This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/130 Message Board Post: (No paper on the 10th) The Neosho County Record Friday, February 17, 1882 Page 1 Educational Column: Edited by Prof. C.M. LIGHT The following is the programme of exercise at the teacher’s meeting, to be held in Osage Mission, February 18th, 1882. Forenoon: “The New Theory of Light and Sound” – A.O. WEAVER “Manners” – L.W. LEWIS “Select Reading” – M.T. LONG Afternoon: “Tardiness in Attendance at Associations” – for general discussion “Recitations” D.M. COOPER “Miscellaneous exercises in the school room” Mr. McINTIRE Society to meet promptly at half past 10 o’clock. M.T. LONG, President C.D. HEROD, Secretary ---- Grammar: 1. Name the parts of speech and define four of them. 2. Abbreviate the following words: Tuesday, September, Nebraska, Avenue, Collect on Delivery, Example given, that is, gentlemen, manuscript, Note well, Christmas. 3. Write a letter of introduction, arrange and punctuate and capitalize. 4. Give four common grammatical errors and correct them. 5. Name the kinds of nouns; kinds of verbs as to form. 6. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: sit, go, see, walk, give, moan, sing. 7. Define a phrase, a clause, a sentence, a word. 8. Give three rules for the use of the comma, and two for the period. 9. Parse the italicized words: The executive ability of Cardinal Richelieu, virtually king of France, won the admiration of all Europe. 10. Diagram or analyze the following: “From whom, and for what reason, the city of Rome, a name so great in glory, and famous in the mouths of all men, was so first called, authors do not agree.” –[Plutarch]. History: 1. Write a short sketch of Kansas. 2. Name five statesmen of the United States that are now living; five poets; one historian. 3. Give the historical events that have been connected with New York City, Philadelphia and Washington city. 4. What induced the whites to settle in North America? Name the nations that made settlements. 5. Give the history of negro slavery in the U.S., and name the slave States at the beginning of the great civil war. Constitution: 1. Give the number of the members of the present House of Representatives. 2. How many members must each State have, and how many may each have? 3. State the principle duties of the House of Representatives. 4. Name four powers common to both Houses. 5. Who is the present Speaker of the House? Also name the members from Kansas. 6. Of how many members is the present Senate composed? Also, name the present Vice President of the U.S. if there be one. 7. Who are the Senators from Kansas, and who was Secretary of State under President Garfield? 8. Why have such States as R.I. and Del., as many Senators as N.Y., Pa., or Ill. 9. Name the last six Presidents including ARTHUR. 10. Which of the Presidents were not generals of the army of the U.S. at some time or other? Geography: 1. Give the contrasts between the Eastern and Western Continents. How is N.A. and S.A. similar? 2. Give the cause of ocean currents. Describe the gulf stream. 3. Draw a diagram showing the situation of the equator, tropics, arctic circles, and meridians. 4. Draw a map of Kansas and mark its longitude. 5. Name four of the largest cities of the U.S. and give their natural advantages. 6. Name the continents in the order of their size; the oceans. 7. Name the countries of Europe and their capitals. 8. Give the general law of heat on the glove and three modifications of it. 9. Name five capes and locate them. 10. Name five mountain systems and locate them. Orthography: 1. Define orthography, articulation, and elementary sounds. 2. What is a digraph, trigraph, and diphthong? 3. What letter or letters are never used as consonants, if any? 4. What are cognate letters and substitutes? 5. When is the hypen used and when omitted, in compound words? 6. Spell and place proper diacritical marks over the vowels in the following words viz: Monday, imbrue, wreathe, kiln dried, furious, eulogy, hoeing, majesty, anchorage, mechanics, neutrality, chameleon, chalybeate, synonym, massacre, accoutes, Matthew, sufficient, parterre, multiplicity. Arithmetic: 1. Define scale, uniform and varying scale; give example of each. 2. Give two methods of proving division; give example of each. 3. Define integers, odd, even, prime and composite numbers. 4. Define fractions, common, decimal, proper, improper, compound and complex; give examples of each. 5. What is a divisor of a number? What is a multiple? 6. How many boxes holding 1 bu, 1 pk, 7 qt can be filled from 356 bu, 3 pk, 5 qt of cranberries? 7. 200 joists contain 1,000 cu. Ft. of timber, each joist is 10 in. wide, and 3 in. thick; required the length of each joist. 8. Find amount of $2,876.75 for 4 yrs, 6 mo. and 29 days, at 8 per cent. 9. Required the interest on $127.36 from Dec. 12, 1873 to July 3, 1875 at 4 ½ per cent. 10. Reduce to its lowest terms the following compound fraction 32/51 of 85/112 of 189/207 of 23/36. 11. A has 6 ½ times 9 ¾ dollars; B has 2 ½ times 8 5/6 dollars, how much more money has A than B? 12. 7 ½ times 4 4/5 divided by ½ of 3 1/3 equal what? ----------------------------- Erie: Trustee – Wm. GEORGE Treasurer – T. CLINE Clerk – W.T. DUTTON Justices – J.F. HIMELWRIGHT and H.B. RUSSELL Constables – Geo. GARDNER and J.C. RICE -------- Ladore: Trustee – Ed MAHER Clerk – G.M. COFFMAN Treasurer – H.C. HART Justices – S. ROSA and G.W. FIELD Constables – Bird WHITE and R. WHITE -------- Chetopa: Trustee – O.M. RECORD Clerk – G.H. POST Treasurer – Frank SMITH Justices – E.L. BARNES and J.M. DUNSMORE Constables – O.B. LUKINS and J. STALL -------- Centerville: Trustee – S.H. HOOD Treasurer – Wm. CRAIG Clerk – A.W. CRAIG Justices – L. G.H. GREEN and ?. D. CLAPSADDLE Constables – N. HEFFORD and George POOR -------- Grant: Trustee – John PUGH Treasurer – Joseph SPOHR Clerk – I.J. LIGHT Justices – Aaron MURRAY and S. MICHAELS Constables – E.A. HODGES and H.L. MARKHAM -------- Big Creek: Trustee – W.J. WALDEN Treasurer – E.J. NOONER Clerk – J.J. WHEATLEY Justices – S.S. WHEATLEY and Jake BURGHART Constables – H.F. HOWARD, Jr and W.L. CUMMINGS -------- Tioga: Trustee – D.C. NEWMAN Treasurer – P. HERMAN Clerk – V. De BRUNNER Justices – C.E. DUNHAM and J.A. STEVENS Constables – C.F. PRANGE and John CRAIG -------- Canville: Trustee – Harry Brown Treasurer – A.F. HEDMAN Clerk – J.S. FORDYCE Justices – H.C.H. SMITH and C.P. VANDEEVER Constables – John PAYNE and M.P. CLEMENS -------- Walnut Grove: Trustee – Sam STEWART Treasurer – John D. MALSBURY Clerk – Alf SHIDLER Justices – Moses ARNOLD and A. ANDERSON Constables – Wm. RANDALL and W. SIMMONS -------- Mission: Trustee – M. DEVINE Treasurer – C.A. COX Clerk – A.P. MAGUIRE Justices – J.Y. OWENS and Gee HILL Constables – John STEVENS and H.B. WESTMORELAND -------- Shiloh: Trustee – A.H. LOCKHART Treasurer – S.B. SHARP Clerk – John STALL Justices – W.H. (MAKESANY?) and Samuel APT Constables – C.L. WYMAN and F.F. EASLEY -------- Lincoln: Trustee – Oscar HALL Treasurer – G.C. HOWELL Clerk – B.W. BENNETT Justices – Alva CLARK and Henry VULGAMORE ---------------------------- ------- Page 3 ------- Did you get a great big ugly valentine? ---------------------------- Miss Kate CAMBERN is visiting in Parsons. ---------------------------- S.J. HATCHER, of Chanute, was in town yesterday. ---------------------------- Miss Maggie WALLACE is visiting friends in Lincoln township this week. ---------------------------- Rev. J.H. ADAIR, of Centerville township, was in the city Wednesday. ---------------------------- County Attorney RAGER presented his wife with a new organ this week. ---------------------------- J.M. MITCHELL and E.L. THOMAS have about recovered from their recent attacks of sickness. ---------------------------- Mrs. HAINES, of Chanute, has been visiting her father, Mr. D.W. BRAY for the past few days. ---------------------------- Miss Mellie TUCKER, of Calestoga, Cal., has been in town for the past week, a guest of her cousin Mrs. T.F. RAGER. ---------------------------- Married: - In Osage Mission, Feb. 14th 1882, by Rev. PONSIGLOINE, Mr. Frank TAYMANS and Miss Alice H. KENNEDY. ---------------------------- Married: - At the Probate Judges office, in Erie, on Feb. 14th 1882, by Judge WALLACE, Mr. Christian LATHER and Miss Emily J. MILLER. ---------------------------- Mr. BOWMAN has paid his fine in full for selling whisky and now breathes the free air again. FREWERT and BATES still hold the fort at the bastille. ---------------------------- Married: - At the residence of the brides parents, near Galesburg, on February 5th, 1882, by Rev. Emanuel RICHARDS, Mr. Eugene B. GULICK and Miss Eliza E. ARONHALT, both of Centerville township. ---------------------------- A.H. MILLER sold his farm – the WILLIAMS farm – south of town, to Y. BARTLEY, of Centerville tp., for $1,700. This is two farms Mr. MILLER has sold within six months, netting him six hundred dollars and never stopped work an hour to make the trades. ---------------------------- At the teacher’s examination in this city last Saturday, there was one applicant for a certificate who could not tell who were the Representatives from Kansas in Congress, who is the Speaker of the House, Vice President of the United States, and who was Secretary of State under Garfield. Said applicant is a non reading green-backer. ---------------------------- Last Wednesday Mr. George W. ALEXANDER and family moved to Chanute, where Mr. ALEXANDER has accepted a position as book-keeper in Sam WINFIELD’s store. We regret to lose Mr. A. from our midst, for he was one of our best citizens, and one of the truest gentlemen we have met in the State. They leave many friends who will join with us in wishing them success and happiness in their new home. ---------------------------- At an early hour last Monday morning, in company with Deputy Sheriff W.R. HARDMAN, we started for Girard, for the purpose of being present at the institution of a lodge of Knights of Honor, over a country destined to be the garden spot of sunny Kansas, interspersed with fields of growing wheat which looked favorable for a bountiful crop. Herds of cattle and sheep and many pens of fat hogs, led us to remark that a dry year in Kansas is not significant of hard times. On our arrival at Girard we found that we had been preceded by Mr. Menry LODGE, D.G.D. of the Knights of Honor of this State, and Mr. J.A. WELLS, Dictator of Erie Lodge, who held the authority to institute the lodge. After a square meal at the St. James hotel, we wandered forth to see the town and its people; among whom we found Dr. J.W. ALFORD and L.S. CUZICK, who for many years residents of this place, and Nick TRYER and A.L. MOORE, late of Osage Mission. All seemed to be well pleased with their prospects. ! The town is one of the prettiest in the state, and is a good business place. Its people are anticipating a building boom in the spring, in the way of eight or ten business houses of brick and stone. This is much needed as a great many of the business building are of the old rickety lumber buildings of fifteen years ago. About 9 p.m. we entered the Masonic Hall and found several of Girards best men assembled for the purpose of being initiated into the mysteries of Knighthood. An enjoyable three hours was spent here in instituting and christening the new lodge. After which an oyster supper was spread in one of the restaurants near by, as soon as the inner man was replenished we repaired to the hotel where we made a very unsuccessful attempt to sleep. Early the next morning we spent a few hours in visiting the Court House, School House, and other places of interest, after which we started for home. We arrived home with two sick men and a sick horse, otherwise the trip wa! s very enjoyable. ---------------------------- Marriage Licenses: The following marriage licenses have been issued by the Probate Judge since our last report: Adolph ANDERSON to Christina JOHNSON George KAHLBOUGH to Ella RILEY Christian LUTHER to Emily J. MILLER Jesse E. WHITE to Hellen A. ROMLEY Frank TAYMANS to Alcie H. KENNEDY --------------------------- Moorhead Items: Mr. DENNIS has returned from a pleasant trip to Oklahoma and speaks well of that forbidden garden. ------- Mr. J.B. BINGLEY will start in a few days for southwestern Missouri, to make that his future home. ------- Mr. James ACKER the modest little clerk that stand behind the counter of Mrs. S. WHEPLEY’s store, knows more about a horse than any man of 30 or 40 years. Jeems is cute, you bet for a little fellow. --------------------------- Dr. C.G. FLETCHER came up from Joplin last Friday night and spent Saturday and Sunday in this city visiting his mother and others. --------------------------- Mrs. L.H. COCHRAN, of this city, died very suddenly last Wednesday. She took sick about 3 o’clock in the morning and died about 3 in the afternoon.