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Show tract. An additional $190.14 was needed for unexpected expenses. The school district was in the red $151.33. Taxes paid in 1872 through 1875 were: 1872, $1038.31; 1873, $575.84; 1874, $322.83; 1875, $245.71. In 1873, $7.40 was spent for a clock, broom and water bucket. Drinking water was carried from Gordon Creek. The following year a paint job cost $27; new stove, $12.50; broom, 50 cents; paint and screws for desks, $3.30; and $2.75 for a school bell, glass and blackboard. The outhouse was rapaired for $6 following its damage from a heavy windstorm. COMMUNITY BUILDING ERECTED ABOUT 1872 School teachers who served in the frame building included the following: 1873-74 John Robinson Jr. 3 months salary $105.00 1874-75 A. Anderson 3 months salary $100.00 1874-75 M. O. Kingsbury 3 months 25.50 1875-76 Lizzy Bybee 3 months 90.00 1875-76 F. Daulton 2 months 66.65 1875-76 John Heber Robinson 5 weeks 56.25 1875-76 Annis L. Kingsbury 3 months 60.00 1876-77 John Heber Robinson 3 weeks 22.00 1877-78 John F. Benefield no time given 34.50 John K. Hall, Morgan County School Superintendent, made annual visits to the Mountain Green School to audit records kept by John Robinson Jr., Clerk and Treas¬urer. Hall served from 1872 until 1876 when H.G. Welch became Superintendent, and as County Treasurer audited the school books until about 1879. By the turn of the century the west end of Morgan County had three schools, located at Mountain Green, Peterson, and Enterprise, with inadequate membership to provide a truly adequate educational curricula. In 1908 the Morgan County Board of Education held an election and parents voted to consolidate the three schools at a building in Peterson. As a result a frame school house was erected south of Fingal Bohman's Store. This building was leveled 39 |