Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-29
EVENING Chat

Association, which began its sixty fifth
annual meeting in Harrisburg to-day, is
one of the oldest organizations in the
State and has notable record of regu-
lar meetings. Few organizations of the
kind in the country can show anything
like it. For years the organization met
in the summer time, but lately it has
been meeting in holiday week, the ses-
sion preceding a legislative meeting
being held in Harrisburg. Last year it
met in Pittsburgh and this is interest
ing because the first meeting was held
in Harrisburg in 1852 and the next
meeting in Pittsburgh. Thomas Henry
Burrowes, later Superintendent of Pub
Tic instruction, was its first president.
John III. Brown was elected president
next year in Pittsburgh. After Pitts
burgh the association met in Lancas
ter, Pottsville, Lewistown, Philadelphia,
Williamsport, Harrisburg, Chambers
burg, Indiana, Scranton and West
Chester. In 1850 it met in Green's
burg and next year in Lewisburg. In
1852 1t is stated no meeting was held
because of threatened invasion by
Confederate army" but next year at
Reading eighty enrolled and the name
of Henry Houck appears as a secre-
tary. In 1864 the association met at
Altoona, electing S. ID. Ingram, of Har-
risburg, as president. Then came
meetings at Meadville, Gettysburg,
Bellefonte, Allentown, Greensburg gain
and in 1870 Lancaster. Williamsport
was next year and at Philadelphia in
1872 Henry Houck became president
George p. Hays was elected president
at Pittsburgh next year. Next meet
ings were held at Shippensburg,
Wilkes Barre. West Chester Erie and
Reading, the 1879 meeting being
merged with the national association
in Philadelphia. In the eighties the
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Pottsville, Williamsport, Meadville,
Harrisburg, Allentown, Clearfield,
Scranton and Altoona. In the nine
ties meetings were held at Mauch
Chunk, Bedford, Beaver Falls, Media,
Mount Gretna- Bloomsbury, New
Castle, Bellefonte in the Spanish war
year, when DR.. Brumbaugh was elected
president, and Gettysburg. In 1898
the Columbian Exposition took the
place of the annual meeting. Begin
ming with 1900 meetings have been
held as follows: Williamsport, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre,
Reading, Altoona, Greensburg, State
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh
and here again. Recent presidents
have been j. George Becht, F. w. Rob
bins, c. a. Herrick, Charles Lose,
Charles S. Foos. ]. 3. Ritchey. r. b.
Ttetrick, L. E. McGinnes and Samuel
Andrews.
n subject which will probably at
tract much attention at the meeting of
the educators and which will interest
many residents of this vicinity is Voca-
tonal education. This line of work
includes industrial and agricultural
training, two of the most important
with these days. In this city tech
nical training is now established, but
there is great untouched field in
such railroad and manufacturing
center as Harrisburg and the time that
the school is not in use by the regular
pupils could profitably be used for
other classes. In this county there
are several township high schools.
which, with proper encouragement.
could introduce agricultural courses
and be of great value to the pro-
.ductiveness of Dauphin county.
This interesting bit of news about n
man we'll known to many Harrisburg
ers was published in the PHILADELPHIA
Evening Bulletin last night: Former
Governor Stuart is siXty-one years old
He left his home in Overlook for his
Office here before o'clock and among
the hrst to offer congratulations was
his friend and neighbor, Francis
Skunk Brown, who rode in to Broad
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former Governor, a picture of health.
was tritie late in reaching his office,
Friends who kept the date in mind
stopped him and he was overwhelmed
with good wishes. The former Gov
ernor has not aged in appearance
since he left Harrisburg and he said
he was feeling as fit as a fiddle. ;
Asked the secret of his splendid phys-
ical condition. the former Governor
said he had been busy since he was
fourteen years old and that he takes
plenty of exercise in the open air.
Formerly he walked from his home at
Broad and Tasker streets to his place
of business on Ninth street Since his
removal to OVerbrook he walks from
Broad Street Station to the Union
League and then to his office, walking
back in the afternoon"
The Legislature which will meet at
the Capitol a week hence will be the
one hundred and twenty-first in the
history of Pennsylvania, although only
| those sessions from 1912 on have been
held in Harrisburg. The thirty-seventh
was the first to be held in this citv.
meeting soon after the bill to transfer
the seat of government from Lancaster
to Harrisburg had been put into effect
in the year of the second war with
Great Britain.
Il WELL KNOWN PEOPLE