Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — Report of the First Month's Attendance In Rural Schools. [ARTICLE]

Report of the First Month's Attendance In Rural Schools.

Superintendent Lam son has just finished tabulating the record of the first month’s attendance in the rural schools. 1 This report shows the enrollment to be 1844 as against 1834 last year. The per cent of attendance is 95.8 for the county 'as against 96.1 last year for the same month. The banner school of the county' si that of Zelda Daugherty of Union township, with an attendance of 99.6 per cent. Several others are dose competitors—Jennie Eib of Barkley, 99.5 per cent; Grace Houk, of Kankakee, 99.4 per cent; Louise Strantz of Hanging Grove, 99.3 per cent: Nellie Knapp of Marion, 99.3 per cent, and Jessie Williamson of Carpenter township, 99.2 per cent. The banner schools in the different townships are as follows; Barkley, Jennie Eib; Carpenter, Jessie Williamson; Gillam, Edith Martindale; Hanging Grove, Louise Strantz; Jordm, Nellie Eck; Kankakee, Grace Houk; Keener, Otto Schwanke; Marion, Nellie Knapp; Mllroy, Ear’ Foulks; Newton, Dena Hanson; Union, Zelda Daugherty; Walker, Anf.a Jasperson; Wheatfield, Forest Crafg. Both ths teachers and the patrons are to be commended for making such a record possible. *