Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1912 — Leslie Sayers Will Be At Head of Wheatfield Schools. [ARTICLE]

Leslie Sayers Will Be At Head of Wheatfield Schools.

The Wheatfield school board last Saturday night elected .Leslie Sayers, a former Jasper county boy, to be the superintendent of the Wheatfield schools, and his wife, who is a sister of Judge C. W. Hanley, to be the assistant superintendent. Mr. Sayers was raised in Jasper county and is a young man of sterling qualities and has been meeting signal success as a teacher. For the past three years he has been at the head of the schools at Hamlet and the trustees there “urged him to remain" but he wanted to get back to Jasper county and decided to make the change. Mr. Sayersf and wife will move to Wheatfield as soon as he can secure a house. He will succeed Morgan L. Sterrett, who resigned to begin the practice of law.