Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-15
Maine Educational News.

The Lincoln summer school will COM
mcnce August 18th.
NJ. 5. Getchcll formerly Of Barring. Me
has been elected master Of the Hyde
Park high school.
y circulating library has been started
in Searsport, the proceeds to go towards
the public library fund.
Miss Wescott. who has been teacher
in the Brewer schools for several years,
has resigned To accept an appointment in
the public schools in Orange, Mass.
Miss Maud +. Muzzy Of Searsmont, has
completed her post graduate course At
Radcliffe College ana has received the
degree of A. NJ.
graduated from Bates College recently,
has been elected principal OF the Mcchan-
il Falls high school for one year COM
mcncing the coming fall.
Percy Bunker. a Cranberry Isles school
boy, has record of perfect attendance 1T
fifteen successive terms OF school, not
missing even half day.
Three hundred new books have re-
Gently been added to the Thompson free
library in Dover by money received
from the first years interest on the en-
dowment BY Dr. Thompson.
Miss Louise Gilman Of Hallowell has
completed fifty years as a teacher in the
public schools. For the last - years she
has been in one school in Hallowell.
Harry B. Neagle of Lubec, who gradu-
intends to study medicine and will enter
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
| The rural schools in Guilford closed
last week and a flag was raised at the
Centre schoolhouSe with appropriate cX-
ercises, including an address by Rev r.
| H. Aldrich.
Miss Maud Carter of South Paris. who
graduated last month from the Farming
| ton Normal school, has accepted good
position in the model school at Farming
| ton.
Harry T. Baker of Rockland. who won
| half of the Greek prize at Wesleyan Uni
| Versity, this year. won the whole OF the
same prize last year. The student with
prizes at the university and was q
worthy competitor for the Rockland boy.
| The following officers of the Ellsworth
| High School Alumni Association have
| been elected for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, John A. Peters, Jr.; first vice
president, Mrs. Mary Hall Cushman; sec
| nnd wee president, Percy Bartlett; secre-
| tary, Alice III. Scott; treasurer. Theodore
| A.. Higgins; executive committee. Nj. A
| Clark, Ernest l.. Moore, Eva Aiken, As-
mes Lord.
| Among the young men to graduate
| from Harvard College this year was car
| ence Hinckley Knowlton, son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. ID. IL. Knowlton, Farmin0ton. wis
| completed the four years course in three
| years attendance at the college, at TIL,
| same time carrying off some desirable
F, prizes. Mr.. Knowlton took two scholar
J ships of considerable money and value
and his rank at graduation gave hin
| high honor.
The graduates of John A. Andrew high
| school South Windham, class of $3.50
| have organized an alumni with the fol
| lowing charter members: Mrs. Cora
| Hall Sawyer. teacher of class of '9s, Mr.
Irving Hawkes., teacher of class '99. Alice
Nichols. Effie Jordan, Agatha Bickford
| class OF 80. Grace Webb, Lester Lord
Eddie Hanson, Charlie Thayer and Car
roll Smith, class go Officers: President
Abbie Nichols vice president. Effie Jor
dan; secretary and treasurer, Charli
Thayer.
A flag was raised at SheepscOt las
week, the result of the efforts of Mrs
Catherine Sergeant, 50 years old, and