Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The eighth grade diploma examination will be held all over the county next Saturday, March 15. There are forty more applicants for high school to take this examination than last year. The Marion-Newton joint township institute was considerably enlarged last Saturday by visiting corporations. Jordan, Hanging Grove and the high school teachers from Union were present and took part in the institute work. The institute was so large that more comfortable quarters were demanded for the next institute. The next institute will be open to the' public and held at the city library. Topics of interest were assigned to appeal to the general public as well as to teachers in their special field. Trustees Poole and Postill were present. The date for the last institute was fixed on the first Saturday in April. Miss White favored the institute with a number of vocal solos and will furnish further music for the April institute. She plays her part in the musical program exceptionally well and continues to be the favorite whenever music is suggested in ithe institute. Elizabeth Kanne is substituting for Miss Leah Flora, the regular teacher at Curtis Creek school in Newton township. Miss Flora has taken down with the influenza. Mrs. Lem Houston is substituting for Robert Smalley of the Lane school in Newton township. Mr. Smalley took sick last Sunday after attending institute in Rensselaer* Vivian Jones of the Kersey school in Wheatfield township was married last week and will continue teaching the term out under the acquired name. From now on she will sign her reports Mrs. Jay Delahanty. Frances Davis, of DeMotte, substituted for Vivian Jones during the name changing process. —Mrs. Ruth Schwanke, who‘was secured at Kniman to teach the remainder of Miss Mary Walters’ school, was taken down with influenza shortly after beginning the work.