Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — MT. AYR SCHOOL BUILDING [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR SCHOOL BUILDING

Condemned, But inspector Grants Permission to Finish Term. The five-room school building at Mt. Ayr has been condemned by a state building inspector and ordered closed at the end of the present term of school. The building was erected about thirty years ago and at that time was the best school building in Newton county. It is a frame structure and is consequently no longer in conformity with presentday requirements. ~ . It is probable that the building will be torn down this spring and work started at once on a modern building with a view to. having same completed next September.