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TEMPERANCE.
The question of temperance has
been pretty thoroughly ventilated in all the days
of Dallas county, especially during the latter years
in the county's history, and the cause of temperance
has been strongly maintained. It is true, that in
counties and communities there is always a greater
or less per cent of the citizens who are firm advocates
of each view, and it is generally not a difficult
matter to determine on which side of this great question
each one belongs; in this case the scriptural rule,
"by their fruits ye shall know them," proves
an infallible test, for, certainly, nothing shows
the evil effects of its workings and influence upon
its subjects and votaries like the practice of intemperance.
The victims are soon marked with an unmistakable brand.
Deceive themselves as they may, they cannot long succeed
in deceiving others while they persist in the degrading
habit, and much less can they deceive the Omnicient
One.
To discover the different phases
of the temperance cause in all the times since the
day in which men were indicted for selling fire-water
to the Indians, would be almost an impossibility,
and far beyond the reach or intent of this short article.
As has been shown by the previous
narrative of incidents during the early days of the
county, there were evidently not a few of the early
settlers who liked their bitters too well,
and would have them, at all hazards, and who were
not unfrequently liable to take "just a wee drap
too much," either for their own good or for the
welfare of their households, when the supply was sufficient
for the demand; and when this was not the case, they
would wade through thick and thin, during the roughest
storms to meet the demands of their desperate craving.
Far as this new country was
situated from the base of supplies, and diffi-
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cult as it was to go to the .nearest trading point
and bring home even the necessary supplies for family
and home use; yet despite all these difficulties,
the intoxicating beverage would be procured by some
means and freely distributed among those desiring
it, when it seemed almost impossible to procure the
essentials of living, As an example of this, witness
the following:
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A WHISKY-SELLER'S MISHAP,
During that hard winter of 1848-9,
when the fearful snow banks so blockaded the ways
in every direction, that travel was not only most
difficult, but dangerous to those venturing any distance
from home, and at times it was almost impossible to
get away any great length, even for the necessaries
of life, it appears that even these difficulties and
threatened dangers did not prevent the whisky dealers
from venturing off even as far as Fort Des Moines,
through the deepest snow-drifts, to procure a new
supply of the deadly, degrading stuff, in which they
trafficked to ruin their fellowmen.
A good illustration of this is
given in the following anecdote, related by Judge
Burns:
"A whisky shop was being
kept at this time" (winter 1848-9) "in Penoach
by one Anderson Kelley, an old man full of years,
and full of whisky as well. Kelley ran out of spirits
as soon as spirits ceased to run out of him. His stock
in trade-a barrel of whisky-had been disposed of by
drinks to the votaries of Bacchus, and another barrel
of whisky must supply its place or Kelly must shut
up shop. To get to the Fort, over an unbroken track,
and in the midst of snow storms, was a big undertaking,
even with a man full of spirits, Kelley set out, however,
with a yoke of cattle hitched to a sled made from
the fork of a tree. He reached the Fort in safety,
interviewed 'Jim' Campbell, and soon got a barrel
of whisky.
Next morning it was loaded on
the tree fork and Kelly started back for Penoach.
He had barely reached the skirt of the prairie west
of the Fort, when he was met by one of those north
westers, which were characteristic of this terrible
winter. The wind blew furiously from the northwest,
which increased to a gale. The heavens were a seething
mass of granulated snow, which, impinging the naked
face, made it impossible to confront it by other than
a side or back view.
Kelly, full of whisky and full
of determination, struck out-boldly on the open prairie
for Penoach, to meet the wants of his customers, betimes.
Great rattling snow festoons hung from the brows of
his patient, submissive cattle, blinding them so that
they could not keep the way. Kelley, meanwhile goading
them on with cruel threats and fearful imprecations,
the storm increasing in fury and malevolence all the
while. The folds and caverns of his tattered garments
were filled with snow, and became as rigid as raw-hide.
The poor cattle, becoming wearied and lifeless, turned
their heads from the pitiless storm and, drawing their
chilled legs well under them, stood motionless. Kelley,
shivering like an aspen leaf, handled by a midsummer
storm, felt his way to the barrel, banged out the
bung with the hook of a log chain, thrust a blue-stem
into the bung-hole and sucked his fill.
Loosening his poor cattle from
the fork sled, and with a goad firmly clenched in
his left hand he grabbed the tail of the near ox with
his right and then gave the word "go on,"
crowning it with heavy blows from his
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goad on the shivering backs of his weary animals.
Kelley had determined to follow them wherever they
might go, and they might go wherever they pleased.
The jaded beasts moved on slowly over hill and hollow,
keeping the storm well to the rear of them, now and
then standing in a snow drift, which after a little
rest they would struggle through, Kelley meanwhile
sprawling on his back and plowing along through the
drift, holding fast to the tail.
The cattle finally reached the
timber skirting 'Coon river, near the residence of
the late Wm. D. Boone, in Boone township, Dallas county.
Kelley found lodging and a shelter
for his cattle with Boone for the night.
Next day he found his way home
with his cattle only up the bottom of 'Coon, under
the shelter of the hills skirting the river. There
he remained for some ten days before the weather had
moderated so as to allow him to return in safety for
the barrel of whisky that he had left behind. Not
a drop could be had all this time in Penoach. On Kelley's
return to the scene of his late discomfiture, he found
the barrel had leaked fearfully in his absence from
some cause; and Kelley was not slow to believe that
old John Wright, of Boone township, was the cause
of the leak, supposing him to have heard of the location
of the barrel, and that his evil genius had pass that
way "ad interim."
Of course it is not the intention,
for a moment, to intimate that the above is a fair
representation of a majority or even a small minority
of the early settlers in the county; for the information
we have received on this subject from those who were
here to gain a personal knowledge of affairs, and
the evident testimony on record of the ballots and
declarations of the people made, time and again, in
favor of temperance, together with the prevailing
popular sentiment in its favor throughout the county,
it is evident that a strong and influential temperance
element has existed in Dallas county through all the
years of its growth. But the above anecdote serves
as an illustration to show what difficulties the cause
of temperance and its faithful adherents had to contend
with in former times, and give courage for faithful
perseverance in the present, as they look back over
what has been accomplished in contending with the
monster enemy, and look forward again in hope to the
future.
In April, 1855, the. people were
granted the privilege of voting on the "prohibitory
liquor law," and the temperance sentiment of
the legal voters in the county at that time is shown
by the following abstract of that election.
STATE OF IOWA,}
}ss
DALLAS COUNTY. }
An abstract of all the votes cast on" The Prohibitory
Liquor Law," on the first Monday, the second
day of April, A. D. 1855, in the county aforesaid.
There were (397) three hundred and ninety-seven votes
cast, of which there were (233) two hundred and thirty-three
cast for and (164) one hundred and sixty-four votes
against the said law.
We do hereby certify the foregoing abstract to be
correct, as shown by the returns of the several townships
of said county. In testimony whereof, we have hereto
set our hands as county canvassers, and affixed the
seal of said county, at Adel, this 6th day of April,
A. D. 1855.
(Signed)
LLOYD D. BURNS, County Judge,
SAMUEL MILLER, Justice of the peace,
CHARLES BILDERBACK, Justice of the Peace, County
Canvassers,
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The above only gives the voice
of the legal voters who declared their sentiments
by their ballots, and not the voice of the whole people,
but it gives strong indication of the pulse beat;
and it is very evident that the side of temperance
would have lost nothing had all adults, male and female,
been permitted to cast their ballots on the question,
for the female element, which is the great human power
in the land for promoting the cause of temperance,
had no voice in that election, and the expression
of' their sentiment was not regarded and publicly
declared as it is in these latter days.
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LICENSE LIQUOR LAW.
On the records of the March term
of the county court, 1857, is found the following
minute:
Now comes Benjamin
Bennett and one hundred and eighty others who present
a petition asking the court to submit to a vote of
the people of Dallas county the License Liquor Law.
And whereas, it appearing that
said petition was gotten up in conformity with the
law made in such cases, and that there were over one
hundred names to said petition.
Now, therefore, it is ordered by the court, that an
election be held for the purpose aforesaid, on the
first Monday of April, A. D. 1857, in the county of
Dallas, Iowa, and the ballots shall have printed or
written, .'For License," or "Against License".
The vote at this election, was
carried against license by a good majority, and the
temperance principles of the county were still maintained.
Here as elsewhere in every community,
various schemes were laid and all sorts of means contrived
by the liquor advocates to foster the lion's cub unchained,
and make of' him a harmless playmate in the midst
of a civilized community, but despite their efforts
and fostering care, at every opportunity, he only
became the more bold to display his destructive lion
nature, and to choose as his victims of ruin those
who had most fondly cherished and defended him as
their bosom friend.
The corner grocery system, the
county agency system, the high revenue system, the
license system, the private cellar and back-way-entrance
plan all were tried, but failed to prevent the degrading,
destructive effects of the evil, until the temperance
friends began to assert their rights, and declare,
by united voice and effort and influence, that this
fiend of intoxication should no longer be allowed
to rain ruin in their midst by any kind of leave or
license, then the day of' victory began to dawn, and
the result is there are now six towns in Dallas county
that grant no license for the sale of intoxicating
drinks, against four that do grant license, and a
great number of thriving temperance organizations
throughout the county.
In nearly every town in the county
now is found a temperance society, and the most of
them have a large membership, that are actively and
faithfully engaged in prosecuting the good work, and
extending their influence for the promotion and success
of the temperance cause.
For an account of some of these
temperance societies see sketches of the different
towns and townships in the county.
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RELIGIOUS.
" You raised
these hallowed walls; the desert smiled,
And Paradise was opened in the wild. "--Pope.
In this day of missionary and
benevolent spirit, the gospel in the West rather precedes
than follows the settlement of the country. But in
the
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earlier days of frontier life the progress toward
public worship was of necessity slow. Yet the devotional
spirit of those who had left godly homes opened up
here and there an organized body of worshipers, many
months before they had a regular building for their
services.
The transformation of any country
or locality from a condition of barbarity to one of
civilization requires long-continued and faithful
effort, not only on the part of the first settlers,
but also of the majority of those who follow in after
years. So, also, it is with regard to the promotion
and development of the Christian religion, that most
important branch of civilization, and, in fact, the
great civilizer of nations. Its progress in a new
country is necessarily comparatively slow for many
years, and its promulgation depends to a great extent
on the unshaken faith and untiring efforts of the
few trustful, devotional, zealous ones who are generally
to be found, in greater or less numbers, in almost
every community, even from the days of its earliest
settlement. While the human element is the means to
a glorious end in this regard, yet it is a most important
means in the effectual promotion of this greatest
of all causes, and we should have no misgivings or
wavering doubts with regard to the ability to perform
the important part of this work assigned each of us,
for if we will only rely upon the promise, grace will
be given us each, "sufficient for the day."
Religious interests in Dallas
county have always been carefully fostered by the
citizens, from the earliest days of settlement until
the present, not only in the county seat, but also
in the country districts, and. in all the other towns
and villages in the county, and in a county where
the people have always shown themselves to be so thoroughly
alive to educational interests as the citizens of
Dallas always have been, the result could hardly have
been otherwise, for to a good extent education and
religion go hand in hand.
For many years after the emigrant
cabins began to dot the woodlands and prairie, the
settlements were so scattered over different parts
of the county that it was almost impossible for any
great number to assemble in any particular place for
public worship, much less to erect houses or cabins
for that purpose, and, as a consequence, for a while
religious worship was known only at the home firesides
of those who, in distress and privation, had not forgotten
their devotion to Him who had graciously provided
for them their dwellings, friends, and necessary comforts
of life.
Occasional preaching services
were held in private cabins, and in the first rude
school-houses, which were always well attended and
highly appreciated by the settlers who were hungering
for the "bread of life."
The first sermon preached in
the county, as before stated, was by Rev. Thompson
Bird, a Presbyterian minister then living at Fort
Des Moines, in 1846.
During the same year, and very
soon afterward, Rev. William Busick, a radical Protestant
Methodist, held services at the house of James Black,
and afterward organized a class in that vicinity,
which was, doubtless, the first organization of that
kind in the county.
The first church organized in
the county was the Christian church in the Miller
school-house east of Penoach, which is now the Christian
church of Adel, in a reorganized form. The particulars
of this church are given under sketch of Adel, and
the article on "The First Church," in the
general history.
From that time forward the cause
of religion has slowly, but gradually
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and surely, progressed with the general advancement
of improvement and civilization, until now the country
districts are dotted with fine church buildings, and
in nearly every town and vi1lage in the county from
two to four church steeples are seen pointing upward
toward Him who put it into the hearts of His people
to erect these buildings as places of worship, and
as tokens of love to Him in return for all His gracious
dealings to the sons of men, and thus the work of
religion is made to prosper in Dallas county.
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EDUCATIONAL.
The schools of our county are
sharing with the newsboys' bundle the title of "universities
of the poor," and not only so, but they are in
a large proportion the final educators of the rich.
A close observation of the working of the public schools
shows that if the induction of facts be complete it
could be demonstrated that, in fact, the public schools
turn out more better fitted for business and for usefulness
than most of our colleges. The freedom and liberty
of our public schools affords less room for the growth
of effeminacy and pedantry; it educates the youth
among the people, and not among a caste or class,
and since the man or woman is called upon to do with
a nation in which we, the people, are the only
factor, the education which the common schools afford,
especially where they are of the superior standard
reached in Dallas county, do fit their recipients
for a sphere of usefulness nearer the public heart
than can be attained by private schools or academies.
Dallas county educational affairs
are in a flourishing condition. The contrast between
the settler's school and the present accommodations
has been marked. The puncheon floor and desks, and
doorless aperture for entrance, have given place to
more finished edifices, in some cases elegant ones,
possibly not more thoroughly ventilated, but more
comfortably so.
The county has now become well
supplied with comfortable, commodious school-houses,
and good schools are being taught in all the townships
and towns, sufficiently numerous and convenient for
the accommodation of all parts of the county. Educational
interests have been considered as of the highest importance
by the majority of the citizens, and means and efforts
have not been spared to make their public schools
a success; and under the efficient management of the
present county superintendent, Captain Amos Dilley,
the schools and educational interests in the county
are attaining a high standard.
Dallas county teachers believe
in the interchange of thought as also in the community
of effort, and are making the profession of teaching
a study as well as a practice. Teachers' institutes
are now becoming of regular and frequent occurrence,
and are well attended by those who take a special
interest in the work. The superintendents'
examination grade is now of such a standard that all
applicants do not attain it, and for those who are
successful, after diligent study and preparation,
it shows a much more creditable standing besides furnishing
a more efficient class of teachers.
The first teachers' institute
was held in the county some time during the war, but
no papers regarding this meeting being preserved,
the special date and particulars regarding it cannot
now be procured. They have been increasing in interest
and importance ever since, and especially during the
past few years; and the last one, recently held in
Adel, was a well attended, profitable meeting. The
first normal under the Iowa law was held in 1872,
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as the present superintendent informs us, and instituted
the system of normal schools in the county in a very
encouraging manner, with a fair attendance and considerable
interest on the part of all. These normal institutes
have been held annually ever since in the county during
the months of August and September, and have greatly
increased in interest and profit to an concerned in
them, greatly advancing the educational interests
of the county.
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NORMAL OF 1878.
The institute held in Adel, during
August and September, 1878, was perhaps the most interesting
and profitable one held in the county since the system
was instituted. There were 175 teachers in attendance,
and efficient, thorough work was done, which reflected
great credit not only on all parties concerned in
it, both teachers and taught, but also on the county
for supporting such a meeting and displaying such
an interest in the cause of education. The able address
delivered before the teachers during the progress
of the institute, by Rev. R. J. Hughes, of Adel, is
printed in full in the Dallas County News, and is
spoken of in the highest terms as being "among
the very best lectures ever delivered in Adel."
Many others, also, in connection with the conduct
and instruction of the institute received equally
high and .deserved compliments, as shown by the resolutions
passed toward the close of the session.
At the close of the regular exercises
of the normal, a meeting was called and a formal organization
effected for the transaction of any special business
coming before the teachers of Dallas county. The county
superintendent, A. Dilley, was chosen as chairman,
and A. O. Holderbaum, secretary. A committee previously
appointed, consisting of Mr. Doling, A. O. Phillips,
and Miss Rosa Lewis, to prepare resolutions, presented
the following, which were accepted and adopted unanimously:
Resolved,
1. That we, the teachers of the Dallas County Normal,
tender our most sincere thanks to Sup't Dilley for
the admirable manner in which he has directed the
workings of the Normal, his kindness and courtesy.
the valuable aid rendered to all. and the efficiency
manifested by him in the superintendency of our common
schools.
2. To M. E. Phillips for the efficient manner in which
he, has conducted the institute, for the interest
awakened in the subject of didactics, and the originality
and common sense displayed in .presenting the subject
of grammar.
3. To D. G. Perkins, for his able instruction in arithmetic,
history and orthography; for untiring energy he has
shown for the" general good of his classes, which
we, individually and collectively, fully appreciate.
4. To C. M. Pinkerton, for the practical teaching
done in the subjects of geography, orthography. and
physiology, feeling that we have been greatly benefited
by his Instruction.
5. To the Revs. Hughes and Cheatem for the able addresses
delivered by them before the Normal.
6. To the citizens of Adel for the hospitality and
kindness shown us during our stay among them.
7. That we, as teachers of Dallas county, go forth
with a firm determination to labor earnestly for the
grading- and systematizing of our common schools,
realizing from their present condition the necessity
of thorough reformation in this direction; that we
endeavor to utilize the methods which have been presented
to us in our school work; that we embrace every opportunity
afforded for our improvement, for the advancement
of our pupils, and the elevation of the teachers'
profession to the place where the importance of the
work demands.
8. That a copy of these resolutions be tendered to
each paper published in the county for publication.
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THE GREGG NORMAL SCHOOL.
The origin of this grand Normal
School movement in Dallas county was, perhaps, the
munificent donation of land to the county, at an early
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day, by Thomas D. Gregg, for educational purposes,
which resulted in the erection of the present Normal
school building at Adel, where these yearly institutes
are held.
Mr. Gregg, possessing considerable
property and a large tract of land in this vicinity,
and being withal a whole-souled philanthropist and
public benefactor, aimed to use the wealth he had
accumulated in the best manner possible to accomplish
the greatest good for coming generations, and have
the influence of his life-work live and tell for itself
for the promotion of the general welfare of mankind
long after he had passed from the stage of action.
A most important step was taken
by him, in this direction, when he donated to Dallas
county a quarter section of land for the purpose of
establishing a seminary of learning within her bounds
at some future day.
The purport of this generous
donor's will, in this regard, has been effectually
carried out by disposing of the land donated at advanced
figures, and investing at least a portion of the proceeds
in establishing the Normal School at Adel, from which
the county is now deriving such lasting benefits.
The following preamble and resolutions,
found spread on the minutes of the board of county
supervisors, bearing date of October 16, 1866, explain
for themselves the origin and purport of the "Gregg
Seminary Fund":
WHEREAS, Thomas
D. Gregg, Esq., did, on the 15th day of September,
A. D. 1866, voluntarily donate and, by deed of warranty,
did convey to the county of Dallas, one hundred and
sixty acres of land near the town of Adel, for the
purpose of establishing a seminary of learning for
the use and benefit of the people of' Dallas county,
Iowa; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the people
of Dallas county. by and through the board of supervisors,
now in session doing business in and for said county,
do hereby accept the aforesaid grant; and we do hereby
pledge the people of' said county to the faithfully
carrying out of the intentions of the said Thomas
D. Gregg-, as by him in the said grant expressed.
And be it further
Resolved, On behalf of
the people of said Dallas county, and on behalf of
future generations to whose benefit the aforesaid
donation will inure, we do hereby tender to the said
Thomas D. Gregg, the everlasting gratitude of the
people of said county of Dallas, and we do humbly
pray the giver of all good that the life of
the said donor may be preserved to a very green old
age, and that the charity by him so munificently,
nobly and generously bestowed upon the people of Dallas
county may be like "bread cast upon the waters
returned after many days," and that future generations
may arise and call him blessed. And be it further
Resolved, That, at the
earliest time practicable, the people of Dallas county
will erect a suitable building for carrying out the
intentions of the donor, Thomas D. Gregg, which shall
be known as "Gregg Seminary. "
Resolved, That the foregoing
preamble and resolutions be spread on the records
of the board of supervisors, and a copy of the same
be presented to the donor, Thomas D. Gregg,
By order of the board of supervisors
of Dallas county, Iowa, October 16, 1866.
With reference to the disposition
of this land the following order appears in the record
of the proceedings of the board at their meeting January
10, 1867:
Ordered,
That a committee of three, consisting of the following:
J. W Redfield, O. D. Smalley and P. A. Mower, be appointed
to prepare resolutions relative to the disposal of
certain real estate property belonging to the county,
for the establishment of a Normal School.
Committee reported the following
resolutions which were ordered to be spread upon the
minutes of the board:
Resolved,
1. That chairman and clerk of the board of supervisors
be directed to put in market as soon as practicable
the "Gregg donation" of land for the purpose
of establishing an institution of learning to be known
as the "Gregg Normal School," to be located
at or near Adel, Iowa.
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2. That the proceeds of said land
be paid out by the president of the board, subject
to the approval of the board.
8. That the board of supervisors are in favor of appropriating-
the proceeds of the swamp lands belonging to the county
for the establishment of the "Gregg Normal School,"
by unanimous vote.
Nearly three years later, under
date of June 10, 1869, appears the following order
on the minute-book, which shows what disposition was
finally made of the funds derived from the sale of
the Gregg donation land:
Ordered,
That a warrant be drawn in favor of the trustees of
the Independent School District of Adel, for three
thousand dollars ($3,000), to be paid out of funds
derived from sale of the Gregg donation of lands to
build a Normal School.
It appears from accounts that
the above amount constituted only a small part of
the property left to Dal1as county, by Mr. Gregg,
for educational purposes, as the funds received at
various times amounted to about "$10,000 in cash,
and the fifth of 1,300 acres of land, adjoining the
town of Adel.
Out of the Gregg funds, however,
the upper story of the present school building in
Adel was paid for, which is known as the Gregg Normal
School, of Dallas county, and adds greatly to the
advancement of the county's educational interests.
There is another fine large Normal school building
under contract and process of erection, at Dexter,
in the southeast corner of Dal1as county, which shows
that the good work in the interests of education is
gradual1y and surely progressing in the county, and
gives the friends of education and general progress
and enlightenment, not only here, but all over our
land, assuring encouragement to take heart and go
forward with unabating zeal in the good work of schooling
the masses. Of this Normal School at Dexter, more
extended mention is made under the sketch of the town.
There are also four large brick
public school buildings in the county, mostly al1
erected within the past few years, and each one is
a credit to the town and' county to which they belong.
The one at Adel, already mentioned,
as occupying the two stories underneath the Normal
School, is a graded school with six rooms and seven
teachers. Prof. M. E. Philips, as principal.
One at De Soto, graded, with
four rooms and three teachers, O. M. Pinkerton as
principal.
One at Dallas Center, graded,
with three rooms and three teachers. T. K. Whitlock,
principal.
One at Perry, graded, with four
rooms and three teachers. D. G. Perkins, principal.
At Redfield the graded school
building is frame, with two rooms. Two teachers are
employed, Miss Ida Twitchell, principal.
At Dexter, also, the public
school building is a frame, with four rooms, and they
employ three teachers. Ira Doling, principal. Graded
school.
At Waukee, the building is a
frame, two-story one, with two rooms; a graded school
with two teachers. A. O. Philips, principal; and Miss
Sadie Randall, assistant.
At this date there is no teachers'
public library in the county, and only one school
library mentioned in the superintendent's report of
1878, which belongs to the Adel school, procured last
year, and contains 125 volumes.
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During the past year about $1,500
has been expended by the county for school apparatus,
which indicates increase in the interest and progress
in the work, and the school and teachers' libraries
will soon begin to follow.
As the county superintendent's
report, for 1878, has not yet been completed, on the
retained copy, we are unable to give the statistics
from it; but a very good idea of the present condition
of the schools in the county may be gained from the
following items taken from his report of last year,
1877:
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS OF DALLAS COUNTY.
No. of districts in township. ............................................7-10
" independent districts " ..................................................28
" sub-districts ....................................................................115
" ungraded schools ............................................................138
"graded " ..............................................................................11
Average number of months taught in 1877 . . ...........
6.33
No. of male teachers employed .......................................118
" female " " ........................................................................171
Average compensation of males, per month ..................$
41.56
" " " females" ". . . . .
. . . . . . . ...........................................32.49
No. of male pupils between ages of five and twenty-one.
....................3,363
" female " " " " "............................................................................................3,114
" pupils enrolled ............................................................................................5,216
Average attendance .....................................................................................2,967
" Cost of tuition per month ......................................................................$
2.19
No. of school-houses ......................................................................................145
Value " ....................................................................................................
$126.960
" apparatus ...................................................................................................1,049
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
No. of professional certificates issued. . . . .
. . . . .........................5
" 1st grade certificates issued to males. ....................................30
" 1st"""females..........................................28
"2d" " "" males .....................................41
"2d" " "" females. .. ..
.. .. …………………….63
Total number of certificates issued to males. . ..
......…………73
" females. . . . . . . . ………………………………..94
No. of applicants examined, males. . . . . . .. ……………….180
" " "females...................................................................232
" " rejected, males....................................34
" " "females.................... …………54
Average age of applicants, males .........19.6
" " " females......................21.4
VISITATION OF SCHOOLS, ETC.
No. of schools visited by the superintendent ......143
" educational meetings.........................
18
" cases of appeal decided........................
9
Compensation of superintendent, 1817. . .. . . . .
. . . . $ 942
399
SCHOOL-HOUSE FUND.
On hand at last report ..............................................$
482,585.00
Received from district tax . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 17,617.25
" "other sources ...............................................................7,940.80
Total debit ......................................................................30,383.90
Paid for school-houses and sites . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . $ 18,513.63
" on bonds and interest ......................................................7,839.10
On hand .................................................................................4,941.17
Total credit ......................................................................30,383.90
CONTINGENT FUND.
On hand from last report ..............................................$
4,146.30
Received from district tax...............................................
4,862.17
" "other sources...................................................................
1,085.21
Total debit ....................................................................$
20,093.68
Paid for rent of school-houses . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .$ 176.25
" " repairing " …………….......................................................2,777.88
" fuel....................................................................3,269.05
" secretary ..............................................................55.59
" treasurer..............................................................619.99
" records, apparatus,etc.....................................
382.41
" other purposes...............................................
6,482.57
On hand..............................................................
5,834.94
Total credit................................................
$ 20,093.68
TEACHERS' FUND.
On hand at last report ................................................$
11,398.28
Received from semi-annual appointment .......................8,984.05
" "other sources...................................................................1,568.30
Total debit ........................................................................44,479.80
Paid to teachers...............................................................
40,707.80
On hand...............................................................................
13,771.83
Total credit.......................................................................54,479.80
The State Auditor's report of
September, 1878, shows that, in the apportionment
of interest of permanent school fund for the last
year, Dallas county received $6,547.
We would like to give here a
full list of the teachers in the public schools in
the county during 1878, but as no complete list of
these has been kept, it is impossible to procure either
a full or correct one, so it must be omitted.
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