The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-01-13
County School News.


this week. Some time ago he threat
ened the roller towel, but evidently
having nothing to take its place tho
matter was dropped Now, Superin-.
tendent Falrchilds is going to make
test of paper towels for school
houses, acting on the Doctors theory
that the roller towel is a prolific dis
penser of disease germs. The new
towels are made OF heavy absorbant
tissue paper. Each is ten inches wide
and eighteen inches long. After use
they are burned The fixtures and
1000 towels cost little more than
$780, and extra rolls of towels come
at about so cents per thousand.
= Prof. Wilcox of the University as
serts that there will be no children
under years of age in the United
States in the year 1000 80 years hence
unless they are imported from foreign
countries.
The census shows that Kansas has
a population Of 20 to each square
mile. This amounts to family of
five on each quarter section. We
wonder when Seward county will
measure up to the marK-64S sections
require 1850 people to make fam
lily of five to each quarter.
Mr.. Ed. Mann and wife made us a
pleasant call Saturday afternoon.
They are planning to send their chill
dren to school in Seward county af-
ter the holiday vacation. Mr.. Mann
has recently built fine house in Lib
eral and expects to make this city
his home in the future.
Mr.. Miller of Oklahoma also called
and talked over school matters. She
has recently moved to our city to
send her children to school, They
have been going TO school in Okla
homa for the past four months and
she hopes they may be able to cons
tinue in the same grade that they
were In in Oklahoma.
Mrs Akers, mother of Millard Ak
ers who is teaching in district 10,
made us a friendly call Tuesday.
She was in Liberal on contest case,
Misses Dolly Hill, Maude Fuest
and Alma Pile came in to see US Sat
urday. They were so full Of JOY and
happiness that they made us feel
young again. Alma was going back
to Manhattan on the early morning
train. She is very much iriSlOve with
her school work in Manhattan and
hopes to take the full course and
graduate in due time. We wish ev-
cry boy and girl in Seward county
could graduate from this splendid in
stitution.
We hope the boys who have not
yet received their walnuts will come
and get them as soon as possible,
They should be planted immediately
Under favorable conditions the
black walnut is a tree that is easily
grown. The ground in which the
trees are to be grown should be
thoroughly cultivated for two or three
years before the nuts are planted as
the trees will not make a satisfactory
growth In new soil. 1t requires the
deepest and richest soil that can be
found along creek and river valleys
for its best development, at the same
time it makes very good growth on
the prairie soil In the eastern part of
the state. We are trying to expert
ment and see what this tree will do
on the prairie soil In the western
part of our state. The Chief Forest
er, Charles A. Scott, says in the
western part of the state boys should
select the low ground along ravines
where possible for planting walnuts "
The nuts should be planted three
feet apart and in burrows not more
than four inches deep. After the
rows are planted the burrows may be
covered with a cultiyator 1t is not
necessary nor even desirable to level
the ground more than is required to
securely cover the nuts. Ii the fur
rows are not leveled they will catch
the excess surface water In times of
heavy rainfall. If the nuts cannot
he planted infurrows the next best
thing is to plant them in seed spots.
Seed spots are places where several
nuts are plantad in an area sixteen or
eighteen feet In diameter to form a
group of trees. The ground for such
planting should be spaded and pull
verified so as to increase the moisture
holding capacity of the soil, and
about six seeds shohld be planted In
each seed spot. On account of the
black walnut being lover OF moist
soil 1t is very sensitive to dry, parched