The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-12

TO the voters Of Grady county both
men and women, Meta Chestnut
Sager announces as q candidate
for the office of county superin-
tendent.
For ten years she has been urged
by leading citizens of the county to
give up her work at El Meta Bond
and enter that field Of school work
One year she was requested by lead.
ers of both the democratic and re.
publican parties to permit her name
TO be placed upon their tickets But.
when only child, she determined
TO come to Indian Territory and
found a school in which both Indian
and white children should have
equal opportunities. She determined
to conduct that school for thirty
years, if she lived that long. When
statehood cime she then planned,
that if she should continue the
school, and make success of ii for
thirty years, she would then ask the
voters Of Grady county to entruss
to her supervision the execution Of
its school laws.
Another reason for her coming be-
fore the people at this time is, that
Mr. Bond, Uncle jimmie had urg-
ed her for a long time prior to Ills
death, to take this step. And when
she last saw him, when even the
shadow of death was stealing upon
llim, almost his last words to her
were to urge her to move for county !
superintendent, and to move now. |
Therefore, in the spirit Of that won
derful man, that man with a vision. |
Grady county's greatest philanthro
pist, Meta Chestnut Sager stands be- !
fore you, to ask your consideration
as county superintendent
Following are some of the reasons
why she asks the consideration OF
the voters of Grady county: She is
an Eighty-Niner; North Carolinian
by BIRTH descended from the old |
Planter stock of the Old South She |
received her elementary education
in the district schools of thlt state,
Most of her elementary training,
and all of her high school and acad
emic work was done under college
women and university graduate men.
She was appointed on class record
by the board Of education of North
Carolina to take a teacher training
course, and was sent by the state to
the University of Nashville and Pea
body Normal college (now George
Peabody College for Teachers) o.
Nashville. Tenn. Prior to going tc
Nashville, she had taught seyera
terms in the district schools of her
native state. That experience gave
her an early insight into rural school
problems) She was graduated from
hat institution, and won the distinc-
tion of being offered free scholar
ship to still higher college, which,
unfortunately, she could not accept,
having already contracted to teach
3ie year following her graduation at
Greenville Institute, where she had
been student just before receiving
the state appointment No contract I
had been signed. but promise had '
been made. and it was kept. {
Mrs. Sager holds two diplomas.
one a full diploma of stale normal t
college. the other that OF master of S
arts. These diplomas bear the names f
Of such men as Governor Robt. L. +
Taylor of Tennessee, and DR.. w. II I
Payne, who forty years held the e
chair of Languages in Ann Arbor a
University, and was at that time b
president of Peabody Normal Col
lege, and chancellor of the University S
Of Nashville. S
Meta Chestnut Sager founded in c
1889 the school now known as Ri h
Meta Bond, and has conducted tha. h
successfully for thirty Il
years. The school has C
been well attended at all times. and e.
he present year it has been full to rt
the limit, and IS many more have d