Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONALS.

Miss Cora Zimmerman is visiting friends in Shelbyville. Miss Myrtie Wade, of Lafayette, is the guest of Miss Maggie Healy. Erastus Peacock is at Toledo, Ohio, doing some insurance business. Mr. S. A. Brown, of Chicago, was the guest of Miss Kitty Hyland, over Sunday. W. J. Miller came over from Mt. Ayr,Tuesday, to paint the window signs of the new bank. . M Mrs. Michael Schneider, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting relatives in ! Newton tp., at this time. Fred Phillips went to Fowler Monday to join a dramatic company, which played there Monday night. Arthur Hopkins went to Lowell Tuesday, to begin work for the DwigI gins syndicate bank, at that place. 1 Rev. E. G. Pelley departed for Brazil, Tuesday, to attend the anj nual conference, in session there this j week. Miss Ella Dwiggins will teach in [Marion again, the ensuing school year. She will begin her school next Monday. J. C. Porter and Wm. IL Gwin were among those who attended the National Encampment, at Milwaukee, last week. * Prof. Wilson, the new principal of the high school, is residing in Mis. J. Healey’s tenant house, near the old school building. Mrs. Davis, of Oxford, Ohio, visited her son Frank Douglas, with N. Warner A Son, for several dqys, including Sunday. Mis. John King and Miss Nellie King are visiting the former’s parents and other friends, at Medaryville, this weds. S. P. Thompson went to Logansport, Tuesday, called by a telegram from Hugh Low*, whore Mg gj| with the Turpies is now in progress in that city.

S. E. Yeoman, the prosperous harness dealer of Lowell, returned to that place Tuesday, after several days spent in looking after his interests ht Newton township. Miss Blanche Brown and Miss Delia Paltnsr, of Danville, UL, who have been spending their summer vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, returned home yesterday. M. H. Appleby is visiting his relatives, Mrs. Powell and family, this week. He is still connected with the Illinois Deaf and Dumb Institute, at Jacksonville, that state. Mrs. E. L Hollingsworth has returned home from a protracted stay in northern Michigan, and herself and husband are preparing to occupy the Martin house, on River street. Bion Zimmerman left last Sunday night for Greenville, this state, where he will work at the tailor*,trade for W. A. Coleman, the gentleman who run a tailor shop in Rensselaer, last winter. Will E. Sears is back from Colorado, visiting his relatives and old friends. It Is his first visit for many years. He has two children with him. He expects to start on his return trip to-day > Some Points About the County Schools. Below we give some facts and figures gleaned from County Superindent Warren’s report to the State Superintendent, for the last school year: i The total amount of the Tuition Fund expended in the county during the year was $23,485.56. Total amount of Special School : fund expended during the year, $34,- ' 249.62. Total amount expended on schools during the year, $34,735.18. Average daily wages of teachers in the townships: males, $1.94; females, $1.62. In-the towns: males, $3.55; i females, $2.15. Average wages in the county, $1.99 per day. Number of children in county of school age, 3,801. / Number of children enrolled in the schools, 3,164. Average daily attendance in the county, 2,141. Cost of the schools per each pupil enrolled, $10.78. The apparent injustice, shown in some of the above items, of paying male teachers so much higher average wages than the female, is largely explained by the fact that, as an average, the male teachers in the county, who are comparatively few in number, are more experienced teachers than the females. The experienced female teachers, of proved ability, get about the same wages as the male teachers of the same qualifications. In the towns the average of the male teachers’ wages is made forge by the fact that the superintendents of both the town schools are males. The seeming lamentable fact that 637 children of school age in the county did not attend school at all, donng the year, can probably be explained by saying that the forger number, in fact nearly all, of these non-attendants are young people who are, or think they are, too old and forge and wise to attend school any longer. In fact a good many yoong people are properly enumerated as school children, long after they have graduated from country or town schools.