Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-19
STATE HOUSE.
Meeting Of Superintendent Of City
Schools to be Held, Today.
Sunday Reading on the Increase - Other
News = Five Corporations.

The meeting OF the superintendent
of the city schools with the state
superintendent will be held at the de-
partment of the latter at the State
House, this morning, at 10 o'clock. 1t
is expected that the results of this meet
ing will be of great Importance to the
| Maine schools, as it's object is to de-
termine some systematic arrangement
| for classifying the scholars of the va
rious city schools. that they may es-
tablish Uniform rank throughout the
State.
The following meetings with super
intendents of the rural schools have
been announced:
| In northern Aroostook county. at
ern section, 1oulton, May &C. $50, A.
NJ: in the western section. at Sher-
mans Mills. May %, 100, p. NJ; and at
Machias in Washington county June
/ /, at 9, a. NJ.
i Hon. Edward Wiggin, clerk of the
school department, will leave for his
home, in Presque Isle. Wednesday, for
a 10 days vacation. He will return
in time for the Bangor State conven-
ton. June .. Mr.. Wiggin has had an
exceptionally busy winter and spring.
with various works connected with
the department. and his vacation is
!certainly earned.
Miss Rena Winslow. stenographer.
and clerk for Il. w. Mckeen. secre-
tary of the board of agriculture, passed
Sunday with her sister at Winthrop.
The Office of Adjutant General Sell
den Conner is having a regular tear
down, drag out house cleaning, and
the entire department has moved into
the board of agriculture's rooms.
Ernest w. Emery. assistant State
4 librarian, is taking short vacation.
He started out for trip on his bike,
to Fairfield. TO visit relatives. whence
he will depart on tour through SOM
erset and oxford counties
The State librarian says that the call
for books for Sunday reading is fast
increasing, and that there is a conse-
~.
part of people generally. to devote
considerable of that day to this profit
able and enjoyable pursuit.
Il It's cause is perfectly obvious. The
average man or woman, in this age of
steadily increasing business and sensi-
BILE pleasure has little time during the
week to read. He works all day long,
until late in the afternoon, anyway.
| when it is either the bicycle, horse
and carriage, a bali game-something
or other to take up the time. Then
there is a little garden, or an orchard
OF course all this is in the summer
time In the evening. there are some
Il social affalrS TO attend. Dig OF illtle as
the case may be. There are calls to
make, and to receive. and occasionally,
some say. the busy world gets tired.
| and MILFORD wants to set down and rest
| his weary bones of an evening.
However that may be. it is fact
that many, especially among the men,
read books on Sunday who either
can't or won't read on other days.
Some say this decreases the attendance
at the churches, but it is generally
found to be the case, by those VINO
have investigated that if a man Is
going to church, he is going: and no
Sunday papers or other reading will
stop him.
The State librarian makes no pre-
tension of solving any of the why's or
wherefores of the situation but he
does state that the Sunday reading In
Maine, from observation, is rapidly on
the Increase