Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The British House of Lords has reversed the decision of the* appeal court in the West Riding case in regard to the payment for religious instruction and bolds that the county councils are bound to pay for the whole curriculum. George F. Pollock, recently appointed assistant commissioner of the general land office in Washington, did not have even a primary school education until he was more than 19 years of age. He is receiving $35,000 a year for purely Intellectual work and is still a young man.