Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

Oscar H. Williams will address the Newton township rural educational conference, to be held in the west court room at the court house Monday, Feb. 2. There are a number of speakers, including Chas. W. Postill, George A. Williams, John Rush and others. Ernest Shultz is down with the grip. He is teaching the upper room at Gifford. The school closed there last Thursday in the lower room also. Miss (Helen Kessinger is teaching the primary room there. Miss Edna Reed took sick last Tuesday and was unable to teach her school the remainder of this week. She is teaching at Independence in Barkley. Miss Margaret Marshall, principal at Demotte, underwent a minor operation at Indianapolis last week and was out of the schools there for a few days. She is back again. It is becoming a problem to keep the. schools open. Teachers seem to have more sickness than usual. The first teachers’ examination of the year will be held at the high school auditorium today. There There will be no examination in February. Teachers of experience are urged to license themselves at the state department. A state license is often very essential when opportunities present themselves in schools outside of Jasper county. Two commissions were issued by the state board of education in the meeting at Indianapolis Jan. 16 last that affected the schools of Jasper county. One was to the Rensselaer city schools amd the other to the Fair Oaks school. There are several schools in Jasper county whose school status has not been considered by the state board. Those are Remington, Demotte, Wheatfield and Tefft.