Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-14

erty, $11,O0o; teachers, IA; average
| $7t.Si; average wages of female teach
ers, per week, $50; paid for school
| superintendent. $3.50; amount raised
per scholar. $3.50; school resources.
$500; expended during the year. $5S22
| The OndsouSon Club, COMPOSED of
| the young aides of the Ellsworth high
| school, met Tuesday afternoon for the
| election of officers for the ensuing
year; the following We're elected:
President. Louise Foster: vice presi-
dent, Sarah Jarvis; secretary, Grace
King; treasurer. Mary Holmes. Mem
bers Of the executive committee:
Juniors, Ethel Rowe, chairman:
Martha Grant Ethel Allen. Sophie
mores, Hattie Smith, Bessie JOY.
Georgia Foster Freshmen, Annie
Lord, Grace Wagg, Lettie Moore The
club, by various entertainments, raised
| about $75 the past year. and this sum
was paid on the new piano.
The towns of Rumford and Mexico
have united in hiring superintendent
of schools, and have chosen Payson
Smith of Canton, for the place. His
salary from the towns and the State
will be $3.50. Mr.. Smith is 2S years old.
He went to the Portland city schools
as a boy, fitted for college at West
brook Seminary. and went to Tufts
College. Returning from college he
had charge of instruction in the classi-
cal languages at Westbrook Seminary
two years. He has been principal of
Canton high school four years, COM
bning with the principalship the
superintendency of the other schools
in Canton.
\ series of debates has been held
during the winter and spring between
representatives of the different classes
of the University of Maine. The final
debate was held April between the
representatives of the junior and
freshman classes. The subject was:
Resolved. that the Beers Were Justi-
fed in Their War With England" The
juniors had the affirma tive; their rep
resentatives We're Maurice Barnaby
Merrill, saltwater; George Harold
Davis, Auburn, and Waldo Horace
Bennett, Newport. The freshmen were
represented by Ralph Melvin Conner,
South Paris. and Thomas Edward
'
Of the judges was in favor of the
juniors.
The theses of the seniors in the de-
partment of mechanical engineering at
the University of Maine are as follows:
William Joseph Burgess. Calais. and
Harry Ashton Davis, Orono. Design of
4 100 Il. p. Corliss Engine; George Otis
Hamlin, Orono, and Harry Hewes
feathers. Bangor. Efficiency Of Pipe
Coverings as Determined by Expert
ments in the Machine shop Of the Uni
versty Of Maine: Edwin Jonathan
Mann. West Paris. Efficiency ana
Economy Of Gas Engines as Motive
Power for Electric Lighting Plants:
Edward Henry Smith. East Sullivan
ana Frank Elijah Webster. Patton.
Improvement of Il Water Power
Plant; Grosvenor Wilson Stickncy
Clinton. Mass, Indicator Tests of Ma
chine Tools.
Frank +. Weymouth. University of
Maine. '96. formerly Of Mcdford Cen
ter. Maine. has been Il member Of the
engineering force Of the Nicaragua
canal commission for some time Last
week two more University " Maine
men sailed from New York III Central
America to take positions with the
commission. They are Ralph Barton
Manter, '96. formerly Of Milo. Ne. ana
Charles Henry Farnham ~. Of Eev-
erly Mass. Mr.. Farnham served in
cuba as Il lieutenant in the Sth Massa-
chusetts infantry. Both Mr.. Farnham
and Mr.. Manter resigned positions with
the Massachusetts highway commits
q, 70 h. Of
rlgua canal commission