Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-20

Miss Pearl Daniorth. Ward Hill, Miss
Gladys Phillips. White school house,
Miss Alice Morse. Foss school, Miss
Ellie Carl.
Irving c.. Weeks of Watertown,
Mass, was elected sub-master of the
Lewiston high school, at salary of
$3.50, by the school board, at its We'd
nesday evening session. Miss Florence
E, Osborne, who has been teaching in
Lisbon Falls was elected teacher Of
Latin and Greek in the high school. at
salary of 5000. 1t was voted to trans
fer Miss Katherine B. Shea from the
River Road to the Crowley school.
Miss Ellen It.. McDonough was elected
to the River Road school at a salary of
$3.50; and Miss Goldie A. Hayward to-
the Garcelon Ferry school at $3.50. 1t
was voted to admit to the junior class
of the Lewiston Normal Training
school, Miss Elsie Hammond, Miss
Mary Leonard, Miss Helen McDonough,
Miss Helen O'Conner and Miss Sadie
Wandtke; to the kindergarten depart-
ment, Miss Helen Wagg and Miss
Kathleen Forth. These young women,
who are all of Lewiston. will receive
two dollars a week. Miss Mildred Tim
berlake of South Livermore, will be adj
mitted to the Junior class of the train
ing school and Miss Helen Vose of Sa-
BATHS, to the kindergarten department
but they will receive no compensation.
The question Of purchasing coal for the
coming year was discussed at some
length. AS a result it was decided that
the 'comTnittee on Janitors, schoolhouses
and grounds advertise for bids on both
soft and hard coal and report to the
full board.
l.. E. Moulton of Rockland, who has
been elected to fill the vacancy caused
by The resignation Of Principal Robert
J. Sisk of the Edward Little High
school, Auburn. was graduated from
Bates College in 1893 and for II years
was principal of the Rockland schools
and afterward served for one year as
district superintendent of Rockland
md Thomaston schools For three years
following he was principal of Monson
Academy. His salary as principal of
the L. l.. II. S. has been fixed at 81 800
Mr.. Moulton is 80 years of age, is mar
ried and has three children. Fl. E. Con-
don, formerly instructor in the COM
mercial department of Edward Little,
but who for the past few years has
been at the head of the commercial de-
partment in the Rutland, Vermont,
high school, has been elected at a sala-
v of $1,000, to succeed Luella r. Lyon
who recently resigned the instructor
ship in the commercial department of
f. l.. H. S.
Harold B. Stanton of Newton, Mass,
who has been elected to teach French
in Bates College, Lewiston, was grad
uated from Dartmouth College in the
class of 1906. with the degree A. B..
having completed the four years
course in three and one-half years.
'.''rom February, 1906. to August of the
same year, Mr.. Stanton was in Europe
'tudying French conversation in Paris,
having been granted Il leave of absence
" the Dartmouth faculty. During his
stay at Dartmouth, he ran on the track
team and won his d in the mile run.
fle also sang in the glee club and in the
college choir In his junior year he
won the Latin prize of the class of 1916.
He was president of LIE Cercle Fran
'ais. During the years 1906, 1907 1905
md 1909, Mr.. Stanton took graduate
work at Harvard. taking courses il
Cid French. Comparative Literature
Provencal, Vulgar Latin and Sixteenth.
century French Literature, with the
dea of obtaining, sooner or later, his
legree of Doctor of Philosophy In
l907-l9C8, he taught French and athle-
tics at Rumsey Mall, Cornwall, Conn.,.
md during part of the present year
lie has taught French at the Allen
school, West Newton, Mass.