Society Sends Epworth League Treasure Hunt Through Town
The Epworth League at Broad Street Church organized a treasure hunt last evening for over forty members. Starting at 7:80 they traced clues from the Lutheran church to Lincoln School and other landmarks ending at Mrs. Dobyns on Watauga street where refreshments and games followed. The right side won a box of chocolates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth
Ehuych
Martin Luther
Lutheran Church
W. J. Hunter
Watluga Street
Lincoln
Gettysbore
Lincoln School
Country Club
Bristol Highway
Mrs. Dobyns
Watauga Street
Adventure Poem Sparks Daydreams Amid Window View
A fragmentary piece by Harold Willard Gleason opens with a desk by a window watching ferry boats and tugs while visions of blue seas and moonlit bays drift through the narrator’s mind. Community notices follow detailing meetings, dances, and club events including the C E S Club, Book Club postponement, Kingsport Cotillion, and Central PTA affairs with dates and hosts.
Visitors from nearby cities plus a birth and a hospital transfer
Local notes record visits by Mr R from Greeneville and Mr Summers from Johnson City, plus Mr Reed and Mr Brooks from Knoxville attending business here yesterday. A baby girl nine pounds? eight and a half pounds born to Mr and Mrs Woody on Sullivan Street. Fred Clyce moved from Riverview Hospital to Sevier Terrace after football injury. A Ada Bessie Swann calls claims of women neglecting home life bosh and notes homemaking as enduring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Brooks
Knoxville
N. M. Brown
Johnson City
Fred Clyce
Riverview Hospital
Sevier Terrace
Fred
Associated
Preas
Atlantic City
Ada Bessie Swann
Home Service
American Gas Association
Dawes Visits Newark With Own Baggage Pipe In Hand
Vice President Dawes arrived in Newark and carried his own grip. Police escort guided him to a Montclair home, then to an Elks Club dinner where he smoked his briar pipe. He reviewed the 114th New Jersey infantry amid flashbulbs and Boy Scout salutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Prasa New York
Dawes
Newark
Charles A-Hanna
Rockledge Road
Montclair
N. J
Elks Club
Elizabeth
National Guard
Mr. Dawes
Walter I. Edge
John Kenah
C. Edward Murray
Sidney A. Gilman
Winfield Scott Price
David Hill
York
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts Seek 800 Leaders for Expanded Program
The Associated Press reports the Boy Scouts of America will need at least 800 executives and assistant executives to run 606 first class councils. A training series begins October 24 with Teachers College at Columbia, restricted to qualified men. About 300,000 boys attended camps this summer and membership rose by over 100,000 to 939,000. The Lone Scout division totals 91,593, with 160,000 volunteers and fewer than 1,000 professional staff. The system aims to stay volunteer driven, with paid leaders receiving specialized training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated
Frep New York
Boy Scouts of America
Teachers College
Columbia University
Wil
Scout Movement
Lone Scout
Boy Scout Movement
PUPILS TIME AND TAXPAYERS MONEY SAVED IN RURAL SCHOOLS
The Associated Press reports rural education in Logan County schools allowed ten pupils to complete two years of work in one year, saving 5313.78 in taxes. Mrs. Mary C. G. Bradford, state superintendent, notes similar savings statewide and cites measurement based testing to match urban methods in sparse districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prous
Denver
Logan
Mary C. G. Bradford
National Education Association
Bradford
Also Mentioned on This Page
Times Society
Harold Willard Gleason
C. E. S. Club
G. W. Taylor
Shelby Street
Book Club
Kingsport
Cotillion Club
Central P,t
R. B. Meredith
Nashville
Summers
P. V. Hogan
J. L. Shoun
Strand Theatre
Sel Lesser
Harold Ben
Jackie Coo
Mr. R
Fields of
Greeneville
P. Summers
A. R. Reed
C. E. Cate
City
A. J. Higgins
Norman Edwards
Blucieid, W. Va
A. A. Slusher
J. H. Long
Roanoke
the Times
Newark Escors
Telegraph Pole
East Tennessee
Floyd Collins
Kentucky
Times
East
Tennessee
Rennie Wagner
Sullivan
Hawkins County
The
Kingsport Times
J. H. Watkins
First National Bank
Dobyns-Taylor
Dobyns-Taylor Haw. Co
Broad Street
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