Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The Jasper County Board of Education met in the office of the county Superintendent last Monday. All trustees were present except Clif'ord Fairchild, of DeMotte. The board ruled that seventh grade pupils should not be allowed to take the eight grade diploma examination. Last year seventh ■grade pupils were permitted to take this examination )ut the board were of the unanimous opinion that seventh grade pumls this year were not qualified for ligh school work even if they were able to pass the diploma examination, j’air Oaks commencement was set for Thursday, May Ist. The county flower for the grades is the pink carnation or the same as was adopted last year. Kankakee township eigth grade commencement will be held at the home of Trustee Duggleby on ■Saturday, April 19th. The Walker examination will be held at Walker Center. The Barkley examination will be held at Center. Trustee l? airchild will hold his first eighth grade commencement at DeMbtte. : Burdette Porter will hold his examination at his office in Remington. All of the rest of the townships will come into Rensselaer for this examination. The Wheatfield town schools will close April 25. The Kankakee township schools will close May 2. ' JeMotte Schools will close near April 25." !The afternoon session was given to a lively discussion of the new road i aw. Trustees Postill, Porter, Bowie, lush and Poole entered into a delate that emphasized every merit and demerit of tlje new road law. Mr. 3owie finally secured the floor with a motion that was in substance as follows: That the trustees stood as a unit ready to perform the duties of road supervisors provided they could act as they had under the old road law. After much more hot discussion Mr. Porter asked to amend the motion by fixing that the trustees refuse appointment unless the county commissioners appointed all trustees to perform the duties as road supervisor. This amendment was incorporated in Mr. Bowie’s original motion and seconded by Mir. ■Sorter. Then the blue smoke began to fly from all angles. Warren Poole moved to table this motion and it was seconded by Mr. Rush. The subsidary motion to table the principal motion failed. Then a pandemonium prevailed before the principal motion was brought to. vote. Trustees lush, Bowie and Postill made pointed talks. Mr. Rush took the position that the trustees should continue as road supervisors under the old law by creating bills and doing the work without regard for the new aw. He maintained that he owed it to the tax payers of Newton township to discharge his duty in that manner and that he was willing to take all consequences in performing this duty even if in violation of the new road law. However, the board stood against Ms. Rush and held that the law must be obeyed as they understood it. The law has not been published and the only guide the trustees have is from Herndon and the Attorney General. They advise that trustees wind up the road business and turn it to the county commissioners. The primary intent of the motion was to show Hie county commissioners that the trustees were willing to discharge the duties of road supervisors under the provisions' of the old law if the county commissioners saw fit to appoint them as required under the new law. The matter was finally brought to a vote and the motion was sustained. The board adjourned then until next month when other matters of unusual importance will occuply the attention of the board. This was the most spirited session of years and it is likely that this will break the ice for another session equally as spirited next month. The board members are broad minded enough to not allow ill feelings to go out of the room. i They have a friendly feeling toward ] each other that overrides all that is I said in board meetings.