Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-01-11
PRES. PADDOCK OF SCHOOL
FOR COWBOYS AND GIRLS
Spoke Three Times Here Sunday-Do-
ing Great Work in His Industrial
Institute.

Rev. E. A. Paddock of Weiser, Ida,
| spoke Sunday at Park church, at the
| Y. NJ. c. A, and the Second Congre-
gational church in the evening.
Rev. E. A. Paddock has had most
interesting career, as a lumberman in
| Wisconsin, as a state evangelist in
Illinois. as a SKY pilot" missionary,
church organizer in Colorado, and now
as an educator in Idaho.
Mr.. Paddock, in his long humani-
tartan work among rough people in
the Rocky mountains. was saddened
| by the lack OF opportunities, educa-
tional and religious, for the sons and
daughters Of miners, Mormons, shep-
herds. cowboys, etc. He felt that some
ago. without money or land, started
the Idaho Industrial institute.
Secured Government Claim.
He had a government claim Of so
acres put up a shack" on Ii, and five
students came. Financial help was
found to assist in the building OF
dormitory and a recitation building,
a rough horse shed and crude work
shop. After nine years the institute
owns 1000 acres of ranch land with
a large, up to date dairy barn, IS
cows and so horses, a concrete work
shop, 30 feet by 30 in size. There are
four frame school buildings and two
large reinforced concrete dormitories-
one reinforced concrete dining room
and chapel and forty young women,
the other nearly finished will give
shelter to so young men.
Mr.. Paddock is one OF the most or
iginal educators of the country, for he
solved better than any one else the
problem Of self-supporting education.
His young people from the mines
and cowboy cabins scattered over ten
states, though of Yankee stock are
mostly poor.
Each Pupil Works.
But that does not debar them from
the Idaho Industrial institute. for
each pupil works FIVE hours a day at
fifteen cents an hour, the result of
their labor Clutter. grain, brooms, ia
bles, chairs, in the boys department,
and dresses, wrappers. stockings, food
products, in the girls Department. sell
for nearly enough to meet running ex-
penses.
Scores OF students are turned away
for lack of room.
The students make their own regu-
lations and laws for the conduct of
the students and seldom does the fac
ulty need to advise in matters of dis
cipline.
Christian but Nom Sectarian.
ue pdS1S VI lie Is
tan but non-sectarian and the young
people going forth with education,
trades and character, will be civiliz-
ers in that vast western country.
Mr.. Paddock, "the modern Lincoln"
as many call him. brings to this sue
cessful and growing educational work
a patience, courage, versatility and
tact unsurpassed.
He tolerates no idling and abomi-
mates poor jobs" His butter and
brooms and horses and cows are the
best.
Best of Instructors.
The very best instructors III alto
gether) are from Yale, Dartmouth,
Bryn Mawr. Connecticut normal
school, Cornell, Oberlin. Ann Arbor
Chicago university, etv.
The picturesque miners and shep-
herds and cowboys with a few Nor
hearted man who with rare ability
and skill is making the desert to
blossom as the rose"
The Idaho Industrial institute is all
ready a great force for developing the
splendid material Of the plains and
mountains, and is destined to have a
great future.
At the Y. M. C. A. Meeting.
At the Sunday afternoon meeting
III Cne L NJ. y. A, kew Il. A. Paddock
Of Weiser. Idaho. head Of a school for
cowboys and cowgirls, was the speak
er. intensely interesting a good sized
audience of men and women with a
practical talk, which he said would
be straight from the shoulder, as he
was used to talk TO his western au-
diences.
General Secretary Frank II. Mer-
rill opened the meeting with a song
service, President A. A Browning
read the Scripture and z. A. Prentice
offered prayer. President Browning
then introduced the speaker who in
troduced his remarks by saving that
he would give a talk with a double
cinch-the eyes and the ears. This
he followed out by developing the five
points which could be used from the
letters Of the word WATCH" In an
informal and striking way, richly filed
in with illustrations from his western
experiences, he told his hearers that
they were to watch in FIVE ways to
build up a good character. Words,
actions, thoughts, company and hearts
were to be watched. and the final les
son was that Gods help is the ulti-
mate thing needed to resist TEN pta-
ton. Asking his help, we may Slip.
for 1t is human to slip, but his hand
is strong enough to keep us from fall
ing. He also spoke at the boys meet
ing.
At the close General Secretary Mer-
rill invited all men interested to Join
the Bible club to be taught by DR..
L. L. West, beginning next Tuesday
evening.