West Jefferson in Days Gone By - series 54 by Charlie Miller

NEWS ITEMS: ____October 19, 1921 – Officers of the West Jefferson Loyal Order of the Moose, Lodge No. 95, are: Director, J. C. Kile; Vice Director, Sam Moss; Prelate, Dale Richardson; Secy. Eugene Chambers; Treas. Grover Burrell; Inside Guard, Martin Jones; Sgt-at arms, Lewis Cox; Trustees, George Earnst, Clarence Davenport, and William Neighborgall. 

____West Jefferson plans to secure a Boy Scout Troop. Herbert Kell will be appointed Master, and Samuel Moss will be appointed Assistant Master. 

____November 9, 1921 – Armistice Day will be observed by the American Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, and Boy Scouts of America with a program commencing at 1:30 p.m. L. C. Dick will be the featured speaker. 

____November 23, 1921 – A brick-selling contest is being held by the members of the Methodist Church to raise money for the new building. (This was for the present building; they were going to move from the building on Main Street.) 

____January 1, 1922, some of the 1922 businesses were: West Jefferson Building & Loan, B&C Candy Shop in the Kuehner Building, Central Barber Shop, Worth Hicks, Proprietor, The Moss Tire Shop, E. J. Buckley Hardware and C. F. Kuehner Boots & etc. The Madison Press: 

____January 5, 1922 – A report of a total of 220,265 bricks were “sold” by the Methodist Church. Their goal is the sale of 250,000 towards the erection of a new church building. Twenty-five thousand bricks alone were purchased by Mr. Charles Silver. 

_____January 23, 1922 – An enormous crowd is expected to attend West Jefferson’s second annual fox drive, which will be made tomorrow. 

____January 26, 1922 – The ‘Darts”, West Jefferson’s champion basketball team, will open its season tomorrow. 

____February 2, 1922 – Brick sale ends in victory.--The Methodist Church goes over the top with the sale of more than 255,000 bricks. Several carloads of bricks have arrived, and construction of the new building will start within a few days. 

____John Gregg, former Mayor, died in Columbus. (John Gregg’s picture is on the Library’s West Jefferson Remembers Site. He was Mayor in 1898 and 1899. His 5th Great Grandfather came to America with William Penn in 1632.) 

____March 2, 1922 – The High School Board of Education passed a resolution concerning the length of dresses. “Skirts must be 2” below the knee. Students will be expelled if they fail to comply." 

____Auto license tags for 1923 will cost 10 cents.