Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
OUR COUNTY SCHOOLS

=. IIicrioge, county superintendent OF
schools for Yankton county, Officially ere.
ated district No. 80, the frat school district
organized in Yankton county. On the Goth
OF August following, twenty-six additional
districts took their metes aud bounds from
MIN, being districts 1 to 81 inclusive, ex-
cepting ito IL inclusive, but including
three joint districts, az, 26, and 800 COM
prising parts Of Clay and Yankton counties.
On the Goth Of the following month, dis
tricts 8 and 10. on the 23rd, districts %, and,
ON Oct. 22nd, districts 50, 81, 80, Ss. "a, So
and 50 were each successfully assigned their
boundaries.
The year 1873, therefore, offered existence
to thirty seven districts in this county. It
appears, however, that but seventeen sur
viyed their birth sufficiently long to share
in the superintendent that year, made on
the 10Th day Of August.
On the 10th of January, 1874, distric 8 81
and IS, and, on the 3rd, of April, districts
80 and 40 had their boundaries assigned by
Mr.. Edridge. Mr.. Ford. as superintendent,
on the 2nd of November, assigned its bounds
to district No. IL.
Ofthe forty-two districts thus far, on the
2Sth of November, 1874, existing in the
ideal, bat twenty-five realized their exis.
tence by participation in the public appor-
tionment of that date.
On the Slh Of March, following, the mum.
Der of organized districts had been increased
by the organization Of district IL, By MI.
Ford, on the 4th of February. Dat of the
forty-three districts thus far organized but
twenty-seyen seemed to have possessed a
breathing apparatus on this Sth of March,
1875. On the 12.h Of October following,
the number had decreased to twenty, which
the county maintained until Oct. 9th, 1876,
when the number again rose TO twenty-six.
On the 18th Of March, 1877, the number
had increased to twenty-eight.
On the 25th Of May and June 18th, 1877,
Superintendent Barber further increased
the number OF organized districts By the
organization OF districts AZ and Il respec.
lively.
Out of the As districts having a nom,nal
existence on the 10Th of July 1877, but
30 had Sufficient energy to claim their share
of the public fund.
The number of organized districts receiv-
ed a further accession al this period BY the
creation of number 40, July Goth 1877, No.
A, Sept. Goth 1917, and As, May 2Sth
1878.
There were. thus, then, on the 10Th of
January, 1878, forty-eight numbered dis
districts within the limits of Yankton
county. But 81, however. made The neces-
sary effort to sustain an existence under
the law, sufficient to entitle them to share
in the public appor,ionment Of that date.
On the 10Th of July following SO dis
tricts had attained to the dignity Of work.
ing organizations, and IL of them were
still in the ground.
assumed the duties of this office en- the
first of January last. There were then as
In the previous July, very largely due to
the Efficiency of my predecessor. Mr.. Bar
ber,) 81 living districts in this county.
There are now AZ.
There were then 1907 children enjoying,
under the protection of our school law,
every aid to the attainment of a liberal Eng.
lish education. There are now 1900; there
were then, Of the 525 so. miles in Yankton
county, 300 under the discipline OF our
educational laws. There are now 429,
leaving now an area Of bl' 81 square miles
yet to be brought into subsection to our ed
ucational system. l have already taken
such steps as l think now bid fair to have
covered this entire county with the mantle
of our school laws this side of the list OF
January, 1881, no less than by that time to
have brought each child within its limits,
within arms length of a liberal English ed
%ucation.
Never in the history of this county has
the foreign born element Of our population
manlfested SO much zeal in the work of
education as within the year now closing.
l congratulate the county and extend my
hearty thanks to the foreign born among
our people for the aid they have afforded
me toward the establishment of our COM
mon schools. If they have petitioned me
for the organization of a district in their
midst they have not satisfied themselves
with merely sharing in the public appor.
tionment as they have a right to do for the
the first year after being brought into exis-
tence as a district thev have voluntarily
taxed Themselves, for the support of schools
which l have given them, and this, too,
during q year when, in view Of the failure
of their crops, this taxation falls but little
short Of selfoppression. Nor have they
ever asked the years postponement Of their
school, allowed by a liberal law for their
advance on the public fund. Every new
formed district has its term of school this
winter or has held it during the summer
School.houses, more or LEES pretentious