The Daily Sentinel published an official welcome to teachers for the city on September 10 and then reported their arrival and reception by local citizens committees who helped them with housing assignments. (JLJ)

The Daily Sentinel, September 10, 1923

Official City Publication - To the Teachers

The Sentinel voices the spirit of this community when it extends to you a hearty welcome to the city while in attendance upon the meeting of the Teachers Institute.

No town in the state has a greater regard and more appreciation for the splendid work being done by the faithful teachers than Nacogdoches, and it is the pleasure of our people to have you with us on any and all occasions. The greatest effort ever put forth by this town for the capture of any enterprise was to get a teacher's normal, and we are always ready to cooperate with the teachers in any good work.

If the legislature lets us alone in our accomplishments, our Normal school will soon become a reality and old Nacodoches, "first in history and first in the hearts of her countrymen," will be your home in the future.

The Daily Sentinel, September 11, 1923

"Chairman Lindsey"

[Robert Lindsey] stood smiling, obliging and constantly on duty at registration headquarters at the Redland Hotel from early Sunday morning until late Monday night, ready to assign all teachers to homes as quickly as they appeared for registration.

Mr. Lindsey is chairman of the entertainment committee of the Chamber of Commerce. In this big task he had splendid co-operation from many of our citizens. There was Walter Davis, Hal Tucker, Roy Gray, Carl Monk, Orland Patton, Emory and Robert Monk, Claud Gramling, Clay Perkins, A. H. Goodson and Misses Pearl Miller, Vida Gray and others too numerable to mention, all of whom devoted valuable time to the pleasurable task of providing homes to all of the teachers.