Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-01-28

SCHOOL OFFICERS.
HOLD MEETING.

! The DIRECTORS and Clerks of CaVa-
lier County Held a Highly Sue
cessfull Meeting in Langdon Two
! Days During Last Week.
Minutes of first annual meeting OF
Directors and Clerks OF Cavalier County
held III the court house at f4angdon on
January 22nd and 23rd.
The meeting was called to order by
Co. Supt G. c. Crawford, who after cx :
plalning the object of such a gathering
| and expressing entire satisfaction at the
number of directors. clerks and others
present, introduced State Sup't w. L..
Stockwell, Pres. Jos. Carhart, of the
Mayville Normal. Pres. Geo. A. McFar-
lane of the Valley City Normal and Co.
Sup't JOS McLain of Grand Forks county
all of whom made short addresses. re-
latlve to the Importance of these meet
ings and school work in general.
The Convention was then organized
by the election of Hon. Jas. Dobie of
Glenila township as chairman and Robt.
Murie of Harvey township as secretary.
The Chairman made short address
appropriate to the occasion, and after
roll call the subject of "Text Books" was
discussed. Following this topic the
chair appointed Mr.. John Mcbride of
East Alma, Mr.. Robert Fleming of South
Dresden, Mr.. Alex Roney of Loan, Mr..
r. f. Kargel of Huron, and Miss Freda
Kaser of Dresden as committee on
resolutions to report before adjournment t.
The meeting then adjourned till 7:3o
p. M, to meet in informal session.
At 7:30 p. m. the meeting was called
to order by Co. Sup't C. G. Crawford
State Supt w. L. Stockwell then spoke
at some length upon the necessity OF
greater cooperation in school work
Pres. Carhart made strong plea TO,
better trained and better paid teachers
and Pres. Mcfarland emphasized the
Importance of the common schools and
the advisability of longer terms. Con
vention adjourned, to meet at $50 a. m
Saturday January 23rd.
Saturday January 23rd 1904, meeting
called to order by Pres. Jas. Dobie. On
motion the subject of Consolidation was
taken up for discussion: this being some
thing new in this county was discussed
with much interest. The Committee on
resolutions submitted the following re-
port which was adopted.
We your Committee on resolutions
submit the following:
Resolved, That we are in favor of the
present free text book system. That
the Department OF Public instruction
furnish record to facilitate the care
and handling of such books, said record
to contain rules and Instructions regard
ing the loan of books to pupils.
That in cases where text books are
not in use. we would recommend that
the district board furnish set Of text
books which the teacher may loan to the
pupils until such time they are other
wise supplied.
Resolved, That the compulsory at
tendance law be strictly enforced, also
that the law be so amended as to give
the duty of enforcing it to the County
Superintendent instead of to the presi-
dents of the boards.
Resolved, That we hereby recommend
the consolidation of schools, and that
cooperation in school work is to the
best interest of the schools.
And be it further resolved, That "a
vote of thanks be extended to State
Sup't w. L. Stockvell, Pres. Jos. Car
hart, Pres. Geo. A. Mcfarland and Co.
Sup't Jos. McLain for their able assist
ance, also to Chairman James Dobie,
Secretary Robt. Murie and Co. Sup't e..
G. Crawford for their efforts in behalf of
the meeting.
The Convention, by vste requested
the County Superintendent to call the
next meeting for the last two days of
institute week 1904
Meeting adjourned, to call of County
Superintendent.
JAS. DoBIE. RoBT. MuR1E,
President. Secretary.