The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-07
MANY TEACHERS HERE
STATE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
 MEET TO-DAY,
Will be Welcomed This Morning by Acting Mayor McIntyre-Profes- sor Rose is to Speak To-
 night.

Educators from all over the State are arriving in Montgomery on every train to attend the twenty fourth an-
 nual session of the Alabama Educa- tional Association which convenes in
 Montgomery this morning for three days meeting. All deliberations of the Association
 will be held in the hall of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol and one of the best attended and in
 every way most successful meetings of the Association is predicted Probably
 fifty members of the Association arr
 rived in Montgomery last night and
 at least three times that number are
 expected on morning trains today. Prof. W. E. Striplin of Gadsden, chairman of the Executive Committee
 of the Association, who has been in Montgomery two days arranging all of the details for the meeting said at the Associations Headquarters, rooms 1 and 2. of the New Mabson Hotel
 last night that everything promised well for fine meeting this year. The meeting this year has been
 more thoroughly advertised than any previous meeting" he said, "and I be- lieve the largest crowd of delegates that has ever attended one of the meet
 ings of the Association will be in Montgomery at this session"
 Acting Mayor c. P. Mcintyre will welcome the members of the Associa- | ton to Montgomery at the opening of
 the meeting in the Hall of tn House of Representatives at II o'clock this morning and he will be followed by
 Prof. Clarence J. Owens of Anniston with a response. Prof. H. J. willlngham, of We- tumpka, president of the Alabama Ed ucational Association will then deliver the annual address. Edgar Gardner Murphy. Executive Secretary of the Southern Education Board. who is on the program for an address tonight had not arrived in Montgomery last night, but the teach CTS are hopeful that he will reach the city today.
 One of the features of this evening g session will be an address by Prof.
 Wicliffe Rose, Dean of the Peabody College of Nashville, Tenn. Professor Rose is recognized by educators throughout the country as one of the best and most learned teachers in the South. The members of the Associa- tion are looking forward to his speech with much pleasant anticipation.
 The program of today's meeting is as follows:
 Music.
 Address of Welcome-Hon. C. P. Me-
 Intyre, Acting Mayor of Montgomery
 Response-President Clarence J. Owens, Anniston.
 Presidents Annual Address-H. J.
 willingham. Wetumpka. 3. D. m. Music.
 Opportunities of Rural School Teach- CTS for Improving Country Life-Prin- cipal T. D. Graves. East Tallassee: Prof. c. L. Hildreth. Fort Payne. Grading Country Scnools-Superin- tendent W. R. Harrison, Union Springs.
 Music.
 School Buildings-Superinte R. O. Meek, Attalla; Architect Frederick Ausfeld. Montgomery. Enrolment of Members. Music.
 Address-Edgar Gardner Murphy, Executive Secretary, Southern Educa- ton Board.
 Address-Prof. Wiciiffe Rose, Pea
 body College. Nashville. Tenn. Announcements. Adjournment. It was announced last night that Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson who Is on the program for Thursday can not be here. He has been unexpee- tedly called to the East.