Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — County Board of Education. [ARTICLE]

County Board of Education.

The County Board of Education met in the office of the County Superintendent, Sept. Ist,-at 3p. m. The members of the Board were all present excepting Wm. 0. Roadifer, of Carpenter tp. and J. E. Stiller of the Remington School Board. The Board adopted Baker & Thornton’s School Register for the ensuing year, and the County Superintendent was directed to notify them of the fact.

It was decided to observe Colum bus day in the schools of the county and to carry out as far as possible the program of exercises prepared for the schools of the entire nation. It was further ordered that the schools of each township meet at some central place in the township and there hold general exercises, to be under the supervision of the trustee and teachers of the township. The proposition of the Wabash School furnitnre Company to furnish school furniture for the schools of county was accepted and all the trustees directed to make their orders through E. L Clark, purchasing agent of the Board. The County Superintendent was ordered to procure the necessary paper and covers for the preparation of work for the World’s Fair Exhibit, at the expense of the trustees.