Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — List of Jasper County Common School Graduates. [ARTICLE]

List of Jasper County Common School Graduates.

The following list of graduates from Jasper county were all . that succeeded in passing the examinations from the common schools this year, and will be graduated at the exercises of the various townships, the dates which are elsewhere pub- - lished. Miss Florence Ryan, of Gillam township, the'only one in that township to graduate, has the distinction of receiving the highest grade at the examination, being 89.5. Nell Parker, of Newton, was second with 88, and Harry Bernhart, of Carpenter, and George E. Jones, of Kankakee, were third, each with a grade of 87, and Everett Danford, of Wheatfield, was next with 86.5. The examinations . were very difficult this year, which accounts for the lower grades of all and the fact that so many failed altogether. Here is the list of graduates with the subjects of their commencement themes: —Barkley— Ethyl Gratner, Footprints. Maybelle Waymire, Temptations of Riches. Margaret Hurley, Thomas Alva Edison. Belos Waymire, Useful Birds to Man. Vannie Arnold, Booker T. Washington. ’ i ■ Kathryn Morganegg, Elne Relse Vom Vaterland. Leroy Anderson, The Recent Earthquake. Homer G. Jordan, Inventors and Inventions. Maggie Richmond, Our Prisons. Chloae # Torbett, William Shakespeare. . . t Ethel Nile Britt, American Indians. . —Carpenter— Harry Bernhardt, Immigration Into Canada. Robert Butcher, Clara Barton. —Gillam — Florence Ryan, Our Holidays. —Hanging Grove— Ferol Porter, Physical Training in Our Public Schools. William Montz, American Means of Travel. Clarence Rusk, First Across the Continent. Elvin L. Bussell, A Trip to Europe. Elsie M. Smith, The Story of Our Flag. Harry Gwin, Our Great National Park. ‘ - —Jordan — Charles Guttrich, Remember the Aamo. Mary Bice, Some Great Bridges. Wesley W. Tanner, The Discovery of Gold In California. Florence Johnson, Some Notable Caves. - Lloyd Johnson, The Yosemite Valley. —Kankakee — George E. Jones, The Steamship Lusitania. Anna May Finn, Inauguration of a President. Mae Albin, Necessity of Being on Time. Bennie Fitzgerald, Four of the Great Inventions. Gilbert Seegrlst, A Trip to the Seaside. Susie Seeley, The World’s Greatest Disaster. —Keener. — John Terborg, Fruit Growing. Emmett Erwin, Corn. Fannie Robbins, Boston. Josie Tyler, My Journey to New Mexico. —Marion— Lee Adams, Baseball. Laura Hurley, Home, Sweet Home. Opal E. Waymire, Results of Effort. —Newton — John Zimmer, The Farm and the Boy. .: 'z Nell Parker, How We Girls Can Make Home Pleasant. Anna Marion, Abraham Lincoln. Ross Reed, Time Well Spent. -4- Lucy L Lane, What Can A Girl Do? —Union— John Switzer, Modern Japan. Flossie Smith, Industries of Indiana. Nettle Davisson, Cotton. Stanllas Brusnahan,- Marvels of Modern Production. —Walker—--1 Lulu Nelson, The Works of the Red Cross Society. I Hazel D. Mason, A Day In the City. Felix Fritz, Farm Life. Ivan Sayler, Public Promotion of Agriculture. Katherine Karch, Autobiography of a Lump of Gold. Margaret Pettet, The Recent Earthquake in Italy. —Wheatfield Township and Town— Everett Danford, Irrigation of Arid Land. Madge Terry, Traveling.

Plow. , ' Margaret Delehanty, Industries of Indiana. Frank Turner, Forest Fires in the Adirondacks. Newton, Union and Marlon will hold their commencement . together In. Rensselaer, and Keener, Wheatfield and Walker will hold theirs together at Wheatfield. Gillam, having but one graduate, will have no commencement, and she will graduate with the Barkley students.