at the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position"
:55-Business.
A1fThursday Afternoon, January 1.
4.O0-Memorial service.
Music-Hymn, Lead, Kindly Light
F'rayer-L. Bookwalter, president
Western college, Toledo.
Report of Neurology committee
Thomas Nicholson, Mt. Vernon, fifteen
mi nutes.
Symposium: doctor w. M. Beard
sh ear"
LAS Man."-W. D. Wells, Daven
port, ten minutes.
LAS a Public School Man"-Henry
Sabin, Des Moines, ten minutes