Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

, Newton townshlb will hold its annual eighth grade commencement on Friday afternoon of June 14th- Own* to the size of the class, Trustee Rush, decided to hold it at the Huntington Home west of Blue Grass school house. There is a large front porch which can be nicely decorated for the occasion. The following pupils will receive diplomas oi» that afternoon: —George Battleday, Winfred Bierly, Dewey Cox, Everet Greenless, Edna Mauck, Walter Mayhew, Ray Mayhew, Ella- Manck, Russell Paulus, Delbert Stutzman, Vern Strain, Alva Weiss, Everett Watson, Nellie Whited, making fourteen in all. Prof. Thos. F. Moran, of Purdue University, will deliver the class address. Dell ert Stutzman will sing, the Mauck sis ers will speak and an orchestra will furnish music. There is ample room in the large front yard at the Huntington Home to park automobiles and remain in them to listen to the exercises. The program will begin promptly at two o'clock in the after* noon. . ■ The Marion township commencement will take place on Friday evening, June 14th, at the Consolidated school, about two miles southeast of Rensselaer. The following pupils will receive diplomas upon that occasion are: George Bachman, Chester Web Bachman, Ediward Gowland, David Horsewood, Helen Hopper, Velma R. Kennedy, Herman Kolhoff, Gladys Lambert, Edward McKinney, Addie McGlyhn, Lawrence Miller, Fred Spangle, Edwina Spangle, Edna Schleman, Francis Zimmer and Helen L. Horsewood. Prof. Thos. F. Moran will give the class , address. The entertaining numbers on the program will be as follows: violin solo by Miss Beatrice Tilton, and a vocal solo by Miss Wilda Littlefield. These exercises will begin promptly at eight o’clock. The trustees have made a special effort to secure speakers who have a fixed reputation for work character. Prof. Moran needs, no introduction in Jasper county to ' the teachers. He has a reputation that has x made him very , popular, among the teachers and no one who hears him will be disappointed. The- patrons who hear him at these commencements will indorse the general attitude* of others who have*.heard him.