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* The director/matron, a husband/wife team (though paid separately) changed from the original A. J. Hylton and wife to B. C. White and wife in May 1897, with B. C. receiving full pay for May and his wife getting 3/4 pay for the month. (She must have either arrived a week later, or at least didn't start working for the first week.) | * The director/matron, a husband/wife team (though paid separately) changed from the original A. J. Hylton and wife to B. C. White and wife in May 1897, with B. C. receiving full pay for May and his wife getting 3/4 pay for the month. (She must have either arrived a week later, or at least didn't start working for the first week.) | ||
* There seems to be a policy of spreading the purchases around, possibly to avoid charges of favoritism? | * There seems to be a policy of spreading the purchases around, possibly to avoid charges of favoritism? | ||
| − | * State funding, while inevitable, seems to have been sporadic. There are indications that budgets were overspent in both 1896 and 1897. In October 1897, the staff was paid, but not the director and his wife, nor any creditors. The previous year's report listed expenses for November, but not 1897's report. Both year's reports have partial month's payments listed for the previous December. And, as listed directly above, the legislature had to catch up missing payments up for up to 3 years. | + | * State funding, while inevitable, seems to have been sporadic. There are indications that budgets were overspent in both 1896 and 1897. In October 1897, the staff was paid, but not the director and his wife, nor any creditors. The previous year's report listed expenses for November, but not 1897's report. Both year's reports have partial month's payments listed for the previous December. And, as listed directly above, the legislature had to catch up missing payments up for up to 3 years. Repaying operating loans to First National Bank was a common expense. |
| − | * Purchases include: electricity and light fixtures from the city, coal from a large pool of suppliers, medical support from two doctors. Staff included the director and the matron (for the girls), cooks, overseers, teachers, farm directors, plant operation and maintenence ("Engineers"), night watchmen, dining room superintendents, office staff, nurse, laundress, seamstress, attendance and teamster (some of these positions were short lived). Outside services purchased included: blacksmithing, livery, team, plumbing, medical, carpenter work, | + | * Purchases include: electricity and light fixtures from the city, coal from a large pool of suppliers, medical support from two doctors. Staff included the director and the matron (for the girls), cooks, overseers, teachers, farm directors, plant operation and maintenence ("Engineers"), night watchmen, dining room superintendents, office staff, nurse, laundress, seamstress, attendance and teamster (some of these positions were short lived). Outside services purchased included: blacksmithing, livery, team, plumbing, medical, carpenter work and surveying. Items purchased include lumber, a saddle, a typewriter, an alarm clock, an iron sign, hay, oats, potatoes, oranges, seeds, letterheads, coal, drugs, meats and the general "merchandise". |
| − | * Teaching staff in 1897 was more sparse and varied than the previous year. | + | * Teaching staff in 1897 was more sparse and varied than the previous year. A few of those who served in this role included: Charles B. Eslep, Charles Everett, E. R. Maples, James J. Walker, Lydia Osterbrink, Robert Ridgeway and T. A. Mapes. |
| + | * Actual job titles frequently varied, especially among seamstress/laundress/cook/dining superintendent and head of farm/irrigation/gardener/foreman (which seemed to change for E. K. Davis every month). | ||
