Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1903 — The Public Schools. [ARTICLE]

The Public Schools.

The pnblio schools of Rensselaer and Remington r*-opened for the school year, this. Monday morning Bept. 7th. The t >wnships, sohoolo will re-open on the following dates: Sept. 14 th, Oarpenter, Marion, Gillam, Newton, Jordan, Kankakee. Sept. 21bt, Hanging Grove. Sept. 28th, Barkley, Keener. Wheatfield, Milroy and Wheatfield town Oct. stb. Union, Walker, As a general rale the townships which reopen next Monday will all have 7 or 7$ months of sohool, and those which open later wiir have correspondingly shorter terms. This rule however does not necessarily apply to Wheatfield and Keener townehipaand Wheat- ’ field town, as the opening is delayed there to give the children opportunity lo hetp tn gat fieri ng the large piokle crop, of thip season.