The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-29
Additional Arrivals Swell Enroll
ment at Meeting Of County As
sociation; Shepard Pleas
ed with Showing
PRESIDENT GIVES
ANNUAL ADDRESS
Makes Plea for Higher Education
and Better Training for Men
and Women in Charge
OF Schools

The 1915 Grady County Teachers
association meeting is passing into
local school history as one of the
greatest educational events ever
known here The meeting has been
replete with interesting fatures from
the very start and each particular
teacher present has seemed to feel and
TO relize that he is cog, an important
factor. in the success of the Grady
county schools and the success OF this
meeting of the teachers association.
superintendent Shepard is well
pleased with the great success which
has married the meeting from its ini-
tial moment MIR. Shepard has worked
hard and in tireless manner TO make
this meeting one to be remembered by
all interested in the work of educa-
tional advancement. and in this work
he now feels, more than ever before,
that he has the heartiest cooperation
and support OF the entire corps Of
Grady county's most efficient teachers.
AS an evidence OF the support the
teachers have accorded in making this
meeting a successful one, and of the
general interest they are taking in
their profession and in the advance
ment Of their county along educational
lines. total OF 1856 out Of grand total
OF $50 teachers in this county are in
attendance at today's sessions of the
teachers association.
In addition to the Sc educators who
had signed the enrolment list up 10
noon yesterday. the following names
have been added; District 81. A. z.
Black: l3. Elminora ]. Howell; 10,
Mrs. S. a. Wilson; II. Lin II. Kirk
and Agnes Hardiaman; 55, Mr. and
Mrs. D. Z. Killian SO. Mary n Muir
dock. 50. W A. Taylor; 2, Myrtle
Tower: SIS. Mary Rossington; SIS. W.
A. Duff: 1870. Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Bray,
81. S. C. Bright; 80, Mr.. and Mrs. E b.
Estls and A. c. Beeson; 10, j. $. Nc
Cormick; 81. Nancy Hunnicut; g.,
Emanuel English, IS. 0. w. Reid; "A,
Ruskin Halbrook 6s, Renna Arnold,
Lena Payne, Ida Cline. Floyd Ste
phens, Mrs. s. r. Glover, zara
Pritchett: 81. Hattie Thompson; So
Maude Anderson 6s. Claude collard
es. J. c. Stewart; lis. Anna r. Fltz-
gerald; %. NJ. c. Glass.
Opening Session.
Under the most auspicious circum-
stances the Grady County Teachers
met In annual session in the audi
torium of the Methodist church at l:45
o'clock sharp yesterday afternoon.
Teachers by the dozens ana tne
scores poured into Chickasha from the
early morning hours. All day came
the "strong men and fair women" who
are making the name of Grady county
a name to swear by in the educationai
halls of the state
The assertion may be safely made
that Chickasha, in all the years OF its
history never before witnessed finer
assemblage those learned in the in
trIcasies of speech; in the history OF
nations; in the labyrinthine routes
through the world of mathematics; in
the mazes of the worlds geography
prior TO its Encouragement by the
kaiser. as it witnessed yesterday when
the teachers gathered together IN me
auditorium OF the Methodist church.
The very air breathed of learning
The walls OF the edifice seemed 70
throb and pulse and culver as though
stirred by some mighty heart-engine
of life. whose ever beat sent the blood
of desire for better education in rush
inc torrents through their arteries of
brick and mortar.
Visitors Welcomed.
The address of welcome was well
received by the learned ones present
although the aggregation of learning
before whom the speaker appeared
the manner in which the teachers
leaned forward in rapt attention and
anticipation Of the words which were
about to be spoken, the deep, thought