The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-06-23
NORMAL IS IN SESSION

Ihirty-First Annual Institute Con-
yened in this City Monday for
| a Two Weeks Session.
The thirty-first annualSession of the
Decatur County Normal Institute open
ed at tho Leon High School building
Monday morning for two weeks ses-
sion, being in charge of County Super
intendcnt Eli Hutchinson, and an able
corps of assistants. Two sessions are
held each day, the morning session
opening at 1870 and lasting until 1890,
the afternoon session being from 2:3O
to $3.50 o'clock. On Monday Mayor V.
r. McGinnis was invited to make an adj
dress of welcome to the students, and
he responded with thirty minute talk
along educational lines which was one
of the finest addresses ever heard at
normal institute, and the students were
loud in their praise of him. Mr.. Nc
Ginnis was for years engaged i'll educa-
tional work and knows what to say on
such an occasion, and his address was
replete with good advice and sugges-
tions of the work which will be of inn
mense value to all who heard him.
(, The professors and their work in the
Institute are as follows:
Prof. r. A. Hardness, Fairfield, Iowa,
mathematics.
Prof. A. L. Lyon, Garden Grove, Iowa,
didactics.
Prof. j. M. Pierce, Leon, Iowa, physi-
ology and physics.
! Prof. F. P. Reed, Van Vert, Iowa,
economics and algebra.
Prof. j. nj. Howell, Davis City, Iowa,
civil government and history.
Prof. J.-R. Cash, DeSoto, Iowa, history
and school law.
! Miss Mabel Horner, Chicago, ILL.,,
music and reading.
il On next Monday evening there will
be an illustrated lantern lecture for the
normal students and public in general
4 by Rev. /. N. Woodward, pastor of the
Leon M. E. church in the Lane imple-
ment building, which is the temporary
church building is being repaired. A
4. general invitation is extended to the
public to attend this lecture which will
be an interesting one.
A feature of the attendance at the in
stitute this year is the unusually large
number of this years high school grad
yates whoa in attendance, probably
the greatest number that ever attended
institute the year following their grad
tuation. The attendance for some reason
lis not as large as was anticipated, and
j is pretty good Indication that there is
1 going to again be scarcity Of teachers
in this county. The total enrolment is
1872, as against 1872 in 1908, and 1913 in
1902, as follows:
Posr GRADUATE.
4 James Cozad Lnevile.
Geo. o. johnson, Leon
| Kate Hull, Leon.
Mabel v. Bradley, Kellerton.
Ella Grogan, Leon.
A GRADE.
/ Lorne T.. Long, Leon.
Il Mary f. Sears, Leon
Anga Sears, Decatur.
I f. o. Coontz, Woodland
Earnest Newlin, Garden Grove.
Myma Cesler, Leon.
Cleora Sankey, Leon.
! Ella Conrey, Leon.
II Hessel vanderHute, Lamont.
T. LYDIA Epperley, Leon.
Martha Lester, Lamont.
4 Lenne Beavers Leon.
Alice Zook, Garden Grove.
IL Katie Asbach, Davis City.
Lenna Stephens, Woodland.
r. f. III. Carver, Woodland.
q Gertrude Keown, Lamont.
| Fannie Jackson, Davis City.
Rosa Smith, Decatur.
Clara Turpen Peasanton.
}, Frances Swope, Garden Grove.
II Kate Vail, Garden Grove.
i Pearl Pryor. Leon.
Anna E. Mulkey Van Vert.
Anise Craft, Van Vert
II yerna Edwards, Pleasanton.
Isabel r. Cash. Decatur.
Sadie Skales Davis City.
GRADE.
Edyth Bryson, Woodland.
Anna Tabler, Leon
Blanche Leeper, Pleasanton.
, Daisy Ross, Leon
| Maggie Mcintosh, Davis City,
Margaret Daughton, Grand River.
J Nina V. &. Graves Decatur.
Jessie Hammer, Decatur.
, Minnie Downey, Decatur
Mary Coffey, Weldon.
Martha Martin, Lamont.
r r. Laura Strohm, Van Vert.
Harriet Meter, Leon.
Louise Lindsey Leon.
Zetta Springer, Decatur
| 4. Belle Kelley, Lamont
NJ f. Coontz, Woodland.
Athena Crawford, Leon.
/, Mabel Straight, Lamont.
, Bessie b. Davis, Pleasanton.
Maggie Wernitch, Davis City,
c GRADE.
Ella Bronson, Grand River.
Cora Ross, Leon.
\ Ruey Hazlet Leon.
q Chas. w. Shumway, Beaconsfeld.
Ella Seufer, Garden Grove
. Chris Oyerholtzer Grand River
: Roa Shewmak ker, Grand River.
VI
Mamie Hurley, Woodland.
:. Pearl Fowler, Lamont.
: Lottie Hauenstein Grand River.
. Homer Griffin, Grand River.
John G. Dufield Leon.
u Mrs. Nellie Jordan, Lineville.
i Eliza Bunch, Leon.
Stella Gardner, Leon.
! Thomas Artt, Leon.
Phoebe Cross Pleasanton.
ell Nellie Guthrie Leon.
Bessie CARRIER, Leon.
. Leland Scott, Lamont.
. Jennie Farnes, Leon.
IS Helen Gardner, Leon.
h Ethel sprague, Leon.
- Maggie Ross, Leon.
. Lnnie Gardner, Leon.
{, Laura Wernitch, Davis City.
4 Laura Machlan, Weldon. s
Daisy Davis, Davis City.
Myrtle Rumley, Leon.
e Ruth Sanger, Leon.
IL L. ". Tullis, Decatur.
Myner Hayer, Lamont.
v yeta Scott, Davis City.
20 Grace Mcdowell, Davis City.
III Mabel Cummins Davis City.
- Letha Burnett, Leon
II Georgia Rudibaugh, Davis City. y
le Hazel Freeman, Davis City.
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