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CHAPTER XVIII -- EDUCATION (CONT'D)SCHOOL STATISTICS.In 1874 there were 1,523 children of school age in the county, the largest number being Harlan township, 277; the next, Grove, with 224; next, Monroe, with 209, and the next, Fairview, 183. Report of county superintendent for the year ending September 20, 1878: Number of persons in the county between five and twenty-one years of age, 3,479; number of schools in the county, 100; average number of pupils attending school, 1,620; number of teachers employed, men, 80; women, 98; average compensation of teachers, per month, men $32.72; women, $30.40; total value of school houses and apparatus, $45,095; total amount of paid teachers since September 20, 1878, $22,882.57. The county schools were often very large. For instance, in 1888, from school reports of almost forty schools in session during that year, it appears that the largest school was No. 3, Monroe, with Nellie Bungor as teacher, with an enrollment of 42. The second largest was No. 9, Jackson, L. O. Hawley, teacher, enrollment, 40; the fourth largest was No. 9, Monroe, with Lizzie G. Boland, teacher, enrollment, 37; the third largest was No. 3, Jackson, with Laura B. Newby, teacher, enrollment, 38; the fifth was Harlan No. 2, J. W. Jones, teacher, enrollment, 37; the sixth was No. 9, Greeley, Tina Anthony, teacher, enrollment, 34, and the next, No. 7, Jackson, J. C. Kelly, teacher, enrollment, 34. In these nearly forty schools there were only seventeen pupils neither absent nor tardy. These schools were taught in the winter term. Among the men who were teaching them were H. C. Hanson, J. D. Keet, C. M. Wilder, Walter Guthridge, W. A. Gibbs, Frank Gallagher, J. C. Kelly, J. W. Jones, Frank Stevens, Eugene Sullivan (now a well-known banker of Panama, Iowa), L. O. Hawley, Thomas Hogan, W. J. Wicks, and John Keitges. The least cost of tuition per month per pupil was in Jackson No. 3, $1.33, and the highest cost was No. 8, Fairview, $4.92, this variation, of course, depending largely upon the enrollment. Superintendent Swift’s report in 1889 to the state superintendent of the number of pupils of school age in the county, showed a total number of 6,267, made up of 3,205 boys and 3,062 girls, the boys being in the majority by 143. Statistics from Shelby county teachers’ journal, February 18, 1904: Total number of school age in Shelby county today, 5,928; twenty years ago, 5,515. Total number of library books now, 9,469; twenty years ago, 250. Value of school houses now, $122,425; then, $91,975; average wages paid rural school teachers in Shelby county today, $33.89; twenty years ago, $34.19.
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