The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-26

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club rooms, high school auditorium,
First Presbyterian church, McCabe
Methodist church, First Baptist
church and other public meeting
places have been placed at the dis
posal Of the teachers during their
stay here. and hundreds Of hospitable
citizens are preparing to open their
! homes to the city's guests.
The North Dakota Education as
| ISOLATION is a body so large that to
date but three cities have been found
to have facilities sufficient to ac-
commodate ii. The conventions there
fore, have rotated between Grand
Forks, Fargo and Bismarck, the last
meeting of the state organization
having been held in this city in 1914,
when about 400 members attended.
At the 1915 convention in Fargo. 1900
delegates were registered.
General Sessions.
| The program as outlined by Secre-
tary w. E. Parsons of Bismarck calls
| for general sessions at the municipal
auditorium at 2 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, the opening day, when
Governor Frazier will welcome the
teachers on behalf of the state, and
Secretary g. N. Remission of the Bis
marck Commercial club, on behalf of
the city; Wednesday evening, at 8,
when the Bismarck Thursday Musi-
cal club will present a program, and
Walter B. Trip of the Emerson
school of oratory will give a selection
from David Copperfield"; Thursday
evening at 8. when another musical
program will be given, and DR.. G. d.
Strayer of Columbia university will
speak; and Friday evening at 8, when
the annual business session Of the
association will be held; the political,
educational and commercial history
Of North Dakota will be discussed by
E. j. Taylor of Bismarck, G. A. Nc
Farland of Valley City and S. Torg
erson of Grand Forks, respectively,
and DR.. Strayer will speak.
Group Sessions.
The intensive work of the conven-
ton is done in group sessions. The
department of higher and profession
al education. of which Pres. r. NJ.
Black of Glendale normal is chair
man, meets Thursday and Friday
afternoons at the First Presbyterian
church. The department of second
airy education, B. G. B. Tighe of Far
go, president, meets at the high
school auditorium Thursday and Fri
day afternoons. The county superin-
tendents, State Supt. N. c. Macdonald
Of Bismarck, president, meet Thurs
day and Friday afternoons at the
McCabe Methodist church, and the
Katherine Gallagher of Grand Forks,
president, meets on the same days at
the municipal auditorium.
The department of rural education |
with o. A. Barton Of Valley City, |
presiding, has sessions Thursday and |
Friday afternoons at the auditorium, |
and the department of school admin |
istration, ]. G. Gunderson of Aneta |
presiding, meets at the same hour on |
Thursday at the Commercial club |
rooms. while on Friday it joins with |
the rural school department.
Morning sessions will be held Wed |
nesday and Thursday by the depart |
ment Of history, civics and social |
science, H. c. Fish of Minot presid- |
ing, in the McCabe church auditor
ium, while the department Of musi- |
cal education, whose president is A. |
j. Stephens OF Fargo, meets WndneS- |
day morning at the Presbyterian I
church auditorium, and the teachers |
of English, with G. L. Paine of May |
vile presiding, meet at the Presby-. |
terrain chapel The principals OF |
graded, consolidated and third class
high schools, whose president is Carl
Gilbertson of Ignite, meeting at 9
o'clock Wednesday morning in the
high school auditorium, and the man
ual training division. with j. w.
Mum of Valley City as president,
meets elsewhere in the high school
building at the same hour Wednes Jay
and again Thursday morning.
Domestic science workers, with
Katherine Jensen of the agricultural
college as their head. assemble at the
high school at o'clock Wednesday
morning and Thursday morning, and
the science and mathematics division,
F. w. Smith, president Of the Botti-
neau school Of forestry presiding,
meets the same hours at the McCabe
chapel.
Teachers and officers of agricul-
tural schools and departments, with
A. L. Schafer of Darlington at their
head, meet Wednesday and Thursday
mornings at the high school, the par
teachers league, with RI. Acher Of
Valley City as president, at the Bap-
fist church. and the division of mod
ern languages and Latin, Anna L.
Hillesheim, Dickinson, president, at
the Commercial club rooms.
FrilIs Are Eliminated.
At Fargo last year the association
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dollars for a concert course during
convention week. A similar sum will
be appropriated next week for the
work Of the Red Cross, and the teach
ers will dispense with everything
other than local entertainment. OF
this there viii be an abundance. The
Thursday Musical club comprises
Bismarck's best talent. and 1t has ar
ranged some attractive programs. In
addition, weather permitting, there
will be numerous excursions and 9TH
err amusement features.
Bismarck has hotel facilities a
third greater than those which IL Of
fered the teachers three years ago,
and there will be a relatively smaller
demand for accommodations in pri-
vate homes. The latter will not he
lacking, however, and hundreds Of
rooms in Bismarck's best families
have been listed with Secretary
Remission Of the Commercial club, and