Word: townships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustling copper-mining town high up on Michigan's northern "thumb," the year 1891 was a bad one for school-teaching. Three principals in a row were harried out of town by the unruly students. The clerk of Adams township asked for somebody who could use his two hands as well as the three Rs. He got a stocky, lyo-lb. college boxer named Frederick Albert Jeffers...
Last week Fred Jeffers, now grey, bespectacled and 76, was still keeping order in Adams township-as superintendent of schools. The principal of the high school in copper-mining Painesdale (pop. 1,270) is his wife, Cora Doolittle, 74. They have been married and fellow teachers for 51 years...
Progressive Education. In Raritan Township, N.J., the board of education ruled that, since smoking had become a generally accepted practice, the faculty of Oak Tree School might smoke between classes, in the boiler room...
Kitchen Commando. In Bloomfield township, Mich., a seemingly endless, six-inch-wide column of black ants streamed into the kitchen of Gunnar Turnquist, who fought them in vain with broom and spray gun, finally won out after blazing away for an hour and a half with a blowtorch...
Twoscore Parlier Township ranchers showed up for the trial. Before the trial started they talked with Justice of the Peace L. B. Crosby, 65. Mounting the bench, Justice Crosby said: "I guess we know how we feel about this. What shall we do?" He did not wait for an answer. He sentenced Multanen to six months in jail, promptly suspended sentence...