Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1916 — No Centralized School For Union Township is Decision. [ARTICLE]

No Centralized School For Union Township is Decision.

That is, that jvas the decision of the judges who heard the debate on the subject at the Union township institute held at air Oaks last Saturday. The question was “Resolved, That it is better to have one centralized school for Union township than three separate schools.” ——— Miss Fair, of Aix, Miss Umpheld, of Virgie, and Mr. Strickler, of Moffitt, spoke in favor of the centralized school. The negative wa ssupported by Mr. Morris of Fair Oaks, Mr. Brusnahan of Rosebud and Mrs. Gwin of Parr. -The judges were Mrs. F. R. Erwin, Miss Nila Edmondson and Miss Josie Dexter. The negative side won. It was shown that to transport the 350 pupils of Union township to a central school would require twenty wagons and that the ocst would be at least SII,OOO per year. Some of the pupils would have to be transported seven miles.