Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-03-29
SOUTHERN EDUCATORS
Preparations Under Way For the AM.
nual Conference, to be Held This
Year at Columbia.

nual Conference, to be Held This
Year at Columbia.
Columbia, Special. = Preparations
are we'll under way for the
eighth session Of the Conference for
Education in the South. This. body
meets in this city on the evening OF.
April 2Sth.
The Conference comes to Columbia
by invitation of the Governor of the
State, the Legislature of South Caro-
lima, the State department Of educa-
ton, the educational institutions of
Columbia, the mayor, the city council
and the Columbia Chamber Of Com
merce. Attendants upon the confer
ence come from every quarter Of the
country, representing men and women
interested in the general cause Of edu.
cation, people of affairs as well as peo-,
pie professionally associated with the
schools. The address of welcome will
be delivered by Governor Hayward.
The officers of the conference are
Mr.. Robert G. Ogden, Of New York
City, president; Edgar Gardner Muir
ply, of Alabama, vice-presideht; Dr..
B. ]. Baldwin. of Montgomery Ala,
secretary; Mr.. William A. Blair, Win
ston-Salem, N. c., treasurer. The ex-
ecutive committee is B. B. Valentine.
Richmond, Va, chairman; DR.. Robert
B. Fulton, chancellor Of the University
of Mississippi; the Hon. John B. Knox,
president of the recent constitutional
convention of Alabama. Ala; G. P.
Glenn, superintendent Of schools, Jack
sonville, Fla; B. C. Caldwell, presi-
dent of the State Normal School, La;
G. B. Gibson, superintendent OF
schools, Columbus, Ca; DR.. Richard
H. Jesse. president of the University
Of Missouri; Hon. S. A. Mynders, State
superintendent Of education, Tenn;
Clarence H. Poe, editor of the Progress
sive Farmer, Raleigh, N. c.; DR.. d. B..
Johnson, president of Winthrop Col
lege, Rock Hill, S. c.; DR.. D. F. Hous-
ton, president of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, Texas.
This is the first meeting that the
conference has held in South Carolina.
1t met last year at Birmingham, Ala,
and the year before at Richmond. Va.
The local committee of arrangements
include many of the leading citizens
Of Columbia. and the social reception
to be rendered to the guests Of the
Conference in the Capitol Building
will be without doubt an occasion OF
memorable interest and Importance.
Both houses Of the Legislature have
offered their assembly rooms for the
use of the reception committee.
The programme, together with 9th.
er details in connection with the
next few days. An interesting feature
is to take place on the morning Of the
9th, when that session Of the Confer
ence will be assigned to the State Su-
perintendents of Education who will
: be present from the South. TbeysWill
be invited to select#th heirs oWn#ch chair:
mar. and discus sssuc chsd duestio tionsSassare
of immediate interest In their several
fields. .s e
Mr. Robert c. Ogden, president of
the conference. will bring a disting.
uished party of visitors by special
train. The greater number of those
in attendance will be from the South.
ern States. about one thousand being
expected from south of Mason and
DiXOn's line.
The chairman of the local commit.
tee of arrangements is 2. S. Dreher,
superintendent of schools of the city
of Columbia. Those intending to at.
tend the Conference should give early
notice to Superintendent Dreher. De.
tails as to railroad rates will be an
nounced through the press at an early
date.