The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-02-17
pleasure was great as there are no
friends like old friends.

friends like old friends.
Friday afternoon we visited the
State Soldiers home at Fort Dodge,
live miles out from Dodge City. We
went to headquarters where we found
Commander Breese's wife, he being
absent in Topeka on some business
pertaining to the Home. She sent
for the Adjutant who showed us
through the barracks where we saw
some Of the ANGELS, and through
the commissary. Everything Is kept
for the soldiers comfort. We were
treated to cheese and crackers We
are glad that the soldiers have such
a pleasant home. God bless them!
They deserve it, every one! They
have nice church, an excellent hos
pital and also a good school In which
three teachers are employed. Taking
it all in all the Home Is just fine In
every way. When we observed q
new cottage being put up some Of
the party wondering what would be-
come of the buildings when all the
old soldiers had been mustered out
into the great beyond, it was sug-
gested that it might be turned over
to the old teachers of Kansas as a
home in their declining years, for
they surely had rendered as great q
service to the state as had the old
soldiers. Those are our sentiments
too.
We want to tender our thanks to
Prof Rindom for his kindness to us
while we were on this trip. We drove
over from Dodge to Minneola Satur-
day evening, a distance of % miles to
catch the train for Liberal. At the
hotel there we met Mr.. Swan and
Frank Ong of Liberal. We had a
pleasant visit with them, and they
brought us the Liberal papers which
we read through from beginning to
end.
Dodge City has three ward school
buildings, the largest of which con-
Uains the Barnes High School, In
this building the primary Is taught
in the basement and on the first
floor are three rooms occupied by
grades 2-3 As and 81, each teach
er having TWO grades. The high
school occupies the second story OF
this building. The next largest build
ing has five rooms in use. The pri-
mary has two classes in grade 1.-The
stronger ones and the weaker ones.
The next three teachers each have
Two grades in their rooms (2-3, 4-5
and 6-0 The fifth teacher has the
Sth grade. There is only one 9th
grade in the city
The Texas state board OF health
has sounded a note of warning to
parents not to send their children to
school at too early an age. DR..
Brumby state health officer and pres
ident of the board, takes the position
that eight years is early enough.
Eleven thousand miles of American
boys and girls, young men and young
women on their way to school and
college. Arrange them three abreast
with yard of stepping room from
nose to nose and the procession would
reach across the continent from New
York to SanFrancisco, and then have
enough left over to stretch single file
quarter Of the distance.
A little girl at school had a quarrel
with little Jewish girl and when she
got home she denounced the Jews.
Her mamma said reprovingly: "My
dear, YOU must not talk that way.
The Jews we're Gods chosen people,
our Lord Himself was jew
"Oh, mamma, didn't know that,
| always thought he was an EplscO-
palian.
Mamma Johnny, why is it you
stand so much lower in your studies
in January than in December"
Johnny-"Oh, everything is marked
down after the holidays"