Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1909 — WANT PLACE ON SCHOOL BOARD. [ARTICLE]

WANT PLACE ON SCHOOL BOARD.

Ladies’ Literary Club Start Movement to Put a Woman In Place of C. W. Coen. The temoval of C. W. Coen to Bouth Bend makes a vacancy in the Rensselaer school board, and at a meeting of the Ladies’ Literary Club last Friday a move was started to have a woman appointed to fill the vacancy. A committee composed of Mrs. E- P. Hanon, Mrs. G. E. Murray, Mrs. Geo. A. Williams and Mrs. J. D Allman, was appointed to circulate a petition among the mothers of Rensselaer to have such representation on the board, and this petition will be presented to the new city counci lat first meeting. While something new for Rensselaer, the ladies claim such appointments are not uncommon elsewhere in< the state, and they advance numerous good reasons why they should have representation on the school boards, chief among which is the fact that they are more closely connected with the school’s welfare than are the men folks,„ and that the male members of the board scarcely if ever visit the schools to see how they are running. If the city council don’t take to. the woods the council chamber will probably be dignified early in January by the presence of a delegation of the wives and mothers of the city, and extremes of the English language, tobacco smoke, et cetera win be tabooed on that evening at least. Mr. Coen, it is understood, will not resign until January 1, and this petition will be presented to the incoming council.