CHAPTER XVIII -- EDUCATION (CONT'D)

WAGES OF TEACHERS.

In 1879 a majority of the country schools had seven months’ school, although Lincoln and Monroe had eight months, and Greeley township had nine months. The wages paid first class teachers were: Harlan, $25; Douglas, $30; Jefferson, $28; Jackson, $30, Fairview, $30; Lincoln, $30; Monroe, $30; Greeley, $30; Shelby, $25; Westphalia had six months and paid $35 per month, except the town school, which had ten months. M. J. Heires taught the school at $50 per month. The enrollment of the town school was 84.

Transcribed by Denise Wurner, October 2013 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pp. 423.

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