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William Henry Smith Memorial
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder
COLLECTION DATES: 1900-1901
PROVENANCE: Betty Kirkpatrick, Freedom OK,
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ACCESSION NUMBER : 1992.0461
Anthony Pohl lived and owned farm land in Celina, Perry County, Indiana. He
served as state-appointed truant officer for
This collection, filling one folder, contains letters, deeds, printed forms filled in, and printed notices, from the years 1900-1901. Items in the collection indicate that the truant officer, as the only representative of the State in a rural area, was expected to perform a number of seemingly unrelated functions:
- watching the polls;
- calling a township school meeting to handle such matters as letting a contract for wood for the schoolhouse;
- hearing complaints from people who claimed they had been mobbed at a school meeting.
A bill which Pohl submitted shows that he spent part of his time visiting the different townships in the county and part writing letters to the parents of delinquent scholars.
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