Session of teachers breaks all records at Indiana meeting
The fiftieth session of the Indiana Teacher Association opened in Claypool Hall with a full house as President Van Matre outlined aims for public schooling. He urged practical rural school division, expanded high school work, and civics study, praising democracy and public funding while noting uniformity and control weaknesses. Committees were named for officer nominations and finance as the session continued with musical interludes and a large attendance.
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Indiana Teacher Association
Claypool
Stuart
Manual Training School
Johnny
E. Ich
Indiana
Hurlstone
Roberts Park
C. A
New Albany
A. van Matre
Miss Wood
Pros
van Matre
America
England
Kr. van Matre
Teachers Should Be Sure To Appear Well
At a primary section meeting Miss Margaret Mooney of Richmond was elected president and Miss Hoopengarner of Bedford secretary. Papers discussed teacher conduct, reading phonetics, and hands on work in early grades, stressing that schooling should reflect the child’s world and promote early habits for future opportunity.
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Margaret Mooney
Richmond
Hoopengarner
Bedford
Eliza G. Clark
Indianapolis
H. B. Wilson
Franklin
Wilson
Linda H. Schulz
Reading Section at Statehouse Discusses Common Sense in Reading
At a Statehouse Elocution and Reading Section meeting three papers were read. Mrs. C. W. Boucher of Marion Normal School spoke on Reading as a Factor in Education. Boucher, Connor of Muncie High School and Palmer University weighed high school reading needs. Mrs. Emma McRae of Purdue urged common sense in reading, stressing clear expression and understandable speech. Officers were elected: Boucher secretary and Conver president.
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Statehouse
C¢. W. Boucher
Marion Normal School
Connor
Muncie High School
Palmer University
Emma Mont. McRea
Purdue University
I. Conver
C. W. Boucher
Instructors Seek Joining State Teachers Association
Last August county institute instructors formed the County Institute Instructors Section with Robert L. Kelly of Earlham College as president and H. B. Ison of Franklin as secretary. The executive committee includes State Superintendent Cotton who was later added as vice president. The group elected the same officers for the next year and adopted a constitution and by laws. They will apply for membership in the State Teachers Association main body. President Kelly noted the section and the new Panama republic share youth and potential.
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Cotton
Howard Sandison
State Normal
County Institute
A. J. Kinniman
State Teachers’ Association
Kelly
Panama Republic
Mathematical Text Books Are Obscure
The State Teachers Association held a large session on mathematics at the Claypool Hotel with over 150 attendees. Prof A B Hathaway urged new textbooks, while Dr Robert J Aley argued teachers cover too much material. Officers elected: A B Mavity president, William Caylor vice president, Amelia Warring Platter secretary, with an executive committee including T H Stompher Vernon Waldo and Professor Brown.
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State Teachers’ Association
Claypool
A. 8. Hathaway
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Robert J. Aley
State University
Nk Higgins
State Normal
A . B. Mery
Anderson Highwak
A. B Mavity
Andersen
William Caylor
Noblesville
Amelia Warring Platter
Indianapolis
T. H. Stompher
Vernon
Waldo
Lafayette
Brown
Greencastle
Language and slang in the English section debate
The English section thoroughly discusses the abuses of the English language and the everyday slang expression ain't. The discussion centers on usage and attitudes toward informal speech in modern communication.
English in the Grades Debate at State Teachers Meeting
The State Teachers Association met at the Claypool Hotel with President Skinner presiding. Helen Rose Lang argued against mechanical grammar teaching and contrasted usage like ain't with tobacco chewing, urging better habit formation in schools. Fort Wayne’s W. L. McMillen and Indianapolis’ E. H. Kemper McComb spoke on English in high schools and college, while Mrs. McRae of Purdue urged more grammar instruction in grades and high schools.
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State Teachers’ Association
Claypool
Yester
Skinner
Louisville
Mise Helen Rose Lang
Indianapolis
W. L. McMillen
Fort Wayne
E. H. Kemper McCom
McRae
Purdue University
PUPILS DO NOT PREFER TO BE BIBLE CHARACTERS
Superintendent T A Mott of Richmond reports on grammar grade course revision and pupil preferences. He notes only three percent of public school pupils wish to be like religious figures, with many aspiring to Roosevelt Washington and Longfellow. Parochial pupils favor religious models at 60 percent.
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T. A. Mott
Richmond
Claypool Hotel
Moses
David
Solomon
Roosevelt
Washington
Incol
Longfellow
E. H. Drake
Attica
W. H. Sanders
Rensetlear
Departmental work proves successful in Evansville schools
Miss Kate Woods, secretary of the Teachers' Association and music and drawing instructor, reports that departmental work in sixth to eighth grades engages about 200 pupils daily. She notes the system, started by Superintendent Cooley, assigns specialists to reading arithmetic geography and reading, with promising results. Woods will stage part of the Mikado at a public reception and has placed solo parts with seventh and eighth graders in Sewanee River.
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Kate Woods
Teachers’ Association
Evansville
Woods
Cooley
Miss Woods
Sewanee River
Individual Work Urged In High Schools Meeting
A high school section session featured a piano solo by Miss Anastasia O'Donnell followed by papers on school organization and discipline. J T Giles of Marion debated single versus double sessions, with Robert Spear of Evansville moderating. J C Boldt of Anderson discussed the Batavia plan and Anna Wilson of Crawfordsville stressed discipline and faculty student relations. President Hughes of De Pauw spoke on the Uses of Knowledge. Elected leaders included W C Hiatt as president and Miss Harter Palmer as secretary, with an executive committee named.
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Anastasia O'Donnell
J. T. Giles
Marion
Giles
Robert Spear
Evansville
J. C. Boldt
Anderson
Batavia
Ladies’ Home Journal
Anna Wilson
Crawfordsville
Hughes
de Pauw University
W. C. Hiatt
Harter Palmer
Franklin
J. M. Kinney
Spencer
W. H. Isley
Shelbyville
W. L. McMillen
Fort Wayne
Indiana scientists finish session before St Louis meet
The Indiana Academy of Science held its final session at the Statehouse as many scientists failed to attend because they departed for the national meeting in St. Louis. A handful of papers were read by Purdue’s C P Evans and others while officers were elected for the coming year. The spring meeting is planned for New Harmony with expectations the academy will continue to grow.
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Indiana Academy of Science
Statehouse
St. Louis
P. N. Evans
Purdue
D. M. Mottler
The
State University
D. W. Dennis
Earlham
John S. Wright
Indianapolis
T. J. Headlee
Martins
J. BP. Naylor
de Pauw University
Academy
New Harmony
Teachers Should Make Profession an Art
The classical section met at the Claypool Hotel with two papers on language. Ella G. Matthews of Shortridge discussed challenges in the Second Year Latin and noted that over half of Shortridge pupils choose Latin. Edwin E. Post of DePauw argued teachers lack respect because they undervalue their work and urged teachers to elevate their profession to an art.
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Claypool
Wellman Trush
Muncie
Ella G. Matthews
Shortridge High School
Edwin E. Post
de Pauw University
Unity Emphasis Shapes County Institute Strategy
County superintendents stressed county and township institute work as key to success. They argued for hiring good instructors and securing full teacher cooperation, debated splitting institutes into departments, and discussed visits with follow up letters pointing out teaching flaws. Attempts to reform bi monthly exams were assigned to four leaders, while W A Willis briefed on preparing educational exhibits for the St Louis exposition.
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Cook
Marion County
L. H. Hamilton
Jasper County
J. W. Frazier
Madison County
F. E. Cooper
Lake County
Radkin
St. Louis Exposition
W. A. Willis
Indiana
Urges Elocution In All Grade Schools
Olive Sanger Hall a New York lecturer and reader attends teachers sessions at Denison. She praises teachers institutes as the best way to inspire teachers with love for authors. She notes many schools lack truly enthusiastic recitals and dramatic delivery.
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Olive Sanger Hall
New York City
Hall
Denison
Beginners Gather in Their Annual Session
The real beginners of education the kindergarten teachers met in the Claypool Hotel to seek membership in the State Teachers Association elected officers led by President Mrs Eliza A Blaker and selected reading books for teachers and children for 194 and 195 The group also asked admission for the kindergarten section to the state association.
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State Teachers’ Association
Claypool Hotel
State Association
Eliza A. Blaker
Indianapolis
Edith Surbey
Stella McCarty
Florence Herrison
Anderson
Annie Posey Barrows
South Bend
Young People’s Reading Circle Board
Claypool
Dutton
America
Iowa pays lowest wages to Iowa teachers
Iowa has the lowest female teacher wages in the union and the lowest average for male and female teachers except seven states, with an average scale of 36.91 dollars. The report by Chairman Nicholson to the Educational Council Iowa State Teachers Association notes Iowa ranks sixth in total school funds raised and third in teachers employed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Nicholson
Educational Council
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
General Association
Proposal for American institution of commercial schools
Cincinnati reports Dr H M Rowe of Baltimore proposing a central national body to govern commercial education. The plan would set courses, graduation standards, and affiliations with the central institution, plus graduate and post graduate training for commercial teachers. In St Louis the American Association for the Advancement of Science met with sections in mathematics astronomy physics chemistry engineering geology zoology botany anthropology social science physiology and medicine.
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Cincinnati
H. M. Rowe
Baltimore
ST. Louis
American Association For the Advancement of Science
National Association
Leaders in historical and economic associations meet
About 150 leaders in economic thought and history study attend the annual meetings in New Orleans. A three day program is prepared with sessions in the old Civil District Court Building and at Newcombe and Tulane Colleges. Papers read span diverse topics and are described as interesting.
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New Orleans
American Istorical and
Archaeological Institute of America Opens Annual Meeting in Cleveland
The annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America begins in Cleveland, continuing to Thursday. Attendees include professors from Eastern and Midwestern universities, with many papers focused on Greece exploration and discoveries. A dinner for visiting scientists was held at the University Club.
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Cleveland, O
The
Archaeological Institute of America
Greece
University Club
Annual meeting of American Affiliated Scientific Societies
Philadelphia scene reports the start of the annual meeting at the University of Pennsylvania with papers read by members of the American Society of Zoologists Eastern branch the Association of American Anatomists the Society of American Bacteriologists the Society of Plant Morphology and Physiology and the American Physiological Society. Cambridge folk lore meeting focuses on papers on folklore after a brief business session at the Peabody Museum.
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Philadelphia
University of Pensylvania
American Society of Zoologists
Association of American Anatomists
Society of American Bacteriologists
Society of Plantmorphology and Physiology
American Physiological Society
Cambridge
Mass
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology
American Folk Lore Society
Will Still Bet on the Ponies at Cumberland
Gus Rahke and his partner known as French Lick Jones pleaded guilty to operating a gambling house in Cumberland and were fined one dollar plus costs by Judge Alford. Both men faced indictments for exhibiting gaming devices and Rahke admitted guilt on that count. Five indictments remain pending for operating a gambling house, and Jones plans to continue running the Cumberland poolroom. The January grand jury is expected to examine poolroom operations due to insufficient prior evidence.
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Gus Rahke
French Lick
Jones
Cumberland
Alford
Rahke
Superior Court
John L. McMaster
Franklin Warman
Lewis Davis
James M. Leathers
George W. Koehne
Mary A. Koehne
Circuit Court
Henry Clay Allen
Melvina Miles
Thomas J. Miles
Charles Hummel
Albert Shrove
Frank Lee
Wilhelm Rhode
Fremont Alford
Augustus Rhake
C. L. Jones
Augustus Rahke
State
Nolles
Emma_A. Fry
Charles D. Fry
Hattie Noller
Fred C. Noller
Superior
Tate
Indiana
Lucinda Barckdall
Board of Public Works
State of Indiana
Admits The Charges In Hendricks County Divorce
A large crowd heard Melvina Miles testify in the Circuit Court suit for divorce and thirty thousand dollars alimony against Thomas J. Miles. Miles admitted all allegations after the plaintiff rested, the divorce and fifteen thousand dollars alimony being granted. She recalled a warm marriage in 18%, but described his cold behavior, taunting her for dependence, and giving the furniture to his former wife’s children. Miles, a retired farmer near Clayton, is valued at about one hundred fifty thousand dollars.
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Judge Allen
Circuit Court
Melvina Miles
Thomas J. Miles
Miles
Clayton
Hendricks County
Judge Carter Denies Two Divorces in Domestic Court
Judge Carter of the Superior Court spent yesterday hearing many divorce petitions. Most petitions were granted but two were denied one involving Harry Pauley and Gertrude Pauley over custody of a five year old son and household goods, the other Bessie Bristol and Christopher Bristol denied due to lack of legal residence.
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Carter
Superior Court
Harry Pauley
East Wabash Street
Gertrude Pauley
Pauley
Bessie Bristol
Christopher Bristol
Bristol
Kankakee
Court Rules Cumberland Tel No Right to Do Business in Evansville
Federal Court Judge Anderson ruled Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company of Evansville cannot use an Evansville franchise assignment to place poles and wires in city streets. The bill was dismissed for lack of equity as the complainant had no rights under the Evansville Telephone Exchange assignment.
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Evansville
Anderson
Federal
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company of
Higher Court Records and Appellate Briefs Summary
Supreme Court and appellate listings show several cases with administrators appellants and appellees seeking extensions and additional authorities. Included are Jonathan J. Moore versus Robert J. Ferguson and Consumers Gas Trust Company versus Fremont Wilson with time extensions granted to February 1, 1904, among others.
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Jonathan J. Moore
Robert J. Ferguson
Boone C. C. Appellant
Horace G. Cassell
Abram Lowry
Benton C. C. Appelle
Consumers’ Gas Trust Company
Fremont Wilson
Delaware
C. C. Appellee
David A. Coulter
Anna Bradley
Clinton C. C
Indiana
Reptist Publishing Colony
F. Wayland Ayer
Marton
Weather striking New Year trends from past two decades
A United States Weather Bureau chart shows only two very cold New Year days in twenty years. The coldest reached 3 below zero in 1887 and 3 below in 191. Average New Year temperature is about 3 above zero. Snow fell on six New Year days, heaviest 19 inches in 1893. rain on four days, including a heavy 3.41 inch storm in 18. Predicting this year’s conditions remains impossible.
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United States Weather Bureau
M. T. H. S. NOTES
Miss Leona Templeton entertained Shortridge and Training School friends at her home 1925 Buckle Street. Fluted and dancing furnished the amusements. The V V s will be entertained this afternoon at Lois Brown's home on South New Jersey Street. The Ran Cheros meet this evening with president H Wesley Rohdehamel 1720 Orange Street to complete arrangements for a Brenneke's dance. The Manchus will host a New Year's Eve party for Tredecimites at Hugh Simpson's Central Avenue home. On Saturday the club will take a trip in Mr. Thomas private car. Three rehearsals this week for plays January 13 for graduating class benefit. Plays: A Proposal Under Difficulties and The Mouse Trap.
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Leona Templeton
Shortridge
Buckle Street
Lois Brown
South New Jersey
Helen Smith
Mary Wood
Fay Barth
Henrietta Buchanan
Marie Wood
Ran Cheros
H. Wesley Rhodehamel
Orange Street
Brenneke
Baggs
Howells
Dr Horatio D Helmes Dies in City at 58
Dr Horatio D Helmes longtime Circleville Ind physician died yesterday at a private sanatorium after illness caused by arteriosclerosis. Whitsett Culver of this city had charge of the body and it was shipped to Circleville last night.
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Horatio D. Helmes
Circleville
Ind
Helmes
Whitsett & Culver, Ee
Aoe
City Board of Health Meets on Hospital Wing Plans
The city Board of Health convenes this morning at 1 o'clock to discuss activating the new City Hospital wing. Furnishings contracts are expected to be awarded during the session.
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City Board of Health
City Hospital
Elwood Residents Visit Mayor Over Workhouse Plans
Two Elwood citizens met with Mayor Holtzman yesterday morning to discuss workhouse matters. The visitors aimed to inspect the local institution’s model and assess how a proposed workhouse in their town might be organized.
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Elwood
Holtzman
Gas Belt
William May Not Go South In Winters Court Plans
Berlin reports Emperor William will cancel a projected trip to southern Europe. He will instead host the usual winter court functions on January 18 and 27. The note adds a domestic scene with simple meals as part of court life.
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Berlin
William
Europe
Born Before George Washington Died Heads 18th Century Child
Minneapolis child Robert C. Harper, 14, died after a short illness. He proudly said he was born nearly six months before George Washington’s death, placing his birth in the eighteenth century. In New York, Rev. Father George Deshon, head of the Paulist Fathers, died of heart disease after three weeks. He was West Point classmate of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, graduated 1843, retired as captain, ordained four years later. Hartford and Dubuque obituaries follow: Jeremiah M. Allen, age seventy, longtime insurance figure. Thomas Conselly, 67, carriage manufacturer, died of apoplexy.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Robert C. Harper
George Washington
New York
George Deshon
Order of Paulist Fathers
Father Deshon
Dubuque, In
Dee
Thomas Conselly
Delegates Attend Ninth Federation of Graduate Clubs Meet
Delegates from colleges and universities across the country gather at Radcliffe College for the ninth annual convention of the Federation of Graduate Clubs of America. The two day session opened today with participants discussing objectives and programs.
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Cambridge
Masrs
Radclffe College
Federation of Graduate Clubs of America
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