The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-03-31
FAvORS JUNIOR COLLEGES
President Butcher Of Emporia Normal
Advocates New Educational Plan
for High Schools.

Since about so per cent of the stu.
dents in American colleges come from
homes located within fifty miles Of
the colleges, Thomas w. Butcher of
the Kansas State Normal says that
the establishment OF Junior colleges"
in high schools would materially in.
crease the number of college trained
people In the state
In his address at the high school
teachers conference at X. J. recent
ly he said that under the California
law Of 1911, more than dozen high
schools In that state are doing fifth
and sixth year work. Three high
schools in Minnesota have established
junior college departments. The pub
lie schools at Grand Rapids offer un.
derclass college work. Junior colleges
are located in st. Louis and Kansas
City and one year of junior college
work is being given at st. Joseph with
the intention of establishing a Sec
ond years next year.
THE purpose of the junior college
Is to prepare the high school gradu-
ate for entrance into the sophomore
or junior class of the college or uni
versity; or, in other words, to offer
work equivalent to the freshman or
freshman and sophomore work." Presi.
dent Butcher said.
Communities unable or unwilling
to raise sufficient funds to support
adequately the regular high school,
will be found establishing Junior col
leges as soon as this movement be-
comes popular" says Professor Butch
or.
California has pointed the way, and
that way is through state aida policy
already adopted in our own state for
certain phases of high school work.
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old-Time Printer Dies.-James M.
Ross, 62 years old, is dead at his home
t. Marysville. He suffered stroke Of
paralysis. For Al years Ross worked as
a printer, all except a few months of
that time being spent in Marshall
county. He was foreman in the print.
ing office of Marysville newspaper
when stricken with his final illness.
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Cake Killed Chickens-When
young wife of Chicopee had bad luck
with a cake recently, she threw it to
the chickens. The chickens died. Then
the young woman decided there was
poison in the baking powder and sent
for state food inspector. Harry Bell
OF Leavenworth investigated. He
found the baking powder blameless.
The woman had used salt instead of
sugar. The chickens ate the cake and
died from thirst, the inspector says.
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Killed by Rock Crusher-Ben Rena,
a Mexican, was killed at lola when
he became overbalanced while at work
in a cement plant there and tumbled
into a rock crusher.
Wheat Finally Threshed-The latest
wheat threshing ever done about Hor-
ton took place recently when John
Wyson finished threshing Nicholas
Berney's wheat crop.
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State Senator Dies.--Senator ]. H.
Stavely is dead at his home in Lyn-
don. Mr.. Stavely was serving his sec
ond term as senator from the Six
teenth District.
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Woman Strangled to Death--Mrs. P.
M. Gates, wife of P. M. Gates, owner
of the Pratt Monumental Works at
Pratt, was found dead in her home the
other day. She was strangled to death
by the end of scarf she was wearing
becoming entangled in an electric
washing machine.
$212.50 an Acre for Farm-The high
est price Brown county farm land ever
brought was paid the other day when
Albert Walters sold his 80-acre farm
a mile east of Hiawatha to X. Knudson
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