Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-01
IN THE SCHOOLROOM.
What is Being Done in Maine for the
Advancement Of Education.

Miss Ethel Hilton of Denmark. has
accepted a situation as teacher in
school in Charleston. S. c.
The business men of Lubec. have
generously donated 800 worth of
chemicals and laboratory apparatus 10
the Village High school.
The class Of 1901. Yarmouth High
school, has presented the school with
a fine photograph of the class. This
was the first class to graduate from
the new building and also the first in
the century.
At a recent meeting of the Paris
school board an important recon-
mendation was made: That the brick
school house be torn down. and n new
building be- erected to accommodate
the high, grammar and intermediate
schools, as at present.
! The fist year men at the Bangor
Law school have elected the following
class officers: a. a. Lang of st. Thorn
as. Porto Rico. president; c. a. Cluff.
! Taunton. Mass, vice-president: w. Z.
Frye, Dexter. secretary: George Lou
gee. Hampden. treasurer.
| The class parts of the Senior class
Of the Mechanic Falls High school have
| been assigned as follows: NaledictOry,
Miss Edna Robinson: saMtatory, Miss
Cora Noble: prophecy. Miss FFedella
oration. Carroll Raymond; presentation
of gifts. Herman NORTH.
| Another class in shorthand and type
| writing will be formed in the business
course of the Saco schools. At the
present time Ii pupils are taxing the
commercial branches. SO many have
made application to Superintendent
Locke TO be allowed TO take the course
that it has been decided to start an
other class.
Miss Annie II. Peaks. OF DovA.r. who
for the past two years has been a
teacher in Foxcroft Academy. closed
her connections with it the present
| week Her successor is to liz Miss
Edith II. Reed, of Westfield. Mass. a
graduate of Mt. Holyoke College. 1891.
Miss Reed has taken large amount of
work in chemistry and has recently
| been studying in the Westfcid Normal
school.
| a little Cambridge girl was diScov-
cred whispering in school and the
| teacher asked. What We're You saying
to the girl next to you when l caught
you whisperihg?" The little culprit
| hung her head for a moment and then
replied. Il was only telling her how
nice you looked in Your new dress.
We'll, that-yes-I know-but We
must-the class in spelling will please
stand up
The graduation exercises of the Car
| atunk schools occurred on Jan. 18th.
Eva NJ. Ames of Skowhegan. teacher.
The graduates we're: intermediate
grade, Carl Sherman Bean. Lena Belle
Berry. Robert William Arno. Gram
mar grade. Eta Vienna Williams. Da-
vId Seth Baker. Sadie Elizabeth Foss,
Idcllc Beatrice Webster, Helen Belle
Baker Ernest Almon Williams. Susie
Ann Carbino. High school. Eva
Louise Webster, Jennie Maude Young,
Laura May Williams. Mary Ona San
born. The music at the exercises was
furnished by the local choir. All the
PARTS were well rendered; the original
essays of the four young ladies' of the
High school grade We're highly credita :
BILE The diplomas were conferred by
Superintendent Sterling with a few
wei chosen words. after which G. E.
f.all of Athens, delivered n short ad
dress which was well received.
Miss Charlotte Bridge, primary
school teacher in Mechanic Falls, has
Kept record of unusual statements
which have been drawn from her pu-
pills by questions concerning their
studies, stories read them, current
events, and definitions of words which
have come into the school work. From
this record has been CLEANED these orr
ginal and sometimes startling an
nouncements:
Beef steak comes out of a pig.
Adam was a policeman.
The snake was in the garden of Eden
to bite Adam.
| | can hear with my eyes.
When Cinderella got her work done
She used to so up the chimney and sit
down in the cinders.
For Il boy to become of age means 10
get married.
To have bad disposition means 10
sit up straight. Minot Corner is a
continent. Robinson CruSo shot beasts
and other animals. Bangor is a dri
plac. God lives in Boston. Baptize
means to kill. Bunion is an old wo-
man with poor clothes on. Sunday is
a hollerday. Relish means something
: you eat with. like a fork. Capital
, means the first president. Independ-
, ence day is the day when the For
rosters meet. Washington was the
first President of this world. | have
n gouinpe roap. Have 1 been sick
sicks weeks? Tailor means man who
cuts off tails? Banquet means a base
drum. also banquet means some
thing that goes on the back of a wo-
mans head. New York is the bigges,
town in these You Nited Stats. Can
ton is where they make cans. Papa
said he was born in Canton when he
was baby boy. When is the II
o'clock train due? Parent is a kind OF
bird. He spent -four cents (meanins
| years. in other countries. (This re-
fers to Longfellow's life abroad) How
are you and your forks? Her aches
and pans are all gone.
One scholar. carrying out the idea OF
phonetic spelling. spells twelve
"quelve." a lad asked why the two
. ugly sisters in Cinderella did not eat
4 for Two days previous to the ball. ex-