Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The schools will be closed until the Spanish influenza is under control. These orders come from the secretary of the state board of health and the local hoard of health Is in no position to exercise an option in the matter. However, State Superintendent Ellis has issued orders to all county superintendents to hold the teachers examination on Saturday, October

26. This is the date fixed by law and Dr. Hurty decided that there would not be enough teachers to make it a public meeting of the -character barred by the- state-wide quarantine. The examination will be held at the high school building. Parents and teachers make incessant inquiries respecting the date when our schools' will open. Thia is a matter decided at Indianapolis every Friday afternoon and the results of the decision are telegraphed the local board of health, who in turn relays the holding to the county superintendent. Consequently it will be necessary to wait anti Ithe order is granted to open. We are not in a position to criticise either negatively or otherwise respecting the quarantine. It is our duty to cater to the suggestions of the state board of health just as confidentially as we discharge our patriotic duties. Parents are urged to have their children do farm work now as the opeg.. air is an excellent preventative to this malady. But care must be taken to keep the children dressed warm and fed wholesome food, especially pure milk. The county institute is postponed indefinitely. The township institutes should be held at the regular dates when the quarantine -lifts. Miss Eva Lilly has been employed to teach at Tefft. Miss Lilly has recently moved from Illinois to Walker township, this county. Alvan Karch, who teaches at East Vernon in Gillam township, has been down with the influenza. Miss Zona Dillon is up after several days illness with the influenza, and Miss Sage, the other teacher at Union, in Jordan township, is sick with the same disease. Carl and Chester Wortley won

first and second prizes in the potato club with yields of 212 and 215 bushels per acre, respectively! Supt. Sterrett was chairman of the comimittee to look after the potato cl,ub.