Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23
Teachers, Column

10 you, my TRENDS. who have
known sorrow as / have - these
stories in prose and verse will give
you glimpse into the lives of others
that shows we are all one great fami-
~ They tell OF struggles and tolls,
pain and SORROW, and of dark valleys
passed through Our souls are some
times hurt, wounded and torn in the
belief that we have been singled out
Tor disappointment and heart aches
1t is not so-every one has had SINH
lar experiences, and the knowledge of
this should lessen the possibility of
our becoming selfish in our sorrow,
and IL should soften our seeming bit
terness, which no doubt for a time,
will cause a deluge of tears in our
sympathy for others. This is well, as
tears are truly an overflow of KNIT
ness and they really do bring relief to
The aching heart. This is in keeping
with the command that we bear each
others burdens Introduction TO the
latest book of Samuel Francis Wool
ard
And this in Good Fellowship:
ssNoLhing would make me more mis-
cradle than TO believe you miserable;
nothing more happy than TO know
you were so.
We have been "laid up for repairs
the past TWO weeks, the car and /
the car at the garage having an cleo
trio starter added do its complicated
mechanism and / on the farm at
home with bad case of cold con-
Lracted in the road making industry
down in Franklin township. Thanks
to our efficient health and truant
Office, DIR. Herrick, the writer is as
good as new and ready to build roads
IN another section OF the county.
And with the 30 per cent additional
energy formerly expended in crank
ing the neglected work and accumu-
10 ~ H. 70
the standard.
Among the numerous letters await
ing our attention we tind these OF
State Superintendent Ross and Car
RE H. Simpson, state censors of mo-
Jlon pictures, saying our pictures
were the best school pictures yet
censored and congratulatlng US on the
Credit for this is entirely due to
President Lewis of the Fort Hays
Normal school. He secured for us
Prof. E. b. Matthew, one of the facul-
ty and an expert in staging who
managed the picture taxing with
such excellent results.
Little Madeline Kessler, seven
years of age, writes this column a
nice chatty little letter from Mon
1ana. Few sentences from it are as
follows: l am sending you flowers,
hawthorne berries, and grains for
your collections. The wheat went 80
bushels. Potatoes are two pounds
and Iurnips ten pounds each. / am
going TO school every day and like it
line. Tomorrow we will have big
day, Denton Day IL is the birthday
of our town. The town is two years
old. j wish you could see our flowers.
they are beautiful Her mother
was at one time the popular teacher
of Collyer, Miss Frances Glenn.
Here comes greetings from Eva
Greenwood, the favorite primary
was so fortunate as TO be chosen by
the city schools of Denver We say
fortunate because a position in Den
ver means permanent one and that
with promotions and a yearly raise of
salary. The teachers are chosen on
merit alone and each applicant is re-
Quired 10 pass an examination there
Miss GreenwOod's grades range from
81 TO lOO-and as scholarship has the
least weight with the board of educa-
lion we can readily imagine the tests
10 which she was subjected and her
rank as teacher when she, stran-
ger, was selected from 90 worthy ap-
plicants for the one position. She en-
JOYS her work TO the fullest. extent
and her city home but adds that she
Will always love the old prairieS OF
Trego-the home OF her childhood.
One day last month as the writer
stepped without warning intoa ROOM
ful OF little people in one of the town
schools chorus of childish voices
shouted her name in hearty greeting.
The embarrassed teacher apologized
saying that the children had not been
in school sufficient length of time to
learn school discipline. No need of
apology. Governor Capper himself
could not appreciate in a greater de-
gree all the marks of respect and
good will accorded him by our admir-.
ing citizens than I'VE" did this as
surance of welcome. What a drearv
place this world would be with
out the honesty. sincerity, innocence
and spontaniety of childhood,
Our teachers owe a debt of graft
tude 10 Supt. Wilson of Cove county.
Last summer while attending his
county meeting of school boards we
learned that he succeeded in getting
ample supply of sweeping compound
for all his districts. We determined
10 follow his example by bringing TO
the attention or Trego's school boards
this sanitary. helpful and cheap aid
10 school cleanliness. Our school
boards are doing just what we knew
they would do = getting the COM
: pound for the teachers as quickly as
convenient for them and several have
surprised us by saying: I'VE would
have had this in our schools before
had the teacher told US about il. ,,
With such a spirit among our school
people the prospect for the Standard
Schools is excellent We may add
that the compound is selling from
- So to s. so per 100 Id cans or har-