Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1917 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The State Teachers’ association will be held at Indianapolis this week, October 31 to November 3' inclusive. Many city, town and country teachers have planned to attend. Prof. Moran of Purdue university has been secured to deliver two addresses on Saturday, November 10, at Wheatfield. He is well known in the county and will be quite a drawing card for this institute. It is understood that Prof. Moran will talk along some phase of the war. He is the author of several works on European and American history and speaks as authority. The Institute is open to the public. It will be held in the large opera house owned by George Ferguson. The school house in the Sutton community in southwestern end of Keener township burned last week. The house burned within an half hour after school closed Monday evening. Miss Carrie Williams of Wheatfield was teaching this school. This school is being hauled to Demotto and Miss Williams is being used in the schools there. This gives Demotte seven teachers with Prof. Ringham at the head. The school is asking for a commission this year. There are three girls in the senior class. The high school at Tefft, has been closed, for a week on account of the death of Prof. Matt’s mother. The following teachers took the examination for state license last Saturday: (For high school license) Mis® ‘Nina Martindale, Florence Caffyn. Mae Robertson, William May and Wayne Lynburg. A. C. Campbell of Newland wrote on common school. There were fifteen applicants 'who took the examination for county license. Most of these were applicants for a license in music only? A fine new consolidated school building is going up at Fair Oaks. This building will cost the township about $25,000 when it is completed. Walker township will build a consolidated building some place near the center of the township next summer. There is but one township that has consolidated its schools completely. This is Kankakee township.