School and Home du lieu suivant : Abilene, Kansas • 7

Among the Students. Continued. Harry Maughermer will glady lay aside farm work at the opening of the term and join his comrades again, in Chapman. Wm. Rumold had a delightful trip to Lake Geneva, where he attended the great summer school of the Y.

Mr C. A. workers. On his return, he spent a few days visiting the Chicago University, in Chicago, and the Northwestern University, at Evanston. Program for Opening, August 31st.

The following is the program for the opening, August 31st, Assembly Hall, Chapman: Music Whitehair Brothers Address Rev. O. L. Mimsell, Council Grove Reunion. Vocal Solo Miss Grace Kugler Welcome Back Again Miss Lelia Stackhouse Talk Clement Wick Musio Whitehair Brothers Original Poem Geo.

Hoyes Vocal Solo Mios Celia Erwin Summer Musings Miss Frances McClure Vocal Solo Clarence Jackman Goodbyes All. Exercises begin at 8 p. m. shatp. Band and Orchestra.

Harvey Brown will teach in district, 91. May Smith will teach the Whiteland school the coming winter. Frank Winsler, 97, will conduct the Laney school the coming winter. Stella Hills will be back again September 1st, for good, solid work. Alice and Tessie Cogan have been enjoying their vacation in Chapman.

Flora Leathennan will be at home this year in Chapman, as her parents will move there. The Murphy boys, Charles and John, are making a great success running cheese factories. Anna Lemley will teach in the southern of the county. Etta will be in school again. Chas.

Fenstemarcher has been laboring on Harry Sandborn's fine farm west of Chapman. Arthur Qraham has been running his uncle's farm this summer. It seems to agree with him. Amelia Miller is mourning with three others of the class of '97, over the failure to secure a school. Blache Converse, '96, will return to Lawrence for her Sophomore year's work in the State University.

Horace and Dana Winslow graduated from the high school in the town where their father is located. Elsie Garver has been her mother's house-keeper this summer. She is looking happy and well as ever. Vaughan Barnes will have his first experience in the school room as teacher in the Harmon district. Clyde Grigg has found plentY of work to do on the farm.

He works as hard there as he does at his studies. Alice Engle has been hard at work this summer. She will be ready to take her place with the Seniors when school opens. Fannie Woolyerton and her brothers will be among the new students to enter this fall. They will be made to feel at home.

Stella Lowe, '96, will teach her old school in the Baker district the coming year. She is a good teacher and deserves her success. Libbie Scott, one of the bright music pupils of the High School, has been compelled to leave home for a few months for her health. John Johnston found time from his aetiye duties on the farm to attend the reunion. He lives nearly thirty-five miles from Chapman.

The High School will miss the smil-ing face of J. Arthur Zook the coming year. He is now in Illinois and expects to teach in that state. Win. and Walter Kohman will be glad when the time comes for laying aside farm work.

They have both made good hands this summer. John and Chas. Gaffney and their sister Lida have been valuable assistants on the farm near Navarre. They will all be read' for school. September 1st.

Mary McNeil and her brother, have spent their summer in Chapman. They will be ready for school when it opens. David and Eber Zook have been in Mission work for the past year. Emma Herr, '95, will rest from her pedagogical labors the coming year. Alice Sterling has been resting and getting ready to do valiant work in her senior year.

Bertha Loy, '95, has been secured by the board to teach the school in the Fairview district. Herbert Chronister will be on hand to begin Geometry with the class of '93, September 1st. Ella Russell is ready for school again. She has been at home the most of the summer. Richard Cormack and sister, Louie, have made their arrangements to reenter school this fall.

John Scanlan, '95, will return to St. Mary's to finish the third year of his course in that institution. Fred Curphy, an old time student, writes that he will enter the Kansas City Medical College this fall. Otis Landes may be found by his friends when in Abilene at Shockey's. He is book-keeper for the firm.

Charles and Maggie Townsend will enter at the beginning of the year and will be among the hard workers. Hilda Clark, '97, has been doing her best to secure a school. The "fates" have not smiled upon her efforts. Daniel and Jennie Merserman expect to be in school again this fall. Both have been hard at work on the farm.

Cora Baumbaugh has found plenty to keep her busy this summer. She will be in the class room again September 1st. Dora Carter will return to school September 1st. Daniel and Warren will be in for the winter term after the fall work is done. Arthur and Stella Murphy, and Pearl Betz are three bright young people from Rhinehart who will be with us the coining year.

William and Bessie Talbott have been recuperating their health in Chapman, and will be ready for work at the opening of the term. Maggie Erwin, '96, returned from Kansas City, where she spent the year in the High School, July 1st. She is thinking of attending the State University the coming year. James Odle has faithfully spent his time between his duties as night-man at the station and running his restaurant. He has been assisted in the latter by Nellie Anderson.

Nellie and Effie Calene have been called to mourn the loss of their father who died soon after school closed. They have the warmest, sympathy of all the students and instructors. Elmer Baumbaugh, '95, has caught the "cattle He has recently purchased a train load of cattle in Texas, and has bought nearly 300,000 bushels of corn. May he make a "million." Sadie Newcomer, '94, was granted a certificate to teach in the Kansas City schools. She spent a pleasant year in the State Universitj'.

Her sister Annie has been elected again at Hope. Annette Sullivan will teach this year near her home in Louisville. Edith Henderson will be one of the bright Middles the coming year. Rosa Garten, who attended the So1-omon High School, will enter this fall. Coe Gibson, '97, is contemplating reentering school and finishing the Normal course.

Harvey Shippy has been his father's faithful helper this summer. He will return to school. Paul Bryson will be missed from the class-room this fall. He will be in for the winter term. Joseph McClellan is much improved in health and will be able to take up school work this fall." James Keating has been busy helping his father on the farm.

He stacked all of a large crop of wheat. A. P. Winters is longing for September 1st to come, when he can meet his good friends again at Chapman. Albert Whitehair, it is reported, "will put his "methods and management" into practice in his home district.

Tessie Howe has been seen quite frequently on the streets of Chapman this summer. September 1st will find her in school. Jessie Dunlop, '97, has secured a school. She had about decided to return to the High School and finish the Normal Course. Rumsey Tresize, after trying the harvest field awhile, concluded that a quieter life was more desirable and returned to his home.

Edith Goodwin, who will be one of the bright seniors, will bring one and possibly two of ner brothers back to school with her this fall. Linnie Jackuian will study music in Chicago the coming year. Clarence will probably take some work in the languages in the High School. Hattie Robinson will not be able to he in school the coining year. Her many friends among the students will regret that she cannot be with them.

Ernest Ryan has been hard at work on the farm this summer and has stored up enough physical energy to last through the coming school year. Her many friends among the students were shocked to hear of the sudden death of Miss Laura Garten, who attended the High School several years ago. Bessie Loy, '97, was not fortunate enough to secure a school. It is hoped that she will do some work in the College Preparatory course the coming year. Sadie Newcomer has laid aside her University "toga" and will take up the Her two years in the Kansas University will not hurt her as a teacher.

The rofl of those who were once students of the High School, who have crossed to the other shore is growing year by year. Harold Peck, who was one of the popular students last year, lied this summer at his home near Hope. Some years ago, a creditable orchestra was organized and for some time maintained under the auspices of the High School. An attempt will be made to organize a new band this fall. Mr.

Ira Whitehair has volunteered his services as leader, and if sufficient interest is taken in the movement, there is no reason why the High School should not have a musical organization of which the institution would be proud. A good orchestra is a valuable adjunct to any school. Short-hand and Type-writing. Arrangements have been made whereby those wishing to take a course in shorthand and type-writing can do so under excellent instruction. Mr.

Joseph Cress, who has recently completed a full commercial course in the Salina Business College, will have charge of this department of work. Mr. Cress Is not only a very rapid writer in short-hand and a skillful type-writer, but he has had valuable experience in teaching 'them in the institution where he graduated. His terms will be reasonable, and he guarantees satisfaction to all who may desire to do work along these lines. The Teacher and the High School.

If the young people of the county are to feel the importance of gaining an education, much of the encouragement must come from the teacher. Many of the parents do not recognize the value of higher mental training, and so their children are not stimu-lated to the necessary effort. While nearly one-half of the district schools will be taught by the alumni of the High School or those who have passed one or more years within its halls, and who, of course, will use their influence in behalf of higher education, it is hoped that every teacher will be a missionary and so labor that Dickinson county shall send to the High School, the State institutions, and the colleges many young men and women whose education would without this inspiration cease with the district schools..