Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — SCHOOL CLOSED AS PUPIL DIES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL CLOSED AS PUPIL DIES

This Year There Had Been Attendance of Only One In Once Large Ohio District. Canal Dover, Ohio —Decline of the “little red schoolhouse’’ Is evidenced in Dover Township, where the Keller school has been discontinued becaijse its last pupil died. This district was once one of the largest in the county, but the attendance declined until last year there was an attendance of eight pupils. The school board decided to continue the district, with Miss Gretchen Gintz as teacher. Finally only one pupil remained, a girl of 8 years. Several dayp ago she died, and the teacher is now serving as substitute in another township.