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BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS By Supt. P, M. Alligon Virginia has an enrollment of 39 and 34 were present. ‘They have just ordered a new lot of library books. They have put in some new equipment already and are doing bet- ter work as a result. Mr. C. C. Swarens is teacher. New Home has an enrollment of 30 and 24 were present. They are hav- ing very good attendance and very good work. Miss Katie Frank is teacher and is going farther than any other teacher in the county. Hill Side has an enrollment of 29 and 24 were present. This school has the largest enrollment in several years and they are all good workers. They picked up enough pecans on the school yard to buy them a fine, new clock. They expect todo much more improving before the close of} school. Miss Sallie Frazee is teacher and is doing fine work. Reavly has an enrollment of 16 and | 16 were present. The enrollment is} much less than.at the first of the term. They, too, are having a good school with Mr. Jas. Wheatly as teacher. Eureka has an snrollment of 52 and 48 were present. They recently held | Mrs, John Ehart took-sick last Fri- talks on The Teacher’s Code of Ethics and Exceptional Children. They were both yood but the teach- ers were especially pleased with the first. Rich Hill teachers have always been ready to cooperate in any work in the county and for better school. Every teacher always attends all meetings they are included in. All the Hume teachers except one were present. The attendance was good and the interest all that could be asked for. 2 The meeting to be held at Adrian the 14th Iam sure will be a succes- fulone. Mr. S. E. Davis of Warrens- burg will be present and conduct a round table on reading in the fore- noon. The afternoon a few topics have been assigned for the afternoon and Prof. Davis will discuss The Rec- itations. North New Home. Henry and John Ehart were Rich Hill visitors last Wednesday. day morning. She is better at this writing. Lon Smith, wife and daughter vis- ited at Mr. Linendoll’s Sunday. Frank Miller and family spent Sun- day at John Phelps. Earl Osborne, wife and baby visit- an entertainment and cleared $47. | They have ordered a reading chart | and a good set of maps. Miss Irma} Lowry is teacher. | Klondike has an enrollment of 9and 9 were present. This school had an | entertainment and cleared $33.40. | This school house is just one half, mile from Eureka yet they both did} well with their entertainments. Miss Anna Smiser i8 teacher. Independence has an enrollment of lV and 9 were present. They have; fair attendance and pupils are in the lower grades. Miss Maude Briscoe | is teacher this year. | Standish has an enrollment of 38 and 22 were present. Their attend- ed with her parents, Mat Simpson and family Sunday. J. W. Jones, wife and baby visited | with Cliff Ehart and wife Sunday. Will Chandler of Kansas City spent Sunday with his uncle, Geo. Mc- Kissick. Fred Medley, wife and son visited | at John Ehart’s Saturday night andj Sunday. : E. A. Sawyer of Oklahoma andj Miss Ruth Dark of North New Home | were united in marriage at Butler! ; | Nov. 30. May joy and happiness at-} boxes are worthy of especial attention. The Star Bakery °°" 7%. Telephone 50. South Side Square. the Christmas spirit. Among our more popular line of Christmas Cakes and Confections are: Fruit Cakes, Nut Cakes, Angel Food and many varieties of dainty LAYER CAKES Nut Maccaroons, Kisses : and Cookies of all kinds Our Line of Candies is complete, and we probably carry a greater variety of the higher grade candies than any house in the county. Our ‘Douglas’ line in 4%, % and 1 pound Other lines are ‘‘Richardson,” ‘‘Fletcher,’’ and ‘Letts Parker.” Only the daintiest and most carefully blended Confections and Candies should grace the festive board at Yuletide, and at the Star Bakery one may find the choicest of pastries and all other toothsome sweets so closely associated with tend them through a long and_pros-|* perous life. |BROTHER 100 YEARS DEAD, “Durst and Sylva Merchant “ance is tot as good as it should be. 7] Miss Lillian Livingston is teacher. | The last three schools have fewer pupils attending schoo) than Eureka and the Eureka teacher gets $40 per; Mr. and Mrs. Smitherman visited month while the other three get $120 at Mr. Herman’s Sunday. | per month. The fairness of the thing} Guy Phelps is some better. is apparent. | Hume has the best enrollment they | same. have had for several sears and the attendance is extra good which speaks weli for Mr. J. H. Inman and his as- sistants. The primary room is es- pecially better and fuller than com- mon. Their seventh and eighth grade room is doing exceptionally | good work. | Redtop has an enrollment of 19 and 15 were present. They have put in a new stove and will keep warm at least. They are willing workers and the teacher, Miss Ethel McBurney, is! striving to make her work the best| possible. Worland has an enrollment of 42 and 31 were present. They are not| having as good attendance as they should but they are having some trou- ble with an infectious disease. Miss Edith Black is teacher. : Mt. Zion has an enrollment of 23 and 20 were present. They are hav- ing an exceptionally good school here this year. They will have an enter- tainment soon to buy equipment with. Miss Winnie Priestly is teacher. Green View has an’ enrollment of 22 and 19 were present. They, too, have held an entertainment and cleared $34.80. They have ordered a teacher’s desk and chair anda read- ing chart. They will paper the room and make such other improvement as they can. Miss Vera McHenry is teacher and has her work well organ- ized. Old Walnut has an enrollment of 39 and 32 were present. The light -attendance is due to moving. They -have put in a new pump and have or- dered a new blackboard. Miss Irena ‘Thompson is teacher. Foster has an enrollment of 108 and 96 were present. They are having good work in all the rooms. They need much equipment and their build- McCoughey’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nue returned to! [Frenchman Has Mass Said for Rela: | tive Who Served In Napo- leon’s Army. their home in Butler Thursday. Uncle Geo. McKissick is about the Mrs. Linendoll and daughter, Miss Jennie, visited at Mr. Keirsey’s Mon- day afternoon. : John Phelps and Frank Miller and Mr. Linendoll hauled coal Tuesday. COR. In and Around Maysburg. Jim Hargrave had bad luck the other nifht. He rode a horse to Hickory Grove and the horse got loose, tore his saddle all to pieces and at the last report his horse had not been found. a Mr. Hibbs’ three little children have been quite poorly with what they suppose to be chicken pox. Mr. and Mrs. Godwin visited at Tom Cannon’s Sunday. Dr. Miller’s children have chicken pox. T. L. White and family went to Butler Friday to visit Mrs. White’s parents and also her grandparents, who are here visiting their daughter, Mrs. Richards. They are here from pies | Paris—An inhabitant of naire | les-Oliviers, in the Ardennes, has had | ; a mass celebrated on the occasion of |j the centenary of his brother’s death, | which took place at Moscow on Octo- | ber 15, 1812, owing to wounds received | who died 100 years ago was only a half brother. Arsene Laplache, bea- dle of the church at Flaignes, is the son of Florestan Laplache, born, as the mayoralty registers show, in 1769. The father married in 1788 and had a son in 1789. This was the son who died in Moscow 100 years ago. Recoming a widower in 1834, he married the following year, when aged 66, and became the father of the Ar- sene Laplache, 76, who has just cele- brated the death of his brother, who died 100 years ago, or 24 years be fore he was himself born, $1.75 suitings...$1.40 1.50 suitings... 1.15 Fairy Tales (From The Cincinnati Enquirer.) ‘T’d let you have $5 in a second, Slopay, If.Lhad it.’ ‘If the goods are not as represent- ed, bring them back and we will cheerfully refund your money.” “Yes, sir, I’ve been married ten years and if I had it to do over again tomorrow I’d marry the same wo- man.” “Of course, we can afford an auto- Buffalo, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Richards were in Florence, Neb., visiting their daughter, Fannie, when their son, Edwin, telegraphed to them that Mr. and Mrs. Baulos had arrived. Mrs. Richards at this writing is quite sick. There is to be a box supper at the Hackler schéol house, Dec. 13. Boys come out with well filled pocket books. Mrs. Godwin visited Mrs. White Monday. Sam Farmer has been assisting Tan White with his corn gathering. A NEIGHBOR. Dr. Hyde Must Go on Trial Again Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 7.—The hopes of Dr. B. Clark Hyde that the charge against him of the murder of ing remodeled. Mr. John McCollom is principal and Misses Jessie Miller and Erma Parlier are assistants. R. W.. Guinn of Pleasant Gap/ who says that Hyde will be broughtto The enthusiasm of the rank- and _ School. reports the following pupils | trial at the next term of the Criminal | file of Missouri Republicans in the as spelling all the words in a six|Court and will be tried as often as|last election is shown by the fact that attending the State Poultry Associa- Col. Thomas H. Swope would be dropped have been shattered by Floyd Jacobs, Prosecuting Attorney elect, ~ weekscontest: Nellie Baugher, Lena | there is probability of his conviction. Wix, Ernest Evans, Golda Scifers, Ethel Wolf, Myrtle Makinson, Carl/twice. The first trial resulted in con- | was given by: one Ambassador and viction and a life sentence, but the|two big politicians.—Republic. Supreme Court reversed and remand- Fe ae and the|éd the case for a new trial. At the help-| second trial near the end of the case, ; principal ofjone of the jurors became Elementary | tody of the Marshal, making it necés-| collecting taxes for New Home town-| Tomorrow night the 250 exhibitors Phillips gave | sary to enter a mistrial. “sect <The local meeting held at Rich Hill fal.’ Mr. Hyde already has been on trial the cus-| Rich Hill Dee. 21; for the purpose of | yeats. mobile, but my husband thinks the AMERICAN CLOTHIN street cars are so much safer.” “T think the balcony seats are just THE GOOD STORE fine. I can’t bear to sit close to the stage.” “I never could see why anyone would drink wine when they could get beer.’’ Monday Evening Club Banquet * The annual banquet of the Monday Evening Club of this city, was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Chastain on North Water street, Mon- day evening December 9th. -A bountiful turkey dinner, delight- fully prepared, was served in courses, C. H. Letton and Mr. Chas- tain carving. Col. J. E. Williams acted as toastmaster. The Chastain home was _beautiful- ly and artistically decorated for the Fire Made Chicago Sneeze Chicago, Dec. 10.—A 3-story onion warehouse, containing many tons of the odoriferous vegetables, caught fire here tonight and blazed up rapidly a few doors from a West Side hospital. The hospital officials requested the firemen not to sound their gongs or make unnecessary noises and there followed the spectacle of fire chiefs communicating with their men by signs and sending notes to the pipe- men. The powerful odor of the boil- ing and frying onions pervaded the entire district within a half mile radius. ‘ '- Poultry Show a Record. Springfield, Mo., Dec. 10.—Chicken fanciers from all over the state are co of the $7,544 contributed in the state| tion. to the national .campaign fund $7000| Interest in the meeting is' added by fanciers joining in an exhibi- 2 Silgeeg Log a thousand ‘ - Tax Payers! * $declare that the entries, both in num- A will be at J. QA. Cope’s Dec, 18;) bers ‘a quantity, are superior to ‘ Dec, 19; at F. M. Bank/any ‘state meeting held in recent ping your furs and getting _, PHONE 130 17) Ladies’. Sweaters $1.50 to $7.50 50c to $2.00 10cto 1.50 when a soldier in Napoleon's army.” | : ) The explanation of this strange | Union suits.............. event Iies.in the fact that the brother Hosiery............... Alok Ladies’ Suitings AT CUT PRICES $1.25 suitings...$ .95 1.00 suitings... Heavy Coatings VICUNAS, CHINCHILLAS, Ete. $3.00 valués on sale......... seeeeee . $2.40 1.65 values on sale........ Shoes for The Family Every Pair Solid G HOUSE NOW IS THE TIME TO BRING YOUR | FURS J. M. Sallee while the market is good, as prices are too high to last long. Sell to a reliable dealer at home and have your money to use that day instead of ship- Bring in your old Iren, Metals, Rubber and ‘Bones and get your extra change for Christmas. w oscll ba rd anid :