Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — PUBLIC SCHOOL, NOTES. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC SCHOOL, NOTES.

Primary Building. In the first grade the general health and attendance is exceptionally good.’ In the second grade several cases of tonsilitis have been reportedt but otherwise the attendance is good. In one third grade the health is good and attendance fair. In the other third grade two cases of gland trouble are reported. In the fourth grades the health is good and attendance fair. In the fifth grade the health is good, but much of the absence was unexcused. Among our visitors of the past week were: Superintendent Baker of the Remington schools, • the Misses Delehanty, Knapp, Gifford, Rush and Pancoast, county teachers, and a number of patrons. The third grade observed Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday anniversary November 13 by reciting quotations and reading the story of his life. The rooms in this building are showing very appropriate Thanksgiving decorations and posters. Miss Jordan is showing in pictures the story of the Pilgrims from the time they left their homes in England until they landed in America. Miss Woods' posters show all the good things usually connected with the Thanksgiving celebration. Miss Lamson and Miss Jordan are enrolled in the correspondence course of writing offered 'by the A. N. Palmer company. Russell Rees from Barkley township has entered our fourth grade. Luella Winfry has re-entered thq fifth grade after several weeks’ absence. Esther Arnott has returned to school after a month's absence on account of sickness. Miss Malchow has received a certificate from the A. N. Palmer company certifying that she has completed their required course* and passed the final examination. The campaign is now on for junior Red Cross membership and the Lake division urges 100 per cent enrollment by Thanksgiving. Each child in the school can do his part toward making this possible by the payment of the annual dues of twenty-five cents. All officers and committees of the recently organized “Primary Building club” are called to meet November 25 at 3:30 p. m. in the fifth grade room. —Mrs. A. R. Kres■ler, President.

—o — Grammar School. The pupils in the grammar building have been very busy the past week preparing the program which was given Friday for the parentteachers’ meeting. . There were several songs, recitations and dialogues given which were greatly enjoyed by Misses Rush, Pancoast and Gifford, Jasper county teachers, visited our schools Monday. The children made their own invitations to the parent-teachers’ program. . The teachers and pupils wish to thank the school officials for the piano which they purchased for this building. It came at the right time. —o — High School Notes. After two successive disappointments, the football fans are once more assured of a Thanksgiving contest. The speedy Sheridan team, which claims the championship of northern Indiana, and which recently played a 0-0 tie with Kentland, is to appear on the local gridiron. Tickets will be on sale Monday morning. This evening the senior and sophomore classes entertain the rest of the school in the high school gymnasium as a result of the recent membership campaign of the Athletic association. Supper- will be served at 6:80, and an informal program has bee narranged. Basketball practice has begun on a small scale. Until the close of the football season, only light practices will be held, but the men are already at work in preparation for the game at Valparaiso December 5. Coach Woerner reports a wealth of material. ' The Princess theatre is to present a series of six educational films, sponsored by the high school. The first, a film version of the “Hoosier Schoolmaster,” by Edward Eggleston, an Indiana author, will be shown December 2nd. Season tickets for the entire series will be sold at ninety cents plus war tax. Single admissions will bq twenty cents plus war tax. Prof. W. F. Sharpe, of Crawfordsville, is to deliver a stereoptican lecture on Washington, D. C., in the high school auditorium December sbh at 8 o'clock. An admission fee of thirty-five cents will be charged, the proceeds to be utilized in the publication of the high school annual, the “Chaos.”

An incandescant electric lamp that can be removed from a socket without destroying its usefulness has been Invented for use in public places to prevent theft. For campers, a box for shipping supplies has ■ been designed with sides that fold upward to convert it into a table, supported by iron legs that form braces when it la crospd. ' ’ A young New Zealander, who wrote Bernard Shaw, begging for his autograph to add to a colleo* tion, drew forth the characteristically genial advice from the dramatist, “to set fire to the collection of autographs and sit on the top.”