The next record that can be found of the progress of schools in this county is of 1868, when Norman Dunshee was county superintendent. In that year there were forty-six organized school districts, and a school population of 3,878, with a total enrollment of 2,247, and an average daily attendance of 1281. The term for white children was increased to five and one-half months and for colored children to ten months. There was a total of sixty-four teachers, of whom thirty-seven were women and twenty-seven men. The wages of the men were $42.92 a month, and for the women, $28.76 a month, and there was a total of $15,117.87 paid out for wages. The amount received from the State was $2,627.09, and an additional source of revenue was from the pounding of stray livestock, which brought into the school fund of the county that year $589.58. The amount raised by district school tax was $24,373.21, and there were forty-three school houses in the county, of which twelve were built of logs, twenty-six of frame construction, and five of stone, with a total valuation of $16,750.00. During the interim between 1863 and 1868, the Third Kansas Teachers’ Association met in Atchison. The meeting was held July, 1865, and there were fifty-nine teachers present in Price’s Hall. John A. Martin, John J. Ingalls and Geo. W. Glick attended the meeting and made addresses. In comparison with the figures of those days, the figures of 1915 are interesting, and they are here given as follows: School population, June 30, 1915 3,530 Total enrollment, 1914–1915 2,477 Average daily attendance, 1914–1915 1,915 Teachers employed, 1915–1916, including county high school, males 23, females 81 104 Teachers employed 1915–1916, including county high school, holding State certificates 19 Normal training 33, first grade 22, second grade 27 Teachers without previous experience 21 Teachers serving first year in present positions 56 Teachers more than two years in present position 16 Average experience of teachers: One-teacher schools 5 years Graded schools 6 years Average length of term in weeks: 1914–15 1915–16 One-teacher schools 30.4 30.65 Graded schools 35.3 35.33 Average salary of male teachers: 1914–15 1915–16 One-teacher schools 63.75 67.25 Graded schools 84.77 85.81 Average salary of female teachers: 1914–15 1915–16 One-teacher schools 58.16 57.45