Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The trustees have finished their 1919 enumeration of school children, voters, soldiers and sailors. Last year Jasper county had a total of 392 5 school children between the ages of six and twenty-one. This year there are 4037 making an increase of 112. The heaviest loss was in the city of Rensselaer where there are 38 less enumerated this year than last. Wheatfield town gained 9 and Remington 11. (Many new schools in the north end of the county will be built and equiped with teachers the coming year to meet the increase as shown by the enumeration records from Wheatfield, Walker and Keener townships. The dredging of that end of the county is inviting men with families to move but from Chicago tb make permanent homes in what was but a few years ago an uninhabited marsh. Trustee Pettit was in the office of the county superintendent Friday to arrange for the building of a new oneroomed building upon the site of the Oak Grove building that burned two years ago. Mr. Pettit states that he will also open the Canada school in the west end of Walker tqwnship. He also found that it would be imprudent to continue Zadoo since the eumeration in that district would be less than seven pupils. The state department has called for success grades from the following applicants who took the state teachers examination last April: Minnie Hemphill, Martha Parker, Evanelle Geier, Marie Fisher, Lottie Porter, Bertha Hershman, Eva Lilly, A. C. Campbell, Helen White Mary Harvey, Anna Hunsicker, Helen Porter, Mabel McAhren. All teachers of experience are urged to hold a state license as well as a county license. From the above list A vanelie Geier is a senior from the Remington high school who was successful on the Miarch examination (state) also but tried again to test whether the March was luck and is now reported a success again. Martha I. Parker, of Remington has taken state in Jan. March and April and reported a success on all three. Many of the teachers use the teachers examination as a day of benefit regardless of the license made. This represents professional interest worthy of the effort.