Christmas at Hopewell School Brightens Winter Term
Hopewell School reports two weeks of Christmas vacation and a long program with Santa and Mrs Santa. Students earned perfect attendance honors, prepared declamatory pieces, geography booklets, and posters. Activities included presenting papers, selling Christmas seats, and a class contest with a March party for the winning side. Measurements note several students excelling in tests and spelling contests while teachers received classroom decor donations.
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Hopewell
Lenore Crawford
Hopewell School
Santa Claus
Santa
Kenneth Tepper
Junior Aller
Marjorie Chambers
Hope
Betty Cady
Joan Gerdes
Margaret Lemley
Mabel Lemely
Thomas Gerdes
School notes honor roll and awards at Dutch Creek Center
The notes from Twila Mangold, Lucille Robert son, and Marion Hotle show students returning after Christmas with weeklong break. Semester tests were easier than expected and most did well. Honor roll includes Retha Robertson Lucille Robertson and John Reighard with A or B grades. Honorable mention goes to Arlene Robertson Twila Mangold Junior Marian Hotle and John Hesseltine with no grade below C. Gold stars for spelling awarded to Arlene Twilla Retha Robertson Twila Mangold Victor Mayer and John Reigbard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Retha
Arlene
Lucille Robertson
Twila Mangold
Victor Mayer
Jesus
Marian
Twila
Lucille
Wanda Hotle
Paul Reighard
Blanche Ginkens
Marion Hotle
John Reighard
Arlene Robertson
Junior
Marian Hotle
John Hesseltine
Arlene Twilla
Retha Robertson
John Reigbard
Jackson Township School Notes Semester End Reflections
Ruth Gideon reports Jackson Township Grand Prairie School students wrapped up the first semester with a Christmas program that went well though Santa was delayed by mud. Several eighth and seventh graders prepare for tests at Living Lake on February 4. multiple students earned perfect or high attendance and top averages. Names include Walter Sojka Lorene Sojka Archie Horak Vince Sojka Mary Cherwinker Hazel Sojka Nellie Horak Elmer Sojka and others.
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Ruth Gideon
Santa
Melo Horak
Mae Sojka
Highland Center
Living Lake
Walter Sojka
Lorene Sojka
Wesley Ramsey
Vince Sojka
Archie Horak
Dale Sojk
Mary Cherwinker
Nellie Horak
Elmer Sojka
Hazel Sojka
Betty Sojka
Marie Sojka
Eldiene Sojka
Archir Horak
Alvin Sojka
Grace Boshart Class Visitors And December Activities
Grace Boshart notes six week visits from Mrs Pal mer Delores Shalla Mrs Ray Sojka Rosmond Frances and Lavilla Sojka Robert Perrin Mrs Melvin Shebeck and baby. December tests measured class performance while students decorated windows with candy canes belly wreaths and a red crepe backed border.
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Grace Boshart
Palmer
Delores Shalla
Ray Sojka
Rosmond
Frances
Lavilla Sojka
Robert Perrin
Melvin Shebeck
School Report on Holiday Program and Activities
Kathleen Morgan reports a successful Friday night program on December 23 with a large crowd. The group sold wine? ers buns pie and coffee and secured funds for oil cloth while covering expenses. Illness kept many home except Jack Wolcott Phyllis Pringle and Junior Farrier. Exams ended last week and declamatory readings begin. Isabelle Ash Joyce Robinson and Miriam Stannard will attend township spelling contest while Roger Stannard Eloise Ash and Raymond Dickison advance in smaller group. Hot lunches continue with added vegetable soup. written by Miriam Stannard sixth grade.
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Kathleen Morgan
Soe
Jack Wolcott
Phyllis Pringle
Junior Farrier
Isabelle Ash
Joyce Robinson
Miriam Stannard
Roger Stannard
Eloise Ash
Raymond Dickison
New Haven School Notes Highlight Classroom Achievements
Nellie Wiley reports on Dutch Creek Township New Haven School activities. Students earned prizes for a freehand cutting book, joined the junior Red Cross, and celebrated a Christmas dinner with recitations, songs, and a two act play The Red Scarf. Teachers Norma Johnson Ireta Smith and Dale Smith lead lessons and contests.
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Nellie Wiley
Norma Johnson
Ireta Smith
Dale Smith
Smith
Daryl Dunbar
Margaret R. Applegate Teacher Turnover Noted
Our third six weeks ends January 6 and nearly everyone had the full attendance for this period.
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Margaret R. Applegate
Doctor Wolfe Joins Navestock Practice Amid Local Tensions
Young Dr. John Wolfe arrives to assist Dr. Montage Threadgold in Navestock. His keen, forward bearing clashes with Threadgold s affable indifference as he witnesses bungling care of the poor. A dramatic street scene at Bread Street bridge ends with a charge toward frightened children.
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John Wolfe
Navestock
Montage Threadgold
Dr. Threadgold
Wolfe
Sir George Griggs
Dr Threadgold
Threadgold
Joshua Kermody
Sam
Bread Street
Taurus
Veany Wolfe
London
Master Tommy Braces Wolf In Broad Street Encounter
In Broad Street Wolfe confronts a dandy boy on a pony, Master Tommy Brandon, who menaces a servant girl and splashes her dress. Wolfe halts the pony and chides him, calling him a cub and hinting at future discipline as Sam leads to Paradise Place near Bread Street.
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Liberty
Wolfe
Mannikin
Tommy
Aubrey Brandon
Cub
Master Brandon
Brandon
Bread Street
Navestock
Peachy Hill
Josiah Crabbe
Sam
Paradise Place
Sam Jedon
Mr. Brandon
Miller Hansel
Paradise
Mulberry Green
Mr. Crabbe
School Notes On Absences Library And Tests
Cleone Caldwell reports no absences this six weeks and mentions a new library and a sand table in place of the old one. The class forms quietest-sides contest during school time and lists signed dental cards and top spellers including Alice Finke Kathleen Anderson Martha Turhipseed Maxine Jarrard Virginia Wiley and William Finke with Gerald Anderson and William Finke.
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Cleone Caldwell
Folke
Alice Finke
Kathleen Anderson
Martha Turhipseed
Maxine Jarrard
Virginia Wiley
William Finke
Gerald Anderson
Washington trip notes and local family updates
Cathryne Caldwell and several neighbors plus Mr and Mrs Eddie Gretter with Nadine visited Washington on Friday. Mrs Florence Smith seeks eye treatment while Marvin Summitt and Shaffer visits occurred. Birney Gretter butchered Monday and various callers plus visits to Hendersons Powells and Romines are listed.
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Eddie Gretter
Nadine
Florence Smith
Washington
Smith
Marvin Summitt
Wm. Shaffer
Birney Gretter
Stanleigh Hendersons
Darlene Powell
Leo Graff
Henry Henderson
Sam and
Cora
William Henry Henderson
Arthur Romines
School spelling winners and perfect record noted
Esther Swift Arlys Myers William Maas and Marjorie Benson were present for a spelling contest. Upper grade pupils include Wayne Arnold Helen Myers and Robert Benson while lower grades include George Swift William Maas and Arlys Myers. Arlys Myers has a perfect six week spelling record. A Christmas program was held by Robert Benson.
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Esther Swift
Arlys Myers
William Maas
Marjorie Benson
Wayne Arnold
Helen Myers
Robert Benson
George Swift
Quiet Doctor Wolfe Probes Navestock’s Hidden Plight
In Navestock, young Dr Wolfe quietly investigates conditions in the poorer quarters, uncovering bungling care and the social web around Dr Threadgold’s Prosper House. Wolfe maps the town, revises treatment, and wins wary respect as he challenges rigid hierarchies.
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