Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-05-08
To HOLD THf institute
Meeting Will be Held on
Thursday, June 4th, at
the Court House

xR0 6t2t6 18l H61S 1QSG1I0t0 WILL
hold Q session in this city at the
court house. on Thursday, June 4th.
The matter was brought up at q
recent meeting Of the Commercial
club, who requested the secretary to
write them that this city would be
pleased to have them Tor date, and
ES33ecrotary Murphy has received letter
to above affect.
8 The following are extracts from q
letter written by Superintendent
Wilson, and, with the matter previous
~ published, about covers the style of
the meeting to be held
We have placed Little Falls in the
1st for an institute on Thursday,
June 4. There will be two sessions,
one at 10 a. m. and the other at / 80
.p. m. Your people may wish to have
some sort of a picnic dinner in con
Enection with the institute, but it will
Ebe almost necessary to use the hall for
the speaking and to nave it ready in
case the weather should not be good.
I'VE will be glad if you will also send
us the list of about 200 names of
farmers in your vicinity to whom we
may send our advertising. We are
now ordering the posters for use in
advertising the Institute and will have
them by the end of the week.
! ':F. B. McLeran Of Wrenshall will
be in charge of the meeting. Mr..
sMcLeran is thoroughly familiar with
the conditions in northern Minnesota,
as his farm is in Carlton county. Mr..
sMcLeran will take up the subjects of
Fruit growing, vegetable gardening
and the care Of poultry. Mr.. McLeran
FURNISHED a large quantity of straw
sberries for the Minnesota horticultural
sdisplay at the st. Louis exposition
and received many words of praise for
the high quality of the fruit.
]. Mrs. Bertha Dahl Laws of
appleton, Mlnn. will be the lady
instructor With this corps. Mrs.
Laws has been at Little Falls once or
twice and I believe will be re-
membe!ed BY yonr people as 9 most
for her subjects The Preparation of
Foods, The American Girl in the
Home, . and Plain Foods and Plain
Living. - Mrs. Laws is one of the
most sought for institute workers in
The United States She has retired
from institute work but consents to
help ps ont this summer with the
special meetings.
6 Il. sP Harrington, principal of the
agricultural school at Crookston,
ssforms tho third member of the force.
harrington viii talN up the
,mattersof the rural schools, the teach
ing Of agriculture in the schools, and
also the state industrial contest. This
contest is being conducted for the boys
and girls of the state and a great
many of the county superintendent
are pushing the work in their
counties Mr.. Harrington is very
entertaining speaker and I know the
boys. and girls will enjoy listening to
him, as well as the older folks.
''This is a SPECIAL institute, and the
program is made up so as to be of
interest to the women as well as the
men and also to the young people
The topics will not cover the lines
usually covered by the institute. We
believe there is much room for instruc-
tion along the lines mentioned and
hope we may have good audiences at
the sessions.
IF your people wish to have us
hold one of the regular Institutes at
Little Falls next winter sometime, we
can no doubt arrange for such meet
ing. If there is any further informa-
tlon we can give you we will be glad
to give it.. -