The Westland Home from Anthony, Kansas • 2

District No. 49. Report of Valley View school, district No. 49 for the month beginning Sept. 11, 1905 and closing Oct, 6 1905.

Number enrolled 20; number tardy number absent but not tardy average attendance 15; visitors 9. School motto for month "Never say fail." Work progressing nicely Patrons and those interested in school work are requested to visit us. C. S. Heath and family are preparing to move to their new home in Pottawo-tamie County.

We are sorry to lose such a family; they will be missed. Mr. Brewer's little child that has been very sick, is slowly improving under the care of Dr, Winbigler. Mi. Carr and Mr.

Price Drake went to Kingman after apples Wednesday and returned Thursday. Mr. Hatfield has been enlarging his house. It is near completion now. Grandpa and grandma Drake went to Edwards county Tuesday to visit relatives.

They expect to be gone several weeks. Miss Mina Ott from Spivy is visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity. 8th Grade Notes. The Lyceum literary society was organized last week with Stella president; Ada Burchfiel, secretary; -and Walter Fanning, treasurer. The 8th grade scholars are all glad that school was dismissed for a week.

The civics class gets pretty intersting sometimes when we get to discussing the laws. Miss Fones has been stumping the history class on geography. The physiology class has been learning the names of the muscle. Report of Beaver College" Dist. 22, for this first month No.

enrolled first day 31. No. enrolled last day 39. Average daily attendance 35. Per cent of attendance 94.

No. tardy 0. No. neither absent nor tardy 26. Visitors 8 Names of pupils neither absent nor tardy were Samuel, Martha Wilbur, Helen, Esther, Earl and Zona Hunter, Ottie, Ruth Watkins, Delmont, Morton Montague, Walter Jones, Wayne Turner, Mazie Dusenbury, Cricie Seiple, Carenee, Joe Mingle, Willie, Bessie," Georgia Hill, Lawrence Cornick, Claud Meade, Guy, Orley, Lucille Hughes.

Mabel Jumper. R. F. Huesman, teacher. A.

C. Peffly is well pleased with his school at Fail-view. ib-scriba for the Wetland Home. pigeons. We had bear meat too but I didn't kill it.

There are just lots of grizzly bears just up a gorge behind our house a couple of miles. I am getting along fine in my work and hate to leave it to go after those people but will have to do it. We start Sept, 25th, and I will go to Shanghai; over half way home in point of time. Wish you could come to meet me there. I fear the winter will be something terrible here.

You see this is not an agricultural country and everything must be brought in. Rice from ten to twenty days journey, flour and meal the same. Just a few vegetables are raised here, and it has been too dry for rice and food is scarce even on the plains so it will be much worse here. With much love to all Dr. A.

L. Shelton. Clara Hansbarger was a pleasant caller last Saturday. One of the most important departments of school work is the study of current events. In a great majority of the schools of Kansas this subject has been sadly neglected.

Its importance and value in supplementing the study of geography, history, literature etc should be apparent to every teacher and to every school officer It should have in every news-paper in Kansas an earnest and vigorous champion. To the end that every boy and girl, when they leave school, may know something about the world's progress as mirrored in the great educator of todaythe newspaper -every father and mother should demand that their children be given an opportunity to interpret current events to know what, the busy world is doing, and of the oppor-' tunities offered in the various walks of life. The newspaper reflects current thought and action and without it as a supplement to the school books, the boy and girl go out into the world ill prepared to meet life's duties and responsibilities. An education is not complete that does not prepare the child, for present The books are the foundation, but. a knowledge of current events as reflected from day to day by the newspaper forms the complete educational structure.

The boys and girls in our schools should be familiar with ancient history and literature, but it is vastly more important from the standpoint of present and future benefit that they know vvhat the great throbbing, pulsating, busy world is doing today. Life's greatest text-book that which mirrors and reflects eurrent events is the newspaper. Topeka Daily Capital. visiting Washington and consulting with the president and the heads of the departments, looking after the wants of constituents previous to the rush of congressional business and also get in touch as nearly as may be with administrative plans. It is conceded that the first work of tha session will be statehood for Oklahoma and the Indian Territory under the name of Oklahoma and on the lines of the bill so nearly passed last year.

The most important work of the session promises to be an effort to regulate the railways in their interstate traffic. Their open practices of reoates and other favors for certain companies in which the owners of the railways are usually interested, have been a strong force for the upbuilding of oppressive monopolies in salt, meat and farm machinery lines. For twenty yeais the Interstate Commerce commission has striven for a strengthening of their powers and the railway lobbies in the house ai.d railway owners in the senate have so far succeeded in preventing any action of const quence. 1 he president is very mucn in earnest that there shaii be an i ejuate law passed and he is backed by the sentiment of the whole people. Those who know what he wants to do, approve, and those who do -t know, approve Decuuse thy have faith in him that has been abundantly justified by the earnestness and honSty of his whole life.

We doubt if in liie history of the American people there has been a president so absolutely trusted by the people as Roosevelt. -Governor Hoch has started out to enforce the prohibitory law in the larger cities ol Kansas where it has been openly disregarded tor years. The first proceedings have been in Kansas City Kansas where his representatives have been so far unable to secure a conviction. Witnesses fail to remein- ber or the juries disagree, and the re-successive acqutitais have the endorsement of the greater part of the community. Any lawbreaker can find shelter if the mjo.ity ol the com- muniij approe las actions.

The saloons may, however, be closed by injunction. This is the Jast issua of the Westlani Home before the County Association meets. It you are interested in the continuar.ee of the paper do not forget to secure every new subscriber possible About one -third of the teachers do not take any school journal. Every teacher ought to take at' least their home paper and one fr.sm a distance. Come prepared next Saturday to do what you can for the home paper..