Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-01-26
KENNEBEC.
MT. VERNON,

The Teachers Institute held at Odd Eel
lows hall on the afternoon and evening of
Jan. 20 was success in every way and
much credit is due 10 Superintendent
Young of the town schools. who pre-
sided, as well as to the teachers and chill
dren who participated in the exercises,
The afternoon session began at o'clock
with the following program Song, High
school; Nobody's Child, Lois Blake: a
Letter from. the Farm. Byron Porter;
The Village Gossip" dialogue, Bessie
Turner and Ida Russ: Methods of Teach
ing, Mrs. Alice Farnham: Motion Song,
Village school: The Little Angel, Doris
Farnham; cornet solo, Carl Fellows: pa
per, My Ideas of Teaching a Beginner'
Mrs. Belle Tibbetts Frost: duet. And n
Little Child Shall Lead Them" Byron
Porter and Lena Mansur; roll CALL Senior
English class discussion, Are our Pub
lie Schools Better or Worse Than a Cen
Grafton Ago, and in What Respect"
song, Amy Bean; Katie's Gift, Ruth
Farnham; Tommy on the School Ques-
tion, Arthur Bean; cornet solo, Carl Fell
lows; Good Manners, Edith Farnham;
Sunheams, Farnham children; recitation,
Harold Fairbanks.
The evening session opened at o'clock
with the following program: Piano solo.
star of the Sea- Ruby Carson; recita-
tion, John Allen; THE Inventors Wife,"
Gladys Hersum: paper, Necessary Quail
iications of a Good Teacher" Miss Mde
Tibbetts; The Part at l. o. o. T. Hall,
Harold Fairbanks; The Value of High
Ideas, Miss Alice NJ. Smaley: Advice to
Young Men, Ralph Curtis: reading.
"Grandmamma's Garden" Bessie Tur-
ner; paper, "Commonsense in Reading, :
Miss Annie Akers; song, "A Dream of
the Dear Old Home" Gertrude Gie Bar
| rows; recitation, a Good Old Fashioned
Way George Blake: recitation, ''Colum-
bus" by the Walton school: paper,
school Discipline and n Few Methods -
Miss Trowbridge; recitation. Gertrude
Beean; cornet solo, Carl Fellows; discus
sion, What Faults in Our Public Schools
and How May They Be Corrected?" reci-
tation. Mildred Parlin; song Mabel Al
len; recitation, Papa Letter" Hazel
Hopkins; song, I'm the Wild Wood
Where the Blue Bells Crow Ola Fair
banks; The Emgrants Idea of the Statue
of Liberty, Miss Trowbrdge; recitation.
CulitW Sudii NOl ltlnS 1OnlSNt,' julia
Williams: recitation, Thanksgiving Re-
minders," Lois Blake; paper "Modern
Methods of Teaching Fractions" Miss
Avis Parlin; song, High school.
The discussions were timely and arous-
ed much interest, the teachers of the va
rious town schools taking part as well as
many of the townspeople. The exhibits
Of work from the schools were excellent
and much interest was awakened among
parents. The expression was general
that superintendent teachers and pupils
deserved much praise for progressive
| CONSCIENTIOUS work The audience was
| large at both sessions.
The Bean school has been closed during
the past week owing to the whooping
cough.
The weather of this week has been un-
usually severe. Wednesday morning the
mercury stood at 20 degrees below in
some places in this village
CHINA.
SOUTH-S. K. Coffin was at his home
over Sunday, returning Monday to Au-
siIsta ':' tffi .''
Miss Martha c. Jones left Tuesday for
Kirksville. Mo, where she Is to enter the