Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — SCHOOL HOUSE BURNED. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL HOUSE BURNED.

Wood School House 6 Miles Southeast of Rensselaer Destroyed Thursday Night. School house No. 4 known as the Wood school, was totally destroyed by fire starting about 11 o’clock Thursday night. The building was about the best one in Marion tp., and the loss is about SI,BOO, partly covered by insurance, but at this writing Trustee Wood is at his home and is unable to tell what the amount of the insurance is until he comes up to his office, where the papers are. Miss Vena Haworth was the teacher, and she had some 15 pupils, who lost all their books. As it was quite warm Thursday and Miss Haworth intended visiting another school yesterday, she left but very little fire in the stove. In fact, she had only a little fire in the stove In the morning and it must have been practically out when she closed the school. Therefore the origin of the fire is somewhat of a mystery and very few people saw it until midnight. Chauncey Wood, who lives west Of the school, called up his brother, Township Trustee Wood, and told him the school house was burning, and the latter dressed and drove out to the scene in his car, but nothing could be done to save anything, and Harvey was about the first one on the scene, too. At this writing no arrangements have been made for bolding the school elsewhere.