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KINSLEY, EDWARDS COUNTY KANSAS AfRIL 26. 1901.
Vol 25. No. ,23.;
By J. M. Lewis. Jr.
THE :13 EST .IN
THE WORLD
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coiistru.cti.oru
Easiest to operate, the lightest draft
machines ever built.
"Ve Carry a, tull .Cine of Repairs.
Ior further information see
A tull line of Farnaeg Implements, etc
p N. MOSHEB,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Offlcv " MhIi Ave. 4 ilwre south of
Edward Co. Hank building.
Special nttiiti'Mi given o the
KYK, EAH, NOSE, THROAT AND
SURGERY.
KINSLEY, :-: KANSAS.
P.A.Pearson,
PHYSICIAN AND SUROEON.
Office on Sixth St. 'four doors west of
AUuuo. Residence on 7th. St.
Dr. W. IJ. ALEXANDER,
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON,
Kinsley, KaQsas.
''Office hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2
to 5 p. m. Office second door west of
Alamo Hotel. .
S. GAGE M, D
KINSLEY, KANSAS.
Office over Kinsley Bank.
Elmer E. Hayncs, JW. D.f
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Belpre, Kansas.
C. DYER
Attorney-atIaw.
Kinsley, Kansas.
XZS'cj&a over HummelPs store.
jfl - C mNGHAM,
NOTARY FUBLIC.
11EALESTATE
and INSURANCE AGENT.
Special attention given to the busl
neasof non-residents, renting farm
Snd city property, collecting rent and
the payment of tare. .
A. HARDY,
Lewis, Kaosas.
Canplrt tock of Hwdwr, Imple-
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H. C. TAYLOR,
at Ketelson Bros.
A. C. Fisher's old stand.
Celebrated McCormick Twine.
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X By County Supt. L. R. Clark.
Our Rural School System.
Its Present and Future.
All improvements in social condi
tions, if they are to be at all effective
and permanent, must be brought about
by a demand of public sentiment. His-1
tory records many great and noble
plans to benefit mankind which failed
through the indifference of the people.
Laws distasteful to public sentiment
are farces, but laws upheld by this
mighty force are binding and salu
tary. Throughout these articles the writer
has tried to show that the changes go
ing on in the rural schools are due to
a demand of the peqpie for something
better. In communities where the
changed conditions were first noticed,
the remedies were first applied.
A description of the plans adopted
will be given as an answer to the
question, How can the graded school
be taken to the country.
In a township in Trumbull county,
Ohio, "the Board divided the town
ship into eight routes, which were let
to the lowest, bidder, the successful one
being required to give bond for the
fulfilling of the contract and also for
good cod duct of himself and of the pu
pils carried, and further to provide
good, comfortable, well covered vans
in which to carry the children. Also to
furnish blankets and robes for the
same.
"'1 be eight vans carry on an aver
age about twenty pupils each. The
children step into the van at the road
side and are set down upon the school
grou nd.
"There is no tramping through snow
and mud. The average cost per van
per. day is $1.09. The carriers are re
quired to have the children on the
school ground by 8:45 a. in., which
does away with tardiness, and to leave
for home about 3:45 p. m.
"Our school has now been in session
several months, and we are able to
make a fair and close estimate of the
year's expenses.
."Taking last year, for comparison
we find: Number of school age in the
township, 235; number enrolled in
school, 184; average daily attendance,
125; cost per pupil lor the year $19.32.
Llnder the new way: Number of school
age 241; number enrolled in central
school, 190; average daily attendance,
lt5; cost per pupil for the year, $15."
In Kingsville township, Atshtabula
county, the cost per pupil jer year
under the district ' plan was $12.75.
W ith a central graded school auu pu
pils conveyed a' public expense the
cost p.r pupil per year has been re
duced to $12.25.
The following is an account of a
system in Portage county, Ohio: The
schooiuouae is centrally located in the
township. .With a mile radius and the
xchoolhouse as a center a circle is
drawn. - All scholars who live within
this circle attend school at their own
expense. A second circle is drawn,
.'with. a mile and three-fourths radius.
All scholars who live in the belt be
tween the two circles receive $1.1)0 each
per month to pay for their transpor
tation. Each family provides for its
owu. transportation iu its own way.
way. under tms system tne towns nip
attendance rose from sixty-five attend
ance on eight schools to ninety-five
attendance on the single central
school. The township has - one of the
best high schools in the state. After
fiaying for the new central building,
the fifth year there was an actual
saving to the township of more than
$750.00.
1 Such schools are in successful oper
ation in Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Ohio,1 Indiana, and the system is
growing in public favor as it is be
coming understood Following are
the principal arguments for centraliz
ation:
1. ' There are enough pupils to form
good, strong classes, thoroughly grad
ed as they are advanced, which is im
possible in the average district school.
2. Better results will be secured
for less money. There will be one
building to heat and keep up Instead
of eight or ten.
3. With a central graded 6chool
with a high school course, all the
children of the township have the ben
efit of higher educational advantages
at home without goiug to the city for
them.
4. It will solve the problem of how
to keep the boys on the farm. We
thus bring to the farm that for which
a boy goes to the city or town. The
sohoolhouse with its -library and read
ing room will become the social and
intellectual center of the community.
Of course there are auctions of the
country where consolidation is im
possible. In many localities in west
ern states it will be impracticable for
several years at least. But there
are many communities, even in this
county, where it could be adopted with
advantage. In concluding we can do
no better than quote from the author
ity before mentioned: "Justly we
have prided ourse.ves in the past on
the district school. Changing condi
tions of life, the demands of a higher
civilization .demand, the evolution of
district school, the people's college,
to the central graded school, the peo
ple's university. It must come. Think
ing people who oppose such an evolu
tion admit- that it will come in a few
years. But why delay it?"
Report of Pleasant Valley School,
Dist. No. 24.
Term opened October 1st, closed
March 22nd.
Total number of days taught 119.
Number of pupils enrolled 10.
Average daily attendance 6.
C. W. Jenkins, Teacher.
Report of Sandhill School, Dist.
No. 30.
Terra opened October 1st, closed
April 13. -Total
number of days taught 120.
Number of pupils t-u rolled 15.
Average daily attendance 10. '
Ma,beJ Teed, Teacher.
Report of School fn Dist. No. 14.
Term opened October 1st, closed
April 12. .
Total number of days taught 140.
Number of pupils enrolled 12.
Average daily attendance 8.
Ivy Lesley, Teacher.
The tax commission of this state has
been appointed a special commission
to the tax commissioners' convention
to meet in Buffalo this summer. With
transportation, pullman cars and eat
ing house passes they should be able
to accomplish a great deal of good for
the tax payers of this state. '
Miss Doran, of the Macksville Ar
gus, is a very forcible writr as some
of the boy 8 have found , out to their
sorrow when they have tried their pen
on left-handed compliments at her ex
pense. She has returned right hand
ers. straight? rom the shoulder deliv
ered, with such good judgment and
force that the fellows feel like the boy
who tickled a mule-'s hind foot.
A. H. Burtiss, of Garden City, spec
ial agent of the U. S. land office, came
in Tuesday morning.' ' He is looking
up the government lands enclosed in
pastures by the cattlemen in this and
adjoining counties 'with a view to
making them turn 'out all lands sub
ject to settlement. Iiost of these lands
are so poor that po one wants them
but the government proposes to fix
things so that anyone wanting them
cam make settlement. without trouble.
On Easter day, April 7th 1901, Maj
or Geo. Bill, and wife celebrated their
golden, wedding. Fifty years the life
time Of mort people they have .trav
eled together 'mid all the shifting
scenes of life, through days of sorrow
and of joy.. The children that were
near and the neighbors and friends
gathered arouna the bountiful table
and made the dty one long to be re
reraerabered. From " the far pacific
coast, from the South and from the
East came trold Dieci's from the absent
children. Gold, how, well it typifid
i the lives of the dear father and moth
er, never tarnished and 100 per rent
pure. May the GocLwho brought them
through the storms, and calm of life b
with them now ax .the (shadows length
en toward evening. --Bentouville Dem
ocrat. ", -. .. v,
Major Bill will! be remembered by
the older residents of this county as
one of the early settlers. ...We are
pleased to-learn of the continued trood
health of these old; friends, who in the
dark days of drought and crop fail
ures in this county, by their example
cheered aud encouraged many a falt
ering hand. - t
OAO?6nSA.
Sean tU J IZ3 IM irai Always KSJ
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POW0B CO.. NEW YORK
nwMHiiiiiMM e tarn
The attorney general's office recent
ly opinioned that the registration law
passed by the last legislature applied
to the whole state. This brought the
administration up: against it, for it
would, force registration all over the
state, make a lot of expense and raise
sheol generally. A council of war was
hastily called and the attorney gener
al's office called on the carpet. The
office was equal to the occasion and,
after carefully adjusting its dream
cap and tieing the string firmly under
its apology for a chin, dreamed again
and evolved the theory that the law
only applied to two counties. Then
all smiled and said ''I told you so."
This of course means that the law will
be a dead letter and that raatterrs will
go on as heretofore unless some fellow
who is left out on the combinations
concludes to accept the attorney gener
al's first dreamaDd institutes a con
test. In that case the Supreme Court
will decide the case in some future
genration. -
Job Couldn't Have Stood It.
If he'd had Itching Piles. They're
terribly annoying; but Bucklen's Ar
nica Salve will cure the wortt case of
Piles on earth. It has cured thou
sands. For injuries pains or bodily
eruptions it's the best ralve in the
world. Price 25c a box. Cure guaran
teed. Sold by druggists.
LOOK
WE have received the agency for Elliott
AntiRusting Tinware, the only
One Piece Bottom Anti-Rust
ware manufactured, and will replace every
piece with new goods that is returned to us
rusted at any time. This guarantee goes with
every article purchased, and will be carried out
like our cutlery guarantee. Nuff said.
Hardware, Stoves and Tinware.
F. sW. Goidschmidt.
There is to be a meeting of Kansas
grain growers at isalina the 16th of
next month for the purpose of organ
izing ;o-operutive elevators and ship
ping stations all over this state. This
is a movement of the Farmer's State
Federation and is entirely non-political.
The secretary of the. state asso
ciation has issued an address calling
on the township trustees to take the
matter up where there is no federation
and see to,it that delegates are sent to
this meeting. This matter has been
worked cut o a successful solution in
Iowa and he thinks it can be here.
He says that the individual grain buy
er is being forced out of business by
the combines, and that farmers can
hardly expect protection unless they
furnish it themselves. He recommends
Saturday, May 14, for holding meet
ings to elect delegates. A Farmer's
Federation should be formed in every
county, not only, in the grain growers
interest, but for the general protection
of farmers. Every other industry is
ot-ganizing for protection aud why not
the producer.
T. V. DONjEI.L,
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
BONDED ABSTRACTER
R. E. Edwards, 1'kes. .
E. A. Noble, Vjce-Pues.
THE-
KINSLEY BANK.
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IL K. EDWARDS.. E. A. JSOIILK. F. IL IIINE.
A. M. MEKltl'MAN, ; ELIZA liETll E I IV A RDS, - E. T. ni,ELJ
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People's Party Convention
A delegate convention is hereby
called of the populist and democratic
voters of Edwards county to meet at
the Court Uou.-ie in Kinsley on Satur
day, May 11, 1901, at 10 a. m., forth
purpose of electing seven delegates to
attend the judicial convention to be
held at Lamed, Kansas, on May 14th.
1901. The basis of representation will
be one delegate for each ten votes, or
major fraction thereof, cast for tha
Hon. Abe Frakes for secretary of
state at the last general election.
The following is the number of dele
gates each township is entitled to:
Kinsley 15, Trenton 4, Belpre 4,
Lincoln 5, Jackson 3, Logan 2, Browa
6, Wayne 4, Franklin 7.
It is recommended that the township
caucuses be held on Thursday, May
9th, at 3 p. m., at the voting places
in each township, except when other
wisa ordered by the township central
committeemen.
J. I. Bkelsfobd. Chairman,
A. C. Dyer, Secretary.
This signature is on every box of the geaulM
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the degree in which he has. created
them durin? his life on earth. Many
a man btill dwelling here experience
daily more of the joys of Heaven, so
t-called, than many others who have
passed through the changes we call
death. Mai guiet Hottcme,in the May
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Wai-hed down a telegraph line which.
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