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r ionno each per month. The total
rTdSw Bchool age in the city is abont
'n of whom eight hundred and eighty-
KSirf eixty in the private and denomina.
ionhoo!, The school government is vested in
S directors and a clerk, who is also treasure,
by the people at the annual meeting whict
entirely removed from any connection with other
B&tW. of politics. The school tax last year was two
oilli on the total taxable valuation of property in the
city The Salem schools are fully abreast of the
city's general advancement, and changes now contem
plated will place them in a still better condition for
applying the educational needs of the citizens. The
wveral private schools, Roman Catholic, Episcopa
lian and others, perform an important service, and
with an excellent university right at home to supple
ment the work of the lower schools, the educational
facilities of the capital city are exceptionally com
plete. An orphans' home has a fine building, with home
like surroundings, and is one of the excellent char
itable institutions of the city performing an impor
Unt service to the community, and it is well support
ed. The city has one opera house, with a greater
eating capacity than any other in the state outside of
Portland, and has two good hotels.
The churches of Salem are fully equal to those of
any other city in Oregon. One church edifice is ca
pable of comfortably seating six hundred people,
and is, perhaps, as fine a church as is now open for
service in the state, it having cost $50,000.00. There
are nine other church edifices of plainer design, but
comfortable and substantial structures, in the city,
and they art all well attended. The denominations
which have church buildings are the Methodist Epis
copal, Chriitian, Episcopal, Congregational, Evangel
ical, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Cumberland
Preibyterian and German Reformed. Unitarians
tea cjetentn Day Adventists have organizations and
hold regular aervices, and there ia a branch of the
uoiinpi locictv in thn ritu au Pnii- xri,
aj rtuicuuouj nave organizations ana
regular aervices, and there is a branch of the
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fraternal orders are well represented in Salem.
. -mi; urgamzauons ana a Masonic
library of fifteen hundred volumes; two lodges of Odd
Allots and in Odd Fellow.' Mhnrr, A l.
e! low, and in Odd Fellows' library of fifteen hun
ami Tolames; two of the Ancient Orr nf iTntorf
orkcan: oci TJr.r.i i . , ,
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H Uge, which has had over two thousand per-
o,w7 -1 01 Lsbor- ieae fraternal
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