Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The Eighth Grade Diploma examination will be held at various points in the county Saturday, March 20th. The following is a general statement of places and pupils in eighth grade for each township: Barkley will hold its examination at Newland and Center. The following is a list of applicants in Barkley: Wayne Comer, Lee Reed, Harold Nuss, Wilbert Keen, Minnie Cavender, May Markin, Viola Wolfe, Reed Pinnet, Luella Harston, Ralph Macy, Ronald Adams, Hazel Rees, Rosamond Koss, Leonard Maxwell, Gradie Wilbanks, Chester Flesher, Mabel Harper, Lola Smith, Ella Flesher, Edward Smith, Nellie Rees, John Nichols, Martha Stanley, Anna Larsen, Leia Long, Myrtle Elliott, Clarence Long and Mabel Carper. Carpenter township: Eugene Goldsburg, Gladys Dluzak, Daniel Hartsock, Vwla Roberts. Trustee Porter has ndt stated the place hence pupils shold find out through him. Gillam at Center, where Cynthia Houston Strong is now teaching. Those who are in eighth grade are Esther Culp, Ora Culp, James Hansen, Lillie Harper, Elsie Logan, Henry Ludeman, Earl Rockwell, Andrew Houston, Christian Wuerthrick, Joseph Wuerthrick, Ben Brittin, Rolland Johnson, Mildred Brown, Harold Poisel, Clara Shea, Albert Rayburn, James Budd, George Maddox, Nellie Lidgard. Hanging Grove will hold the examination at Banta. Those in eighth grade are Lawrence Snedeker, George Swing, Marie Bailey, Dorothy Smith, Sara Bollinger. There are a few at Banta but

the names are mislaid. Jordan at Egypt. Those in eighth grade are Lester Wortley, Omar Fleming, Golda Fleming, Ray Simonin, Frances Brown, Emmet Cain, „ Harold Kellner, Frieda Burns. Milroy at Banner. The eighth grade pupils are Bessie Kendall, Lawrence Kendall, Sophia Clark, Theodore Johnson, Pearl Johnson, Kenneth Spencer. Newton at Rensselaer. The applicants are Charles Waling, Roy Phares, Geneva Bierley, Alva Whited, Marion Whited, Nellie Bare, William Heilcher. Walker at Wal-' ker Center. Pupils enrolled in eighth grade are Isabelle Williams, Wallace Alexander, Mary Alexander,

Vincent Stalbaum, Nettie Salrin, Louise Deerburg," Robert Shultz, Daniel Odle, Wilda Odle, Ruth Martin, Dorothy Boes. Otwer townships will likely take advantage of the junior high school promotions. The building program in Jasper county at present is expressive of excellent judgment. It is only the school corporations now building that are forced to do so on account of a building necessity. Farmers are compelled to build when their homes become unbearable. A number of up-to-date homes are in the , process of construction as a result of necessity. The same business judgment should color public actions as private. If it become a building necessity in any corporation then it would be the least economy to cater to erection of buildings many years behind the schooltimes. This is the position taken by the trustees : who are being

forced into acting. Those who force the trustees to act by virtue of Hie law are patrons who send children to the local schools and are ably qualified to pass judgment upon the question of necessity. This is recognition of the princi£le that the people should be capale of judging their own needs. The State Board of Tax Commissioners think otherwise, but We are not prone to accept their construction of autocracy. The autocrat? in a democracy- should be the people and this is precisely the program being executed in Jasper county in this building matter. Trustee Davisson of Barkley is planning a trip to Lake county to examine the up-to-date school houses so that he can give the people of Newland and southern Barkley the most efficient as well as economical school buildings within his power. Such service from a trustee is most gratis but it presents the interest our school officials take in judicious spending of

the people’s money. Trustees Bowie, Rush, Porter and LeFever are facing similar situations and when the people signal through legal channels that they must act then they will act with the same spirit of service that now prompts the Barkley township trustee. Trustee LeFever of Gillam is able to be up and around again. He met with a severe accident about March Ist. While throwing down hay from the barn loft he fell through the man hole and was severely hurt. James Stevens of Gillam reports that his wife is mending very nicely again.