Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1903 — SCHOOL NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCHOOL NOTES

Item* ot Interest Kefardinf the Rensselaer Public Schools

Miss Jessie Parker, of the sophomore olass, has quit school. Mrs. W. O. Hiatt is siok with inflammatory rheumatism. Some time ago, the Oakwood high sohool, you will remember, asked that it might take part in the meet this spring. The executive committee of the N. W. Athletio and Oratorical Association have decided not to allow them to join the association. In justification of the action of the committee, it should he said that Oakwood wanted to enter only in Athetics, and did not intend to do anything in musio or oratory. The question of a library site from the standpoint es the sohools oould be solved without muoh difficulty, providing there were sufficient fhnds. The lots just north of the Presbyterian parsonage would be satisfactory. If the library were located there it oould be heated from the light plant and the same janitor could take oare of or oversee the taking oare of all the buildings. With the school library and the publio library oombined, the school could help pay the librarian. With the library near the schools, and open all day, the pupils could use the library as a reference reading room and thus gain very much in time and convenience. It seems that the city would get more real good out of the library, were It situated near the sohools, than were it located any place else In the oity. «,%