History of Clinton County, IndianaTogether with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizensAlso a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history . tendance, 201; EDCJCATIONAL. 475 tuition per pupil per month, $.71; amount of common schoolfund, $30,; white males ot school age, 4,176; white femalesof school age, 3,841; colored males of school age, 13; coloredfemal
History of Clinton County, IndianaTogether with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizensAlso a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history . tendance, 201; EDCJCATIONAL. 475 tuition per pupil per month, $.71; amount of common schoolfund, $30,; white males ot school age, 4,176; white femalesof school age, 3,841; colored males of school age, 13; coloredfemales of school age, 10; total enumeration of 1884, 8,040; totalenumeration of 1883, 8,047; illiterate males between ten andtwentj-one, 33; illiterate females between ten and twenty-one, 17;total illiterates, 50; white male pupils in school, 3,387; whitefemale pupils, 3,165; total white pupils, 6,552; colored malepupils, 10; colored female pupils, 5; total colored pupils, 15;total male pupils, 3,397; total female pupils, 3,170; total pupilsin school, 6,567; average daily attendance, 4,220; average num-ber of days of school, 141; amount paid trustees for managingeducational matters, $1,793; amount of school revenue derivedfrom tax, $8,; interest collected on common school fund,$2,; total collected for apportionment, $10,; amountapportioned, $11, CHAPTER XIY. AGRICULTURAL. Clinton an Agricultural County.—Statistics of AgricultureroR 1886.—Clinton County Agricultural Society.—Organiza-tion.—Fairs, 1872-85.—Middle Fork Agricultural and Hor-ticultural Society. The best prosperity a county can have is agricultural. Manu-factures and mineral resources are desirable, but where they are themain dependence there will invariably be a poor, ignorant, unen-terprising class of citizens controlled by a few capitalists. Here inClinton County property is quite evenly distributed, with theexception of a few large land owners ; all are comfortably situated,and all
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