The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, April 26, 1906 A meeting of the Lucas County Teachers' Association was held in the high school building in this city last Saturday. The attendance was large and the program was exceedingly interesting and instructive. MISS ALMA CLAY conducted a class in reading, and MISS DELLA COURTLEYOW a class in numbers. The pupils in the rooms taught by MISS IDA BEEM and MISS ETTA LAYTON gave a representation of an old time spelling lesson. MRS. W.W. WHITFIELD and MRS. IRA NOBLE read splendid papers on the subjext "How the Home May Further the Interest of the School," and advanced some excellent ideas. Enjoyable music was rendered by the high school orchestra and quartette and by pupils in MISS HELEN VAN ARSDALE's room. MISS SUSIE HUPP and MISS EMMA SHARP spoke on "Practical Nature Study" and their papers were exceptionally good. F.H. RIGGLE of Derby made some splendid remarks on language in the "Grammer Grades." MISS INEZ KELSO of Humeston closed the program with an entertaining talk on the "Lewis and Clark Expedition," or "The Cavaliers Who Blazed the Way for Civilization in the West." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 10, 2004 [email protected]