Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The trustees have finished their 1919 enumeration of school children, voters, soldiers and sailors. Last year Jasper county had a total of 3,925 school children between the ages of 6 and 21. This year there are 4,037, making an increase of 112. The heaviest loss was in the city of Rensselaer, where there are 38 less enumerated this year than last. Wheatfield town gained 9 and Remington 11. Many new schools in the north end of the county will be built and equipped with teachers the coming year to meet the increase as shown by the enumeration records from Wheatfield, Walker and Keener townships. The dredging of that end of the county is inviting men with families to move out from Chicago to make permanent homes in what was but a few years ago an uninhabited marsh. Trustee Pettit was in the office of ,the county superintendent Friday to

arrange for the building of a new one-roomed building upon the site of the Oak Grove building that burned two years agb. Mr. Pettit states that he will also open the Canada school in the west end ot Walker township. He also found that it would be Imprudent to continue Zadoc since the enumeration in that district would be less than seven pupils. The state department has called for success grades from the following applicants who took the state teachers’ examination last April: Minnie Hemphill, Martha Parker, Avanelle Geier, Marie Fisher, Lottie Porter, Bertha Hershman, Eva Lilly, A. C. Campbell, Helen Whlto. Mary Harvey, Anna Hunslcker. Helen Porter, Mabie McAhren. AU teachers of experience are urged to hold a state license as well as a county license. From the above list Avanelle Geier Is a senior from the Remington high school who was successful on the March exa»mlnation (state) also but tried again to test whether the March was Puck, and is now reported a success again. Martha I. Parker of Remington has taken state in January, March and April and reported a success on all three. Many of the teachers use the teachers' examination as a day of benefit regardless of the license made. This represents professional Interest worthy of the effort.