Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The trustees met in regular session last Monday and transacted the regular business of the board. The board voted each teacher a visiting day to be given by the county superintendent. Last year the visiting day was confined to tne beginning teachers. The importance of " the" day" made “each" trustee cast" his vote favoring a visiting day to all teachers regardless of experience. Teachers who attend the state association October 30-31 and Novem'jber 1 at Indianapolis will be given two days’ pay. This matter is optional with the teacher. State Supt. L. N. Hines wrote the board asking if the city of jßensselaer would provide a meeting .place’ for the trustees, county superintendent, presidents of school boards and others interested in rural education. The board . voted unanimously to provide a hall, court room or.suitable place for this meeti ing. Superintendent Hinesis put- - Iting on a series of conferences on rural education in the various congressional districts of Indiana. Rensselaer will be the meeting place for this conference for the tenth congressional district. This meeting I will be held in Rensselaer on Thursday, November 13th. Every friend of education is cordially invited to attend this meeting to hear the leading educators of Indiana discuss the subject of rural education. i A Mr. Cook, of Wheatfield town- ! ship, through Trustee Bowie, invited i the board of education to visit at his home three miles north of Wheatfield on Thursday, October 16th. It is understood that the I county commissioners were also injvited. Mr. Cook is anxious to show all angles of Jasper county what he i has done for Wheatfield, Keener and Kankakee townships. The board townships and will be at Mr. Cook’s home at the noon hour. The Demotteschools will open irext Wednesday. They have a fine new addition that will serve as a community building as well as a school building. Trustee ‘Fairchild has catered to the requirements of the state high school inspector and DeMotte is now on the school map. Mr. Fairchild has two college graduates in his high school faculty. Miss Margaret Marshall, of Deputy, Indiana, the principal, is a graduate of Leland Stanford and has also done work on her master’s degree. Miss Marshall has had a great deal of teaching experience and will give the people of DeMotte a very capable and efficient school administration. Miss Addie Harris is a graduate of the' state riormal at

Terre Haute. She is the other coL i lege graduate. The third teacher in the high school is Miss Marie ■Nevill, of Rensselaer. Miss Nevill has finished her junior year in the Indiana state normal. Mr. Fairchild is in the market for a teacher to assist these three in the high school to fulfill the recommendations of the state high school inspector. Two years ago DeMotte ranked third in the county so far as the number of school children is concerned. It is very likely that DeMotte will hold the same ranking when the schools open next Wednesday. Last year the state high school inspector reduced the school to accredited standing on account of the building. Now DeMotte has a building on a parity with the large new building at Fair Oaks. - Supt. L. J. Arend, of Wheatfield, reports that the schools are moving along very nicely at Wheatfield. Prof. Paul W. Ashby is doing some excellent work at Tefft. Prof. A. C. Campbell is getting fine results at Fair Oaks. All the high schools of Jasper county are moving with unusual smoothness to date z ——Wftodon has W»Bhin<rton, D C.. and is liking his work so far... William May, who was recently discharged from the navy, has beSn employed to teach in the high school at Wheatfield. . t Miss Celia Steifel, of Fair Oaks, visited with home relatives at Salem, Indiana, over Saturday and Sunday. The schools are running very nicely in most parts of the county.