The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-06-13
SOUTH PORTLAND.
REPORTS OF SCHOOL rEAoHERI

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The following reports of teachers in the
schools in South Portland have been re
ceived;
First grade, primary. Mics Bessie @.
Broughton, teacher; pupils attending
school, %; average attendance, 80.
Second grade primary, Miss Kate +
Libby, teacher; pupils attending school,
z2s average attendance, ss; pupils not
absent oue-half day, Adelaide Merriman,
Helen Nixon, Gertrude Nelson, Eiva
Studley, Etta sieavey, Annie Simmonds,
Florence Goodnow.
First intermediate school, Miss Leila
K. Broushton, teacher; pupils attending
school. 49,; average attendance, IS; not
absent one-half day, Eva Bowen. Anna
Bnokminster, Amelia Buckminster,
Ernest Dewyea. Linwood Foss, Annie
1rifIin, Chester Knowles, Helen Melia,
Leona Nixon, Eta Simmonds, Anna
Werner. Adelbert Woodbury.
Second intermediate school, Miss
Lydia L. Mills. teacher; pupils attending
school, IS; acreage attendance. a.; not
absent one-half day, Lewis Arey, Abbie
Bennett. Raymond Henley.
knightvjlle primary school, Mi.s Alice
g. Dodge. teacher; number of pupils 40;
verage attendance 33;-perfect In at
tendance. Nellie Martin; absent one-haIf
day, Clinton johnson, George Rounds.
George Hilee, Charlie Jones;-abssnt one
day, Clayton Brackett. Fannie Baker.
Knightville first primary. Miss Georgia
We5ber. teacher; pupils attending school,
81; average attendance. 81; not absent
one-half day, five; Flora Jones absent
one day during the school year.
Knightville intermediate school; num-
bar Of pupils, a.; average number, 40;
pupils not absent during term. Charlie
Baker, Gilman johnson, Norman Plum.
msr, Maurice Littleneld, Clarence NJ rse,
Hell bert Leighton, Eddie Rogers. Warren
sawyer, 'Addie Mcvane; pupils absent
one half day, Ray Barker, Carl Russell,
Olivia Howxweli, Gladys McClearn, MIL
dred Royles.
LETTER FROM STANLEY HUBBARD
OF THE HOSPITAL CORPS.
These extracts from letters sent by
Stanley Hubbard of the u. S. Hospital
Corps now stationed in Cuba will prove
interesting reading. They were dated
Placetas, Cuba. He writes as follows:
April 31.-We are nicely settled In our
new quarters and ready for the rainy
season. We are so nicely fitted out with
fine cots and mosquito bars the sight OF
such nice quarters would give any volun-
teer the heart disease. 1t looks as nice as
any millionaire's summer residence. We
have lots TO eat. American vegetables of
every description. Our barracks are ESQ
feet long and so feet wide, and were used
by the Spanish soldiers 1t was Gen.
Weyler's. headquarters. and all the stories
Tou have read about him have been true,
for he was really a butcher. His home
was right in front of the plaza and every
insHrgent that was killed he had dragged
through the streets and left lying right
in the Park, where all their friends and
relatives could see them-they did not
dare to touch them until night, then they
would sneak out in the dark, get their
bodies and bury them. went over to
an old cemetery yesterday, and it Is the
most siokening sight ever saw. There
Is pile Of skeletons twenty feet high,
right out In plain sight of everybody
Nobody cares whether they are buried or
not, for they can't tell who is who. and
of course these Cubans would not bury
Spaniard on their lives. There was
little riot in Santa Clara few days ago,
and they were going to kill everyone OF
the fifteen cavalrymen that are there.
They are sore because they haven't got
more money from the United States, and
of course they think the soldiers are to
blame. 1t is not the white Cuban SOL
diers, but the negroes. The troop of cav
airy got there just in time, and put the
devils on the run. They couldn't imagine
how it was that the troop of men got there
SO soon. ] guess they will find out how
We do business after while.
May 15.-Everything is In full bloom
here. can't begin to explain how beau
tiful everything looks. The mountains
are very pretty. The palm and eocoanut
trees will never cease to be a curiosity to
me. There are lots of other trees here,
such as the laurel and the big tree that
ought to see US In the white flannel suits
with brass buttons. They are very pretty
and cool. We look more like yachtsmen
than soldiers. l go out riding great
deal, and see lots of the country, and en-
joy 1t very much.
May 2S.-Campbell and l are well, and
hope we will remain in good health, for
We are sure to have trouble with these
Cubans. Gomez has ordered his men to
the fsld. Already there have been three
or four fights in Santa Glare, Cienfuegos
and Havana, and several Cubans killed
and many wounded. Night before last
the Cubans refused to lay down their
arms in Cienfuegos and the companies of
the and regular infantry charged down
the st reefs with fixed bayonets, and Just
moved them down, killed two and
wounded many others. Right here In
Placetas, the Cubans are holding confer
eness every night and some of them have
wound up in row. dom know the
reason. The Cuban cavalry here drill
every day about eight miles from our
camp, and are keeping things very quiet.
IL Is not safe for one Of US to 20 out alone
for these Cubans fight ON the same prin-
ciple that our Indians do in the United
States.
May al was called out last night to
see sick Cuban, but before got to him
he was dead, SO laid him out aud
dressed him, 1t wasn't long hefora the