Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1917 — To the School Patrons of Jasper Co. [ARTICLE]

To the School Patrons of Jasper Co.

I feel that touay, your representatives, the township trustees, have made a very wise choice in the selection of Mr. M. L. Sterrett as head of the county school system. He comes in after wide experience in school w ork, and should bring an abundance of ideas for the improvement of our schools. He comes at a time, too, when there is bound to be great changes in the workings of the system, when there is bound to come, through consolidation and other moves, a greater co-operation, a relative saving of time and energy, and consequently a much better education for our boy® and girls. The old one-room school of the times of our childhood is now no more efficient than would now be the ox team or the old open fireplaces. There has been a decade of rapid progress and in many ways the schools have hardly kept apace. In the many changes which the next few years are bound to ‘bring about there should be a careful, conservative man at the head of our schools and I am sure that in Mr. Sterrdttt you have such a man. In order that his work may be most effective he should have the fullest cooperation and help of all persons in the county. 1 make the plea that you give him this freely, that you look with disfavor upon those who may seek to find fault and thus to hinder the work. As for myself, though 1 remain in office until August 16th, I wish to give Mr. Sterrett every insight into the wtafik that I can, and thus to co-operate with him to the fullest extent for the betterment of the public schools of the county and for these boys and rirls who for the last ten years have meant so much to me. Yours truly, ERNEST LAIMSON.

(Mrs. John I. Gwin has returned from Jamestown, N. Dak. She reports that crops are looking splendid in the west. While away Mrs. Gwin purchased another tract of good North Dakota land, giving therefor $45 per acre. Frank Fisher and Charles Peregrine were down from Kankakee township today.