The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-04-12
TEACHERS ALL GO HOME
NEXT YEARS PROGRAM WILL BE
BEST EVER.
4ts ENROLLED DURING THE WEEK

~ School Teachers Who Have Spent
Three Days In Town-Fee Raised
From so Cents TO 81 and viii Help.
The last of the city's guests OF the
week leave today and Norfolk avenue
will miss the throng OF pretty school
marms' who for three days were In
attendance at the twenty.frst annual
meeting of the North Nebraska Teach
ers' association Norfolk liking the
school teachers and apprecatlng their
meetings, can look forward to next
years session, which according to the
officers of the association will set u
new standard In northeastern NeDras,
ka.
| The association Friday voted to
raise the enrolment fee from fifty
cents to one dollar. Men prominent
In the association expect the organza-
tion to be benefited by the change. Il
was heartily in favor of the increase"
| said President-clect A. V. TcCd of the
| teachers association" The increased
revenue will permit us to secure high
or priced speakers and to offer a su-
perior program. The increase ia not
large enough to affect the attendance
| but the more attractive program should
draw additional teachers. The fee Is
the small item in the teachers eXpcns-
es but IL is the item that regulates the
character of the program that can be
provided. When we come to Norfolk
next year. as we undoubtedly will, 1t
should for this reason be with a strong.
or program and more prosperous as.
ISOLATION"
The association meetings in Norfolk
for this year closed Friday afternoon
with lecture by Superintendent Hen
| ry Houck on Travels in the Orient"
| The deputy state superintendent of
| Pennsylvania pleased the teachers with
his address Although the association
ended Friday afternoon most of the
teachers remained over until Satur-
day, many attending the theater
The teachers at their Friday after
noon session adopted resolutions for
mally expressing their approval of two
educational measures awaiting Gov
ernor Sheldon's approval. One bill
provides for the appropriation of $685.
| 600 to aid deserving school districts in
the western part of the state The
| other carries an appropriation for $780,
600 to be used in introducing normal
training into Nebraska high schools.
| The resolution which the association
sent to Governor Sheldon reads:
The North Nebraska Teachers as
ISOLATION, representing eighteen coun-
ties and five hundred teachers, princi-
pals and superintendent of northeast
ern Nebraska in convention assem-
bled at Norfolk, do heartily endorse
house rolls No 247 and So and re-
specially urge your official approval
of the same"
State Superintendent J. l.. McBrien,
on the program of the teachers asso-
citation but unable to leave Lincoln in
the closing days Of the Legislature on
account of important school legislation
pending and before the governor, wired
the following message to the north
Nebraska teachers:
| important school legislation makes
it impossible for me to he with you,
but | send my best wishes for the
greatest meeting in the history of your
association. The school year now clos
| ing has been the most successful in
the history of the state. The aggre-
gate increase in teachers salaries over
last year is three hundred thousand
| dollars. Thanks to the new certifica-
ton law and the earnest efforts of
noblest class of school men and school
women in America. First class teach
ers can and should command even bet
ter salaries next year. AS an example,
the aggregate increase of teachers
salaries at Wahoo is nearly one thou
sand dollars. Superintendent salary
at Alliance increased three hundred
dollars. Yours for better teachers,
better salaries, better schools and the
five essentials, j. l.. McBrien, state
superintendent"
The session which has just closed
has been unusually well organized and
directed. The officers were pleased
with the attendance and with the sue
cess of the general and department
meetings. Credit for the general at
tendance from over the district is at.
tributed to the efforts of President Per.
due, who has been one of the most &C.
tive presidents in the associations his
tory in pushing forward the interests
OF the organization. The first arrange
ments for next years meeting will be
outlined at a meeting of the officers
of the association next fall or early
winter,