Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

(By M. L. STERRETT, Co. Bupt.) The eighth grade diploma examination will he held at various points in the county Saturday, Meh. 20. The following is a general statement of places and pupils in_ eig4ut'h grade ‘for eaoh township: Barkley will hold its" examination at Newland and Center. The following is a list of applicants in Barkley: Wayne Coomer, Lee Reed, Harold. Nuss, Wilbert Keen, Minmiie Cavender, May Markin, Viola Wolfe, Reed Pinnet, Luella Harston, Ralph Macy, Ronald Adams, Hazel Rees, Rosamond Koss, Leonard Maxwell, Gradle Wilbanks, Chester Flesher, Mable Harper, Lola Smith, Ella Flesher, Edward Smith, Nellie Rees, John Nichols, Martha Stanley, Anna Larsen, Leia Long, Myrtle Elliott, Clarence Long and Mable Harper. Carpenter township: Eugene Goldsburg, Gladys Dluzak, I kin lei Hartsock, Viola Roberts. Trustee Porter has not stated the place, hence pupils should find out through him. Gillam at Center where Cynthia Houston Strong is now teaching. Those who are in eighth grade are (Esther Culp, Ora Culp, James Hansen, Lillie Harper, Elsie Logan, Henry Ludeman, Earl Rockwell Andrew iHtoueton, Christian Wuerthrick, Joseph Wuerthrlck, Ben Brittin, Rolland Johnson, Mildred Brown, Harold Poisel, Clara Shea, Albert Rayburn, James Budd, George Maddox, Nellie Lldgard. v Hanging Grove will hold the examination at Banta. Those in eighth grade are Lawretnce Sned** eker, George Swing, Marie Bailey, Dorothy iSnxith, Sara Bpllinger. There are a few at Banta but the names are mislaid. Jordan at Egypt. Those in eighth grade are Lester Wortley, Omar Fleming, Golda Fleming, Ray Simonin, Frances Brown, Emmet Cain, Harold Kellner, Frieda Burns. Milroy at Banner. The eighth grade pupils are Bessie Rendall, Lawrence Kendall, Sophia dark, Theodore Johnson, Pearl Johnson', Kenneth Spencer. Newton at Rensselaer. The applicants are Charles Waling, Roy Pharee, Geneva Bierley, Alva Whited, Marlon Whited, Nellie Bare, William Hei Ichor. Walker at Walker Center. Pupils enrolled in eighth grade art? Isabelle Williams, Wallace Alexander, Mary Alexander, Vincent Stalbaum, Nettie Salrin, Ixvudse Deerburg, Robert Schultz, Daniel Odle, Wi'lda Odle, Ruth Martin, Dorothy Boes. Other townships will likely take advantage of the junior high school promotions. The building program in Jasper cownity at present is expressive of excellent judgment. It +st only the school corporations now building that are forced to do so on account of a building necessity. Farmers are compelled, to build when their homes become unbearable. A number of up-to-date homies are in the process of construction as a result of necessity. The same business judgment should color public actions as private. If it becomes a building necessity in any corporation then it would be the least economy to cater to erectioh of buildings many years behind t'he school times. This is the position taken by. t'he trustees who are be-

Ing forced into acting. Those who force the trustees to act by virtue of the law are 'patrons who send children to the local schools and are ably qualified to pass judgment upon the question of mecessity. This is recognition of the principle that the ipeople should be capable of Judging their own needs. The state board of tax commissioners think otherwise but we are not prone to accept their construction of autocracy. The autocrats in a democracy should be the people and this is precisely the program ibeing executed in Jasper county in this building matter. Trustee Davisson of Barkley is planning a trip to Lake coumty to examine the up-to-date school houses so ihht he can give the ipeople of Newland and southern Barkley the most efficient as well as economical school buildings within his power. Such service from a trustee is mostly gratis but it presents thte interest our sdhool officials take in judicious spending of the people’s money. Trustees Bowie, Rush, Porter and LeFever are facing similar situations and when the people signal through legal channels that they must act then they will act with the saxnte spirit of service tha/t now prompts the Barkley township trustee Trustee LeFever of Gillam is able to be up amd around again. jHe met with a severe accident about Meh. 1. While throwing down hay from the barn loft he fell through the man hole and was severely hurt. James Stevens of Gillam reports that his wife is mending very nicely again.