The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-07-17
THE ANNUAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
Representatives Of the Schools Of the
County Convene at Denison
Last Week.
MISS SMELL, STATE WORKER,
Much Earnestness Shown for Better
Methods and Founding Of New
Schools in the County.

Schools in the County.
The 1912 convention of the Craw-
ford County Sunday School associa-
ton was held at Denison July 9th
and 10th at the Baptist church. The
opening session was held on Tuesday
evening and presided over by Rev. j.
Jas. DePree. The features of this
session were the addresses by Mr..
Thos. Nugent, representative of the
American Sunday School union, and
Miss Eloise Snell the field secretary
of the Iowa State association.
Mr.. Nugent, in his opening remarks,
gave a detailed statement as to his
work in this part of Iowa in founding
Sunday schools, visiting in the coun-
try districts and distributing bibles
and literature. He then made strong
appeal for personal work in the con-
version of the children to christian
ity. His remarks were most earnest
and his listeners were we'll pleased
Miss Smell, in most entertaining
talk, spoke briefly at this time OF the
work of the international and state
associations. She laid further empha-
sis on the necessity for individualiz-
ing Sunday school work. Her man.
ner was such as to hold strict atten-
ton and her words gave promise OF
good things to come in her further
stated addresses.
Mr.. Meyers, the county secretary,
gave an outline of the program for
the following day and the first session
closed with feeling that the time
had been profitably spent.
The Wednesday forenoon session
was called to order by Mr.. Meyers
and the devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Rev. Reagan, pastor OF the
Baptist church at Dow City. The
first business was the report OF the
county secretary as to the condition
of the work. He was able to report
that twenty-five schools were in op-
Grafton in the county, the total en-
rollment of which was 2,O5O. The
following are the names of the var
ious schools and the superintendent
Dresiding over them: DenisOn, Pres
byterian, Prof. E. w. Fellows; Meth
odist, Prof. w. c. VanNess; Baptist,
Mrs. DR.. Plimpton; German Metho-
dist, John Schnoor. Charter Oak:
Methodist, Rev. G. N. Mcmillan; Pres
byterian, Miss Mable Bornholdt.
Kiron: Baptist, VIM. Paulson. Will
low: Methodist, Fred Wiener Vail:
Presbyterian, Miss Manetta Jorgen-
son; Methodist, Mrs. Palmer,
West Side: Methodist, S. w. Melott.
Boyer: Methodist, Jas. D. Fleming.
Manila: Presbyterian, F. J. Campbell;
Methodist, John Vennick. Boyer
township union school, T. c. Chris
tiansen. Dow City: Baptist, Willie
Walters; Methodist, Herman Logs
don. Paradise, Rev. Calkins. Arion:
Congregational, N. F. Stilson. Slater
Hill union, H. J. Cook. Coon Grove
union, Richard Bear. Deloit: Meth
odist, Chas. Shives. Mr.. Meyers re-
ported that township conventions, in
which much interest had been shown,
had been held during the last year at
Boyer, Vail and Paradise Center, and
that a new school has just been or
ganized at Slater Hill in East Boyer
township and a school at Coon Grove
and both seemed ready to
do good work.
A call was made for report from
the schools represented in the con-
yention. Mr.. John Richardson spoke
for the Denison Baptist, Prof. Eel
lows for the Denison Presbyterian, Mr..
Logsdon for the Dow City Methodist,
Mrs. Criswell for the Denison Meth
odist, Rev. CalkinS for the SCHOOLS
at Arion and Paradise, Rev. Reagan
for the Baptist at Dow City, Miss Jor-
gensen for the Presbyterian and
Methodist at Vail, and Miss Morris
for the Methodist at DelOit.
Miss Smell, the state worker, was
introduced and gave strong talk on
behalf of teacher training and organ
izedc lasses. She explained the help
fulness of the teachers training
course, which could be taken, either
by correspondence or in classes, and
that certificates of progress and final
examination were issued. She insist
ed that the organized clas was one of
the most efficient emthods of helping
a Sunday school. Her remarks were
given with such enthusiasm that a