Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — NO SCHOOL FOR OTISCO. [ARTICLE]

NO SCHOOL FOR OTISCO.

Supreme Court Decides in Favor of the TownsMp Trustee. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 24.—A judgement mandating the trustee of Charlestown township, in Clark county, to employ a teacher and maintain a public school in the town of Otisco was reversed today by the Supreme Court. Otisco is at the extreme corner of the township, and when the trustee combined three school districts and erected a new schoolhouse at Gum Corner, a mile from Otisco, where he employed seven teachers, a compromise was effected by continuing a primary school at Otisco for very little children during two years. That school was finally discontinued and arrangements were made to carry the children to the Gum Corner school, and then this suit was brought.

Judge Monks says that the people of Otisco should have presented their objections before the districts were consolidated, and before the township had gone to the expense of a new school house for the combined district, that by the delay for more than two years . while these things were doing, they lost all right to a writ of mandamus. .A The Democrat has a few more es those handsome and useful Wall Charts left. We want to close them out, and if you have not already secured one you Should do so before they are all gone. Remember they are but 35 cents additional with a year’s subscription to The Democrat. Legal blanks for sale at The Democrat office.