School Notes Show Best Month Yet At Monticello Schools
Monthly report praises attendance and punctuality with 3625 total students and 2052 perfect attendance. Twenty nine teachers had zero tardiness. Eleven teachers achieved 99 percent attendance. Five hundred seventeen home visits by teachers and 1042 by parents cited. Thanksgiving programs boosted participation. Victrola fundraisers at Towers and Monticello netted funds for equipment. School breaks set for December 22 to January 2. six-year-olds may enter first grade in early January.
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Aotes
Miss Drummitt
Mabel Paugh
Chapman
Harper
Righter
Dodge
Mabel Lee
Bowman
Miss Beer
Brown
Steel
Gordon
Muss. Allen
Towers School
Monticello
Clarksburg
Alta Vista
Carlile
Water Street
Weston Women To Be Santa On Christmas Day
Weston, Dec. 16 announces the Woman's Club will hold a 3 p.m. Christmas day meeting at the high school auditorium to treat poor children lacking Santa visits. They welcome stoney or discarded toys from homes with outgrown playthings. Contacts: president Mrs. Linn Brannon. Also notes Ross King bought the Railroad Co-Operative Store on Main Street, paving Alley from Center Ave to River Ave, and the traction company plans a new station with a sheltered entrance and waiting room.
Club Join Today Promotion and Weekly Increases
A fragmented notice outlines a weekly joining drive with stepwise payments and escalating weekly increases. It mentions 1st week price of 1 cent, 2nd week 2 cents, 3rd week 3 cents, and a total target of 50 with increases of 2 cents per week, though the fragmentary OCR obscures complete context and participants.
Large new station complex planned by local traction firm
The freight and express will be run through to a rear area with extensive quarters for a growing business. The facility suggests the traction company plans to branch out, justifying a complete station. The Bell Telephone Company will occupy a full floor, with offices on the other floor. Married at Cumberland Jacob Koblegard and Miss Louise Edwards wed in Cumberland Md last Saturday. They honeymoon in the East. Snow covers the city as temperatures dip to seven above zero Thursday morning. A nurse Miss Icie Hale returns home to Third Street after Baltimore training. Swisher family moves into DeBarr house on Broad Street from Chillicothe Ohio. Fitzgeralds move to Waynesville NC. Walter Taylor returns from Akron to take a job in the B and O freight office. Hi Henry buys Hatzel and Miller pressing outfit and moves to River Avenue room. A son born to Mr and Mrs George Wilkins. A dancing school opens in the Armory building on Center Avenue led by Miss Anne Boggess of Clarksburg with Monday lessons.
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Traction Company
Bell Telephone Company
Cumberland
Jacob Koblegard
A. Koblegard
Louise Edwards
J. H.J/Edwards
American youth in British army fights in France as law postures
Norman Bruce Wallis an 18 year old American from New Orleans enlisted as a private in the British army. After multiple efforts by his family and the American embassy to secure his return to the United States he remained in France with a Scottish regiment. A series of missteps led to his enlistment in another unit and later arrest for desertion, but official explanations averted punishment and he is now identified as Norman Macgregor Bruce with his unit in France.
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London
Norman Bruce Wallis
New Orleans
United States
France
America
Wallis
Norman Macgregor Bruce
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J. A. Jackson
Weston
Linn Brannon
Ross King
J. M. Foster
Second
Third Street
Center Avenue
River Avenue
Main Street
The
Fletcher’s
Sc Club
X Club Rok
Christus Bankinging Club
Ilavis
Chile
Tor
Empire National Bank
Main and
Fourth Streets
West Virginia
Baltimore
Icie Hale
North Carolina
Li i H. Fitzgerald
Broadstreet
Waynesville, N. C
Taylor
Walter Taylor
Akron
Baltimore and Ohio
Hi Henry
Hatzel and Miller
Riley
River’ Avenue
Citizens’ Bank
Finster
Stork
George Wilkins
Armory Building
Anne Boggess
Grapanola
Columbia
C. F. Zaruba’ & CO
Demoss
Latstetter
Loys
Waterman
Nusbaum’s
Christmas Money Club OF
Clarksburg Trust CO
Clarksburg Trust
Pike
Third Streets
Clarksburg, W. VA
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