A. W. Taylor     ( March 12, 1889 )

A. W. Taylor

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Letter: one page one side

Paper: Lined paper, 8” wide by 10-1/4” high

No envelope

The top of the page has the following printed on it

 

Office of

Secretary Board of School examiners

Ottawa County

 

Mrs. A. V. Weatherwax, Chairman, Jenison.

A.W. Taylor, Secretary, Nunica.

Milon Coburn, Member, New Holland

For School year 1888 -9

Nunica, Michigan, _________

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Nunica, Michigan, March 12, 1889

 

Miss Lizzie Golden

 

Dear Friend,

 

Your standing is quite sufficient to insure to you a certificate, excepting in History.  Your standing should be a little higher in that.  The law does not permit our board of examiners to grant a certificate to one under sixteen years of age.  Will you be of that age soon?  If so, you might come to the examination at Coopersville the 29th inst and rewrite on History and raise your standing perhaps to 75 and take a certificate.

 

Your present standing is 88 in Orthography and Reading.  80 in Penmanship. 78 in Geography.  77 in Grammar.  90 in Arithmetic.  70+ in History.  80 in Civil Government and 80 in Physiology and Hygiene.

 

Very truly

A. W. Talyor,

Sec.

 

Institute fee of 50-cts.

In case Cert is granted

 

 

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Lizzie was born April 15, 1873.  So, on March 12, 1889, she was still only 15 years old.

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