Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-23
CIGARETTES KILLED HIM.

MUNCIE, IND, March 15.-Joseph
Leon, prominent young merchant of
Marion, Ind, died here this afternoon
at the home Of his father. Leon was
addicted to the cigarette habit, smok-
ing an immoderate number every day.
He had been to several institutions but
they all failed to give him any relief.
Leon was an Odd Fellow and Mason.
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The state of the weather interfered
greatly with the attendance at the
Teachers Association last Saturday.
Besides this, five or SIX of the ladies did
not get I'm until just before the meeting
closed, owing to a wrong announcement
of the time in one of the newspapers.
caused 10y typographical error. How
ever tile History review was gone
through with in the forenoon, and in
the after noon the regular programme
was. for the most part, carried out.
Mrs. DeIlsle's paper on Tenure of
Office tor Teachers" was so well liked
that resolution to publish it was
adopted by the body, and it will appear
in this column shortly. The thanks of
the Association are due to ex- Supt. Ian
dis, who, although not a teacher, took
as active part as anyone in the discus
sions. The Association adjourned sine
die.
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ANGTNn
There are some very erroneous ideas
abroad, even in this enl ighteneo coun-
ty, concerning the changing of school
district boundaries, and especially in
regard to the districts rights in the
matter. Itrarely happens tn ct a change
can be made, even when or petition
from several citizens, without displeas-
ing somebody who is more or less inter
esteG; and for this reason the .vuperln-
tendent of public instruction could
wish that this work might be maze the
duty of some one else; and some believe
1t would be better to put the matter
wholly into the hands of the county
commissioners, since they already have
the right to hear appeals from the sup
erintendent's action and, after confer.
ring with him, to render a final deci-
sion. But to whomsoever the law dele
gates the work, it is evident that he
should be party wholly disinterested
and who will consider 1.-THE greatest
good of the greatest number without
any show of favOritism.
Chapter 152 of laws of 1851, Sec. ~,
says: ut shall be the duty of the sup
erintendent of public instruction TO di-
vide the county into convenient num-
Der of school districts, and to chance
such districts when the interests of the
inhabitants thereof require it.'' etc.
Certainly then there is no violation of
statute or interference with vested
rights when portion of territory, large
OF small, is detached from one district
and attached to another, provided the
interests of the inhabitants require it.
Now, of course, we are not to infer
from this language Of the law that the
interests of every person in the two dis
tric!s. or even majority of them, must
require the change before it can be le-
gally made; but, IS we understand it.
the law intends that the change shall
accommodate, either in numbers or de-
gree, more largely than it shall discom-
mode. To illustrate what we mean by
accommodating lin degree. let me say
that tain change may accommo-
date one man great deal while discom-
moding two or three others little; and
yet, considered in degree, we should
say that the change accommodates
more than it discommodes.
Beside the limits concerning pupula-
ton and valuation fixed by statute,
there are several other things to be con-
sldered when deciding whether or not
any proposed change should be made,
among which are the comparative size
of the two districts, comparative wealth,