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the connoN SCHOOL. F. E. CRABTREE, Editor. SCOTT CITY, KANSAS, APRIL, 1898.

Subscription, 25 Cents Tkr Year. Circulation, 500 Copies Entered at the Post Office at Scott City, Kansas, for transmission through the mails as second class matter. Issued Monthly from the office of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction. Missouri Pacific Railway. TIME TAHLK.

Missouri Pacific Hallway, Mountain time, one hour slower than central time. Trains leave" Scott as follows: HAST BOUND. No. 8 Through Express 1:37 a. in.

No. 126 Fast Freight .3:05 a. ni. No. 122 Local Freight in.

WEST BOUND. No. 3 Through Express. m. No.

121 Local Freight No. 125 Fast Freight. 5:07 a. m. Nos.

125 and 126 do not carry passengers west of Utica. Tickets sold and baggage checked to all points. Parties wishing tickets to points beyond our lines vvidl confer a favor by giving me four days notice in which time I can obtain tickets to any point desired. For further information call on or address G. W.

Blakey. Agent. SANTA FE ROUTE. TIME TABLE. In effect December 15.

1897. West Bound. East Bound. No. 7.

No. 8. 9:30 Lv. Kan City Ar. 6:30 a 11:45 pm Topeka 4:05 am 5:25 am Newton 6:50 a li Hutchinson 7:50 Gt.

Bend 5:00 Ar. Scott City Lv. 8:30 a Central Time. School Reports. District No.

29, for the term closing March 31. Number of days taught, 120; number in attendance, Average attendance, 4i. Names and attendance in days: M. M.Bouton, 72; P. E.

Bouton, 60; E. B. French, 87; J. W. French, 115; C.

A. Partington, 47; M. A. Partington, 41; N. M.

Timmerraan, 112. C. E. TlMMERMAN, Teacher. District No.

9, for the term which closed March 25. Days taught, 80; number enrolled, total days attendance, 259; average daily attendance, 3. Eva Coen, Teacher. District No. 5, for term commencing October 4, and ending March 25.

Number days taught, 120; number of boys enrolled, 12; attendance in days, boys, 824; average attendance, boys, number girls enrolled, 11; attendance in days, 736, average attendance, total days attendance, 1500; average attendance, 13. L. M. Hyland, Teacher. Report of school district No.

3. Term commencing November 1, 1897, and ending March 29, 1898. Average Name. Atteudance. Scholarship, Gems of Thoughts.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to John Wesley. v. Is there a heart that music can not melt? Alas! how is that heart forlorn. Is there who ne'er these my tics transports felt, Of solitude and melancholy born? Beattie.

Behold the child by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livlier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage. And beads or prayer-books are the toys of age; Pleased with this bauble still as that before, Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Pope, Essay on Man. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is oid he will not depart from it. Prov.

22: 6. Children are magnets drawing age back to youth again. H. The teacher '8 work is the finest of fine arts; while others make pictures or songs, he makes character. II.

No one is fit to teach who does not love little children. H. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every work spoken within the hearsay (hearing) of little children tends toward the formation of character. Hosea Ballou. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Wendell Phillips, Idols. Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. Anonymous. The above thoughts were taken from a little book entitled "Memory Gems. published by Crane Company.

There were eight applicants for common school diplomas at the recent examinations. The following passed a satisfactory examination, and will receive the common school diploma: Gertie Render, Frank Criss. Ralph Lloyd, Rella Williams. All others who received grades over 80 may carry them over till next year. Miss Gertie Render having received the highest average in the examination is entitled to the one year's scholarship in the Washburn Academy, Topeka, Kansas, offered by that insti-1 tution.

Washburn Academy is a thoroughly modern and progressive school and the prize secured is a very substantial one, the value of the certificate of membership being forty dollars. Gertie Starr 100..:.. 97 George Starr 99...... 96 Fred .....100...... 96 Willetts Starr ..100....

93 Pearl 93 92 Clarence Coker '97'. 96 Grover 96 95 Lucy Mahler ....100...... 93 Elsie Mahler .....76...... 93 Bennie Tuffts 57 91 Reuben 39...... 96 Coral 7......

95 No. of days taught, 100. 6. D. CARD, J.

P. jCeyal Abstracter of Uitles. Real Cotate and insurance Agency 3arm jCands and City SProporiy Sod or denied. Taxes Paid, Titles Examined, Abstracts Extended, etc. Charges Reasonable.

Correspondence Solicited. Scott City. Kansas. Lulu Cutler, Teacher. Books Received.

Memory. Gems. By Geo. W. Hoss.

Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. A collection of choicest gems in literature, for use in home and school. Crane Topeka, Kansas. Outline of Civil Government. By W.

D. Kuhn, 25 cents. Reference is made to Thorp, Wright, Williams Rodgers, Andrews, Jefferson's Manual, Fisk Ridpath's History. Crane Topeka, Kansas. Manual and Key for Hoenshel's Grammar.

About 175 pages. 50 cents. The author has not only analyzed and diagrammed the difficult sentences, explained the close constructions, and corrected the examples of false syntax, but has inserted very many hints for teachers. The Constitutions. United States and Kansas.

25 cents. Fully an-noted. Crane Topeka, Kansas. How to Celebrate Arbor Day. 128 pages.

Helps for all grades. Contains a history of Arbor Day. Class exercises, recitations, songs, quotations, and seven complete programs. Price, 25 cents. E.

L. Kellogg New York, City. Alaska; Its Neglected Past, Its Brilliant Future by Bushrod Washington James, A. M. 12 450 handsomely illustrated, with thirty-three engravings and sixteen maps.

$1.50. Sunshine Publishing Philadelphia, Pa. The author has a most readable style and puts what he has to say before us in a very attractive way. For those who are eager to learn more of this long neglected corner of our country, this book will prove both interesting and profitable. College Men's Three-minute Declamations.

Cloth. 381 pages, price, $1. This volume is filled with something besides the old selections, but is full of live topics presented by live men. It Is full of vitality for prize speaking. The selections are inspiring and can not fail to thrill the audience.

They are sure to please and are exactly suited to the speaker and to the occasion. Hinds Noble, New York, City. A Study of English Words, by J. M. Anderson.

Cloth, 12 118 pages. Price 40 cents. American Book Chicago. The purpose of this book is to furnish in a form suitable for school or private study, a summary of the most important facts relating to the English language, with special reference to the growth and change of English words. The regular examination of applicants for teachers' certificates will be held at the school house, Scott City, Saturday, April 30, 1898, commencing The vBity Drug Store, cines ana yewelry.

Toilet articles, Fancy goods, Chamois Skins, Sponges, Brushes, and Perfumery. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Moreau, Scott. City, Kansas. A number of schools have closed during the past month with various kinds of lat day exercises.

So far as we can learn the work done by the teachers generally has proven very satisfactory to the patrons and pupils during the past year, which is the best evidence to a teacher of the success of his work. We notice that a bill has been introduced in the Ohio legislature, providing that in all the schools of the state the ballot laws, right of suffrage and mode and manner of conducting general, special and local elections shall be regularly taught all pupils of 12 years or more of age, and that no certificate shall be granted any person to teach school in any institution supported by general taxation who shall not pass a satisfactory examination upon the election laws. Kansas teachers and pupils would do well, also, to give a little more attention to these matters, for they are important in connection with our preparation for intelligent citizenship. Call on 7frs. Seo.

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Ilest." Dictionary The One Great Standard Authority, So writes Hon. D. J. Brewer. Justice U.

S. Supreme Court. IT IS THE BEST FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES, BECAUSE Words are easily found. Pronunciation is easily ascertained. Meanings are easily learned.

The growth of words easily traced, and because excellence of quality rather than superfluity of quantity characterizes its every department. It is thoroughly reliable. Specimen pages sent on application to C.W.PR0UDF00T, Register of Deeds AND jCeyal Abstracter for Scott County, Jfansas. Abstracting of Land Titles promptly attended to and at reasonable rates. Address, Scott City, Kansas.

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