Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1917 — COUNTY AGENT HAS BEEN SELECTED [ARTICLE]

COUNTY AGENT HAS BEEN SELECTED

County Board of Education Makes Selection of County Agent—To Commence Work March 1. At the February meeting of the county board of education the matter of selecting a county agent for then 4 county was taken up and a man was agreed upon to act in this capacity. The gentleman selected was a man by the name of Learning, from Tippecanoe county, who lives a little south of Lafayette. Mr. Learning is a married man and he and Jiis family will move to this city immediately. The new county agent is'a graduate of Purdue University of the year 1912. During the past five years he has spent his time as a school teacher and acting as a county agent at St. Peter, Minnesota.. His work there is said to have given general satisfaction and the board feels that in their selection they have made no mistake and that he will meet with success in this county.