Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1913 — KNIMAN. [ARTICLE]

KNIMAN.

Mr. Summers has moved to Kersey. Mr. Snyder has moved to Illinois, and will work on the section. Miss Nellie O’Connor is at home from school this week. She will remain until after Easter. Alfred Moore, John Plasterer and Walter Peer attended the quarterly meeting at Tefft last Sunday. The school here has thinned out considerably. Perhaps new ones will be in in a few days to take the places. For some time our enterprising blacksmith, “Billy” Helscher, has felt the need of a partner, so last Wednesday he hied himself away to Knoxi and filed incorporate papers with the county clerk, whose office is in said city, and brought back with him a Mrs. Helscher. The event was duly celebrated by the Knimanites with base drum and various other instruments, musical and otherwise, i May their matrimohial voyage be smooth and serene is the wish of his friends and neighbors. We, as Hoosiers, boast about the excellencies of our schools and our school system. Perhaps the following rating, the result of careful investigation, may “knock the starch” out of some of us: Children enrolled in school ranks 22nd with 80.4 per cent in school. Sources of school revenue, Indiana ranks Bth. Value of school property, Indiana ranks 12th. Average annual expenditures for each child, Indiana ranks 24th. Average and aggregate attendance, Indiana ranks 20th. Length of term, Indiana ranks 28. In teachers’ salaries, Indiana ranks 16th. Educationally, Indiana’s generalrank is 10th. The above statistics may be found in pamphlet No. 1240 f the Russell Sage Foundation investigations, division of education..