Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1903 — SCHOOL NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCHOOL NOTES

Items o! Interest Regarding the Rensselaer Public Schools

Oka Pancoast is not getting along so well as could be wished. We hope to see her back in school soon, however. Again we are compelled to record the fact of another pupil leaving our school. Lily Warren, ofthe Freshman class, will leave Thursday of this week for her future home at Peru. We are sorry to lose her, bub we recommend her to the pupils and faculty of the Peru high school. Mildred Halleck, daughter of Commissioner Halleck, entered the eighth grade Monday. Miss Needham was called to Newcastle last Thursday by the death of her grandfather. She went on the train that backed off a switch, and as a result she did not get to Newcastle in time for the funeral. There was no school in her room Thursday and Friday. Miss Shields, while playing basketball one evening last week, ran against the wall too hard and broke her left arm just above the wrist. At the time the K. N. girls were taking their first practice at basketrball. This accident seems to have put a damper on their enthusiasm. -w/wThe boys have begun to practice for the field meet in the spring. They are practicing starting, hurdling a little, and vaulting out in J. C. Gwin’s lumber sheds, thanks to his kindness. Tuesday evening the boys for the first time this spring, tried putting the shot. Glen Wishard, of the Illinois Steel Company, R. H. 8. 1902, is visiting the high school this week.