The Rooks County School Monthly from Stockton, Kansas • 4

tural effect upon the people of the community. Ccictcr Teachers' Examination hsld at the Court House in Stock ten Firday and October, 24 und 25. It was in charge of the Coun One of the large schools in the north half of the County is Mount Vernon, nine' miles northwest of Stockton. It is taueht bv Miss Eli- cows as can the farmer of any chter state. Tha quality cf the cow tmllked in Wisconsin arid New York off sets the increased cost of milking that cow as compared with the cost of keeping such cows In Kan sas.

If the far Eastern dairyman can have a cow of such quality as will iconver.t his higher priced feeds into a profit, thsn the Kansas farmer by having as a cow can make dairying more profitable than we have as yet ever dreamed. ty Superintendent assisted by Miss zafeeth Neal. During the month of Ella Standish, associate examiner, of September Miss Neal had a splend PlainviJle. There were five teach- id record of punctuality there being 27 pupils! enrolled with out a single tardy mark. ers wrote on th9 examination.

The "Hockton City school under thes direction of Supt. B. H. Rouse The Kansas State Teachers' Association in Tnnekn. Kansas.

Nov- has had on display at the City Labra- ember 6 and The Executive com-ry for the past week the Turner Art mittee headed by SuptW. S. Heusne Exhitit. The exhltit wnich consists of Salina has made an extraordinary of over 200 very fine pieces of art effort to make the meeting one of attracted a great many visitors and the best in the history of the Asso-created a great de I of interest, es- ciation. It might be interesting to pecially among admirers of paintings, know that the Kansas State Teachers The, exhibit was a very fine one to Association is over fifty years old; say the least and had a splendid cul- tnat it was Organized in j.663, short, ly after Kansas was admitted to.

the mi inn- thaf it has grown from a mean One of the largest and most regressive schools in Rooks County is' Mt. Ayr, district No. 87 south? of Plainville. During the summer an addition was built to the school house and a considerable amount of bership of 34 teachers to over 5,000 As usual quite a large delegation of Rooks( County teachers will attend the association: 4 n3w equipment provided. The school is taught by Miss Maggie Garvin, who is making it a real live country school.

The total enrolim. nt is 36. During -the month of September 21 were neither absent nor tardy and there were but 2 tardy marks recorded. Several of tihe larger boys walk-three mils or more each way. Kansas has 8.5 cows per square mile; Nebraska 7.9; New York 30.4 Wislonslln 26.83; Iowa 24.86.

The comparatively cheaper feeds and feeds of better quality for milk production produced in Kansas as compared with those of New York, Wisconsin, and Iowa, 'enable the Kansas farmer, if he Vill, to make much more money OUR POLICY: School Supplies at Factory GVst. PLUS from the dairy cow than can the farmer, of the East. The fact is that dairying iii Kansas can be made OUR AGENTS: Every Customer and Our Catalog. OUR PRINCIPLE: The Golden Rule. far more profitable than is possible farther east.

The conditions of feed and climate arej such as would justify 'the farmer of and bras- xa in making more Jhan doubl3 thr- Insures, satisfaction for- you. Fourteen jears (eight years in Stockton) experience in fitting glasses correctly, is a record that should merit your consideration when you need expert optical fenice. Every pair of glasses fitted by me are absolutely guaranteed and glasses will not be fitted unless they are needed and will do you good. Eye strain causes Headache; my glasses relieve the strain and headaches disappear. W.I.

SMITH Eyesight Specialist and Doctor of Optics money fact we think three times as muchi from the milking, of cows than can be made "down East." The average annual production of the cow "down East is1 considerably great er than that of the Kansas cow. The eastern dairyman wou'U. not b3 able Catalog: 1 013-1 Now Head. A' Established 1880 V. M.

WELCH MFG. COMPANY .100 Lake St. Chicago-- to make money from his dairy oper ations if this ware not so. There is nrv reoenn hnwflvSr w'hv tho K'afieie STOCKTON, KANSAS I farmer" cannot have as high yeilding.