The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-23
TEACHERS ALL THIS WEEK
MORE THAN 100 VISITORS WILL
BE IN THE CITY.
WE'RE TWO CHURCH MEETINGS
During the Past Week Norfolk Has
Been Filled with Delegates Attend
Ing Lutheran Synod and Baptlsts'
Observation-Disclosures Next.

Norfolk Is going to add Il lighter touch |
of color by throwing the city gates
open to tho pretty school teachers Of
Madison county.
This week Ia institute week and
from Monday to Friday the Madison
county teachers institute will be In
session in Norfolk. II will bring more
than hundred school teachers to the
city. Last year when the institute was
in Madison the enrolment reached
1903, the year before at Madison, so.
1t will set n higher mark In Norfolk.
There are 1d2 teachers in the county
and a state law requires institute ut
tendance.
The morning sessions OF the instl.
tute will be held In the Lincoln school
building, the afternoon assembly SEES
sions in tho Baptist church
The teachers evenings this week
will be their own. County Superlnten
dent II. S. Perduc has amputated the
evening lecture feature of institute
week. He says that his teachers are
saturated with lectures. Practically
every teacher in the county has at
tended summer schools and chautau-
qua assemblies this summer.
Superintendent Pcrdue Is going to
introduce new departure I'm county
school work that was started last fall
when Superintendent Clifford OF Coun.
Gil Bluffs was brought to Norfolk to
| lecture to teachers. There will be no
| lectures institute week but during the
coming school year four capable school
men are going to be brought out to
Madison county to speak to the Madi
son county teachers on practical
school subjects. Lectures will be CIV
en- on some Saturday afternoon at
Newman Grove, Madison, Norfolk and
Battle Creek.
| SO the pretty school marms will in
wade Norfolk on Monday morning.
Next year they will be back in Madi-
son for the rotation principle has been
adopted in the institute policy and
only an uprising of the school teach
ers in Norfolks favor would be apt to
change it.
| The instructors for institute week
will be Prof +. NJ. Gregg of the Peru
state normal; superintendent X. II,
Graham of the WymOre city schools,
Miss Elizabeth Sheehan of Columbus
and Prof Reese Solomon of Norfolk
The daily institute program is:
At Lincoln Building.
$50, roll call
$50 to 9:15, Prof. Gregg. physiol
L, ogy; Miss Sheehan, reading.
9:15 to 1000, Supt. Graham, arith
metic; Prof. Solomon, beginning mu
, sic.
1000 to 1915, Prof. Gregg, geogra
ply; Miss Sheehan, numbers.
1915 to 11;3O Supt. Graham, gram
mar; Prof. Reese Solomon, advanced
/ music.
| At Baptist Church.
1870 to 200, roll call; Prof. Solo
/. mon, music.
t 200 to 2:45, supt Graham, schoo
management.
1 2:45 to $3.50, Prof. Gregg, agrcul
: ture.
S $3.50, closing.
County Superintendent F. s. Perdu
+ came up from Madison two days earl
! in order to hold county teachers eS
9 aminations in Norfolk. The following
e young ladies took the examination FIR
/. day in the Lincoln building: Gal
n Avery, Battle Creek; Elsie d. Johr
son, Norfolk; Georgia Brakeman, MOI
folk; Ella Hauptli, Norfolk; Ann
Mueller, Norfolk; Eleanor Mueller
Norfolk; Matilda Hermann, Norfolk
l. Bertha NJ Richardson, Battle Creek
Agnes Flynn, Norfolk; Jennie Ingold!
g by, Battle Greek; Laura Oelsligle, tt
l. den Celia Mullen, Norfolk; Mae Mu
h len, Norfolk; Hilda Cassel, Battl
q Creek; Jessie Wells, Newman Grove
7. TIA Barnes, Battle Creek; Glennie Shil
e pee, Norfolk; Jessie Beed, Meade
L Grove; Rebecca Duggan, Norfolk
Elizabeth Zimmerman, Battle Creek
IS Gertrude Wright, Meadow Grove; G.
o neva Moolck, Norfolk; Nellie Sull
o van, Meadow Grove; Myrtle Col
e, Meadow Grove; Margaret Lund, Ba
r tie Creek; May Richardson, Meade
IT Grove.
S. The following examination progra
ID indicates the subjects upon which n
lie braska teachers must be proficien
r Friday morning: bookkeeping, civ
1T government, photography mental art
lie metic and penmanship; Friday afte
In noon: elements of agriculture, physic
ogy and hygiene, blackboard DRAWN
TX English composition and theory al
IS art OF teaching; Saturday morning
III algebra, geography reading, arithmet
Tx and English grammar; Saturday afte
noon: botany, physics, geometry al
III United States history.
&. ENTHUSIASTIC FOR MILITIA.