Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — SCHOOL NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCHOOL NOTES

Items of Interest Begirding the Rensselaer Public Schools

Supt. L. H. Hamilton has been vis iting the schools this week. When you see the small boys and girls gathering around the arc-lights at night; when you see them carrying boxes with holes punched in the top; when they walk down toward the school house with the air of people whose business is urgent, they are only on the road to the laboratory with bugs or snakes or worms or what-nots for the zoological department. Sometime during the month of October the teachers in the city schools will be given visiting days. Some of the teachers will go to Logansport, some to Chicago and some to Terre Haute. Things are getting in readiness for the Monticello game next Friday. School will be dismissed. It is hoped that many of the town people outside of school will go along to help the boys win that game. They have a hard proposition to confront, but with proper support we believe that Rensselaer can give Monticello out of the same box of bitter pills that she did last spring. It would have done the heart good of any athletic enthusiast, to have been at the school grounds Monday evening after school. The pent up athletic activity of the school seemed to be coming forth into newness of life. The athletic microbe was around seeking whom he might devour, laughing in his own peculiar way at each new victim. In addition to home talent we had trainers from Delphi and Chicago. Percy Hauter, Letto Hauter and Charlie Robinson were practicing sprinting under the direction of Mr. E. M. Neher, of Delphi, while Marion Pierson, under the capable instruction of Dr. Bernard Maloy, of Chicago, was doing the hammer throw and putting the shot. Over on the basket-ball grounds, Mr. Headlee was sweating away like a ditch-digger, getting the girls in line in basket-ball. Capt. Alice Drake says that the girls play a “snappy” game and that they are in good form for so early in the season. Now to the foot-ball field. Every man in the high school that can possibly have any hopes for the team is out practicing. Senior, junior, sophomore and freshman have put aside all petty differences and for the glory of the high school, as the ball is snapped, lion and lamb pile up together. The coaches Messrs. Frank Maloy and Blaine Gwin put the men through some fierce practice, adding where needed some wholesome advice. In addition to all this, a smaller team of Park Kelley, Wood Spitler, Firman Thompson and Taylor McCoy size is being directed by Boyd Porter. Nor is that all. Nearly every side street had its juvenile team lined up against the boys of the next street. With sprinting, discus, hammer and shot throwing, basket-ball and football for all ages, with every event under competent supervision, we think the town never witnesse d the like before.