West Jefferson in Days Gone By - series 115 by Charlie Miller

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

___West Jefferson plans to secure a Boy Scout Troop. Herbert Kell will be appointed Scout Master, and Samuel Moss Asst. Scout 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 a new building.

____January 1, 1922 – Some of the 1922 businesses were: W. J. Building & Loan, B&C Candy Shop, second floor of the Kuehner Building. Central Barber Shop Worth Hicks, Prop., The Moss Tire Shop, E. J. Bukley Hardware and C. F. Kuehner boots, etc.

____January 5, 1922 – A report of a total of 220,625 bricks “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 - 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 church will start within a few days.

____John T. Gregg dies, in Columbus, he was a former Mayor of West Jefferson. (John Taylor Gregg served as Mayor in 1898 and 1899. He was born March of 1847, the son of Ashton and Mary Gregg.)

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