Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1904 — TEACHERS INSTITUTE. [ARTICLE]

TEACHERS INSTITUTE.

The county teachers’ institute, which has been in session all week, adjourned yesterday. Monday night the county superintendent gave a reception to the teachers in the court house.

Tuesday night there was an illustrated lecture on Indiana University at the Presbyterian church by Hon. John W. Cravens. Wednesday night Prof. E. B. Bryan gave a lecture on the Philippines at the Presbyterian church.

The oratorial contest Thursday evenining at the opera house was well attended and was participated in by all the townships but Keener and Kankakee. The first prize was awarded to Emmet Crowe from Newton tp., subjeet, “The Value of an Education.” The prize was a sls gold medal. The boy is now a resident of Rensselaer, his mother being a widow, but he graduated from Newton tp. The second prize, a $5 silver medal was awarded to Oliver Hershman of Walker tp., a son of Walter Hershman. His subject was “Oliver Cromwell and English Libety.”