City Schools Report for Tolinson City Enrollments and Reforms
A city schools report for the quarter ending November 11, 1904 notes enrollment gains over last year, with Science Hill Martha Wilder Columbus Powell Langston schools totaling about 100 more pupils. It details new departmental teaching in Science Hill High, praising improved discipline and teacher professionalism, and highlights new rooms at Columbus Powell as well as maintenance needs for fences, outhouses, and interior woodwork.
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Science Hill
Martha Wilder
Columbus Powell
Langston School
Ponce
Miss Simpson
Misa King
Miss Reeves
Tolinson City
Martha Washington
Martha Willer
Columbus Pow
Ujlitey
Addressing Room Condition and Aesthetic Improvement
The note urges improvement of classrooms by varnishing or painting to remove knife marks on dressed floors and enhance daily surroundings for pupils. It stresses the need to please the eye and foster a love for beauty, hoping for early action.
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Bayjoy
Local school fundraising and clock purchases reported
Mr Gy Lyle of The Comet notes efforts to raise funds by popular subscription for school improvements including telephones for offices. Donations from public patrons have funded twelve clocks with more to come, aiding classroom convenience. Students donated on Thanksgiving for the poor, while Supt J. K. Lowey commends the noble act and calls for continued public support. A medical note then appears about deafness, citing constitutional remedies and ear inflammation.
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Gy Lyle
The
Comet
Puble
J. K. Lowey
Knoxville Sentinel Offers Free Draughon’s Scholarship
The Knoxville Sentinel invites county youths to apply for a unlimited Draughon’s college scholarship valued at 50 plus six months board and clothing totaling 828. The offer aims to provide a free business education to ambitious youths with few applicants so far. Write The Sentinel Knoxville for fall details.
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Knoxville Sentinel
Draughon
Sentinel
The
Knoxville
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