Le Mars Sentinel
June 4, 1912
p.1 col.5

RURAL SCHOOLS TO HOLD EXERCISES IN LE MARS

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TO HAVE PICNIC IN CLEVELAND PARK

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The Annual Teachers Institute Will Be Held in June this Year at Central
School Building-the Summer School at College

The commencement exercises of the rural schools of Plymouth county will
be held at the opera house in LeMars on Saturday morning, June 15th, at ten
o'clock. This will be the first time in Plymouth county that the schools in
the country have joined together in holding commencement exercises and a big
attendance will greet with pleasure the innovation. Arrangements will be
made for a picnic dinner in Cleveland Park at twelve o'clock for the
graduates and their friends.

At the opera house in the afternoon, addresses will be made by Prof. W.
H. Bender, of Cedar Falls, Prof. F.E. Palmer, superintendent of the LeMars
city schools, and Miss Kate R. Logan, superintendent of the Cherokee county
schools.

The annual Normal Institute for Plymouth county teachers will open on
Sunday evening, June 16th, at the First Congregational church, when Prof.
Walter Athearn, of Drake University, will deliver an address on the subject,
"The Church, the School and the Home." Dean Altheran is head of religious
instruction at Drake University.

The sessions of the institute will open on Monday at the Central school
building and continue for a week.

On Tuesday evening a lecture open to the public, entitled "the Humanity
of Hamlet," will be delivered by Prof. Brown, of Des Moines.

Summer school under the direction of County Superintendent Donahoe and
Dr. C.A. Mock will begin at Western Union college on June 10th. During the
week of institute the attendants at summer school will be afforded the
opportunity to attend the institute.