Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Most of the schools over" the county have finished the term. Teaching on Saturdays has made it possible for a number of schools to close very early without shortening the term. The schools of Milroy township have been out for over a week. * Most of the schools in Barkley township are out. Elizabeth Yeoman, who taught at South Lawn, is in school at Indiana uni-

versify already. It is surprising to note the number of teachers who are going away to attend school the coming sutnmer. Prof. Louis J. Rettger of the Indiana State Normal school has been employed by Hanging Grove and Milroy townships to give their commencement address on Saturday, June 29. Prof. Rettger will also give the commencement address for Barkley and Gillam on Friday night, June 28. \Phe former exercises will be held at the Milroy church and the latter at the Barkley church in Barkley township. The next diploma examination will be held on Saturday, The examination will be divided but only in three sections instead of each township as before. One will be held at Remington, one at Wheatfield and one at Rensselaer. Mr. Salrin has requested to hold the examination at Walker Center in Walker township. This request has been granted owing to the large number to take the examination in that township. It might be well for each applicant to enquire of his trustee or the county superintendent if In doubt as to the place or time. Following is a list of pupils who wrote on the April examination:

Barkley township—Erma Adams, Elva Adams, Mary Ahern, Frank Britt, Mary Calender, Vera Conley, Gladys Elliott, Garfield Folger, Inez Flesher, Henry George, Ethel Hilton, Elsie Hamford, Eliza Hurley, Geneva Myers, Anna Morganegg, Leota Obenchain, Ellsworth. Price, Rachael Peregrine, Alice Sigman, Robert Scott, Mabie Scott, Elvin Schroer, William Snedeker, Roy Williams and Mary Williams. (There are twenty-five “in Barkley township.) The highest general average was made by Geneva Myers at 88.6 per cent, closely followed by Anna Morganegg with an average of 88.4 per cent. Carpenter township—Edna Baier, Lea Beckley, Gladys Carlile, Hazel Culp, Emma Christenson, Marion Meadal, Viola Owen, Grace Porter, Mabel Roberts, Eleanor Sickinger. Edward Sticknoth. There are eleven' in Carpenter township. The highest general average in this township was made by Edna Baier, which was 92.2 per cent. iHer closest second was Lea Beckley with an average of 87.2 per cent. Township Trustee Porter gave a prize of $5 to the puipil in Carpenter township who made the highest average. Edna Baier will receive the five dollar gold piece promised by Mr. Porter. Gillam township—Clara Guild and Hilda Onkin. Clara Guild made the higher average, which was 85,5 per cent. There were but two applicants in Gillam this year. Wallace Alexander is an eighth grade pupil but he did not take the March examination. Hanging Grove —Scott Cook, Orville Hague, Katherine Hobson, Josephine Johnson, Naomi Swing. Helen Tyler. Paul Randle will take the April examination. He w&s quarantined with the measles on March 16. There were six who took the March examination in Hanging Giove township. Helen Tyler holds first place with an average of 93.75 per cent. Katherine Hobson holds second with an average of 93.1 per cent. Jordan —Irene Iliff, Eleanor Iliff, Martha Maxwell. Bessie Reed, Ver Nell Woodruff, Ralph Shafer. There were six applicants from Jordan township. The highest general average was made by Bessie Reed. (Her average was 86.3 per cent. The next highest was made by Ver Nell Woodruff, whose average was 85.3 per cent. Kankakee —Lura Asher, Lloyd Asher, Catherine Cullen, Howard Duggleby, Alfred Duggleby, Mamie Fitzgerald, Janice Neier, Wade Peregrine, Pearl Schrader. There were nine from Kankakee township. The highest general average was made by Alfred Duggleby. Second place was made by Wade Peregrine with an average of 90.7 per cent. Alfred Duggleby’s average was 92. Keener—Lawrence 801, Martin R. Bronkhart, Ida DeVries, Edwin Erwin, Walter Enz, Cornell Evers, George Girard, Jacob Knipper, Edward Leighly, Werner Steinke, John White, Ruby Yeagley. There were twelve frolm, Keener. Ida DeVries leads the township with an average of 93.7'5 and she is followed closely by Walter Enz, whose average is 93.1. The highest general average in the county where there are more than three in the eighth grade class falls to Demotte. Yet there is none in the Demotte school who gets the highest average in the county. That will be mentioned later.

Marion —George Bachman, Chester W. Bachman, Edward Gowland, David Horsewood, Helen L. Horsewood, Helen Hopper, Velma R. Kennedy, Herman Kolhoff, Gladys Lambert, Edward McKinney, Addie McGlynn, Lawrence Miller, Fred Spangle, Edwin Spangle, Edna Schleman, Hazel Toombs, Francis Zimmer. There were 17 pupils who tried from Marion township. David Horse wood leads in Marion township with an average of 93.77,' closely followed by Herman Kolhoff with an average of 92.2. Milroy—-Lulu Anderson, Juno Beoughter, Iva Blankenship, Ivan Blankenship, Carl Beaver, William Digimlan, Marian Garvin, Ray Lytle, Thomas McAleer, Elmer McAleer, Arnold Sayers, Okal Spencer. There were twelve who took the examination from Milroy in March. The highest general average 'was 88.5, made by Arnold Sayers. The next highest was 85.5 made by Marian Garvin. J Newton —George Battleday, Winfred Bierly, Dewey Cox, Everet Greenlee, Edna Mauck, Ella Mauck, Walter Mayhew, Ray Mayhew, Russel Paulus, Delbert Stutzman, Vern Strain, Alva Weiss, Everet Watson, Nellie Whited. There were fourteen applicants in Newton township. The highest general average was made by George Battleday, which was 85.3. Ray Mayhew made second with an average of 84.4. Union—Ethel Burroughs, Dorcas Karr, Donald Lakin., Leo Long-

streth, Bertha Porter, Mildred Rude, Cloyeie B. Sheffer, Alvin Swaim, Leslie Wood. There were nine from Union. Cloyeie B. Sheffer leads in Union with an average scholarship of 93.3. Second place is held by Ethel Burroughs with an average of 89.8. Walker —Ralph Brooks, Jessie Braddock, Gladys Hershman', Esther Hershman, Pearl Hartley, Mabel Potter, Ruby Pettit, Ray Pettit, Fairy Salrin. There were nine to take the examination in Walker in March. Gladys Hershman leads in Walker with an average of 85.7 and Esther Hershman holds second place with an average of 83.4. Wheatfield —Mary Aitchison, Bessie Cooper, Irene Dreuth, William Williams, Marie Wesner. There were five applicants from Wheatfield township. Bessie Cooper made the highest general average in Wheatfield township at 89.6, and William Williams holds second place with an average of 79.2. This completes the March records with the exception- of three irregularities. Paul Randle of Hanging Grove was quarantined with measles but was given the privilege of writing with the understanding that the examination would be used for practice only. He prepared his work at home. Harold Zellers, a seventh grade boy, stole a march and wrote on the March examination at Fair Oaks. Noah Jenkins of the Wheatfield town schools took the examination also at Wheatfield. David Horsewood of Marion township made the high county average, which was 93.77 per cent. He was closely seconded by Helen Tyler and Ida DeVries, each of whom made an average of 93.75. (Helen Tyler is from the Osborn school in Hanging Grove township, and Ida DeVries is from- the town schools at Demotte. David Horsewood, the county winner, is from Bowling Green school in Marion township. The next examination will be held April 20. Call your trustee if in doubt about the place where you are to remove the conditions' to take the entire examination.