Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The township commencements are well under headway in Jasper county. Union township made an excellent record this year in the face of much contention. There were nineteen, successful applicants on the eigth grade diploma examination. This unusual number of successful applicants is due, no doubt, to the fact that all teachers employed in Union township were experienced teachers. Kankakee township has a record duplicating that of Union in that all teachers there were experienced teachers. 1 It is also true that Kankakee, like Union, had as many successful applicants as it had pupils, to try for high school privileges. Those eighth grade pupils who will receive diplomas on Wednesday night of April 30th, at Tefft, from Kankakee township are: Edna Jean DeArmond, Wesley W. Myers, George K. Turner, Theodore B. Sands, Ruby Grace White, Katherine Shepard, Hettie Jefferies and Chloe Hamlett. Katherine Shepard made the highest general average in the county. Her average was 95.7 percent. The roll of successful applicants from Union township is: Ear! Wilcox, Frank Cooper, Wayne Davission, Teddy Wood, Millie McCurtain, David Warran, Ruby Norman, Leo Ogle, Bernard Lockard, Robert Cover, Ardath Cover, Arthur Florence, Helen Todd, Doris McKay, Evalyn Abell, Gaylord flumes, Myrtle Hall and Frances Fross. JPhe Union township commencement will be held at Fair Oaks on Thursday night, May Ist. Rev. J. B. Fleming will give the baccalaureate sermon in the church at Fair Oaks, Sunday evening, April 27th. The high school at Fair Oaks is permitting the eighth grade commencement to 'be held with them. This is also the situation at Tefft. Heretofore the commencements have been crowded to the utmost by patrons and friends of education. Preparations on a large scale have been made to accommodate the large crowds and provide them with an excellent program. Prof. Thomas F. Moran, of Purdue university, will deliver the commencement address at Fair Oaks, on Thursday night, May Ist. He is accepted as one of the best speakers on the school platform, in Indiana. Prof. Moran will also deliver the address at Tefft, on Wednesday, April 30th. The names of the graduates from the high schools will appear in the notes of next week.

Mrs. R. L. Harwood and two sons, who had been visiting relatives in Newton county, returned today to their home in Indianapolis.