The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-04-04

A Welcome Home.

AT che invitation OF old friendS MISS
Maud Rowland, who is now the prin-
cipal of the public high school at
Tracy, Minnesota, is spending her
Easter week of vacation here as the
guest of Mrs. DIR. Lane and others.
She expressed sincere regret in not
being able to be here in time to see the
exhibit of the Miller public schools.
The Tracy schools on the very same
day were closing the winter term with
public contest among the pupils in
the matter of different branches of
home arts and industries such as
cooking, baking, sewing, etc., which
it seems are taught in the North Star
state schools with great enthusiasm
and high hopes, and doubtless with
much practical good. The citizens of
Tracy presented the winners in the
contests with a score of presents. DIR.
Rowland and family, Of which Miller's
present esteemed guest is one, were
among the pioneer founders of this
city. The doctor died many years
since but the mother and two daugh-
iers, who are well and fayorably re-
membered here, now make their home
in the state of Washington, while an
other daugheer, Mrs. Myrtle Kellogg,
lives in North Dakota, where her hus-
baud is in business, while the only
son, Will, who is married, is success
full business man in Chicago. Coming
here as a child Miss Maud passed her
childhood and young girlhood days
here, and received all her early educa-
tion in the Miller public schools.
Some eleven years ago the family re-
moved from here to Hiram, Ohio, in
order to give the younger members OF
the family better educational advant-
ages in the college there, under the
auspices of the Christian church
wherein one of Hand county's own
and brightest boys, Elmer Snoddy,
graduated and is teaching Greek from
the chair at one time held by the
great and martyred President
Garfield. Miss Maud has but recently
completed full classical course. She
is perhaps the only practically native
Miller girl who has had the pluck and
ambition to obtain and be honored
with the degree Of A. b., and that too
from noted eastern college. So our
nifu fn xuhiah chn haaIy ar,
visit as her own and. only true
childho0d's home, after her triumphs
and laurels won abroad, claims her as
its own true and loyal daughter, and
feels proud Of her attachments. Since
her graduation this refined and
accomplished young lady, with
characteristic executive ability and
determination, devotion and
patriotism has supplemented her
college training with extensive
travel from Virginia, and Washington
City to Washington state and Port
land, Oregon, in her own beloved
land. And the beauty and charm of
it all and of this slender girls life, is
that she practically earned her own
way And here again lies the beautiful
lesson and inspiration in this serious
minded minded girls attachments.
She wears her honors unaSsum-
ingly and modestly and retains the
direct and right western spirit. Our
people will watch with interest her
future career and achievements, wish
ing her well and unlimited success in
her every endeavor and in her nobly
chosen profession of usefulness, and
that she may, in turn, teach many
Others to become "skilled in each art
and crowned with every grace"