Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-14


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1T seems that teachers. as class. /
have very poor and nntrustworthy /
memories Even the first grade peo-
pie are not supposed to remember
anything much longer than three /
wears. At the end of that time. # not |
sooner, they have to be re-examined. I
Schoonover, soon over: A woman |
was recently convicted on a charge of |
grand larceny and sent to the pen. |
She may be congratuiating herself |
that she is up for one year only. Her |
name is Schoonover.
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The story of IA pastors wife, dane !
ing on Il stage in order to help support |
the family, is one OF the late news |
items. Those moralists who object
to dancing should pay their preachers
better salaries.
To-day, the 14th OF February, is the
time when the softly sentimental
give tender but anonymous expression
to Loves young dream" 1t IS also
the day when the comic valentine
fiend gets in his work
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The teacher, who follows the bust
ness as "A life-caling, finds himself
retired and unfit for other work at
the age when other professional men
are most useful.
A Chicago teacher has just been
discha. ged because she is threatened
with tuberculosis and it is feared that
her pupils might become infected.
Nothing was said about giving her d
pension so we may suppose that she
will have to fall back upon the large
fortune piled up during the several
years of her successful teaching.
This year tile month of February
begings on Sunday and ends on Satur-
day-a thing which seldom happens
and never is possible with any other
month in any year.
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Uncle Ben has very nice, neat little
apothecary shop and it is very conven-
lent to the post office too.
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According to the provisions of
bill proposed in the Kansas senate.
teachers who attend the normal instI-
tutes are to be paid 81 per day. They
should be paid better wages or be re-
lieved of some of the burdens put up
on them or both but it is not likely
that this bill can, or should, become
a law.
On an average, the teacher who at
tends the normal spends just about 81
per day and indirectly, it IS for the
benefit of the public. There are los
counties in Kansas and each is re-
quired to have a county normal of at
least 20 days A few have 80 or even
so days. The attendance at each is
from 80 to 200. If the average be
100 for 20 days in each county and
each teacher be paid 81 per dav, the
cost would be $4,000 per year. If
teachers were paid, even so little as
one dollar per day, for attendance at
norInals the enrolment would be al
most doubled in all probability.
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There are two ways by which a
woman NAV change her name legally.
One is by legislative enactment and
there are two women now seeking re-
lief in that way by the present legis-
iature. One of them is a widow and
school teacher who wants her maiden
name restored. Let the bill pass
There is nothing too good for q widow
who teaches for a living and especial
~ for one whose husband squandered
her wages and deserted her for
strange woman before he had the
grace TO shuttle off this mortal coil.
Let his name go with him into the
grave of oblivion.
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Theodore has just received an an
nonymous communication suggesting
u further improvement on Mother
Goose's Melodies. It's a little late
but perhaps you would like to see it.
Here it is:
.'Ickery, dickery dock
There was no hope for Bowersock,
CIV and Dan and Ned
Scalped the man called Calderhead
And fear him not. He cannot hurt
Neither can that Injun Curtis
Eny, meny. miny, mo
Turn on steam and let her 60
Lots of pie and applejack
Made the Stanley men all fly the track.
The choir will sing some hot time
song
While we knock the plumb for Ches-
ter Long.
Aid just to finish with Joke
Well also finish Mr.. Hoch
You See that is an improvement be-
cause it puts the victims out of their
misery all in one bunch. Female suf-
rage was not dreamed of in the davs
OF Mother Goose but now the old lady
- made to mix in politics quite freely.
9 Is Thought that the above effusion
originated with some man who fell in
front of the reform automobile here
In this county when Chauffeur Frakes