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Show Fine Line of Children's Clothing at Marks, Goldsmith & Co, X——' 2ft 70 Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. have been in session surpassed twenty-nine States, prominent among which are Maine, Vermont, Delaware, and others of the older and leading States. In actual enrollment Weber County surpassed thirty States, among which are Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, California, and others too numerous to mention. The average monthly pay of teachers surpassed nineteen, being about $56 on an average per month. Ogden City is noted for having the finest school building in Utah as well as the best regulated common school system. This building is of the modern style of architecture, constructed of brick and lumber and trimmed with white free stone, the whole being surmounted by a beautiful dome of the Roman-Corinthian style. It is a two-story building, being about 54 x 70 ft. ground plan. It has four large rooms capable of seating about 90 pupils each,with five recitation rooms and a large commodious hall running thiough the center of the building. The basement is devoted to a heating apparatus whence the whole building receives its caloric in winter. The house is seated with the best patent desks and is well supplied with school apparatus, including a fine piano and organ. It every successive year receives the graduates coming out of four other public school buildings, located in different parts of the city, and having a seating capacity of about 100 pupils each. They are also comfortable buildings, being well supplied with the best patent furniture and general school appliances. The schoolgrounds are ample, well protected with fences, and each has a beautiful grove of shade trees connected with it. The schools are graded up to the Central School and are under the management of a principal (Prof. L. F. Monch) who in turn acts under three active trustees. There were eleven teachers employed during the winter K. Go to Wotherspoon's for your Choice Family Groceries. y Boys' Suits in Great Variety at Marks, Goldsmith & Co, x 2ft Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. 71 se. term. The enrollment was about 800 pupils out of a school population of 1,400. Realizing that there were four other (sectarian) schools in session in the city, each claiming to have an enrollment of 100 pupils, there must have been about 1,100 pupils enrolled out of the 1,400 in one single term, or the remarkable number of 80 per cent. In addition to the common branches taught in the Central School there were classes in Geometry, Algebra, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Physiology, Astronomy, Civil Government, and History of France and England. The School of the Good Shepherd in Ogden is situated on the corner of Young and Fourth Sts., and is under the charge and control of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ogden. The school was founded in September, 1870, by the Rev. Mr. Gillogly and placed under the charge of Mahlon N. Gilbert who remained as principal for two years and was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, who resigned after one year and whose place was taken by the Rev. Mr. Tallman who was principal for two years. The school then came under the control of the Rev. Chas. G. Davis who has been in charge since 1875. The total enrollment of the school has been something in the neighborhood of 1,000, and the yearly enrollment is now about 175. There are three departments, the primary, intermediate, and high-school, under the care of four teachers. The new building which they now occupy was erected in 1877, and if the school goes on growing will soon be too small to accommodate the pupils. The Presbyterian School, which is held in the church building on the corner of Fourth and Franklin Streets, was organized in 1878, with Mrs. Gallagher, the wife of the clergyman then in charge of the church, as principal, who,after holding the position for over a year, was succeeded by Misses Olmsted,Campbell, Scovel, Ellis, Dickey,and Wotherspoon keeps the best Selected Stock of Buttons, jy |