Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1912 — New School House to Be Built in Milroy Township. [ARTICLE]

New School House to Be Built in Milroy Township.

County Superintendent Lamson has completed plans for a new school house to replace the old one in District No. 3, Milroy township. It will probably be built on the opposite side of the road from the present building. The contract will be let on Saturday, June 29th. The building will be completed in time for the opening of school in September. Superintendent Lamson believes he has provided the best set of plans ever employed in the use of a district school house in Jasper county. The building will conform to all modern provisions for lighting and heating. It will be a frame structure 30x30 feet in dimensions. The light in the main room will be from the north. The hall will be along the south side of the building, with plenty of windows to let the sunlight through to the children’s wraps. This is on the theory that sunshine, is the greatest disease germ chaser known. At one end of the hall a small manual training room will ; be erected. A woodbouse will be connected With the school building. The heating plant will consist of an inside furnace. , Trustee G. L. Parks will receive bids for the construction of the building up to June 29th.