Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-20
IN THE SCH00LR0OM.
What Is Being Done in Maine Tor the Advance.
ment Of Education.

l.. \. Gray of Wesley. has been engaged
| to teach the school at Mortified.
Eleven graduates of Belfast high school
| are now attending fitting school or col
lege.
Miss Alice Day. teacher at the West
Gorham school the past year. has ac-
cepted position as teacher of Var
| mouth school.
merly principal of Rockland high school.
has been appointed head master of the
new South Boston high school.
Clarence Proctor of the class of '9S.
Bowdoin. has been elected principal of
Wndham high school. Miss Lizzie Cobb
has been reelected assistant.
At "A special town meeting in Milo re-
Gently Miss Jane Jones was elected SUI
pcrintendent of schools to fill the vacancy
caused by the death OF Mrs. l.. II. Doble
DIR. A. w. Nash. superintendent OF
schools in jefferson, has resigned. and
| Mr. l.. +. Cudworth has accepted the Of
| flee. The schools in Jefferson will com
| mencc April 10Th.
has engaged Miss Mary X. Chandler Of
Columbia Falls to teach the spring term
| of the grammar school and Miss Alice
Burrill Of East Machias to teach the pri-
mary school.
Bertha Pitts IA graduate of Brdgton
| academy and Of Gorham Normal school.
| has been elected principal of Bingham
| high school for the next year. having
| served aCteptdhN Ill llldl dui
| ing the last year.
| As IA means of promoting greater in
tcrcst in home reading among the scho!-
! ars of the Jonesport public schools super
| intendent Mrs. 4. +. Mansfield is interest
| ing herself in the work Of supplying each
school with small library adapted to
| the taste of this class of readers.
Perley {. Elder. who was recently cleo
ted as principal of Phillips high school.
has been obliged on account of illness to
resign the poSition. The school will be-
gin Monday, April - Mr.. Elder is Il
graduate Of Bates. class of 1870.
W. s Leason has donated one hundred
dollars 10 Atkinson the interest to be
used for the benefit of the schools. This
fund is to be known as the l.cason school
| fund, and may be largely increased as
Mr. Lcason is quite wealthy ana taxes
much interest in the schools of his native
town.
Tyler NJ Coombs has been reelected SUI
pe-intendcrt of the schools by the Joint
school committee of NinalhaNen. deer
Isle Stonington and Isle au fiaut Inc
salary of TIE superintendent is $3.50 ap,,
portioned as follows: NinaihaLen ana
Deer Isle. si25 each. StoEinSton. 500 ana
Isle au Haut 800
The Sanford high school gradua,ion VIII
occur June H. class of l. Will Sradti-
ate The following assignments haEe
been made: Valedictory,., Miss Sadie F.
Woodworth: salutatory, MISS 'ertrude l..
perkins: history. Miss Alice Nj. PERKINS :
nronhccy. RAYMOND l.. Quint; class ODE
Miss MabeJle l. Whether. ora tions. es-
saws etc. to be selected by the princi-
pal.
A meeting of the West Pcnobscot teach
ers association will be held in Dexter
on Friday and Saturday. April 26-3' The
meeting will open Friday. morning at 10
o'clock with prayer and music. after
which the following program will be car
ricd out: Address of welcome: Rev; w.
II Gould. Dexter: response. r. f. Dyer
Newport: Advantages of English l.itera-
.ure in the Lower Grades. iINan:ci;,e
rnvlor. PittSficld: schools in the Middle
Ivcst Rev. ID. A. BoatriGht Comma ad-
drcss Hon. W. w. Stetson. Recess Tor
elmer Afternoon: Music: Evils of the
";rare,te. Della W. Bemis. Corinna
ph%sicaI culture with class exercise,
cnrr;e Ramsdell. Dexter: chemical Gram
49, Miss Everett. Pittsfield; paper. Mrs
X n CroweII. North Newport; question
, hoy! address. Hon. w. W. Stetson Eve
n;nc. Music: address. W. }. Thompson
Sn,f,h China: address on art. Hon. w.
~ StetsOn. Saturday forenoon: Music;
h,s;nnss. school leagues. l.. Hattie MOI
~, Torinna: Our Local Rocks and Min
lis II. r. Smith. levant; Elementary
science i'm the Lower Grades, Prof. Frank
Ea,,,nn Bangor high school: CONNER
~ Studies in the Lower Grade. Prof
Erra r. Ball. Shaw's business college
pnnsor. Why Do Teachers Fail Il
! fsa;rtain an interest in Their Schools
M Ma Ella Austin Exeter: address. Hon
~ W Stetson. Recess for dinner. Aft