Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — THE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. [ARTICLE]

THE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.

The Jasper County Teachers’ Association held their regular annual meeting in the court house, last Friday and Saturday.| All the schools in the county w< re dismissed Friday, as by law required, and the attendance was very large. In fact, of the 130 teachers now teaching in the county, all but 15 were present. From Barkley tp., thirteenteacheis attended; from Carpenter, five; from Gillam six; from Hanging Grove six; from Jordan eight; Kankakee four, Keener three; Milroy three; Marion twelve; Newton seven; Union nine; Walker four; Wheatfield seven; Rensselaer eleven; Remington seven. The absentees were, from Carpenter six; from Kankakee one; from Keener three; from Walker two; from Rensselaer two; from Remington one. The principal features of the occasion were: Address by the president, Prof. W. R. Murphy, of Remington. Paper by Miss Dollie Buflnk, of Rensselaer. “Literature in the Primary Grades.” “The Township Institute” by Mr Chas. Lee, of Milroy. “General Method in Geography” by Mr. Jesse Welch, of Jordon, “School Management” by Miss Emma Goetz, of Newton. “Literature in the public schools” by Frank Hoover. I , Address by Prof. D. W. Stevenson, of De Pauw, subject, “Requirements of the day.” Paper, “Moral Training” by W. B. Wishard, of Union. “Primary Language,” Mi $ Ora Vau ghn,of W heatfield. “Belt. tion

of Grades and High School, Miss Orpha Timmons, of Remington. School Government, Miss Mollie FarFaris, of Gillam. Indiana and Illinois School Laws Compared, C. E. Jenkins, of Barkley. Most of the above subjects were also generally discussed by the Association, as were also various other matters.

The election of officers tor the ensuing year resulted as follows: Pres. Prof. E. W. Bohannon, Rensselaer; Vice President, L. H. Hamilton, Kniman; Secretary, Emma Goetz, Newton; Treasurer, Chas. M. Blue, Marion; Delegate to State and Northern Indiana Teachers’ Associations, I. C* Reubelt, Rensselaer. Alternate Delegate,E. W. Bohannon. Committee Co. Superintendent, President and Secretary of Association, We borrowed these resolutions already set in type, of the Republican. Resolutions . Whereas our State institutions at Bloomington, Terre Haute and Lafayette have been crippled by want of proper financial support, and compelled from time to time to surrender many of their best men, because of better salaries offered by institutions more generously provided for in other States, be it Resolved, That we as teachers of Jasper county deplore the illiberal spirit that our legislatures have shown towards our State University, State Normal, and Purdue University, in the matter of appropriation for equipment and maintenance, and that we most urgently petition the coming session of the legislature, through our representatives Messrs Phares and Spitler, to grant these institutions such aid as they both need and deserve.

Resolved, that a copy of this petition to be signed by the members of this association, be handed to our representatives, and with the request that they use their best efforts to secure its favorable recognition. Resolved, that it Is the sense of the teachers of this county that the usefulness of the State University, great as it has been, will be very greatly jicreascd by its ramoval from its present inconvenient, and almost inaccessible location at Bloomington, to Indianapolis. Resolved, that additional safeguards be thrown around the selection of County Superintendents, and superintendents of all towns having commissioned High Schools, by the enactment of a law requiring all such superintendents to hold a Life State License, or a diploma from the state Normal School, or from the Pedagogical Department of the State University. Resolved, That the Indiana School book law should be so amended as to )lace the sale and distribution of all text-books for the public schools of the State, wholly in the hands of the local dealers without the intervention or supervision of any of the public School officials, Whereas,' the teachers of Jasper county by right and Justice are entitled to the full benefit of all legal holidays occurring during the school term, said right being recognized by every State Superintendent for more than twenty years, and by our courts of Justice, and our own county Superintendent, be it Resolved, that we sincerely deplore the refusal of some of our township trustees to grant us our rights In this direction, and now most respectfully but earnestly insist upon the same. The Boards of trustees of the towns of Rensselaer and Remington have long recognized those rights of their teachers, and exists no good reason why the county teachers should be deprived of theirs. Resolved, that the Jasper County Teachers’ Association subscribe, and pay for one membership in the Indi ana State Teachers’ Association, and one in the Northern Indiana Teacher’s Association; and that the Jasper County Association annually, at its regular session, elect one delegate to attend each of aforesaid associations Said delegate to be invested with ull, power to represent this association in all matters pertaining to the educational work of the State. Said delegate to defray bis awn expenses. E. W. Bohannon, ) D. B. Nowels, Millie Robinson, Committee. Maggie R. Lang, Abbie R. Harrison,

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