Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

x State Superintendent L. N. Hines requested success grades from the following -applicants on the July, teachers’ examination: Ura Gwin, Oka Pancoast, Minnie Hemphill, Jane Parkison, Mabel . Worland, Tillie Maldhow, Edith Thompson, Betty Royster, Marguerite Jones and Nina'Washburn. A call for a success grade does not always mean that the applicant has been Accessful. But there are very few cases where the applicant falls after a call has been made for the success grade. The township trustees are getting their school houses scrubbed and cleaned for sdhool to open September 8. An extraordinary effor is being made to start every school in Jasper county on Monday, September 8. Teachers are either settling down to take their schools or resigning to accept others. This is the month that this occurs most frequently. Mabel McAhren, who was slated to teach for Grant Davisson of Barkley, resigned last Saturday to take a school nearer home (Indianapolis). We have had no resignations of home teachers, but always -teachers who use Jasper county as the last straw and if all others sink then they fulfill their obligations. This is one of the strongest reasons why Jasper county should use its home teacher. It is equally true that home telphers should make therm selves equally as efficient by attending good normal schools and keeping abreast with the times. Otherwise they should not be used. The Demotte school addition, is well under headway. It is possible that the schools in Keener township will convene a week or two later than others on account of this. The following corporations have their reports on file in the office of the county superintendent: Barkley, Carpenter, Gillam, Jordan, Kankakee, Marlon, Newton, Union, Walker, Wheatfield, Remington town, and Wheatfield town. The others will likely be in so that the report can be made to the state department by the 15th of this month.