Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1914 — High School Notes. [ARTICLE]

High School Notes.

The picture show given by the high school last Monday evening, consisting of three reels, turned out successfully, the high school clearing sls. Smoking lias been prohibited about and within tho buildings, and the carrying of tobacco In any forth is not permissible. The Webster Literary Society is to give a program at the high school Thursday, Feb. 19. Everyone is cordially inyited to attend. The high school basket ball team played; Delphi high school here Wednesday afternoon, and yesterday afternoon the high school played Monticello. They defeated Delphi by a score of 41 to 12. The county fair was a great success last Saturday night. The proceeds go to the building of the domestic science and agriculture leparitments. The seniors themes are to be handed in Friday, Feb. 13. This is a new plan being adopted which will give the seniors more time than to wait until the end of the year. In the past three weeks several window lights have been broken, buggies hit, and people complaining to the school superintendent. For fear of further accident, snowballing must be forbidden on and near the school grounds.

Remains of Mary E. Ramey Brought Hero for Burial,

Mrs. Mary E. Ramey, widow of John Ramey, deceased, aged 60 years and 1 day, who for the past nine years has been an inmate of the insane asylum at Longcliff, died there Tuesday afternoon, and the body was brought to Rensselaer for burial. The funeral was held at the home of Mrs. Capitola Ramey, daughter of deceased, at 10; 30 a. m., Thursday, conducted by Rev. W. G. Winn of the Christian church, and interment made in Weston cemetery. Prior to (her removal to the asylum, Mrs. Ramey was a resident of this city for several years. She was married twice, her first husband being a man named Condra, from 1 which. union three children, all surviving, resulted, namely, Mrs. Gertrude Thornton, Spokane, Wash.; Ellison Condra, of Lafayette, and Mrs. Capitola Ramey, of this city. The surviving children resulting from her second marriage, to John Ramey, are: Hattie Ramey, of Spokane, Wash.; Mts. Eliza Craigen of Morocco ,and Fletcher Ramey of Rensselaer.