Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
Normal Notes.

Oh! That snore. 1t ought to be
patented.
The enrolment is gradually APP
preaching high water mark.
RevS. Mcdowell and Thompson
were visitors at the Normal last Mon
day.
DR.. Taylor will visit the Normal
next Tuesday and will address the
teachers between the hours of and
10 d. m.
The interest in good reading matter
for teachers and pupils is increasing
as evidenced by the larger number OF
books demanded.
The annual meeting Of teachers for
the reorganization OF the county as
ISOLATION will be held at the school
building at p. N. next Thursday
The Teachers Reading circle books
have been ordered and will be on sale
at the office of the county Superin-
tendent next week Price S1.S5 per
set of two books.
The visitors at the Institute on
Thursday. aside from several of the
Wa-keeney school boys, were: Mrs
Morgan, Miss Wonner, Bessie Ferris,
Elmer Cox and Nellie Smith.
Mrs. Lucy Best. who has been elect
ed to the position of principal of the
Wa-keeney school, is an eX-member
of the state board and eX-Superin-
tendent of Labette county, and is
highly recommended by State Super
intendent Stanley.
A sample set of Pupils Reading cir
Gle books will be on exhibition at the
superintendent Office next week
Teachers and school officers are in
vited to call and look at them. The
set includes thirty volumes and costs
only $40.
There will be a lecture at the court
room next Tuesday evening by DR..
Taylor, president of the State Nor
NAL school at Emporia. His subject
is "A Plea for the GraceS" and
will interest all. old and young,
whether teachers or not. You are
cordially invited to attend The
lecture is free.
State Superintendent Edmund
Stanley visited the Normal last We'd
nesday and talked to the teachers on
professional topics. He has been Wis
iting the counties of the Golden Belt
this week and will probably attend
the annual meeting OF the association
Thanksgiving week. He also planned
to visit the Forestry station at Ogal-
lab on Thursday.
/ 1t is rumOred that several of the
young old bachelors of Wa-Keeney
will visit the Institute next week.
Some ignOramuSeS in the past have
supposed that single and unmarried
men take no interest in school mat
tiers. That is a mistake. To the best
of our knowledge and belief they are
/ int III TITO Cd
best of schools, and to that end be-
lieve in securing the brightest, neat
est, most intelligent and amiable
school marmS Obtainable.
1t is not generally known that one
of the members of the Institute fac
ulty narrowly escaped death at the
hands of one of our county officials
one day last week. While the afore-
said professor was searching in one of
the draws near Wa-Keeney for the
large chronological collection, he car
ried his butterfly net over his shout
der As he was stealing through the
big Sunf1OwerS he was mistaken for
some new specimen of game and but
for lucky accident would doubtless
have been shot in his tracks. For
| further particulars ask Judge G.
County Superintendent johnson, of
Mitchell county, visited the Institute
on Tuesday of this week. He is the
member of the State Teachers Read
ing Circle Board for the Sixth Con-
gressiOnal district and is visiting in
stitutes in the interest of that work.
He rides wheel, making from 30 to
IS miles per day. In half hour he
presented the subject of Teachers
and Pupils Reading Circles" The
Philosophy of Teaching and Medieval
Europe are the books chosen for the
teachers this year. The TregO county
teachers are not behind the times in
the matter of professional and general