Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

County Superintendent Sterrett has collected the following data from the reports coming from the schools under his supervision: The largest number of eighth grade pupilp attending school in any one township falls to Barkley township. There are twenty-seven pupils enrolled in this grade in that township. The other townships follow in the order mentioned: Carpenter, 19; Union, 19; Walker, 18; Newton, 16; Marion, 15; Milroy, 11; Keener, 11; Jordan, 11; Kankhkee, 10; Wheatfield, 8; Hanging Grove, 6; Gillam, 3. This totals 174 pupils in the rural and small town schools who are doing eighth grade work. The largest eighth grade class in any one of these township schools is at DeMotte, where Mr. Bert Lewellen has eleven. Donald Peregine at

Tefft and Ruth Kennedy at Gifford each have ten. The largest eighth grade class under a single teacher in a country school is at Bowling Green school in Marion township. Miss Mabel McAhren is the teacher in this school. There are seven eighth grade pupils here. The next special institute will be held at Remington on February 23rd. Prof. Louis F. Rettger, of the Indiana State* Normal School, will give the *two principal addresses., . _ A Mrs. Frances Felsey, of the Blaker school at Indianapolis has been secured to-instruct the teachers along the lines of primary teaching next fall. The county institute will be held at Rensselaer from Sept 2nd to the 6th inclusive. Other instructors will be procured later. The first eighth grade diploma examination will be held on the third Saturday in March. Each trustee will select his own place to hold this examination.