Southern good roads . ship in southeast Kansas saw fit to-construct two miles of rock road, from a small townsouth through a rural school district. Six children ofschool age li-^cd on farms adjacent to the rock road. and six on the same length of earth road in the westpart of the school district. The earth road was inpoor condition most of the time, says the K. S. A. Ilie cliildren on the good road went to city schools,walking most of the time. Vlie children on the almostimpassable earth road went to a rural school. At thattime the instruction in the town school was not anyiie
Southern good roads . ship in southeast Kansas saw fit to-construct two miles of rock road, from a small townsouth through a rural school district. Six children ofschool age li-^cd on farms adjacent to the rock road. and six on the same length of earth road in the westpart of the school district. The earth road was inpoor condition most of the time, says the K. S. A. Ilie cliildren on the good road went to city schools,walking most of the time. Vlie children on the almostimpassable earth road went to a rural school. At thattime the instruction in the town school was not anyiietter than the rural school, in the common citj school was not what it ought to have rural school was noted for its excellent instructors. Two of the children living on the rock road are nowsophomores in agricultural colleges, two are seniors inhigh school, and two are freshmen in high school. Allof them are interested in agriculture, will graduatefiom anricultural courses and return to tlie Independence. Mo. Treating a Country Road with the Standard OilCompanys Standard Road Oil Two chiklren living adjacent to the eartli roatl fin-ished the rural school. Their interest in education wasl)alanced against the almost impassable condition ofthe road the greater part of the school year. Now theyare liardlj average farmers. Four became discouragedami rpiit the rural school before they were of them are day laborers in a nearby town. Thefourth is owner of a small restaurant in the same town. The children of the rock road walked to school and lectures, and attended the socialevents in town and in the country adjacent to the rocl-croad. It hardly seems possible that a stretch of two to fourmiles of poor road would make a differenee in oneslife, does if? But it did.—Wichita (Kan.) Eagle. High Honor for Case Car. The officers of the Wisconsin State Automobile As-sociation have accepted the offer of the J. 1. CaseThreshing ilachine
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