Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1912 — Public School Overflowed and Library Auditorium is Occupied. [ARTICLE]

Public School Overflowed and Library Auditorium is Occupied.

The enrollment in the Rensselaer schools is the largest in the history 6f the city and the grade school building became so congested that there was not room for all and a rearrangement was necessary and another teacher, employed. The first'primary was moved to the basement of the library. Miss Lora Bruce is the teacher. The room vacated by this grade has been occupied by pupils from the 3rd, sth and 6th grades, the ones that were mostly congested. Miss Shedd, a teacher in the high school for several years, will have charge o? the new room. For several weeks every house in town has been occupied and two families are living, in some The schools have been growing the. beginning of the term. The congestion will be relieved when the addition provided for ’ast year is built, which will be during the coming summer.