The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-06-12

|7724s SCHOLARS: 1854. members of
cradle roll; total membership report
ed 193,146; average attendance re-
ported 70,s69; additions to churches
1921; training classes 12l, with
membership of 1904; home depart
ments 800, with membership of 1854.
Miss Edith Nichols, state element
airy grade superintendent, presented
her report, showing "a elementary
superintendent, of whom 81 reported
and 9 others were heard from; 54s
schools are represented in these re-
ports, having 291 cradle rolls with
membership of 6,376; beginners
classes, 262, with membership OF
5,05S; primary classes, 494, with s,087
members; junior classes, 416, with a.
membership of 1853; schools using
graded lessons, 237; schools having
annual promotion day, 100; mothers
department in 2S and membership of
$40; $50 teacher graduates of the
training course and 236 students of
the course; total elementary teachers
in. the state, 1850; largest cradle roll
in the state, $50, located at Mason
City, Mrs. Lincoln, superintendent;
largest beginners department, 70, at
Davenport, Mrs. /. H. Vanderslice, SUI
perintendent; larger primary depart
ment, 1876, at Oskaloosa, Mrs. Rey-
nolds, superintendent; largest Junior
department, 156, at Davenport, J. l.
Lynch, superintendent; IA schools at
tanned the standard, of which were
in Linn, 3 in Black Hawk and in
Hardin county.
Banners were awarded for depart
mental work as follows:
Home Department-Adair county.
Adult Department-Polk county.
Secondary Department-Scott coun-
ty.
Teachers Training Department -
Linn county.
State Banner-Scott county with 4S
per cent on the required points, and
Lyons county a close second.
Shenandoah and Creston were can
didates for the 1914 convention and
Shenandoah won out easily. The del
egation from Polk county gave notice
that the golden jubilee convention of
the association in 1915 will be held
in Des Moines. ...
feature of the resolutions adopted and
runs as follows: a = g.. .,s e..
I'VE, as an association, note
with pleasure such legislation as
has been enacted during the year
both in our own state and in the
nation, against the vice of intem-
perance; further, that during the
year several OF the large cities OF
the state have succeeded in clos
ing the saloons in their midst;
yet again, that we highly COM
mend President Wilson and Sec
rotary Bryan for the fearless
stand they have lately taken in
dispensing with wines and Ii
uuors from state banquets and
other dignified functions, and fl
= nally, that we hereby again as an
association reaftirm our relentless
and uncompromising opposition
to this, the greatest menace TO
the church, the home and the
manhood and womanhood and
childhood of our nation, in our
age
The state officers elected for the
coming year comprise:
HreSlCenL-o. M. MuSSeIWdH, vi
Wayland, Iowa.
First Vice President-Rev. VIM. H.
Beachler, of Waterloo, Iowa.
Second Vice Decentralization d.
Woods, of Des Moines.
Recording Secretary-John A. Bliss
of Diagonal, Iowa.
Treasurer-P. B. Sheriff., of Des
Moinea Iowa.
Executive Committee Three-year
term: f. G. Oliver, of Onawa, Iowa;
s. E. McCosh, Davenport. Iowa. Two
year term: Prof. Walter S. Athern,
of Des Moines, Iowa; A. w. Murphy,
Shenandoah, Iowa. One-year term:
Rev. f. L. Gregory, Springdale, Iowa;
f. j. Jaqua, Grinnell, Iowa.