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Show oo PRISONER TEACHES FELLOW INMATES Huntington, W Va.. Dec. 24. A school within a prison is a fact lu the Cabel county Jail here, where . vrry day C. V Fitch, a veteran school teacher of eastern Kentucky, nnd a prisoner himself. Instructs a class of 20 mountaineers, all servile terms for "moonshlnlnK. " In the fundamentals fun-damentals of school work. Already, the rough mountaineers hac progressed a6 far as the "thlid reader." The majority of the class could neither read nor write when they began their terms Now ail have acquired the ground work ol reading, writing, spelling and arlth metlc. Fitch Is proud of his claB nnd hopes to teach them to lead bet ter lives as well as Instruct them in i he fundamentals of an education Most of the prisoners bu their own books Those who cannot are sup piled free by Jailor W 8 Deberd. |