Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The eighth grade diploma examination will be held over the county next Saturday. Any pupil in the county may come to Rensselaer to take t) his examination or take it in his own township. Prof. Hickner of Demotte will take up his new field at Gary next week. The high school inspector, Oscar H. Williams, has set Thursday, March 21, as his day to inspect the high school at Demotte, W heatfield, Tefft and Fair Oaks. William May, one of the high school teachers at Fair Oaks, took sick at school last Monday and was unable to teach. James McKay, Paul Barker, Gladys Ogle and Mary Norman took his classes in the grade work and Gladys Hammerton taught the Latin in high school, and Goldie Kessenger the commercial geography. Irene Ballenger and Opal Holle have aided by taking classes in the grades when a teacher has been sick for a ter of a This is an excellent training for the pupils when they are able to teach with proper results. Gladys Arnott, who is teaching east of Surrey, was sick with an attack of tonsilitis last Wednesday and Thursday. Her brother, a senior in the Rensselaer high sehcol, substituted for her. Miss Juanita Fisher, who is teaching at Center in Milroy township, has been sick for two weeks, and her sister, a senior in the Wolcott high school, took her school during the time, and also took her work in the joint township institute held at Lone Star last Saturday. Mrs. Frank P.

Hiekner has consented to teach her husband's classes at Deqaotte until the close of the term there If necessary. She is an experienced teach~er and also possesses the qualifications necessary to commission the school. The South Lawn school in Barkley township, taught by Elizabeth Yeoman, will close next Wednesday, March SO. The Burnstown school, taught by Miss Lea Flora, will close March 22.