Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . 30, 1885, the following interest-ing items are gleaned: There were 423 personsunder 21 years of age. of whom 217 were enrolledin the public schools. The township wasdivided into ten school districts, all theschools held therein being of an ungraded char-acter. Two male and 23 female teachers wereemployed during the year. The highest salaryimid was $45 per month, and the lowest $ were one brick and nine frame schoolhouses in the towmshlp, valued at $8,280. Theamount of tax levy for school purjMses was$3,420. The following statement prepared by theCo
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . 30, 1885, the following interest-ing items are gleaned: There were 423 personsunder 21 years of age. of whom 217 were enrolledin the public schools. The township wasdivided into ten school districts, all theschools held therein being of an ungraded char-acter. Two male and 23 female teachers wereemployed during the year. The highest salaryimid was $45 per month, and the lowest $ were one brick and nine frame schoolhouses in the towmshlp, valued at $8,280. Theamount of tax levy for school purjMses was$3,420. The following statement prepared by theCounty Superintendent of Schools of OgleCounty, brings the statistics to the end of theyear 1907: There were 323 persons under 21years of age, 245 of whom were of school the latter number 188 were enrolled in theschools, several being in nearby high township was divided into ten school dis-tricts jiresided over by ten female teachers re-ceiving salaries ranging from $30 to $65per month. There were nine frame and one. HISTOEY OF OGLE COFXTY brick school bouses valued at $9,500. Theamount of tax levy for the support of the schoolswas $6,000. The Campbell Boulder.—The following accu-rate record of the placing of the boulder to markthe spot where John Campbell, the fearlessScotch Captain of the Regulators, was shot inthe quiet Sabbath evening sundown, while goingto his barn, was prepared for this History by H. Hayes, still ardent and active at seventy-eight, who drove eight miles from his home inWhite Roclc Township, purposely to make a per-fect transcript of the inscription on the Camp-bell boulder: During the summer of 1906 the matter ofplacing a boulder monument to mark the placewhere John Campbell was shot by the Prairiebandits June 2Sth, 1S41, was suggested by R. and D. H. Hayes. Other old settlers werespoken to concerning the subject and all favoredthe plan, notably among these were C. T. King,A. B. Eyster, E. S. Doctor, Geo. H. Hayes, C.
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