Boys and Girls Of Wake-Up Town, J. Mace Andress and Illustrated by Marguerite Davis, Ginn and Company, 1924

A book in "The Story Series in Health." In the front, Garnie Walker's name appears in a penciled, child's cursive handwriting, as does her sister's and a date "Miss Genevieve Pearl Walker September 1936." Also, four blue-ink stamps of "Murphy & Company Department Store Since 1902 - Clay, W.Va." Walker was in 4th grade at Laurel Ridge School in 1924 (see photo image) and used this book when it was new. When Genevieve used it in her 4th grade, in 1936-1937, Garnie was her teacher. This book was published just a few years after the 1918-1920 flu pandemic. From the Preface: "This book is offered as a contribution to the newer health teaching now being inaugurated in our schools." Directed at fourth and fifth grades. Garnie's (and her siblings') paternal grandmother, Almira Jane (Hanshaw) Walker, died of the flu on March 8, 1920.