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§LEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN HUNGERFORD - 2 Some of these schools were so-called "poor schools", (i.e. financially poor), for Council minutes for September 9, 1878, record that John Johnston asked for a grant to poor schools, namely 8.8.4, 19, 20, 21 and 22, and $10 was granted to each. Council later resolved "to give no grants to any poor school that does not keep the school open nine months of the year”. A later list, for 1905, published in The Tweed News, gives the following sections. SEC.TREAS. VALUATION SEQTTQE TEACHER g§_BOARD_ 0F SECTIOE 8.8. 1 Union R. A. Morton Samuel Haynes $151,225 5 Union J. E. Chambers Joseph Bateman 175,295 4 E. Meagher William Whalen 59,697 5 Emma Wallace J.E. Johnston 156,561 6 Nellie Larkin w.A. Canniff 51,755 7 T. Coppinger Thomas Rath 45,882 8 Tweed V.K. Greer (Principal) F.A. Bartlett 54,785 9 T.H. Mouck 65,061 10 E.E. waterhouse George Weir 44,925 11 Union H. McConnell G.H. Henderson 54,049 12 Miss Taylor James Brown 47,501 15 Charles F. Varty Peter Doran 164,625 14 E.M. Finley A.H. Tufts 52,062 16 B. Collins M. McEvoy 78,117 18 A.M. Ward G.H. Younge 158,582 19 Hattie Harrison Joseph Treacy 40,455 20 w.o. O'Brien Patrick Carey 28,845 21 F. Gould w. Hicks, Sr. 14,050 22 J. Taylor C. Labarge 57,705 24 Union Edward Rivers, Sr. 5,000 Note that some of these schools are listed as Union School Sections, that is, they were joined with part of another section in a township adjacent to ' Hungerford. The Unionsin 8.8.1 and 8.8.5 were with parts of Huntingdon, that in S.S.ll was with part of Tyendinaga. These were Union Schools before 1858, but it is not known whether or not they were originally established as Union