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Voting at Jenny Wonday and Jenny Varkii

n 1935, a voting poll was transferred from Liberia Jenny Taylor section to Jenny Wonday, Taywoh section instead, and another opened at Jenny Varkii, in the Upper Kouneh section (Gola), being “more central and accessible.” That same year, L. Hoff and Company, a local business, was awarded a ferry franchise to cross the Benson Lake from Tawaly to Sulima, for 10 years.

The Missionary and Educational Church School Convention of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Montserrado and Grand Cape Mount counties was incorporated in 1935. Named as officers were  J. I. A. Weeks, president; vice presidents: J. H. Ricks, Oscar S. Norman and J. T. Milton; T. J. R. Faulkner, treasurer; J. F. Dennis, recording secretary; P. C. Simpson, corresponding secretary; W. N. Ross, business manager; and directors: D. E. Howard, Monroe Phelps, G. L. Dennis, J. J. Minor, T. E. Ward, David Brent, Victoria Henry.

Footnote: Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1935, p. 5; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1935, p. 42; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1935, p. 44.