The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
|EACHfR' 5 week
WILL Be HUMMER
usually Large Reception and En-
ft.r.alnlns Time VIII be Offered
Guests in
April.
koRE ROOMS NEEDED

AZ Trip on the River Is Anticipate
ed-keokuk Pedasosues Are
on Session Pro
grams.
Not three weeks remain until the
6ty will be flooded with the hundreds
teachers who will;ibe in attendance
uril s.s at the seventh annual SEES
IN OF the southeastern Iowa Teach
lis association.
superintendent Aldrich who has his
lands more than full, yet is manag-
h like an. old timer, was busy with
s assistant today in mailing 5000
Irogram pamphlets and data to towns
Ii over the southern part OF the
tate.
More Rooms Needed.
i The response to inquiries and re-
uests for rooms for the visiting
eachers has been very liberal yet a
humber more are desired and names
Ire being received daily by Mr.. Aid
ich so that the matter of housing
The coming pedagogues will be al
3easv street. matter and leave q
rood impression with the visiting
hundreds.
May Have Steamer Trip.
Work on the Keokuk and Hamilton
ham has been one Of the greatest
hrawing cards in getting the teachers
this part of the state interested in
Ehe April annual session.
That the visitors may view the i'm"
mense work with a greater degree OF
advantage and make their stay a
more pleasant one perhaps, the steam
I err Dubuque will probably be charter,
led on Thursday afternoon. the first
day of the meeting from 2 to o'clock
captain D. w. Wisherd has written
SUPERINTENDENT Aldrich that it will be
POSSIBLE to charter the boat at that
thine The only matter in the way of
1.-The trip at present, is the earliness OF
the sessions which do not commence
until Thursday.
II Meetings In Baptist Church.
All OF the general program mum
beers will be held in the First Baptist
{church. The round tables and other
6sessions of the various groups will be
/ held in the rooms OF the high school
buildings, the Mckinley and George
Washington class rooms.
There will be on exhibition in the
George Washington school, specimens
taken from the daily work Of the chill
dren in the graded schools of the city
number of Keokuk Instructors
fare included in the program which
will be given on the days Of the meet
fings.
reception. a visit to the secont
greatest engineering construction
plant in the world, and other feature
will comprise the entertainment to b
offered the visiting teachers and 10
cal members of the Teachers Associa
ton.
The officers, followed by the pre-
gram for the sessions is printed a
follows:
Officers.
President-Frank l.. Smart, Daver
port.
Vice President Elizabeth Burgess
Ottumwa.
Secretary Martha Emry, Fairfield
Chairman Executive Committee
Cap E. Miller. Sigourney.
Treasurer. H. Potter, Iowa Cit.
Local.
Chairman Local Communicative
Aldrich, Keokuk.
Chairman Entertainment Commute
Harriet Solomon, Keokuk.
Chairman Enrolment Committee
r. L. Reid. Keokuk.
Chairman Information Committee
N1e'uCtil wv DuHidp, hSohoh.
Chairman Reception Committee
Elizabeth Kilroy. Keokuk
Chairman Music Committee.
HAYDEN, Keokuk.
Chairman Publicity Committee
5 Patterson, Keokuk.
Chairman Committee on Sale {
Iickets-C. l.. Vestal, Keolkuk.
Chief Usher at Church Earl Ga
penter, sKeokuk. +.
GENERAL PROGRAM.
Thursday Evening, April 9th, 8 p. T
First Baptist Church
Music.
Invocation.
Music.
Presidents Address Supt. Frank
Smart Davenport
Address The History of Newsbo,
IN Toledo" John E. Gunckel, Toled
Ohio.
Friday Morning. April Z, s:45 to 1913
First Baptist Church.
Music.
Address Hen. Al NJ. DeYoe, sta
N,,- M