Rural Schools – Seneca Township

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Seneca Township Schools


RANGELINE SCHOOL

Rangeline School was located on Roosevelt Road on the southwest corner of the Town Line and Roosevelt Road intersection.

The Range Line school in the town of Seneca, was built in 1889 and later rebuilt on the same site in 1914. The first school was a log structure built on land purchased from Robert Schrieber and August Bucholtz. Today the school is of white brick and is very modern.

Walter Wright who is the clerk of the board in this school is supervisor of the marl project Shawano County. He formerly directed the Farm Loan division. He is one of the proprietors of the Wright Brothers chicken farm which is well known throughout this state.

Emil Heins, the treasurer, is very active and has held many town offices. He is proprietor of the Maple Grove Dairy farm.

August Bratz, the treasurer has been a member of the school board for twenty years.

The school has a Happy Workers Four H club which is very active. They entered the Music and Dramatic contests for Four H Clubs every year and last year Miss Dorothy Lind from the club was selected as one of the delegates to attend the 4-H club week at Madison.

Miss Eleanora Draper who is the instructor at this school is a graduate of the Shawano training school and has taken extensive trips in the south. She has taught for the past three years at the Range Line school.