Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The Jasper county board of education met in regular session last Monday with all members present, except Trustees Rush of Newton and Davisson of Barkley. Mr. Rush was threshing at his home last Monday and Mr. Davisson was sick during the forenoon, but was able to get to the session at the closing. The board adopted Dole’s Civics for the seventh and eighth grades. The Heart of America readers for the first', second and third grades to be used as supplemental to the state adopted text was also adopted. A sad experience has fallen upon County Superintendent Armstrong of Carroll county. His oldest boy, a lad in his senior year in the Delphi high school, drowned In the Tippecanoe river last Sunday. County Superintendent Sterrett attended the funeraf last Wednesday. Superintendent Armstrong is one of the speakers in the Jasper county teachers’ institute to be •held September 1 to 6.