Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — A MANUAL. TRAINING BRANCH. [ARTICLE]

A MANUAL. TRAINING BRANCH.

jLv manual training school is soon K> be added to the common schools of Rensselaer. The three highest grades, sixth, seventh and eighth will be the first to have this useful branch added, and the teachers will Instruct the girls in the art of sewing, and it is probable that the janitor, Elden Hopkins, will take the boys to his work-room in the basement and learn them all the detaile of carpentering; The branch will be on a - small scale at first, but the school board hope to enlarge it in the future for the high school as well.