. Book of the Royal blue . has three up-to-date dailypapers—the State Journal, evening (Re-publican); the Sentinel, evening(Democratic); the Dispatch-News,morning (Republican). There are alsoa number of semi-weekly, weekly andmonthly publications. No city in the Ohio Valley in proportionto its population compares with Parkersburgin the beauty of its residences. Whilst ithas hundreds of handsome places surroundedby beautiful grounds, yet it is best known bythe fact that most of its citizens own theirown homes and they have so improved themas to make them ornaments to the city. Thecity has no sl
. Book of the Royal blue . has three up-to-date dailypapers—the State Journal, evening (Re-publican); the Sentinel, evening(Democratic); the Dispatch-News,morning (Republican). There are alsoa number of semi-weekly, weekly andmonthly publications. No city in the Ohio Valley in proportionto its population compares with Parkersburgin the beauty of its residences. Whilst ithas hundreds of handsome places surroundedby beautiful grounds, yet it is best known bythe fact that most of its citizens own theirown homes and they have so improved themas to make them ornaments to the city. Thecity has no slums. Wealth is not in thehands of a few, but is generally distributed. In brief, Parkersburg has schoolbuildings, ninety-five schoolrooms, sixteenprincipals and 104 teachers and special in-structors under the control of one superin-tendent. Prof. M. D. Morris, and a boardof education of five members. There are3,549 pupils enrolled in the grades belowthe high school and 425 in the high school. PARKERSBURG, W. BLENNEKHASSET CLUB Last year the average daily attendance forthe city system was 3,048. The Carnegie library is under the controlof the board of education and works alongwith the schools. More than 2,000 pupilsregularly patronize this library, which hasnearly 25,000 volumes and is the best-equipped and best-organized library in theState. The schools are carefully graded, thecorps of teachers one of the most efficientto be found in any city of its size in theUnited States, and the equipment city schools rank very high for effi-ciency and are the best in the State. The high school at present has twocourses of study, each of four years, theliterary or academic and the faculty consists of fourteen members,each college bred and thoroughly equippedfor his work. In this number of the Book of the Royal Blue are shown two school build-ings, the high school and the McKinleyschool. The latter is the finest and best-equipped grammar grade buildi
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