Concord Summer School Sees High Enrollment and Activities
A report from Concord college highlights a busy summer program with an impromptu literary program, Parent Teacher Week plans, 4-H club activities, a tea for faculty, and visits by Eastern Star officials. Enrollment reaches 687 with classes expanding. new teachers join the training school and extended programs include Chautauqua shows and a large training slate.
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the Wey
Phyllis Mitchell
Dixie
Rachel Myers
Pearl McNew
Margaret Mitchell
Donald McGinnis
Bill Bailey
Concord
Parent-Teacher Association
Marrs
Texas
J. T. Dawson
Lida Davis
Ruth Redd
Richmond Normal School
Misa Pearl Fankhauser
Miss Redd
State Department of Schools
Ladies of Summer School
Hhennels
Pearl Fankhauser
Tierney
Teachers College
Columbia University
Willa Leonard
Columbia Coventy
Grose
Welch
George West Diehl
State Board of Education
E. M. Cooley
Berwind
Concord College
Richmond Law School Evening and Day Classes Notice
The T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond offers morning and evening divisions. Two years of college work required for degree entrance. age twenty or older with less preparation may matriculate as special students. Evening students may earn part of their expenses. For catalogue write James H. Barnett Jr., 601 N Lombardy St., Richmond Va. F W Boatwright, President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Williams School of Law
University of Richmond
James H. Barnett, Jr
Lombardy St
Richmond
FUR TRADERS OF NORTH WIN BATTLE WITH WINTER
Edmonton reports Jack Hornby relayed word of Malcolm and Allan Stewart and Capt. Critchell Bullock who expeditioned to MacKenzie to buy furs and explore. They endured a winter living in a ground hole due to high winds with fish under ice and caribou hunted beyond the Barrens for sustenance as fuel was hauled thirty miles to the outpost.
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Edmonton
Alta
Jack Hornby
Malcolm
Allan Stewart
Critchell Bullock
MacKenzie
Northwest Territories
Canada
Barrens
Hudson
Canary History: Wild Birds Brought to Europe in the Sixteenth Century
In the wild, canaries were green with louder voices than the domestic variety. They were first brought to Europe in the sixteenth century, marking the beginning of their known history outside their native habitat.
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Europe
Nose Cut in Eternal Triangle Case at Glacier Park
Glacier Park Montana June 27 The old practice of cutting noses in tribal punishment for romantic entanglements is recounted. Rosie Ground the last surviving woman to suffer such a sentence lives on the reservation and remains silent about the case. The story notes the man faced punishment and the tribe’s code faded as elders died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glacier Park
Mont
Glacer National Park
Rosie Ground
English Educators Long for American Generosity
Oxford, June 27. English colleges face slow starve of women’s education due to limited philanthropy. Government grants amount to twenty thousand dollars a year for ten years, but expansion remains hampered. Efforts to raise funds have yielded little, leaving long wait lists for women desiring Oxford university study.
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Oxford, Eng
England
Oxford
University College
New Paint Disease Among Watch Dial Girls
A new serious disease affecting facial and jaw bones has appeared among factory girls who paint watch dials with luminous radium paint. It is believed to result from licking the paint brush used in the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Troutman Seeks Bluefield City Office Voted July 7
Thoughtful Voter urges support for Geo. W. Troutman veteran public servant from Knoxville who has eight years on the council and six on the board of directors. A labor representative with long municipal service he champions modern fire equipment and urban advancement.
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Geo. W. Troutman
Bluefield
Troutman
South Bluefield
Big City
Labor
Board of Affairs
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Athens and Concord College
W. H Roberts
Marian Brock
S. W. Moore
George West Diel
Eastern Star
Ing
Miss Curtis
Progr
Clay Moon
Fred Cardin
N. Hoytman
Iss Inez Leach
Lara Burch
Uriah Vermillion
Vermillion
California
George Lamereaux
Mary
Catherine
Lamoreaux
Lida Oxley
Athens
Robert Oxley
LAW School
F. W. Boatwright
Ory
Bluefield Ticket
W. J. Cole
Lutheran Church
C. I. Cheyney
Christian Church
Bernard McClaugherty
Presbyterian Church
W. C. Warlick
Methodist Church
G. W. Troutman
Baptist Church
ONE Thousand
Board of Directors
Mr. Troutman
Knoxville
Tenn
Norfolk and Western
Pocahontas
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
the Elks
Masonic
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