8th Grade Exams from Country School
1919
Eighth Grade Examinations
Seventeen Take Examinations Here in Grundy CenterSeventeen eighth grade country school pupils showed up here Thursday and Friday to take the examinations before Supt. D. R. Earl for admission to the high schools.
Examinations were held also at the following places outside of Grundy Center: Dike, Stout, Wellsburg, Reinbeck, Morrison, Ivester, Grant No. 5, Colfax No. 5, German No. 5, and Felix No. 8.
Supt. Earl is deeply interested in encouraging the pupils to go on with their work and not drop out of school when they finish the eighth grade. That his efforts along this line are meeting with success is evidenced by the increasing number of pupils who go on with the high school work.
The following took the examinations in Grundy Center Thursday and Friday.
Eleanor Connell, Holland school
Ubbie Petersen, Lincoln No. 9
Gertie Heronimus, Palermo No. 2
Dena Krull, Palermo No. 7
Anna Dieken, Lincoln No. 3
Edna Swede, Palermo No. 4
Esther Meyer, Holland school
Charley Steigner, Palermo No. 7
George Schmidt, Holland school
Frank Boven, Palermo No. 7
Flossie Weatherly, Palermo No. 5
Thomas Connell, Holland school
Emma Pabst, Palermo No. 2
LaVine Hasbrouck, Lincoln No. 9
Bernard Buus, Holland school
Chester Diehl, Palermo No. 3
Hazel Palmer, Palermo No. 8
--The Grundy County Dispatch (Grundy Center, Iowa), 5 March 1919, pg 1