Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

A rural educational program was staged at South Marion last Wednesday afternoon. The school opened the exercises with a number of appropriate songs. Mrs. Kenneth Allman, the regular music instructor, conducted this part of their program. Mrs._M. L. Sterrett gave a short talk in which she pointed out the characteristics of a model school. Trustee Postill followed with a general talk pertaining primarily to the educational revival still progressing in Indiana. About twenty parents were present to see and hear the two-hour program. Miss Elizabeth Hebard has been employed by Trustee Postill to assist Miss Mildred Rush in the primary grades at South Marion. Miss Hebard is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and lives near Thayer in Newton county. The four primary grades will be divided and a partition placed in the room ready for the extra teacher next Monday. It is very evident that another addition will need be made to South Marion another year. Trustee Davisson of Barkley township, a Smith Smith of Crown Point, who is the architect employed by Mr. Davisson, William Gratner, Ralph Johnson and John Rusk, the three members of the advisory board and the county 'superintendent spent last Wednesday afternoon at Newland and Barkley church selecting the sites for the two buildings, to be erected the coming summer.

Miss Sophia Hudson visited the Rensselaer schools last Friday. David Pummel visited at Logansport the same day. Jeannie Sage visited the South Marion schools last Wednesday. Most schools in the county dismissed Thursday and Friday for'the Thanksgiving vacation. John Poole was at his Hopkins’ Park farm in Illinois today. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Porter and children spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzpatrick of Francesville. Lottie Porter, who had spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Mt.* and Mrs. Burdett Porter of Remington, returned ‘to DeMotte today where she is a teacher in the high school. Delos Thompson went to Chicago this morning. , Ray Day, who is a fireman on the Menon, is at the home of his mother, Mrs. Julia Day. He is 'unable to return to his work on account of sickness. The Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Strecker spent the day with the Rev. A. L. Miller and family at Remington.