Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-09
IN IHE SCHOOLROOM.
What is Being Done for the Advancement Of
Education in Maine.

Bates College will graduate a class
Of g. this month.
Bath school board has added two
weeks to the school year. making ii IS
weeks long.
A Nag was raised on the Morrills
$ .huol building. last week. There We're
brief exercises by the three schools.
Miss blanche Nj. Briggs Of Caribou.
has position AS principal Of five
grades Of school in one building for
the canning year with a salary of $loSo.
The Lewiston school board has elected
| Wis., Elizabeth Hall Of Randolph Center,
! Vt. principal of The Normal Training
! scnuui ut that City 70 succeed MISS Ade-
l;lidr Il. Finch. who recently Resigned
The. schools Of Sprngvale have been
| named as follows: District No. |, Lin
coin: :. Longtel"w; D. Hawthorne; !. Ed
ison; :, Holmes: q, Grant; :. whittier !!
Emerson; 10. jefferson: II. Washington:
H. Webster; Ii. Bryant; Il. Franklin.
Miss Melinda Lemont Tarbox of
Bath. is member Of the graduating
class Of quincy Mansion school. VOL
laston Mass. The exercises occur
June 18th.
The Frye Improvement League of
! Mexico. has chosen the following Off
GERS: President. A. ]. Reed; vice-pres-
/ ident. Arthur Bradeen: secretary. ;.
Grace Reed: treasurer, Della kidder.
The graduating exercises, class OF
1900. Cherryfeld Academy. will take
place at the Baptist church. Thursday
June 2S, followed by a reception and
ball at Union hall in the evening.
Miss Annie Louise Lord was awarded
the prize for the cover design Of the
Ellsworth High School Recorder. The
covers are in garnet with a design of
gilt.
Bar Harbor's fine public library has
received recently. 40 new books. The
librarian. Miss Addie Bunker. expects
| a very busy season. At the present
time an average Of 80 books is the
daily output.
Miss Florence Abbott. teacher of the
urinary school on the College road.
Orono. was very pleasantly surprised
by her scholars. recently. by being pre-
scented with a handsome flag for the
school building. The matter was kept
an entire secret from the teacher until
the money had been raised and the flag
purchased by the children.
! With the prize issue OF me EllSWorIl!
| High school Recorder the old board went
ont Of office. and it became necessary "
fiji their places. At meeting held Mon
dav afternoon. the following were elected
! ID compose the editorial staff: Harriet
| Rollins. editor-in-chief: Leonice F9ster
associate editor; Elizabeth Joy and Ethel
| Allen literary editors: Charles &. knowl-
ton ana Grace G. King. local editors; Eth
eI Rowe and Arthur Gould. exchange eu-
itors; george Parcher; alumni editor tor.
Charles NJ Hurley Il business hia,iase'
The committee from the Old Town city
council appointed to arrange Tor new
schoolhouse To take the PLACE OF the 9ld
academy building have praGuGallE ue' iirh
school PURPOSES only. That is the dec!-
sion Of the committee. but 81 course \
will be submitted 10 the CITY cmuncll n,-
fore 4 final decision is made. there hds
been talk all the spring OF erecting rs"
building suitable for the high ana gram 7
mIr schools Architect w. f.. Mansur "l
Bangor has been employed To draw tI'
plans for new building.
4 new school paper called The
Arcturus" has been issued by the
senior class Of the Caribou High
school. 1t contains besides valuable
, reading matter. well-executed portraits
of the principal and assistant teachers,
the graduating class which numbers
ten. one of the first principal, w. :.
Knowlton. to whose untiring efforts the
establishment of the school is due; one
Of the school building. and another Of
the three young men who won the de-
bate against the Pressure Isle High
school. The Arcturus was first pub
IHshed when Prof. Knowlton was prin-
cipal of the school. but has not been
issued from that time until the pres
ent.
The teachers Of the Calais schools held
thair regular monthly meeting at Red
Beach last Friday and the occasion will
long he pleasantly remembereV by all.
During the forenoon they visited the
morning session the meeting was held,
In the afternoon 4 picnic at Martin !
T beach was enjoyed. and in the evening
: ! ne teachers attended the strawberry fes-
: tivaI and entertainment held under tn,
| auspices of the pupils of the high school
, Inc following program WIS carried our
= call; report of secretary: discussion
!, "How Shall Existing Conditions in Re
. spect to Arithmetic be Metz l.. ". Ger
! risn. Mss Peterson. Miss Beckett. Mis-.
? Reed Miss Hoxie, Miss McKusick: solo
| len minute paper. What is Proper Ba
; SIS for Fromotion?" Miss Short; paper
Z :Adyantages Of Departmental Teaching
in Grades Below the High School" Mis-
Ianet Hanson. paper. by What Standart
should the Years Failure or Success h
y Judged Miss Mitchell; question box
q conductad by DR.. Webber: business: ex
u ecutiye committee for October: l.. W
i Cerrish. Miss Whitney, Miss Mitchell.
q Preparations for tiag-raising are il
- order at the Isthmus school, Rumfor(
9 Falls. and the pupils will soon organic
r an Improvement league. Grades ii
and III. have Jointly organized tht
Hawthorne League. Grade V. has or
/ sanized the Stetson League with TIL
n following officers: President. Mis-
curtis; vice-president, Ezra Dunton