The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-09-29
PAY IS Higher
IN this COUNTY
TEACHERS RECEIVE BETTER THAN
AVERAGE. WHITMAN WOMEN
ARE DELEGATES.


that in the year 1911 in the State of
Washington there were employed
total of 1883 teachers and of this
number Gill were women and AIS
were men, the average salary of the
women teachers being $66.25 while
the average salary of the men teach
ers was $3.50 per month. During
the school year of 1911 there were
maintained 1924 departments or
school rooms in the various counties
of the state, and in Whitman county
there were 338 rooms maintained
during the year with a force of 341
teachers, of which 246 were women
and 95 were men teachers. The
average pay in Whitman county for
women teachers was $70.92 and the
average salary of the men was $92.72
per month, both the men and women
teachers being paid above the aver
age for the state in Whitman county.
Whitman County Delegates.
The delegates from Whitman coun-
ty named by Gov. Hay to attend the
International Dry Farming Congress
to be held at Colorado Springs on
Oct. 16 to 20, are Claude Hollings-
worth OF COlfax, Z. A. Bryan, r. w.
Thatcher and J. d. Carson Of Pull
man, c. B. Kegley, ]. c. Graham and
A. Z. Sever Of Palouse, A. J. Stone
and Mark Beuhler of Rosalia, n. S.
McCroskey of Garfield, George Car
ter of Hooper, John Crawford of
Hooper and A. ]. Finley of Endicott
AS delegates to attend the Inter-
national Congress of Farm Women
to be held on Oct. Il to 19 at Color
ado Springs Gov. Hay has appointed
from Whitman county Mrs. Wesley
Lybecker, Mrs. c. w. Vance of Pull
man, Mrs. George Carter and Mrs.
John Crawford of Hooper, Mrs. A.
X. Finley of Endicott, and Mrs. A E.
Sever, Mrs. ]. c. Graham and Mrs.
W. A. Wiley of Palouse.
Careless With Records.
The state bureau Of inspection has
filed with the attorney general re-
ports on the towns of RoSalia, Cakes
dale, Lamont and Maiden in Whit
man county. 1t is shown that these
communities are in about the same
condition as other smaller towns In
the state, and that while no graft has
been discovered the records have
been kept in a careless manner. In
Rosalia it was found that neither the
town treasurer, the police Judge or
marshal was under bond and that the
sum of S45,279 had been paid by
warrants and $4,223.51 without war
rants from Jan. 1905 to July 81,
1911. The audit of this town cost
$119.60 and the town now has its
books balanced and a new system Of
bookkeeping installed.
The total assets of the town Of
Oakesdale were found to be $21,-
1892, and the assets in excess of
liabilities were $1,313.70. The audit
cost $4,000.
In the town of Lamont no particu-
lar errors were found except that the
city needed new system Of book
keeping and the purchase Of a safe
for the clerk was advised by the bu-
reau, and the treasurer was instruct
ed TO take more care Of his books.
In the town of Maiden the bureau
in its report instructed the clerk to
keep better check on his records
and to check up the treasurer each
month. The report shows the assets
of the town at $4,14627 while its Ii
abilities are $5,146.44 leaving a sur
plus Of liabilities over assets Of
$1,0O0.17. This is a new town and
no glaring errors of any kind were
found.
Women Not Criticised.
Gov. NJ. E. Hay in speaking before
the women suffrage leaders at New
York paid the women of Washington
a compliment when he said that the
militant tactics only made the cause
OF woman'S suffrage ridiculous and
that the Washington women had Sc
cured an overwhelming majority at
the polls but that at no time did they
do anything unseemly or rude, or
which would subject them to criti-
cism Of any kind.
Business Tactics.
In the purchase of supplies the
state board of control is acting upon
strictly business lines as is shown by
the fact that their bids on sugar for
the next six months for the state in
per hundred under the market price.
while the prices paid for beef, NUT
ton, -four, butter and cheese are also
from ten to fifty per cent below the
prevailing prices.
Employers Must Pay.
The state industrial insurance
commission has received an opinion
from the attorney general to the eff
feet that they acted according to law
in setting aside the money collected
from employers whose employees are
engaged in non-haZardous' occupa-
tions as separate fund, as he says
that employers of hazardous labor
and employers of non-hazardOus la
Dor should not be compelled to pay
the losses of the others.
Contractor is Assessed.
State land held under contract is
to be assessed to the holder of the
contract and the holder of the con-