Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — Purdue Instructor Recommends County Agent to Board. [ARTICLE]

Purdue Instructor Recommends County Agent to Board.

T. A. Colerngn, of Rushville, Ind., who is a member of the faculty of Purdue University since June Ist, and who will have charge of the various county agricultural agents, came to Rensselaer this morning to meet with the county hoard of education and recommend to them a man to be the county agent for Jasper. He recommended O. G. Barrett, of Columbia, Mo., a man who has graduated from Purdue, spent two years In the Michigan University and One year in the Missouri agricultural college and has had some six years’ experience. Mr. Coleman was addressing the hoard when The Republican went to press and action bad not been taken oil his recommendation. A