Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — School Books Sold In Three Months. [ARTICLE]

School Books Sold In Three Months.

On Monday, Dec. Ist, the various, township trustees made their quarterly settlement for school books sold, as the new school book law requires. From the rejKirtS of the trustees Superintendent Warren has compiled his report to the state superintendent From this report we note the following as the total value of the new books of all -kinds sold during the quarter, in each school corporation in. th- county: Barkley, $86.00; Carpenter, sl7s.liu Gillam. $*6.20; Hanging Grove, $74.60; Jordan $125.15; Kankakee $65.10; Keener $97.55; Marion $220; Milroy $25.75; Newton $70.05; Imion 468.7bfWalker $69.90; Wheatfield. $80.30; Rensselaer $257.30; Remington $119.90. Total for whole county $1625.50. Many of the trustees had sold considerable quantities of the books on credit and had to put up the cash for them out of their own pockets —a proceeding ■which they found far from agreeable.