floor furnace instead of the old box stove. A large, well-built library cabinet
in the
rear of the classroom provides storage space for all books. The room is equipped
wvith a radio, piano, steel file, chairs, work-tables, and other modern school
equipment.
    As in all rural districts the enrollment has fluctuated with the times.
There is
no record of the number of pupils attending yearly before 1870. The enrollment
for
1870 was 48 according to the town clerk's report to the county superintendent.
The
highest enrollment occurred in 1875 when 61 pupils were in attendance. The
average
for the latter part of the 1800's and the early 1900's was 50. Today the
enrollment
averages about 20 pupils yearly, with the decrease due to smaller families,
larger
farms, graduation from eighth grade at or before 14 years of age, and attendance
at
parochial schools.
    Centerville District No. 2 was settled by Germans as the names of the
early set-
tlers, as listed in the Centerville assessment roll of 1856, indicate. The
following were
among the early pioneers: C. Leiteritz, G. Treick, W. Korf, T. Barthel, L.
Rapsberg.
T. Wagner, T. Henschel, S. Grotegut, and Michael Kuecker. Today the family
names
of Lutze, Jacobi, and Klessig are familiar in governmental and agricultural
fields.
    The early school district officers served their community for little
or no pay.
They were interested in providing the best education possible for the times
and made
it their duty and privilege to serve as a school board member. Ernest Leiteritz,
Jacob
Gauch, and Henry Horman served in 1872 for $2 per year. Frederick Jacobi
became a
board member in 1884 and served for 42 years. He was also the town chairman
for a
number of years. Others who served before 1906 were: M. Egan, Ernest Jaehnig,
Adolph Klessig, Henry Schomburg, and Fred Jacobi. William Duessing and Herbert
Klessig both served as treasurer for 21 years.
    There is no record of teachers before 1872. Those listed in the county
superinten-
dent's record book indicate that Irish teachers were preferred in this German
com-
munity. Their pay was above the average paid other teachers in the town.
In 1875
the sum of $50 per month was paid. The teachers' names on record are: Emily
Rich-
ter, 1872; Lizzie Donahue, 1873; Patrick Nagel, 1874-5; Katie Donahue, 1876
and 1878;
P. Nagel, 1877; Win. Mulholland, 1879; Fred Gensch, 1894; John Goldie, 1895-96;
John
Egan, 1897; Albert Jacobi, 1898; and Math. Fitzgerald, 1904-05. John Egan
became
conservation warden for Manitowoc county and still later assemblyman. The
names
of teachers after 1905 are recorded in the county school annuals.
    The records do'not show that summer and winter sessions of school were
held.
There may have been German schools for a short period each year. It is noted
that
mail was obtained from Hika, Meeme, Osman, Timothy, St. Wendell, and Newton
as
the years passed. Sanders spellers, Sanders and American Education readers,
Davies
and Rays arithmetics, Monthieths geography, Kerl's grammar, and Swinton's
history
were used from 1870 to about 1890. The school has served as a community center
for
meetings and social gatherings.
    Centerville No. 2 district is a farming community. Gustave Hinz operated
a saw-
mill in the past, but that was discontinued in 1922. A cheese factory is
in operation
riear the school. Small, wandering branches of Fischer Creek and Point Creek
cut
across the district. Neither one is of scenic or recreational value in this
community.
                  CENTERVILLE JT. 3 -PLEASANT HILL
                                Louise Goetschel
    The Pleasant Hill school,


Centerville Jt. 3, was given that
name by the school society
members in 1918. That name
was chosen because the school-
house stands on a small hill
from which may be had a pleas-
ant view of farms and wood-
land. It was formerly known
as the Saxon school because it
was built next to the Saxon
church, so called because the
early settlers had come to Am-
erica from Saxony, Germany.
Residents of the nearby com-
munities now    refer to this
school as the Klessig or the
Wiegand school because of the
official connections that these
families have had with district


affairs.
    This district was organized as Centerville district No. 2 in 1852 and
included al-
most all of the western half of the Centerville township. In 1856, a part
of this dis-


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