Minneapolis School Journal from Minneapolis, Kansas • 5

5 MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOL II JN A IJny your school shoes of Justus. Try a sack of Hour at Ilarbaugh'a. Our next paper will bo issued about January loth. Wo think we have the champion Latin class of tho state. The regular meetings of tho Board of Education are held on tho first Monday evening of each month.

The teachers of the city schools hold an association during the forenoon of the second Saturday of each calendar month, at which methods of teaching are discusged. All interested are invited to attend. The school bell is rung promptly according the following scedulo: koiienoon. Warning at 8:25. Assembling bell at 8:55.

Tardy bell at 9:00. AFTERNOON. Warning bell at 12:45. Assembling bell at 1:10. Tardy bell at 1 :15.

You should see those beautiful pictures at Alvord's. McMillan DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY Groceries, Queensware, Glassware, Tea, Dinner and Chamber Setts, Cutlery and Silver Plate. We wish to thank parents for their kind assistance in improving our Our holiday vacation continues from Thursday December 24th, to Monday January 3rd. Our advertisers arc among the loading business men of Minneapolis. By their substantial aid, they have made the publication of the Journal possible, they merit and should receive the support of all who are interested in our schools.

If you want to buy or sell anything in the line of real estato, leave it with Fairfield. He has done moro in that line for the last year than all the other agents in town combined. For proof, call on the records. Which will be the banner grade next month, is an important question with the little fellows. L.

E. llarbaugh keeps a first class flour and feed store on Second Street opposite Ballou House. The following non-resident pupils arc attending Minneapolis Schools Delmer Smith, Lillie Deardorff. Grant Dalrymple, Clara Dalrymple, Ilattie Dalrymple, Orene Swart, Chas. Bart-ley, Willard Brown, Chas.

Bardrick, Jessie Vandoren, Carrie Boot, Lizzie Stewart, Emma Porter, Togo. Shelter, Fora May, Ferrian Riley, Anna Krcbs, Bertie Corlis, Minnia Dresher. While at Concordia last week, we had quite a pleasant chat on school work with Mr. P. W.

Hull, Treasurer of the School Board We received from him a receipt for a black-board preparation which is cheap and said to be No. 1. We expect to test it soon and as our boards are very poor, we hope to be able to make them good at a small cost. The teachers are always ready to confer with parents on matters relating to the welfare of the pupils. If there is any thing that the teacher should know about the peculiarities of vour child, we wish you to feel free to tell her.

If you feel agrieved at anything, don't hesitate, but come to us at once, in a Kind manner, and we will take pleasure in setting the matter right In general, complaints against a teach We send a sample of the School Journal to the parents of each chill in school, and trust that they will favor us with their subscription. The price is only 30 cents for the remaining six months of school. FURNITURE The best place in Ottawa county to buy Furniture is of H. M. ALYORD, Who carries a complete stock of Furniture of all descriptions.

The High Sciiool is the Banner Itoom again for the month and the big girls and boys rejoice greatly. Parents and friends are invited to visit the schools whevever and as aftcn as they can make it convenient to do so. The Third Grade pupils are proud of the fact that they did not have a case of tardiness during the month. This is a record that has never before been made with a single exception in the history of our schools. mm Our advertisers are among the leading business men of Minneapolis.

By their substantial aid, they have made tho publication of the Journal possible. They merit and should receive the support of all who are interested in our schools. Call and examine his Goods and prices before purchasing. Store in A. Smith's Block.

er should be made to the Superintendent, complaints against the Superintendent, to the Board. FOIi Hardware, ProiT. Rosedale of Jerusalem, Palestine, a converted Levite, will lecture in this city on Oriental life, customs, next Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening. He will appear with his wife and son in full costume. Look out for bills.

The school is under obligations- to R. M. Goucher for his kindness in keeping us furnished with railroad time. Another month and then examinations. We are already hearing the familiar question, "Do you think I'll pass?" We are compelled to omit reports of various rooms and grades, and much other matter this month for want of space.

G. II. Justus, by his fair dealing has won an enviable reputation, as the leading boot and shoe1 dealer of the Solomon Valley. You should read S.L. Barne's advertisement in another column.

He means just what be says. Give him a trial order for flour. Dr. J. A.

Lippincott, Chancellor of the State University, will deliver a lecture to our patrons some time during the winter on some educational subject. L. E. Harbaugh will not be undersold. He keeps constantly on hand flour in great variety, bran, chopped feed, etc.

Pop corn only 15 cents a peck. Grant Dalrymple and his sisters, Our thanks are due to Prof. F. II. ClarK, Supt.

of Beloit schools and to Prof. L. A. Sawhill at Concordia, for their many acts of kindness during our visit with them last week. Both are genial, whole-souled fellows, and we wish them a full measure of success in their work.

Our city schools offer advantages unsurpassed by any city chool in Kansas to those young persons in the country who wish to prepare themselves for teaching, or who desire to secure a better education than can usually be obtained in their home districts. The tuition rate, $1.50 per month in the High School and $1.00 in the lower grades, is much less than the actual running expenses of the school per pupil. We can usually secure good homes for those who wish to work for their board, and good earnest pupils are always welcome. "We take pleasure in assisting those who are back in their studies, and try to arrange the programs of the different grades, so that they may take just such studies and in such classes as may be necessary to accommodate them. Stoves, Tinware, Building' Material, Well Tubing, etc.

GO TO Hollingsworth's. We think we are safe in saying that no other School Board in Kansas takes as much pains in fitting up, the school house and grounds as does our board Mr. W. D. Thompson, the chairman of the committee of building and grounds, is the right man in the right place, and if we do not have pleasant surroundings in a few years, it will be no fault of his.

MINNEAPOLIS, KANS. BARGAINS IT GROCERIES. Parents are requested to furnish their children with excuses for each case of absence from school or of tardiness. Writing an excuse is a yery small matter, and the good accomplished more than repays for the trouble caused. Experience has taught us that written excuses are efficient means in preventing truancy, and in securing a regular and punctual attendance.

Miss Clara and Miss Ilattie, have rented and fitted up a suite of rooms, ana are boarding themselves while attending school. 9m Mrs. Judge Johnston and Mrs. D. D.

Hoag ver among our visitors during the month. Both seemed much pleased with the school and commended the work of the teachers highly. It may seem to some that our rules relating to the school house and grounds are rather stringent, but experience has taught us that they must necessarily be so in order to keep the premises in good condition. Our hou was built at great expense and we desire to prevent all markings on the walls or other defacement or iniury of any nature whatever. We have had no regular writing exercises outside of the primary rooms as we have been waiting for ink wells.

They were ordered before the beginning of school but have not yet put in appearance. We hope to receive them by the holidays. We could leave the ink in bottles but they are easily broken or knocked off the desks, and the ink is spilled on the desks and floor making ugly stains. Painless Dentistry New Discovery. The so-called new method of extracting teeth without pain by the use of Nitrous Oxide, Laughing Gas, Medicated Air, is now fifty years old.

Nitrous Oxide Gp.s, as an anaesthetic, was discovered in tho year 1835. The only thing new about it is in the improved apparatus of administering it. I have the very latest and most approved method of administering this harmless anaesthetic known to Dental science. So don't be confused about new methods of painless Dentistry. Nitrous Oxide, Laughing Gas, Medicated Air, Vitalized Air and various other names, all mean one and the same thing, namely: Nitrous Oxide Gas.

Since the 17th day of September I have given Nitrous Oxide Gas to 100 different persons without a single bad effect. 1 make a specialty of the care and preservation of children's teeth. The preservation of the iirst dentition is as necessary as those of the first, as they preserve the Dental Arch and thereby avoid the irregularities so often found in the second dentition. It also relieves the child of much pain and suffering consequent upon neglect. o.

S. Carman. Dunn, Balir. Ewapfc, Carry a full line of Staple and Fancy Groceries. Satisfaction in quality and price guaranteed.

1 Door East of Post Office. Minneapolis, Kas. A. PARMELEE, Dealer in Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Iron, Steel and Wagon Wood Work. Roofing and Spouting a Specialty Estimate? for Jobbing furnished on application.

Opora House Block, MINNEAPOLIS 'KANSAS. Our rule forbids pupils to assemble in or around the school premises before the ringing of the first bell at which time the Principal is required to be present to watch those who may come afterwards. This rule is thought necessary to preserve the trees and house, and prevent tho disturbances that arise when pupils congregate together unless they are watched over by the taacher. Parents are requested not to allow their children to start before the first bell rings. Those pupils living in tho country can start earlier if more convenient and they will be received by the janitor in the basement till the bell rings..