The Portland daily press., 1899-07-28
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Summer School Of Methods
Largely Attended.
work Commenced Neutrality-suspicious. OF
Thoss at martha's Grove.
ESPECIAL TO the rnEss.l

Martha's Grove, Fryeburg, July az. :
"Mors people on the grounds today than
there were all last year, - said one OF the
officers OF the Assembly, and surely the
teachers Of Eastern Maine have not des-
piaed the opportunity of gaining rest,
pleasure and inspiration for the next
years. work. The car comes down
crowded ct each trip, and the cottages are
being opened and and cleaned one. after
another, while the spiders wander for.
iornly forth to find a new home.
Ike keynote Of the School OF Methods IL
Work. Each Instructor seems to expect
his or her suhjscs to receive sole atten-
ton, and a good-natured srivalry as to
u g numbers In each class exists.
All the morning Is given up to class
work, and in the afternoon a conference
hour led by MIR. Emerson, is most IT.
tere ting event. Here teachers from city
and country, from graded and ungraded
schools, meet and exchanR 90 opinions upon
the vital POINTS of their work.
| Mr.. E. Il. Bur rows and family Of Port
land, are ocuu plying Kane cottage, this
year.
Mrs. Lyman Abbott Is established In
trhs Rstreas, aad already the nest OF
hammocks Is sprlnging up under the
pines on the river banks. Afternoons
ut 4, Mrs. Abbott dispenses hospitality in
the form of our usual CUP OF tea, while
under ito cheering influence teachers and
visitors become better acquainted.
| kearsnrgo cottage is fitted with merry
party Of Maine pedagogues, who are, all
of them, Ksnt's HUI graduates This
PARTY is we'll used to camping out, and
many .laik" may BIO expected, ere the
season is over, to counterfeit the effect OF
much studying, ON the part Of members Of
this party.
! | TIL Saco Is as placid ard shallow as
ever, though the width CT sand on It's
banks seems to havs increased rather
thin diminished, since last summer. A
canoe Is one feature CT Its waters this
gear, and as 1t glides swiftly down the
stream, one could almost fancy that
some of the Indians had returned to visit
the scene Of their former hunts-Mooss
| horn-they used to call the place BY the
say, 1t Is proposed to revive the quaint,
old-time name, and meks ute of 1t here.
The Bungalo has just been opened, Mrs
Tenney and Miss Chapman being cordial
| ly welcomed by their friends who arrived
| first ON the grounds.
Among the arrivals ct the Grove house
are: Sarah J.. Gunnistop, Cambridge,
MISS; Philip Emerson, Mrs. Emersop,
Dorothy Emerson, Lynn, Mass; Kate II.
Miller, Laura Browneli, Burlington, VT. /;
Esther A. Smith, Bro okiyr, N. Y;
Anna B. Kerdrick, Boothbay Harbor !;
Gertrude NJ Ssayey, East Boothbay; Mrs.
y. Nj. Tasker, Frances +. Cate, Fairfield /;
, Susie o. Newhoufe, Wiliis, Mass; Minna
A. Morse, Midway, Mass; Florence r..
Cobb, Gardner; Lucy K. Lorlng, Var
mouth; Lillian French, Chesterville;
Mary A. Searls, Chelsea Lillian H.
woodside, Bath; Olive 6. Flagg, South
| Portland; Berthe NJ. Rankin, Edith L..
Rankin, Gorham; May K, Mckenney,
Portland; Elizabeth Hosr, Danyers,
Mass.; Della /. Grin, Newton, Mass. !;
Mollie A. Perry, Denmark; Marguerite
II. Dyer, Limeri,k; A. &c. Rowe, Port
land; r. p. Wagg, Lewiston; E. III
Stone, Browntield; Edith NJ. Darle
westiield, N. j.; Il. Stryker, ]. Messsn.
ger, SomervilIe, n. j.; Alice B-azier
Sawyer, Portland; Edith L. Richardson,
East Baldwin; A. .. Mildear, 5. j. Mill
dean, Wells Branch; l.. j. Nash, Wind
ham; Jessie A. Kimball, East Hiram !;
Sarah S. Chaplin. Mary X. Chaplin, Wash
ington. ID. O.; Marin 9. Hamblln, Bessie
NJ. Lowell. Gorham; henrietta T..
Smart, Hiram; Ethel l.. Hnntress.
| Hiram; George NJ. Rogers, Lora Hutohin-
son, Litch1eid; blanche Spring. Flor
ence Spring. Hiram; Blanche NJ. Fender
son, East Parsonsfleld; Mrs Ii. w. Kim
ball, Skowhegsn; K. Il. Staples, Bridg
ton Frances NJ, Elder, Portland; Mertie
NJ. Aldrich, Auburn; Charlotte Coombs.
Alics E. Perkins, Hallowell; Mary S.
Snow, Bangor; Florence 81. Knight,
Grace L. knight, wiscasset; Mrs. ). NJ.
Kerr. Harriet B. Kerr, Springfield; Geor-
eia Weber. South Portland: Ellre j.
Ccchrane, Josephine Tho, rdike, Annie
NJ. Kennedy, Rockland
GOOD WILL ASSEMBLY.