Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1913 — ATTEMPT TO BURN A SCHOOL HOUSE [ARTICLE]

ATTEMPT TO BURN A SCHOOL HOUSE

Prompt Discovery Prevented the Destruction, of Three-Room Building at Fair Oaks.

, Miss Grace Peyton, who teaches school at Fair Oaks, reported upon her arrival here Thursday evening that an attempt had been made the evening before to burn the 3-room school house at that place. The incendiary had broken out a window light, poured coal oil on the floor and placed inflammable mat ter on it and had then lighted a jjair of old work glovas that were saturated with coal oil and threw them in the window. Neighbors saw the blaze and entered the building and extinguished it with nothing damaged except a little scorched woodwork. It is believed that a motive was behind the attempted burning of the building. Under the new law a township school will have to be built in Union township. Fair Oaks would like to have the school and it was probably thought that it could be secured for that place if the building burned down. Now, however, that the original effort failed, it is probable that should the school house Tie burned it will have no influence in the selection of a site for the new high school building. A more central point is thought to be a much more appropriate location, possibly in the German settlement with a provision for collecting scholars.

We will unload another car of Wisconsin seed potatoes this week, and will again be able to furnish you early Six Weeks, Ohios, Rose, Irish Cobblers, Kings, Rurals, Burbanks and Bugless. Now is a good time to change your seed stock, when seed potatoes are of a good quality and cheap. JOHN EGER.

Dr. A. R. Kresler reports having seen Drs. A. J. Miller, of Hammond, and H. J. Laws, of Crown Point, both former Rensselaer physicians, While attending the medical society’s meeting at Valparaiso Wednesday. Dr. Miller has been busy erecting a flat building that will net him a good income, and has not devoted much time to building up a practice since he located at Hammond. Dr. Laws is about to move to Lafayette to become associated with an insurance company. He also saw Druggist Bert Brenner and Prof. Ray Yeoman, the latter at the head of the engineering department of Valparaiso University. Ray is also doing some outside contracting, having some partners, and seems to be getting in right for a fine business.