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WANTED-Ferret. Phone 4759. 20-2t
WANTED-Experien stenographer
and office assistant. Address Box
339, city. 2O-2t
WANTED-Mealers, $500 per week.
Ollie Uhly, 210 n. It'll st. LIT
WANTED-To address envelopes at
home, good pay. full particulars 10c.
Direct Sales Co., Quincy, III. 1o-7t
LAWN MOWERS sharpened by ma
chinery; satisfaction guaranteed. F.
Drummer, 1929 Main st. Phone 1914.
HELP Female-Women
make SIS to $35 weekly selling guar
anteed hosiery. Experience unneces-
sary. Part or full time. Pair beauti.
full silk hose free to first person &C
cepting agency in your town. Write
International Mills, Sorristown. Pa.
24-tf
WANTED-Lawn mowers to sharpen
and repair, screen doors and win
dows made and repaired. Repairs OF all
kinds Called for and delivered.
Brown Darnell Co. Phone 1886.
WANTED-Fly screens to make. lawn
mowers, saws, shears, knives sharp
ened, bicycles, baby cabs, wringers,
carpet sweepers and everything to re-
pair. Called for and delivered free.
Phone 30S6. Wesley Brown & Son.
SEE Elmer Cooney for house painting
Phone PISS. 15-7t
SEE Elmer Cooney for paper hanging,
work guaranteed Phone PISS. 19-7t
WANTED-Place to work in private
family. "a n 10th ST. 1926
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FOR RENT room house, 1871 Sher-
idan ST. See A. w. Gregg. 14-eod-3
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FOR RENT-New room modern
house on car line Phone 304S 20-tf
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FOR RENT room house, up-to-date,
bath, hot water heat. 1917 S. B. st.
Phone 1900. 1881
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FOR RENT-Light house keeping
room, private entrance. 1877 S. 18th
ST. 20-2t
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WANTED-Mealers, $500 per week
Ollie Uhly, 210 n. eth St III
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FOR RENT-3 roomed house, garden.
$500. Phone 3O31. 12-eod-tf
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FOR RENTED y. 18th Apply to %
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WANTED-Girl or middle aged won
an to do general house work. Ad
dress H, care Palladium. lott
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LAWN MOWERS sharpened by ma
chinery; satisfaction guaranteed. F
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sPIRELLA CORSETS to order. Phone
37S8 Mrs. Francis Bresman French.
4O1 N. 10Th st. lit
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FOR RENT room flat, 5th and S.
A SITS, electric lights and bath. See
A. w. Gregg. Phone 1887 26-eod-tf
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WANTED-Carpets to clean. Phone
$780, apr % to may 81
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FOR RENT-Nodern room fiat very
desirable. VIM. H. Bradbury &, Son.
Rooms 1 anu Wes:cctt BLOCK Phone
1856. 16-tu-th- satltr
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WALL PAPER hanging and decorator
Reasonable price. Albert Ashcraft
Phone 3479 S04 N. G st.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-1910 Buick 5-passenger
auto. good condition. cheap if sold
at once. E. r. McGraw, Phone 313,
Cambridge City 1921
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

12:15-Noon.
$50 30-Laboratory Period
Basketry and Woodworking Smith
School Devices Niesley and Kel-
I<r
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14
TO THE SABBATH SCHOOLS OF
TREGO COUNTY

At our last Sunday School Conven-
tIon it was voted and determined to
acquire booth under the pavilion
at our county fair for the purpose of
giving an exhibit of the Sabbath
school work and its accomplishments
in the county during the year past.
A committee has been recently ap-
pointed to take this matter in hand
and SO far as they are able to make
this a feature of interest to the Fair
and success if possible.
This however must depend largely
upon the cooperation of the Sabbath
schools throughout the county.
1t is earnestly urged that the rural
schools should render an account of
themselves and make such showing
as they may be able to do in the
short time given them.
Suitable awards will be given to
the school or schools making the best
showing. First, second and third
prizes will be awarded
Five dollars to the school certify
ing up to the committee the greatest
number of verses committed to
memory from the Bible during the
past year.
And suitable and appropriate gift
will be given TO the boy or girl certi-
flying to the greatest number of verses
committed from the Bible during the
past year.
The committee urges that all who
are interested in Sabbath school work
join in this effort to make this booth
at our county fair q most profitable
and interesting place to visit and
jointly learn of each other the most
profitable things that can be done in
the interest of our Sabbath schools
throughout the county
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14
cHAUrAUoUA DATES

Company chautauquas are arranged
in circuits, each circuit including
several towns and the attractions
passing from one town to the next,
the chautaqua session beginning in
any given place one day later than in
the town or city which is scheduled
just ahead of it in the circuit. Thus
it is that the sessions overlap in
towns not very far apart, but this
arrangement cuts down expenses and
more nearly fnsures the prompt ar
rival of talent in good condition. 1t
is the only plan which makes chsu-
tauquas possible and within the
reach of the people of small towns or
in sparsely settled communities. OF
course, under these conditions ne
local committee can dictate IS to
dates. Tho whole circuit must be
and the dates and routes
Of travel must be arranged at the
once. Independent chautau-
Quzs arc possible only In the larger
pimces because Of the expense of
talent and equipment, involving
of dollars. and even then
the INDEPENDENT conmittee muss ar
raugp IFS dates. according to the con--
yeptence Of the attractions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14
TREGo COUNTY NORMAL INSTITUTE
August 23-2S, at High School
Building
MONDAY AUGUST %

MONDAY AUGUST 70
7:30-Pan -Niesley.
-"Mathematics'' Lecture H.
lustrated With SIides-Graham.
9:O0-The Courtis' Tests in Measur-
ing Ffhciency-Keller.
9:3O-Address Rev. S. L. Allison.
9:50-Play Period-Dr. u. Miller,
director, Volley Ball, Indoor Base
Ball, Tennis, Games Suitable for
Common Schools
10:25-Music and Chorus Work
Blair.
II:00-Amount of Domestic Science
and Art Possible in Rural School
Mather.
11:30-What Every Teacher Can Do
in Manusl Training-Smith
12:00-Noon.
1:00-2;30- Laboratory Period.
Manual Training-Smith.
Domestic Art-Mather
Charts, maps and other school
equipment Niesley-
Assistants in making of primary
busy work collections copies of Miss
Stones devices.) Miss Bessie Rogers,
Miss Nina Neff, Miss DeBoer, Miss
Frost, Miss Verna Marcy, Miss Merle
Hit, Miss Acre, Miss Novis.
2:3o-"C Collecting, classifying, and
taking care of school material''-Kel-
ler.
3:l5-Bagley's school discipline
Stradal.
3:45-Oral Spelling A. Kellog,
leader tMonday)
Evening-Court House -Eyeryb body
cordially invited. admission free.
7.30-Music-Mrss Niesiey's Music
Class
Address Miss En1e Graham, Tope-
IA High School (author of "Passin'
On Party."l
Moving Pictures - Educational
films from University of Kansas, in
ciuding such subjects IS: Scenery of
Western United States, The Work
mans Lesson, The Man He Might
Have Been,s The: Manufacturer-o of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14
NOTICE

An important meeting of all COM
mon school graduates of 1915 and of
all teachers of the county for 1915 16,
is called to be held in the county
superintendent's office August IA,
1:30 p. m Among other important
business is the assignment of parts
in the Peace Pageant for Commence
ment August % Every graduate and
every teacher is needed TO be present.
President of Program Committee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

1.30- 30-Laboratory Period
Basketry and woodworking-S Smith
School Devices-N Niesley and Kel
Ter.
Grammer-KelIer.
3:45-s.Care of ChiIdren's Teeth
DIR. o. S. Miller
-Spelling-Leader: Grace Per
shing.
Evening
-Music-Teachers Chorus.
Reading = lone Kraus, won first
prize in Golden Belt Reading Contest
Address,. T. Purcell.
Moving Pictures
FRIDAY
7:30-Pan -Niesley
TESTS Keller
9;30-A Address-Rev w. r. Wood
ward
1o:e0-Play Peroid-J. A. Winches-
ter
1880 -Music-Biair
100 81 Address - H. M. Cutter,
aurthor of Reading Circle Book =
Rural School = Its, Methods and
Management" and Professor of Rural
School Dept. K. s. N Emporia.
12:15-Noon.
.30-Laboratory Period - Compile
tion of all pieces of work begun dur
ing week
3:45-Advantages of Being Member
of State, District and County Teach
ers' AsSociation-J. H. Niesley T. c.
Fl. S.
AIS = Papers found helpful in
school work-Teachers
Evening.
7:3O-Music Teachers Chorus
Reading 'Cuddy's Baby, Margaret
Hill McCarter - by Lacy Herrick,
first in county reading contest.
Address - Elise Neuenschwander,
professor of languages, University
of Kansas.
Moving Pictures.
SARURDAX AUG. %
All Schools Day-Court House Park
Morning.
-10:oe-Music by three Bands-Coll-
yer and Visiting Bands
1I:0o-Parades: Bands, High School
Students, Common School Pupils,
Different Organization of County Old
Settlers, Automobiles. Moving pic
tureSswili be taken of parade
a12:00L Basket Dinner
Afternoon
1:30-M uSic-BandS.
Peace Pageant - Graduates as
sisted by H. S. students.
Commencement Address.
Presentation of Diplomas.
School Board Address.
Moving Picture Show = Free to
graduates and all children of common
schools-Fil ms to be used recommen-
ded by State Supt. Ross. Subjects
such as: Sonny Jim, Which Shall 1t
Be2, Her Fairy Prince, The Old High
Chair, Her Own Way.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

William Beardwell gave plowing
demonstration ON the Mrs O'Neil
farm south of town last Saturday
He used . 'sCreeper tractor, and it
did good work. Quite = crowd was
there and all seemed Co think it did
the work in 6ne shape.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14
Weather Report

Maximum and minimum tempera-
ture according to the government
thermometer at Wa-Keeney for the
week ending Wednesday noon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

A gentleman remarked the other
day that bull tractors and auto Gus
hiOnS are about to make farming
more fun than any other occupation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

1t is not patented, there is no copy
right. and nobody has a monopoly OF
it. Guess again.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

This is the first days program. We
shall have new, instructive and en-
tertaining subjects each day. A let
ter is being sent to every teacher ex
planning in detail the whole week s
work One of the new features of
this new institute will be a thorough
study and discussion of the common
school course of study and of the
text books to be used in our schools.
All the school boards as yet inter-
viewed have generously consented to
provide each teacher with full set
of text books and our book store is
making arrangements to have suff1-
cient number of sets on hand for US
the first day of our institute. This is
an unprecedented opportunity fer
young teachers to become familiar
with the course of study which they
must follow and the books which
they will be expected to present to
their pupils in the most interesting
effective way. We have a specialist
for this work, an expert critic teacher,
who has had a number of years of ex
perience in two State Normal Schools.
A week with such an instructor will
save you months of unnecessary la
Dor, perplexity and worry during the
coming school year.
Carrie A. Stradal, Co. Supt.
TUESDAY
7:30-Pan Germanism-Niesl
Matthew matics-Graham.
OO-"Writing Tests and How to
Use Them keller
9:30-Address G. o. Greene, Profes-
sor Horticultural, Agricultural Col
lege Manhattan.
1O:O0-Play Peroid-J. A. Winches-
ter = Games especially adapted TO
rural school conditions.
IO:3O-Music and Chorus Work
Blair.
11:OO-'sHot Lunches at SCHOOL,
Blair.
11:3O- Chip Carving Smith.
12:l5-Noon.
30LLaboratory Period.
Chip Carvings Smith.
House Decorations Mather.
Uses of Duplicator, Mimeograph
and "Blue Prints" in school work
Niesley-
Primary Apparatus : Teachers in
Institute who specialized in this
work under Miss Stone at F. HI. N.
during the spring and summer terms
this year.
800 Percentage = Difficulties of
pupils and how to overcome them
Keller.
3:45-Bagley's School Discipline
Stradal.
4:15-Oral Spelling
Evening.
7:3O- -Music-Teachers' Chorus.
Address = The Why of Womens'
Clubs and are They Worth While
Mrs. A. III. Blair, President 9Th Dist.
Federation of Women's Club of Kan
saS.
Moving pictures.
WEDNESDAY
7:30-Pan Niesley.
S:15- Mathematics Graham.
9:OO-'.Why Many Failures in
Geography Common School Examina-
tions-Fault of Text Book or Teach
er2''-Keller.
9:45- Address - President Lewis,
Fert Hays Normal School.
70:15-Play PERIOD. A. Winches-
ter.
10:45-MuSic-Bla
11:OO-S -Stenciling and Basketry =
Smith.
12:15-Noon.
1870 Laboratory Peroid:
Stencilfng and Basketry Smith.
School Material-Niesley.
House Decorations -Mather.
Primary Devices s-Teachers.
800 Teaching of Geography-Kel-
Ier.
3:45-Bagley's School Discipline
Stradal
4:l5-Oral Spelling Leader: Eva
Philbrook.
Evening
7:3O = Music = Mrs Steinberger's
Class.
Reading 'sPillar Fight by D-~A..
Ellsworth Ralph Morgan, winner in
county contest last spring
Address -ssFillin''-Probate Judge
A. S Peacock
Moving Pictures
THURSDAY
7:30-Pan Niesley.
s:15-Criticism of Grammer Text
Keller.
9:00-Address- w. B. Wood
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14
iety of Worthwhile instruction and
entertainments, right at hand and at
the least expense and trouble.


the least expense and trouble.
Our chautauqua contract is signed
by forty representative citizens of
Wa -Keeney and vicinity. The list
includes business and professional
men, county officers, farmers and
stockmen. OF course it is bound to
succeed. Two years ago, IS men car
ried heavy contract under very un-
favorable conditions. They had a
small deficit and paid it of without a
whimper--iust the same as they pay
for papers, magazines, books, lib
raries, schools and churches for the
good of the community
Our chautauqua begins next Sun
day with two entirely different pro-
grams, one in the afternoon aud one
in the evening. The committee has
just received a letter from DR.. James
s. Myers, assuring them that both
programs will be in keeping with a
fitting observance of the day DIR.
Myers is one of the proprietors of the
White & Myer Chautauqua Company.
He has been pastor of some of the
leading churches of the country and
it is not conceivable that he would
advocate anything not in harmony
with the best interests of the COM
munity. All their chautauqua man
ayers are instructed to present fitting
Sunday programs. Our Sunday pro-
grams will be given by the Schuman
harmony quartette and Francis j.
Gable. Do not miss them.
Perhaps you have noticed th4s tie
plant boughs of the locust shade
trees come down under tile weight of
a heavy rainfall at just the same
time when umbrellas are going up,
and many collisions result therefrom.
Such condition last Sunday almost
caused the writer to run over and
mutilate the future husband of one
of our most popular young ladies-an
accident which might have brought
on season of sweeping, whaling and
slashing in the street.
The writer is invited to attend the
Jericho school reunion in Randolph
county, Indiana, on Saturday of this
week; also to join the Downing fami-
ly reunion in Michigan on Sunday.
For obvious reasons he cannot attend
both, having scarcely time enough to
spare to write his regrets. But he
will be in both places, more or less,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

right. and nobody has monopoly of
it. Guess again.
A gentleman remarked the other
day that bull tractors and auto Gus
hions are about to make farming
more fun than any other occupation.
| We cover too much territory, (farm
too many acres) when making roads.
Too wide. Eighteen feet is the later
day specification. More length and
less width would be wise economy, ia
comparison with the old-style wide,
| fat grade.
And, by the way, road making
should be business or occupation.
The occupation of a man who knows
how, and who is paid according to
the amount and quality of his work,
just as we pay any other workman,
mechanic or professional man.
Many a gimlet-Sized man ACQUIRES a
| post auger reputation and then turns
out to be great bore, which is just
what we might expect
If every young person should adopt
the rule of visiting the dentist every
six months the time would come
when old folks would have both more
teeth and more money.
The workmen on the tower one day
last week announced the approach of
six big Zeppelins but as they went on
their business Of painting the tank it
probably was false alarm.
Are you sure you know the correct
way to spell zeppelin" Perhaps
it is ZepelIin, or Zeppelin or Zeppel
lin. How many and which of the
letters are doubled?
After writing the word, Yep, ETC.,
the scribe was in a quandaIy as to
the correct spelling and began to look
for an authority, The word was not
in our office dictionary, the county
surveyor was not in, the superintend-
ent had gone to dinner. We looked
over three different daily papers and
two weeklies, including the Rural"
without finding the word, and finally
took up copy of the Literary Digest
containing history of the first year
of the war and found the word, on
the last page of the story. Naturally
one would expect to find the word
Zeppelin in almost any issue of any
newspaper published in the last six
months.
And, by the way, if the Rural
| Weekly had been instrumental in
teaching the spelling of one it would
paper which some friend has inflicted
upon US for the next five years, and
possibly he would have been entitled
to parole or pardon.
The sign on the end of the Wa
Keeney depot says the elevation of
that place is 1920 feet, presumably
above sea level However that is Just
about the elevation given for Russell,
about sixty miles east of us and of
course considerable lower The ele-
vation of the station here, according
to government authority is 2, 456 feet
above sea level and the old union
depot at Kansas City is given $50
feet The o. s. B. c. on the step at
the west door Of the courthouse in
Wa-Keeney has an elevation of 2463
feet 1t appears that the sign on
our depot is wrong We are higher
up in the world and closer to the up
per crust
People who are the most busy, and
who work the hardest, are tho ones
who are deserving and probably most
I'm need Of rest and recreeti0n- In
this class comes the farmer and his
children and especially the house
vito those Who have tho least leisure
and chance to escape from tho drudg
cry Of hard work. Tho chaut4uqua
saers rest sd recrestfen ard ; VAR
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

We cover too much territory, farm
too many acres) when making roads.
Too wide. Eighteen feet is the later
day specification. More length and
less width would be wise economy, ia
comparison with the old-style wide,
fat grade.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

Everybody has a copy, but nobody
owns it. What is it?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-08-14

People who are the most busy. and
who work the hardest, are tho ones
who are deserving and probebly most
I'm need Of rest and recreation In
this class comes the farmer and his
children and especially the house
vito those Who have the least leisure
and chance to escape from tho drudg-
cry Of hard work Tho chAut1uqua
sRers reat so recrestisn and = VAR
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
BRITISH RUSH TO JOIN ARMY
Raid of ZeppeIins Boosts Recruiting
in London-Police Guard Against
Anti-German Riots.

London, Sept. 11.-Outbreaks by
maddened mobs were feared here to-
day as the result of the Zeppelins'
latest bombardment Special con-
stables were sent to guard German
shops, boarded up since the intern
ment of enemy aliens.
THE answer of the people of Lon
don and in the London district to
these exercises in frightfulness may be
given in an episode mentioned in the
Manchester Guardian" says the
Spectator, in commenting upon the
Zeppelin raids. "a recruiting sergeant
has been addressing crowds from a
platform made of debris of ruined
houses and the results have been ex-
cellent"
The Daily Mirror says the reply OF
London was a great army of recruits.
Many volunteers presented themselves
at Trafalgar Square, this newspaper
says. and in every part of the coun-
try men flocked to the colors.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
DYcHE GAVE ALL TO STATE
Widow and ChiIdren-Need FInan-
ciaI Support Now.

The late Prof. L. L. Dyche, who
spent his life making a collection of
North American mammals for the Uni
versity Of Kansas, which is valued at
100000, left his wife and children
without an income when he died sud-
denly last January Unless she re-
ceives financial support, Mrs. Dyche
may be compelled to cut short her chill
dren's education and withdraw them
from the university.
Professor Dyche made twenty-three
expeditions to various parts of North
America gathering specimens for the
museum of natural history at the Uni
Versity of Kansas. While on those
trips he was on the faculty of the uni
versity and received regular pay as
a professor with the understanding
that the specimens gathered were to
be the property of the institution. No
one at that time dreamed that his col
lection would become the second in
size and completeness in the country.
Friends have suggested to Mrs.
Dyche that she ought to receive an
income from the university in con-
sideration of the fact that her hus-
band spent his best days in it's sery-
ice and risked his life numberless
times for the meager salary of col
lege professor.
Shortly after Professor Dyche's
death a bill was introduced into the
legislature providing that the univer-
sity fees be RENTED to Professor
Dyche's children, but it was not
passed. Last April Chancellor Frank
Strong of the University of Kansas,
the state board of administration and
Governor Arthur Capper petitioned
the Carnegie Foundation for a wild
ow's pension for Mrs. Dyche, but as
the University of Kansas was not af-
tiliated with the foundation, the rules
of the foundation did not permit
granting it.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
SOME HUGE CROP FIGURES
Government Estimates 1915 Corn
Yield at $4,000, coo Bushels More
Than Last Year.

Washington, Sept "a corn crop
condition practically the same as a
month ago and slightly above the Sep
TENDER average is reported by the
agricultural department in the Sep
TENDER bulletin, issued yesterday aft
ernoon.
The spring wheat condition i'm
proved slightly last month and is the
highest ever reported in September.
The forecast of the corn crop is al
most 3,0O0.OOO,000 bushels, 10000
900 more than the final estimate in
1914.
No revision of the August estimate
Of the winter wheat crop was an
nounced, to allow for rain damage in
August. The August winter wheat
estimate and the September spring
wheat figures make a total crop of
S9I, 100000 million bushels, 10000
600 more than last years crop.