Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — KEENER TOWNSHIP TO DEDICATE SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

KEENER TOWNSHIP TO DEDICATE SCHOOL

Sept. 9th Selected for Commencement and Big Day is Ixpected at DeMotte—Band Will Play. The fine new high school building which Trustee Snipp, of Keener township, has caused to be ereeted in DeMotte, is practically completed and the first event to take place in it will be the commencement of the township, graduates. The date has been set for Wednesday of next week, Sept. 9th. The Rensselaer band has been engaged to play and it is expected that a large crowd will turn out.

The commencement has been Withheld until this time in order to hold it in the new school House and the occasion promises to be one of the most important ever held In Keener township. A. F. Long made a trip to Chicago today. Miss Nettie Brower returned to Peru today after a visit of a week with her cousins, Mrs. Hale Warner and Mrs. W. C. Milliton. Joseph Meyer and two children, Frank and Elizabeth, left today for their home in Pittsburg, Pa., after a visit of several days with his mother, Mrs. William Meyer and his sister, Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy. Rev. R. K. Sutton preached his forewell sermon at the Barkley church Sunday and today took his departure for Grainfield, Kansas, where he expects»to unite with the M. E. conference and receive an assignment.