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SCHOOL NOTES

* G. ELSIE MITCHELL, Editor

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open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me

leading wkerever 1 choose." —Whitman.

Alma Mullins visited High School Tuesday morning.

Many were absent Tuesday on ac­count of the rain.

The Webster Literary Society gave a program Wednesday morning. There were four numbers:

Piano Duet—Dorothy Hull and Ollie Poxworthy.

Paper—Benefit of a Latin Course, Ruby Gardner.

Violin Solo—Margaret McKlveen. Parody—Basebr.ll, Fr-.y Hatch. Mrs. Woodmansee visited Miss

Crawford's and Miss Peck's room6 last Thursday.

Miss Grace Horner, of Lamoni, visited High School Wednesday af­ternoon.

Little Audrey Cozad visited High School Thursday morning.

Visitors in High School last Fri­day were Miss Mabel Horner, Edith Shields, Edith Stewart and Mabel Still.

Mr. Thompson, of Tarkio College, Tarkio, Mo., gave a very interesting talk last Friday upon the opportun­ities which a college career gives one, not only in scholarships but in athletics and social life. He also pre­sented us a picture of the college campiis of that place.

Mr. Spencer, our janitor, was ab­sent from his work, on account of the death of his mother.

Mr. Gass was absent Monday, hav­ing gone to Emmetsburg.

The seniors are very busy this week practicing for their class play to be given next Thursday evening in the opera house. •

Mr. Gass took his agriculture class over to Mr. Reeder's poultry yard last Friday morning to study meth­ods of raising chickens with an in­cubator, as they had been having the subject in their text books.

All who are not exempt are look­ing forward with pleasure(?) to next week, when we are to have the final exams.

The joint program between the two Literary Socieu s of the High School will be given this Friday in the assembly room of the High School. Visitors are invited.

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By Mabel Horner, County Supt.

Do you want a summer school? If so, have you sent a postal to the county superintendent?

The secretaries of school corpora-I tions are required to send certifi-j cates of election of school officers to I the superintendent, the auditor and | the treasurer of the county. Since , the March election, certificates have ! been received in this office from ! eight independent districts. Forty-i two secretaries have not yet compli-jed with the requirements of the law.

I Blank forms have been supplied for j these reports.

I Twenty-eight pupils, just one-half i of those who wrote the eighth grade j examination in the rural schools, succeeded in passing the May exam-

, ination. This is an improvement ' over the February examination, in which only thirteen out of the twen-ty-eight were successful. Of course,

j many of these had made passing grades in February in some

' branches, and therefore wrote a par-| tial examination in May. Others ; who wrote in February would have j completed their work in May no doubt, if they had taken the exam­ination. It has been interesting and encouraging to note the improve-

| ment made by some pupils in the ! interval between the examinations. One girl who earned but 30 per cent in arithmetic in February, earned 100 per cent in May.

Pupils in districts where only a six-month school has been held are

j of course at a great disadvantage in taking these examinations. Even when they succeed in passing, they are still at a disadvantage when they enter high school to compete with boys and girls from other rural dis­tricts who have had eight months of school training, and the town pupils hope that this unequality of oppor­tunity will soon be removed.

There will be forty-two pupils to receive diplomas at Leon on School Rally Day. Following are the names of those who passed the examination in May:

Harold Brenizer, district No. 6, Bloomington township.

Esther Osborn, district No. 5, Bur-rell township.

Hazel Roberts, district No. 8, Bur-rell township.

Frank Myers, district No. 2, Cen­ter township.

Ray Wiley, district No 2, Cen­ter township.

Walter Scott, district No. 4, Cen­ter township.

Offie Leeper, district No. 5, Cen­ter township.

Francis Pearson, district No. 5, Center township.

Joseph McMorris, district No. 2, Eden township. '

Helen Imhof, district No. 2, Eden township.

Ottie Baker, district No. 8, Eden township.

Hazel Evans, district No. 7, Eden township.

Winford Griffin, district No. 7, Eden township.

Marie Campbell, district No. 6, Eden township.

Tessie Trisler, district No. 1 Franklin township.

Geo. Livingstone, district No. 4, Franklin township.

Nile Mendenhall, district No. 4, High Point township.

Ivan MendenhalU district No. A, High Point township.

Lelah Smith, district No. 4, High Point township.

Ralph Ivans, district No. 5, High Point township.

Coy Smith, district No. 6, Higii Poimt township.

Blanche Bodeen, district No. 8, Woodland township.

Ina Greenalgh, district No. 3, De­catur township.

Rex Hamilton, district N«. 4, Garden Grove township.

Harold Duncan, district No. 4, Garden Grove township.

Willie Young, district No. 4, Garden Grove township.

Clisty May, district No. 3, Fayette township.

Leo Edwards, district No. 3, Grand River township.

Lucetta Kyle, district No. 7, Grand River township.

Amy Ramsey, district No. 8, Long Creek township.

A conference of county superin­tendents has been called by the State Superintendent to meet at the State House, Des Moines, May 20 and 21.

School Report.

Pleasant Hill school, district No. 3, Decatur township.

Term commenced March 24, 1913 and ended May 16, 1913.

Number of pupils enrolled, 16. Average daily attendance, 13.4. Average cost of tuition, 12.94. Total number of days attendance,

539.75. Number of tardies, 3. Those neither tardy nor absent

during the entire term: Edith Beers, Ruth Miller, Francis Miller, Roy Mil­ler, Elveta Greenhalgh, Ina Green-halgh, Ophie Armstrong, Esther Mil­ler. F. Virginia West,

Teacher.

A Record in School Attendance.

Miss Josephine Coffey, a member of the AVeldon High School has at­tended the same school for the past twelve years without ever being ab­sent or tardy. Sickness has never prevented her from attending any one day during her whole school life. This is considered the best record of any pupil in Decatur county.

Iowa Land History.

Seventy years ago, on May 1, 1843, central Iowa was opened up for set­tlement according to the terms of a treaty made with the Sac and Fox Indianfe during the previous year by John Chambers, governor of the ter­ritory of Iowa. Concerning this im­portant event, Dr. John C. Parish writes as follows in his biography of Governor Chambers, published by the State Historical Society of Iowa:

"On May 1, 1843, the Sacs and Foxes were to be west of their new boundary line and the tract they had occupied would be open to the whites; for, though the law decreed that surveys should be made first, it was not a point that was often in­sisted upon by the federal officers. On the eve of May day thousands of land seekers had gathered upon the border. The May time injunc­tion 'call me early, mother dear' was hardly. necessary, for it is doubtful, if there was much sleep in those prairie camps that night. All up and down the division line watches and clocks ticked away steadily, and when their hands drew near the top of the dial torches were lit. At the hour of midnight, marked by the firing of guns, the eager pioneers crossed the line and before the echo was stilled were driving stakes into the prairie by the light of the flar­ing torches. Thus did civilization crowd the heels of the departing red man. The Sacs and Foxes moved on to western Iowa for their brief sojourn, and when their allotted time was up the dwindling band gathered their ponies and camp out­fits together and took their way to the lands southwest of the Missouri."

Lessons in Pictures.

THE BIG PANAMA CANAL.

Interesting Facts About Tbe Link That Connects Two Ocea»s.

The first survey for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama was made in 1527.

The first survey for the United States government was made by Col. Hughes in 1849.

The French Panama Canal Com­pany was organized in 1879.

The French Panama Canal Com­pany began work in 1881 and con­tinued until 1889.

The New Panama Canal Company was organize in 1893.

The United States paid the New

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS TEACH CORN TESTING

Teachers and Pupils of Rural 8choola Shown How to Conduct Rag Doll

Prize Contest—Plan of Crop Im­provement Committee,

Chicago.

[National Crop Improvement Service.! In the high school at Mankato,

Minn., and In a number of other COUDP

r ties in other Btates, the testing of seed Panama Canal Company for their in-' corn has been introduced, and after terest $40,000,000. | learning how to do it the boys are

The United States paid the Repub-; Bent out t0 the different Bchool dis-lie of Panama $10,000,000.

The work upon the Panama canal bv the United States began May 4, 1904.

The Panama Canal Zone is ten miles wide, five miles on each fide of the central line of the canal chan­nel across the Isthmus of Panama.

The length of the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Ocean is fifty miles.

tricts in the county to show the teach­ers and scholars how to conduct the testa. Each pupil tests for a different farmer.

Standard framed pictures are offer' •d by the Commeroial club as prises, the schools making the greatest num­ber of tests getting the largest pio-

Pacific J tureB# on the following Saturday a small space is borrowed in all tb«

The course of the canal channel is widows in town,, next to the from the northwest to the southeast. , t tha winners

The north or Atlantic entrance to glass, to ex^blt the the canal is 25 miles farther west than the south or Pacific entrance.

from each district. The merchant adds a small prize tor both the man who

The Panama Canal is a fresh wat- furnishes the seed ears and the pupil er canal. The water for the opera­tion of the entire locking system of the canal is taken from the Gatun Lake, which is an artificial body of fresh water with a surface elevation of 85 feet above sea level and a surface area of 164 square miles.

The Gatun Lake is formed by the empounding of the waters of the Chagres river by the Gatun dam, 8,-000 feet in length.

There are six pairs of locks in the entire locking system of the Panama Canal, three on the north or Atlan­tic end, and three on the south or Pacific end.

Lock chambers can be filled or emptied raising or lowering a ship 28 feet and 4 inches in eight minutes.

Lock chambers are 1,000 feet long, 110 feet wide and have a nor­mal lift of 28 feet and 4 inches.

Culberta Cut, length 9 miles; 300 feet wide at bottom of channcl; greatest vertical depth of cut feet; bottom of channell 40 feet above sea level.

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TEST ALL SEED GRAIN.

No Grain 8hould Be Planted Which Tests Less Than 95 per Cent Strong—Very Simple Method for Winter Evenings or for 8chool Work.

By Prof. A. L. Stone. fNatlonal Crop Improvement Service. 1 Every grower should test his seed

before sowing. Age lowers its vital­ity. a determination of the seed's power to grow, is therefore absolutely necessary for the success of the fu­ture crop. Samples for the germina­tion test, Bhould be selected from grain which has been previously

. cleaned and graded. Cleaned to re-494 ! move llght and immatured kernels,

weedy seeds and foreign material. Graded to Becure the plumpest and

Time required to pass a ship ; 7 — in size and through the canal, from 10 to 12 . largest seed, a uniformity ^ size ana hours.

Time required to pass a ship through the six locks, three hours.

Number of men employed on the canal work December 1, 1912, 40,-

maturity of the grain, will insure an even growth and maturity of the crop.

A tester for testing the samples can be easily made by using two tin

The front page of a recent issue of The Iowa Homestead contained the picture of a farmer engaged in the timely work of oiling his harness and getting it ready for spring busi­ness. This little picture, which was made from an actual photograph, tells more and. suggests more than the same space would do were it giv­en to vivid description. Until the days of photo engraving a picture like this would have been considered a work of art, and its value would have been estimated at a sum pos­sessed only by millionaires. The pic­tures are just as good now as they ever were, they speak as plainly, they are as worthy of admiration. It is of particular interest that the pictures that appear on the first page of The Iowa Homestead each weelt are from actual photographs taken with artistic skill and with the intent to present some good thought. These pictures alone are worth more than the price of the Iowa Homestead subscription for one year, yet they may be obtained together with the immense amount of practical infor­mation given in that publication in connection with our own paper fqr the small sum of $1.50 per yea;r.

If every person would adopt and strictly practice the rule of not say­ing anything degratory of others, only when truth and justice positive­ly require facts to be told, there would soon be an era of good feel­ing and a joyous atmosphere of peace over every community, church, school and family. The tale bearer and the gossip monger are more of a curse to 9. community than the small­pox and scarlet fever. The latter can be quarantined, but who can corral the former? The good book tellB us where they get their start of fire from.

It is very difficult to bestow sym­pathy on a man who breaks his arm while cranking an automobile.

Heating of all kinds, steam, hot water and warm air at Clone's.

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Estimated total cost of the Pana-.the inBWe °' ™tttAr and erniees-ma Canal when completed will be pads are soaked in w Q ^ $375,000,000. { ed to remove surplus moisture. A pafl

Distance from Los Angeles to is put in bottom of larger plate and New York, around the Horn, 14,857 10O kernels are counted and dlstrib-miles. I " " '

Distance from Los Angeles to New York via Panama Canal, 4,808 miles. >

Panama Canal route shorter by 10,049 miles.

Times lessened from 26 to 30 days. Distance from Port Los Angeles to

Balboa; Panama Canal Zone, i,827 miles.

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uted over it > Another pad is placed upon ttoe seed and tbe smaller plate inverted and used aa a cover to pre­vent evaporation. This tester should be placed In a convenient place where the temperature is. between 74 and 80 degrees F. Water can be added to pads *hen they beccme somewhat dry. Count sprouted seeds after ono week.

There are a number of good com­mercial seed testers on the market

No grain should give a germination of less than 95 per cent, for the beat

One of those curious and inexpli- j reBUitB. The higher the percentage of germination the beftter. That all the grain germinates is not .sufficient, however. The germination should be strong and vigorous resulting In a strong, rapidly growing young plant As the success or failure of the crop depends upon it this ic an important point.

Any child ten years old can make thU test. Why not get your school interested at once?

Wootlen Stakes Left to Mark Infant's Grave Turns to Stone.

-HALF LICKED" BEFORE THEY BEGIN.

cable freaks which old Mother Na-1 f eertniDation the better. ture delignts to perform is to be found on the Clint Brown farm sev­en miles northeast of Creston.

Over forty years ago a family by the name of McGinnis were living on the place when their little daughter two or three years of age, died. There was no cemetery in the im­mediate neighborhood, and the fath­er constructed a rude coffin and buried the remains on the place. He marked the grave by splitting in halves a round piece of timber such as is used for fence posts, and plac­ing a half at each end of the grave by sharpening the stakes and driving them in the ground.

The family moved off the place a few years later and left this part of the country, and their whereabouts at present are unknown.

Since the grave was made the makeshift head and foot stones of wood have withstood th J ravages of the elements and have petrified, so that the grave of the little one is i now marked by real stone Lincoln --- M d land wlu produce only Emerson of this city had occasion I J"81, B ... . to visit the farm a few days ago and pulled one of the petrified stakes from the ground. The marks left by the ax in sharpening the stake were as distinct as the day they "were made.

The curious freak of tbe petrifica­tion of the wood is not the only re­markable point connected with the incident. Even more remarkable is the appropriateness of nature com­ing to the aid of the dead baby by furnishing the little one ~with tomb­stones that will last throughout the passage of many generations.—Cres­ton American.

Why It Pays to Grade Your Corn to Uniform 8ize.

(By Manson Campbell.) fNatlonal Crop Improvement Servlce.l Some farmers will raise anywhere

from 100 to 125 bushels of corn per acre while their neighbors who have

L. D. Young, the popular and pro­gressive photographer, has purchas­ed the moving picture machinery which was used in taking the pic­tures in Albia last Saturday. Mr. Young accompanied the gentlemen to Des Moines and closed the deal for the machine. He will engage exten­sively in the moving picture business and some day we hope he will run over to Alex Miller's town, Washing­ton, and get a picture of that city. He might also take in Ollie Hull's town of Leon and some day when he is not busy the Knoxville people will give him the glad hand to come to their city and get them on the move. If he goes to the latter town we in­sist that he takes a group picture of the school board who post notices of election on the telephone poles. The machine purchased by Mr. Young is one of the finest makes and will enable him to get good views of the Chautauqua, the Monroe County Fair, and all other matters which will boost Monroe county .—Albia Re­publican..'-; :

3EPORTER FOR JOB WORK.

from 20 to 30 bushels per acre. "Why is this?" The man who raised the 100 bushels

pgj. acre graded his corn and teBted It before planting, and the man who raised 20 bysbcls per acre is the man who planted any old seed that he could get hotf of. He will go out to his crib along about the first of May, and take out some fairly good looking ears that have been frozen all win­ter, shell them and go and plant them.

Any person who follows this® slip­shod method of farming does not de­serve as good a crop as the man who raises from 100 to 126 bushels, and who can be seen in the early husklng-time going through his field of corn unit taking out the very best ears to use for his next season's seed. These earB are taken to the house or some other good warm building and thor­oughly cured or prepared for seed, then during the winter the seed is tested or germinated to prove that It is of good quality, and the ears that show good strong germination and lots of vitality are shelled off and graded in a good seed corn grader. This claBB of corn will product as high as 160 bushels per acre, and any man who will follow this method can increase his yield of corn as much as 80 or 90 bushels per acre.

"Will this pay?" The way to make dollars out of corn

is to grads it in a grading machine, to screen out the refuse, the tips.

> butts, imperfect kernels, and ungrow-able particles—leaving oaty the pur* rich, ripe kernels that will grow—

* Ifcat's 'worth .planting room.

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IMPROVED LAND. 160 ACRES OR MORE.

We know that many farmers in>. Iowa are looking for cheap land* suitable for farming where they can raise good crops of corn, wheat, oat*-and other grains; stock, fruit and vegetables. We also know that theae farmers want to buy at a cheap price, as cheap a price as is possible' to be had, and that many of them' desire homestead land. The bestr homestead land has been filed on but there are claims to be had in or near good farming sections of country and within a distance of from two to~ ten miles of railroad stations. have one ranch of 160 acres for sale, 2 Mt miles from railroad station, with*. fair buildings, 90 acres under plow, balance hilly pasture land with six. head of horses, and farming machin­ery for $2,600; $1,000 cash will handle this proposition. We have" 4,000 acres, 3,000 acres of which can be cultivated, located about ten miles from railroad station In Ore­gon, that can be had for $15 per acre. For those desiring smaller farms, several could come together to purchase this land and secure it-at this very low price of $15 per acrer and reasonable terms could be ar­ranged. Would be pleased to an­swer any questions you may ask re­garding climate, and kind of cropa-raised.

For information regarding cheap' lands, write

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