Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — THE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. [ARTICLE]

THE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

T|j£, Jasper Coußty Xgacbera^Association held their regular annual meeting in the court house, last Friday and Saturday 4 All the schools in th'B county w< fe dismissed Friday, as by law ;required, and the attendance was very large. In fact, of the 130 teachers now teaching in the county, all but 15 were present. From Barkley tp., thirteen teacheis attended; from Carpenter, five; from Gillam six; from Hanging Grove six; from Jordan eight; Kankakee four, Keener three; Milroy three; Marion twelve;Nqwton seven; Union nine; Walker four; Wheatfield seven; Rensselaer eleven; Remington seven. The absentees were, from Carpenter six; from Kankakee one; from. Keener three; from Walker two; from Rensselaer two; from Remington one. The principal features of the occasion were:, Address by the president, Prof. W. R. Murphy, of Remington. Paper by Miss Dolhe Bufink, of Rensselaer. “Literature in the Primary Grades ” “The Town=~ ship Institute” by Mr. Chas. Lee, of Milroy. “General Method in Geography” by Mr. Jesse Welch, of Jordou, “School Management” by Miss Emma Goetz, of Newton. “Literature in the public schools” by Frank Hoover.

Address by Prof. D. W. Stevenson, of Da Pauw, subject, “Requirements of the day.” Paper, “Moral Training” by W. B. Wishard, of Union. “Primary Language,” Miss Ora Vaughn,of Wheatfield.—“Relation of Grades and High School. Miss Orpha Timmons, of Remington. School Government, Miss Mollie FarFaris, of Gillam. Indiana and Illinois School Laws Compared, C. E Jenkins, of Barkley. ___ _____ Most of the above subjects were also generally discussed by the Association, as were also various other matters. The election of officers for the ensuing year result!d as follows: Pres. Prof. E. W. Bohannon, Rensselaer; Vice Presid nt, L. H. Hamilton, Kniman; Secretary, Emma Goetz, Newton; Treasurer, Chas. M. Blue, Marion; Delegate to Slate and Northern Indiana Teachers’ Associations, I C Reubelt, Rensselaer. Alternate Delegate, E. W. Bohannon. Committee ou.Program, Co. Superintendent, President and Secretary of Association,

Resolutions. Whereas our State institutions at Bloomington, Terre Haute and Lafayette have been crippled by want of proper financial support, and com polled from time to time to surrender many of their best men, because of bettor salaries offered by institutions more generously provided for in other States, be it Resolved, That we as teachers of Jasper county deplore the illiberal spirit that our legislatures have shown towards our State University, State Normal, and Purdue University, in the matter of appropriation for equipment and maintenance, and that we most urgently petition the coming session of the legislature, through our representatives Messrs Phares aud Spitler, to grant these institutions such aid as they both need and deserve.

Resolved, that a copy of thia petition to be signed by the members of this association, be handed to our representatives, and with the request that they use their best efforts to secure its favorable recognition. Resolved, that it is the sense of the teachers of this county that the usefulness of the State University, great as it has been, will be very greatly increased by its removal from its present inconvenient, and a<most inaccessible location at Bloomington, to Indianapolis. Resolved, that additional safeguards be thrown around the selection of County Superintendents, and superintendents of all towns having commissioned High Schools, by the enactment of a law requiring all such superintendents to hold a Life State License, or a diploma from the state Normal School, or from the Pedagogical Department of the State University. Resolved, That the Indiana School book law should be so amended ss to place the sale and distribution of all text-books for the public schools of the State, wholly in the hands of the local dealers without the intervention or supervision of any of the public School officials. Whereas, the teachers of Jasper county by right and Justice are entitled to the full benefit of all legal holidays occurring during the school term, said right being recognized by every State Superintendent for more than twenty years, and by our courts of justice, and our own county Superintendent, be it Resolved, that we sincerely deplore

the refusal of some of our township trustees to grant us our rights in this dtrectio-n , awl most respeutfully but e&rrA-stiy it sM upon the same. The B->t»rd» of trustees of the towns of Rensselaer and Remington have long rec-’c Biz-d those rights of their teachers, and »h~ie exists no good reason why the county teachers should be deprived of theirs Resolved, that the JbSp» r County Teachers’ Association subscribe. and pay for one membership in the Indi ana State Teachers’ Association, and

one in the Northern Indiana Teacher’s Association; and that the Jasper County Association annually, at its regular session, elect one delegate to attend each of aforesaid associations. Said delegate to be invested with full power to represent this association in all matters pertaining to the educational work of the State. Said delegate to defray his own expenses. E. W. Bohannon, D. B. Nowels, Millie Robinson, Committee. Maggie R. Lang, Abbie R. Harrison,