Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1885 — RENSSELAER SCHOOL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER SCHOOL ITEMS.

The enrollment in the different rooms d uring the month of April was as iol--lows: < > Miss Alice Irwin, 47 Miss May Miller, 47 Miss Cox, 57 Miss Amanda Osborne, <SO Mr. James A. Burnham, 31 Miss Hi*l, 44 * Mr. P. H. Kirsch, 13 Total enrollment for April, 307 'Greatest No. in school at one time, 287 Cases of tardiness, 10 Per. cent df attendance, 95.11 Visitors, 66 Prof. Kirsch will be retained as Superintendent, another year. Miss May Miller proposes to, attend school at the State Normal next year. 4She will go to the best. The graduating class will consist of: Fred Chilcote, Eugene Spitler, Etta Spitler and Mary Washburn. County Superintendent "Nelson and a number of the township Trustees visited the school last Thursdayt The School Board has ordered a slight change in the time of opening school, to take place next Monday. The class in Botany will do some practical work this month, by going to the fields to stuuy plants and flowers. The teachers hope to have no cases of tardiness to report this month. The parents and pupils might aid them lt> realize the hope. , The Graduation exercises will be held in the Opera Hoyse. Thursday, June 4th. President Brown has premised to be present and deliver aif":.ddress. ■-'* 'j-' 1 \- An excursion to Crawfordsville to visit the Museum of Wabash College, June Sth, if ratescan be obtained of the Hailroad Company. All will be invited