Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — WANT SCHOOLS CONSOLIDATED [ARTICLE]

WANT SCHOOLS CONSOLIDATED

PATRONS OF NORTH MARION PETITION TRUSTEES FOR NEW BUILDING. Charles W. Postill, trustee of Marion township schools, and his advisory board have filed a petition with the state board of tax Commissioners praying the approval of said board for the issuance by said municipality of bonds in ■ the sum of |IB,OOO, for the purpose of building a central school building in the northerly portion of Marion township.. A petition has been filed with Trustee Postill sighed by a majority of the school patrons of the three school districts, viz; Bolling Green, Belle Center and Union, in which ; school was maintained last year, aski ing for the erection of a consolidated school. Two districts in the north- [ ern part of Marion township have alI ready been discontinued. They wefq I the Grant and the Parker. | The consolidated school has many i advantages over the one-room school. ’ The building is always better from j a sanitary standpoint and the teach- ; ing can be done on the departmental i plan and can, therefore, be done by I teachers of special fitness. The schools of south Marion have 1 been consolidated. One of the schools of north Marion had an attendance of less than ten and another less than fifteen. Road and 1 other conditions are very favorable for the consolidation in this part of the towfiship.