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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 27? These schools are all well equipped and arc doing splendid work. They have kepi abreast with the .forward movements in the educational world and their courses are gradually being enlarged and adapted so as to make them truly the schools of the people and for the people. A large number of the pupils enrolled in these high schools are country pupils who have completed the work of the rural schools. The men who have served as county superintendents of schools are J. W. Hancock. II. B. Wilson, .1. K. Pingrey, A. E. Engstrom and Julius Boraas. Those who have been superintendents in the city schools during the last twenty-five years are: Red Wing — 0. W. Whitman (who served nineteen years, from 1870 to 1889), A. W. Rankin. G. 0. Brohaugh, F. V. Hub- bard. W. F. Kunze, -I. I,. Silvernale. Cannon Falls— ('. W. Blake. E. K. Cheadle, 0. C. Gross. A. M. Locker, A. ('. ( arlson. II. I. Harter and A. W. Newman. Zumbrota— C. I). Welch, F. A. AVeld. (i. E. St. John, J. W. Steffens. F. J. Bomberger, ('. A. Patchin. L. J. Montgomery, J. T. Fuller. Pine Island— Otis Gross, E. S. Stevens, A. M. Dresbach, "Wil- liam A. Westerson, J. S. Festerson, L. J. Montgomery, H. C. Bell, B. Frank McComb and II. 0. Cady. Kenyon — P. H. Bradley, A. ('. Kingsford, W. II. Hollands, H. G. Blanch and G. V. Kinney. Parochial schools have been conducted in the various com- munities ever since the county was first settled, and have added much to the upbuilding of its citizenship. There have been and are several types of these schools. Three denominations in Red Wing have maintained schools in which the pupils attend the wmole year in place of attending the public schools. A similar school has been conducted at Hay Qreek. In these schools instruction is given in the teachings of the church by which the school is maintained and in some or all of the common branches of the public schools. In some, instruction is also given in a foreign language. In one community two congregations unite and employ a parochial teacher who teaches five months in each congregation, the schoolhouses being owned by the congregations and located near their respective churches. In these schools instruction is given in some of the common branches. Outside of the five months of parochial school the pupils attend the public school. In some communities congregations have followed the plan of employing a parochial teacher for the entire year and dividing the congregations into four or five districts with one or two months of parochial school in each. Generally the terms of the