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Show New School Will I Honor Pioneer ' The new elemnetary school to be built on 21st E. north of 21st S. and including includ-ing part of the present Garfield Gar-field school district, will be known as the Mary Jane Dilworth school, it was decided de-cided this week by the city board of education. The name was selected to honor hon-or the first woman school teacher in Utah who started classwork with nine students stud-ents in October of 1847, just three weks after her arival in Salt Lake valley. Later the wife of Francis A. Hammond, Ham-mond, she died in (Hunts-ville (Hunts-ville in 1877. This will be the first city school to be named after a local person and after a woman. The board hopes to start construction on the three weeks after rrival new school within a few weeks. |