Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — NORMAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NORMAL ITEMS.

The Fourth Annual Session of the Jasper County Normal is in full blast. The attendance is fair, and interest and enthusiasjn are running high.— There are no drones this year to elog and weight down the work, but ail are toilers. Recftatibns are held in all the com mon brapchea, and other extra subjects are being investigated. Personal. —Amanda Osborne, Alice Johnson, Lottie Hoile, Nettie and Ruby Bruce, Ida Coons and others as pupilr grace the Normal by their presence. They are as merry as in , the past. Lillie Cason, Alice Irwin, Anna McCoy, Milton A. Makeever, and a few others who attended the Normal for first time last summer, and who taught excellent schools last winter,are back again preparing themselves to do even better work next winter in better schools, at higher wages. J. W. Douthit, Edward Warren. Wm. D. Bringle, W. L, Fleener. Rosa Coons, James Brusnahan. Alda Fulton, and many more, “too numerous to mention,” are new students who have gone to work with a vim which does credit to older punils. Matrimonial. —Miss Anna L.McCoy and Mr. Jay Lamson, at the M. E. Parsonage, by Rev. Wood, Wednesev’ning, July 20th, 1881. “Who’ll be the next?” This little affair causad quite a flutter of excitement among us. Anna’s taking off was sudden and unexpected to her classmates. Normalite.