Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF
IN THE SCHOOLROOM.
What is Being Done in Maine for the
Advancement of Education.

advancement or EoucatiCn-
A Cumberland county teacher.
meeting will occur in Portland o
Jan. 23@
The graduation of the winter elias
at the Gorham Normal school will oc
cur ON Jan. %.
Miss Annie l.. Allen has resigned ..e
position as teacher of the Kennebunl
primary school which she has held TIL
pastste years.
Among those who took the State ex
animation for teacher at Limington las
fail, b. NJ. Clough of Sebago, secured
public school certificate for fly,
years
Miss Flora Small has resigned hel
position as teacher in the first gram.
mar school, Caribou. on account O
poor health and has returned to hel
home in Castine.
Lee H. Gray of Lubec, who has beer
assistant ut the Boynton High school
PASSPORT, during the past term has re-
signed to accept similar position II
Washington Academy, Machias.
received from Hon. W. w. Stetson
State superintendent of common
schools, a State certificate good fol
five years in the grammar school grade
and with a high rank.
There is quite a delegation of stu
dents from Troy, III the Pennington
Normal school, consisting of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Fl. Bagley, Misses Erdene
Pierce, Nellie Hillman. Maude Clark
ArZuba Myrick and Addie Stone.
Horace b. Luce, who has been teach
ing the winter term of school at New
burg village, has gone to Ashland
Mass where he has accepted the po-
stion of principal of the grammar
school in that town. Mr.. Luce is d
graduate Of the Eastern State Normal
school. class 1901
The teachers in Monmouth, Win
throp. Leeds. Wales and Litchfield viii
hold a meeting in Cumston hail. Mon
mouth, on Jan. 26 Among the speak
ers will be w. w. Stetson, State su-
perintendent of schools, and George C.
Purington, principal of the Farming
ton Normal school.
James p. Weber of Bath, Bowdoin
1900, instructor of English and elo-
cution at the Bath high school, has
gone to Salem, Mass, where he has ac-
cepted a position as head instructor of
English in the Salem high school,
which has an attendance of six hun
dred pupils. Mr.. Weber will have
several assistants under him.
Chas.f Wilbur Cary, the principal of
the Chisholm school, Rumford Falls,
has resigned his position. His active
connection with the school will close
as soon as his successor is appointed.
Mr.. Cary assumed his position in the
high school five years ago coming
there from Klttery. During this time
he has done much to raise the standard
of the school and 10 improve the ia
cilties of the institution. He is to
continue his residence at Rumford
Falls having assumed the position OF
manager Of the Maine Publishing Com
pany recently organized.
The grammar school at Yarmouth OF
which Miss Elizabeth Hiscock is prin-
cipal has done some very pTaiSeWorthy
work in the way of beautifying the
school room An unused class room
has been newly tinted and painted and
with assistance from the members OF
the school board three additional Win
dows have been put in. The room has
been filed with more than hundred
plants and slips. some of which have
been purchased from the proceeds OF
entertainments and others have beer
5donated by nllni1e and friends These
plants are cared for daily by the pu-
pills ana kent in excellent condition
This room is called the plant room II
addition to the plants and flowers, :;
number of small reproductions of ia
nous paintings adorn one corner of tho
room.