Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-19


lily the plan has been carried out with
great success. In Bangor the first
school savings bank was started by
Miss Blanche Elliot, of the PalmgStreet
school. Ever since its establishment.
more than year ago, Miss Elliot S
bank has been prosperous and all the
pupil-depositors have neat sums in her
Keeping, while several of them have
bank accounts in the real savings
banks. 1t has been proved that Miss
Eiliots plan serves to teach the prin-
ciples of thrift. The pupils of the diff
ferent schools as well as the teachers
have all been interested in Miss Elliot S
financial doings and the school savings
banks will be run on the plans made by
that teacher for the government of her
little institution. The banks will be
started in the various schools at once
and the cooperation of parents and
guardians is being solicited by a cir
cular letter, which is being sent out by
the teachers.
A literary club has been organized in
the Caribou high school.
There is talk of an orchestra in the
South Paris high school this winter.
A party of Camden's fairest young la
dies are studying deep into the mysteries
of psychology.
The schools throughout the town of
Orland are closed on account of scarlet
fever
Miss Louise Kalloch of Rockland, has
accepted a position as teacher in the
Morrill, schools
There We're 60 scholars registered at the
Machias high and IS at the grammar
school the present term.
The teacher and scholars of the Gull
ford High school are making an effort to
secure funds to finish a laboratory in the
third story of the school building.
The Belfast kindergarten Association
at their last meeting voted to make
the Kindergarten school free to all.
The Rockland public library now
contains about $500 volumes and has a
circulation averaging about 10 a day.
Rumford Falls and Mexico school
teachers have organized a reading club
and hold meetings on Wednesday eve
nings.
John L. Dyer, principal of the San
gerville high school, has received an
offer to teach Greek and Latin in a
Western school at a salary of $l400.
The girls of the ninth grade of the
Saco schools have sent petition to the
school board. asking that they may re-
ceive manual training now given the
boys.
A surplus of $17.S5, left after paying
the bills incident to entertaining the
summer school at Machias, has been
donated to the public library for the
purchase of new books.
Two very pretty pictures have lately
been added to the schoolroom Of the
grammar department at South Portland
The boys and girls have saved their pen
MES, and the pictures are the result of
their earnings.
Friends of the Pennington public libra
ry are taking steps to hole. four or five
days fair and entertainment for the pur-
pose of obtaining funds for the aiding OF
the work of the library in purchasing
new books.
Miss Grace p. Nash of Harrington. who
graduated three years ago from school
for kindergarten training in Providence
r. l., and for two years after a teacher
in that city, is filling similar position
in Portland
Boothbay Harbor high school chal-
lenges high schools of Waldoboro, Wis
casset and other free high schools in Lin
coin county, to meet them in an origina
speaking contest to be held in BoothbaS
Harbor about March LIST, 1899.
Miss Wiggin, teacher of bookkeeping il
the Portland evening school. has re-
signed, to take a position in the business
college at Bangor. In her place Mr.. Jen
kins of Shaw's business college. has beer
secured to teach the bookkeeping in the
evening school.
The Rumford Falls intermediate school
Miss Lila E. Curtis. teacher. has received
a beautiful French clock, cathedra
strike, the gil of Mrs. George Gates, whC
has a little daughter, Norma Gates, il
this grade.
| Mary A. Longthorne of PASSPORT, tina
her books should be given to the publ,
library. These books, one hundred II
number, including fine edition of Georgt
eliot in six volumes, with choice work o
fiction, poetry and history, have been re
ceived al the library.
Miss Hepsibah c. Parsons of Grade I
Lincoln building, Skowhegan. has beer
elected to a position in the Newton
schools a salary of $3.50 a year. Mis-.
Parsons is the third teacher to go from
SkOWhegan to Massachusetts within tn,
past six months.
According to the Bath Times "a teach
ers in the public schools have to instruc
1883 scholars, an average to, each teache
of Al scholars, varying in the differen
schools from 30 to IS. Besides this il
| some of the schools there are not enough
seats to go around
An organization has recently beer
formed at BridgtOn which at present in
cludeS the teachers of the village and vi
entity, for the purpose of discussing cur
| rent topics. as presented in leading publ
cations The meetings are to be hell
fortnightly, and those interested, espec
| tally teachers, are invited to be present.
Lewiston and Lisbon have re-estab
lished the old arrangement whereby
| the Lisbon children living near Soutl
Lewiston, may attend Lewiston schools
Lisbon paying s125 year to Lewiston
for the privilege.
The teachers and pupils of West Sulli
van, have organized branch of the
School improvement League of Maine
and are now trying to raise money fol
pictures and other improvements for the
school rooms. The grammar grade room
has been named the Shakespeare room
and the primary room, the Longfellow
room.
The time for commencing the Ma
chias public schools has been changed
from 8 A. M. to $50 A. M, and from
1.3O P. M. to l p. M. The teachers
found that since the town has adopted
standard time that to run on the old
time table was bringing darkness into