Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Country School Commencement. [ARTICLE]

Country School Commencement.

Country sahool exercises on a large scale will be held on 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 28in number. The exercises will begin at 10:30 and continue into the afternoon. Everybody is invited to attend, and to bring 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 Gtoac and Barkley glee clubs, and others, presentations of diplomas, &c. &c. Altogether it will Je a big day in the history of our township schools.