The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-02-07
Report Of Point Pleasant Public
Schools for January. 1905.


marks the halfway" point in our
school years is pact. The fifth
month of our school is ended and
in many respects showed marked
improvement. Our trGant officer
has been active and IS a result our
enrolment was increased from 279
to 2S4 Our percent of attendance
was also increased from SO per cent
to 95 per cent. However, there
are more cases of hardness than
are necessary The children of
some families invariably come in
late. not only missing the opening
exercises but the beginning of
their recitation. Parents, this is
loss to your child. and in most
cases you are responsible forit If
you will learn the eternal signii
canoe of being on time and teach
it to your child he will find it
source of profit and pleasure to
him in after life
We would ask you to examine
your child's report before you sign
it; to note carefully the grades ap.
pearing in red ink, if there be suoh;
to inquire the reason for his low
standing. However, it is due to
lack of effort, and sorry indeed are
We to say that these low grades ap-
pear most conspicuous in the very
place from which We should receive
an example of industry and faith
fuIness-the High School.
Parents if you will see that your
boy spends his evenings in his
room preparing his lessons for the
following day instead of lettering
on the streets those low grades will
not appear on his report.
We offer these criticisms not in
the spirit of unkindness. but
prompted by the kindIiest feelings
OF love and duty to our pupils as
we'll as to our patrons.
To student: You have two
sources of education. The first
source is your instructors. The
second and most important is
yourself. You are the master of
your own destiny, the maker of
your own mind.
God has SO constructed the hu-
man intellect that it can grow only
by its own action. You must edu.
cate yourself, always keeping in
mind that the mere getting of in
formation is not education, but
that it is the sum total of all that
series of influences which make
for mans up-building and
development; giving him greater
energy, greater skill, greater zeal,
greater acts of benevolenoe, and,
indeed. the laying out of ourselves
to meet the new demands which
are already upon Ms.
We are facing a mighty future,
a future that must solve the mo-
mentuous problems that have
arisen and the still greater ones
that will arise. What part will
you play in the solution of these
problems? Will you follow blind
ly in the wake of VIOLATING dema-
gognes or will you be one of the
leaders in the triumphant march
of the race? Your school train
ing will answer this question. Are
you making the most of it?
The following make up the
honor list for the month.
HONOR ROLL.
FIRST GRADE,
Eddie Bates, Eustace Bradshaw,
Eugene Friedman. Charlie Fry,
Stacy Harrison, Perry Poffenbar-
ger. Pearl Folden, WalIie Allen,
Russell Thomas, Homer Caste.
Theo Wilson, Esther Barnett
Mamie Jarrett, Teacher.
SECOND GRADE,
Moses Bearman, Homer Folden,
Robert Liter, Clarence Cheese
brew, Bonnie Gibbe, Lawrence
Wolf, Irma Friedman. Daisy How
ard, Sally Lewis, Marie Kuhn,
Mary Bryan.
Linnie Bell, Teacher.
SECOND GRADE
Leo Stortz, Lamar Written,
Natalie Bryan. Myrtle Miller,
Gladys Petty, Marjorie Rothgeb.
Edith Sauer, Katie Sauer, Maude
Wartenberg.