Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Country School Commencement. [ARTICLE]

Country School Commencement.

Country sahool exercises ou a large scale will be held ou Wednesday, June 10th, at Valma in Barkley Tp. They will be for the schools of Barkley, Gillam Hanging Grove, Marion, Newton Jordan, and Union townships, and the graduates will be 28 in number. The exercises will begin at 10:80 and continne into the afternoon. Everybody is invited to attend, .and to brißg their dinners and have a picnic in the grove. The exercises will consist of the essays of the graduates, orations,, declamations music by Union, Hanging Groxe and Barkley glee clubs, and others, presentations of diplomas, dec. dec. Altogether it will le a big day in the history of our township schools. Ferguson A Wilson prepare abstract " quickly, carefully, and as reasonably as any one.