Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — THE RENSSELAER SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

THE RENSSELAER SCHOOL

At a meeting of the school Board held recently at the office of the “Citizens’ Bank,’ Miss Emma Coble (nee Barnett) of Kewanna, Indiana, was employed to teach in the Public Schools for the coming year. Mrs. Coble is a graduate ot the State Normal School has been teaching in the City schools of Frankfort, Ind., for the past year. The Board also assigned the teachers as follows; C. P. Mitchell, teacher of the •High School, and Superintendent Mrs. Melissa V. Mitchell, teacher of the Grammar School. Miss Amanda W. Osborne, teacher of the Intermediate. Miss Lydia Parris, Primary “B.” Mrs. Emma Coble, Primary “A.” We have secured the services of an able and experienced corps of teachers. Mr. Mitchell, Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Osborne and Miss Parris have been in the employ of the Board for the past two years,— you know what they have done, and can do as teachers; the record they have made in the past as teachers is open for inspection, and aS for Mrs. Coble, the Superintendent of Schools of Frankfort, where she has been teaching, in answer to an inquiry as to her standing as a teacher, says: “She is a splendid teacher,—good any where you have a mind to put her.” The new catalogue will be ready for distribution very soon. School will commence on Monday, September 4th. Let all be in attendance on the first day of school and continue constant, in attendance, vying with each other in punctuality, neatness, industry, charity and other cardinal virtues. And finally, let the patrons and pupils, one and all, consider himself dr herself a committee of one whose duty it shall be to work constantly, in season and out of season, to make the schools of Rensselaer, in the future as they have been in the past, second to none in the State.

M. F. CHILCOTE.

It ia said by a well-known Illinois educator, that ‘The average western farmer toils hard early and late, often depriving himself of needed rest and sleep—for what? To raise corn. For what? To feed hogs. For what? To get money with which to buy more land. For what? To raise more corn. For what? To feed more hojgs. For what? To buy pore land. And what does he want with more land? Why he wishes to raise more corn—to feed more hogs—to buy more land—to raise more corn—to feed more hogs—and in this circle he moves until the Almighty stops his hoggish proceedings.’ We have receved a premium list <?f the Jasper County Agricultural Fair, to be held in Rensselaer, Sept. 12,13,14, and 15. That Society is evidently prospering, for they present an attractive programme, and from well known probity and energy of its officers, there is no doubt the coming exibition will be an excellent one. Every man in Jasper county has an interest in the success of the enterprise and should do his utmost to help ialong. It is not an undertaking to be bounded by township lines, and 'we urge upon all citizens of Carpenter especially to aid in making it a success.—Remington News.