July 1908

The Beloit school census gave 4,432 children of school age.

Meanwhile, closer to home

PropertyMay 1908Month

The Janesville and Beloit teams of the new Trolley League met at Yost's Park; both teams had won their games the previous Sunday (reported in the Janesville Daily Gazette of Saturday, May 9, 1908, for a game the following day).

PropertyOctober 1908Month

The summer cottage of Edward Fairchild at Yost's park, near Beloit, was destroyed by fire (reported in issues of October 15, 1908).

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BeloitJuly 1908

The Beloit school census gave 4,432 children of school age.

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F. Livermore, "Daily News," April 7th, 1908) Beloit had three school buildings with seventeen teachers, pay roll $7,900 and total expenditures of about thirteen thousand dollars for sixteen hundred children of school age, with land and buildings valued at about one hundred thousand dollars. In December, 1907, we had thirteen buildings, eighty-one teachers, a pay roll of $46,720, the total concurrent expense being $65,505, besides $20,000 paid on bonds and interest for new buildings, and a school census of 4,383. (The census for July, 1908, gives us 4,432. Of this number, dur-

Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.Vol. 1, PDF p. 278 / book p. 255

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July 1908

The Beloit school census gave 4,432 children of school age.

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The evidence

BeloitJuly 1908

The Beloit school census gave 4,432 children of school age.

A 1 independent source

1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

F. Livermore, "Daily News," April 7th, 1908) Beloit had three school buildings with seventeen teachers, pay roll $7,900 and total expenditures of about thirteen thousand dollars for sixteen hundred children of school age, with land and buildings valued at about one hundred thousand dollars. In December, 1907, we had thirteen buildings, eighty-one teachers, a pay roll of $46,720, the total concurrent expense being $65,505, besides $20,000 paid on bonds and interest for new buildings, and a school census of 4,383. (The census for July, 1908, gives us 4,432. Of this number, dur-