The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-29
PLANTERSVILLE DAY
THRONG OF PEOPLE IN DALLAS TO
 HEAR GOVERNOR.
Traising School Was Given q Boost And Conner Announces His Op- position to the Gunneis
 Measure.

Selma, June 2s--tSpecial. )--This was an eventful day in the history of Plantersville in the northern part Of Dallas county.
 Never before in the history of the town had there been such a gathering Never before had there been such speech making as was heard today. From far and near there gathered peo- pie who came to accept the hospitality of the citizens of that place. Planters vile acted as host and acquitted her self with honor and. the day will prove to be memorable. 5000 visitors from babes in arms to the Governor of Alabama as well as other State officials. The primary cause of the gathering was for the State in making the Plantersville col lege a training school for the State at large and at, which pupils can be trained for the colleges and teachers have built a most creditable school house and dormitory and the first ses- sion of the school which has just end- ed ed @ has proven a,, most suocessInb 6 Iuhn one Dobson, who for ten years had charge of the college at Oxford, and with a small but efficient corps of teachers during the past session. the school de- of learning which the State needs.
 During the session just ended there were eighty pupils in the school and these came from five different counties.
 The speech making of the day start ed about 10 o'clock this morning and an address was made by Senator II E. Reynolds of the Bibb and Ferry Thompson, solicitor of the fourth judi cial district. Both spoke upon educa- ton and each received an ovation.
 At few minutes after II o'clock the train from Selma reached Plantersville on which there were Governor Conner State Treasurer Walter Seed and Sec retary of Agriculture J. A. Wilkerson and about five hundred people from
 Governor Conner upon his arrival was escorted to the dormitory of the school where he held a public reception for half an hour. About IF o'clock Gov ernor Conner and other prominent men present were escorted a short distance from ths school where in a grove there had been butt q small stand and this stand there soon gathered many hundred men and women who listened with close attention to all that was said.
 Congressman w. D. Craig acted as master of ceremonies and with appro- priate remarks introduced Hon. A. D. Pitts of this city, and Governor Conner; common school education and his ad- dress was warmly received.
 Governor Conner was then introduced and LOOK as nlS SuDJect general eau . cation. He told of the amount of money which the Legislature had ap- propriated to the. cause of education and said that this amount would be in- creased each year until there should be no reason why this State should not stand as one of the first in facilities with which to educate the children of the State.
 During, his remarks he showed that he would oppose the Gunnels measure which will be introduced when the Leg islature conyenes: He told the. people never to allow the privilege of elect ing their county superintendent of eou- cation be taken from their hands. He also seemed to favor the compulsory educational measure.
 While the Governor made no prom ises to the Plantersville college he in- timated that the school would be taken care of and more so after the revenue from the intangible tax measure be- gins to come into the State treasury
 This school will be helped In another way if a measure which Senator H. E. Reynolds will introduced Is passed This measure will provide for the es- tablishment of training school In coun- ties in which at present there are