Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1920 — CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL IN BENTON COUNTY BURNS [ARTICLE]

CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL IN BENTON COUNTY BURNS

Fire Wednesday afternoon destroyed the consolidated building at Green Hill, Benton county, the loss being estimated at $lB,000. The teachers and pupils made their way out of the structure and some of the seats and fixtures on the ground floor were rafhOved before the flames reached them. The building was a brick structure, was built fifty- years ago and was originally the Green Hill Seminary. Later it was used as a .United Brethren church and then it das enlarged and remodeled for a school building. The town has no water works and nd effort was made to check the progress of the fire. The loss is partly covered by insurance.