Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The state has reported the follow-: ing applicants successful on the May teachera’ examination: Ida J. Fleming, Jessie Williamson, Mary Louise Hartman, Lottie Porter, Eva Lilly, Myrtle Irene Howard, Thelma Noland. Most of the experienced teachers of Jasper county -hold state licenses. All teachers in the county ( are urged to hold a state license. It. is a sign of progressiveness that, should appeal to every teacher in Jasper county. Several teachers holding exemptions have taken advantage of the teachers’ examinations and are taking them for the good they find the Te. There is a large number of inexperienced teachers now attending school who have been attracted to. the profession 6n account of the 1 wage offered beginners. The list is as follows: Katherine Chamberlain, ! Frances Folger, Edith Fenwick, Goldie Kessenger, Daisy Knaur, Mabel I Kemper, Bernice Myers, Ruth Mur- ! phy, Gladys Ogle, Doris Powers, Iva Poole, Jeannie Sage, Jessie Zellars, I Elsie Zellars, Frances Hibbs, Leta M. ! Hershman, Helen Kessenger, Ada Lambert, Irene Price, Lilly Price, Bertha Stalbaum, Marie Weging, , Helen Cain, Opal Cape#, Sophia Hud--1 son, Esther Kruse, Lera Standish, and Edna Reed. It -will be noted from the list that no men beginners are among the list. Frank Babcock 'took the examination twice and was on -his way towards license when he 1 decided to leave the job to the women. It will soon be necessary to offer a premium to get men to take up school work. This is still a part of the war effects. David Horsewood writes from Harrison, Montana, that he has finished his freshman year there with excellent grades. He was the county winner last year for high. grade diploma average. He seems to like the schools in the west. Superintendent Sterrett is spending the week in Indianapolis, where the county superintendents of the state hold'their regular annual meeting. While there he will attend the hearings from Jasper county before the state tax board set for Saturday at 10 o’clock.

Robert Leopold returned home Tuesday from a visit at Frankfort. A. T. Ropp went to Chicago today on business. Miss Edith Barnes came from Edinburgh today to visit Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Barnes. Robert Reeves, city mail carrier, is taking a two weeks’ vacation. Harold Littlefield is substituting for him. Emma and Charles Reeves returned to their home at Mooresville today after a visit with Mrs. F. Tobias. ~jMrs. H. R- Anderson went to Lafayette today to visit Mrs. C. A. Garner, of Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hopkins and son, George Marion, left today for their home in Holdridge, Nebraska, after a visit with Mrs. Susie Harmon and other relatives. William May, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed May; returned to Newport News today after spending a few days here. He is on the U. S. S. Missouri and has made three trips across the ocean. He expects to go across again. Miss Marian Parker and Miss Helen Leatherman will return from Northwestern university today. Miss Parker was graduated this year and Mr. and Mrs. Oren Parker have been attending her graduating exercises. Miss Leatherman has one more year before she graduates. If you want to get into trouble, ask C. W. Platt, express driver, if he has anything to do. One man innocently put the question to Mr. Platt the other day and was rewarded with a glare which sent him scurrying down the street. The driver has one of those twenty-four hour shifts and is kept on the go constantly to keep up with his work. The express business was never heavier in the history of the local office than at the present time.

Some of Mr. Wilson’s friends are beginning to wonder anxiously whether he doesn’t know enough to come in out of. the wet. —Philadelphia North American. • Hereafter many a Mr. Newlywed will expect Mrs. to make doughnuts like the ones the Salvation Army made at the front. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. If any have forgotten. Abraham Lincoln’s origin, the exploits of geant York will do as a reminder that our “mountain whites ’ are of unexcelled American stock. Springfield Republican, , : . A United States marine, twentytwo years old, holds the medal for being the best shot with a rifle. A man somewhat older, who looks down a barrel of flower and provides what is put over the kitchen range, holds the record for being oftenest hit.—Detroit News. OATS OFF A CENT WEDNESDAY. Oats, 65c* Corn, *1.70. Rye, $1.35.

HEMSTITCHING Work done carefully and promptly. ) EDITH WEST. CALL 420