and understanding to deal with unruly students who hindered progress in teaching and were a source of disturbance in the school. At the end of the first half of the year Mr. Lower handed his resignation to the Board of Trustees who secured services of a lady teacher named Laura Baker, who was also from the East, to finish the school year ending in the early spring of 1892. In the fall of 1892 Leo O'Brien, also from the East, was employed, but was not too successful as a teacher and at midyear handed his resignation to the trustees who fortunately were successful in securing the services of a lady teacher named Emma Thomas who resided in Ogden. Mrs. Thomas, who accepted the position only as an emergency teacher, took well with the pupils and during the short time she taught did much to advance their educational interests. The fall of 1893 marked the beginning of the last school held in the frame building which for over a third of a century served for school purposes and a house of worship. The last person employed to teach there was Miss Nellie Marriott, daughter of one of the early colonizers of the adjoining settlement that bears his name today. As a coincident, Nellie's teaching career also terminated in the spring of 1894. As a teacher she was strict but kind and affable, which endeared her in the hearts of her pupils, nearly all of whom wept as well as she, as she autographed memory albums and grasped the hand of each pupil as they passed from the room the last day. The close of an epoch in the history of education in Slaterville arrived in the spring of 1894. Changes of a system that served the needs of a growing commonwealth through a long drawn out period of development, were made to approach a more modern trend to education. Use of the old building that became inadequate and outdated to serve longer for school purposes, was discontinued; and the school district organized in 1861 which included the entire area covered by Slaterville, was divided. Efforts have been made to trace in detail, schools, give names of teachers, periods of time during which each taught, and progress of education from the first private school of which we have record, to the time notable changes referred to above were made. The greater number of incidents that happened during the slow and tedious early years of advancement were constructive in nature, while others, particularly one, was very disturbing and cause of grave concern for the future peace and contentment of the people. Irrespective of the good or bad effects these incidents imposed, they were, in fact, part of the history of our settlement and must be treated as such. In the year 1872 a segment of the citizenary, composed of a majority of families resideing in the lowen part of Slaterville, left the Church and thereafter ceased to participate to any extent in wand activities. Education up until this time affected our settlement as a united community, but after the ward was divided in religious matters, principal attendants at the district school until 1893 were children of Church families. Those who left the Church exercised their rights it is true, and no doubt, had what they termed logical reasons for doing so; but why men an women who were numbered among the first -62- to settle here, apparently unwavering in the Faith, and in good standing with the Church, should resort to such measures is difficult for the fair-thinking mind to understand. This disturbing procedure on their part did much to disrupt unity that had been a power of strength from the time of colonization in achieving goals of vital interest to the welfare of the people. A short time after severing connections with the Church, their families more or less became isolated from the rest of the settlement, particularily in matters pertaining to religion. In 1876, as near as can be ascertained, they erected a small building which was designated "New-West Church." Services held there were under supervision of clergy of the Congregational Church. A minister named Bailey (first name not known) was assigned to preside over the small congregation; and it is understood that the combined assignments of several ministers who served there covered a period that commenced in 1876 and ended with the beginning of the century. Due to the fact that records of the Church and school in this locality, seldom, if even, in referring to ministers or teachers included their first names, which evidently became an established custom. Personal contact with Mrs. May Cowan, who at the time, was eighty-five years of age and lived almost her entire life in the lower part of Slaterville, revealed that she remembered vividly the last names of ministers and teachers and the order in which they served but because of infrequent use of their first names in the past, they were blotted from her memory. Under a situation of this kind, the writer, with possibly one or two exceptions, must refer to these people as they served in their respective capacities by their last names. According to Mrs. Cowen, the first minister assigned to preside at the Church was a man named Shrimley. Mrs. Shrimley, wife of the minister, was a teacher by profession which fitted her for the position which she accepted as instructor of children of parents to whom hen husband was spiritual counselor and advisor. According to Pioneer records and traditions, we find a teacher named Leo Hafley who lived in a log cabin located almost on the precise spot on which the home of Mrs. Emma Wheeler once stood, conducted a private school at his home a number of years before the "New West Church" was built. The The home of a mastermind of a profession he followed in his day, went through the way of many historic structures. Ownership of the cabin and land on which it stood was acquired at an early date by Richard Howell who tore the building down and shortly after the beginning of the century, sold the land to John Wheeler. Whether Mr. Hafley continued his profession after preparations were completed to hold a community school in that locality is not definitely known. Qualifications required to teach at the new school were determined largely by clergy officiating at the church, who were influential in employing instructors of Congregational Faith, Consequently, under such an arrangement of this kind, Church and school activities became so interwoven and Church influence became so effective that the name of the Church was changed from "New West" to Congregational. (See Fig. 7- 3) -63-