Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1915 — Pulaski Gels First Vocational Agricultural School. [ARTICLE]

Pulaski Gels First Vocational Agricultural School.

VVinnmac, Jnd., February 15,—Arrangements have been made by which Van Huron township, Pulaski county, will have a vocational agricultural school, plans for which were completed at. a meeting at Star City of school officials and patrons with Z. M. Smith, state agricultural supervisor.

F. A. Ogle, who has been superintendent of the Star City schools, will have charge of the agricultural school, i!is contract calls for two evening classes each week for ten weeks for men and boys more than 17 years old, and from May 1 to Sept, l ho will devote his bntlre time to the agricultural work in Van Huron township. His work through the summer will consist of practical farm demonstrations in soils, horticulture, live stock and poultry. Two-thirds of his salary will be paid by the state. The offer is the result of the six years- of work MrT Ogle has done in the com m unity‘and the spirit shown by the citizens. This is to be the first strictly vocational agricultural school in the stater ■: * The federal government has offered Van Buren township SIOO, with which it may hire a woman to assist the girls and woiqen ff the community in their homemaking work. This offer has been accepted, and in all probability Miss Anna Noel will have charge of the work.