Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-05
STATE TEACHERS CONVENTION
Preparations Making for Entertain.
ment OF Pedagogues.

| Ogden, Utah, Dec. 5.--Tonight a
| meeting Of all the school teachers OF
| the city will be held for the purpose OF
! selecting committees 10 look after the
| receiving, caring for and entertainment
| OF the pedagogues Of the entire state,
! who are to assemble I'm Ogden In con-
4 vention the FIRST three days In Janu-
| my. Supt. Allison says that he is daily
| receiving numerous communications
| from trustees and teachers from all
over the state for hotel and private
room Accommodations during the con-
vention. He fully expects that the con-
vention will be the best and most large
ly attended OF any ever held In Utah.
The program committee is getting itS
work in shape so that the program can
soon be published. Besides the num-
erous literary numbers and lectures to
be given an unusually pleasing musical
program is being arranged by Prof,
Coop, and many amusements are be-
ing arranged for including q grand
reception and ball ON New Years night
at the Auditorium, II tha building can
be obtained. A full attendance OF the
teachers is called for tonight that be-
sides naming of committees many 9TH
or preliminary matters can be taken
up.
Those who win have charge of tho
various courses of study at the con-
vention are:
Primary Section--Mrs. G. L. Wade,
president. Ogden; Miss Sythe Brown,
secretary, Provo.
High School and College Section
w. III. Chlds, president. Lehi George
Day. secretary, Fillmore.
Elocution and Physical Education
Seotion-Dr. +. G. Gowans, president,
Salt Lake county; Mrs. Belle Salmon
Ross, secretary, Ogden.
Music--William A. Wetzell. presi-
dent, Salt Lake county Miss Valera
Brinton, secretary. Salt Lake county.
Parents Section-Prof Milton Ben
Mon, president, Salt Lake county.
Arts and Crafts Section-E. II. East
mond. president, Provo; Miss Anna l..
Corbett, secretary, Salt Lake county
kindergarten Section-Miss Emily
Roxburg. president, Salt Lake county;
Miss BERTHE Walsh, secretary, Farm
ington.
president, Salt Lake county; Il. $.
Sheets, secretary, Salt Lake county.
superintendent Section--Supt. A. c.
Nelson. president, Salt Lake county;
Supt. Ida NJ. Wells, secretary.
School Board Sectlon--C G. Grape,
president, Sandy. Salt Lake county; Jo-
seph Hughes. secretary. Mt. Pleasant,
Sanpete county.
Business Section--O. j. Stilwell, pres
ident. Ogden; II, Leo Bird, secretary,
Salt Lake county.
Juvenile Section--JudgeW Willis Brown,
president, Salt Lake county: Ariel C.
Carbon, secretary, Logan.
Committee on Arrangements-Wil-
liam Allison, chairman. Ogden.
MRS. LISTER SUES FOR DIVORCE.
DR.. William B. Lister Is gaining much
notoriety through his deserving his own
wife and child and running away with
another mans wife, according 10 ale-
cations. The last role In which he APP
pears In Ogden Is as defendant In a
divorce suit brought against him by
his wife Viola Arlene Lister. to whom
he was married Jan. g. 1902, at Salt
Lake City, and a 3-year-old child Is
living as issue of the marriage. Be-
side the runaway escapadt, the plaintiff
alleges az cause for divorce that for
months past plaintiff has neglected to
provide for his family and was addicted
to the use of intoxicants and drugs,
and when under the influence of such