Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1898 — Point for School Consolidation. [ARTICLE]

Point for School Consolidation.

By n dooision of the supremo court Thursday in a case coining from Cass county, that tribunal has opened the way for carrying into effect the abandonment of school house and the gathering of all the pupils into one township school. Action was brought to compel a township trustee to employ a teacher for n"certain school which the trustee had abandoned. The court holds that while the law does not permit a trustee to change the site of a school. house, it does not forbid him to cease holding school in one if hd’ acts in good faith and for sufficient reasons.