Ripley Township Information

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 23 Sept 1898 p 4 The school began last Monday at Bunker Hill with Wilford Ammerman as teacher at #7. Arthur Weller commenced putting new ideas into the head of the next generation. Jesse White is at his old place in the Texas building. It will be some time in October before the Alamo schools open up to business but the teachers and scholars are all going to feel quite proud when they take their places in the fine new b uilding prepared for them and well they should be. They should think how much they are honored, especially the children should improve every hour in close study. Remember how some of our great men and women received their education. Their school houses were log cabins with a huge fire place in one end with greased paper for lights. The seats were high benches where the feet failed to touch the floor. Home spun clothes were their apparel and very coarse leather shoes and yarn socks and stockings.
1918-1919 Ripley Township Enrollment Grades 1-8 = 176 Source: "RIPLEY TOWNSHIP", prepared by Charles L. Arvin, April 2000
There were 19 enrolled in high school Source: "RIPLEY TOWNSHIP", prepared by Charles L. Arvin, April 2000