Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-02-01
TEACHERS MEETING
GIVEN In FULL.
Professor viii Praises School Officials and
Teachers Of TazeWel and Says Recent
Meeting Was a Great Success.

nent divine and prominent educator,
who has has held the priucipality of
Fazewell High School for a number of
yeara
After roll call by the efficient secre-
tary, Mrs. d. C. Burton, highly etertain-
ing reports from the State Educational
Association held at Norfolk November
% to December l, 1911, were read by
the delegates, Mrs. D. C. Burton and
Messrs. J. A. Livesay and A. P. Delong.
Literary attainment was of no common
order as evinced by the very able re-
ports, the well prepared papers, the ad-
mirable addresses and interesting talks
made on the different subjects for dis
cussion.
Mr.. j. w. Hicks, q member of the
legal fraternity, and the wide-awake,
enthusiastic clerk of Clear Fork School
District, was present on Friday, and ad-
dresses forcibly and eloquently deliver
ed, proved, "beyond the shadow of
reasonable doubt" that forensic effort,
his ability to expound the law, and to
dispense justice is not his only forte.
The executive secretary of the Co
operative Educational Association, Prof.
j. H. Binford, whose reputation as
speaker is widely known, and whose
persistent and apparently indefatigsble
efforts for the ameliaration of our
schools and educational progress are
familiar to all educational bodies, was
the guest of the Association on Friday,
and, at night regaled the Association in
the form of a convincing, high-class ad-
dress which elected much favorable
comment from an appreciative audience,
while the Tazewell Music Club discours-
ed sweet strains of music.
| cannot forbear to mention the very
able, we'll prepared paper read by Mr.
j. b. Crabtree on Patriotism in the
Public Schools" also a fine paper on
the same subject by Mr.. E. c. Board,
a teacher in Burkes Garden.
1t has been my privilege and pleasure
to attend only two meetings of the AS
sociation in Tazewell county; and, on
both occasions, most excellent papers
have been read by Trustee ]. b. Crab
tree. ! have been informed that he is
deeply interested in all school work;
aud judging from observation, the
truthfulness of this stetement cannot
be doubted. Either well prepared pa
pors were read, or interesting talks
made by Rev. w. w. Carson, Messrs.
j. A. Livesay, A. P. Delong, Grover
Strong, Mrs. d. C. Burton, Misses
Williams, Babb, and others whose
names do not now recall.
Tazewell county has caught the infec-
tion of 1.-The New Educational Move
ment," and has erected in the rural dis
tricts, as at Wittens Mil and other
points, up-to-date, four-room buildings,
furnished with maps, globes and ali the
modern equipments of first-class schools.
These buildings have risen largely
through the efforts of prosperous, pro-
gressive school officials and individuals,
public-s spirited patrons of the commun-
ity. The county of Tazewell is making
wide and rapid strides in her advance
toward the front rauk in the march of
educational progress, under the eff
cient administration of Superintendent
w. A. Thompson, with such progress
i've, public-spirited, broad, liberal mind
ed men as H. S. Bowen, j. w. Hicks,
w. l.. Moore and j. B Crabtree, as
members of District School Boards
ever ready to lend hearty cooperation
to any measure conducive to the inter
est of the schools of the county.
mention the names of these trustees
because they are the only ones with
whom it has been my pleasure to meet
during my sojourn in Tazewell county.
Doubtless thsre are others whose efforts
along this line are quite commendable.
Yes, while educational movements Of
momentous interest are engaging the
master minds of other and distant local
tiles, the people of Tazewell county
ample occasion for congratulation. in a
knowledge of the fact, that they have
nearer home. in their own county, even
in their midst, today, school officials
who have the fire of enthusiastic zeal
for the improvement of their schools
enkindled upon the altar Of their heart
Officials pre-eminently fitted for the
administration of the high. important,
responsible duties of the Office to which
they have been appointed officials in
touch and sympathy with teachers, and
conversant with the wants of the peo-
pie and the needs of teachers officials
well versed in the school law, and know
ing, viii dare maintain it, even at the
risk of gaining the ilI-will of some un-
deserving, disappointed applicant, or in
curing the stern displeasure of some
refractory teacher by suspension.
From limited knowledge obtained
during my short sojourn in Southwest
Virginia, | cen say that / believe the
county of Tazeweli can boast, with just