Mrs. Mary Ellen Taylor, Miss Fern Jennings. Teachers in 1937 were Mr. and Mrs. A W. Coltharp.

SALEM
According to the Tulia Herald, the Salem School was organized in 1890 with twenty pupils. Salem was originally located in the northeast quadrant of the county, eleven miles north and eleven miles east of Tulia. Grandmother Knight and her two sons, Charlie and Elmer, and W. R. Jones were some of the early settlers.

Some of the teachers were: Prof. Gyer, Jess Pearson, Alice Beazley, Emma Enuffer, Lula Conner, Mr. Patterson, Sarah Nalls, Prof. Norid, Bell Parker, Prof. Gilliand, Faye Madison, Nina Burleson, Clara Teague, Luther Sharp, Hazel Kurth, Ruth Sparks. In 1922, Mrs. Edgar Davis taught and following her were Mary Harp, Zona Cox, Edna Pearson, and Annie Greer. In 1925, the school employed two teachers. Some of these have

been Annie and Lenore Greer, Zona Cox and Eunice May, Carrie Franks and Aline Segraves, Mr. and Mrs. Jameson, Mr. and Mrs. Boone Lacewell, Mr. James Strange and Zona Cox, Arthur Jennings, Aline McGehee, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Franklin were the teachers in 1937.

Trustees in 1937 were Amos Ratjen, Frank Cox, and Johnnie Davis. Salem shared the fate of other rural schools, in a few years they either. transferred or were consolidated with Tulia, and Happy.

UNION HILL
The Union Hill School District was created in 1892. Then in a few years the Word school and New Hope school were consolidated with Union Hill. According to one of the Evans Girls the New Hope School house was on skids and when the school population shifted they would move the school house to the center of population. A Miss Mulky was the first teacher at New Hope.

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