Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . 9 square miles. The fine lines are section lines; from which it maybe seen that the area of some townships is 30 and of others 35 or 36 square miles. Ruralschool consolidation extends over per cent of the area of the county. Fifty-threedistrict schools have been abandoned in this county. Sixty-seven school wagons andseveral interurban lines daily transport about 1,300 pupils to consolidated schools. Thecounty expended for conveyance ?18,244 in 1907-8. After belonging to the consolidatedschool one year, one district in Salem
Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system . 9 square miles. The fine lines are section lines; from which it maybe seen that the area of some townships is 30 and of others 35 or 36 square miles. Ruralschool consolidation extends over per cent of the area of the county. Fifty-threedistrict schools have been abandoned in this county. Sixty-seven school wagons andseveral interurban lines daily transport about 1,300 pupils to consolidated schools. Thecounty expended for conveyance ?18,244 in 1907-8. After belonging to the consolidatedschool one year, one district in Salem Township withdrew and reopened its district after one years retrial of the old plan, the patrons, convinced that the consolidatedschool was the better, abandoned the district school permanently, sold the schoolhouse, andreturned to the consolidated 232 79 COXSOLIDATIOX IX UXIOX TO^VXSHIP. MOXTGOMEEY COUXTY. IXD. This township is as large as three or four ordinary ones but toosmall to be organized as a county. The map. figure 23. shows the. L£S£ND DISTRICT SCHOOL S BOLmoARroFeoNsouaATOj SCHOOL COMSOUDATeo SCHOOL n ELECTRIC ROAD BOUHDAPy OFONEROCM SCHOOL OISTKICT- STE^HROAO-- Fig. 28.—Map of Union Township, Montgomerj County^ Ind., 11)08. Area of township, 110 square miles. Valuation, .$4,405,670. Number of pupils enrolledin public schools, 1,547. Location, the fertile section of west central Indiana. Craw-fordsville, the county seat. Land gently rolling, somewhat broken along the watercourses; soil black and productive; average value of farming land (1908), SlOO per is diversified; products chiefly grain, hogs, and draft horses. The roads,nearly all graveled, are well taken care of. Seventy-four per cent of the area is consoli-dated. Five hundred and thirty-one children are conveyed to school daily in 31 schoolwagons. Eleven subdistrict schools remain unconsolidated. These are housed in excel-lent buildings ; their eventual a
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