superintendent of the Vincennes schools.

My success is due to the three I'sIndustry, Individuality and Imagination.-Ellen Terry.

Miss Ethel Carpenter, a graduate of the Western Illinois State Normal School, will be a primary teacher at Covington.

J. W. Kendall, who has been principal of the high school at Greenfield the past five years, is to be the new principal at Peru.

Andrew Mercker, of Jasper, will be in charge of the manual training

in the Peru schools.

Superintendent J. C. Webb, of Johnston county, has delivered a large number of addresses in Indiana in the last few weeks. The last week in July he also gave a series of lectures at the Missouri State Normal School at Warrensburg.

A young Indiana artist, R. A. Ketcham, for several years a pupil at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, was the winner of the highest prize, $200, in a recent competitive exhibition of paintings at the studio of Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney, in New York City, the second exhibition of the kind conducted by "The Friends of Young Artists." The subject for composition was "Labor."

Miss Bessie Imel, a graduate of Indiana University, will teach English in the Petersburg high school.

Teacher: "Make a sentence with love in it."

Pupil: "John and Mary were married."

A school committee from Minneapolis recently inspected some of the best school buildings in Johnson county. County Superintendent J. C. Webb deserves great credit for the school spirit manifested among the people there.

Indiana loses another of its most progressive city school superintendents in the removal from the state of Superintendent H. Lester Smith, of Bloomington, who has been chosen assistant superintendent of the Minneapolis schools. The new position and its salary are very attractive. The school people of the state wish for him the largest measure of success in this new position.

The conference on agricultural and home economics work, held at Purdue University for two days during the session of the summer school, was voted the most helpful meeting ever held there. Between three and four hundred teachers, superintendents and school officials attended the meetings. Prof. W. H. French, director of agricultural education, Michigan State Agricultural College; Prof. A. W. Nolan, department of agricultural education, University of Illinois, and Miss Hannah Waterman, director of vocational work for women in the Massachusetts State Normal School at North Adams, were the out-of-state speakers. One session was given to hearing reports from the twenty-one summer supervisors of the Boys' and Girls' Club work. This was one of the most valuable

features of the conference, and showed the possibilities in this direction. Those teachers who listened to the reports were impressed with the opportunity for a fine piece of summer work along this line.

Miss Carrie Rapp, principal of Benj. Harrison school, Indianapolis, is spending the summer vacation at Black Hills, S. D.

Lee Risley has been elected superintendent of schools at Winslow. The past year he was in charge at Velpen. He is a graduate of Indiana University.

The Gary public schools are to have another exhibit at the National Con

ference on Industrial and Vocational Training, to be held in New York City, September 23 to October 2.

The executive committee of the State Teachers' Association is completing all arrangements for the annual meeting to be held in Indianapolis, October 28-30, 1915. It was decided to introduce a new feature this year in the nature of a children's chorus to be heard at the State Fair Grounds on Friday evening of the convention. The committee plans to have 2,000 children in the chorus.

J. W. Foreman, for the past four years superintendent of the Petersburg schools, has been elected principal of the Vincennes high school. He succeeds H. G. Newton, who has served for four years. Mr. Newton will go to California University to take advanced work in supervision.

W. D. Bowen, of Greencastle, will teach German in the Linton high school.

Several Laporte teachers are combining pleasure with study this summer. Five are now at Columbia University, New York, taking summer courses calculated to make them more proficient in their chosen profession. They are Misses Agnes Anderson, Elizabeth Matheny, Edith Alexander, Wealthy Dolan and Helen Loomis. E. G. Ludtke and Miss Maude Obenchain are at the University of Illinois. Miss Nora R. Wright is attending the state normal at Terre Haute. Miss May Bradbury and W. F. Kratli are at the University of Wisconsin. Miss Mabel Taylor is attending Stanford University, San Francisco.

Prof. Will D. Howe, head of the English department in Indiana University, is a member of the summer school faculty at Columbia University.

Public officials of the township, county and city are not required to take out insurance under the new workmen's compensation act, according to notices which the state board of accounts is sending out. Liability insurance agents, it is said, have been attempting to sell insurance to cities to provide protection to all employes. The city of Richmond is among those which have been debating the question of buying insurance. The letter from Gilbert H. Hendren, state examiner, to all public officials follows:

"It is not compulsory on public officials to take out insurance under the workmen's compensation law enacted by the Legislature of 1915. This is the

decision of the industrial board of Indiana in Rule XV. All letters, circulars and representations to the contrary should be disregarded by all township trustees, county highway superintendents, county commissioners, city and town school corporations, civil cities and towns, municipal-owned corporations, state institutions, and state boards and officials."

Superintendent L. L. Driver, of Randolph county, gave his address on "Rural School Betterment" at Honduras, Adams county, recently. County Supt. E. S. Christen arranged two or three other appointments for him.

The exhibit of the Gary schools at the Panama exposition has received a silver medal from the International Jury of Awards.

Among those who took part in the Vocational conference held under the auspices of Indiana University were: Dr. W. T. Bawden, of the United States Bureau of Education; Cleo Murtland, of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, Dr. W. F. Book, state director of vocational education, and Professors Leonard and Smith, of Indiana University.

The class address at the Ripley county eighth grade commencement was given by State Superintendent Chas. A. Greathouse. There were one hundred forty-five graduates. County Superintendent Chas. R. Hertenstein was complimented upon his careful management of the whole affair.

Superintendent H. A. Henderson, of

Greencastle, is serving as Scout Master for the Boy Scouts who are in camp at Reelsville.

The school board has signed a contract with William Wirt, engaging him for two more years as superintendent of the Gary public schools, at a salary of $6,000 a year. Mr. Wirt is permitted by the board to serve one day in each month as advisory superintendent of the Troy (N. Y.) schools at an annual salary of $2,500, and one week in each month for the New York city schools at $10,000 a year. Wirt's school salaries of $18,500 are said to make him the second highest paid public school official in the United States.

Principal Bert Tapp, of the Union township high school, is in charge of summer club work in agriculture among the boys and girls. The Franklin Democrat says:

"Under his direction he has six clubs at work in different lines.

"1. A club of fourteen called the Poultry Club.

"2. Six girls known as the Home Project Sewing Club.

"3. Two girls attending one-tenth of an acre each of tomatoes.

"4. Two boys attending to orchards. "5. Seventeen boys growng corn plats, seven of them in addition to the work under Purdue, growing corn in the five-acre corn contest.

"6. Two boys growing one-tenth acre each of potatoes.

"Mr. Tapp has succeeded through these clubs to arouse more interest among the farmers in Union township and especially among parents than ever before was known. He is keeping in close touch

Hawkins, 6th grade; Frances Johnson, 5th grade; Ella Armstrong, 4th grade; May Woodson, 3d grade; Mary Barnett, 2d grade; Sophia Miesel, 1st grade.

News of school changes in Wayne county is contained in the following from an exchange:

George W. Ranck, a new teacher in the county, and Inez Swain have been assigned to Whitewater school. Caldwell Miller and Vera Crome are assigned to Fountain City. Both of these teachers are transferred from Williamsburg. Emerson Cloyd and Ruth Harvey Wright and Caroline Matting, George Schell and Russell Worl are assigned to Centerville. E. E. Oldaker and W. J. Bowden are returned to Cambridge City schools. C. E. Long and Oda Brown are returned to Dublin, L. E. Thompson and Veva Witter are returned to Milton. D. A. Grove, a new teacher in the county, and Cecil Scantland are assigned to Boston. Harvey Wright and Caroline Mattingly are returned to Greensfork. Webster and Economy selections have not been made. Blair Converse goes to Danville, Ill., to teach English in the high school, while R. C. Bowton goes to Sheldon, Ill., to become principal of the high school. John Moreland, who was teaching in Webster last year, goes to teach in Vigo county. Mary Idding, formerly a teacher at Fountain City, and Eugene Butler, of Economy school, are to study this year and during this summer in University of Chicago. Joseph Blose, principal of Centerville schools last year, will study in Earlham College this year. Ralph Ranck, who taught in Centerville last year, will go into the practice of law in Richmond. He is a graduate of the law school at Bloomington, Ind.

Supt. O. M. Pittenger, of Frankfort, has announced the addition to his high school course of study of commercial branches, including bookkeeping, commercial law and commercial arithme

tic. Lawrence F. Hensel, of Plymouth, Ind., has been employed to take charge of the commercial subjects.

East Chicago is conducting a very enthusiastic and successful summer school. Supt. E. N. Canine and Principal H. H. Clark are well pleased over the results obtained. Gardening, printing, manual training, sewing, gymnastics, playground work, arithmetic, English, etc., are on the course of study.

Daniel J. Heathcote, Grand Haven, Mich., has been employed by the

Frankfort school board to act as instructor in history and public speaking, to succeed Omer B. Farr, resigned.

The resolutions committee of the State Teachers' Association is at work

getting together material for the resolutions to be presented at the coming meeting of the association, October 28, 29 and 30. If any teacher has any particular matter he would like to have

brought to the attention of the committee, he is requested to write to any member. The membership of the committee is as follows: Supt. L. N. Hines, Crawfordsville, chairman; Supt. T. F. Fitzgibbon, Columbus; Supt. J. M. Propst, Vigo county; Supt. T. T. Martin, Hendricks county; Principal E. P. Wiles, Evansville.

I. N. Smith, township trustee of Clearspring township, Lagrange county. has resigned on account of failing