Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Newton township will hold its annual eighth grade commencement on the afternoon of Friday, June 14. Owing to the size of the class Trustee Rush decided to hold it at the Huntington home west of Blue Grass school house. There is a large front porch which can be nicely decorated for the occasion. The following pupils will receive diplomas on that day: George Battleday, Winfred Bierly, Dewey Cox, Everet Greenlee, Edna Mauck, Walter Mayhew, Ray Mayhew, Ella Mauck, Russel Paulus, Delbert Stutzman, Vern Strain, Alva Weiss, Everet Watson and Nellie Whited, making fourteen in all. Prof. Thomas F. Moran of Purdue university will deliver the class address, Delbert Stuitzman will sing, the Mauck sisters will speak and an orchestra will ifurnish music. There is ample room in the large front yard at the Huntington home to park automobiles and remain in them to listen to the exercises. The program will begin promptly at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The Marion township commencement will take place on Friday evening, June 14, at the Consolidated school about two miles southeast oif Rensselaer. The following pupils will receive diplomas upon that occasion: George Bachman, Chester Web. Bachman, Edward Gowland, David Horsewood, Helen Hopper, Velma R. Kennedy, Herman Kolhoff, Gladys Lambert, Edward McKinney, Addie McGlymn, Lawrence Miller, Fred Spangle, Edwina Spangle, Edna Schleman, Francis Zimmer and (Helen L. Horsewood. Prof. Thomas F. Moran will give the class address. The entertaining numbers on the program will be as follows: Violin solo by Miss Beatrice Tilton, and a vocal solo by Miss Wil-da Littlefield. These exercises will begin promptly at 8 o’clock.

The trustees have made a special effort to secure speakers who have a fixed reputation for work of th-'s character Prof. Moran need", no introduction in Jasper county to the teachers. He has a reputation that has made him very popular among the teachers and no one who hears him will be disappointed. The patrons who hear him at these commencements ill indorse the general attitude of others who have heard him.