Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 9, 1925, p. 8. NEW SCHOOL FOR VAN BUREN Citizens of Township Make Plans For Consolidation of Work and $20,000 Structure. Van Buren township has started a campaign to erect a consolidated school in the township, W. V. Payne, county superintendent of schools announces. The school would be erected at once near the center of the township at an estimated cost of $20,000. At the present time pupils of high school age in the township, 60 in number, are forced to attend the Bloomington high school to receive further school work. The township is paying $7,000 annually to send the boys and girls to Bloomington and Payne and Walter Duncan, trustee of Van Buren, point out that within three years the new school would pay for itself because of $7,000 expenditure each year. At present there are 10 rural students in the township with 200 pupils in attendance in addition to the 60 who come to Bloomington. The new school would care for the high school students and a majority and possibly all of the grade school children. None of the rural schools are accredited. Payne and Duncan cite that the township contains good pike roads, a centrally located school would be available to all children of school age in the township, would raise the educational standards of the township and therefore should be erected at once. Many residents of the township favor the consolidated school and little difficulty is expected in pushing the plans to completion. Superintendent Payne is a strong advocate of consolidated schools. Four townships of the county, Clear Creek, Benton, Bean Blossom and Richland already boast consolidated schools, and before the term of Payne expires it is expected that several others will join the ranks of the four pioneers. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.