Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — Educational Department. [ARTICLE]

Educational Department.

Edited by D. B. Nowkls, Co. Superintendent.

The State questions for examiaa tion will appear next week. Newton township institute,Saturday next at Curtis creek school house. Patrons and teachers of other townships are cordially invited. The schools of Jasper county are moving on with scarcely a jar to disturb the “even tenor of their way.” Sickness —that dread disease diphtheria —has been their worst enemy. Many reports come in with the names of the pupils perfect for the first month marked with a cruel little star. This tells the sad story of bright, sparkling, happy eyes closed and sleeping in the cold embrace of death. The disease is abating, however, and we hope ere long will be entirely broken up.