Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-22
NINE WOMEN IN
UNION COUNTY ON
SCHOOL BOARDS
Figures Contained in Report
Of Superintendent Of Edu-
cation. Show Good Prog
reSS During Year,
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Santa Fe, Jan. 21.-Union county
has nine women on its school boards
and of its 116 teachers, eighty-two
are women. The county has ninety
three districts, one of which Is disor-
ganized, ten new districts just created
and one Of which held no school last
year. one district has six buildings,
three have three, eight have two and
the rest one building each. One dis
trict has eleven rooms, one eight, one
seven, one three, ten have two and
the rest one room each. OF the ex-
actly 100 school buildings in the
county, one has eight rooms. one four,
one three and two have two rooms
each Eight buildings are rented at
from So to S. per month, total of
$50 per month, sixteen are used free
Of charge, the rest are owned, nine
are in excellent condition, thirty
good, twenty-nine fair, thirtytwo
poor. three are of brick, sixteen
adobe, forty-three frame, thirty-three
stone four concrete and one is a dug
out.
Union county has $9S,5l5 worth of
school property of which $25, 800
worth Is in Clayton: sites $685.,
Clayton $4,000, buildings $72,2SO,
Clayton 100000; furnishings $1l'4lO,
Clayton $4,000; seventeen school IL
braries 1,223 volumes $1,000, Clayton
45o volumes $3.50; industrial equip
ment $500, Clayton 5000. Clayton has
one eight-room brick building and
two one room frame buildings in fair
condition. Folsom's school proper
ty is valued at $4,000, Des Molnes
$500, Amistad $S,420.
Revenues aud Expenditures.
During the past year, the revenues
in Union county amounted to $685.
21O.56. Clayton $9,002.45; the expen-
ditures $54.754.14. Clayton $lO,79l.-
I'll. or the revenues special levies
yielded $31,33S.05, Clayton $7,22O.6O;
poll tax $2,001.31. clayton $16S.76;
saloon licenses sf,295.36, Clayton
s706.56. tuition $500; rent $31.95;
state apportionment $S,S1796, Clay ,
ton S70920: state aid $S,1S6; fines
$257.O1. The expenditures included
$43,73s.21 for teachers salaries, Clay
ton $500; rent St5S.37; fuel $2,6O6.-
so, Clayton $767.67; janitors' wages
SS96.S5, clayton $3.50; school supplies
S961.O7, Clayton s274.15; new build
ings $972,64, Clayton $22120; collect
ing poll tax $243.35, Clayton $3.50;
taking school census $3.50; miscel- |
laneous $1,556.O2. Clayton $7SS.54.
Six teachers have life certificates,
thirty-three first grade, forty-two
second grade. twenty-seven third,
four permits. The average monthly
salary was $54.73, average annual sal
airy $SS6.4S, men averaging $40l.OS
and women $3S045. One teacher re-
ceived 1880, one $500, thirty nine
had only $3.50, eight only $500 ana
thus down to one teacher who was
paid $176.50 for the year. The av-
erage term was 6,SS months but one
district had ten months of school
twenty had nine months. two had
eight months, one had IA months,
fifty-nine had seven months, nine mad |
six months, twenty-three had five
months and one had 3 "a months.
Clayton had a nine months term, the
superintendent being paid $3.50
year, one teacher, man, receiving
$675 year. The other teachers
were all women, one receiving $165,
one $500, two 1915, one $500, one
$5S5, three $40 and one $3.50. In /
Clayton four teachers hold life certifi-
Gates and the other seven, first grade
certificates.
The census shows 4.793, Clayton
594; enrolment 1863, Clayton 467;
attendance 2,258, Clayton 3S1. The |
enrolment by grades runs as follows:
Twelfth three. eleventh nine. tenth
eleven of whom ten are in Clayton,
ninth forty-eight. CLAYTON twenty
nine; eighth 19i, Clayton eighteen;
seventh PIP, Clayton twenty eight;
sixth 256, Clayton thirty-three fifth
800. Clayton twenty-seven; fourth 400
Clayton sixty-nine; third 467, Clayton
sixty-two; second 5O4, Clayton forty
one; first 500, Clayton sixty-two; pri-
mary SAT, Clayton seventy-six