Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — MANDATE PROCEEDINGS FILED [ARTICLE]

MANDATE PROCEEDINGS FILED

la Union Township School Term * Difficulty. Proceedings to mandate 'have been filed In the circuit court against Trustee Walter Harrington and the advisory board of Union township to compel the continuing the schools of said township to the end of the cnflndmum term —six months, the complaint states —and the cause returnable yesterday, when about one-half the population of Union was in to the hearing. At the time The Democrat went to press nothing had been done, and there was a prospect, jt was said, of adjusting the trouble satisfactorily to all conqemed. There has really been six months of school now—that is, the - township has had to pay the, teachers lor that period, which includes the four or six weeks that the schools were closed on account of the influenza epidemic—and whether this ■would count in the minimum time :s a question, perhaps, for the court to decide. t The depleted condition of the township’s tuition fund is the cause of many of the prominent taxpayers wanting the schools closed at the end of the minimum term, including the time they were closed by epidemic.