The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-25

'DAY, MARCH 25, 1915.
i INSTITUTE A BIG SUCCESS.
Record Breaking Attendance at the
Teachers Institute. School Fair
i Contests an Added Feature.
The joint session of the Normal In.
stitute and Educational Association
on Friday and Saturday of last week
was the most successful educational
meeting ever held in the county, and
this in spite of the worst roads Deca-
tur county has known for many
years. The programs were attended
by many of the Normal Training stu.
dents and other prospective teachers
making the aggregate attendance OF
teachers and prospective teachers
over two hundred. In addition to
this many patrons and several school
directors from different parts of the
county visited the Institute and the
4 exhibit.
The lectures throughout were ex.
cellent, and exceedingly practical
The High School teachers are loud
in their praises of Inspector j. c.
McGlade, while the rural teachers de.
clare that Macy Campbell is the right
man in the right place, as a superin-
tendent of rural education. Mr.
i Campbell's illustrated lecture, "The
Transformation of District ~ which
was given at the Idle Hour theatre
has been pronounced by visitors, suf-
ficient in itself to justify the effort
/ k1Na TO oh 1n To ok< Trc
tute.
domestic science department of the
Leon schools well deserve the praise
they are receiving for the skill with
which they served the noon-day
luncheon, ON both Friday and Satur-
day.
The second annual meeting of the
Decatur County Educational Associa-
tion on Saturday was fully upsto the
excellent standard of the first7meet-
ing held one year ago. Mr.. Wood
stocks efficiency for the presidency
of the association was attested by his
unanimous reelection. Some i'm
portant changes were made in the
policies of the association. We will
publish these later together with the
names of the officers for the coming
Eyear.
Perhaps the most impressive fea-
ture of the entire session was the
presentation of flag to the rural
schools of the county by Capt. J. D.
Brown, of Leon. capt. Brown has
been a resident of Decatur county
for sixty-one years. His heart is
right here as his hearers realized
when they listened to the short ear
nest address with which he presented
the flag to county superintendent
Mabel Horner, who responded in be-
half of the Decatur county rural
schools.
This flag is to be known as the
spFown Trophy Flag, is to he passed
from school to school from year to
year. Any school that twins it three
years in succession, will keep it, and
Capt or Mrs. Brown will present a
new one to the county. It is an inter-
esting coincidence that the flag was
won this year by Miss Ida Brigga-
mans school; South White Oak dis
trict, Center township, in which Capt.
Browns farm is located.
The following is the enrolment Of
the institute:
Mrs Mabel Arnold, Garden Grove.
Elsie Andrew, Garden Grove.
Bess L. Baldwin, Garden Grove.
Mabel Bradley, Davis City.
Josephine Beavers, Leon.
Louisa Butcher, Decatur.
Grace Beavers, Leon.
NJ E. Boatman, Grand River.
Iva Briggaman, Leon.
Ida Briggaman, Leon.
Mida Bradley, Leon.
Hazel Brown, Leon.
Ethel Bunch, Leon
Letha Bunch, Leon.
Olive Bright, Leon.
Helen Barrett, Leon.
Harriet Beavers, Leon.
Mary S. Buffum, Leroy.
w. R. Beck, Grand River.
S. A. Burgess, Lamont.
Neva Curry, Grand River.
Cecilia Coffey. Leroy.
Fora Cummins, Leon.
Fred w. Cash, Lamont.
Nora A. Carter, Lamont
Josephine Cooney, Leon.
Gladys Chambers, Leon.
Edith Chambers, Leon.
Alice M. Chase, Lamont
Adaline Crawford, Leon.
May Conner, Garden Grove.
Nora Golfer, Leon.
Wynne Cash, Leon.
Mabel Daley, Leon.
Mrs. Frances w. Davis, Lamont.
Dorothy Durland, Garden Grove.
Amy Downey, Lamont.
Helen Deck, Leon.
E. E. Dunn, Leon.
Ethel Edwards, Grand River.
Cecil A. Eggleston, Van Vert.
LYDIA Epperley, Leon.
Fred j. Ehrhardt, Leon.
Mertie Edwards, Van Vert.
Estella Foster, Grand River.
Elizabeth Follmer, Leon.
Sylvia Follmer, Leon.
Isabelle Freestone, Decatur.
Cecil Flora, Davis City.
Margaret Fox, Weldon.
Ora Fetty, Davis City.
Dean Gill, Garden Grove.
Mary Green, Grand River.