Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-19
Meetings Well Attended in Spite of
the lnClement Weather
Conditions
General Association will Hold First
Meeting this Afternoon at
Capitol

Is in the evening. This arrangement
each day will enable them to take in
all of the meetings and yet be able
to spend the evenings at home.
) General Association Meetings.
The greatest interest centers in the
meetings OF tho general association
which win convene for the first time
at the house chamber at the capitol
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The morn.
ings will be devoted for the balance
Of the session to the meetings of diff
ferent departments and the general
association will occupy the afternoons
and evenings.
Department Meetings Today.
This morning there will be three de.
partment meetings. The department
of secondary education will meet at
$50 at the Presbyterian church; the
department Of elementary education
will meet at $3.50 at the Presbyter-
ian church, and the department of sup
erintendence will meet at $50 at the
Commercial club rooms. At the meet.
ing of the secondary education de-
partment the general topic which will
occupy the entire morning, will be
what Are Our High Schools Doing
and What Should They Do Towards
Efficiency" The question will be
taken UP from the standpoint Of the
different branches taught. In the de-
partnnent of superintendence among
the topics to be discussed is THE Ad.
visability=of State Aid to High Schools
Offering Work in Preparation for Ru-
raj School Teaching" This will be
taken up in papers presented by Supt.
C. L. Vigness Of Burleigh county, and
Supt. F. r. Barnes of Richland coun-
ty. The topic of "The Relation Of
Health to Morality" will be discussed
county, and Martha Tatem of Willis.
ton.
This Afternoon's Session.
At the general association meeting
this afternoon at 2 o'clock the presi-
dent of the North Dakota educational
association, Fred B. Smith of Wahpe-
ton, will deliver his annual address.
There will also be an address by Hon.
w. L. Stockwell, superintendent of
public instruction, and an address by
Prof. E. F.. Ladd of the N. D. A. c.,
on "EducatiOnal Progress Of the
Year."
Excursion to Fort Lincoln.
The Bismarck Commercial club
will arrange for a special train which
will leave the Northern Pacific depot
at 4:15 p. M, to take the visitors to
Fort Lincoln where a concert will be
given by the regimental band Of the
14th U. S. infantry, to be followed by
a battalion dress parade by the
troops stationed at the post. The train
returning, will arrive at Bismarck at
6:15 in the evening.
Information Bureau.
The Commercial club has establish.
ed an information bureau and has also
gotten out a circular which tells the
places of meeting for the different de-
partments, as we'll as contains small
map of the city and shows where
the various meeting places are located
on each street. The bureau has prov.
ed to be a very valuable feature and
has already been able to furnish con-
siderable information to the visiting
delegates.
Good Attendance.
The attendance at the various de-
partmental meetings Tuesday after
noon was good, Notwithstanding the
fact that there was heavy downpour
of rain during the day, and the supse-
quent drop in the thermometer.
Joint Department Meeting.
The department of history, civics
and social science, and musical educa-
ton held a joint meeting in the au-
ditorium of the Presbyterian church.
There were many interesting papers
among them the annual ad-
dress Of the president Of the former
Prof. r. M. Black Of
Neither of the depart
ments elected officers for the COM =
Ing year, the-time of the election to
be announced at the general associa'
lion meeting. -,
Prof. Libby's Address.
. The feature of the joint meeting
was forty minute address by DR.. o.
G. Libby, secretary Of the state his
torical society, on the topic, "The
Food Supply Of the Mandans."
) DR.. Libby said in part:
The Mandans were an important
ribe in the early days on the Missouri
liver, and though they still survive,
! shattered fragment Of their former
strength, they are popularity believed
% have perished In the smallpox
JcOufge Of 1887. The Nandans are
classified as q branch Of the Sioual
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