The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-12-22
Convention Of School Officers and Farmers In.
stitute in Joint Session Friday
WORST AND WALDR0N were SPEAKERS
Big Courtroom Was Crowded at Afternoon and Evening
SessIons-- School Men Elected Officers
on Saturday Morning

When we went to press last week the joint
meeting of the school officers of the county
and the School of Forestry farmers institute
was in session at the courthouse. The joint
meeting proved to be a popular arrangement.
The big courtroom was packed both after
noon and evening.
Nearly one hundred school directors and
clerks were in attendance, many of the dis
tricts being represented by the entire board.
President j. H. Worst of the Agricultural
college gave an able and instructive address
on 'Preventable Evils in North Dakota
Farming' and Prof. Waldron, also of the
Agricultural college, spoke on The Future
of Forestry Schools and on The Care and
Improvement of School Grounds at the
afternoon session on Friday.
President Worsts address forceful
and practical treatment of the agricultural
situation in this state, was full of splendid
suggestions for the betterment of farm condi
tions and included discourse on the most
important phases of dry farming. Full JUS
tice to his address could only be done by
verbatim report, which is not practicable at
this time. ... .-...t-.e
Prof. Waldron in his discourse on the
Future of Forestry Schools" dwelt on the
practical side of the work, urged the farmers
to cooperate with the directors and faculty of
the School of Forestry in an effort to make
the work of that institution intensely practi
cal. He was. of the opinion that the solving
of North Dakota tree problems should over
shadow the professional side, the training OF
students for forestry service. In his talk
the Care and Improvement of School
Grounds Prof. Waldron spoke of the condi-
tions so common i'm our rural schools today
and by the means of charts showed how these
might be greatly improved, at little cost.
His address was listened to with marked at
tention and no doubt will bear fruit in the
way of improved school grounds throughout
the county
Education of the Masses was the subject
of the address given Friday evening by Presi-
dent Worst. It was masterful treatment of
the subject, practical and sound. He plead
for better school privileges for the country
child. The rural school," said the speaker,
should not only provide the training neces-
sary for the children of the community but
should be the social center of the community
as WE'LL" Consolidation of the rural schools
urged as the best means of solving the
rural school problem,
The Saturday morning session of the
school officers was given over to the discus
sion of the new school laws. Through the
courtesy of the Bottineau School Board and
City Superintendent c.. L. Cole the schools of
Bottineau were inspected.
, At the business meeting the following
were elected officers for the ensuing year:
President, w. H. Lackey of Eckman; vice
president, J. A, Johnson of Bottneau; sec
retary, w. A. Thatcher of Souris.
The president was authorized to appoint
county superintendent to arrange the pro-
gram and to decide the place of meeting for
the gathering next year.