The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-07
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President Hillyer attended the Tri-
County Teachers association meeting /
at Grafton last Friday and addressed !
the meeting en- the subject, Intelligent !
Education. :
Mr.. and Mrs. Hillyer entertained at
6 o'clock dinner last Saturday evening
with the Rev. n Mrs. Tharaldson as
guests of honor, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Travis entertained at dinner on Sum J
day for the same honor guests. Mr.. !
and Mrs. TharaldSOn have been visit :
ing their son, c.. E.. Tharaldson, and
his wife for Il few days.
The row Of cottonwood trees In front
of the normal school buildings Is be-,
ing cut down. Some six years ago a.
first attempt 10 start a row of elms be-
tween the CottOnWoods was made and
a continuous effort has been the PLAN
But 1t is impossible to get a growth
OF elms since the other trees take so
much Of the strength from the soil md
make too much shade. 1t was there
fore decided to remove the cotton
woods and to give the elms a chance.
For a few years the trees will be miss
ed, but the elms will last forever and
future generations will enjoy the
change greatly.
DIR. Charles Harris of Bismarck was
at the school on Tuesday and lectured
before the students and faculty during
the afternoon, giving his lecture on
Venice. Duling the evening he gave
a lecture 70" the school and the gener-
al public, his subject being England
Both lectures were illustrated and the
pictures shown were taken by Mr..
Harris and the slides prepared by him.
The lectures were greatly enjoyed.
This is the second time DR.. Harris has
visited the school as lecturer. ,
Several members Of the senior class
have been located since the list of
RI iFf " = SiN was pjVnO two Uankl q On
Now about fifty Of the seVenty-five
members nave signed contracts, and,
several others have returned contracts
on account of the salaries being too
low. In some cases these salaries were
$55 and in other cases but $50 per
month. It looks as if all will be To-
Gated quito early this res Among
those recently located are Miss Maud
Warren at McClusky and Miss Inez
Soldahl at CoOperstown.
The Dakota Literary society held it's
regular meeting last Saturday evening
rendering the program as follows:
Vocal solo ............. Anga Onstad
Readings
knowledge and Morals Alma Engen
Charles Stewart and the Burglar
Betsey Knudson
Anger and Enumeration .........
........... .......... lda MaXweu
Universal Peace 49,. EVeIin Kloster
Piano solo ............. Edith Sundt
Readings
The Going of the White Swan ....
Myrtle Fendring
Negro Dialect Poems . Olga Johnson
The Arena Scene, from Quo Vadis
Anga Onstad
FOrtnlghtlN
. Lula TOrnbOm and Inez Thatcher
Mr.. Travis, as chairman Of the COM
mittee appointed by the North Dakota
Education association, has just finish
ed a questionable on State UnifOrmi-
ty of Textbooks for North Dakota and
has sent out over 900 copies Of his
questiOnn1ire. sending out 200 within
the state and the rest outside. This
QUESTIONABLE was sent to states which
now have such uniformity, to those
having county uniformity and to those
not having uniformity Of texts in any
way. The Committee expects to secure
such replies as will give valuable tes-
timony as to the workings of this plan
Of selecting texts for the public
! schools. This information will be or
ganized and the answers tabulated to
assist the committee in forming a re-
port to present to the association at
it's Bismarck meeting in october Of
this year.
The elias; studying domestic science
served Z four-cOurse dinner at $50
last Friday evening. Covers were laid
for fourteen and the dinner was ex-
ceIlent in every particular. This is the
practical side of this study and surely
the guests enjoyed it. The old saying
that TOO many cooks spoil the broth"
NAV be true but there were none too
many here then. even though there
were several.