Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-06
IN THE SCHOOLROOM.
What Is Being Done in Maine for the Advance
ment Of Education.

I
! Androscoggin county teachers insti-
| tute has been set for Monday. May t.
| Miss Edith Kalloch. who has been
| teaching in Acton. Mass. has been Sc
| lected to fill n vacancy in one of the
common school grades in Eockland.
| Annie May. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Leon Chase of Rockland. for the past
| four years. comprising II consecutive
| terms, has been neither tardy nor alb
sent.
Fred T. Johnson of North Berwick. a
| graduate of Colby and for several
| wears superintendent of schools at
Berwick has accepted the position of
principal of the high school at Bar
Harbor.
Miss Winnifred Reed of Lincoln
| Centre. has been engaged as kinder
gartner for the Old Town kindergar-
| ten. Miss Reed is a graduate of the
| kindergarten Training School in Ban
gor. and of the Pennington Normal
school.
| A joint debate will soon be held be
| tween the Kents Hill team and T.. NJ.
&. Seminary. Bucksport team on the
| question: Does the Constitution fol-
low the Fag?" +. NJ. 4. Seminary will
| be represented by Oscar Smith. Horace
Holt and Alexis Luce.
| 4 Teachers Reading Circle has been
| organized in Standish. with Scott
Shaw as president and Leon q. Paine
as secretary. The first meeting will be
held at the village schoolhouse early
in May and the program for the meet
| ing will be arranged by Rev. {. l..
| Parker. Mrs. Frances +. Moore and
Miss Mona NJ. Phinncy.
The spring term of Foxcroft Acad-
| envy. opened with siXty-eight students
| one more than there We're last term
and it is the largest registration for Il
| spring term for several years. The
| senior class has voted to follow the eX-
ample OF the classes OF the past TWO
years in having no class parts and
making an excursion To Boston after
the term closes. There are seven in
| the class.
| Ralph l.. Wiggin Of Rockland. who
| has been employed as sub-mastcr OF
the Rockland high school the past
three years, has rendered his resigna-
| ton and it has been accepted by the
school board. Mr.. Wigsin is to be-
come principal of the high school in
| North Andover Mass. Mr. Wiggin
| graduated from Bowdoin College in
1895 and Immediately became mem
Der of the high school faculty.
Miss Margaret Wilson of Bowdoin-
| ham, has received notice of her admiS-
sion to the Teachers College. Column
bia University. New York City. Miss
Wilson is a graduate Of the Bowdoin-
ham High school. also Of the Farming
| ton Normal. regular and advanced
courses. and has taught successfully
for number of years in Massachu-
sets. also in Bowdoinham and Bar
| Harbor. at which latter place she is
now teaching.
In Northport at the annual town
meeting, it was voted to hold no school
| in the Beech Hill district but that the
| scholars should be transported to
either the schools at Saturday Cove or
| the Brainard district. The parents
of the eight or ten young scholars at
| Beech Hill have refused to allow their
| children to be taken out of the district
because they are SO young. At the re
| quest OF some of the people of the dis
trlct, q special town meeting will be
held to dispose of the matter about
the middle of April. The greatest op-
position to the opening of q school in
that district is the very few scholars
there and nearly all will soon be old
enough to go into another district anu
again the schOOlhouse is in very bad
shape. The committee are opposed to
repairing the present building and it is
| thought that the town will vote
against building a new schoolhouse.