School Commission Holds Meeting Here on Curriculum
The Frederick County Farmers Association commission appointed to revise the public school curriculum met at the X MI C A, electing C. W. Hoffman and Miss Margaret Cronenburg as secretary. A follow up meeting is planned next Saturday at 1 30 with hopes to host State Superintendent Albert B Cook. four members attended along with several visitors. Debates centered on funding equity, rural vs high school spending, and calls to improve rural schools while expanding grade work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Grove
Frederick County Farmers’ Association
Matt
C. W. Hoffman
Mt. Pleasant
Margaret Cronenburg
Jame Kiln
Albert B. Cook
Hoffman
Cronenburg
J. W. Grove
W. K. Kilngaman
Frederick High School
Offic
Prat. Kungaman
Umield
Grove
Miss Cronenburg
Lewis F. Kefanver
John D. Nicodemus
Walkersville
William T. Morseli
Ballenger
Deer Park Hotel Sold to East-Midwest Operator
The Deer Park Totel in Deer Park Garrett county has been sold by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Henry Duncan an hotel operator. He plans a 660000 remodel and modernization of the site and the addition of a modern resort hotel. Duncan already owns multiple properties including Hotel Continental New York City Water Tampton Albany and Hotel Rialto Providence plus several others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Park
Garrett County
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Henry
Duncan
East
Middle West
Continental
Broadway
Forty-first Street
New York
Wilwood Manor
Wildwood
N. J
Water Tampton
Albany
Woman Hangs Self in Carroll County Farm Scene
The body of 56 year old Mrs. Mary R Hann was found Thursday night by her brother Wham Slear ey at his Brummell area farm in Carroll County. Westminster police magistrate R. E. Lee Hutchins, acting as coroner, deemed no inquest necessary and issued a death certificate stating suicide. Mrs. Hann, widow of farmer Jesse Hann who died 15 to 20 years ago, had lived with her brother as house keeper and left no survivors beyond him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary R Hann
Wham Slearey
Brummell
Carroll County
R. E. Lee Hutchins
Westminster
City Opera House Theatre Lineup This Week
Today and tomorrow Norma Salmadge stars in The Song of Love at the City Opera House. Wednesday and Thursday Kenneth Harlan leads The Virginian. Friday Fox presents No Mother to Guide Her with Herbert Rawlinson in Stolen Secrets. Saturday Ruth Roland appears in Waunted Valley at the Empire alongside Neal Hart in The Secret of the Pueblo tomorrow. Thursday Selznick offers Change for Divorce and Leo Maloney in King Creek Law. Fashionable Fakirs and Father Review screen here today. An Anadarko high school study shows girls with flap hair outperform peers by six percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Opera House
Norma Salmadge
Kenneth Harlan
the Virginian
Fox
Herbert Rawlinson
Ruth Roland
the Empire
Neal Hart
Empire Theatre
Selznick
Cange
Leo Maloney
Maryland Rural Schools Fall Low Report
State tests in reading meaning and arithmetic show rural Maryland schools about a half year below standard in grade levels. Albert C. Cook, State Superintendent, announced improvement trends and projected standard by May with reading showing strong progress in graded schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert 8. Cook
Cook
Maryland
Three Factors Behind Seventh-Grade Reading Progress
Present results show seventh graders near the seventh grade standard with May goals to reach full reading ability. Factors include more trained teachers, county supervisors directing follow-up, and an equalization fund aiding poorer counties with teachers and arithmetic materials. Stanford Achievement tests covered grades two through seven with about 5,000 pupils tested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citea
Equalization Fond
Cook
Stanford
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School Commission
DR. Cook
Ghana
Mra
Hann
Gorn
People’s Drug Stores, Inc
Co-Operative Drug Store
Williamson’s Drug Store
Parsons
Druggsts
U.S
Greenawalt
Greenawalt’s
Theatre News
Anadarko, Okla
Anadarko High School
Wrigley's
Wrigley’s
THE
Frederick County National Bank
North Market ST
Maryland Theatre
W. L. C. Fisher
Johnnie Walker
Mildred June
PATHE
Pete Morrison
Robert E. Clapp
Hutzler
Brothers
Baltimore
Francis Scott Key
Quaker City
North Market Street
Ohio
Milton J. Dance
Towson, Md
Towson
Central Trust Company
Frederick
U. S
Total
State of Maryland
County of Frederick
SS. I
George T. Baumgardner
Grover L. Michael
Charles McC. Mathias, R. J. Ross
T. B. Johnson
Choice Onion
Rose
Green Mountains
Allen G. Quynn & Co
Georges
GEO
Rodock & Son
South Carroll St
Malone
M. Malone
Frederick, Maryland
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