Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . nization was already ap-parent. In another part of the state a mother born in Americaof Norwegian parentage in very broken English said thatshe had never been to public school but that her youngsister now had that opportunity and was learning English,much to the great distress of the aged mother who wishedto keep her children from being Americanized. Table 4. Children Unprovided With SchooF. Number ofCounty children Beaverhead 24 Big Horn 34 •Baine Broadwater 10 Carbon 51 Carter 170 Cascade 52 Chouteau 102 ?Custer
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . nization was already ap-parent. In another part of the state a mother born in Americaof Norwegian parentage in very broken English said thatshe had never been to public school but that her youngsister now had that opportunity and was learning English,much to the great distress of the aged mother who wishedto keep her children from being Americanized. Table 4. Children Unprovided With SchooF. Number ofCounty children Beaverhead 24 Big Horn 34 •Baine Broadwater 10 Carbon 51 Carter 170 Cascade 52 Chouteau 102 ?Custer Dawson 69 Deer Lodge 1 Fallon :... 33 ?Fergus Flathead 33 ?Gallatin ?Granite ?HU1 Jefferson 29 ?Lewis and Clark Lincoln 11 Madison 53 Meagher 10 •Statistics not available. Number ofCounty childrenMineral 14 ?Missoula Musselshell 20 Park 2 Phillips 66 Powell 14 Prairie 12 Ravalli 4 Richland 48 Rosebud ?Smders Sheridan 23 ?Silver Bow Stillwater 19 Sweet Grass 18 Teton 43 Toole 68 Valley 55 Wheatland 13 ?Wibaux Yellowstone 17 14 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. School hed for twenty-five children in a church in a German cons sted of four log benches, a short blackboard, insuffi-cient number of textbooks and dictionary. Language lessons taught fromSunday School cards with German inscriptions, May, 191S. Illiteracy In 1910 Montanas percentage of illiteracy was largerthan any of her neighboring states and over twice as largea proportion as in Oregon, Washington or Idaho. There werein Montana at that time 14,457 children over ten years ofage who were unable to read or write. The names of illiterates who have been receiving in-struction in English in the various training camps are beingreported to the State Department of Education and effortsare being made to have this instruction continued by localschool authorities when these men return to their homes. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 15 Table 5. Illiteracy Statistics of Montana—1910 Persons 10 years old and ov
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