The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1905-08-19
HANCOCK COUNTY
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.


WEEKS DURATION N-CONDUCT-
ED BY PROF. w. F. BOND, OF
WIGGINS-COPY OF THE OFF,
CIAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Hancock County Teachers 1nsti-
tute, with Prof. w. F. Bond, of Wig
gins, Miss, as conductor, closed here
Tuesday afternoon after a successful
weeks work, special attention being
given to the new text books recently
adopted bv the State Text Book Com
mission. and to ways and means OF I'M
proving the rural schools, A commit
tee, appointed to report on the Vita
needs of the country schools, reported
the following to be most pressing al
present:
/. More native teachers.
2. More money.
3. Better houses and equipments.
t. Better attendance.
The Institute devoted itself largely to
considering ways and means of securing
better houses and equipments, and as to
the part the teacher should play in the
work the following was formulated and
adopted:
SIT is the sense of the Institute Of
Hancock County, 1905, that every
teacher worthy of the name will accom-
plish or endeavor to accomplish the
things suggested below; and the County
Superintendent is requested TO bring
this to the notice of every teacher in
the County,"
|. What every teacher can do:
|. Have the school grounds cleaned
up.
II. Keep school house clean.
III. Have sufficient black boards.
", Furnish some interior decora
ton by way of cheap pictures and grow
ing plants.
V. Have plenty of fuel provided.
2. What every teacher should try to
do:
[. Have school grounds fenced.
II. Put shade trees and shrubbery.
Ill. Have seating accommodations
(patent desks provided.
". Have new school house built, or
improve the old one.
V. Found library.
VI. Have good water provided.
A resolution was also passed and pre-
sented to the Board of Supervisors, ask
ing that body to appropriate the surplus
school fund, if there be any, to the re-
pair, building and furnishing of rural
school houses.
The following was declared to be the
sense of this Institute in regard to the
Institute for 1906:
|. That every teacher in the county
shall attend, under penalty of decreased
salary, unless satisfactory reasons are
shown for absence.
II. Place of meeting shall be deter
mined by vote Of the teachers.
III. The Institute shall continue two
weeks.
". At least one period daily shall
be devoted to text book work.
Y. Under conditions of Art. and
III primary teacher shall be employed,
VI. Roll shall be called and every
teacher required to report on success in
carrying out principles formulated by
Institute of 1905.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted at the close Of Institute
'EResolved that we, the members o1
Hancock County Institute, 1905, hereby
express to Prof. w. F. Bond, its con-
ductor, our highest appreciation OF the
courteous, interesting, instructive, and
otherwise able manner in which it has
been conducted"
The following teachers were enrolled
during the week;
Prof. w. F. Bond, conductor; Pro.
fessor R. w. Langham, NJ. M. Jayne,
T. L. Trawick, John Craft, Alfred Ali
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Stoekstill, Misses
Johnnie Hart, Annie Trawick, Gracit
Campbell, Josephine Perry, Nellie Ty,
ler, Lutye Armitage, Maude Ellis, Lou
ise Delcuze and Rosella Trioou (pros'
pective teachers), Miss Venie Word ant
Mrs. A. L. Stokoe (visitors).
LENA STUCKSTILL,
Sec'y