Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1902 — SCHOOL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL NOTES.

Dean Bruner and Charles Wirkoff are back from Lafayette to make the needed changes in the heating plant. The plan now is to put more radiators but of smaller size iu the rooms, thus distributing the heat more faotorily. The contractors, school board, teachers and pupils all will be glad when the system gets to working as It should. Clare Jessen, of the eighth grade, was quite painfolly hurt last Friday evening while returning tn a wagon from a box-supper. Her scarf got wound around a spoke of one of the wheels of the wagon, drawing her face down, Upon the wheel. The exercises of the High School Literary Society last Friday were unusually Interesting. An extempo-, raneoua debate on the question '•resolved that the life of a bachelor is happier than that of an old maid” brought out the fact that the boys and girls of the high school are learning to think on their feet. After able and amusing arguments were brought out on both sides of the question, the last speaker proposed that the discussion of the question could be best settled by compromise, having the bachelor marry the old maid. The seniors as a class gave their initial performance. Though sober and serious as seniors always are, in their medley of song, they were able to' Introduce a certain element of joy and son.

Mr. Neher spent Saturday and Sunday visiting his parents and friends at Rossville. Cleve Eger was about the most important boy in the high school, Monday. And why? The facts are these. Last fall Cleve collected some dozen cocoons and planned to gp in the butterfly business in the spring. Thanks to the heating plant, it has been like spring all the time in the labaratory. The little fellows asleep in the cocoon beds got their naps out and Monday one of them tunneled out of nis prison walls, with the evident intention of enjoying life for a few days. He was a beauty, a great big fellow, with most beautiful colored wings. He was too handsome to live. “He will make a fine specimen for my collection” thought Cleve, and then murder was committed, but that he‘might die easily, Mr. Butterfly was given ether.