Bay County past and present . First School in Lower Saginaw,1844. 186 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND nished her with food and a bed for a given length of time each school building was used for public meetings of all kinds, andlater, when discarded for school use, it was used for a boarding houseby the Pitts and Companys mill. In country dis-tricts the firstschool building wasusually the inexpen-sive log schoolhouse, but thesehave all disappear-ed, and today thedistrict schools ofBay County includesome of the best inMichigan. Our dis-tricts in most of thecounty are so popu-lated that t
Bay County past and present . First School in Lower Saginaw,1844. 186 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND nished her with food and a bed for a given length of time each school building was used for public meetings of all kinds, andlater, when discarded for school use, it was used for a boarding houseby the Pitts and Companys mill. In country dis-tricts the firstschool building wasusually the inexpen-sive log schoolhouse, but thesehave all disappear-ed, and today thedistrict schools ofBay County includesome of the best inMichigan. Our dis-tricts in most of thecounty are so popu-lated that they havemore children ofschool age than isthe average for the state. The Primary School Fund of the state is paid to districts on thebasis of the number of children of school age, and is used for teacherssalaries. This is such a help that the salaries of teachers in our coun-try schools average higher than those of teachers in many other partsof the state. This help, combined with the fact that our farms arevery valuable, make it possible to furnish the well built schools withthe best of equipme
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