Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Prof. Louis J. Rettger, of the Indiana State Normal School,-gave two very excellent addresses before the teachers and patrons at the Remington special institute last Saturday. Supt. -F. L. Wildrick acted as chairman of the meeting. A double quartette of boys and girls furnished several numbers during the day. A Mr. Peoples of Purdue University, gave a talk on “Treatment of Seed Oats for Smut,” at the opening of the morning session. The high school girls under the direction of their domestic science teacher, Miss Lois "Larrick, gave an excellent dinner. The eighth grade diploma examination will be held March 16th. All pupils who have 2000 home work credits are excused in either domestic science or agriculture. The subjects of agriculture, domestic science and music rare optional subjects. However, a pupil who has earned exemption for home work will receive a grade of 90 per cent without taking the examination after the teacher notifies the County Superintendent in agriculture if a boy or in domestic science if a girl. This will aid very materially in lifting averages in most cases. Seventh grade pupils are not permitted to take the March examination. However they may take the later examinations if they care to do so. Most of the township schools will finish the present term the first week in April. There are a few in Milroy and Barkley townships that will finish in March.

Miss Vesta Brown, teacher at Gifford, has been sick with measles for the past day or two. Pupils and teachers throughout the county have the measles and pay very little attention to them. At Wheatfield the citizens are so patriotic that they have refused to call the measles by their proper name and instead of calling diem German measles they call them Liberty measles. Warren Poole, Clifford Fairchild and- Albert Keene came to the office of the County Superintendent last Thursday. The accounting board is in session here and they are uaditing trustees books.