educational purposes, and a cooperation of parents and teachers;
with the many educational periodicals, the pedagogical books, and
teachers' institutes to broaden and stimulate the teacher, the friends
of education in Loudoun may labor on, assured that the new century
will give abundant fruitage to the work which has so marvelously
prospered in the old.

_Total Receipts of School Funds for the Year Ending July 31, 1908._
(From report of Division Superintendent of Schools.)

From State funds $13,968 92
" County school tax 12,355 38
" District school tax 14,640 82
" All other sources 322 30
" Balance on hand August 1, 1907 6,644 60
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Total $47,931 97
_Total expenditures_ 42,788 58
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_Balance on hand August 1, 1908_ $5,143 39

_School population, Number of Schools, Enrollment and Attendance by
Races and Districts, 1906-1907._ (From report of State Superintendent
of Schools.)

----------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+------
| School | No. of | Whole number |
| Population. |Schools opened.| enrolled. |
Districts. +------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+Total.
|White.|Colored.|White.|Colored.|White.|Colored.|
----------------+------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------
Broad Run | 748 | 228 | 19 | 4 | 538 | 131 | 669
Jefferson | 619 | 216 | 15 | 4 | 446 | 196 | 642
Leesburg | 381 | 143 | 9 | 3 | 358 | 107 | 465
Lovettsville | 614 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 498 | 24 | 522
Mercer | 628 | 482 | 15 | 7 | 467 | 277 | 744
Mt. Gilead | 695 | 457 | 16 | 6 | 493 | 231 | 724
Town of Leesburg| 255 | 130 | 6 | 3 | 196 | 121 | 317
|------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------
Total |3,940 | 1,690 | 93 | 28 |2,996 | 1,087 |4,083
----------------+------+--------+------+--------+------+--------+------

_Religion._

The Church, with her faiths, her sacraments, and a part of her
ministry, was an integral part of the colonization of the County from
the beginning and continuously. Every