Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — Items About The Teachers. [ARTICLE]

Items About The Teachers.

The whole number Of teachers now actually teaching in this county, is 94. ’ - Of these 29 are beginners, now teaching their first terms; and 15 are on their second terms. „ Twenty-nine have made special preparations for teaching by attending, for greater or less periods, the state normal school, or some similar institution y - - - Sixteen of the whole number were educated, in whole or in part, in the Rensselaer high school, and six or seven in the Rcmmgton lngh: school. The country teachers are classified accowiitTg to the townships they came from, as follows: Marion township furnishes 22, Gillam 15, Newton 10, Hanging Grove 7, Carpenter 6, Jordan 5, Kankakee 5, Union 5, Keener 3, Barkley 2, Walker 2, Wheatfield 1, Milroy none, j Two come from White Co., 2 from : Newton Co., 2 from Illinois, 1 from Michigan, 1 from Ohio.