Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Nancy .Milton, of Wheatfield, who is teaching the Moffit school, in north Union, has taken down with the influenza. That school will be closed until the teacher is able to resume her work. Virgie schools are closed on account of the influenza. Independence school in Barkley closed last week on account of the epidemic. Wheatfield schools have not yet reopened. Pearl Babcock Rea, of Rensselaer, who is teaching at Fair Oaks, has taken down with the influenza. The schools are still running at Fair Oaks with this teacher out. It is understood that all teachers and pupils who have the influenza now have it less severe than the cases recorded earlier in the year. County Superintendent W. O. Schanlaub, of Newton county, was a visitor at Rensselaer last Tuesday. Township trustees will soon begin work with their books to turn same over to the newly elected trustees. This will mean several houra'sweating to make the books cqiuiorm to the bank balances for which the trustees are financially responsible.