Pg. 124 How Schools are Financed. The public schools are free, except that a small registration fee is charged at the High School. Schools are maintained by local and state taxes. Elementary education is compulsory, and text books are free. The grade school houses are well built and are equipped for the purposes for which they serve. The opportunity for a high school education is afforded to every young person in the community. The schools of the county are well financed. There is an assessed valuation of $6,300,000 for a census school population of 775 students. A recent report of the Superintendent showed under the levy, and the school funds received from the state, a sum available for all school purposes of $105.00 per school child, which places Morgan County fifth in rand in the state in per capita expenditure. The bonded indebtedness is $84.00 per school child. The district maintains nine school buildings, three of which are used for high school purposes and the remaining six for grade work. In addition there are play grounds and gymnasiums. There are no one teach schools in the district. Pg. 125 Morgan Stake Academy. The Morgan Stake Academy opened Dec 3 – 1888, with Albert N. Tollestrup, Principal. The school was housed in the upper room of the County Court House, and later in one or two rooms downstairs, also. The subjects taught were: Theology – The New Testament and Book of Mormon, Grammar and Composition, Arithmetic, Geography – both Political and Physical, Reading, United State History, Physiology, Orthography, Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Music, (this list was taken from a semester report card.) The school year was divided into first and second semesters. Mutual confidence and affection were especially prominent between teacher and pupils. Brother Tollestrup loved his work and his pupils and he received love and unbounded confidence and respect in return. The fundamental principles of Latter day saint education were plainly marked, viz: A religious foundation, consisting of reverence for, and obedience to, the revealed work of God, and a living testimony of the divinity of the Latter Day work.