Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1902 — SCHOOL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL NOTES.

Miss Palmer, who was in the city last week in the interest of the W. C. T. U., talked to the high school last Friday morning. She told us of her visit, while in South Africa, a few years ago, to the home of President Kruger. The executive committee of the Northwestern High School Athletic Association met Saturday at Monticello, as previously announced. It was decided to hold the meet at Monticello, on Friday, May 23d. In the evening there will be an oratorical and musical contest. Rensselaer will go into these contests, as she always does, with a determination to win. The best way to encourage the contestants is to go out and watch them practice, and when the contest comes everyone go to Monticello. We ought to take two or three hundred people over to help the contestants win. In about three weeks there will be a preliminary oratorical contest, between the representatives of the different classes ot the High School, to see who will represent us in the Interscholastic Oratorical Contest. The contestants are Alice Drake (freshman class), Verne Sayers (Sophomore class), Elbert Antrim (Junior class) and Glen Wishard (Senior class). Parents, why don’t you visit the High School, more? You would be able to judge much better, concerning the work your ssns and daughters are doing. Probably not one fourth of the parents step inside the school room from one year’s end to the other. The teachers would be glad to see you. More hearty cooperation between parents and teachers is just what is needed. Farmer Shaw, of La Grange county, owned a sheep-killing dog, but was ignorant of the nature of the brute. One morning his household pet was caught in the act of killing a sheep, while seven carcasses were scattered around, and he shot the dog, and presented a bill to the county commissioners for the eight sheep killed. The commissioners heard his story and laughed long and loud over the proposition to pay a man for sheep owned by himself and killed by his own dog. Then the farmer began exploiting his knowledge of the law, and the commissioners concluded to call In the county attorney. /The attorney advised the commissioners to settle, and the farmer thereupon drew pay for sheep killed by his own dog. It was an application of the law to which the commissioners were not accustomed, and the board is still unreconciled.