Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — The County Institute. [ARTICLE]

The County Institute.

Last Monday morning, promptly at r 3iM o’clotjk. the Annual (Jounty Teacher*’ opened, and, without fnrjn tjap qp jyaste time, proceeded with thetferiaqe.yqrapf which is, undoubtedly, tbempt&sqcqassful Institute jpver held in the ooquty. The atttendjLOfe if unprecedentedly jpemfcqrs full of sesl *pd enthusiasm. of instructor* couiprwGS.£Qi»e of able educators jin jthn St»£e, .while the oqol and bracing weather h*s been very favorable to the wogjk of the .Institute. The attendance on Monday morning was 112, apd imthe afternoon .bad increased to 121, which number has constantly increased, with each day’s enrollment. The instructors present at the beginning pf the Institute were: Prof. E. E. -Sm:th, .Professor of History and LiteraUukp, in Purdue University ; Prof. W. A. of Indianapolis, editor of the Indiana School Journal; Prof. Howard .Sandison, Professor of Pedagogics in the State Normal School, at Terre Haute, and Miss Emma Cox, a graduate of the State Normal School, and jiow staged as principal of the Morocco schools, of Newton county. Profs. Smith and Bell stayed with ihe Ipst’-tute only until yesterday, but Pro£. Sapdison and Miss Cox remain during the entire w.eek. Prof. Smith's interesting and yajua,hle lectures have been,pretty general ,in their scope and character, though ; nominally.confined to the subjects of language and School Hygiene. Prof. Sandison instructs in ‘-Methods of Teaching,” and Miss Cox handles the various branches of Mathematics. 1 rof. Bell, always amusing, instructive and popular, talked about matters in general, and his able and deserving publication in particular. The following is a list pt the enrolled members of the Institute, by tpwnships and towns:

3ARKLEV. Ella Ryan, Ula Switzer, .Maggie E- 4-bbett. JnqzWalkpr. B CARPENXEJt. Nancy E. Erwin, Fannie Rockwood, Alice M. Erwin. Millie Gray., Garrie Hoggins, C. S. Ghamberlain, «0, M. Vickery. G. F. Bloom. GHAAM.J. J. Hunt, Mattie Paris, Millie Massey, L. B. Faris, Eva Rayburn, Malinda Maddox, Maud Lewis, Malissa Mitchell, G. D. Prevo, U. B. Coppess, Emma Robinson, E. O. llathfon, Mary Osborne, R. M. Osborne, Rufus Rayburn, Edgar Querry. Frank Osborne, HANGING GROVE. ■/ H. P.Overton, Sada Bants, •C. K. Peregiine, Lillie Peregrine. Bettie Peregrine, R. G. Bavita, JORDAN. M. G. Lewis, Gertie Welsh, -J. McFarland, Ella Welsh, ' ■■ Bertie Yeoman. JKANJCAKEE. Thos. F. Maloney, Lida Wyn ant. KEENER. L. Shortridge, Rosetta Shortridge. M. M. Tyler. MARION. E. L. Coen, , Samuel Sparling, A. E. Coen, J. P Hammond, C. H.,Fulton, Cuas. Hammond, v Lottie Peacock, Ruby Bruce, W. F. Porter, M. A. Churchill, Jas. W. Pierce, Lucy Shields, O. M. Daugherty, David W. Shields, H. S, Daugherty, Rose Hammond, Ora Daugherty, Irene Richey, Nellie Wasson, Sadie McDonald, Ida Goons, Addie Bruce. Rosa Coons. NEWTON. Prank Ye®man, Anna Henkk-, Mattie Benjamin, Dorothy Goe’ss, J. E. Roberts, Mary Sliindler, Mary Waerthner, Emma Goetz, Aurilla Warren, M. A. Mateever, . G. V. Henkie. Ciias. R. Yeptuan, Orpheus Halstead, Will G. Paxton, D. L.,Jlalstead, W. I). Rringle, Alice Henkle, Effie Yeornau. union. Jas. Brasnnhan, John E. Alter, A. M. Munden, Lizzie Cover, Barney D. Con er WAI.KEIi. Millie E. Bonk, Jennie Tanner. Mollie Bouk. WUEATFIELI . Dorcas Adams, leia M. Boothe, Tillie Cason, Rosa Grub®, Minnie Boothe, S. D. Clark, G. W. Ingram, Z. May Muffler. Andress Crawford. RENSSELAER. Rufus Jessen, Lottie (). Hester, Lydia D wiggins, Geo. W. SpitTer, Ella Dwiggins, Maud Spitler. I. Reubelt, Frank G. Pym, F. W. Reubelt, Jno. K- Spitler. Mrs. Frank Warren,l. B. Washburn, Lola Moss, Minnie 8. Hatten, Dora Healer, Mattie Moore. , • .. ’ * .r

• "y ' ' -1 ■ Cbas. A. Rice, Laura Hodshire, Margaret M. HHI, Fred Chilcote, Etta E. Spitler, Rena Peapock, Amzie Beck, ' Frankie Irwin. Miller. £ arah Ghilcote. Hattie Hopkins. Jennie Miller. Mrs. Jas. Ellis. KBMIWrOX. J. W. Thomas. Thos. Harper, Ollie Hendricks, Minnie Bartoo, D. M. Nelson, Stella Gritfln, Ida Thomas, Lois lj|lood, Jennie Hollingsworth: MISCELLANEOUS. Alta Miller, Montioello. Laura Hall, Goodland. - Emma Cox. Morocco, E. E. Sjnith, Lafayette. Howard Sandison, Terre Haute.

The evening exercises in the pourt house are proving a very important and interesting feature of Institute week. On Monday night the Teachers’ Annual lieuniofi was a very biilliant affair, and was enjoyed beyond measure by a very large number of parti cipa#ts. On Tuesday evening Prof. E. ]E. Smith, of Purdue gave a very entertaining and instruct! ve lecture entitled, “Evenings with British Authors.” On Wednesday evening Prof. S. Jordan, the distinguished young President of the Irdiana State University, at Bloomington, gave a thrilling account of how himself and a party of friends made the perilous ascent of that famous Alpine peak, The .Matterhorn. Prof. Howard Sandison. of the State Normal has been advertised for this evening, but being in very poor health, he has thought it not prudent to do so, and Mr. Nelson is making an effort to secure President Smart, of Purdue, to fill his place.

Mount Airy item in the Kenfcland Gazette: Last Saturday and Sunday our village was a scene of lawless drunkenness and fighting. Several kegs of beer were taken from .the saloon on Saturday and put in a blacksmith’s shop, to be drank on Sunday. On Sunday while John Powell of Rensselaer, in company with another gentleman, was driving through tQwn be insulted by one of the loud mouthed drinking elements, aud invited out of his buggy to figlit_ John climbed out but when lie saw that the man was drunk got back into his buggy, but that would not suftice, the bully must continue his abuse. Mr. Powell could not swallow all, aud got out aud completely used up the young general. Mr Powell has the

thanks of the writer,“and w r e “are" safe in saying for the people of the town, that when he wants the ice cream set up to him, all he needs to do is to come and pummel the physiognomy of our drunken braggarts.