Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-22
PUTNAM AND LA SALE
COUNTY ASSMS.
HERE
ALL IS PATRIOTIC
PROGRAM DEALS ENTIRELY WITH
SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT
MISS HARRIET VITTUM SPEAKS
BEFORE INSTITUTE THIS MORN.
ING.

fuIiy slA hundred people We're pses.
eut Tor the opening scy.on OF the all
day meeting OF the puulc school
teachers Of In Sulle ana Putnam coun.
ties The sessions are being held il
the auditorium OF the High School II
day The meeting was devoted entire
~ 10 patriotism and some Of the les
speakers in the country have beeI
brought To Ottawa to address The a..
Gators
The morning and afternoon session.
we're full Of ENTHUSIASM and was
great educational value to all the
teachers attending as well as for tn,
people of the city, who had been give
II cordial invitation to take adtantag,
OF this excellent opportunity OF hca
ing the addresses made by some
the best Informed men and womei
Of the country
The meeting opened "a ten ociot
Wy community rong Vice tpnduc
cd by John tiofl, OF the Ottawa ilie
School faculty.
Following ilis the address OF Tho
morning was made by Horace II. Ba'
croft. assistant Director of The llllnoi
Centennial Celebration Mr.. Ea'
croft is an orator OF great ability anf
his talk today, dealing With the neef
Of centennial celebration and civ.
ing the 100 years history OF the state
was one that will be long remembere'
by The men and women who hcart
him
Mr.. Bancroft loob Tor the subject 0
his address this morning The lllino
Centennial and the Granville CONVEX
tion, and told Of the beginning o. In
Centennial Commission, The passap
Of Law making a centennial cclcbr
ton possible, The ups and downs
the commission thru The short year
Of its HE, and The question arising a
the beginning Of the war, and aa to tb
advisatilty Of abandoning The celcura
ton
This important question wa Slye.
the most careful consideration by III
Goyornor and other officials Of h
state, and + NAE decided by these me
to proroguc the Observance at til.
time would be serious mistake
lie outlined The various preparation
being made for the celoj.ation ami III
plans that we're being modc by rariou
towns and counties for properly com
memorating the occasion
The Granville convention was dis
cusscd at great length by Mr.. Eal
croft, and it was with great surpis
most Of the people present learned
was from this convention of farmer
held in ISL. the State University the
State Normal Schools IN the Stat
Teachers Institute were derived
Speaking of this opochal event NJ
Bancroft said IN part:
The Granville Convention held Il
Putnam county. November 18th, lSJ.
Is the one declared TO have had more
farrcaching educational results fOr III
country at large han any other singl
event. since the act of 1875, which Sc
apart one section of land in each toN n
ship for the support OF schools. WI
liam Reddick Ct Ottawa and J. p. Jur
ncr of Jacksonville were elected sec
ond vice presidents Of this convention
upon the perfection Of a permanen
organization. and Moses Osman wa
elected corresponding secretary
This convention, which was coth
posed largely of farmers from Putnam
La Sale, Winnebago, Fulton and 9th
or counties marked the beginning OF I
twelve years agitation which nctte'
moro for agriculture and industrial ed
ucation than any other movement u
the history of the state. II finally RI
suited in the passage of the Morril
Dill. the first civil bill ever signed b.
Abraham Lincoln.
AS the outgrow,l OF this conver
tIon and agitation INC the llllnoi
State Teachers Ass6 iation. the |
tnois State Universits and while III
Illinois State Norma Ghools wer