Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

State Superintendent L. N. Hines reported the following applicants from Jasper county as successful on the May teachers’ examination: Fairy Deardurff, Morocco; Mary Gay Makeever, Fair Oaks; Vera Woods, Rensselaer; Mary' Miles, Rensselaer; Day Jordan, Gifford; Lottie Porter, Renmington; Margaret Delahanty, Wheatfield; Mabel Worland, Rensselaer; Gladys McGlyn, Remington. The report shows thatMaryMiles and Lottie Porter will receive two licenses, one a grade and the other a high school license. The Walker township commencement has been set for Thursday night, June 24th. R. A. Talcott, dean of the public speaking department of Valparaiso University, has been secured by Trustee Pettet for this occasion. The Rev. Chas. Postill of Rensselaer will, deliver the invocation and benediction. Music will be furnished by the Jensen orchestra of Wheatfield. The graduates for this year are as follows: Wallace Alexander, Dorothy Boes, Bernice Hodge, Gladys Hartley, Daniel Odle, Vincent Stalbaum, Robert Shultz, Inabelle Williaman, Nettie M. Salrin, Alice Sayers. The second highest general average m the county was made by Alice Sayers of the Oak Grove school in Walker township. The Hanging Grove —-Milroy township commencement will be held at the Milroy church on Saturday ♦night, June 19th. Louis Hamilton will deliver the commencement address. Those from Hanging Grove township who will receive diplomas are Sara Bolinger, Mane Bailey, Maurice Hague, George Swing and Lawrence Snedeker. Marie Bailey made the highest average in Hanging Grove township. The graduates from Milrdy township are: Sophia Belle Clark, Pearl Johnson, Theodore Johnson, Bessie Kendall, Lawrence Kendall and Kenneth Spencer. The highest general average ml Milroy township was made by Theodore Johnson. Trustee Poole of Hanging Grove will likely chaperon Hanging Grove graduates alone since trustee Charles Wood of Milroy has a new job of amusing a new born son in his own home. The Barkley township commencement will be held at the BarWey church on Saturday, June 26th. Professor Thos. F. Moran of Purdue University will give the commencement address. The Rev. John Dean will give the invocation and benediction. Music will be furnished by local talent. The list of graduates from Barkley township is as follows: Edna Axen, Wayne Comer, Minnie Cavinder, Kenneth Davisson, Myrtle Elliott, Laura M. Hurley, Rosamond Koss, Anna M. Larsen, Ralph Macy, Leonard Maxwell, May Markin, Harold Nuss, John Nichols, Reed Pinnel, Nellie Rees, Lee Reed, Martha Stanley, Samuel E. Smith, Viola Wolfe. The highest general average was made by Harold Nuss. Trustee Davisson is to be congratulated upon securing Prof. Moran for a second consecutive address in Barkley township. Prof. Moran was able to about half of his audience last year and it is hoped that the speaking can be done from the front of the church. Jasper county manifests exceptional interest in the educational work at commencement times The trustees should make every effort possible to accommodate these large audiences who come to receive the inspiration of the evening. . Trustee Huff of Jordan is negotiating with Prof. Moran to deliver his commensement address at Union school in Jordan on Friday, June 25th. But no answer has as yet been received, from Prof. Moran. Announcements will be made definitely when the speaker is gotten for Jordan commencement. Trustee LaFevre of Gillam township seems very much pleased wth his commencement program set! or Saturday night of July 10th. Judge Charles W. Hanley will deliver the address for that occasion. Kev. Chas. Postill will give the invocation and benediction. Both of these men are Gillamites. It is understood that The Rev. Postill went to school to Judge Hanley a few years before Noah built his ark. It is also understood that a few years later the Rev. Postill received his diploma from the eighth grade in the same church (Independence) that this class will receive theirs. A list of the graduates is as follows: James Budd, Benjamin Bnttin, Esther Culp, Ora E. Culp, Jas. Hansen, Mabel M. Harper, Andrew Houston, Rolland Johnson, Henry Ludeman, Nellie Lidgard, Elsie Logan, Albert Rayburn, Earl Bockwell, Claria Shea, Christian Wuethrich, Joseph Wuethrich, Mabel Wallace. The highest general average for Gillam township and also for Jasper county was made by Joseph L. Wuethrich of- Fairview school taught by Mrs. Alpha Kerim.