Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The influenza situation in Jasper county is very little improved. A number of our country schools have closed and the number is constantly increasing. The Tefft schools opened last Monday. Miss Lpttie Porter, a teacher in the high school, has been down with the. influenza. She has resumed her work there again. The Gifford school was closed last Monday. Aix is still closed. Virgie is still closed. The Fair Oaks school closed last Wednesday. Union school in Jordan closed last Tuesday. Three schools are closed in Carpenter. Gillam township is undergoing a siege of the epidemic that has closed a number of -the schools there. Mr. Stevens is reported very sick with influenza. Bessie Hullihan, teacher nt West Vernon, is bedfast. Freda Ferguson, teacher at Zadoc in Walker township, has been a “flu” victim. Nellie Johnstone, teacher at Independence in Barkley, and Gertrude Misch, teacher at Blackford in Barkley, have both been sick with influenza. Martha Parker, Feme Rawlings and Dewey Nelson, teachers in Carpenter township, are sick with the influenza. Esther Sage of Jordan is reported down with the disease. Pearl Babcock Rea and Lural Anderson, both teachers at Fair Oaks, are down with the influenza. Miss Alice Myers, teacher at Walker Center, has -been out on account of the sickness and death of her brother. Irene McAleer, teacher at Queen City in Milroy, is reported down also. It is likely that the Bowling Green school will be closed if there is no further improvement in the school there. - Teachers from all angles of the county are complaining about their attendance. The school officials will endeavor to meet each school situation as best serves the community. Life and health are worth more than the schooling the children are losing. The teachers are taking down daily now and the school closings are going to be more frequent from, now on. The trustees are the judges of the closing of schools under their supervision. Jasper county is experiencing a health situation that is without precedent.