Cherokee County Teacher from Galena, Kansas • 4

(EhErokeE County BschEF. ANNA WIDUAX, Kwtor. by the Galena Times Publishing Co. Entered soeoinl-class at the at Cak-iia, Kansas. Subscription price.

K) cts Per Annum. 1. To appoint a chairman to preside in the atseuce of the director. Elect officers to till vacancies. They may designate by vote, a site.

4. To vote a tax not exceeding 2 percent, on the taxable property in the district, as the meeting shall deem sufficient for school purposes, and distribute the amount as they deem proper in payment of wages and purchase or lease a site. They may authorize and direct SLATER, 510., Dee. 23, 1891. I have this tlav sold to STE rVART of Columbus, for cash in hand, the entire stock of Clothing, Drv Goods, Boots, Shoes and Notions.

All Mr.nivs pertaining the business of the distrU-t will be mailed to the clerks as soon as they ate received hy us. kown as the J. A. Steam stock a- TuuCerks will semi to the mounting to Twenty Thousand dollars. oOieeof the coutity superintendent a copy of the teacher's term report as the sale of any site or property belong ing to the district.

soon as school closes. (. They may give directions and JOIliN A. lilCrl, Trustee for Creditor We are pleased to announce to the people, of Southeast make provisions concerning the defense or prosecution of any suit or If any member of a school board is without a copy of our school-laws just proceeding iu which the district is a ern Kansas and Southwest Missouri, that the above stock is lie re, ard is selling out like hot cakes. The customers are Mnd us your address on a postal card and we will mail you one.

party. 7. They may determine the length of school teun for the ensuing year, which shall not be less than three months. 8. They may determine whether the rolling in and they know a good thing when they see it.

There lots of goods, and they will all sro at 50 cents on the dollar. Wo are strictly in It, with a big Bankrupt Stock, and w(! are not. going to Texas, either, but are ing to stay in Columbus on the south side of the square, and give the people sixty days of solid fun. We advertise no prices, th- customers are doing that. Come and see us, we are busy piople.

school shall be taught by uule or female teacher, or both. 9. They may decide as to whether the school money to which they are South Side Square. Kansas. Columbus, entitled shall be applied to the support of the summer or winter tenu of school.

The meeting lias no power to de termine who shall or shall not be em ployed as teacher, nor the salary the teacher shall receive. The board de cides these questions. We advise the attendance of every READING. I have particular reference to your home reading. is out and you will have some spare time between this and next September.

You wili hunger for intellectual food, do not starve yourself. In this day of cheap and abundant literature there is no reason why almost every one may not have plenty of good and wholes reading. Lord Bacon said, ''Some books are to ba tasted, some to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested. That is as true today, as when Lord wrote it. I know many children who are premitted to read trashy and unwholesome books, and papers, which are lit.

not even to be tasted, it is absolutely necessary that the young mind be directed in selecting that which is best. The parent and teacher are the chief factors that are instrumental in directing the child, they must be taught to love the true, the lovely and the good. I shall suggest a few books and papers that are good for young people. Robinson Crusoe, Me Foe; Little Women. Miss Aictt: Fairy Land of Science A.

II. Muchley: Tom Mrown I mother and father in the district to these meetings. If you are not inter RESCH SHAW, A.r-jl IterotM itirl Siiperititenclentt, in, Missouri. Plans and specifications furnished on all classes of buildings. Public buildings a specialty.

estimates of costs or buildings fur nished free. Write if you intend building. ested in the improvement of our schools, then who will be? Whatever difficulties may befall us inanciaily or in anyway, we cannot afford to loose our interest in our schools. They are the light-houses of our liberty: the safegaurd of our civ Hi youbought your outfit from J. B.

Opper- man?" I As you will see we now have the I most complete line of ilization, NORMAL Our Normal opens July fth, and continues four weeks. We expect and confidently believe we will hae a very profitable and interes; ing session. The young people in the advanced grades of our public schools are cordially invited to attend. You will re cite to some of the ablest teachers in Harness, Saddles, Summer Lap Dusters, Carriage Sunshades, Surreys, Phaetons, Buggies, Road Wagons, Spring Wagons, Carts, Etc. We can fit you out with a complete riding or driving outfit to suit the most fastidious in taste and at such low prices that cannot be equalled.

You will be sure to save a few Board of Education. The board of education met in regular session Monday evening last arid organized by the election of B. Warner president, and T. 0. Weaver clerk.

Teachers were employed for the ensuing year as. follows: Superintendent Chas. S. Bowman, principal teacher Helen Short, and, 1) grammar grades Mrs. Dora Bowman, first intermediate department Nettie Doty, primary Laura Person, colored high school Shelton French, second primary (colored) Mrs.

Shelton French-The colored intermediate department is yet to be supplied with a teacher. Miss Short has not fully decided whether she will accept the position offered, on account of poor health. The of teachers ha been increased by one over last year, but this could not well be. avoided. Last year Mr.

Bowman had a room full of pupils to look al ter and teach besides his work as superintendent of the entire school, hence he could have little or no high school work done, This year he will have much more time to devote to looking after the work of the other teachers, thus improving the general work of the school in a marked degree. Baxter Springs News. Decoration Day. On May 30th.it will be a year since we last decorated the. graves of the soldiers.

'How clearly do we remember it all. Now it has been more than thirty since that mighty struggle began. It has long since ended, but what sorrow was wrought. How many of the loved ones have filled premature graves, and how many more who went into that struggle just at the threshold of life, strong and hearty, returned home maimed for life, broken In health and compelled to go through a long and weary life of pain. But soon they will all be gone those whom we call '-The old Now he joins with us in decorating the graves of those who were with him in that great struggle, but in a few years hence we will perform that duty alone-He will have gone to that soldier's home beyond, and only the history of that great strife wll remain.

To perform the duty of decorating the graves of those who have gone is a sorrowful task: Keeping in memory a dear one who is in the world beyond is a sad task, but who would forget those loved ones if he could. We are thankful to Him who guides our State, and can not but be benefitted thereby. Proper methods of study and recitation will ba presented that will help you in your work. Special drills in reading, writing and music will be given. Those who have taught know full well the valueof the institute to in their work and can not ail'ord to miss the opportunity to be present.

The enrollment fee is $1 which entitles you to full privileges in all classes. Boarding and room can be secured for and $2.75, per week. The county superintendent will render any assistance in her power to secure boarding, or rooms for at Rugby Hugl-n-s: Kolloy Tours, St. Nicholas and Youth Companion; Tales from Shakespeare, Lamb: Wonder Book Hawthorrie: Life of Washington, W. Irving: Alice's Adventure Wonderland, -Miss Lidclell.

These are such a few, but all I have in mind just at this minute. Allow me to suggest a few selections for the more advanced readers. Evangeline and Miles Standish, Longfellow: Snow Mound. Whittier; Cotter's Saturday Night, Burns: lvanhoe, Scott? Christmas Carols, and David Copperfleld, Dickens; Men I fur, Wallace; Lincoln, J. G.

Holland; Hoosier Schoolmaster, Eggels-ton; Merchant of 'Venice, Shakespeare: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe. Do not allow this summer to pass without having rend some good pure books. If the minds of boys and girls directed properly and they are trained to enjoy good reading, they will learn that which is noble and purer and be an honor to their home, state and nation. of your hard earned dollars It you will come and see us before purchasing elsewhere, at the old Harness store of Opperman, Kansas. Baxter Springs, The United States is not the only country that is suffering this year.

New Zealand has just been visited with one of the most terrific cyclones on record. The damage done can hardly be estimated. Many lives were lost. When I was a) tout the age that a boy thinks he knows twice as much as his father does, I used to write more letters than my top money would pay postage on. I wrote to all my boy friends and girl friends and to people whom I did not care a snap for and who cared less for me.

As I grew a little older and began to know I knew less, because I really knew more, I lopped oil' my correspondence to some extent, then after awhile more dropped and still more, till finally I had no correspondence except one lady, and her only when one of us happened to be out of town on a visit. DISTRICT MEETING. The time is approaching for the school meeting, and we might as well begin to think about it now. The laws of our State provide for "the annual school meeting to be held on the last Thursday of July of each year, at the school-house belonging to the school district, at 2 o'clock p. Notice of this nieetingshall be given by the clerk of the district, it is his duty to post written or printed notices in three public places in the district, at least ten days before the time of meeting.

This meeting is empowered to transact business as follows: the destiny of nations that the struggle is over and ask that such a great strife may never again come to our nation. The interests of the North and South are fast blending. In many places during the past year the blue and the gray have knelt over the same graves and together have commemorated the sorrowful fact. The battle of today is to stiftle alt feelings of bitterness toward each other, and to teach our children that we arc all of onegreat nation a sisterhood of states that together make the strongest and grandest nation of the earth..