The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-28
WELFARE WORKERS
MEET HERE TUESDAY
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE WILL
BE HELD AT HOME SCHOOL
FOR GIRLS
ADDRESS BY GOV. PREUs
LOCAL BUSINESS MEN WILL AS
SYST MRS. MORSE WITH -
GATHERING

The quarterly conference of the
Minnesota Board of Control with the
superintendent OF the various state
institutions will be held at the Home
School for Girls Tuesday of next
week.
This event will bring at least so
visitors to Sank Centre, including
Gov. j. A. O. Preus and many prom
inent in welfare work in the nation.
Most of the visitors will arrive on
a special car attached to No. 7 Mon
day evening. They will be met by
the Sank Centre band, and business
men will convey the visitors to the
Home School in automobiles.
The conference will be held at the
new community building at the school
at which time Gov. J. A. 0. Preus
and Judge Mary Bartelme of the CHI
cago Juvenile Court, will be the prin-
cipal speakers. Judge Bartelme is
the first woman in the United States
to be appointed to a position OF this
kind and is generally recognized as
being the best authority in the Unit
ed States on the delinquent girl.
The Minnesota Sanitorial Assocla-
ton will send delegation of 70 to
this conference headed by it's presl-
dent, A. G. Laird of Noepming, St.
Louis county. This organization is
composed of the superintendent of
the various tubercular sanitarlums IN
the state.
Mrs. Blanche LaDu, recently ap-
pointed member of the Board OF Coz
troll will make her first visit to the
Home School at this time. Mrs. La
Du will have special charge of the
Home School in her work on the
Board. She is splendidly adapted
for her new duties, and those whc
have the real interests Of the school
at heart are delighted with her ap-
pointment.
Other prominent people who arr
expected to attend this conferen~ e
are Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hart, CHI
cago, the gentleman being the head
of the great clothing manufacturing
firm of Hart, Schaffner & Marx. Mrs.
Hart is one of the foremost welfare
workers of the country.
Mr.. Bruno, prominent in Red Cross
and Associated Charities work, Will
he present. as will Senator w. A.
Nolan, chairman of the Board of Wis
itors of the State, and the Women S
Board of Visitors. Thirteen OF the
seventeen superintendent OF the MIN
nesota institutions are expected 10
attend the conference.
Mrs Morse has invited about AZ OF
the Sank Centre business ana pro-
fessional men to attend the CONFER
ence and the luncheon at l2:3o.
Following the luncheon three
hours will be spent viewing the en-
tire property under MRS. Moise SCI, :
sunervision. Local business men VIII
furnish automobiles for this trip anu
will deliver the visitors to the dfeat
Northern depot in time to eaten NO
for st. Paul.
It has been six years since the last
conference of superintendent was
held in Sank Centre. 1t was planned
for earlier in the year but was post
noned until the new Community
Bailding had been completed. This
will be the most important conference
in many ways held for some time.
The occasion will also be the a.
nual meeting of the Minnesota SAM
torial Association and they expect to
have banquet at the Palmer House
Tuesday evening following the close
of the Conference at the Home
School.
Miss Margaret Reeves, OF Nsw
York, representative of the Russell
Sage Foundation, spent eight days at
the Home School, making a close
survey of the system employed by
Mrs. Morse in conducting the Home
School for Girls. Miss Reeves VII
visit 46 state inetitrt ons IN this work
She went directly to New Mexico
from Sank Centre.