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Show i Teachers' Association. Salt Lake Filled With Pedagogues-, Our Own Among Them. The State 'J'eacheis Association has been In session In Salt Lake this week and without ''ottbt it has been a Kreat (fathering of the teachets W. II. Apperle, pilnclpal of the Woodruff school In this city, furnishes us with the following Interesting account of at least a portion of the pioceedinj-s: TUESDAY NIGHT "Tim opening session of the Teachers Teach-ers Association was a btilllant allah. The L'nlerslty of Utah was a blae or light and beauty. At the appointed bout Supt. A. C. Nelson, the gicat educator ed-ucator and optimist of Clah, staled the object of our gathetlng and Intto-duced Intto-duced Ooveruor Culler who dellveied a carcfull ptepated speech of welcome wel-come It wus wiiiuili applauded The Inspliatlon of the houi. how-cvci. how-cvci. came from Dr Skinner, the poet orator, who gae a line lenditiou of hlsgieat poem, "A Dedicatory Ode " This was followed bv a dance mid a social. One thousand edue.itois wete set veil with the choicest of lefresh-ments lefresh-ments by Salt Lake's most beautiful and cultuicd joung ladles WEDNESDAY At 10 a.m. llanatt Mall was crowded to Its utmost capacity. Dr Skinner gaean Interesting and piolitable lecture lec-ture on the world's greatest Lyric. It was a lino Htciai ellort, but better Icctuies hao been trlcti bj l'tof. .LIT. I'aul and other Utah oratois. My onlv excuse for this mention Is that It mil) be as well In the fuluie to spend less money on Impoilcd talent and moieou our local All the department meetings in the afternoon wcie wll attended. The piogramswere pi.ictlcal and full of inspliatlon in-spliatlon to the giowiug teacher. The lecture in thcT.ibei liable airtight, on "Folk Loie" bj Dr Skinner was deepl Interesting and full or valuable suggestions to the gceial public. Thuisday moining Department meetings opened with better work-along work-along all lines If a full ieportofa!l that was said in the School Iloaid Section could be published in pamphlet pam-phlet form it would be woilh much to eu'i school boaid In our State As Supt. Jensen attended this mcctlhg lie will likely ghe our Incoming bo.ud the full benelit of tills hnpuitant meeting. All the wit, humor and eloquence elo-quence came fioin local talent. Neatly Neat-ly all our city teachets are In attendance atten-dance and the aie doing a good woik. 1 had ;i pleasant Intel view today with K. .1. Cannon, editor or The Tribune. Tri-bune. He is still the biiglitest st;u in the West. Hae Just dined with one of Logan's liucstcoueisat!onallsts lia A. Cole, and 1 met on Main street tills moinitig our own matchless Joseph Jos-eph Howell" W. II. A I |