Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1875 — Gillam Toownship Items. [ARTICLE]

Gillam Toownship Items.

Wheat looks nice., Cattle buyers are plenty. We are all done seeding. The corn is ripening rapidly. The formers have been successful in getting plenty of wild hay Twenty-fivesyears ago there ware fortytwo legal voters in Gillam township—eleven Whigs, three for Free Soil and twenty-eight Democrats. There are only five of them living in Gillam now. Four of them are living on the same farms on which they redded twenty, five years ago. Thre are thirteen men and twelve women in Gillam who were minors twenty-five years ago. There are seven women living in Gillam who were married women twenty-five jears ago—three of them are widows now. I. D. Dunn is herding cattle for John Qnerry. Pionxib.. The teachers’ institute is in session this week, under the management of Prof. Snoddy, our County Superintendent, Prof. Hunter, of Bloomington, and Prof. Smith, County Superintendent of Marion county. There are about seventy teachers id attendance.— Prof. Ainsworth delivered a very interesting lecture Tuesday evening, on thasubjcct, “Wbnt shall be dime with the bad boys.”— Wednesday evening Prof. Smith attempted to solve the “Problem of the children,’ ’ and succeeded to a considerable extnat. Thursday evening Prof. Hunter told ua that “a blackberry grows on a brier,” after which the teachers repaired to the residence of Mr. A. Thompson and spent an hour in being eoeiable. The teachers will graduate to-day and will wind up with a lecture hy' Prof. Smith, and a few momenta, of entertainment and “sociable.” The institute has been a fal” success this year. To-morrow Prof. Snoddy will try to find out what the teachers, and would be teachers, of the county, "know about teaching.”