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THE MAN'S STORE NEWS.
$8.50 BLACK OVERCOATS
ON FRIDAY,
SATURDAY
IV MONDAY 9
Here's an Overcoat, rii;ht
on the opening of the season,
that will prove to • 21 men just
how muchthat " Crowder's "
Clothing Values beat the best
to be had elsewhere. These
are bright new Coats, right up-
to-date, trimmed and ntade in
a high-class manner, Sizes 31
to 44 chest. On sale at
$6.95
Men's $14 and $13
Overcoats
Friday, Saturday & Monday
$10.95
Just 17 Coats in The lot,
and judging by the selling of
previous lots, these won't be
here very long. All splendidly
made and trimmed. Sizes 34
to 40 chest.
$4,50 Boys' Corduroy School
Suits, $3.50.
10 only Boys' two•pioce Corduroy
Suits, Norfolk style, sizes 24 to 28,
regular price $4.50. Friday, Satur-
day and Monday—$3.50.
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Boys' 50c Mole Knickers 39c
Men's 75c Red Wool Underwear. 49c
DRESS OVERCOATS.—We have a range of patterns
and styles in all the new Overcoats for Fall and
Winter wear. Prices $10.00 to $18.00
NEW HATS NEW SHIRTS
BOOTS, SHOES, VALISES — AT RIGHT PRICES.
It will pay you to see us before buying
your Men's Furs.
Tee Rol Crowder Co.
Blue Front Store, Wingham.
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East Huron Teachers.
One Of The Most Successful
And Inspiring Conventions.
The regular annual meeting of the
East Iiuron Teachers' Institute was
held in Winghain l,''ulllic School on
Friday and Saturday, Oct, filth and
20th.
The minutes of last meeting were
react and on motion of Messrs. Moffatt
and Taylor were adopted.
The following conlrnittees were ap-
pointed : Program ---Miss Brock, Mes-
srs. Leppard and McQuibban. Reso-
lutions --Messrs, Cameron, Scott and
Johns, Reporters— Messrs. Dobson
and Bartley,
The first paper was one on' Reading
by De. David J. Goggin, M. A., of To-
ronto. After a few introductory re-
marks he began on his subject. When
a toy comes to school he has know-
ledge which he has acquired from his
natural and social surroundings, In
his first five years he has learned more
without conscious effort than he will
with conscious effort in any other five
years of his life. The teacher should
connect his teaching with the previous
knowledge of the child and should
connect his teaching with the child's
desire for doing. A desire for reacting
should be created in the child. Then
he will take an interest in his work.
The teacher should strive to give the
pupil power. Before the child has
been a week at school he should be
able to read a sentence and get its
tneaning. Each teacher should use
the method with which he succeeds
best.
In the afternoon Dr. Goggin con-
tinued his address on Reading. After
summing up his morning address, he
continued his discussion of the pro-
blems arising in the teaching of ele-
mentary reading, illustrating methods
for their solution. He confined him-
self mainly to the teaching of elemen-
tary reading. He explained the ne-
cessity ,of creating and retaining the
child's interest and of distinguishing
between the form and expression.
He showed hoW it was possible to
teach a child in a very few days to
read sentences of which he could un-
derstand the full meaning and which
would interest him. In the teaching
of words, ear training should precede
eye training. He emphasized. the
benefits resulting • from reading for
iinitation and also from supplemen-
tary reading. The lesson should not
be repeated often. The power to read
comes from reading much new mate-
rial, rather than reading over old
material. In conclusion he, deprecat-
ed the practice of keeping a child back
for deficiency in spelling.
Miss Padfield read an excellent
paper on "Oar object as teachers."
The true object of education is to
train boys and girls to become noble
men and women who will be both able
and willing to do their life work faith-
fully and well. There are three
branches of education— intellectual,
physical and moral. The teacher
should endeavor to have the intellect
grow and increase in strength and
power. Pupils should be taught to
love nature so that they may be able
to enjoy the works of the poets. Right
habits should be developed in the
child. Impress on the children the
importance of right living. Let the
teacher's object be :—
(1)—To train the child so that he
will leave school with a love of nature
and faith in God and humanity.
(2)—With a love of knowledge and a
desire to read and think for himself.
(3)—With a knowledge that he has a
work to do ; that he is responsible for
its accomplishment and that no ono
else can do it.
(4)—With right habits formed that
will result in a noble manhood.
Moved by Mr. J. H. Cameron, sec-
onded by Mr. Wm. Moffatt and re-
solved—That this meeting heartily
endorse the candidature of Mr. A. H.
Musgrove, Principal of Wingham
Public School, for a position as mem-
ber of the Advisory Council. Carried
unanimously.
Mr. Robb spoke at length on the
new law fixing the salaries of teach-
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Walker Bros. & Button
ers. He upheld. the law, and also
stated that he bad not received the as-
sistance that he should, from the
teachers, in his efforts to reconcile
those opposed to it, The effect of the
law he thought would 'be to bring
back to the Bounty many professional
teachers, who had received their
model training here, from the fact
that higher salaries would result in
schools procuring professional teach-
ers more easily than before. Continu-
ing he mentioned several criticisms he
had received from trustees in the
Inspectorate, He characterized the
Speller now in use as inadequate to
the needs, A notable defect in Read-
ing was lack of expression, and in
Penmanship insufficient use of Copy
Books, He deprecated the practice of
giving excessive home -work and urg-
ed the teachers to make allowance for
the varying capacity of pupils. In
conclusion he urged the teachers to
live up to their agreements, and to
deal honorably with School Boards,
EVENING SESSION.
In the evening an entertainment
was held in the Town Hall, which was
very largely attended and very suc-
cessful. Inspector David. Robb, B. A.,
occupied the chair.
Mr. Norman Murch rendered, two
solos in his usual pleasing style.
Dr. David Goggin, M. A„ of Toron-
to, delivered an eloquent and instruc-
tive lecture 'on "Success." He stated
that success in life could not be mea-
sured by wealth, by social. position or
by power, but by the amount of good
done to our fellowmen. He then pro-
ceeded to discuss the essentials of suc-
cess, mentioning determination, thrift
and character, basing his remarks
thereon upon the statement that the
ideal man is he whose endowments
have been harmoniously developed to
the highest degree possible.
A hearty vote of thanks was ten-
dered Dr. Goggin for his excellent lec-
ture.
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President Robb said that since open-
ing school in August he had addressed
about sixty boards of trustees on the
principles underlying the new school
act. He had heard many criticisms
favorable and unfavorable on the way
teachers were performing their duties,
and on the work accomplished. It
was asserted that the penmanship of
the pupils is not as good as formerly.
The inspector thought that this arose
from the pernicious habit of many
teachers giving impositions in writing
which led to scribbling; for instance,
misspelled words having to be written
a hundred or more times. This should
stop, in fact must stop. Again, his-
tory notes and notes on geography
were usually hastily written with
some common words, and nearly all
proper names incorrectly spelled. It
was also stated that the authorized
spelling book contained many words
not in common use, that teachers
should not require pupils to learn
these words, and that children were
required to spell words without know-
ing their meaning or being able to use
them correctly in forming sentences.
It was urged that children should not
be punished because of their inability
to spell. Many trustees were not sat-
isfied with the reading. It was assert-
ed that enough of attention was not
given to emphasis, inflection, etc.
Nothing carne in for so much condem-
nation as excessive home work. One
parent asserted that he could not find
time at night to read his newspaper
through having to assist his children
with their home work. A little was
net objected to, but one trustee said
he did not believe that after the teach-
er examined the hotne work she had
any time to teach. One board of
trustees entered an emphatic protest
against teachers' conventions. Their
teacher invariably closed her school
for these conventions but never at-
tended. It was, the board said, dis-
honest. The inspector had to admit
the truth of the charge in more than
this instance, and that as it was as
much their duty to attend. these con-
ventions as to teach, that he had often
felt like asking the executive to place
on the notice of these meetings that
teachers should "attend to business or
resign." Most of those who stay
away from conventions are the teach-
ers who need them most. They are
those unfortunate people, who have
fallen into that fatal sleep of "know it
all." The president urged the teacher
to justify the new scheme of salaries
by doing their very best and making
themselves so indispensable that
schools cannot do without them. He
was sure that in a couple of years
most teachers in this inspectorate
would be receiving higher salaries
than the minimum fixed by law. As
it is, more than a dozen schools have
teachers engaged for next year at
salaries of from $40 to $75 higher than
the minimum.
SATURDAY MORNING.
The treasurer read his report which
was adopted.
The following officers were elected:
President—Mr. Moffatt, Seaforth ;
lst Vice Pres.—Mr. Murch, Blyth
2nd Vice Pres.—Miss Padfield, Gorrie;
Sec.-Treas.—Mr. John Bartley, Myth;
Executive Committee --Mr. A. Scott,
Seaforth; Mr. A. Johns, Landes-
boro ; Mr. J. A. Taylor, `Vinghetn ;
Miss L. Shannon, Ethel ; Miss B.
Murdie, Seaforth.
Auditors—Messrs. F. Metcalf and J.
A. Anderson of Blyth.
Dr. Goggin began his remarks on
Composition by saying that it was
the worst taught subject on the curri-
mini . There are two kinds of com-
position, oral and written. Oral work
should be given more attention than
written. The speaker commended the
Attention given to oral composition
in the States and made a plea, for
more of it here. He described methods
of terabit*.composition in the differ-
ent grades. At first the child's in-
terest should be aroused by stories
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told by the teaoher, and also by stories
read. Starting with fables and folk -
stories, the teacher should proceed to
historical trues, then to science. The
value of pictures was set forth as also,
that of the memorization _of gems of
literature, Letter writing should be
given Tore attention. It should be
introduced in the Pt, Il classes. That
it had received insufficient attention
in the past was shown by the letter -
writing of many teachers. In all
composition work, the child should be
taught first to get the thought, then
to arrange it, In correcting, too
many errors should not be corrected
by the teacher. The child should be
taught to find his own mistake. The
only correction of any value is the one
the child makes himself.
J. G. Workman, B. A,, then gave
an excellent address an "The new
course in Geometry." The reasons for
the introduction of the new course
are :—(1) The old course was too ab-
stract. (2) The work was not taken
up in such a way as to be related to
other subjects. (3) Euclid's book is
now out of date, the course being too
burdensome and not covering enough
in the first year, The speaker showed
that some pf Euclid's propositions
have been neglected, because of their
lack of utility and that a number of
other simple ones have been used as
an introduction, along with the defini-
tions, The introduction to the theo-
retical work in geometry is excellent.
Mr. Moffatt of Seaforth then gave a
five minutes' talk on Supplementary
Reading and the management of
school libraries. He gave a nnrnber
of useful hints to the teachers, and
supported most strongly the placing
of libraries in the schools.
Mr. Strachan followed with an ad-
dress on "Our Poets." He saki that
we are indebted to poets (more than
we think) for the expression of beauti-
ful thoughts. He asked if there Were
any Canadian poets and if not, why
not ? He made a plea for more study
of the Canadian poets.'
In discussion, Mr. Cameron said
that it was the duty of the teacher to
makehimself familiar with good
books before asking the children to
read them. Dr. Goggin said that it
was a matter of regret that Canadian
writers were deserting• their country
for the prospect of success which they
conld never attain at home.
The Committee on Resolutions
brought in its report as follows : Re-
solved—
(1) That a hearty vote of thanks be
tendered to the Winghain Public
School Board for the use of the school.
(2) That a hearty vote of thanks be
tendered the Winghain Council for
the use of the Town Hall.
(3) That a hearty vote of thanks be
tendered Dr. Goggin for his most
valued addresses during the sessions,
and also for his eloquent lecture in the
Town Hall.
(4) That a vote of thanks be ten-
dered Mr. Murch for his excellent
solos at the evening entertainment.
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Winter Wheat, per bush.... 67o to 70e
Goose Wheat, por bush 600 to 62e
Manitoba Wheat, per bush75c to 85c
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