Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The influenza situation in Jasper county is very little improved. A’ number of oiur country schools have closed and the number is constantly increasing. The Tefft schools opened last Monday. Miss Lottie Porter, a teacher in the high school, has been down with the Influenza. She has resumed her work there again. The Gifford school was closed last Monday. Aix and Virgie are still closed. The Fair Oaks school closed last Wednesday. Union, school in Jordan closed last Tuesday. Three schools are Closed in Carpenter. Gillant township is undergoing a siege of the epidemic that has closed a, number of the schools there. Mr. Stevens is reported very sick with the influenza. Bessie Hullihan, teacher at West Vernon is bedfast. Freda Ferguson, teacher at Zadoc, in Walker, has been a “flu’* victim. Nellie Johnstone, teacher at Independence, in Barkley, and Gertrude Misch, teacher at Blackford, in Barkley, have both been sick with influenza. Martha Parker, Feme Rawlings, and Dewey Nelson, teachers in Carpenter, are sick with the influenza. Esther Sage of Jordan is reported down with the disease. Pearl Babcock Rea and Lural Anderson,! Iboth teachers at Fair Oaks, are down with the influenza. Mses Alice! Myers, teacher at Walker has been out on account of the sickness and death of her brother, Irene McAleer, teacher at Queen: City, in Milroy, is reported down also. It is likely that the Bowling! Green school will be closed if there is no further improvement in the school there. Teachers from' all angles of the county are complaining about their attendance. The school officials will endeaver to meet each school situation as best serves the community. Life and health are worth more than the schooling the children are losing. The teachers are taking down daily now and the school closings are going to be more frequent from now on. The trustees are the judges of the closing of schools under their supervision. Jasper county is experiencing a health situation that is without precedent.