The School News from Hiawatha, Kansas • 4

-SEE Heavy Farm Loans a Specialty C. P. Heimlich J. B. HINTHORN Funeral Director and Embalmer The REAL ESTATE RUSTLER FOR BARGAINS at the low prices selected by the State Pupils' Reading Circle board for school libraries make it an easy matter to start a library that will be of inestimable value to the school.

The past year has been a great one for geography. The enrollment at the Agricultural college is more than 900. su-JLjel Being the only Exclusive Undertaker in the county, I am prepared to give the public the BEST OF SERVICE. WHITE OR BLACK HEARSE I 1 t-i February. "With sleet and snow and shower and sun, I try my days to vary; I am the New Year's second child; Men call me February, I bring the children valentines, That love and fun may reach them, And then to make them wise and true, Of Washington I teach them." I keen a neat and well seleetpfl st.nfk nf Funeral Supplies, such as Caskets, Robes, -Ljiuiiifco, uuiitu onppuib ttUU XX Mill lillljy 5, OPEN ALL NIGHT Answer Calls Promptly 1st Door East Steam Laundry One of the attractions at the next teachers' meeting will be a class in "Mensuration," conducted by Prof.

Isely. The next time your Uncle Samuel invests $20,000,000 in a group of islands he will probably have them marked C. 0. D. LAUNDRY We Will Do Your Laundry Work For Nothing If you can get any better laundry work done than the Hiawatha Steam Laundry can do.

Give us a trial, School Srade Cards at She Miawatha 0orld office, 7S cents a hundred, 10 cents a dozen. Ground Hog Day. "They do say that a small animal (the arctomys) doth on this day come forth from his snug burrow in which he hath lain sleeping ever since October, and all to see whether or no he can see his shadow. The which if he do see woe is for the poor folk, which have little of food and still less of fire and clothing, for they shell have six weeks of grievous frost and winter, the long nights of which they shall pass with much shivering and shuddering, most miserably." Teachers' Examination. As a result of the January examination certificates were granted to the following applicants: Miss Phoebe Lindley, Robt.

L. Jones, Miss Clara Gordon, Miss Minnie Wade and Miss Pearl Wade. Miss Phoebe Lindley, we understand, will teach the remainder of the school year, in the eighth grade of the Sabetha schools. The superintendent has visited nearly all the districts inthecounty and with a very few exceptions the schools are doing good work. We are pleased to note that Mr.

Chas. Baxter has so far recovered from his accident as to be able to resume his labors in the school room. gotten, or "doubtful." This was undoubtedly due to the fact that President McKinley 's cabinet has undergone so many changes that the president himself would be excused for not knowing. At present I believe the president's advisers are: John Hay, state; Elihu Root, war; John D. Long, navy; Lyman J.

Gage, treasury; John W. Griggs, attorney general, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, interior; Charles Emory Smith, I postmaster general, and James Wilson, agriculture. Judge W. I. Stuart sentenced S.

G. Whitehead, the janitor of the public schools of Sabetha, to a term of two years in the penitentiary. Whitehead four months ago shotand severely wounded one of the pupils for a trivial offense. Grand Island Route rfSTROMSBUHCS JlSLANO ctfatlir If 0 justing9 A 3 A There are a few people in this country who appear to think that the more mean things they can say about their country the more patriotic they are. The successful teacher steadily supports his scheme of work upon the four corner stones of enthusiasm, originality, good temper and common sense.

A KANSAS CITV Double Daily Service Pullman Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair Cars on Night Trains It is a pleasure toknow thatmany schools will celebrate Washington's birthday. This is eminently fitand proper. By all means the schools should teach patriotism. The Western School Journal will have an excellent programme. Subscribe for the School News.

It will cost you 25 cents a year. W. HARVEY SHAW Solicits a Trial Order in For Information or Rates, call upon or address r. arest, agent, or S. M.

ADSIT, G. P. ST. JOSEPH, MO. Libraries.

Now is the time for each teacher to begin to devise methods for making additioi.s to her school library; or, if her school is one of the very few in the county which has no library, to set to work in some way to secure one. The excellent books E. Morrill, Pres. C. D.

Lamme, V-Pres. C. Baker, Cashier. THE Hiawatha, Kansas Capital, $100,000.00. Establshed 1871 Incorporated 1887 DIRECTORS -E.

N. Morrill, C. Lamme, Geo. H. Adams, Sarn'l Bierer, C.

B. Baker. A new school house is to be built in the Robt. Patton district. It will be heated with a hot air furnace and be modern in every way.

It will cost something like $1,200. The house is certainly badly needed. Are you quite sure you can tell all who comprise the McKinley cabinet at present? The other day one of our readers wrote for information on this point and just to see if it were possible that anyone of good intelligence should lack this information I tried the question on several friends. In every case some one or two of the Cabinet were for- 'Phone 1 14 HIAWATHA, KAN. 3.

31 Si matin on SPRING DRESS STUFFS TIHEJABLE Missouri Pacific Ry SOUTH BOUND No. 4 Passenger, Daily except Sunday 9 .45 a in- No. 2, Passenger, Daily 2.47 a. m. No.

10, Passenger, Daily 7:27 p. No. 122, Local Freight, Daily except Sunday 11 :20 a. Kuns between Hiawatha and Kansas NORTH BOUND No. 9, Passenger, Daily, arrives 8:20 a.

No. 9, Passenger, Breakfast, leaves 8.35 a. nv Vo. 1, Passenger, Daily 12:49 a. No.

353, Daily except 8.05 No. 121, Local Freight, Daily except Sunday. 11:20 a. No. 125, Fast Freight, Daily 3:15 a.

m. Huns between Kansas City and Hiawatha. All trains shown above carry passengers. St. Joseph Grand Island Ry EAST BOUND No.

2, Passenger, Daily 5:12 a. m. No. 4, Passenger, Daily 2:44 p. m.

No. 14, Local Freight, Daily except Sunday 1:54 p.m. No. 18, Through Freight, Daily except Saturday 8:45 p. WEST BOUND No.

3. Passenger, 12:15 p. m. No. 1, Passenger, Daily 11:48 p.m.

No. 13, Local Freight, Daily except Sunday 12:45 p.m. No. 17, Through Freight, Daily except Sunday 4:05 a. All trains carry passengers.

F. C. KERN, Agent. Horton Hack Leaves at 3:00 p. Garland Steel Ranges Standard Gasoline Stoves Shelf Hardware And Queensware From the sheep's back to the shuttle is a long jump; many processes 'twixt the shearing of the raw material and the showing of the finished product.

There's the wonder of it, how such stylish fabrics can be turned out for so little money. Fancy Black Weaves fresh from foreign looms; artists designed them, experts wove them, and we're going to sell them. There's refinement and respectability in a handsome black gown. There's economy in the wearing and there's wisdom in the choosing from these lots. Many a handsome dress is spoiled by poor trimmings and Fancy Black Weaves KANSAS HIAWATffA, findings.

Many a modest gown has been made to give nearly double service by a proper attention to these things. In this store you will get everything that goes into the makeup of a dress of the best. You'll find it will pay you to buy the best, especially when that best will cost you here but a fraction, a mere shade more than the poor sorts. Penny pinching is the poorest kind of economy, when you're fitting out a dress for the maker. STEPHEN HUNTER, Wholesale and retail dealers in Hard and rAa1 soft LUdl HIAWATHA, KANSAS Telephone S6 SKIRTS MADE TO ORDER A.

Schilling.