Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-14

Miss Helen Newton of Calais. has ac-
,eptcd position as teacher in one of the
public kindergarten schools of Boston.
w. G.. Hill of Boston, Mass. has been
lected to the position Of principal of
he Caribou high school for the coming
year.
Mr.. Alhro Chase has been for %
years connected with the Portland
high school He has been principal Of
he school - years.
Charles S. Estes. a natisls of Maine
md graduate of Colby. has been elected
professor of Latin at F'urmore Univer-
sity. at Greenville. 5. c.
Haven Metcalf of Winthrop who was
;raduaGed from Brown University, this
year. has been appointed instructor OF
botany In that institution. =
Mrs Frank r. johnson of the .GofhaSs
Normal school has been offered q bosi-
tion in the F'itchbure, Mass. Nornra
school at salary of s1'd0 per year.
The prize offered by the Greenpille
W. c. 7. L. for the best essay. on mar
cotics in the primary department. was
Won by little Indian boy Of twelve
Prof Mathews. who has been instructor
II music in the Lewiston schools for the
past four years has resigned to accept a
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Academy al an advance in salary.
w s Brown. a graduate of Bowdoin.
and principal of the Litchfield academy
for. the past year. has been engaged to
teach the Dexter high school the com
ing year.
w Q. Jersey. graduate of Bowdon
college, ana for three years principal of
the Bridgton. high school has been cho-
sen principal of the high school at Freq
pQSt 70 MI the vacancy made by the re-
81 pa ton of Prof. Stoddard.
Kicsor V. Thompson. at hue time prin-
sippn as, conductor on a raSssad running
TO- Skptzsket Beach. Hen Tattending
II Medical school. and wiz employ
4n as above ststet.s.&
4 1ofsber of Bath ladies fcAe formed
ing on Nee Kindergarten. The hai'e
pledged themselves to suppott the kin
a ins + flor sh.s ss which
FOR such school,.
Mr.. M. A. whitley WIS., as superin-
tendepr, OF the SkowhcgaIf Shoos a few
y I,;,,, ,sh and wes. f,oia e lo :ypsi.
there. has received neutrality-suspicious.. hav-
ing been elected FOR the head of the
schoA's in Elgin, Illinois e
Prof. Henry Torsey F'ernald, a graduate
of the State College, class of U.s.. now
Hc''cSS a. th', tbXHy1tdHtd
state College, is hne of the Il fial in
structors at summer school of fLioiogy
which opened its work at CoM- Spring
Harbor, Long Island on Monday.
Miss Annie r. johnson ofS Portland.
who was this year graduated from the
Conservatory of Music at Boston,. has re
Gently accepted an appointment to the
III voice culture for neXt
year at the Conference Seminary ana
Young Ladies', College at Montpelier. VI,
Some of the. Lewiston hisb school boys
are talking OF organizing 4 White Cross
Society in that city$ If it is done it will
be, extended gradually to the other high
schoolsSof the State and to the colleges
and will be planned after the Interna-
tional White Cross Society of Europe
AT the recent commencement of Brown
University xProvidence, r.. L.. James
Franklin Collins, formerly of North An
son, received the honorary degree of
bachelor of philosophy. Mr. Collins is
curator of the botanical museum at
Brown, and is an authority in botany
on MOSES.
NJ. H. Small and John S. French of
Norway. who are taking graduate
courses at Clark University. have both
been granted fellowships for the next
year. Mr.. Small in psychology and Mr..
French in mathematics.