Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-04-09
IN THE SCHOOL WORLD.
What Is Being Done for Education in Maine
and Elsewhere.


Academy numbers Ii.
Westbrook has appropriated $l250 for a
manual training school.
Miss Grace Eaton Of Bangor has been
engaged as kindergartener by the Bucks
port kindergarten Association.
In several large shoe making centers in
New England the scheme for a technical
shoemaking school is being agitated.
A new schoolhouse is to be built in the
Porter neighborhood South Paris, and
schools are TO be run this summer in that
and the Bolster neighborhood.
The alumni of Anson Academy are to
hold a reception and bali in the evening
of graduation day which will occur the
last of April
The town of Roxbury has voted to
build two new schoolhouses this season.
The one in No. is to be two stories high,
the upper story for a town house.
NJ. T. Crawford has been chosen super
intendent of the Camden schools. DR.. J.
X. Hooper. chairman Of the Camden
school board, has served on the board 13
years
There are over three hundred scholars
in the limits of the village corporation of
Rumford Falls. Eight teachers are en-
ployed in the district and it has been
found necessary to add another this term.
The superintendent of schools of Apple
ton, has had placed in the grammar
school room. six solid slate blackboards
100 sqrare feet in all. an Improvement
which W Ii he appreciated by teachers
and pupils
Miss Blanche Mcnamara who has been
appointed inspector of schools at Port
Adelaide. is the first woman chosen for
his office by the government of South
Australia.
Rev. Mr.. Hooper, formerly pastor of
the l-niverSaliSt church of Orono and
To mi nj NJ
l'niversal,st denomination for the State.
has been engaged to preach the bacca-
laureate sermon before the senior class of
the Milo high school
William c. Poor and Howard f. Poor
of Sebago are to erect dormitory near
the Potter academy for the accommoda-
tion of students. A town meeting is
called to see if the town will instruct its
selectmen to sell to the Messrs. Poor a
| lot from the grounds adjoining the aca-
| denny.
Al a recent special meeting of the De
| batting Society of the University Of Maine
| is was voted to accept a challenge from
| the Bangor Y NJ. c. A. to debate with
them upon the questions Resolved. that
| the difference between the United States
| and Spain be submitted to international
| arbitration
| The Southwest Harbor deba ting club
which was organized recently is in Il
| fiourishng condition. meetings every Sat
urday evening: age limit ol members. 3l
| years. Merle Tracy is president, and
Sammy Randall. recording secretary
| Current topics are being discussed in a
| lively manner. and abstruse problems set
| tied beyond dispute.
| Grade TX of the Webster school. Lew
| iSton. is about to place on the walls Of its
| room Millet's THE Cleaners" The chill
| dren have earned the money themselves
and an interesting exercise was the read
| ing of slips recounting the different ways
| in which the money was earned by eacl
| ndivdual; and only a few days wer,
| these little folks collecting their fund.
At Roubaix one of the socialist strong
holds of France, the 1000 public Schoo
children receive free food and clothing
at the expense of the town. Their dinner
| at school consists of soup. bread, Vege-
tai bles meat. and Il glass Of beer. At the
beginning of summer and of winter each
child receives Il complete suit of clothes
| Tyler Nj. Coombs. superintendent o
schools at Ninalhaven, presented himsei
| recently for examination before tn
| State superintendent, ana received 4 Ger
titicate of the first grade which qualite
him as a teacher i'll any of the publ
schools of the State. He also received Al
appointment toact as superintendent owe
the schools at Stonington at liberia
salary.
All closed bookcases. if the room o
house they stand in is at all damp. shoul'
| be opened for few hours constantly oi
dry Gays During this time. if possible
| have both door and windows open. Som
people keep a small cardboard box. file
with lime behind the books on each shelf
the box must be secured carefully in po
sition for il the lime he split it will no
improve the books.
The question of a new Schoolhouse t
| accommodate the primary children o
wards five and six will soon come to tn
front in Portland The proposition is t
erect a building large enough to take i
the pupils of the Park street and Brack
EFT street districts. Such a building woul
have to contain ten or twelve rooms an
would cost not far from $4,000.
Machias Republicans: Last week Mac
4 ! Pope presented Washington Acddem
g | with a beautiful case containing sample
= of cotton in all the stages of its mani
$ | facturc from the cotton ball to the var
i Gus finished cloths. In making the pr
: sentation he gave the school very il
:. terestins and Instructive talk on the pr
q | paration and manufacture of this gre;
h American staple. He also has given Il
q school some interesting geological spec
IL mems.
e The class parts at Lincoln Academy
l. Newcastle are: Valedictory. Louise Fly
Sheepscot: salutatory, Bertha f. Chene
.e Sheepscot; history, William l.. Fly