Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-03
Increases Granted in Townships
Which Will Effect More Than
Sixty Employed
AVERAGE IS So A MONTH
Nine of the Townsip School Districts
of the County Make Teaching in the
Country More Attractive by Boost
ing alaries-Jefferson to Build New
School House Near Laurel.

Things are coming the way of the
country school teacher. All the annual
meeting of the township school
boards of at least nine of the townships
of the county, held Tuesday and Mon
day. salaries. which will affect more
than sixty rural teachers, were In
creased The average was about SO
a month more. Perhaps this action was
due to a scarcity and the difficulty of
obtaining teachers, and perhaps the
boards took warning and appreciated
the diminishing of the supply by. the
five marriages of county teachers dur
ing the recent normal
AT any rate salaries for rural teach
ers are on the up go. In several of the
districts $50 will be paid for teachers
with first class certificates. $45 for sec
ond class and from $35 to $40 for third.
In most cases the increase for those
holding third class certificates was
small.
Increases Are Substantial.
All u UuIilDeI oL llIt TOWNSHIPS tiie
increase is a substantial one.
Iowa, Marietta and Liscomb have
set $50 as the mark for teachers whose
certificates are first class.
Iowa township district has one school
and has increased the pay from $40 to
$50
Marietta, with nine schools. has
raised the pay for first grade from s45
to $50, and for second grade, from $40
to $40 for nine months of school
Liscomb, with eight schools. has in
creased the salaries for first grade from
an average of s41.50 to $50, for second
grade from an average of 500 to SIS,
and for third grade $40. The third
grade is the same it has been hereto
fore The school year is eight months.
Other Township Salaries.
Logan, with eight schools. will pay
s45 for first class, as compared with
an average of $40 heretofore, and $40
for second class in comparison with an
average of s35 for preceding years.
The school year is eight and one-half
months.
State Center with eight schools,
which formerly paid $35 for the fall
anu sPhIiS tciHt, anu SfV lpl llle VIII.
ter term, has increased the former to
$40 and the latter to s45 for eight
months =
Minerva, with nine schools, has es-
tablished an increase of S. a monthsfor
the year: $3.50 for fall and spring.
and s45 for winter for first grade, and
s4250 for winter for second grade, and
$3.50 for spring and fall for the same
grade.
Taylor township, which has six
schools, has raised the pay from an
average of $40 to $45 for an eight
months school year. s
LeGrand, with nine schools. has es-
tablished the salary for first grade at
s45, second $40 and third s35. Each
of the first two is an increase of 50.
In the third there is no increase. The
school term has been heightened from
eight to eight and one-half MONTHS
Jefferson to Build School House.
Jefferson township will build a new
school house on the site of No 6,
about a mile west of Laurel Plans
and specifications for building to cost
approximately $1,000 have been pre-
pared. The building will probably be
the only one of its kind in the county
heated with a furnace. Its school year
is nine months, and the pay has been
increased from $40 to $45 for the win
ter, and to $40 for the spring and fall
terms.