The Reception was moved to Bodles Hall after Chester's High School Building, the Chester Academy, burned to the ground on the morning of April 9, 1906!
This receipt documents the release of $104.34 from literature fund, appropriated by the regents for the last year to Academy Principal Phinehas Robinson by James Durland, Academy Treasurer.
A statement accounting for the expenses for this exhibition believed to have been a fundraiser for building the school that would become the Chester Academy.
Chairs have been set up on the gymnasium floor for a Nyack school board meeting. White-haired Mary Virginia Parkhurst, the reporter, sits in the center of the front row left.
