Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 48, DeMotte, Jasper County, 17 October 1940 — KNIMAN SCHOOL NEWS [ARTICLE]

KNIMAN SCHOOL NEWS

The Kniman school faculty consists of Owen M. Frey, Prin.; Mi's. Gretchen Randle of Vialpo, Home Economics; Wesley Meyers of TefFt, 7th and Bth grades; Helen Holle of Kniman, sth-6th grades; Freda German of Fairhill, 3rd-4th grades. Also a music teacher has been added to their faculty, Max Roush. The Home Ec girls of the Kniman school gave a party Tuesday evening, Oct. Bth, at the Kniman school house. They invited, as their guests of the evening, their school faculty The Kniman School Faculty had their first teachers’ party of the, Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, at the school house. Mrs. Gretchen Randle presided as hostess of the evening. Others attending, besides the teachers, were Mr. and Mrs. Ira L. Huntington, Fred R. Hine, Ella Paterson, and Henry Schmidt. A very enjoyable evening was had by evreyone.

Rebuilding and repairing started almost iramedi&tly after the fire which destroyed * three stores and damaged two others in our town last summer. The stores burned were the Louis Grube Tavern, the Nelson Barber Shop, and the Anderson General Store while the Bierma Hardware and the Fendig Drug Store were badly damaged. All of these stores were wood frame buildings and they are now being replaced with concrete block buildings. The Grube building is finished, while the Anderson and Nelson buildings are fast nearing completion. By cold weather they should be entirely finished. The new fronts on the Bierma store and Fendig store add much beauty to that part of the town. When these new buildings are completed, Wheatfield will have a business section w'hich every one should be proud of.