Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-17
STA T HOUSE.
1887 Guides Registered by Game
Commissioners This Year,
Maine Has More Teachers Holding Stale Ger.
tificates Than Any Other State.

Thus far this season, there have hea, 1907
guides registered by Chairman Carleton
against 1916, last year. OF course thara
are many of those of this year. who ara
new and many of the old guides have
been refused licenses as thew were fo,,,a
incompetent and not trustworthy. Tho
whole number of applications for regis
tration exceeds the number registered. as
a large number who applied were no.
granted certificates.
Inc returns from these guides showing
their record for the season lust passed
was dueDed+tnber 10 and the greater parr
OF them ARE in Commissioner Carleton
ana ms assistant, Miss Hodgdom are now
Dusty occupied in tabulaIting these re-
turns. and they realize they have quite n
little task. This will he Included in the
report of the department which will be
olFt soon.s.
what showing that State museum is
to make this winter with all the extra at
traction that will of course be added be-
tore the Legislature is assembled. The lit
tie room OF the fish and game commits
sioners will be one of the pleasure resorts
of the whole State House. Commissioner
Carleton finds that his accommodations
for the collection, are getting greatly
strained and that by another spring If
the collection continues to grow. he will
have TO have another large glass case
that will occupy Il section of the floor
space.
That wild eat has been shipped from
Greenvile, but has not arrived, although
1T is on the way. 1t will be a great adl-
tion to the museum.
The Palmyra Grange has set a prece-
dent that will doubtless be copied by
| other oranges in the State. as it is GER
| tdinly deserving of imitation. This new
| idea introduced by the grange at
Palmyra, was the holding OF a teachers
meeting throughout the day and evening,
Thursday. / was done independent of
the .otate, though they sent an urgent i'll
vitation for Superintendent Stetson to be
present which heaccepted and was among
| the speakers of the day, giving an adj
| dress in the evening.
The attendance throughout the day was
large while in the evening the pretty and
| commodious hall of the grange was filled
full. \ dinner was served by the grange
at noon, and a supper in the evening. so
the people from outside the town came in
and made day of 1T. The exercises We're
| of the same character of the usual run of
teachers meetings with class exercises.
papers and talks. One thing that pleased
Prof. Stetson was the fact that all the
children who participated in the exercises
proudly wore the little button of the
Maine School Improvement League Their
teachers also wore the little insignia Of
| the society.
Though Palmyra Grange enjoys the
| distinction of having organized and con-
Quoted the first teachers meeting ever
conducted in connection with the grange
in this State, it is not probable that they
will be the only one. as others will doubt
| less follow the noble example.
Prof. Stetson was signing the certifi-
| Gates Friday, of the teachers who sue
cessfully passed the State examinations
last fall. He pointed with pride to the
fact that Maine has more teachers hold
ing State certificates than any other
state in the Union. according to the rec
ords in tine educational department of the
| United States. This is a remarkable
record when it is considered that these
certificates have been issued by the other
|
half "a century, while the idea is compare
lively young in Maine. having been in
operation for only three years.
| Governor Powers was at the State
House, Friday, and throughout the day
he was in consultation with the heads Of
the various departments in regard to their
needs for the two coming years, that
he may make use of their ideas far a.;
he feels inclined. in his message to the
Legislature. Governor Powers will be at
the State House again, next Tuesday,
when the Governor and Council have Il
session
Commissioner Benjamin Chadbourne
was in Bangor Friday. inspecting the
Penobscot Central Railway from Bangor
to Corinth.
The meeting of the Governor and Coun-
Gil. Tuesday afternoon. does not promise
to be a very long or busy one, as it is no.
the meeting when the final business OF
the year Will be settled. 1t Us merely a
special meeting that several of the mat
, ters may be disposed of before the final
meeting and TO relieve some of the con
. gestion of business that is always on hand
at the final meetings.
One pardon case will in all probability
b., heard This is the one of George NJ
Thomas of Chelsea, who was sentenced al
the August term of the Penobscot SUI
preme court on the charge of passing two
bogus checks, TO two years for each OF
fence Mr.. Thomas was a commefcla
traveller and he claims he passed the
checks without the knowledge that they
were worthless, as he received them IRON
z his employers. On that ground he asks
for n pardon. His case Will be conducted
bv George c. Sheldon of this city. MI
sheldon was also to present the pettloi
: for pardon of Charles Morgan Wallace
! fine old soldier who is serving lie sen
tence for having killed an officer. IN:
will not be heard at this meeting, as th'
G case is not ready.
The following company, Thursday, hlef
:, a certificate of interpretations
Modern American Light Company ha'
been organized at Kittery, for the pur
C nosa of the manufacture ana SAFE o
% vapor gas, with 100000 capital stock o
e which nothing is paid IN. Inc oii ISts,
e are. President. John w. Chase on Leu
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