Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — Little Objection to Grace Poole Teaching Wheatfield School. [ARTICLE]

Little Objection to Grace Poole Teaching Wheatfield School.

The Lafayette, Indianapolis and Chicago papers made a quite sensational story out of Miss Grace Poole’s alleged trouble in being allowed to teach in Wheatfield township. The articles written told how Miss Poole had pleaded with the patrons of the school to permit her to teach and ha,d gone so far as to call a public meeting and address the patrons, bringing many of them to tears as she plead to be allowed to continue her school to earn money to defend her father. Trustee Albert Keen was down from Wheatfield Monday and states that the story was manufactured out of whole doth by some newspaper writer. He says that Miss Poole gave good satisfaction at the River school last year and that the patrons united in a desire that she be again employed. He hired her and found no objection from any source. The story that she called a. meeting was altogether false. To all appearances Miss Poole is doing what she believes to be right in aiding .'her father, qnd while she may be misjudged in the minds of some off the patrols of the . school she, is employed to teach, there has been no one cruel enough to raise their voice against her as teacher and, in fact, there is a' strong disposition to - feel sympathetic for her in the trouble her father has brought on the family and to commend her for her effort to save him from punishment.