Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-24
MAINE EDUCATIONAL NE rs.
Whit Is Being Done Ter Edscatisn In The Piae
Tree State.

Portland will use large electric fans
for venti1ating some Of her school
buildings.
Charles Mills. son OF Rev. G. A. Mills
Of Dennysville, has accepted profess
sorship in a college in western New
York.
The young people of Cumberland
Center are to give a series of enter
tainments this fail and coming winter.
for the benefit of the public library.
The manual training department OF
the Saco schools has opened under the
direction of Arthur Il. Leach, and with
he increased facilities very good work
3 being done.
The attendance, this fall, at the
South Portland public schools is the
largest in the history of the town, ana
consequently several of the school
houses are over crowded.
Miss Mary F. Caswell of York. who
has been teaching in Webster several
years has resigned her school at that
place and accepted a more lucrative
position as teacher in Maiden, Mass.
There are more teachers than places
IL <AuouAH, dithOu6li oSSCi0A up
plications for entrance have been
matte, it is not yet certain that there
will be a training school there this
year.
A number of graduates Of the War
rem High school held 4 reunion at the
home of one of their number recently.
rhe occasion was such a pleasant one
that the reunion will BE- art annual
event hereafter.
William NJ. Marvin has been elected
principal of the Deering High school.
He was until recently principal of
high school in Gardner, Mass. He
graduated from Williams College IN
the class of 1885,
A Pittsfield bookstore has an original
display of books in one of the store
show windows. the books being ar
ranged to represent house, complete
with gables, verandas, doors, windows
-himneys, etc, and grounds.
The Calais school board has decided
that hereafter pupils win be admitted
20 grade one only during the month Of
September. 1t is necessary to make
this restriction since the former meth
~ vi osAiiiietiiS III NilC SktiHS tCIUu,
overcrowds the primary rooms.
john A. Scott of Ellsworth, a gradu-
ate of Ellsworth high school, and of
Bowdoin '9S, has been engaged as vice.
principal of the Ellsworth high school
n place of Harry E. Walker who has
resigned and entered the sophomore
class in Bowdoin College. Charles w.
Campbell, Ellsworth high school '97,
las been engaged as third assistant at
he high school,
The Topsham high school has opened
with the largest attendance in it's en-
gre history. The entering class-2S-is
'arger than the whole school was thra.
years ago. and the new room is
..rowded to it's utmost capacity. Every
district in town is now represented
here ard years work has been adt:el
% the course of study. John A. Cone,
The principal. begins his fifth year oi
service with the present term.
Prof. Charles s. Estes. of Sanford,
Colby 1884. and Pm. d. of Johns Hop
Kins University, 1895, has been elected
principal of Cook Academy at Havana,
y. Y, and he will enter at once upon
his new duties. For eight years DIR.
Estes was associate principal of Rick
er Classical Institute at Houlton and
me year he was acting principal
During the last two years he has been
professor of Latin in Furman Univer-
sity, South Carolina.
A number of Alfred's prominent cit!-
zers are agtating the raising of funds
for new public library building. The
Alfred Reading Club has appointed
committee, consisting of Vim. II. Co.
nant. Samuel NJ. Carne and John II.
Santorn. to receive subscriptions, con.
fftional upon the raising of at leas,
$4,000. for the erection of a public
library building to be turned over to
The town together with the library of
SOee volumes belonging to the Reading
Club. William Fl. Conant has pre-
sented the committee with a finely
located building lot and their efforts
are meeting with most encoura gine
success. Several natives of Alfred now
living in other states have profferc,.
heavy subscriptions toward an entlow-
ment fund if a sufficient amount is OBJ
tanned for the erection of the librar,
building. A public library has been
lcng needed in Alfred and now seems
ant to- mat prialize