The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-07-14
County School News.
Nothing is too good for the teach
,rs. Show them sOodtime, friends

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A diamond I'm the rough"
lisa diamond, sure enough.
For though yet it may not sparkle
II Is made OF diamond stuff.
OF course some one must find 1t
Or it never will be found
And then someone must grind 1t
Or it never will be ground.
But when it's found and when it's ground
And when it's FURNISHED bright
That diamonds everlastlngly
Just flashing out its light.
o. teachers, In our public schools,
Don't think you've done enough
That worst boy in your class may be
A diamond in the rough.
Perhaps you think he's grinding you
And possibly you're right
But 1t may be you need grinding
To FURNISH you up bright.
The Seward county normal began
July Bird with Prof Stickel, Miss
Davy and the county superintendent
as instructors. 1t is an old saying:
"What is we'll begun is half done"
We are we'll pleased with the begin
ming we have made. We hope every
one expecting to teach in Seward
county will enroll in the normal and
attend. You owe this duty to your
school. Come we will do you good.
Elmer Tucker, clerk of district No.
26, called on business Wednesday, also
Fred Deal, treasures Of district &c.
Mr.. French, father of Elmer French
who is attending the normal, was an
institute visitor Wednesday.
We hope everyone of the members
of the different school boards in Sew
ard county will visit normal before it
closes. Come and see how your teach
ers work and get all the good points
you can for use in your schools--foT
your children. Those who have not
yet hired their teachers will have a
chance to select one. We think we
have some good teachers, both men
and women, from which to select.
e. A. Louthan Of district No. Is,
made us a short call one day last
week. They are expecting good
school in that district this year.
Claude Bunyard, the only boy in
the class that graduated from the
Barnes high school in Liberal, receiv.
ed his state certificate grades all o.
X. and passed a very creditable ex.
animation. We congratulate Claude
on his success. We understand that
he is planning to attend the Agricul
tural college at Manhattan this fall.
Mrs. Norton and Grant STAFFORD
called at this office Saturday TO see
about the annual reports. They boil
have their reports nearly completed
We hope all the other clerks are
working on theirs and will have them
in before the end OF July. Sometimes
it is difficult to get the report just
right. If you need help come to the
office and we will gladly help you.
We received q card from Gladys
Alphin the first of the week telling
us her grades and average. She told
US she wished the rest of the class
would write and tell her their grades.
We wish her the best OF success in
her college course in the world and
will graduate with honor in it also.
The work is progressing finely in
the Normal. Everyone is in earnest
and striving to grasp new ideals for
their schools this year. The instruct.
ors are giving them their best. Come
and visit US. Revs, Kellogg and
Agee visited US the past week and
led the devotional exercises
Have no "can'tS" In your mind. II
can't" is fatal thought. Have only
ideas and reveries of 81 can" You
surely shall accomplish anything you
set your forces upon, Doubt neither
yourself nor any one else.
A letter from Prof. Coffman tells us
his wife is some better at her home
In Canadian. She is now able to be
up great deal. He sends us his best
wishes for a successful Normal. He
has just closed a successful Normal
at Guymon, Oklahoma.
"Dear teacher" wrote little John
ny's mother, "kindly excuse Johns
absence from school yesterday after
noon as he fell in the mud. BY doing
the same you will greatly oblige his
mother"
Adolph Brandt, a farmer living
near Beleville, Kansas, was recently
fined for keeping his son, aged l3, out