Memories for the Week of September 7, 2016

100 years ago

September 7, 1916

Malta School Opens

With an enrolment of 233 in the grades and high school the local schools opened last Tuesday with the enrollment divided as follows:

First grade – Miss Hilda Thompson, teacher, 42.

Second and third grades – Miss Alice Coughlin, teacher, 42.

Third and fourth grades – Miss Dorothy Ayer, teacher, 42.

Fifth and sixth grade -- Miss Marry O’Keefe, teacher, 41.

Seventh and eighth grades – Miss Hazel Tormey, teacher, 43.

High School – Miss Helen Cain, Miss Helen Baum and Mr. Elliott, teachers, 41.

The small enrollment in the high school...