Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-29
SCHOOL MEETINGS
Teachers and Patrons of County
Schools Will Discuss Work.
THREE PROGRAMS ARE ARRANGED
Meetings Will Be Held in Green
Township February z, Highland
Feb. 10, and Eldon Feb. 14-Every-
one Invited to Attend and Take Part

| County Superintendent Beniah Dim
mltt announces that three meetings
for teachers and patrons of the county
schools will be held during the first
two weeks of February, one at Eldon,
one at Highland Center, and one at the
M. B. church in sub-district No. 2, of
Green township. These meetings are
| for the discussion of questions that
arise in connection with the work of
conducting schools throughout the
county The meetings will also be in
strumental in bringing the teachers
and the parents Of their pupils into
closer acquaintanceship and will pro.
mote friendship and unity of ideas be-
tween them. Mr.. Dimmitt has ar
ranged good programs for each of these
meetings and he extends cordial in
vitation to all who are in any way in.
terested in educational topics, to at.
tend and express their ideas, with re.
gard TO the questions which are dis
cussed. His thought is that frank ex
preston OF criticism, and exchange OF
ideas will be of much benefit to all
concerned.
AT Eldon.
The Eldon meeting will be held Feb.
ruary IA, at one of the local churches
| The place has not yet been arranged
for but will be announced later. The
program for the meeting is as follows:
| 1880 a. M, music, selected.
Relative Rights of Pupils, Teachers
and Patrons, Pupil, Glenn France;
teacher, Miss Esther Nicholson; pa
| iron, Mrs. A. E. Nowviock
General discussion-J. A. Yeager
Rev. G. H. Wehn
1880 a. M, Practical English" =
] Miss Blanche Norton.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Joseph
Parks, Miss Maude Lodwick, G. w
Friend, Superintendent c. w. Ram
seyer of Bloomfield, Miss Florence
| Wickham
1870 p. M, music, selected
1:40 p. m, Primary WORKPLACES
Myrtle Wright
Discussion Miss Gertie Moore
Miss Lyna Hamilton, Mrs. Joseph
Parks, Miss Lettie Downing, Miss
Estella Golf, Miss Meta Russell, Miss
Bessie Enyart
2:15 p. M, address-Attorney C. G.
Sparks.
2:50 p. m, recitation, selected.
3:O5 p. M, Consolidation of Dis.
tricts and Transportation of Children
Attorney E. X. Dougherty.
Discussion-H. ]. Israel, A. Acton
G. Stewart, l. G. McCreary, T
Flint, Rees Goodwin, G. e. Dunwiddie
$3.50 p. m, Mature Study in the
Public school'-Superinte G. q
Akers.
Discussion-Miss Nellie H. Farmer
Principal S. ID. Willetts, Principal J
c. Richter.
Music or Reading.
400 p. M, School Libraries: I'M
portance of and How to Use Them
Miss Helen Beall 'Of What Should
They Consist?"-Miss Clara holland
Discussion-Miss Susan e. Wehn
Fred Rupe, A. E. Albert, Miss Ella
M. Thompson, Miss Mabel Dimrnitt.
In Green Township.
The melting at the Methodist Episco.
pal church in the second sub-district
of Green township will be held Febru.
airy Z. The program to be carried out
is as follows:
1890 a. M, Relative Rights and
Duties of Pupil, Parent and Teacher
Ira Haning.
Dlscussion-Mrs. Lyman Cohagan,
o. G. Truitt, Jesse Eakins, Mrs. Lucy
Arnold.
How to Obtain a More Practical
Education in Country Schools
Ella J. Harlem.
Discussion-B. f. Black, Charles
Hamilton, Mrs. Ella Spangler, w. ii.
Dexter, George w. Shields.
1880 p. M, School Laws, Their Neg.
| ligence and Abuse-Suggesti
Reinhard.
General discussion.
Recitation-Miss Pearl Eastburn.
"reminiscences of Schools and
Teachers "-Mrs. G.. M. Thomas. Mrs
Ada Baum, Mrs. Mary E. Crane,
Mrs. Amelia Eastburn, Mrs Lyman
Cohagan, Mrs. Matte Reinhard
Necessity of Handbook or Course
of Study for Country Schools; Gradu
ation"-Miss Bessie Cohagan.
Discussion-Miss Pearl Eastburn,
Miss Nora Cozad.
School Houses and Premises, Their
Sanitation and Decoration"-Miss Der
tina Berry.
Discussion-Miss Clara holland, John
Parsons.
Suggestive Topics for Discussion
absence and Hardness" "How to
Best Use Library Books" What is
Good Discipline?" Relation of the
Teacher to the Community" Teach
ers Wages" Length of Term
Change of Teachers"
Highland Center Meeting.
The meeting to be held at Highland
Center will be in the Methodist Epis
copal church there at 1880 p. M, Feb
ruary 10. The program is as follows:
Music
How to Make the Best Use of Lii
brary Books"Amy T.Melcher Discus
sion, Bertha Bachman, w. e. Roberts
Jessie N. Skinner, Minnie e. Buckner
Frank Emory, Mrs. G. w. Evans.
Teachers Wages"-Miss Minnie
Davis. Discussion, Nellie H. Farmer
G. d. Robertson, VIM Vaughn, H. H
limbaugh, w. H. Coffman.
/. Music or recitation
How May the Teacher Secure the
Concentration of the Child's Mind on
His Work; How Enable Him to Be
Self-Helping?"-Miss Dora Fisher
Discussion, Zach Sylvester, Miss Els
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