Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-17
Paragraphs About Matters in Maine.

from Oakland to northern New York
last winter, have now moved to Iron
River, Mich. where Mr. Wilbur has Sc
cured the position of Superintendent of
schools.
Miss Harriet G. Lane Of Providence,
p. l., graduate Of Brown College, class
'O5, has accepted the position of assist
ant teacher in the High school at
Northwest HarbCr.
Mouson Academy has opened for the
fail term with about GO in attendance.
Miss Helen Dunbar of North Castine
has resumed her duties as teacher in
the ninth grade of the schools at Chel-
sea, Mass.
Miss Mabel Farnham Of Concord, n.
H., is employed as teacher in the
fourth and fifth grades of the Dexter
school. At present the school is hold
ing sessions in the Town hall until the
Pleasant street building is ready for
occupancy.
Miss Mary c. Hinkley Of Gorham.
| who for several years past has been a
teacher in the Webster school, Auburn,
has been elected to position in the
jackson school. Portland Miss Hink-
ley is a graduate of Gorham High
school and Gorham Normal school.
Cecil Butler of West Franklin has
been engaged as teacher of the school
in Wellington.
The board of instruction at the Maine
Central Institute, Pittsfield, this year
is as follows: +. u. Landman, A. B.,
principal; F. S. ThurstOn, sub-princi-
pal: Lillian Norton, A. B., preceptress;
Lura Wakefield. normal department:
Grace V. Thompson, A. B., assistant;
Mrs. Evelyn Call. assistant; Ethel v.
I.aughton, elocution; Mrs. F. J. Taylor,
music; Mrs. Marie Anderson, phonog-
raphy and typewriting.
The new High school building at
Milo i: now up and boarded in and the
work from now on will be rushed. This
structure when completed will be an
ornament to the town and will rank as
one of the best in this section of Maine
1t is expected that the building will be
finished in time for occupancy during
the winter term of school.
At a recent meeting of the Rockland
school board the resignation of Miss
Louise Walker Of the eighth grade
school. McLain building, was accepted.
Miss Walker has heen Il teacher in the
public schools for many years and was
always extremely popular. 1t is a cause
for regret that her health will not per-
nit her to continue in the work. Miss
Nellie T.. keene was promoted from
the seventh grade to fill the vacancy
and Miss Nellie Hatch will teach in the
seventh grade. Miss Maud Smith was
elected for the vacancy at the Crescent
Street school and Miss Martha Sim
mons will teach at the Hcnner Hill
school,
Ernest Witham, son of DR.. A. N.
Witham of Westbrook. graduate of
Tufts College. has recently been elected
a teacher in Perkins Institute at South
Boston, Mass.
Miss Belle r. Witham of Biddeford,
who graduated from the German Nor
NAL school last June. has been engaged
to teach in the LongfellOw school at
Gorham.
Herbert f. Hartwell, the new teacher
OF modern languages in the Portland
High school, is graduate of the High
school. Brockton, Mass, also of Boston
University. and after graduating from
the latter he made a study of phonetics
at the Universite de Paris.
John Chadwick has been awarded the
contract TO build the new brick school,
house on Bowdoin street, HOultOn. He
sublet the brick work to parties from
Northeast Harbor. who will commence
opera tons at once.
Four teachers Of District No. 10 have
begun their schools as follows: Prof. II.
A. Blake, Uxbridge. Mass; Myrtle
Swanton, North Dexter; Lizzie Moore.
Eoyalton, Vt; Annie Moore. Russell