Coronado High School Picks H. Y. Clark as Principal
Board in Grat ton Independent district selects H Y Clark Randolph County West Virginia educator with degrees from West Virginia Wesleyan College and Columbia University to lead Graf ton High School. He has taught rural village and city schools and aims to strengthen high school administration while praised by colleagues and district officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithfield
Clark
Ithfield
Pairmont
Gome
Board of Education
Columbia Universlly
de Bige
West Virginia
Weseyan College
Columbia University
Rober Wk
Department of Schools
Grafton Independent District
Piggott
Hopelessly Crippled She Wins Fame
Hazel Hall, confined by lifelong disability, becomes a noted poet and needleworker. Her poems win national prizes, including the Leonora Speyer prize, and her book Curtains gains acclaim. Modern critic William Stanley Braithwaite praises her resilience and artistry as her second collection readies for publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Streta
Gil
Hazel Mall
Leonora Speyer
William Stanley Brathwaite
Boson
Miss Hall
Misa Hall
Pensions and Legal Echoes From Early 20th Century Debates
The article surveys long term pension costs under the Donus bill with estimates up to 4.5 billion dollars and yearly outlays around 370 million in 1926, comparing Civil War and Revolutionary War pensions, Indian wars, Mexican and other conflicts. It also includes a brief, dramatic English court anecdote about marriage and virtue and stray remarks on early domestic life.
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The
Republic
County Clerk’s Office a Busy Place Last Week
County Clerk Frank Bennett complains of excessive hunting license demand in Taylor County. He notes the workload overflow, plans for extra staff or a license machine next year, and mentions assistants Mary Goley and Rena Primm handling wills and deeds amid the license surge. Also reports a marriage announced in Parkersburg and a Cincinnati move. Albert Batson of Pruntytown was in town for business.
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Taylor County
Frank Bennett
Bennett
Court House
Mary Goley
Rena Primm
Adouy
Yn Pp
J. W. Sayre
Henry
K. White
J. W. Leith
William Margarine
C. Y. Miller
Rowlesburg
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Frank Hollis, Jr
Hendrickson-Anvil
Charles Cownall
Wheeling
Edna McCue
Cameron
Moundsville
J. T. Garlits
Kingwood
G. E. Larlow
J. B. Rifles
McGee
James Cornwell
Valley District
Barbour County
Grafton
C. Kinsey
Simpson
L. W. Weller
Mary Lake
Brydon
Charlex Coombs
Mt. Pleasant
B. Roach
Webster
Dr. Fortney
Newbury
Ethel Belle
Mabl Roselle Williams
Blueville
Beverly
Amos Powell
Dsburg
Cumberta
Mia
Charles le
Arden
William Eenan
Thomas
Wages Demanded for Office Employees and Clerical Support
The proposal urges granting higher wages to office workers or at least providing an additional typist and clerk to assist them. It frames the matter as a labor relief measure and seeks immediate financial relief for public service staff.
Judges Named In Firestone Roads Contest
Washington Sep 4 Judges appointed to award the four years university scholarship in the national good roads essay contest were announced by the Highway Education Board. The panel includes Henry Wallace George Horace Lorimer and Dr John Grier Hibben with Dr Tigert as chairman. The prize funds tuition and expenses valued at not less than 4900 to attend any US college.
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Washington, D. C
Highway Education Board
Henry ©. Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
George Horace Lorimer
Saturday Evening Post
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
John J. Tigert
United States Commissioner of Education
District of Columbia
Canal Zone
Philippines
Torta Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
State Department of Education
H. §. Firestone
Akron
Ohio
United States
Wallace
Geo.Horace Lorimer
Hibden
New England
Middle Atlantic
Maine
Lowell Palmer
Dexter
New Hampshire
Helen Stevens
Nashua
Vermont
Dorothy G. Baxter
St. Johnsbury
Massachusetts
Marion Mullaney
Lowell
Connecticut
Lewis Lloyd Camp
Winsted
Rhode Island
Caroline G. Gardiner
Providence
New York
Harold C. Beach
Dundee
Pennsylvania
Louis W. Ingram
Heaver Falls
New Jersey
Dora Carp
Clarksburg
Delaware
T. Malcolm
Jones
Newark
Maryland
Chas
Max Ways
Baltimore
West Virginia
Wilson Anderson
Welch
Virginia
Mildred A. Towles
Reedsville
Karl G. Pearson
Elks Plan Patriotic School Camp and Flag History
A 1921 Parkersburg Elks gathering backs a West Virginia Elks Association plan to publish and distribute a short history of the American flag. Judge Rummel authored the piece, to be shared through West Virginia schools with lodges endorsing the effort.
Taylor County Levies In All The Districts
Taylor County reports tax levies across districts with purposes and totals including the newly incorporated Flemington. State Tax Commissioner Walter Hallanan verified all but one item the Court House district new buildings levy where 50 cents was changed to the legal limit of 20 cents. Grafton district levied 13 cents for this purpose.
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Spa County
Flemington
Walter 8. Hallanan
Couet House
Hallanan
Grafton
Court House
West Virginia Elks pledge united patriotic effort
The West Virginia Elks Association and sixteen lodges pledge united support for the Flag history project. With Captain Ford and Mr. Conley, the State Department of Schools will feature Judge Rummel's Elks History of the Flag in all fifty five counties and public schools to reach eleven thousand five hundred teachers and three hundred fifty thousand students. The drive aims to distribute copies to twenty thousand Elks members and broader statewide outreach to foster patriotism.
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Huntington Lodge
Pap
Mdiinoisville Lodge
Elka
Willam Ok
Parkersburg
State Association
Logan Lodge
West Virginia
Phil M. Conley
Charleston Lodge No. 202
Walter 8. Hallanin
Houton G
Young
Smallridge
Ro B. Timbers
Jesse Y. Sullivan
Charleston Lodg
Hallanan
Captain Ford
Mr. Conley
Elks Association
Judge Rummel
West Virginia Eleks Association
Teachers’ Institute
the Elks
America
Justice Clarke Resigns from Supreme Court Seat
Washington dispatch reports Associate Justice Clarke resigns with President Harding accepting and intends to nominate former Senator George H. Sutherland of Utah to fill the vacancy. Clarke cites retirement at 65 to align with his philosophy while wishing to serve neighbors and public causes.
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Harding
U. S
George H. Sutherland
Washington
Clarke
White House
Ina
United States
Utah
Supreme Court
Clark
Senate
Aipreaie
Charles B. Hughes
Thle Me
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Coronado
H. W. Piggott
Randolph County
John W. Davis
United States Supreme Court
United Mine Workers of America
District
Lower Cour
United Mire Workers of Ameren
National Union of the Suited
District 21
United, Mine Workers
Islue
Tohse
United Mine Workers
Phillip J. Sinnott
Portland
Ore
Flazel Hall
Hazel Hall
Sir Nis Jenune
Fels
Evar
Eagle“Mikado
Eagle Mikado Eagle Pencil Company
County Clerk’s Office
Paul Festus Daggett
Nellie Mae Wandings
Daggett
Romeine
Degeett
Iekersburg
Dani Fel Windings
Maude Cross
Parkersburg High School
Cincinnati
Busine
Albert Batson
Pruntytown
Sa A
Elks Lodge
Orkr
Pharleston Lodge No. 202
Ellis
HD. Rumm 4
West Virginia Elks Association
Rummel
Ord
Parkerburg
James A. Dyson
West
Jay Reefer
West Virginia Association
Kemp Morton
Charleston Lodge 2
West Vir
P Lynch Jones
Grand Exalted
Anl
M B. Rahcraft
Fairmont Lodge
Grand Exalte
Arch Sandy
Fairmont
Walter B. Wilson
C. R Williams
Clarksburg Lodge
Ona Jeffreys Warty Friedman
West Virgin
Wst
Wikipo
Manningto
Elkins Lodge
Mannington Lodge
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Wst Virginia
Grafton Lodge
Hinton Lodge
Martinaby Kare
Samuel Tucker
Booths Creek
S. C. Nestor
Moatsville
Guy Brown
Cleveland
Dorsey Coley
Pleasant Creek
Rosemont
J. W. Turner
Hardman
Charles Yates
C. C. Redinger
Ly Wagner
Wilfora Street
C.P. Albright
Sarah Gordon
Wickwire
Margaret Weaver
Keyser
Lorena
Maurita
Alice Keegan
W. B. Stuck
Rev
B. B. Lambert
Grayson, Ky
Rachel Lambert
Anvil
W. Va
L. W. Burns
Charleston
State Board of Education
Burns
Frances Bunner
George Lucis
Frederick Warder
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Beatrice Shaw
Cty
B. L. Headlougher
Barret Street
Barbara Lou
Headlougher
Virginia Leasure
Toledo
L. E. Boggess
Agt
Guffey Street
Justice Clarke
A. Tn Woaledtt
John Weaver
Haytond
Stover’ Mahitrey
Patter‘man District
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