Teacher Salaries, 1900-1919
Introduction: An examination of county records, available at the Washington State Archives in Olympia has yielded several decades’ worth of salaries for the teachers at the Yelm School. The dollar amounts are for a month’s work. The contracts were usually for three months. The district seems to have employed one teacher through 1908. Most of these teachers do not appear on census rolls for the Yelm area. The practice was for the teachers to sign a contract and rent from a local inhabitant while the term lasted. The sharp increase in the number of teachers employed is the result of the school district consolidations which took palce around te time of World War I, as Yelm absorbed some neighboring districts. (A note: The spellings listed below are approximations based by our interpretation of the handwriting on the records)
9-29-1900 Lizzie Waddell $45.00
10-11-1901 Belle M. Kline 40.00
12-21-1901 Belle M. Kline 40.00
3-18-1902 Sara Coohman 40.00
9-8-1902 Annie C. Hartt 40.00
12-1-1902 Annie C. Hartt 40.00
3-23-1903 Seymour Stone
9-7-1903 Seymour Stone
7-19-1904 Clara E. McKenzie
9-4-1905 Clara E. McKenzie 55.00
1-10-1906 Mrs. Calla Stoddard 55.00
9-17-1906 Mrs. M. A. Johnson
1907
8-4-1908 Clara E. McKenzie 75.00
9-7-1908 Miss Clara McKenzie 75.00
7-8-1909 Hattie Hawley 75.00
8-15-1909 Hattie Hawley 65.00
9-6-1909 E. Cora Sleater 60.00
9-17-1910 Lena J. Watrows(Natrous?)70.00
11-8-1910 D.R. White 90.00
2-2-1911 Amelia H. Lee 65.00
6-26-1911 D.R. White 75.00
8-24-1911 Hilder Pearson
9-18-1911 Aubrey D. Witherell 70.00
2-28-1912 Francis Walsh 70.00
5-31-1912 Hilder Pearson 65.00
6-28-1912 J.T. Keppel 83.35
9-12-1912 Beatrice Snow 70.00
9-7-1912 Frieda Stark Coleman 70.00
9-7-1912 Ira Franklin 70.00
7-19-1913 G. H. Scobey 75.00
9-12-1913 Marion Johnson 65.00
9-24-1913 Viola Hopkins 70.00
10-9-1913 Wm. Fletcher 90.00
10-16-1913 Alice G. Hughes 65.00
7-13-1914 Clara J. Burgeso 65.00
8-2-1914 Elva Uhler 65.00
8-25-1914 J.B. Fleenor 100.00
8-31-1914 J.C. Yowell 90.00
8-31-1914 Vera Chambers 70.00
8-31-1914 Mary C. Sutton 85.00
12-11-1914 Lorin J. Peters 90.00
7-6-1915 Loren J. Peters 100.00
8-24-1915 J.B. Fleenor 100.00
8-7-1915 Clara J. Burgeso 70.00
8-7-1915 Ruth Eide 70.00
8-24-1915 Nan P. Reaves 85.00
9-16-1915 Vera Chambers 70.00
4-24-1916 Lorin J. Peters 91.67
4-24-1916 Clara J. Burgeso 75.00
5-31-1916 H. P. Brown 240.00 (not per month)
8-3-1916 Henrietta Burmiester 80.00
8-10-1916 Sarah E. Geaver 90.00
8-12-1916 Mav J. Robinson 65.00
8-19-1916 Vera Chambers 80.00
8-23-1916 W. E. Fletcher 85.00
8-25-1916 Arthur W. Blomquist 100.00
5-26-1917 Mae J. Robinson 75.00
6-16-1917 Geo. W. Temperley 90.00
6-30-1917 W. C. Fletcher 100.00
8-17-1917 Helda A. Musner 90.00
6-16-1917 Stilla C. Lily 90.00
6-16-1917 Margaret E. Curry 80.00
9-7-1917 Marguerita Snider 75.00
9-7-1917 Maude Hedger 90.00
5-16-1918 Stella A. Lilly 100.00
5-16-1918 Maude J. Hedger 100.00
5-16-1918 Hilda Meisner 100.00
5-16-1918 Marguerito Snider 90.00
5-16-1918 Margaret Curry 100.00
5-16-1918 Mae J. Robinson 90.00
7-16-1918 B. H. Vining 325.00 per year
7-16-1918 E. S. Nicholo 180.00
7-8-1918 Rose M. Chabert 85.00
8-27-1918 Mrs. Cida E. Enlow 90.00
9-1-1918 Marguerita Snider 100.00
11-12-1918 Claine McDonald 100.00
6-3-1919 E. L. Nichols 200.00
6-3-1919 Rosemarie Chabert 95.00
6-3-1919 Queenie Hoff 105.00
6-3-1919 Marguerito Snider 105.00
6-3-1919 Hilda A. Meisner 105.00
8-9-1919 Margaret Curry 105.00
8-14-1919 Claire McDonald 105.00
8-30-1919 Zella A. Riese 100.00
9-20-1919 Zelma L. Holma 110.00
9-30-1919 Olive Pearson 105.00
10-15-1919 Bessie Evans 95.00