The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31
MINOT INSTITUTE
GREAT SUCCESS
MRS. STEVENS PAID TRIBUTE TO
THE EXCELLENT WORK OF
TWO FARGO LADIES AND 9TH.
ERs WHO WERE PROMINENT
FACTORS.

Bantry, N. D.. Aug. 29.--To The
Forum: have Just returned from
Minot, where they were holding
teachers institute, and 1 rather think
the whole state is interested in such
affairs as making for intelligent citi-
zenship.
In Minot too, where they are ask
ing Cor normal, and they need a
constitutional amendment to add TO
our state institutions as we grow.
There were $50 registered in the in
sttute and 225 registered in the sum
mer school, over 400 in all.
The amazing thing was that these
400 people did not seem to make even
ripple on the streets of Minot or in
its restaurants. Why, the eighteen
members of the institute in 1891 made
more Of a stir as they walked down,
what was then the only street in MI
not Main sereet. Oh, yes, there were
other streets, but the buildings on
them were easily counted, and all the
business was done on Main street.
Minot has a fine high school, and
the old high school alongside is now
used as a grade school, but it was
necessary to hold all the general as
sembly meetings in the Methodist
church, as well as all the sessions of
the institute proper.
When the institute wanted to watch
your Miss Eula Miller at primary
methods, 1t was necessary to go in
two divisions at different hours. Miss
Eula Miller holds her place we'll in
institute work and is growing. She
sees and gives more and more of the
principle underlying our work.
Miss Emtr Best also of Fargo, did
excellent work in domestic science and
home economics, and a goodly number
OF students registered in her classes.
This department will grow.
superintendent Alexander Of RolIa
is refreshing always. He is a Da-
kotan who has, on its sounding anvil
shaped each burning deed and thought.
Superintendent Wolfe Of Minot is a
master of methods in arithmetic, and
will probably publish his methods
pretty soon.
Superintendent Crane of jamestown
was the conductor, and a very able
one he proved to be. Miss Bessie
Grler's poem. read at the last general
assembly, voiced the feeling Of all in
her hearty invitation to him to re-
turn next year. His health talks were
admirable and we'll worth the trip
alone. 1t was amazing to And a school
man so we'll posted and telling 1t all
so clearly. Now watch the general
level rise, wherever his students go.
Miss Grace Barker now OF Grand
Forks, is going to Everett, Wash. and
We shall miss her music and physical
culture as well as her own bright
self. Her work is a great success and
she is equally at home with two or
200. Then her leadership of Lead
Kindly Light at the hour Of the fun
eral Of A. L. Woods was beautiful. So
were the flowers on the table. They
had been furnished by his old friends
in the institute.
Next day Mr.. Woods old friend. ].
NJ. Devine, opened his address with
thanks to the institute for the way
they had hOnored his friend, and he
too, added a wreath of the chapIets
laid on his memory.
Miss Anna Peterson, deputy county
superintendent of Bottineau, leads
Bottlneau just as she used to lead
Pierce county, in a solid phalanx, and
on to victory in the field meet at Wild.
wood whether we went by boat, and
picnicked, or whether in the debate on
Equal Suffrage on Friday evening for
those who had to stay till Saturday.
Time fails me to mention the good
owork of superintendent Seiph OF
Peirce, Dalton Macdonald of McHenry.
Warren of Ward, Miss Cotton, nigh
school principal of Minot, Professor
Rysgard Of the State university, etc.
But ! would like to tell of the histori-
cal civics of Mr.. Abbott, now of the
A. c. That was feast, and 1t SEEM
ed a point worth pointing out to our
new Dakotans, how pioneers may
grow and stay. For tia chairman of
the State Constitutional convention OF
1889, NJ. N. Johnson, lived to become
U. S. senator, and died last year in the
harness. The first state senator of