Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Mid 1920s Issue of "The Garfield School News", Skowhegan, Maine


Mid 1920s era school publication entitled "The Garfield News", Number 3, Last Issue, Price 5 cents, published by the 6th grade of the Garfield School at Skowhegan, Maine.  This copy belonged to student Grace Parkman.

Grace Elizabeth Parkman was born January 31, 1917 at Skowhegan, Maine, the daughter of Frederick and Iva May (Rowe) Parkman.

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Names on the facing pages above
Marston Blunt, Editor-in-Chief
Richard Plummer, Assistant Editor
Blunt Hardware
Mr. Harris
Jerry Cole
Sampson's Drug Store



Mrs. Della Sanford, Principal, 6th Grade
Joe VilesFavian Lashon
Norman LashonCorinne Roderick
Mahlon BonninLeon Brown
Elthea HodgdonBert Stain
Ruth CayfordGuy Ready
Glendon TurnerMarston Blunt
Elsie SmithIrene Demo
Virginia ThomasClifford Clyde
Robert PrattGeorge Fish
Peter GreenwoodElizabeth Swett
Bertha DayBernard Hobart
Marie CayouetteMahlon Dane
Kenneth AdamsRobert Whittermore
Howard WestonHenrietta Roderick
Ralph SitesIrene Cyr
Veronica FlynnTheophille Laney
Lyle MoorePhilip Hoyt
Phyllis HoytCharles Lamb
Phyllis Clark
Miss Ruby Lathe, 5th and 6th Grades
Marguerite WhittermoreDoris Pride
Janette BeaufordErnest Kelley
Champ GouldNellie Waye
Omer BlanchetteRuth Karnes
Parker KeyesRena MacLean
Lawrence NewellFred Corson
Daniel CaouetteEthel Craig
Calla GoodrichMarshall Easler
Louise WeeksMary Leavitt
Albert GeoffrionCarlton Bosworth
Marie DeRocherGlema Daggett
Frank LipmanLloyd Edwards
Emily WestonEvelyn Thomas
Edith ThomasMalcolm Harris
Kirby HightKenneth Whittermore
Richard HealyBertha Turner
Althea CorsonCharlie Ells
Roland BeaufordMargaret Page
Everett BuxtonMarguerite Robertson
Ruth MooreMaxine Shute
Mrs. True Ellis, 4th and 5th Grades
Bernell PerkinsDesma Russell
Edgar RoderickStanley Quinn
Mamie GreeneDonald Steward
Sherwood HunterPauline Stevens
Grace ParkmanAudrey Henderson
Emile RoyThomas Graffte
Hilmon KarnesNellie Dunton
Edmond LaneyPhilip Whittermore
William McManusVirgie Sites
Leslie GreeneMarie Stevens
Philip RoderickMarguerite Dill
Thelma WoodsomeEloise Hutchinson
Louis LaneyCatherine Greenleaf
Victor LessardMarion Scott
Norman PerkinsDonald MacLean
Florence MarrMarion Magoon
Gilbert GreenwoodGlendora Flynn
Elizabeth MerrillCarlyle Reed
Milan TurnerSidney Lipman
Robert Wentworth
Miss Helen Wolcott, 4th Grade
Clyde LibbyFlavilla Crocker
Elinor YoungRuth Lockwood
Lillian CowetteMadeline Day
Nelson WestonJames Stinchfield
Everett WilburWillard Chadbourne
Eva WentworthGladys Whitman
Gerald BurnsFrances Risteen
Louise PrattRosalie Vallerie
Walter BouletteLucille Clark
Jennie LibbyLawrence St. Peter
Waldron KennisonDavid Conant
Junior BluntCarlton Leo
Clyde WashburnAndrew Croce
Pauline AkleyLillian Fish
Arline CurtisFred McLaughlin
Virgil PrattVirginia Dillon
Farrare FosterCarlton Marcou
Vera Craig

On the right facing page of the lower image above:

Richard Plummer
Maxine Shute
Miss Lathe
Mrs. Ellis
Miss Wolcott


Skowhegan Small Job Press
Marston Blunt
George & Harry Smith
Skowhegan Savings Bank

Wentworth & Plummer
C. W. Day

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