Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1908 — Awarded Gold Medal. [ARTICLE]

Awarded Gold Medal.

Miss Grace Hilliard, a few days ago, received from the county superintendent of schools, a gold medal as a reward for her continual attendance at school, for a period of ten years. The medal is surely a fine one, one to be highly prized. We are informed that it is the first one ever awarded in this county, which of course, adds to its value. Grace is to be congratulated upon her good fortune. What makes us so jubilant is, that she is a citizen of our township, Old Kankakee. In the year 190 S, in the graduate examination. Grace received the highest grade in tbs county. In the year -4905, our young friend Homer Fisher, took the Ist prize at the inter-township oratorical contest held at Rensselaer. So you see Kankakee township is O. K.— Dunnville Correspondence Kankakee Valley Review.