School staff swap and return as lessons proceed
Last Friday Miss Stanley was absent and Mr. Moyer filled her room while Miss Nordstrom led the high school and Miss Tippet covered Nordstroms class. Miss Stanley returned Monday. A Washington birthday program is under way. Freshmen read The Lady of the Lake. Third year finished Solid Geometry and start Advanced Algebra Tuesday. Second year history will take a short test Tuesday.
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Miss Stanley
Mr. Moyer
Miss Nordstrom
Miss Tippet
Ladies' Circle Elects Officers at Congregational Church
The Ladies' Circle of the Congregational church held its annual meeting last Friday. Officers elected for the coming year were President Mrs. L. D. Tanner Secretary Mrs. G. W. Booker Treasurer Mrs. I. E. Roberts. A fine luncheon followed and reports from committees were read.
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The
Congregational Church
L. D. Tanner
G. W. Booker
I. E. Roberts
Weekly church services announced for Marbleton and district
The week of Feb 4 schedule lists Sunday school 10 a m Morning Prayer 11 a m Evening services 7 45 p m Marbleton services Sunday school 2 30 p m Preaching 3 30 p m Rev Geo F Wenrich pastor.
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Marbleton
Geo
F. Wenrich
Purification and Septuagesima Services at St. John
The Church of St. John the Baptist schedules Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Sung Holy Eucharist at 10 a.m. on Friday. February 4 observes Septuagesima with Sun Morning Prayer at 9 30 a.m. Church School at 10, Sung Holy Eucharist at 11, Evensong at 4 p.m., and Children Services on Friday 3 15 to 4 p.m.
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Church OF ST. John the Baptist
Circle Plans Prosperous Year With Marbleton Sleigh Visit
A Marbleton sleigh party arrived to report solid progress and a strong program for the year ahead. The group conveyed optimistic notes on community work and future plans.
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Marbleton
Grazing Permits Calling for 1917 Wyoming National Forest
Public notice calls for all grazing permit applications for cattle horses and sheep in the Wyoming National Forest for 1917. Applications must be filed in Afton, Wyoming, by February 19 1917. Charles A Beam Supervisor offers details on grazing fees and blank forms on request.
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Wyoming National Forest
Afton
Wyoming
Charles A. Beam
Navassa Island lighthouse planned by United States
The United States plans to build a lighthouse on Navassa Island in the West Indies, east of Haiti, marking a rare instance of a U S lighthouse on land not within U S territory. Congress has appropriated 125000 dollars. bids will be sought for a 56000 candle power beam visible up to 27 nautical miles, with Cape Spartel as a distant comparable case of multilateral funding.
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Panama Canal
United States
Avassa
West Indies
Halt
Washington Star
No Man’s Land
Baltimore
Congress
Navassa
Federal Lighthouse Bureau
Cape Spartel
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Morocco
Austria
Belgium
Spain
France
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Master Dog Reunited With British Soldier At Front
A British private, James Brown of the First North Staffordshire, finds his Irish terrier Prince with the front lines in France after the dog vanished from his London home. Brown writes his wife Prince crossed the channel with troops, arrived at the trenches, and now stays by his side wearing a coat made from old greatcoats.
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London
France
Hammersmith
James Brown
North Staffordshire Regiment
Brown
Continent
Prince
Economy of a Stock Company at the Boston Museum
The essay notes that players in a stock company ranged from barber to tailor and cab driver. It argues these varied lives reflect everyday virtue and humanity, suggesting honest trades can reveal the noblest work of God. The excerpt cites B. A. Sothern’s My Remembrances as the source.
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Old
Boston Museum
B. A. Sothern
Scribner's Magazine
Epoch inventions list split between US and foreign inventors
An official report lists epoch making inventions from the last fifty years. Thirty six are credited to people of the United States and fourteen to foreign inventors. The top ten in each group include American Telephone Company, typewriter, cash register, incandescent lamp, talking machine, electric furnace reduction, electrolytic alkali production, transparent photo film, motion picture machine, buttonhole sewing machine. Foreign entries include electric steel, dynamite, artificial alizarene dye, siphon recorder, gas engine, wireless telegraphy, smokeless powder, Diesel motor, centrifugal creamer, manganese steel.
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United States
School Transforms Into Winter Student Home
Ranchers in the McLucas North Dakota school district converted the schoolhouse into a temporary home for pupils from Monday to Friday each week. Parents planned an addition to provide sleeping and eating quarters under teacher supervision to keep children in school during winter.
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McLucas
N. D
Cats Almost Blind in Light at Pulaski Hotel Cells
A Savannah feature recalls the Pulaski hotel basement’s bricked rooms used to hold enslaved people before the Civil War. Now home to cats, the dungeon-like cells are being ruined by daylight while cats lose sight in the sunlit world, linking past and present in a fragile, forgotten memory.
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Millergeville
Savannah
Pulaski Hotel
Georgia
Reading character from feet at Ohio retailers convention
Delegates at the Ohio Retail Shoe Dealers association convention discuss feet as mirrors of character. O K Dorn of Cleveland says feet reveal states of mind even when a smile hides it, with indicators like turned-in toes and heel pressure. Police and detectives use this knowledge to elicit confessions.
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Ohio Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association
O. K. Dorn
Cleveland
Cleveland Press
Two Americans British Peers
Francis Allston Channing, born March 21, 1841, rose from Massachusetts roots to become baronet in 1902 and Baron Channing in 1912. Son of Rev W H Channing, his life split between America and England with long tenure in Liverpool and Oxford education shaping a notable but low profile English public career.
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William Waldorf Astor
Francis Allston Channing
Massachusetts
Baron Channing
W. H. Channing
Cincinnati
Boston
James Martineau
Hope Street
Liverpool
America
National Senate
England
Oxford
Wanted Pennell In the Trenches
James Norman Hall describes trench life seen at night near No-Man's Land. He imagines artist Pennell capturing the scene with blacks and whites to convey the beauty and immense sadness of war.
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Pennell
England
No-Man's Land
Joseph Pennell
James Norman Hall
The
Atlantic Monthly
Iceland's First Dramatiat Gudmundur Kamban
Iceland's first dramatist Gudmundur Kamban came to publish his works in English. Born in Reykjavik twenty seven years ago he began writing his first play Hadda Padda at eighteen. After publication in Iceland he studied at Copenhagen University and saw his drama translated and staged by the Royal theater of Copenhagen in 1912 and shown in sixty theaters across Scandinavia.
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Iceland
Gudmundur Kamban
Reykjavik
Copenhagen
Royal Theater of
Aince
Trials of Mrs. Charles Doty in a Harrowing Rescue
The narrative recounts the perilous journey of Mrs. Doty and her two children from a frigid cabin. They endure hunger and exposure, cannibal-like desperation, and the freezing cold as they are aided by neighbors and a rescuer who carries them to safety at Joe Guyette’s ranch on upper La Barge. Their rescue occurs after a grueling trek in blizzard conditions.
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Kemmerer
Frank
Reader
Willows
Mr. Guyette
la Barge
J. Twichel
Mr. Twichel
Clark Catlin
Mr. Twitchel
Nettie
Joe Guyette
Upper LaBarge
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Ladies’ Circle
Ladies Guild OF Episcopal Church
Budd Hall
Big Piney
L. E. Bennett
Clifton
Cash Grocery
Outside OF
Sam
Navassa Island
No Man's Land
Charles Doty
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