Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The trustees met In regular session Monday and transacted the regular business of the board. The board voted each teacher a visiting day, to be given by the county superintendent. Last year the visiting day was confined to the beginning teachers. The importance of the day made each trustee cast his vote favoring a visiting day to all teachers regardless of experience. Teachers who attend the state association Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1 at Indianapolis will be given two days’ pay. This matter is optional with the teacher. State Supt. L. N. Hines wrote the board asking if the city of Rensselaer would provide a meeting place for the .trustees, county superintendents, ‘ presidents of school boards and others Interested in rural education. The board voted unanimously to provide a hall, court room or suitable place for this dneetlng. Supt. Hines is putting on a series *'of conferences on rural education in the various congressional districts of Indiana. Rensselaer will be the meeting place for this conference for the tenth congressional district. This meeting will be held in Rensselaer Thursday, Nov. 13. Every friend of education ie cordially invited to attend this meeting to hear the leading educators of Indiana discuss the subject of rural education. A Mr. Cook of Wheatfield township, through Trustee Bowie, invited the board of education to

visit at his home three miles north of Wheatfield, Thursday, Oct. 16. It is understood that the county commissioners were also invited. Mr. Cook is anxious to show all angles of Jasper county what be has done for Wheatfield, Keener and Kankakee townships. The board will be piloted over the different townships and will be at Mr. Cook’s home at the noon hour. The Demotte schools will open next Wednesday. They have a fine new addition that will serve as a community building as well as a school building. Trustee Fairchild has catered to the requirements of the state high school inspector and Demotte is now on the school map. Mr Fairchild has two college graduates in his high school faculty. Miss Margaret Marshall of Deputy, Ind., the principal, is a graduate of Leland Stanford and has also done work on her master’s degree. Miss Marshall has had a great deal of teaching experience and will give the -people of Demotte <a very capable and efficient school administration. Miss Addie Harris is a graduate of the state normal at Terre /Haute. She is the other lege graduate. The third teacher in the high school is Miss Marie Nevill of Rensselaer. Miss Nevill has finished her junior year in the Indiana state normal. Mr. Fairchild is on- the market for a teacher to assist these three in the high school to fulfill the recommendations of the state high school inspector. Two years ago Demotte ranked third in the county insofar as the number of school children is concerned. It is very likely that Demotte will hold the same ranking when the schools open next Wednesday. Last year the state high school inspector reduced the school to accredited standing on account of the building Now Demotte has a building on a parity with the large new building at Fair Oaks. Su'pt. L. J. Arend of Wheatfield reports that the schools are moving along very nicely at Wheatfield. Prof. Paul W. Ashby is doing some excellent work at Tefft. Prof. A C. Campbell is getting fine results at Fair Oaks. All of the high schools of Jasper county are moving with unusual smoothness to date. . . Russell Wooden has reached Washington, D. C., and is liking his work so far. William May, who was recently discharged from the navy, has been employed to teach in the high school at; Wheatfield. Miss Celia Steifel of Fair Oaks visited with home relatives at Salem, Ind., over Saturday and Sunday.

The BChooiß are running very nicely in most parts of the county.