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county, has been practicing medicine since before her marriage to Samuel Slosson in 1875. Against the wishes of her father, Dr. Brooks, who was country doctor for many years around Salem, Neb., she went from school in Philadeplhia to take a thorough course in medicine. Such a step for a young girl was considered remarkable in the early seventies.
Mrs. Slosson was graduated from the Nebraska State Normal Col- lege with the second graduating class in 1872. The first graduating class of this college had two graduates, Miss Anna Moorhead, of Sabetha, and
SABETHA HOSPITAL, SABETHA, KANS.
George Howard, of Salem. Anna Moorhead is now Mrs. Joy, of Oregon. Joseph Howard became a professor in Leland Stanford University, in California. A few years ago there was a religious tempest in the college in which the views of several of the professors were found not to be those of the Leland Stanford higher authorities, and the professors re- signed. Among them was Prof. Joseph Howard, who since has been associated with the University of Nebraska. Mrs. Dr. Slosson recalls that she and Anna Moorhead Joy were roommates in these early college
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days. Their modest expenditures for a year were less than the present day college girl's in a week. Their room, for instance, cost them $4 for the term. They boarded themselves. They had a regular cookstove and learned their domestic science by practical experience, and memories of how mother did it at home. They were given all the fresh milk they wanted, and for the going after it, and all the potatoes they could use for the digging of them. They had free access to the immense amount of brush lying around Peru, and all the driftwood they could rescue from the river, flowing past the town. Some farmer wagon, with a lad as driver, hauled the wood for them for fifty cents, and they chopped it themselves. Their other expenditures amounted to never over $1.50 a week altogether, and often not over a dollar. Ye Gods, and think what putting a girl through college means today ! The year's expense of educating Anna Moorhead and Emma Brooke was less than an outfit costs for the girl of today. Anna Moorhead, a year after her graduation, married; Emma Slosson, three years afterward.
Of the early day doctors in Nemaha county, mention has been gen- erally made in the previous pages. They are found connected with the building up and prospering of the county, in country and town. They are connected with the story of the War of the Rebellion. Dr. Hayes, Dr. Kaysbier, Dr. Mckay, Dr. Troughton, Dr. J. L. Thompson, Dr. J. W. Graham, Dr. Milan and Dr. Best are among the names known and be- loved by pioneer settlers.
Dr. J. S. Hidden was the earliest regular practitioner in the county. He came to Kansas and Nemaha county in 1858, at which time he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature. He was a member of the famous Home Association of Old Centralia, and became rich in the county.
About thirty-five years ago, Dr. S. Murdock, Sr., came from Mis- souri to Oneida, which was at that time in the height of its boom. He became the country doctor for the surrounding people, and is still the most beloved of doctors. Dr. Heigh's name has been connected with the Wetmore and Granada and the southeastern corner of the county for many years, while Dr. Mckay is largely responsible for the early day health and welfare of the extreme southern end, around America City.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION.
THE PIONEERS' INTEREST IN SCHOOLS-FIRST COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT -OTHER SUPERINTENDENTS-ESTABLISHING DISTRICTS-RECORDS DESTROYED BY FIRE-THE DISTRICT SCHOOL-NUMBER OF DISTRICTS -CANDIDATES FOR CERTIFICATES IN 1877, 1885, 1900 AND 1915- OFFICERS AND TEACHERS IN 1886-SCHOOL OFFICERS, 1915-1918- JOINT DISTRICTS-COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL PLAN REJECTED-CONSOLI- DATION-SCHOOL CENTRALIZATION-NOTABLE TEACHERS-THE AL- BANY SCHOOL-A BELOVED TEACHER.
By County Superintendent W. R. Anthony.
The huts and dugouts of the early settlers of Nemaha county were hardly completed before the attention of everyone was turned to the necessity of making provision for the education of the children of the settlement and vicinity.
The lack of building material did not long check the ardor of the sturdy pioneers, and soon a number of sod school houses were erected and equipped. Though crude at first, these primitive seats of learning became actual and interesting community centers; for here not only did the boys and girls of the surrounding country gather through the winter months for school, but here the settlers met to discuss important ques- tions and problems and to hold religious and patriotic services. Here, too, the young people met in spelling schools, debating societies and other wholesome amusements, and many fond ties of love and friendship and pleasant memories brighten faces and lighten hearts at thoughts of those "days gone by."
These primitive sod hiuts and rude cabins soon gave way to better buildings, the little white school houses of almost sacred memory, and such is the neighborhood pride in these little rural centers of learning, as well as attachment for them through past associations, that it will require much argument and clear evidence before the people will consent to the passing of the rural schools for the consolidated schools, which are now being considered in many parts of the country where they are being tried out as far better and more efficient than the small rural school.
Before Kansas had reached Statehood, Joseph C. Hebbard was ap- pointed first county superintendent of schools of Nemaha county, and
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schools were opened in the different settlements. Following Superin- tendent Hebbard, the office was filled by J. W. Fuller, F. P. Baker, Daniel Foster and J. C. Hebbard again.
In November, 1862, Thomas D. Shepherd was elected for a term of two years, the first superintendent elected under the new State govern- ment. The following is the list of the superintendents of Nemaha county from the first to the present time, 1916: Joseph C. Hebbard, March, 1859, to January, 1860; J. W. Fuller, January, 1860, to July, 1860; F. P. Baker, July, 1860, to December, 1861 ; Daniel Foster, December, 1861, to April, 1862 ; Joseph C. Hebbard April, 1862, to January, 1863; Thomas D. Shep- herd, elected in November, 1862, and served from January, 1863, to January, 1865, one term. L. C. Preston served from January, 1865, to August, 1865, when he resigned, and Abijah Wells was appointed to fill the vacancy and served till December, 1865. Mr. Wells was followed by Thomas D. Shepherd, who died in December, 1867. J. H. Ballou was ap- pointed to fill out Superintendent Shepherd's term and served from De- cember, 1867, to January, 1869. J. D. Stamm was the eleventh county superintendent, serving to December, 1870. P. K. Shoemaker was elect- ed as Mr. Stamm's successor and served one term, January, 1871, to Janu- ary, 1873. Abijah Wells was the fourteenth county superintendent and served three successive terms, 1875 to 1881. Mr. Wells has the honor of having filled the office longer than any county superintendent to the date of this writing, 1916. His term of service was six years and five months. Many official records and data pertaining to the office are found in his familiar handwriting. Mr. Wells was followed by J. A. Amos, E. H. Chapman and J. J. McCray, each of whom served two terms. Milton Todd served one term, from 1893 to 1895, and was followed by C. A. Strong for one term. Mr. Todd was returned to the office in 1897 for another term, and was followed by J. G. Schofield, who served from January, 1899, to May, 1903, making his term of office four years and four months. Mr. Schofield was followed by W. T. Anderson and Mil- ton Poland, two terms each. In May, 1911, W. R. Anthony entered the office as the twenty-fourth county superintendent and shares with Mr. Wells the honor of having been elected for three consecutive terms. His present term of office expires in May, 1917.
When the county was organized and the task of laying out the dis- tricts was begun, district No. I was located to include the territory of the present city of Centralia and vicinity. This settlement was one amongst the first in the county, just north of Centralia of today. No. 2 took the Taylor Rapids settlement, a once promising little village on the banks of the Nemaha in the northern part of the county. Its dreams of future greatness failed to materialize, and today only a modest little school house stands as a landmark. District No. 3 was located just south of Baileyville, in the Graham neighborhood; No. 4 included the Ford settlement, east of Seneca, and No. 5 was in the Roots settlement, about half way between Seneca and Corning.
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It is interesting to follow the list and note in the next ten districts the following settlements in various parts of the county : Carroll, near Axtell; White Hall, just east of Centralia; Beyreis, north of Seneca on the Nebraska line; Union Dale, in the Funk neighborhood, southwest of Oneida; District No. 10, some of the old settlers of which were the Buckles, Greens, Maelzers, Smiths, Kilkennys, Letelliers, just southwest of Centralia ; District No. 11, including the city of Seneca; Swerdfeger and Shumaker, north of Wetmore; Wolfley school, east of Goff, and Liberty, in the Johnson and Burger neighborhood, north of Seneca. From
THE BEAUTIFUL HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, SENECA, KANS.
this record we see that schools were established in all parts of the county . along with homes.
The records of the county superintendent's office were destroyed by fire on March 4, 1876, and much interesting early data concerning these first settlements and schools is not available for embodying in this short review of the educational history of Nemaha county ; but up to the time of the fire there had been organized about eighty districts in the county in which schools were kept from three to five or more months. (16)
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With our present high ideals of schools and school work one may be inclined to minimize the efforts of these early frontier short-term schools, but when one estimates carefully and thoughtfully the results that have followed them, he must admire and praise them. The enrollment did not consist of just a handful of small boys and girls, as is the case in many places today, but the room was full, including not only little folks, but big boys and girls, grown, even young men and women. The teacher was a sturdy disciplinarian who knew how to wield the rod as well as hear classes and call school ; and while the instruction was not so classic and up-to-date in methods, hosts of young people learned to read and write and spell and cipher, learned to think and decide, to form con- clusions as to right and wrong, to be honest and frugal and upright, and later build up homes and establish a citizenship that has made Nemaha county an honor to the State of Kansas.
During the next ten years about twenty-five districts more were added to the list, bringing the number up to 105. The first district meet- ing in the Anderson district, No. 103, was held at the home of Thomas S. Anderson, just south of Oneida, on October 16, 1886, to locate the site for the school house, elect officers, etc. The territory to form this district was taken from the surrounding districts, Nos. 4, 9. 54, 79, 83 and 87. The original notice of this first meeting is on file in the office. At this meeting P. A. Wright was elected clerk, Thomas S. Anderson, treasurer, and Henry F. Harter, director.
During the next decade, 1886 to 1896, the number of school districts increased to 117. No. 117 was organized on July 16, 1894, with J. P. Good as clerk, Robert Schneider as treasurer, and Charles Krogman as director. The territory of this district was originally in Districts 3, 69, 89 and 76.
Just three districts have been organized since 1896, District 118, in 1898, by Superintendent Todd; District 119, in 1903, by Superintendent W. T. Anderson, and District 120, in 1910, by Superintendent Milton Poland.
The total number of school districts in the county, including the joint districts, is now 130. For a number of years the tendency has been to make more districts, thus reducing the territory of existing districts, and the limit has about been reached. There are yet a few points where the organization of a new district would accommodate a few families in a small school, but sentiment is gradually changing and people are be- ginning to feel that it would be better if there were fewer districts and larger schools. The pendulum is beginning to vibrate the other way and consolidated schools are being thought about, talked about and advocated in different communities. Meetings have been appointed in some lo- calities and in a few districts a vote has been taken to ascertain the senti- ment of the people on the proposition.
As this brief educational review of the county must, of necessity, contain some statistics to make it of real value for future reference, the
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following data is compiled from the records of the county superintend- ent's office :
Names of Candidates for Teachers' Certificates in 1877-G. W. May- hew, R. E. Mayhew, Mary E. Alvord, Hattie A. Smith, Addie Points, Finnie Points, Mattie A. Burger, Dora Murphy, Florence Alvord, Joseph Haigh, Susie Blazier, Alice Allen, Dora Neighbor, D. B. Mercer, Cryssie Myers, John Crarey, Nora Cattin, Ollie Shannon, Mary J. Ewing, J. T. Gillam, D. S. Gilmore, Hattie West, Addie Hitchcock, D. L. Miller,
HIGH SCHOOL SABETH
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, SABETHA, KANS.
Lizzie J. Hart, Frances Cattin, Maud Biddison, J. B. Lohmuller, J. J. Mc- Neil, Nannie Morehead, Morris King, V. H. Biddison, L. Herrington, Mary Todd, D. L. Ewing, Jennie McCoy, Mort Mathews, A. Sams, Emma J. Gillaspie, Jennie Ewing, Sarah Carroll, D. L. Linn, Alma Hammel, Isabel Wilson, J. J. Mitchell, Mrs. W. W. Skadden, M. H. Minehan, May Techlofen, W. D. Monk, G. D. Lewis, Sophia Wohlford, H. D. Crarey, D. R. Bradt, T. Jennings, Julia Heusley, Ella Watkins, S. S. Lindeman, Flora M. Stinson, Jennie S. Lilley, Laura Manville, Mattie Trees, Maggie Mercer, Sarah Chapman, Annie Mercer, T. J. Wolfley, A. M. Allen, J.
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A. Huron, Mary Monahan, D. F. Hoover, E. H. Chapman, C. H. Stewart, T. F. Bracken, Lenore Bracken, Pat Dignan, Mary V. Andrews, Clara Gallup, Minnie King and C. H. Herold.
At the teachers' institute held at Seneca in July, 1885, E. H. Chap- man, county superintendent, the following was the enrollment : Clinton Barrowdale, Elmer V. Allen, Ed. E. Harter, Henry T. Shoemaker, Hugh B. Carter, Beverly H. Hobbs, John Barber, Charles Fundis, Vernon Simon, Edw. W. Clark, Fanny H. Bennett, Mary Myers, Eva Coleman, J. H. Parker, Allie Allen, Winnie Carr, Anna Ridenour, Mattie Wood- bourn, Mary Anderson, Anna Dougan, Angie Stickney, Susey Hulse, Mary Seeley, Minnie Burger, Lorrain Taylor, Minnie Kaysbier, Jennie McBratney, Cora Moren, Nettie Kuhn, Rebecca McCray, Mattie E. Clark, Genie M. Kendall, Sophia Wohlford, Lillie E. Clark, Frank A. Hastings, Anna Skinner, Alice Nightengale, Theressa Wohlford, Lillie Fabrick, Etta Borem, Dora Taylor, Della Farmer, Lydia Oren, Mrs. O. H. Stilson, Anna Green, Belle McColgin, Emma Hodgins, Eden Borrow- dale, Mary Hale, Laura Critchfield, Jessie Boardman, Nettie Carmichael, Stowey Bruce, Lillie Rosenberger, Anna Kerr, Norma Kerr, Lora Moul- ton, Flora Stonebarger, Mary Bland, Maggie Stark, Rebecca Oren, Lydia Ward, Ada E. Sherman, Mary Roberts, Severina Koelzer, Mary McCaf- frey, Agnes Graney, Jane Coffey, Kate Brock, Sarah A. Bennett, Hattie S. Wickens, Ada O'Roke, Lulu Smith, Sarah McKee, Anna Hartman, R. W. McKinley, Charles Miner, J. E. Sherrard, Jesse Everhard, Clara Larimer, Lizzie Trees, Mary Williams, Estella Stewart, Nettie Abbey, Effie Grubb, Martha Wolfley, Grace Means, Mrs. Emma Robinson, Mary Harness, J. E. McKinley, Ida Neiman, Edith Coston, Louesa Cap- per, Clara Kistner, Lillie Ludwig, Mrs. M. E. Todd, Eugene Dorcas, Amy Chandler, Jennie Lincoln, Robert J. Waugh, Joseph Denbring, Frank Welp, B. F. Eyer, Louisa Keepers, Mary Lincoln, Jennie McMillan, J. W. Emmert, Pauline Campbell, J. N. Largent, Hattie Church, Jennie Little, Sallie F. Potts, A. A. Walker, Allie Webster, S. S. Dorcas, Geo. J. Parks, Nettie Etter. J. J. Lockland, E. C. Shelton, Ada Lake, A. A. Brooks, Kate L. Losee. J. W. Roberts, Rosa Machamer, Anna Newland, Jennie Fisher, Bertha Winterbourne, Bertha Morton, F. C. Perkins, J. J. McCray, Chas. A. Haggard, Will M. Boylan, Eleanor Johnson, Allie G. Falconer, Lottie Balmer, Maud L. Skinner, P. K. Shoemaker, Wm. Mc- Bratney, Mrs. J. H. White, Mary Phillips, A. L. Funk, Kate E. Wickins, W. H. Higgins, Mattie Trees, A. A. Hyde, Thomas Kerr, Mrs. Nettie Milam, Elmer Bruce, S. S. Meeks, F. W. Plehn, Flora Brownlee, Julia Baker, Ina McClure, Nellie M. Amos, Alma Hamel, Mrs. M. E. Manwar- ing, Anna Stinson, Maud Skinner, J. H. Walters, J. L. Hermon, Sera Lamberson, Anna Gill, Chas. H. Lee, J. M. Manwaring, Emma Gillaspie, A. A. Songer, W. L. Critchlow ; total, 167.
Fifteen years later, in June, 1900, J. G. Schofield, county superinten- dent, on the institute enrollment are found the names of Nellie G. Alli- son, Ada M. Anderson, Minnie Benedict, Maggie Blauer, Faye Burke,
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Lela Capsey, Leona Clelland, Andrew Clelland, Perle Comp, Agnes Conwell, Charlotte Cottrell, Maude Cracraft, Ethel Cunningham, Edna Curtis, Grace Dennis, Bertha Dentler, Vertie DeWalt, Hettie DeWalt, Mollie Dillon, Mary Dougan, Kate Dougan, Jennie Douglass, Clemintina Drake, Emma Dyce, Josie Eigenman, Helen Emery, Winifred Evans, Grace Felt, Bert Fenner, Rose Fisher, Bessie Garrett, Bertha Garrison, Albert Gibbons, Nora E. Hamler, James A. Hamler, Rose Harsh, Mrs. Florence Hearne, Belle Heathe, Julius Henry, Lavina Hickey, Phoebe Hillman, Grace Hillman, E. G. Hoskinsson, A. B. Huerter, Fannie In- galls, Mamie Johnstone, Lillie J. Johnstone, Nora Keiser, Verna Keller, Margaret Kinnan, Chas. P. Knight, Anna Lahr, Bessie Lane, William W. Lilley, Grace Lockridge, Lena Lynn, Lillian Maynard, Bessie Miller, Leona Moore, Jessie Moss, Grace Munson, Pruella Neff, Anna Neighbor, Jessie Newman, Lucretia Newman, Gertrude Nicholson, Etta Norton, Amy Norton, T. J. Nusbaum, Vera O'Roke, Lela O'Roke, Mary Ort, Ella Robertson, Francis H. Robinson, Ethel M. Schofield, Cora L. Schofield, Eva Scrafford, Mary Shoemaker, Mamie Sisson, Josie Skoch, Libbie Smith, Frank Smith, Robert Smith, Mae E. Steele, Allen Stewart, Grace M. Taylor, Maria A. Todd, Onah Torrence, Maud Ward, Myrtle Warrington, Fannie E. Wil- kins, Edith M. Williams, Clara J. Williams, A. H. Wills, G. E. Wright, Eva L. Wright, Adala A. Yeanger, Mattie Leone Yeanger, Clarence Wil- son, Mary Savage, Katie Savage, Isaac C. Gardner, Frank Hoover, Gladys Timberlake, Alice E. Latimer, Lucie Nowak, Daisy Ball, Dora Dorman, Lillie Dorman, Sarah Adriance, G. B. Timberlake, Pearl Gruno, Ethel Balmer, May Bristol, Lottie B. McCoy, Jennie Herold, Erma Keith, Lenna Myrick, Alice Emery, Emma McBratney, Esther Hillman, Mabel Larzelere, Dorothy Geyer, Bessie Taylor, Nellie Shoemaker, Hat- tie McColgin. Mamie Maddux, Katie Davidson, Bertha Brown, Francis L. Gallagher, Mildred Firstenberger, Ethel Hoskinson, Bessie B. Lati- mer, Orpha Martin, Levera Simon, Geo. W. Sourk, H. L. Greening, J. M. Denton; total, 140.
Another fifteen years later, June, 1915, W. R. Anthony, county sup- erintendent, at institute are enrolled Hazel Anthony, Agnes Adams, Je- well Allen, Anna Allen, Agnes Assenmacher, Ethel M. Bradt, Laura Barndt, Edith L. Benner, Effie Butz, Celia Burke, Katherine Badesheim, Myrtle J. Brock, Pearl A. Barber, Fayra Bissell, Nellie Brien, Edna Baldwin, Leslie Burger, Mrs. Lela Boothe, Olive Bird, Anna Creevan, Lula Crosswhite, Mildred M. Cole, Susie Cordill, Bernice F. Conard, .Morna Conard, Anna Campbell, Mary E. Cramer, Josephine Camp, Ella Curtis, Georgia T. Davis, Winona Davis, Margaret Dennis, Violet Den- nis, Helen Detweiler; Ernestine Drum, Lucy Elizabeth Young, Nora Farley, Grace Funk, Violet Fish, Lucille Gunther, Helen Grollmes, Mil- dred Guffey, Ada Gaston, Mamie Herold, Daisy Haffner, Josie Hybsk- man, Cecil Hamlin, Lois Hatch, Olivia Hull, Bessie M. Jenkins, Lela Johnson, Lola Johnson, Gladys O. Kean, Lenora Kill, Ellen Kill, Zacha-
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riah Kill, Rosalia Kramer, Olive Kirk, Lela Lightbody, May Lawrence, Emmett Lynch, Mary Lynch, Helen Loob, Victor Massenge, Bertha Markley, Nora Manley, Belle McGreevey, Winnie McClain, Elza Mize, Myrtle Millick, Ruth Moyer, Zella Munsell, June Meyer, Edith Mc- Bratney, Katherine Montgomery, Florence McClary, Inez Minger, Har- riett E. Mooney, Bernice Nash, William Newlove, Katie Neil, Mrs. Ber- tha Owens, Anna O'Brien, Ethel Pfiester, Reba J. Paxton, Elsie Pecken- paugh, Sybil Robinson, Sara Rooney, Hazel Rucker, Vera Ralph, Rose Savage, Sadie Sinclair, Beulah Stahn, Inez C. Shumaker, Frances Schrempp, Mary Springer, Alice Schoonover, Ray Springer, Esther Steinmeir, May Tyner, Clara Tyner, Lavina Tietz, Alice Vautravers,
PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING, GOFF, KANS.
Edith Van Buren, Mildred Winquist, Lola Whitesell, Cecil M. Worley, Ethel L. Worley, Loretta Wells, Martha Wempe, Fannie F. Wileman, Thelma Wetmore, Milan Wasser, Dora Wells, Delpha Winkler, Amy E. Woollard, Mrs. Pearl White, Fern Yeakle, Iscah Zahm; total, 119.
DIRECTORY OF SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS AND TEACH- ERS OF NEMAHA COUNTY FOR THE YEAR 1886.
District I, Centralia: A. J. Best, clerk; A. Harburger, treasurer ; Henry Lohmuller, director ; teachers, O. M. Bowman, William Wherland. Ada Kuhn and Sadie Montgomery.
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District 2, Riverside : Wade Hampton, clerk; August Koster, treas- urer ; J. M. Taylor, director ; teacher, Carrie E. Thompson.
District 3, Graham: J. M. Witmer, clerk; M. R. Connet, treasurer ; William Yeanger, director; teacher, Mary Lincoln.
District 4, Ford : C. A Sherman, clerk ; Joseph Ford, treasurer ; Giles Barney, director ; teacher, J. N. Sargent.
District 5, Mentor : John Warrenburg, clerk ; George F. Roots, treas- urer ; Nathan Baldwin, director; teacher, Benson Vernon.
District 6, Carroll : Samuel Thompson, clerk: James Montgomery, treasurer ; Peter Creevan, director ; teacher, Allen Lee.
District 7, White Hall : J. P. Sams, clerk; Hugh Ross, treasurer ; W. M. Coston, director ; teacher, Mrs. Ella D. Wohlford.
District 8, Union : Christian Nemeyer, clerk ; Henry Hecht, treasur- er; Andrew Beyreis, director ; teacher, Anna Stinson.
District 9, Union Dale : J. N. Funk, clerk; Isaac Briggs, treasurer ; William J. Ball, director; teacher, Sara Bennett.
District 10, Pleasant Hill: Gerard Letellier, clerk; E. U. Green, treasurer; S. Harris, director; teacher, J. W. Emmert.
District II, City of Seneca: Abijah Wells, clerk; Willis Brown, treasurer; J. H. Hatch, director; teachers, J. G. Schofield, A. A. Brooks, Mrs. J. H. White, Mrs. E. M. Collins, Mrs. P. H. Stilson, Dora Taylor, Annie Newland, Flora Stewart
District 12, Swerdfeger: V. B. Fisher, clerk; Augustus Beacher, treasurer; Richard Haxton, director; teacher, J. E. Sherrard.
District 13, Pleasant Hill : E. Swerdfeger, clerk; M. Morris, treasur- er; E. G. Pool, director; teacher, Jennie Fisher.
District 14, Aurora : A. A. Rice, clerk; Chas. E. Luce, treasurer ; William Wessell, director; teacher, Mary Anderson.
District 15, Liberty : Robert Marshall, clerk ; C. H. Steinmeir, treas- urer ; Pierce Johnson, director; teacher, Minnie Burger. .
District 16, Triumph : W. A. Sipher, clerk; William Chase, treasur- er ; Peter Koehler, director ; teacher, Fannie Bennett.
District 17: M. H. Calnan, clerk; John Carroll, treasurer; Thomas Smith, director ; teacher, Mary Morarity.
District 18, Pleasant Hill : S. Mason, clerk ; L. H. Inman, treasurer ; G. H. Buck, director ; teacher, J. J. Lutz.
District 19, Rose Hill : G. W. Hannum, clerk ; Wm. A. Young, treas- urer; John Mills, director ; teacher, Frank McCabe.
District 20, Victory : James Gillespie, clerk ; S. R. Myers, treasurer ; Guss Gardner, director ; teacher, Rosa Machamer.
District 21, Kelly : A. J. Morgan, clerk; M. A. Zahniser, treasurer ; W. P. Dennis, director ; teacher, Julia E. Moore.
District 22, Old Lincoln : G. N. Lowe, clerk ; Fred Kruger, treasurer ; T. J. Nicholson, director ; teacher, B. H. Hobbs.
District 23, Humphrey : D. R. Magill, clerk ; Scott Humphrey, treas- urer ; E. R. Murphey, director ; teacher, H. M. Elert.
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District 24, Woodlawn : L. D. Tatman, clerk; Paul C. Halliss, treas- urer; A. J. Dooley, director ; teacher, Stella Guise.
District 25, Capioma : C. B. Sanford, clerk ; G. W. Conrad, treasurer ; Willis M. Hooper, director ; teacher, A. A. Songer.
District 26, Pleasant Ridge: J. C. Byers, clerk; Reuben Lepley, treasurer; Isaac Lockard, director ; teacher, Agnes Keegan.
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