Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-03-26
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!. Meet IS A SUCCESS

OFFICERS ELECTED At FIRST
DAY OF MEETING = kiTcA-
EN- PRESIDENT. -
Next Annual Meeting to Be Held at
Beach - Teachers Urged to Attend
State Meeting at Bismarck.
The second annual meeting Of the
Missouri Slope Educational Associa.
ton was called to order in the Man.
dan high school building at 10
oclock by President Lorin.> As the
trains from the east were late. the
president recommended that an Ad-
journment be- taken till O'Clock p.
m, and, that the balance of the time
be occupied in visiting the reform
school. .'''
At the opening of the afternoon
session the president announced that
Supt. Stockwell was unable to at
tend ON account of the illness Of his
father, and Assistant Superintendent
Taylor" was called upon to flll hts
place, which he did :: very ably.
Among other things he urged all
the teachers present to attend the
annual meeting of the State Edpca-
tionaf Association at Bismarck: next
October. 49,. ; s>.
He then urged that the social
features of these meetings should
not be lost sight OF in graphing
with the school problems. The
wonderful development of the ives.
tern part of the state was then re-
ferred ia rim particular and the whole
state in general. There are now
5000 - rural schools in the state
taught by 5000 teachers. The
teachers were invited to give any
advice they could bearing on the re-
vision of the school laws and to lis
cuss the problem of state aid to the
rural schools, a question that will
undoubtedly come before the state
legislature at its next session.
Mr.. James W. Foley then introduce
ed himself and his poetry by some
genial and happy remarks. He then
read some of l is poems. Drop a
pebble in the water. Drop an un-
kini word, Drop word of cheer
and kindness" represents the
thought of the first poem read.
"Sunset on the Prairie," a soliloqy
by the retiring rancher and old.time
frontier man was tLen read. The
poem is we'll known AMI very popu-
lar and pictures beautifully the new
west and the sadness of the old
timer on the passing of the old
wild west. The next poem aiming
at encouraging cheerfulness, delight
fully introduced oh thought by
words LETS dream" and Let's
play" The last. poen read was ON
the humorous order and introduced
two orse-jockeys swapping bal ky
horses as blows: Hello says
1; 'Heflo,'' says he. 3" 'S'', '-'>' -
The Mandan Glee Club then fav.
ored us with some excellent music.
Supt. C. ]. N. Nelson. of Beach,
delivered a paper on "Arithmetic in
18th grades Let the arithmetic
in each grade be SO taught as to lay
the foundation for mathematics in
the next higher grade. Let the
main object be to secure neatness
and accuracy. The meaning of the
minus sign should be so taught in
arithmetic that it need not be re-
taught in algebra. Careless mac
curacy in school may lead to inten-
tional AMI studied inaccuracy In a
defaulter. He stretched his subject
some to make some fitting remarks
on the need of honesty and showed
that it could be obtained only by
taking the boy and girls and start
ing them right at the beginning.
Tie business session then followed
and the following officers were un-
animously elected: Supt. ]. A.
Kitchen, of Sentinel Butte, presi-
dent; Supt. c. S. Melby, of Emerson,
vice president: and Supt. Josephine
Steake, of Hettinger, secretary
treasurer. The next annual meeting
will be held at Beach next March.
Several announcements were then by
the president and short recess
followed.
After a recess of a few minutes
the session was continued by talk
by Editor w. G. Croker on Rural
Wrongs Reflected" He pictured in
a number of imaginary letters the
many wrongs existing in rural
school due to ignorance and lack OF
interest on the part of parent,
teacher and school officer. Torn and
out of date books. unsanitary school
poor and insufficient black
boards, lack of interest on the part
of The teacher in dull or foreign
pupils. and ignorance as to what
she can DO to interest them, each IN
turn received their hits.
Mrs. Geo. Brainard, OF Hebron,
then read very interesting paper on
Literature in the Grades She
spoke Of the value of stories and
myths aid historic as well as fancy
literature in the true education in
all the grades. She referred partic-
ulaFly to Lincoln and Franklin as
examples of the self = education
through study of literature. A good
wholesome reading habit shoul1 be
formed in the school age.
). The paper by Mrs. Alice c. Faber,
- N1or I1l0in m STho Row and