Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-07

purchase of books, literary meetings;
Point school-Additions to library,
pictures, organ purchased, literary and
social meetings; Center SchOol-LarGe
additions to library, yard beautified,
literary and social meetings; Abbott
school-Yard improved, a few meet
ings; South Rumford school-Flag pur-
chased and raised, woodwork of in
terror painted, literary and social meet
ings; Virginia school-Flag purchased
and raised. bookcase provided, a num-
Der of books for library purchased,
several pictures, literary meetings;
Falls schools-A number of books add
cd to Libraries, picture molding placed
in new Pettengill schOolhouse, several
new pictures. The Lincoln League has
begun to publish the Rumford Falls
Spray. The Falls Leagues have COM
bned their efforts to buy a piano for
The Assembly hall. These leagues
nave all had meetings at stated inter-
walls.
In the annual report of Charles p.
Barnes. the superintendent of schools
of Norway he congratulates the towns
men on the advance the past year has
shown. The comfortable and healthful
housing Of the great majority of the
pupils is a source of satisfaction to
those who have long labored earnestly
to gain that end. The committee hav-
ing in charge the erection of the new
rooms at the High school building
tn med over to the school committee
an exceedingly well arranged addition.
1t will be no longer necessary to leave
hfh Of fl,a <,.pl +I,a;
respective rooms during the long sum-
mer vacation, shelf room having been
provided for all books. The new rooms
| We're provided with slate blackboards
and desks and chairs of the most APP
proved type. In the High school build
| ing are now eight main schoolrooms, or
study rooms, occupied by the common
| schools. and during the fall term each
| seated an average of 1928 pupils. AS
| in previous years, all Norway cand-
dates who passed examination and APP
piled for schools were employed, four
| members of the High school classes of
| 1902 and 1901 beginning their careers as
| teachers. OF the % teachers employed
in the term just closed four have had
college training, four are Normal
| graduates. five others have had a par
| tal course at Normal school, and all of
the twelve remaining are graduates of
| Norway High school of Hebron Acad-
| envy, seven of the twelve having had
more than five years each of expert
ence as teachers in Norway schools.
| 1t is a matter of regret that the town
| is not yet ready to grant the trifling
sum necessary to supervise musical
| instruction in all schools of fifteen or
| more pupils. The parents at Mobiles
| Corner have continued such instruction
| since the town stopped giving it, and
seven of our most enterprising village
teachers have secured from the parents
of their pupils subscriptions sufficient
to conduct this branch of liberal
education for the past two terms. Two
hundred and fifty dollars, which will
| raise each individual tax on an aver
age less than the ownership of a
bicycle, will furnish competent instruc-
ton in this line. The chief departure
during the past year in revising the
book list has been the introduc.ion OF
an up-to-date geography. The num-
Der OF scholars In town. April /, 1902.