The Ward County independent., 1921-10-20

ing, and hOme-making are announced
by A. H. Parrot, registrar, prelimin.
ary to a final accounting of the new
enrollments.
-- MGsvoe I. JOHNSON xiveME~ -
NORMAL NEWS NOTES
President L. H. Beeler is in demand
as an Institute lecturer and for pub.
lie addresses generally. Last Wed.
nesday he spoke before the North Da.
kota State Sunday School Association
at Fargo on '"The Task Of Religious
Education" Thursday evening he
addressed the Mountrail County
teachers at Stanley. Friday evening
and Saturday morning he appeared on
the program of the Southwest North
Dakota Teachers Association at Man
dan. The subject of these addresses
were "Democratizing Education" and
"The Forces that Make Men,"
The Normal School was host to the
visiting teachers of Ward and Nc
Henry Counties on Monday of last
week. Acquaintance games were fol-
lowed by a program to which Miss
solos; Miss Martha Reishus, vocal
numbers and Miss Eva Thompson a
piano solo. Pres. Beeler also voiced
a welcome to the guests. Light re-
freshments were served.
The enrolment in the Normal
School is now 232 resident and IS ex-
tension students. Others are arrang-
ing to enroll in correspondence
courses but have not completed their
registration. The English Exten-
sion Class with Miss McDonough has
proven very popular, their being
twenty-one members.
Mrs. Elizabeth Records has resum-
ed her studies in the Normal. Dur
ing the summer she spent about two
months in and around New York City.
She is especially enthusiastic over
her stay at Woodstock in the Cat
skills where she enjoyed sketching
and painting with the artist colony
there.
Nine Of the women members of the
faculty dropped in on Mrs. Florence
Perkett last Thursday evening to re-
mind her that it was her birthday.
The evening was spent with music
and social chat. Light refreshments
provided by the guests were served at
the close of the evening.
The members of the Junior English
class provided Foley program for
Assembly on Tuesday of last week.
Miss Ethel Heitmann presided and
contributed sketch of Foley's life.
Others who gave readings from his
poems were the Misses Doris Sickle,
Clara Rom, Edith Swanson, Martha
Christianson and Gladys Mork.
The Joint Institute was voted q
great success. A regular schedule
Of classes in the three departments,
Primary, intermediate and Grammar
was arranged. In addition to this,
there was general lecture period
each day, addressed some times by a
member of the Normal School Facul-
ty and at others by Lecturers pro-
vided by the State Department. The
State Supt., Miss Minnie j. Nielsen,
was present on Thursday and spoke
to joint session Of the Institute and
the Normal School, as also did Mrs.
Gertrude Hasbrouck, Field Secretary
Of the National Child Welfare As
sociation. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stew
art spoke at the Community Meeting
in the Auditorium on Sunday evening
and again on Monday morning. OF
the Normal Faculty, Miss Julia G..
McDonough spoke on "Zona Gale,'
Mrs. Florence G. Perkett on "Edu-
cational Measurements" and Mr..
Everett Davis on "Miss June Teaches
School,"
The opening exercise period provid-
ed an opportunity for devotions in
charge Of several Of the local min
listers and also for community sing
ing under the direction Of Mrs. Amy
M. Simpson Of the Normal School.
Miss Mabelle Adamson, the Red Cross
Nurse for Ward County, spoke brief
~ Of her work at one Of these periods