The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 29, 1910, Page 2

eo eS: gs ae ae ‘ — fees ste 8 os Natures Secret. ance and a good interest on the part of every pupil in school. This is another exceptionally good school and the pupils really like to work. Miss Jessie Mawson is teacher and has been for five or six years. They hope to be placed on the approved list as soon as they can get matters arranged. ©! Snowflakes of the winter’s night You came to ns in thoughtless hght, Our world you brighten with good cheer, We hear you esy, ‘*Good times ere vear or > © Lom 1 ° & a 7) ~” of Polly Three times the bell had rung. But Polly had not stirred from the pantry, Red White and Blue was preparing “bere she had been sobbing for a quarter of an hour. fore Christmas 00, also. That they “It's that odious Mrs. Barton, who will have a fine time goes without) came over when the flower box fell,” the saying for they are sparing nO she breathed to herself. “That wo- effort to make ita complete success. man always does come when some Miss Mable Blair is teacher and is horrible thing happens like this. | . . won't let ber in.” putting forth every effort possible to Ss chitan: Sole: eb ad ane.) make her work as good as the best. grew out a huge pail and filled tt with Coleville is also getting ready lor a, steaming suds, contributing to the Christmas tree and will of course) flood now and then a teardrop. She have a good time as they never do| Sot down the dustpan and broom and things by halves down here. The} eaveloped herself ta a pink and white sms checked apron. pupils are willing workers and are! “Then the back doorbell ae, ‘always willing and anxious for a test.| ghort rings and three long ones. The directors oiled the floor of this| “It's Susie,” she cried, throwing the building but they or some one else | @ustpan into the pail and then Minging made a mistake and used the wrong] Pe the door with a clatter. $) ¢ * a + a3/ “You darling!” she sobbed, pushing “ a ery agg = her friend into the green wicker chal: ut little good. Is ol can ad that adorned the porch. “You can’ for 37 1-2.cents per gallon and two go in there, I almost didn’t let you {1 to four gallon will oil any floor in the at all. I didn't hear you ring at the county that is worth oiling and any! eb door and I just knew tt was Mrs Gro. H.Pautwax. one can apply it, in fact the teachers 4" usually do this. Miss Cleo Hartley is | TES COU ‘ae : P . 7 “She's a regular bloodhound fo | BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS teacher and is doing fine work as she et aida aa ae explained Polly | AND TEACHERS ways does. ; “She sympathizes and patronizes til! | Victory has been just a little of-; you want to scream. And I know sh: | : ve" f fended because I made a mistake and} bad heard the noise and was tryine| The first school visited this week called this school Liberty. Ihave not | t® Bet _~ gioat sympathetically ove: | waf Wilcox of Mt. Pleasant township. heard from either of the Liberty, ™ ‘OUD'*- | When all the worl has g ne to sleep And visions of the unknown creep Upon us tn our heavy ‘oze, Yon never cease for rest a8 sround the world goes And when the: ay b gins to dawn, And b rees whinney for their corn; We see the dazzling light appear Upon a world of crystal clear. —— ‘eee And cirelirg low in southern ekire, The fact more plain to emphasize, ‘That winter's crown of fleecy white Has bid warm summer a firm good night. So as the days go slowly by We fantly eee throu.h fancies rye ‘The glimmer of 8 distant light, That guided shepherds one winter's night But the fancies seem to grow more real, For things we dreamed we now can feel, And so again in natures pride, We celebrate the Cr ristmaa tide ‘The days go on, the time files fast, As on we toll at our chosen task, Until soaring bigh on tireless wing The song birds tell of the coming epring. O! time and fate in strange array, We gnae and wonder at your display; Ae the curious babe with wondering eyes, Watches bis mother her taske to ply, O! days, O! years cfbidd © light, Thy secrets we dare not enjoy nor fight, Bat teach us a lessen ip bourse of night To ever be watebful of the morning bright. By supt P.M, Allicon. HE NORFLEET & REAM INDEPENDENT CO. wish youa Happy and Prosperous New Year. We wish to give each one of our customers a nice Seuvesir with our compli- ments. We wish to thank our customers one and all for favors of the past year and wish for a continuance of your patron- age for the next year. The year of 1910 is our banner year, but we hope to make our 1911 business still better. We have been an Independent firm for four years this com- ing January 1, and in the four years we have sold our goods at a close margin, made our own prices and have saved the people of Bates county many thousands of dollars. We therefore feel that we are entitled to the patronage of all. We have bought a large lot of FANCY SOUVENIRS and hope to have one for each customer. Happy and Prosperous New Year, we are Again wishing all a Yours for INDEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENT .- GROCERS. . NORFLEET & REA ey have a fair e and wi “Only yesterday she told me th They have a fair enrollment and with gehools but hope they are not offend- Only yesterday she me the exception of those who are work- ¢q as this is a verynice school. They she bad bougnt two (dosen cane Special Washington tak i he lana ia Wane ou ; plum preserves for only 10 cents ing at home the attendance IS very are willing workers and all like to) pint! She is forever doing somethin: | good. The pupils made avery good work and are making a good record | like that. And | know they were let: showing on the test and are willing on attendance and but few tardy, °Ver stock and horrid. Nobody, no | workers. Mis even a factory, can make preserve er and while this is her first term her teacher and is satisfying all concerned, work is very satisfactory. Mound Valley has not held up so oceans for preserves.” Prairie Rose has a very good at- wel] on attendance but those who do Polly began to cry again and Sust+ tendance and they are not only willing attend work, and are making a good began to ask questions, which wen’ workers but like to work. Miss Vesti showing for their efforts. They too unanswered for some minutes Rice is teacher and is doing good \ore going to give an entertainment. when breath had come again. some graduates. Mt. Vernon has a fair enrollment aud a very good attendance. The satisfying all concerened. Miss Fannie Cotten of Nyhart| ¢%!stng than you or T could in a life | r time of active anarchy. school reports the following pupils as | “wy, ‘Is are willi rorkers ¢ i ‘i iy | ‘When we screened our porch sh pupils “ — crs and = having spelled all the words in the’ came out and told us that they ha: pence ee ee oo oe contest: Ruby Patterson, Lois Clark, | never screened theirs because it face Miss Winnie Largent is teacher and Garmen Lusk, Alfie Clark, Ora Ehart, | west, like oups, and there were neve is satisfying all concerned. This padie Sproul, Mary Clark, Mary, 82¥ western breezes, and they alway ¥ 1 J | went away for the summer anyway building needs better provisions for ¢ = e : | venbiction. Seeley, Schuyler Ehart, Linley Ehart, | phen we hung the flower box and sh Concord hasa very good attendance | Ralph Dunsworth, Claud Pahlman,| cess with flowers in boxes, as the: and the second largest enrollment of Gladys Sproul, Elsie Clark, George| never did well in shallow earth. The> |’ any rural school in the county. This Gjark Willie Huisman, Otis Ehart | the box fell down and she came out t* school has good workers and had 414 Hairy Dark : | three spellers in the spelling contest. George Pahiman of Grand View the | from the first.’ These pupils made a good showing following: Olive Judy, Una Judy,, “Oh, that woman!” stormed Poll and while they did not win a prize Rannie Butler, Mary Harper, Carrie | “One day when our yard was full o f , Mary , they are good spellers and few pyrmnoe ai a clothes she watched for me to say tha schools can beat them on their record ein Lane Mager, Ada Craven, 1, had notice! how my Connie Craven, Linnie Craven, Mat-) jincn had feded in spelling. Miss Inez Beck is teach- tig Wisdom, Ethel Grimsley, Ivah| sho sald, that she hadn't told me tc er and is is one of the best in the Ayers, Elsie Englehartand Ola Ayers. | bv v> the laundress put salt in the wa county. This school wants to be a> Miss Bonnie Wolfe of Eldorado, in| '*" and hang the dress in the shad proved. e vans sinus aie Homer township, the following: Ruby | (5.6 precautions had been taker Pleasant Valley has not had an ab-) atpin, Maude Ewbanks, Perry Ew-| y:hen 1 brorght home the cherrles—' sent mark in more than a month an banks, Irene Ewbanks, George Por-| Here Po'ly wept again, while Susi they are going to keep up the record. ter, Sylvia Porter, Ella Payne Char-| tock » bottle of ice water from the re Better workers would be hard to find. ley Payne Willie Payne Mare Knox | frigerator and tried to cool her with « ’ * , been for several years and is doing —y4r¢ Melton of the Rockville schoo! | Bul | hho” ead” Basle: good work for them. This school sent in her report but did not give the | “Please don't ery would like to be on the approved list names of the pupils. boy fruit—” but they like Concord have not com- Miss Elsie Park, the teacher of| “That's what she has told me al’ plied with the library law. Woodland school, in West Boone| summer.” Polly wailed. Lone Star has done moreimproving township, reports a very successful) ,, jake preserves—all my life—and { this year than ever before. They pie supper, the proceeds going to in-| was fun. But she told me that she have dug a well, put ina new black-' crease the library of which they are| didn’t be'teve in putting up fruit one’s board, new maps and a new library |justly proud. This is one of our best elf when she saw me stagger up the case. Miss Nola Ellis is teacher and i ‘ | stairs with those cherries. I haé is doing good work for them. tes eon Park fs one of oUF! sought them gi Legeoet ie f “ ? . Py ah . Id get them at wholesale Silver Dale has a light attendance Miss Minnie Hplwell of Mingo} _ Phar g Fy me with the news due to sickness in the district. This school, in Grand River township, re-| that at the grocery on our cross street la softly all are anxious to succeed. Miss which every pupil worked with a will. | a crate less than I had paid for mine: fine work for them. in his weekly letter urging patrons to! year of her married life, too, she re- Fair View has a fine record on at-/ clean-up the school building during} marked. and smiled at me, but now tendance and they expect to make it vacation. Iam pleased to say that | she thought it by far the better plan better here after. The pupils of this Bates county teachers are careful| to buy canned fruit. | . | “That evening she came over an? school are good workers and made a enough to make this unnecessary and} },1,64 with Dick and he was furiou good showing on the test, Ruth Rock- it is not uncommon to go into school because I had carried hold making 100 per cent. Miss Cora | rooms that are as well kept as our| home from downtown, just becaus Rush is teacher and has been several | best homes. I have said all the time| he had sald he liked cherry pies in | that this county has the best teachers | the winter. 1 couldn't make him think : ial | : h tae Mor es San ain sal ee Beane a a Bel So tana go coos 1 easel ake 0 j * of preserves.” it so, the furniture and walls are not! Polly wept again. marked or injured in the least. This} 9ne-Dollar Bargain. _ speaks well for the teacher andpupils} The Twice-A-Week Republic of St.| “Well?” sald Suste, as the storm and the community in general, This | Louis, Mo., is makinga special Christ-| “!e4- anes school will have several graduates. | mas offer of a three-year subscription Ba all ge ge That RS Miss Fannie Hook is teacher and is|to their paper for $1.00. This rate i abbly, and I might ha doing good work for them. will positively not be. good after ways was Ww an ne ial shite, This newspaper has just closed a ! | contract Anna Woody ts teach- yarke egy . ; ) con! i aia o marks. Miss Hazel McRoberts iS gnq sett them so cheap. Why, sugar the well-known writer and traveler, {s 6 cents a pound, and ft takes suc! jby which -he becomes.a special Wash -. k-with-the-f “a Mr_|finishved their work and left for other ington correspondent for us during and Mrs. Wm. Lee and other rela: | parts this session of Congress. | ; | Tavenner became known all over} “Hamless?" she exclaimed at las: | the country as “the man who told the “ h ee laa Piltace : ’ It “Tha |truth about the tariff’? when the | Savannah, Misséuri, arrived Monday | the children left for Omaha, N - work for them. This school willhave 41s, Clara Davidson is teacher and is | woman's not harmless! Why, she ca’ | Payne-Aldrich bill was being framed. | With an immigrant car of their om ka.to join Mr. + Will res a cause more trouble in five minutes b’ | 116 had studied the tariff question in Sonal effects and are moving onto| good position in one of the packing | various countries in Europe, known. their place east of town. Wee join in | plants. from first-hand investigation what | the cost of production abroad really was, and therefore was in a position to show by actual figures that the Republicans were not revising the tariff on the basis of ization | Minnie*Huisman, Clarence McDaniel, | told us that she had never had suc: | ost of po vB be, — <i abroad, as promised. | During the last three weeks of the say, ‘Did it fall? That ts too bad, bu‘ | recent campaign, “Mr. Tavenner not | those chains did seem fragile to m | only wrote his articles for the press, but as the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Fourteenth Illinois district he put up the strongest kind lavender | of a fight. Although nominated but | She was sorry now.| three weeks prior ‘to election, and despite the fact there is as yet little insurgency in this district, Tavenner Sho said it wou'd have been all rig’: reduced his opponent’s majority by 3,000. Tavenner was given the nom- ination as a result of his vigorous espousal of the cause of the people as a newspaper correspondent. ‘ MoDiiue is teache ? : nant Tavenner enjoys a close personal Miss Ella McCune is teacher and has poccie Walker and Loretta Walker. | a use besgened to th ladeiaielines soln the Wdies AE Deie! : Y |gress. The following letter from You can alway | Champ Clark, who will be the speaker | of the next House, shows that the. “But I aid | work of our correspondent is ap-)| went to buy it. I have always wante¢ | preciated by the Democratic leade! in Washington: int on _ Tavenner: I am always in favor o evel his dae sud I wish fo thank po mat heartily for the yery eXcellent service that you have rendered = the country by writing your school has some good workers and’ ports a clean-up day in her school in| they were selling cherries at 10 cents a oe iameanon in ad fluence in i i ing | ‘i . She was so sorry for me, she said. % Alvena Maddy is teacher and is doing |I noticed one county superintendent) ©). naa tried putting up fruit the first : alarw Gane from “T thank you personally for man kindneones. We have @ gollen rod portunity, coupled with grave ‘re- sponsibilities. My desire is that the a: | the infor \ the cherri ~ |of what they + ke ‘extending ahearty welcome to our | midst. Merwin. Correspondent Engaged. ry. ciipper. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Lee came in| The extra gang, which has been with Clyde H, Tavenner, Wednesday from theirhome in Chey-| putting in a large drain tile under the enne, Wyoming, to spend Christmas | tracks just north of the depot, have tives. Mrs. Will Hoover loaded her house- C. M. Williams and family, late of hold goods Wednesday and she and THE G. W. Ellis Jewelry Co, Desires to extend thanks to their many pa- trons and friends in Bates and adjoining counties for their patronage and good will extended during the year of 1910, which was the best year in the history of the fitm, and trust that our square dealing in the past may merit a continuance of favors. May a Happy and Prosperous New Year be Yours. G.W. ELLIS JEWELRY CO, Democracy letters. were very ing the complexion Your friend, CHAMP CLARK. SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN OPENING rouronmnen se || A Bank Account faster colors. © Would a STRONG, ; GROWING |G, NEW, CLEAN and Piano Contest.