Beckley Schools Report Splendid Education Week Progress
P P Claxton and authorities praise Beckley public schools for a strong educational drive. Posters displayed in town shops, class programs, a Lyric Theatre show, and a parents meeting highlighted the effort. A library drive netted 214, the high school earned First Class rating, and new equipment expands home economics and commercial departments as enrollment exceeds 900.
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P. P. Claxton
Beckley Public Schools
Lyric Theatre
Katharine Cocke
Red Cross
Beckley
Peters
State Department of Education
Beckley High School
Institute
Iroquois Indian Boys Club Formed
A boys ages eleven to fifteen club directed by D. R. Fay of St. Stephen's Episcopal church formed the Iroquois Indian. Charter members include Homer Riffe president James Binns vice president Patrick Binns John Lilly John Henry Davis Earl Meadows Thomas Gatherum Moss Williams. Fourteen boys joined a full day hike last Saturday and meetings will be held weekly.
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D. R. Fay
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Homer Riffe
James Binns
Patrick Binns
John Lilly
John Henry Davis
Earl Meadows
Thomas Gatherum
Moss Williams
Rolla
Harold
Carl Williams
Vernon Robertson
Carl Hutchinson
Robert
Peraldo
Statewide Debate Contest Planned Across the State
A statewide contest in debate essay extemporaneous speech and oration will be held this spring via a cooperative effort of the state university and first class high schools. District contests may be at Wheeling Sutton Elkins Parkersburg Fairmont Keyser Bluefield Clarksburg Charleston. Winners advance to Morgantown for the final on April 16. About seventy five schools expected to compete.
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Wheeling
Sutton
Elkins
Parkersburg
Fairmont
Keyser
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Charleston
Morgantown
West Virginia National Guard Accepts New Allotment
Governor Cornwell announced that West Virginia has accepted the new national guard allotment under the National Defense Act amendments passed last June. The state will begin with 1,600 men as of June 30, 1921, rising yearly to a 6,400 permanent total by June 30, 1924, within the fifth army corps area led by Ohio Indiana and Kentucky, with headquarters in Indianapolis. West Virginia currently has no guard organization after demobilization.
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Wet Virginia
Cornwell
Naional Guard
Waw Department
National Defense Act
Thetate
West Virinia National Guard
West Virginia
Fifth Army Corps
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Indianapolis
Thermometers Age and Inaccuracy Explain Reading Shifts
Scientific American explains that mercury thermometers drift high as the bulb shrinks from external pressure and seals. Spirit thermometers drift low as internal pressure decreases from glass expansion or leakage, locking air inside with freezing mixture.
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Scientific American
Notable etymology of the duck name discussed
The work by Willoughby links the duck name to feeding on scaup or broken shellfish, while authorities suggest the term derives from mussel scaups or mussel scalps, beds where mussels cluster. The scrip duck species in the Americas bears many local names such as broadbill bluebill blackhead black neck raft-duck mussel-duck greenhead graxback flock-duck and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willoughby
Americas
Two New U S Treasury Savings Securities Planned for 1921
The Treasury will issue a $1 Treasury Savings Stamp and a $25 Treasury Savings Certificate in 1921. These non-interest bearing and redeemable securities, bearing Hamilton and aligned with existing War Savings and Thrift stamps, aim to broaden small-investor participation and strengthen wartime savings habits.
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Government Savings
Treasury Savings Movement
Treasury Savings
Houston
Alexander Hamilton
the Treasury
American Federation of Labor
United States
Wer
Lincoln
Buy Liberty Bonds in installments through War Savings Stamps
Encouragegy to ask employer or banker to sell Liberty Bonds on installments and use War Savings Stamps to save toward a $50 bond. Highlights taking advantage of current market prices and building a saving plan for war bonds.
Buy Liberty Bonds At Market Prices For Safe Profit
Investors are urged to purchase Liberty Bonds at current market prices and hold to maturity. The national wealth and credit are pledged to redeem them at par, ensuring guaranteed return.
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Oanly
W. VA
National Guard
Miles C. McAhill
Miles C. McCahill
Secret Service
Warren G. Harding
the Beckley Drug Co
U. S. Treasury
Treasury Savings Securities
Treasury
Savings Division
Washington
Federal Reserve
Ehedeavors
Richmond
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Oe Hoover
Raleigh Hardware Co
W. Wa
Jersey
Silk
Kimonas
Main
Beckley, West Va
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