Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1871 — From Remington. [ARTICLE]

From Remington.

Eds. Union: —Our public schools are closed. As I understand them, the circumstances connected therewith are these: Our school house rs too small to accommodate all the pupils. When the schools were about to open, the board of school trustees made arrangements with a portion of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church property for the use of their building for one department. With this understanding tho school officers employed Miss Bolles to teach in the church and Miss Williams to teach in the school house. Since then a portion of the church trustees havo become dissatisfied and positively refuse to permit the school to go on in their property. In consequence of this action both schools have been compelled to suspend. Miss Williams, however, will open a private school in the school house next Monday. I will not attempt to say what others will think of this community, when they learn that we have two church buildings completed and another in process of construction, said to be the finest edifice of the kind on the road between Logansf>ort and Peoria, and only a little insignificant, country district school house that can not be made comfortable in winter and will not hold half'of our school children. Neither have we as .yet a grave yard in which to decently bury onr dead, but are compelled to ship them as freight to some more favored locality or else to deposit them cn the open plain where they may be trampled upon by the careless stranger or their graves desecrated by the foot-prints of passing herds. Nearly £ieiy day and evening we hear the chime of one or both church bells calling parents to re ligious instruction, while their children arc permitted to roam the streets, during the spring-time of life when their minds are most susceptible of impression, contracting vicious habits and growing up in ignorance because we have no school house where they may be educated. Friends and neighbors, is this a proper state of affairs for a town like ours In this progressive century? Ought not public enterprise to be directed towards securing a school hoiuje sufficient to accommodate all the children in the place large enough to attend school? And ought we not unite together and purchase a lot ol'ground where wo may give our lost loved ones a decent Christian burial? Weigh these matters carnally, come out boldly and act wisely. L. Q.ueensware an d glassware at C. C. Starr’s.