Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-04
Instructors Of Hender-
son County Organize
Timely Addresses Delivered Saturday by
Professors w. S. Shittle, VIII. Gale, w.
C:>Alen, N M. Hollowell to the Public
School Teachers Of Henderson County.

At the first meeting Of the present
year of the public school teachers OF
Henderson county at HendersOnville
Saturday morning number Of, inter
esting addresses we're heard and the
Henderson County Teachers assoc Or
tfoh was organized with A. p. BeH
president; r. F.. Pace, vice president; !;
Miss Hester Pftillo, secretary; and
Miss Lillian Hight assistant secre-
tary. y
The meeting was held in the audi
t0rium of the graded school building
and despite the threatening weather
during the early morning hours there
was good attendance on the part of
teachers
The devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Prof. w. H Gale, superin-
tendent of the HendersonVille graded
schools, after which Prof W s. Shi-
tie, superintendent of the publ C
schools of Henderson county, made
some encouraging remarks as to the
excellent opening of the schools, say
ing that where formerly there was
only one teacher it had been neces-
sary to supply two for number OF
!, the schools in the cOutny. He spoke
/, of the compulsory feature, >'of the
school work and also the responsible
tiles of the teachers and the import
.auce of their attending the teachers
meetings regularly, emphaS zingf the
fact that their attendance is compu1-
ssory. The speaker told the teachers
that heretofore he had borne the diff
t1culties of arranging the programs
for the meetings, but would shift this
work to the greater extent upon them,
thus making it necessary to organize
themselves, after which the organiza-
t on was perfected.
Prof Gale spoke briefly of the i'm
pOrtance of cooperation on the part
of teachers and invited them to feel at
home at all times at their meetings in
Hendersonville with the teachers of
the graded school. He explained that
the school was open to the people
Of Henderson county, except the busi-
ness department, which was inaugu-
last year. He said that this depart
r1ent was most successful and would
be cont nued and that he hoped the
time would soon come when no tut
ton fee would be charged those TAX
ing the business course.
Noah M. HolloMell, assistant secre-
tary of the Western North Carolina
Fair association. responded to the
call of Professor Shit1e for few. re-
marks as to the relationship of the
school work with the educational &c
partment of the Fair to be held In
Asheville in October, by congratulate
ing the superintendent upon shift
ing the bulk of the work incident to
the teachers meetings upon the coun-
" instructors. He urged them to CO.
cperate most heartily and work to-
gether as a strong educational force
for Henderson county in order to ac-
complish the greatest things possible.
Mr.. Hollowen told the teachers that
he was, not unmindfu1 of their fnflu-
ence and the importance of their work
in which he was keenly interested
He assured the teachers that upon his
return to Hendersonvi1le during the
early part of November in connection
with his work on the Western Caro-
ma Democrat and French Broad
he would inaugurate an ed
Lcational department in which would
be given accounts of the work of the |
school teachers Of Henderson county. |
crowded they co-operated with him /
in this undertaking. Mr.. Hollowell