Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-16
THE HIGH school,.
Report OF the Committee for the Pas,
Year.


Report Of the Committee for the Pas,
To HIS Honor the Mayo, and Gentlemen o,
the City Council:
| We have the honor TO present our report a.
committee OF the Cony High School for the
past year. The school has labored under sew
erai disadvantages, considering which il ha.
been conducted with fair measure of sue
cess. The number of pupils increased, at
the beginning Of the fall term, to over one
hundred, but We were unable to secure any
increase In the appropriation.
Miss Helen W. Fuller, the first assistant,
was absent during the spring and fall terms,
enjoying well-earned rest and recreation.
During the former term her place was sup
Piled BY Miss Grace Hall during the latter
oy Mrs. Fogg, an excellent teacher and for
mer assistant.
The school sustained q great loss, at
the end Of the spring term, in the resignation
OF Miss Clara Allen, the second assistant, to
accept position in Boston, At q higher sala-
~. As we had not the means Of offering her
an Increase of pay. we were Obliged to lose
her services. The school is now threatened,
from the same cause, With another serious if
not irreparable loss. which we believe it will
be true economy to avoid.
The position, vacated by Miss Allen, was
nlled by the election of Mss A. NJ Owen,
graduate Of this school and of the Gorham
Normal school. and a successful teacher In
the village district Grammar school,
Extra teaching, for two hours q day, was
given during the spring and most OF the fall
term, by Miss Alice Harlow during the win
ter term by Mrs. Fogg. This is all
the additional assistance we. have been
able to employ. on account of the
limited means at our command, and 10 do this
"" were obliged to dispense with the services
Tor the last two terms, of the teacher of vocal
music.
The need of the school is imperative for
the employment of a third assistant. Its
growth has been rapid since its care was as
sumed by the city, and in the coming fall it
VIII have nearly or quite one hundred and
twenty pupils. Two years ago, in the spring
term there were but sixty.
1t has been hardly possible for the last tvs
terms. and will be quite impossible for the
future, to conduct the school satisfactorily
with the present teaching force. An increase
OF hve hundred dollars in the animal appro-
priatlon, Will give the committee the smallest
amount on which they can maintain the eff
cincy of the school.
c. w. BRADLEE,
j. q. WEBSTER,
j. II. MASLEr,
Augusta. March l6, 1885
GARDINER
The new city council will organize to-day
at 10 O'Clock. There are several can didates
for the city marshars office, but it is difficulty
to determine who is the coming man.
The statement, in our locals Friday morn
ing, that c. A White removed the post office
from the old building near the the freight
depot, was not correct. When Mr.. White
became postmaster the Office was in Rogers
block, in the rooms recently occupied by b
A. Neal & Son, and had been there for
at least twelve years before that
When Judge Palmer was postmaster
he kept the Office in his store
in what was known as the .'old hay
barn" 1t has been nearly or quite so years
since the post-office was in the old Gay build
ing. Mr.. White, however, moved the post
office into the building it now occupies, if
not from the old Gay block.
The dull times have not shut out business
from Gardiner altogether. Joseph Perry has
recently received $1,000 order from Bangor
millmen for board circulars. These circu-
lars are fitted with standard sets, champion
dogs. with Whitney's improved feed and
friction run back He has also just complet-
ed an improved clapboard machine for a
Michigan firm This machine is a novelty
in mechanics. 1t is fitted with yoke box.
and an adjustment to team the saw
without stopping The saw is over
hung, and the centre dog which holds the
log in place with wheel and screw
instead of the old time beetle. Mr. Perry
has put into his shop this winter a boring
machine of his own manufacture which can
be adjusted for boring any depth under Is
inches. He finds it great convenience in
boring timbers for his machines.