The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-04-19

Come, Let Us Line For Our
Children.
The medals are here for the spell
ing contest---two gold ones for the
first prizes and Two silver ones for
the second prizes.
The ten best spoilers Ia part III
who attend the county Spelling, con
test and take part in the contest
| April Goth will have thsir Spelling
grades raised-lOO for the one who
stands longest and wins the gold
medal, 95 for the second and third
best, 20 for fourth and fifth best, IS
7 for 9Th and 7th best and 80 for Sth,
10Th and 10th best, These grades may
mean more to some pupils than
would the medal. Remember you
must attend and take part 10 the
county contest aud must spell IN part
iii.
The pupils who win the gold med
ais will have the banners for their
schools the coming year. Last year
districts 2 and % held the banners.
Cone early FRIDAY morning and
register. Come Friday II there is
any danger OF your being late Satur.
day. II you are going TO take part
In the contest be sure that you are in
Libearl before = O'clock on the aitel-
noon OF April 10Th.
Tests recently made In our higher
institutions OF learning seem to prove
that students who are poor In Ian
guage are below the average in other
branches.
MIR. and Mrs. Pointing and daugh-
ter were pleasant callers Saturday
They report that their school meet
ing went off nicely. A seven mQpths
school was voted for next year
MI. Kneeland from over on the
Cimarron called. This is the first
time that we have ever been able tC
be sure that we knew Mr.. Kneeland
AT first we thought he was represent
ing some House for books and sup
plies but the mistakes we had madG
made in the past helped us out anC
we remembered just in time.
Mr.. Snyder and Mr.. Bolts report
that everything went of smoothly al
the school meeting at Kismet.
Il. B. Ross was elected clerk In dis
trict 1, j. r. Bolts in district 20
L. l.. Bunting in district 10, N. B
Swink In district 3, Mrs. Mosher il
district ! and NJ. H. Scandrett In dis
trict 2.
II We hope that just assoon as posslbl,
| the clerks will send us a report o
the officers elected at the annua
meeting April 18th, 1912.
Ii j. B, Fletcher and J. w. Barrett
were in seeing about some bushes
connected with their school district
They are trying to collect an oil
) debt due their district. II anyone Ii
u school district merits praise, II Il
y the memeber of the school b0aaC
who works without any pay for thu
good of all yet seldom get a word o.
4 praise.
Last week we visited two school.
and we found all boys in the east
school of district l6, We told tht
teacher, Miss Bessie Odneal, that VIZ
had never before visited a school
without girl, but all strong, healthy
studious boys, from grade down tc
grade 2 1t is very good school
and all are doing good work.
Miss Ida Hanson teaches In the
west half of the district. We found
both pupils and teacher hard at
work trying to explain and under
stand some OF the hard lessons in our
text books.
From here we went to district 10,
where Mrs. Mayme Day is teaching.
This is her second year there, and
from the good reports we hear OF her
work we conclude that she may hold
her place indefinitely She expects
to have one graduate this year.
We also visited the school taught
by Miss Laura Nc Elhinney in dis.
trict No 3, this Is called Victory
school. The school is rightly named
for the teachar and pupils and all
believe in overcoming difficulties
We observed both respect and COM
radeship between the teacher and
pupils she was their playmate, friend,
and teacher.
We we're entertained over night by
j, r. Watson and his estimable wife
1 L., a 80 ~ aoh,al hoo IL