The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-11-01
County SChOOINews

BY MARY L, TODD

Rev. Weaver, formerly from Lib
eral but who is now located in
Fowler. Kansas, made this Office a
nleasant call last Monday. Miss
Mary Weaver, his eldest daughter,
teaches this year at haviland, Kan,
sas. in the primary department. We
had very enjoyable visit with Mr.
Weaver. ,,
six years ago we started little
Dorothea Whippo in the Liberal
school. The following is a letter
written us by Dorothea. We give
the ideas, spelling, capitals, punctua-
ton, address and closing exactly as
she gave them in the letter. The
penmanship OF the letter Is fine:
Ochiltree, Tex.
Sep. 20, 1912,
My Dear Mrs. Todd, ;
Well | guess ought to be
whipped for not answering your let
ter but school has commenced and
you can imagine how busy we. are
Today is Sunday and Matte and hus-
band are here. Wish you were here
to eat dinner with us. We are go
ing to have chicken, dumplings, po-
tato salad, dried corn, cabbage, sweet
potatoes, preserved plums, and chloe
olate pie. The sweet potatoes came
out of our own garden. We had so
many nice big Irish potatoes this
year. We didn't know they were
big enough to eat by harvest until
papa was digging the weeds away
from them and papa dug some up
We had them all through harvest
and we dug them and we have lots
OF them yet. We finally got through
tnrashing. The thrashers were al
our house two weeks. We had about
six thousand bushels Of wheat anG
about two thousand bushels OF bar
ley and oats and we have lots oil
roughness and straw for this winter
Carrie is going OF to school next
Fri. She is going to saltwater OK
Iahoma. We surely will miss her
Two of her friends are going with
her. There will be many homesicA
days. Night before last Charles
went to see his girl and when ht
came home he was complaining with
his right side. Whenever he would
start to get his breath 1t would just
catch his breath and he couldn't take
a deep breath. So last night his side
hurt him so bad he could not go to
sleep. We doctored him the best
we could and finally had to send fol
the doctor. He said his liver was
out of order Carrie had to stay up
with him all night. But he seems to
be better this morning. Well | will
close as it is time for dinner. Well
now you write to me, please.
With much love,
DOROTHEA l.. WHIPPO.
Supt. Bowers OF GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
has achieved much success in his
efforts to link the school and tht
home. The teachers of the grades
have interested themselves person
ally in their pupils home habits.
Early retiring is one of the achieve
ments. Some teachers inspired
ninety per cent of their pupils to re-
tire early, and in the entire city
about seventy per cent were led to
appreciate the physical and educa-
tional significance OF this habit The
most vital fact is that larger pei
cent OF eighth grade pupils were
early to bed than OF fifth grade. The
seventh grade had the highest pei
cent and the fifth grade the lowest.
The rules adopted by Bowers were as
follows.
To go to bed four nights in each
week at or before nine o'clock.
Parents report once a week to the
teacher.
Pupils complying with this request
This is confined to the grammar
est grade each examination.
grades. fifth to eighth, inclusive.
The Dougherty Business College OF
Topeka has sent us an invitation to
the banquet they will give during the
State Teachers Association in To
peka in November,
Optimism helps to make the
worst better and the best a benedic.
ton.
Misses Clara Hisse, Edna Stevess-
son, Latina Myers, Irene Vickers and
Olive NeE came in this week anO
purchased the Reading Circle Books
Prof Fulton bout the books.
Those who think most and know
most about punishment practice it
the least
have five points added to their low.
A teachers interest in pupil
should cover twenty-four hours a day
for 365 days in year, and then
some.