Person

Frances Wolfe

Assistant principal of Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session, as the Clarke Courier's appointments list of July 1925 and its staff notice of September record, and treasurer of the Clarke County teachers' institute from October 1925.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier's list of teacher appointments for the 1925-26 session, printed July 9, 1925, names Miss Frances Wolfe as assistant principal of Berryville High School, and the Courier of September 17, 1925 again names her as assistant principal among the high school principal's assistants.

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✓ Supported by a sourceAn account exists

What the source supports

That Frances Wolfe was named assistant principal of Berryville High School for the 1925-26 session.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The July list records appointments announced for the session, not who taught during it. The September notice speaks of the principal of the high school and of two buildings without naming the school; it is read as Berryville High School because its principal and teachers match the July list.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The Berryville High School entry in the July 9, 1925 list.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, Berryville High School

Relevant passage

Berryville High School -- Mr. D. G. Cooley, principal, Miss Frances Wolfe, assistant principal, Mrs. Louise Kerfoot and Miss Willie M. Snouffer, high school; Miss Ella Holland, 7th grade, Mrs. Mary D. Sowers, 6th, Miss Beatrice Kackley, 5th, Mrs. Wilbur Price, 4th and 5th, Miss Agnes Fenton, 4th, ... Mrs. Ella Hughes, 1st.

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Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: contextualizes. The headline and opening of the same list: the School Board's appointments for the 1925-26 session.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, headline and opening

Relevant passage

FILL POSITIONS COUNTY SCHOOLS. Teachers Named for All Schools and Grades -- New Boyce Principal. Appointments of teachers for the various schols [schools] of the County for the session of 1925-26 have been announced by Dr. C. O. Dearmont, chairman of the School Board, as listed by the Division Superintendent, Mr. Leslie D. Kline. The places are to be filled as follows:

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Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The September 17, 1925 notice of the old building, the high school principal and his assistants.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 17, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-09-17 (publication)

Locator: Page 5, item headed Miss Fenton In Charge: the old building, the principal and his assistants

Relevant passage

Miss Fenton In Charge. Miss Agnes Fenton, teacher of the fourth grade in the old school building on Academy street, has been put in charge of the building. Mr D. G. Cooley, principal of the high school, is in charge at the new building, ... and his assistants in that department are the same. They are Miss Frances Wolfe, assistant principal, Mrs. Louise Kerfoot and Miss Willie Morris Snouffer.

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Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources

The Clarke Courier of October 8, 1925 reports that a teachers' institute for Clarke and Frederick counties met at Berryville in the auditorium of the high school, with Prof. D. G. Cooley, president of the Clarke County institute, as chairman, and that the Clarke County institute was reorganized with D. G. Cooley as president, Prof. Winter Royston as vice-president, Miss Katharine Jones as secretary and Miss Frances Wolfe as treasurer.

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✓ Supported by a sourceAn account exists

What the source supports

That the officers the Clarke County teachers' institute elected in October 1925 bore the names of two principals and two teachers on the county's appointments list for 1925-26.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR garbles "president" in the chairman's title. The notice gives the officers without their schools: attaching it to the principals and teachers of the same names on the 1925-26 appointments list is probable, but the notice does not state it, and it does not name the high school where the institute met.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The Courier's report of the institute and its new officers.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., October 8, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-10-08 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, item headed Health Truck Coming Here: the teachers' institute and its officers

Relevant passage

One of the most interesting teachers' institutes for Clarke and Frederick counties ever held at Berryville met Friday in the auditorium of the high school. Prof. D. G. Cooley, ... [president] of the Clarke county institute, was chairman. ... The Clarke county Institute was reorganized, and the following officers elected: President, D G Cooley Vice-president, Prof Winter Royston; secretary. Miss Katharine Jones and treasurer. Miss Frances Wolfe.

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Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: contextualizes. The July 9, 1925 list, which names D. G. Cooley and Frances Wolfe at Berryville High School.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, Berryville High School

Relevant passage

Berryville High School -- Mr. D. G. Cooley, principal, Miss Frances Wolfe, assistant principal, Mrs. Louise Kerfoot and Miss Willie M. Snouffer, high school; Miss Ella Holland, 7th grade, Mrs. Mary D. Sowers, 6th, Miss Beatrice Kackley, 5th, Mrs. Wilbur Price, 4th and 5th, Miss Agnes Fenton, 4th, ... Mrs. Ella Hughes, 1st.

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

Reporting

Evidence role: contextualizes. The July 9, 1925 list, which names Winter Royston and Katharine Jones at Boyce High School.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., 9 July 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)

Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, Boyce High school

Relevant passage

Boyce High school -- Mr. E. W. Roller, agriculture, Mr. Winter Rovston [Royston], principal, Miss Ruth Royston and Miss Bettie Teel Miller, high school. Miss Katharine Jones, home economics, Miss Grace Johnston, 7th grade, Miss Audrey Fritts, 5th and 6th, Miss Ruth Berlin, 3rd and 4th. Miss Mary Thompson, 1st and 2nd.

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-14. How this project checks its sources

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