Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-01

In The SchooIroom.

to Lake Maranacook. June 5
Prof. +. l.. Sampson. principal of the
Dexter high school. has resigned and
will spend year in study.
Miss Sara Hoyt, teacher in thu
Butler school. Portland, has accepted
a. position to teach in the Springfield
(Mass.) schools.
Prof. c. A. Beckwith of the Bangor
Seminary has been granted
a years leave of absence. He viii
leave during the summer of 1897 fol
Europe for years study.
The Knox County Teachers associa,
ton has voted to hold two conventions
each year, one in May and the other il
the fall. The convention next fall vii
be held at Rockland, October g.
Arthur b. Leach of Portland ha.
been elected director of manual train
ing at Pome Institute, Port Deposit
Maryland. He receives $500 salar,
the first year with an increase of $50,
the second.
The Portland training and practic,
school will hold it's graduating eXer
cises, June %. An address will be de-
livered by Mr.. a. w. Edison of Worces.
ter. Mass, agent of the Massachusetts
state board of education.
Turner schools are all taught by
Turner teachers this summer Most
of them are high school graduates OF
have attended the normal school.
large number of Turner teachers art
teaching in other towns and cities.
Thomas e. Wilson of Kittery, was
from the Bryant & Strattor
business college at Boston recently
with 100 per cent credited to his exam
nation papers, something seldom oc-
curing to students of that or any other
school
Miss Grace w. Robinson, a teacher il
training at the Portland School for the
Deaf. has accepted a position in the
American School for the Deaf at Hart
ford, at salary of $500 and board
Miss Robinson was formerly a teacher
in the Portland public schools.
The graduating exercises of the
Calais high school will take place, Jun,
10. The class will hold reception il
the evening. The honor parts are
valedictory, Miss Lu. Hill; salutatory
Miss Mile lockwood; history, Mis-.
Abbie Pottle. The class numbers l!
members.
Among the topics discussed and ex.
planned by State Superintendent Stet.
son, were the following: The good re-
suits to be obtained by uniting witt
other towns in holding teachers meet.
ings: summer school for teachers IL
Aroostook county; the grading o.
country schools; the Improvement Of
schools and school yards.
The annual meeting of the Thornton
Academy Alumni association was held
at Saco, May 25. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Walter ]. Gilpatric; vice
president, Miss Adelaide Haley: secre-
tary and treasurer, George L. Haley
executive committee. Address S. Floyd
Fred Bryant, Misses Belle Libby, Grace
Hall and Lillian Tarbox.
\ baccalaureate sermon will be de-
livered to the members of the class o
o6, Ellsworth high school, by Rev. Da.
vil l.. Yale, May 81 The baccalau-
itite StlHloH Is an innovation at ELS
worth, but an effort will be made Il
have it regular feature of the grad
uation in future years. The addres.
TO the class will be delivered by Chap
lain ID. II. Tribou, L. S. N.
The report of Superintendent oil
Schools II. A. Moore of Ellsworth, shows
that there are p school houses il
the city, eighteen of which are in good
condition. The estimated value OF
school property is $22,0 One male
and 26 female teachers are employed
The average wages of male teachers is
go per month, and female teachers
$j.06 per week. The aggregate number
of weeks of school in all schools wa:
sol Bookkeeping was taught in nine
Of the schools.
At a meeting called at Caribou by
Hon. w. w. Stetson, State superinten
dent of schools, Tuesday, May 26. for
the purpose of a conference with tn,
superintendent of the schools Of thi.
vicinity there were present: II. +
Powers, Fort Fairfield; Samuel Dag
gctt. t.aston: Mrs Annie c. Long
Limestone; r. b. Blackstone. Pcrlam
Hermon Henry, Woodland; S. f
Holmes, Wade Island; Rev. L. Nj
Norbec. New Sweden: Mrs. Axclini
Peterson. West Mainland Plantation
Mrs Florence c. Porter Caribou