People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Commencement Exercises. [ARTICLE]

Commencement Exercises.

The annual graduating exercises of the Rensselaer high school were held in the opera house last Thursday night. The full program was given with the exception of the part assigned to Arthur Krosler who was sick and unable toattend. The several theses were excellent and showed merit of a very high class. The attendaece was large and the proceeds are used for special expenditures for the school. The names of the class of '96 are as follows: Cedella Harris, Irma Kannab Mabel Sayler, Geerge Scott, Moses Leopold, Clyde Reeve, Arthur Kresler. The increasa in the voting population of Union townsqip necessitate the creating of a second precinct. The commissioners are considering the proper way to divide the township, there being two petitions, one asking for an east and a west precinct and one for a north and a south one.