Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

An old-fashioned spelling match will be an all-day occurrence at thp Blake school in Jordan township next Thursday. The four rural schools will meet at Blake and begin the spelling at 10 o’clock and take an hour and a half out for their big basket dinner. County Superintendent Sterrett will pronounce the words at this match. The results will be announced in a later issue of this paper. Some of the rural schools will have finished their ■ terms before the first of April. Probably the first school to get out this year will be the Burnstown school tatight by Miss Leah Flora. This is a Barkley township school. Grant Davisson, trustee of Barkley, was able to get to town last Monday for the first time for weeks. He had been sick and unable to get out from his home. Burdette Porter, trustee of Carpenter, came to •Rensselaer for a short business matter last Monday. Miss Grace Warnock, who had been teaching for Mr. Porter, has resigned and her sister has taken the school. Ernest W’ineland of Fair View school in Hanging Grove was unable to teach for a week on account of sickness. Ruth Kennedy of Gifford was sick with the German measles for a short time and dismissed school. Mrs. P.etty at Fair Oaks has resumed her work after more than a week’s sickness. Miss Rosabelle Daugherty substituted for Mrs. Petty during her sickness. Mrs. Ruth Schwanke has been on the sick list at Demotte but is back in the school room again. The third sectional institute will be held at ' Remington next Saturday. The eighth grade diploma examination will be held Saturday, March 16. Pupils who have made the required number of home work credits are excused from the agriculture or domestic science on this examination. Pupils who passed on the semi-annual examination held last December in music are also excused in that subject. There are about 175 eighth grade pupils in the county. Seventh grade pu-

pils are _ not allowed to take the March diploma examination. The institute instructors for this year have been procured. A Prof. Krebs of New York City will be with the teachers during the week. Mr. Krebs is one of the most impressive speakers on the educational platform today. He has worked in a number of Indiana counties and has 4 © given unflinching success wherever he has worked. He will be at Delphi the week preceding our institute. Mrs. Frances Kelsey of the Blaker school at Indianapolis will also instruct the teachers along primary lines. She is conceded to be one of the best primary instructors in the state. The music will be directed by. a Mrs. Lena Todd of Flora, Indiana. Mrs. Todd will have charge of the county institute music at Delphi the week before she comes to Rensselaer. She has done the music work in Carroll county for years and is enthusiastically returned year after year. Mrs. Todd is a sister to Dr. W. L. Myer, the dentist at I£ensseiaer. With this excellent corps of instructors the institute should be one of the most effective that the county has ever experienced. The date has. been purposely arrangd so that no teacher will have an excuse for attending elsewhere. The institute will be held from September 3 to 6 inclusive. The August examination will -be over; the students will have returned from the various summer schools; and the schools throughout the county will open on the Monday following the institute. This will accommodate the teachers who live in adjoining and other counties.