County Teacher from Belleville, Kansas • 1

1 THE eOHNTY TEA(3riGR. VOL. IV. NUMBER 6. VIOLA WELCH, EDITOR.

BELLEVILLE, FEB. 1896. There are 6,665 pupils of school age in Republic County. The Belleville Center School has recently been supplied with a new stove. Have you paid your subscription to this paper? Of the 1300 inmates of the Leav enworth Soldiers' Home, who have been given the bichloride of gold cure for drunkenness, 1200 have become perfectly sober citizens, permantly cured of drink disease, and of this number 752 have left the home.

Kansas has 8,235 school houses, and the school property of the State is valued at $9,781, boo. The teachers will find the Hawaii, letter, from the pen of John R. Musick, worth reading. E. E.

Baird, who was off duty for a four weeks' vacation, has a-gain resumed his labors in Wayne. Win. Davenport, and Maggie Graham, a former teacher of this county, we're married recently. The common school Elocutionary contest will be held in Scandia on February 15th, 1896. C.

C. Canfield and Miss Elean-ora Harris have been appointed as assistant exemihers for this year. Chas. S. Earley, who has been attending school in Ft.

Scott, has returned to his home near Belleville. Miss Daisy McBride, who has been enjoying a month's vacation, resumed her duties in district 41, January 20th. J. C. Price, of Republic City, attended the annual State Historical Association in Topeka, on the 21st, in the interest of the Pawnee Village.

It is supposed that in this village Zebulon M. Pike raised the first U. S- flag that had ever been floated in the Louisana Purchase. If these facts can be established the government will evidently pay due respect to the memory of this event in the way of monuments and other suitable improvements. The Cuba High School has organized a literary society.

The ability of the Cuba orators will be tested in the debates. "My country 'tis of thee, The natural philosophy class in the Cuba school has recently added some new apparatus to its laboratory. Miss Maude Mills is teaching the Armenians, near Wakegan, and not near Wakegan, in Turkey, as was stated in the last issue of this journal. Supt. Glasgow's meetings, bringing before the public the necessity of text book uniformity, are meeting with hearty approval throughout the county.

Howard B. Walter and Fannie I. Kunkle were married Dec. 25th, 1895. The contracting parties are both Republic County teachers.

The TEACHER extends The Albion school, through the efforts Mr. Trace, teacher, will soon have "Louva the Pauper" ready for the public. The proceeds will be applied on a library fund. Once More, Teachers, are you helping to support your county school paper? Or do you rely on having it sent to you gratis? Every issue of this paper requires an outlay of cash considerably larger than the receipts and as it is devoted entirely to the teach-ers's work we feel that you should support it, at least to the extent of your own subscription. An examination of our books reveals the fact Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died.

Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring." Few men have lived to hear their words so widely sung by their countrymen, as were the patriotic verses of "America." From ocean to ocean and from Canada to the Gulf the song has been sung in nearly every home, however humble or however grand. It has stimulated patriotism and strengthened love of country. The author of these inspiring words has continued in the even tenor of his way, less known than many a poet far less worthy of fame. Sam'l Francis Smith was born in Boston in 1808, and in 1832 wrote the verses which will survive while the nation lasts. Death came to him suddenly, on Nov.

16, 1895, in Boston, while A collection of school work a letter, a map, an examination paper, a story from the older pupil and busy work from the tiny one from all the schools of the county, will be on exhibition at the Belleville Teachers' Association. -J that only ten per cent, of the teachers of the county are paid up subscribers. We dislike very much to refer to this matter, and probably we have not done our whole duty in the way of presenting our bills; but we do not feel that we ought to do missionary work of this kind among the teachers, and it is earnestly hoped that each who is not a paid up subscriber will attend to this matter at once. If pupils are a teacher's reflection then Mr. Addington's footprints from the "sands of time" will never be erased.

It is a self evident fact that Mr. Addington is a "true teacher" and that his lot is cast in the right field. Mr. A. is the Principal in the Narka school.

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