Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-18
K|DD|ES WILL GET
HOLIDAY; TEACHERS
GOING TO INSTITUTE
FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK WILL BE
GIVEN OVER IN SCHOOLS OF
COUNTY TO DISTRICT MEETING
OF PEDAOGUES AT LA SALE.

There will be no sessions of the
city, township high or tho country
schools around Ottawa Friday Of this
week. All the pedagogucs will gather
in La Sale, where thcy will attend
the district meeting of the Illinois
State Teachers Association. More
than 100 teachers will go from OF
taWa alone to the meeting
The session will open at 1880 O'Clock
Thursday night, and will be held in
the Majestic theater, at the corner OF
Second and Gooding streets. On Fri.
day some of the sessions will be held
in the La Salle-Peru High school.
The officers CT the upper Illinois val
ley district of the States Teachers
Association who will have charge OF
the program are: President. George
o. Smith, Princeton; vice president
Miss Margaret Poppe. Peru, secre-
tary. Miss Anna Holiday. Granville
and treasurer, f, A. Bell Buda.
Principal Charles H. Kingman o.
the Ottawa High school will have
charge Of the principals and superin
tendents' department Of the meeting
and John Hoff of ottawa will lead the
community singing.
The complete program follows:
Thursday I; 80 p, NJ
Music, La Sallc-Peru High school
orchestra.
Presidents address, County Super.
lntendent George o. Smith, Princeton
Address, The American Boy" Rev
H. f. Rompel, Joliet.
Friday, $3.50 a. NJ
Music, community singing, led by
John Hcif, Ottawa.
Violin solo, "A Mountain Visit,
by G. L. FIjorth, Hall Township High
school, accompanied by Miss Melton
Hall Township High school.
Address, "Americanizing Our Meth
DDS" DR.. Howard R. briggs, professor
of English, Utah University.
Friday, 7:45 .. M
Music community singing, led by
John Huff.
Address, "Children in Our Midst,
Miss Mabel Lee Cooper, professor Of
education, State Normal, Memphis,
Tenn.
Address, Dean Shaler Matthews.
Friday, 1870 p. NJ
Seventh and eighth grades--"Vital
izing Grammar" DR.. Howard r
briggs Geography of Illinois, Pro
fessor d. C. Ridgely.
Music room, fifth and sixth grades
Types of Children" Professor
Mabel Leo Cooper; Methods Of
Teaching" Professor Edwin A. Tur-
ner
Mathematics room, third and fourth
grades--"Hcme Geography" Profes.
sor D. c. Ridgely; Live Language
Work for Little Folks" Professor II.
r. briggs.
Auditorium, first and second grades
Methods in Teaching Professor
Edwin A. Turner; "A Study of Child
hood" Professor Mabel Lee Cooper.
Business meeting, high school audi
torium Friday, $3.50 p. m.
Academic. high school English
room; ID. c. Calvert, De Puc, chair
man-"Tricks of the Trade in Eng
lish," Winifred Wilson, Spring Valley;
Social Sciences" w. d. Waldrip,
Streator; The Recent Introduction of
French in the High School CuTicu-
lum," Frances McCunc, Buda; subject
announced later, Professor Howard
briggs.
Industrial, high school physics
room; A. C. Tyler, Spring Valley,
chairman-"Vocation Value of
Shorthand" A. B. Scott, Strcator,
subject announced later, Kenneth
Keppler; Some of Our Needs and the
Way We Might Solve Them" A. c.
Tyler; Household Arts and
Sciences" Mary Winship, DePue;
Adapting Mathematics to Social
Needs" X. c. Merreck, Morris.
Principals and supcrintendents
high school history room; c. H. King
man, Ottawa, Some Re
Elections on Mental Tests and Meas
urements." T. c. Mccormack. La
Sale; Probable Future Uses of Men
tai Tests and Measurements in High
School," ]. l.. Hoff, Ottawa; Smith
Hughes Vocational Law" (as ii is op-
Grating now), J. F. Kolb, Springfield
state department of public instruction.
Athletics, high school science room;
Lowell Dase, Strcator, chairman
"The Relation of Athletics to the High
School," Howard Fellows, La Sale;
What Branches of Athletics Should
Be Emphasized in High School," J. c
Krug, Spring Valley; Values of Ath-
letics to the High School" L. w.
Miller, Princeton.