The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-12

mOSL SUCCESSFUL convention OI Tie
North Central Minnesota Educational
association ever held will be brought
to close this evening. Nearly
three hundred superintendent, prin-
cipals and instructors of the counties
included in the association are in at
tendance and the interest and enthu-
siasm has been at a high pitch since
the opening program of last evening.
Governor to Arrive. u
Governor Hammond, who is to pay
Bemidji his first visit, will arrive in
this. city at 6 O'Clock this evening.
making the day trip that he may view
the country through which he passes.
He will be met at the train by com
mittee and will be escorted to the Ho-
tel Markham where he will be enter
tanned until the hour of. the evening
program. Governor Hammond will
be the guest of Bemidji until tomor-
row noon. s x: ~.
DR.. Weld Scores. +.
The opening program Of the con-
vention was given last evening, Frank
A. Weld, president of the Moorhead
State Normal school, giving his lee
ture, ''The Man From the Other
Side" The lecture was mastery
and interesting from beginning to
end, being entertaining and instruc-
tive, the progress of discovery, i'm
migration and advancement of civil
ization being traced from the early
ages to the present time. "
Mayor Welcomes Visitors.
William McCuaig, Bemidji's mayor,
welcomed the delegates, and in part
said:
1T affords me great pleasure as
mayor of this city to bid you hearty
Welcome to Bemidji. In this I voice
hss faeliRg Ct every citizen. Your
missio your aim, lis to advance the
cause ofgeducation, without which our
institutions founded upon the suffrage
of free people cannot last, and with
out which there can be no respect for
law or lawfully constituted authority.
Education is but means to enable our
young men and our young women
when they go out in the world to earn
an honest and honorable living, max
ing them good citizns, loyal and ODE
dent to their God and country.
Again 1 bid you welcome and hope
your meeting wilt be most pleasant
and profitable" E @E@
!" Superintendent keenan, of Deer
River responded. =
= Schulz Not Here.
Two changes In :today's program
were necessitated by the absence of
c. G. Schulz, state superintendent of
education, and T. A. Erickson, spe-
eialist of Boys and Girls club work,
both being unable to be present.
Splendid musical numbers, pro-
vided by the various choruses of the
Bemidjf schools, and given under the
direction Of Miss Margaret Newton
supervisor of music, have been prom.
inent features on each of the pro.
grams given thus far. The Boys
Glee club sang three numbers at the
meeting of last evening, the selec.
lions being, "1'd Like to Go Down
South Once NO. 'In the Gloam-
ing and "shipmates O. Mine" Al
this mornings session Morning In.
vitations'', was sung by the girls Of
the Fifth and Sixth grades; IAN.
chored," by boys of the Third and
Fourth Grades, and "The Fairy
Dreams" and 'The Sandman" by the
Second grade. !.
Prof. Storm Talks.
w. B. Stewart, president of the as
ISOLATION, presided at the meeting ant
following the announcement of com
mittee appointments, Professor A. v
Storm, Of the department of agricul
ture of the University of Minnesota
was introduced. Common Sense an(
the Common School," was interest
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ingly discussed by the professor
Margaret 3. Baker, assistant spe