Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

——- ■ y ■ / The State Department sent the following licenses to County Superintendent Stenrett for distribution this week: Ethel Johnstone, Remington; Beatrice Tilton, Rensselaer; Lena Williamson, Remington; Mary Luther, Surrey; Daza M. Brown, Fair Oaks; Grace Warnock, Remington; A. C. Campbell, Fair Oaks; Mabel Ellis, Mt. Ayr; Marie Nevill, Rensselaer; R. C. Allen, DeMotte; Grace Knapp, Wheatfield. Common school licenses were issued to the first four applicants mentioned above and high schol licenses were issued to the others. The state is withholding seven high school licenses, for training certificates. These will be issued as soon as the applicants can get duplicates issued from the various schools where the professional training was The schools in Union township are still operating. Trustee Harrington has entered into a separate contract with his teachers to continue the schools month. The attendance at Virgie, Gant, Aix and Center has been very unsatisfactory and has made a very mean situation to solve. The other schools of the township seem to have a fair attendance. The reports from the teachers rendered monthly shows that there are about 180 eighth grade pupils this year‘in the county. They are distributed as follows: Barkley, 21 5 Carpenter, 11; Gillam, 15; Hanging Grove, 10; Jordan, 18; Kankakee, 10; Keener, 15; Marion, 11; Milroy, 9; Newton, 19; Union, 19; Walker, 18, Wheatfield, 5. This report shows about forty more this year than last. No beginning teachers were able to make a license on the January examination. Several took state and were unable to make it there also. There were fourteen wh<? wrote for their first time. The beginning teacher who has a firm conviction to teach school will appear on each examination with a little more teaching knowledge. An applicant who accidentally makes a license and follows this by accidentally teaching usually becomes very expensive to the taxpayers of the community where she firm conviction that the applicant will teach school the following year usually results in a license, a school and a success.