25 Feb 1898
Page 1
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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1898
Page
1
Notes from Orange City report teacher examinations conducted on Friday and Saturday February 26 and 27 in the academy building as well as the start of official business and local notices. Local items include trade ads, visitors, farm remarks, school finance notes, and community updates from Hull and surrounding areas.
The Academy board under Principal Chase changes the school term order to four ten week terms yearly. Tuition is 37.60 per term and board at Dorcas Hall costs 250 pounds weekly with furnished room, light and heat. Summer session offers a corner school with Mr Chase supervising to train teachers. Miss Isabella Rankin Jones, noted Christian Scientist from Chicago, dies in Kansas City amid wartime tensions.
The piece recalls Miss Jones aged 45 known as a Christian Science speaker and music teacher, with Coroner Bedford informed of her illness and death. It includes editorial views on Prof Herron and local election hints, plus advertisements for One Minute Cough Cure and DeWitt’s Little Early Risers in a Western progress themed notice row.
Financial report outlines receipts and expenditures for the year ending February 212k 1423 with balance figures and allocations across School House Fund Library Fund Tracers Fund Contingent Fund and teacher salaries. It notes balances on hand and estimates by directors for the coming school year.
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