Remsen Bell-Enterprise, July 6, 1933

The voters of Remsen township, rural district, will be asked to decide, July
17, on the matter of erecting a new school building to replace the one
destroyed by fire last October. A special election will be held at school
No. 5, four miles east and two miles south of Remsen. The question at issue
is whether the voters of the district favor using the $900 insurance money
received on the building lost in the fire, plus the necessary money from the
general fund to make up the required $2,000, for the erection of a new
building. If the proposition carries, which school officers believe it will,
they plan to commence building operations at once. The burned building was
No. 2, located four miles south and two miles east of town, and was known as
the Frank Maas [Maass] school. The old building went up in smoke early one
morning last October when the teacher built a stove fire and left the
building. Soon the fire was discovered but with inadequate fire fighting
equipment on hand the structure was destroyed in a short time.