Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

i The Jasper county board of education met in regular session last Monday with all members present except Davisson, of Barkley; Porter, of Carpenter, and LeFever, of Gillam. It was reported that Mr. Le- , Fever’s absence was due to the seri- ( ous illness of his wife. The session was very interesting > to trustees from the north, whose, levies had been cut from four to ( thirty cents. The heaviest cut came from the town school corporation of| Wheatfield, where it was reduced. from $1.20 on the hundred to 90 .cents. The township of Wheatfield was reduced 22 cents. Keener and Kankakee were both ravishly reduced. Rensselaer city was cut from ; 114 cents per hundred to 85. George . Ferguson, of Wheatfield, attended ■ the board meeting to look after the school interest in Wheatfield town. ■ R. A. Hopkins, of Rensselaer city, ■ ; came in at the eleventh hour tp find i > relief for the school city of Rensse-

laer. The following corporations, 1 through their trustees, petitioned the state board of tax commissioners for relief; Wheatfield township, Wheat-J field town, Kankakee township, Keener township, Walker township and. Rensselaer' city. Mr. Simms, presi’dent of the tax board, in conjuncti.Qji. with. othgr jumbers of the tax board, met the school men of the state in the house of represents-' tives last Friday. Governor Good-' rich sat in the honorary chair beside Mr.. Simins. At this meeting definite arrangements were made; whereby grievances from any school. corporation in the state would be 1 heard on Monday and Tuesday for the purpose of redrafting the previ-, ously recommended levy. Auditor Hammond has his tax duplicate practically all made ready for the treasurer the first of January. This will necessitate clerical changing for every newly recommended levy should the state tax board recommend revisions for the relief asked ■in these .petitions. The petitions will be heard Tuesday of this week. The board then considered the rural conference that will be held in Rensselaer Thursday November 13th. All trustees will be present and a large crowd is expected here that ' day. It is very likely that ,the Gayety will be used since all indications are that a large crowd will be in attendance to hear Superintendent Hines, Burris, Wetherow'and Smith. Trustee Fairchild, of Keener ship, has fitted his faculty with a "very strong corps of teachers in the high school and grades. All of his teachers in the grades have had at least thirty-six weeks’ professional training and. three of hid high school teachers are college or normal graduates. This fits DeMotte out with a teaching staff in harmony with

its fine new building very recently' eomplete'd. A Mr. Lloyd Jones, of Springfield, Mo., was employed by Mr. Fairchild last week. Mr. Jones is a degree man from Princeton. Miss Margaret Marshall, the principal, is a graduate of Leland Stanford and Miss Addie Harris, is a graduate of our state'normal, school. This gives variety to the faculty that is probably envied by schools of DeMotte’s size in the state. Children in Keener township can obtain an education inferior to none in the county when under the daily cotact of teachers who have graduated from schools of that type. Paul Ashby, of Tefft, continues to guide the community ideals there in a way that is meriting him confidence. - The parent-teachers’ organization has a genuine educational color under his guidance. Prof. A. C. Campbell, of Fair Oaks, has the school there moving along very nicely. Mr. Campbell was handicapped for a while during the worry over the death of their infant child some time back. Every teacher in the Fair Oaks faculty has measured up to the requirements of the state board. The country schools have moved along with exceptional efficiency so fa rthis year. The spirit of success and .the determination not to fail among the teachers of their first year’s experience is very hope-: ful this year. The schools are doing a wonderful patriotic as well as educational service by- purchasing war savings stamps. Jasper county stands well to the front, nearly doubling any of her adjoining counties. Frances Hibbs, of Union township, wa scompelled to resign her school at Center on account of her need in her own home. Miss Hibbs was teaching a very good school and ft was a great disappointment to her to resign.