man Werner, Carl Koch, Albert Sohrweide, Jos. Krizenesky as directors; and
James
Hickey, Jos. Miller, John Hickey, John Bratz, Carl Jonas, Otto Krueger, and
Adolph
Ecker as treasurers.
    The first teachers were hired for winter or summer terms. The voters
always
voted whether a male or a female teacher was to be hired, if possible. The
salary
to be paid was also set by the voters. The winter term was always longer
than the
summer session. The names of the teachers engaged to teach this school are
recorded
in the district record books. Those listed prior to 1907 are Mary Hogan and
Mary
Gleason 1870, Mae Mulcahy and Margaret Walton 1871, Maggie Stokes 1872-3,
Char-
lotte Flynn 1873, Mary Patnode 1874, Dora Squire and Pat Lynch 1875, Pat
Lynch
and Chas. Whelan 1876, Robert Rudolph 1877, P. W. Lynch 1878, E. D. McMahon
1879, Jennie Koelzer 1880, Ellen Kennedy and Rob. Rudolph 1881, James Burke
1882,
A. Dassler 1883, Fred Meisnest 1884-5, G. M. Morrissey 1886, Thos. Morris
1887, Mary
Noonan 1888-9, Maggie O'Brien 1890, J. A. Miller 1891-3, J. L. Morrissey
1894, Henry
Werner 1895-6, M. M. Guhin 1896-7, D. E. Hickey 1898-1900, Ida Schwartz 1901,
Hulda Kasbaum    1902, Nellie Walsh 1903, Oscar Drews 1904, and Randolph
Stoehr
1905-6.
    According to present day taxes, this school had low taxes each year during
the
later 1800's. In 1870, only $180 was raised to maintain the school. By 1890,
only about
$25 to $50 yearly was raised, but still the district had $400 to loan out
at 4% interest
in 1892. Aids from the county and state must have been sufficient to create
a surplus.
Today the tax raised amounts'to between $1500 and $2000 yearly. Tax money
in 1870
was obtained by tax certificates. John Hickey, that year, was authorized
to sell tax
certificates at a discount of 50 cents on a dollar.
    The residents of the district at the annual meetings always voted who
was to
furnish the fuel. Textbooks were voted to be sold to the pupils at cost.
The term of
school always received attention at these meetings. As late as 1900, the
voters stipu-
lated that a spring vacation called at the discretion of the board members
be allow-
ed. Bad roads and spring's work were, no doubt, the factors that decided
when this
vacation was to be held. Every year until 1890, Herman Koch moved that one
hour
of German each day be taught, and usually this motion was carried. A motion
made
in 1882 forbid the holding of Sunday school in the building, but this was
voted down.
In 1890, Karl Koch sponsored a motion to forbid dancing in the schoolhouse.
Evi-
dently the building was used as a community recreation center at that time.
The
clerk was granted a salary of $5 per year in 1874 which continued in effect
until
1907, when he was granted $10 yearly and the other two officers $5 yearly.
Today
Maple Grove No. 4 is a community of prosperous farmers deeply interested
in the
educational welfare of their children. The nearness of the parochial schools
at
Reedsville and Brillion has affected its public school seriously even though
the dis-
trict'census still lists about 70 children of school age residing in the
community.

                               MAPLE GROVE 5
                                   Suspended
    Maple Grove school district No. 5 was among the last three school districts
set
up in Manitowoc county. It originally belonged to the Rockland joint No.
1 school
district, now the Reedsville district. With the depression of 1929 and the
years fol-
lowing affecting the income of farm owners, there developed agitation throughout
the
state to detach rural areas in village and city high school districts and
to set up con-
venient school districts of their own. The following law passed by the legislature
of 1927 made legal such detachment procedures:
    "40.85(1) Whenever a school district maintaining a high school,
other than a
union free high school district, consists of territory both within and without
the cor-
porate limits of any city or village, the territory lying outside such limits,
or any
portion thereof adjoining another school district, may be detached as herein
pro-
vided." The law then explains how this detachment may be carried out.
The pro-
visions of this law were repealed in 1939.
    The original petition to detach the area outside of the village of Reedsville
was
filed on March 28, 1930. The petition was addressed to the school board of
joint
school district No. 1 made up of the village of Reedsville and the towns
of Rockland
and Maple Grove. It petitioned them to have "all. of said territory
lying and being
outside of the vllage limits of said incorporated village detached from said
joint
school district aforesaid, and to have such territory attached to adjoining
school dis-
tricts bordering on said joint school district No. 1." It further petitioned
the clerk of
joint school district No. 1, Rockland (Reedsville), to give proper notice
for a joint


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