Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1920 — NEWTON FAVORS CONSOLIDATION [ARTICLE]

NEWTON FAVORS CONSOLIDATION

MAJORITY OF PATRONS PETITION TO BUILD CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL. A petition signed by forty-three of the seventy school patrons in Newton township has been presented to John Rush, trustee. In addition to the forty-three patrons eight others, tax payens, but hot patrons, signed the petition. The movement toward consolidation of the rural schools is under way in Jasper county. Northern Jasper has taken the lead apd Keener and Kankakee townships have fine consolidated schools. South Marion township has had a consolidated school for a few years and the northern part of the township has a consolidated building under construction. Union township has consolidated buildings, one at Parr and one at Fair Oaks. The Newton township consolidated building probably will be constructed on the site of the Blue Grass or Freeland schools.