Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-21
MARIETTA 10 VOTE
ON CONSOLIDATION
MOST OF SEVEN INDEPENDENT
DISTRICTS PLANNING TO BUILD
GRADED SCHOOL.
ELECTION BE HELD
AT MARYLAND MARCH 81
Petition Circulated For the CONSOLE
dation Contains Much More Than
Majority Of Voters-Lberty Dis
tricts Want in on Constellation
Discussed in Bangor and Ferguson.

The movement to consolidate rural
schools is spreading in the county
Following the consolidation at Clemens
and ST. Anthony, and the strictly rural
cons olidation in Liberty township,
large part of Marietta township is now
ready to join forces, consolidate and
build a graded school at Hartland.
AT a meeting of the directors of the
independent districts that are prepar-
ing to combine. and the township trus-
tees, held at Hartland Thursday after
noon, an election was called for March
IL at Hartland to vote on the CONSOLE
dalton.
Will Probably Carry.
There is every likelihood that the
voters viii vote to consolidate. A pc
tition, signed by sixty nine voters.
which was approved by County Super
intendent Gertrude Miller asking for
consolida ton, has been filed. Inc
signers number far more than ma
jority of all the voters in the district,
and the sentiment is very strongly IN
favor of the new union OF Independent
districts and a modern and adequate
graded school
Take In Seven Districts.
F'il Z entire independent districts, and
most of two other districts. are includ-
ed in the proposed consolidation. The
territory included has extreme dimen-
sions east and west of six miles and
north and south of the same distance.
All of districts 3, 4, s, and 10 are
included and a part of districts , and
). District is in the north part of the
township. All of that district, except
the east one-h half of section No. 4, the
west one-half of section ), the east
one-haf of section 8, and the west
enc half 0f section ~. The territory
not included comprised a little more
than the west one third of the dis
trict.
All of district No. 5 is included ex-
cept the west one-h half of section No.
IL, which is in the northwest corner
Of the district.
HartIand Proposed Site.
The details of building, cost. and To-
cation have not yet been worked out,
but some of them have been tentative
~ agreed to, as near as is possible at
this time. Hartland, which is in the
approXimate center of the districts,
north and south, and only about a half
a mile west of the center of popula-
ton, measured east and west. will very
Droba bly, be the location of the new
building
A modern building, probably of four
rooms to accommodate perhaps eight
grades will be built. 1t is the desire Of
the county superintendent, and Of the
progressive farmers who have been
promoting the project. that the build
ing and grounds be equipped to teach
domestic science and agriculture, so
that the school can receive aid from
the state under the law recently passed
10 promote the teachings of these
branches in rural schools.
Other Consultations On.
Marietta township, however, is not
the only community that is agitating
consolidated schools. Following the ex-
ample set by the independent school
districts Nos. l. ., ), and 6. Of Liberty.
| which consolidated. a petition has now
been prepared for independent districts
Nos. 9 and 4 of Liberty, which We're
not included in the consolidation.
| These two districts are going to ask
soon that they be allowed to join with
Nos. l. 3, and g. which are going to
| d
Tic church in district No. .. 1t may be
that because the two remaining dis
rricts Of the township want it, that the
Liberty rural district will be entirely
reorganized as the new districts want
to come in as part of the whole con-
solidation and not as an addition to II
With districts Nos. and 4 included
in the Liberty rural consolidation. tn
entire township will have consolidated
schools Districts Z, s, and 10 have
already been consolidated with Glenn
Ions and st. Anthony.
! There is a movement on in Bangor
: township for a consolidation, but 1t
has not Yet developed definite form.
more nearly definite project is in pro-
eress TO consolidate some Of the rural
schools adjacent to Ferguson with the
| town school. a petition may be circu-
/ lated in and near Ferguson soon with
| this object in view.