Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The Jasper county board of education met in regular session last Monday. The board voted unanimously to fix the minimum wage for teachers in Jasper county at $3.25 per day. Last year it was fixed at $3. This will likely appeal to the interest of the beginning teacher in this county. The trustees were pleased with the scarcity of failures among the inexperienced last year. They felt that the beginner should receive some recognition in a financial way this year, so that the amateur would put exceptional effort into the work to avoid failure. Possibly no county in the state has fixed a minimum scale at such high figures, yet it is the only means to develop an efficient teaching force. The county can well afford to pay teachers who make Jasper county their home. The money reappears in Jasper county when the teachers are fixed assets of the county. Commencements were fixed at the following places and dates: Gillam at Independence church on Monday, June 23rd, at 8 p. m.; Marlon at Marion consolidated on Tuesday, June 24th, at 8 p. m.; Newton at Bradford Poole home or the Swaney Makeever farm where it was held last year, on June 24th at 2 p. m.: Hanging Grove and Milroy will hold a joint commencement at McCoysburg Wednesday, June 25th, at 8 p. m. Jordan will hold its commencement at Union school on Thursday, June 26th, at 8 p. m. Walker will hold its commencement at Kniman on the afternoon of Thursday, June 2dth, beginning promptly at 2 oclock, new time. It will be noted that two

townships are holding their commencements in the afternoon. G. Stanley Coulter, Prof. H. Babson and Prof. T. F. Moran will be the speakers for these occasions. A complete list of the graduates by township will appear in a later issue. Keener will hold its commencement on June 13th at Konovsky's hall In Dumotte. Barkley will holl Ks commencement on Juno 21st, as prcvi oualy announced. Juno is always construed as the vacation month for the county superintendent.