187 pupils in 1903 and employed six teachers at an annual cost of $3,530. Elsewhere will be found information regarding agricultural high schools. If in the Guthrie County high school, and other schools that may hereafter be designated or established, if any, there could be given a course in elementary agricultural, manual training, domestic science, together with instruction in the science and art of teaching, much greater good could in my opinion be accomplished for the people of the state whose interests are so largely agricultural. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF HIGH SCHOOL TRUSTEES. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Guthrie County, Iowa: GENTLEMEN,-In compliance with the law I hereby submit the annual report of the Guthrie County High School Trustees for the year ending July 1, 1903, covering the period from July 1, 1902, to July 1, 1903: Tuition to be charged non-resident pupils and pupils in excess of the quota from townships and districts within the county was fixed at $2.25 each per month. You are requested to levy one mill on the dollar of the taxable valuation of Guthrie county to defray the running expenses of said school for the ensuing year Respectfully submitted, S. A. SMITH, Secretary. LLOYD TOWNSHIP CENTRAL SCHOOLS. BY PRINCIPAL F. T. TOMPKINS, TERRIL, IOWA. The town of Terril is situated in the township of Lloyd, county of Dickinson, and state of Iowa. The central school of which we are to speak is located in this town, which is centrally placed in the township, being at the center east and west, and forty rods north of the central point north and south. Previous to the erection of the central school, Lloyd township had seven schools in operation, and a tax had been voted and raised for the eighth. It is doubtful whether the ninth would have had the required number of pupils to secure a school even now, but it is a fact that the children of that ninth district have at present the benefits of a school. The first steps toward centralization were taken in the spring of 1901, when a 10-mill tax was voted by the township for the purpose of erecting a school building in the town of Terril to be used as a township school. The school board then declared the rural schools closed for a period of one year, and proceeded to secure transportation for all of the children to the central school, with the understanding that if the trial was found not satisfactory, they would return to the former system. In the course of a few months the school building was completed and school began therein the 28th of October. The building is a modern fourroom frame structure 46x48 feet and 24 feet high, erected at a cost when completed of $3,600. In addition to this the site cost $500, of which the town gave $250. At the beginning the stoves and desks from the rural schools were used to furnish the building. Since then stoves for all the rooms, desks for one room, library books, physical apparatus, maps, etc., have been added to the amount of $350. Following are compiled some figures which I believe to be as nearly correct as it is possible to make them. The figures for rural schools were taken from the daily registers of the different sub-districts. RURAL SCHOOLS FOR THE MONTHS DECEMBER, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1900-1901. Total enrollment..... Average daily attendance... Seven teachers at $35.00 per month.. Coal per month ...... Janitor work per month. Total cost of seven schools per month.. Cost per pupil per month............ cost would be per month... With the eighth school in operation at the same rate the Cost per pupil per month, then.. 145 118.4 $245.00 54.25 7.00 306.20 2.58 349.25 2.95 CENTRAL SCHOOLS FOR THE MONTHS NOVEMBER, DECEMBER AND JANU Total enrollment...... ARY, 1901-1902. Average daily attendance. Principal per month..... Three teachers at $40 00 per month.... Six haulers, one at $40.00 per month, three at $35.00 1.58 146 $ 70.00 120.00 213.00 5.00 425.25 2.92 151 90 $245.00 2.72 191 124.1 $ 1.33 137 1.65 194 111.6 $ 1.74 132 $ 1.96 216 182 The financial condition of Lloyd Township Central School is shown by the treasurer's report of September, 1903. To show that our schools are no more expensive than the rural schools of the other townships, we give the per centum levied for school purposes in the several district townships in Dickinson county by the Board of Supervisors at their meeting in September, 1903. The following abbreviations T., C., and S. H., will be used for Teachers' fund, Contingent fund, and Schoolhouse fund. |