Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1910 — County Superintendent Lamson Makes Annual Statistical Report. [ARTICLE]

County Superintendent Lamson Makes Annual Statistical Report.

Ernest Lamson, county superintendent of public schools, has made his annual statistical report to the state superintendent and it is a model of neatness, being filled in with red and purple typewriter figures. The report shows that the cost of the schools of the county outside of Rensselaer, Remington and Wheatfield, was $55,711.63, as against $54,358.80. The average cost per day per teacher was $2.60 }n the 1910 report, while the year before it was only 1 cent per day less. There were 102 graduates from the common schools in 1910,'which was 33 more than there were in 1909. The following shows the number of school pupils enumerated in each township, in 1909 and 1910, also the gain or loss:

Loss or 1909 1910 gain Barkley ............... 312 315 3 Carpenter 203 172 *3l Glllam 162 156 *6 Hanging Grove H 3 106 *7 Jordan - 143 140 *3 Kankakee, gg §5 « 3 Keener 157 169 12 Marioa 164 190 26 Milroy—,,* 57 62 5 Newton 104 88 *l6 Unloa 3 g 3 3 7(j »i 3 Walker 244 217 *27 Wheatfield 117 jog *9 Rensselaer 632 584 *46 Remington 242 219 *23 Wheatfield (town) .... 162 152 *lO "Loss.

Maines & Hamilton do custom grinding and sell all kinds of feed.