Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-28

He uses KY;
May teach if need there b.
And feel at home because, you know.
IT'S mostly G.
The chap who writes this doggerel
In fooIishness he doth Y L,
& doubtless X T C
'Twould give 2 stop his maudlin rhyme;
If he should X pi his crime,
To write his E G.
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/ took a look at Tatman's house one
day recently-It's very nice house
too good to move so l think III let it
stand.
Now while we are after the prairie
dog are there not few Others that we
could spare? The vaga bond, saffron
hued canine for Instance.
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l was down in Sheriff Hnshaw's
dungeon the other day. Nothing
there-Holmes beat me to it. Tom
was painting his house but not red
that iS-nOt very crimson.
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The method of distributing the
semiannual school dividend is very
unjust and unequal The section Of
tile state which puts up the most of
it gets the least help from the fund. 4
rx*
To say that people flight like Kill
kenney CATS is to say that they are
very quarrelsome, but there is Il chap
called Tom Kilkenny down at Yer
million who appears to be quite peace
able.
In spite OF Porter's bill, manual
training will never become success
full part OF our little country schools.
The county high school Is tire place
hnr fnri 10 har lf.t ~
greatest number of pupils.
The time is coming when we will
have what may be called township
schools instead of district schools, in
most parts of the country. Larger
and better schools. better roads and
better mail facilities will come to-
gether.
A school of 10 pupils needs and de-
serves as much help as one of IL. We
should have state and county school
tax levies to be dishursed according
to the number of teachers employed
and the length of term; not according
to the number of pupils.
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Do YOU know fellow who is down
on his luck? One who has been cut |
in IL long mourning rain of hard knocks? |
If you do t zen speak to him cheerily. |
Show him the turn in the road ahead. |
You have no idea how il braces him /
up but he knows and he will appreci-
ate it.
There is some accounting for tastes:
L heard young man say the other
day that he would rather hear the
frogs sing than to listen to the birds
He has lived all his life on the dry,
swampless, treeless, almost birdless
and frogless plains. Things are chang
ing. y 1t will not always be SO. We
will have more trees and there is al
ready great variety of feathered
SongSterS here.
Pesey county,is often referred to as
the: headquarters of Hoosier moss
oackIsm and the principal productions
Irult ana lumber-that is, to say
hoop poles and pumpkins, but it seems
10 be coming to the front. According
TO the last report of the secretary of
agriculture soil survey of the coun-
" IS being made in the interests OF
the grangers who raise .swatermelons
and other truck crops.''
The Jones sprairie-eiog law appears
to be a good measure. If it works )
well, as We all hope it will, it will he I
a good thing for western Kansas For
some reason, not positively known, 4
tue uugS nave Increased In number a
and invaded much new territory in
the last. few years. They destroy
acres and acres OF grass and field crops. +
No doubt a few dogs cam be killed by fo
anyone but it will take regular Ssys-i :
tematic work to. exterininate them.
The law seems TO provide for that B
kind of work ~
IS :
Most all cities and county seat,
in Kansas exact fees of all non-resi- d
dent pupils who attend the high
schools and no doubt, they are fully
justified in doing so.- These fees vary '
from Sl-Oo to 81. 80 per month for terms !
or eight or nine months. Let us SUM- !
pose the average charge to be only q
$40 per year. That is enough to nav / .
the county high school tax on S3'333
worth OF property assessed value. TN d
DER the law the levy: for teachers,
wages and incidents cannot be more y
than three mills on the dollar. If IL
oe necessary to erect building the l.
leyy may be not more than mills. or n
~ tax on $50, 900 farm actual yalue a
NOW read the law, take your pencil.
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