Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1911 — SCHOOL OPENS NEXT MONDAY—PROSPECTS FINE. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL OPENS NEXT MONDAY—PROSPECTS FINE.

Points to Prosperous Y|ar, With Large High School Attendance —Mathematics Teacher Secured. School begins next Monday, September 4th. Everything looks propitious for a year of unprecedented success. The attendance will probably be the largest in the history of the schools, and it may be that we will be a little crowded in some grades. The reason so large an attendance is expected is occasioned by the fact that all the houses in Rensselaer are occupied and there is a demand at this time for u number more houses. There was a large number of township graduates last year and many of these will enter the Rensselaer high school. Superintendent Warren sent to many of them a. letter inviting the attention of their parents to the advantages of the Rensselaer schools and he has already received a number of replies stating that the young people will enter the high school. It is certain that • the Freshman class will have sixty or more members, possibly as high as seventy-five. The record is seventysix.

-The corps of teachers looks abundantly able to impart learning and the new teachers in the grades and the high school have all' had extensive ex-‘ perience, and Superintendent Warren is feeling very much pleased at the outlook. The last vacancy in the corps of high school teachers was filled Saturday. The mathematics chair was vacant following the resignation of Prof. Bradshaw. This will be filled by Miss Alice E. Thompson, of Minneapolis, a graduate of the Minnesota state university and a teacher of six years’ experience. Parents of children living in the country should make an effort to give their children a further education after they have graduated from the common branches, and the advantages in Rqpsselaer are apparent. Graduates of former ears are filling positions and taking their places in the front rank wherevePsthey locate. Give your children a high school education if possible. It is the best money and the best time that can be spent in the making of citizenship.