Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
BELFAST.
First Teachers Institute to.
Be Held in Waldo County.
Commercial Course 10 Be Put In
10 High School, This Year.
New Medical Examinev..llorihp port
New Medical Examiner..ll rihport
CampmeetIng..A Death.

oCiAoct, Ait'i fhut9s Sp' NoP~N'|'
The first Teachers institute in the
history of Waldo county will open
in this city, at $50 A. NJ, Tuesday,
in the High school building, when
teachers from all over the county will
come here for weeks instruction by
some of the ablest teachers the ed
ucational department of the State has
been able to get. 1t is expected that
there will be some hundred or more
teacher-students enrolled and that the
institute will be productive of much
good, goes without saying. The in
struetors. sent here by the State, are
Miss Florence NJ. Hale, who will in
struct in the Management of the Ru-
raj School," Miss Matilda B. Doland,
arithmetic; n. l.. Mower. music; II.
E. Congdon, penmanship; Miss Lii
liam |. Lincoln, reading. and Prof.
Maine, history and geography. With
out of town will find comfortable
rooms in the homes of private citi-
zens, a list of which may be found at
the superintendent of schools office,
| while the various cafes in the city
| figure. 1t is hoped that during the
| week, drives or short excursions to
| the places of interest may be ar
ranged for the strangers.
committee held, last night
1t was voted at a meeting of the
Belfast school committee held, last
night. at the office of Supt. w. b.
Woodbury. in City building, to put a
commercial course into the High
school, This will be but beginning
of what the board hopes to do in the
! future and will include stenography
and typewriting. Mrs. Banks, for
4 merly with the Banks Business Col
/ Iege of Belfast, will be the instructor.
| The innovation is one which Will
doubtlessly be received with enthusi-
asm by the students and parents alike
| for 1t may be the means of starting
many boy and girl on the road to a
DR.. Carl Stevens, graduate OF the
Medical School of Maine, who recent
| ly settled in Belfast, has been ap-
pointed by the school board as medi.
/ cal examiner for the Belfast schools.
He will begin his duties at the begin
ming of the school year. He will ex-
anime annually or as occasion may
warrant, each student in the pubic
schools look after the hygenic condl.
i. lions of the buildings and settle any
controversy over contagious disease
which may come up. DIR. Stevens is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Mason /.
Stevens of Northport and has already
4 taken a prominent place in the city,s
medical fraternity.
! The Belfast and rural schools, also
the Searsport schools which come un-
der the superintendency of w. Is.
| Woodbury., will open, on Sept 8. for
the school year. Three new instruc-
| tors will be found in the High school,
Miss Leona Aehorn and Miss Marion
| HaZetine, who will fill vacancies
caused by the designations of Miss
Caroline w. Field and Miss Hazel B.
Barnard, and Mrs. Banks, who will
teach in the commercial department
a new branch of work.
meeting of the Public Buildings
Association was held, last night. when
| the committee conferred with Ira M.
Cobe, the well-known broker of Chi
eago, who is passing the summer a
his Northport villa, and the matter
of getting out a local bond issue, to
cover the expenditure of building new
and modern school buildings for the
city, was discussed. Mr.. Cobe will
lend material help in the matter and
the prospects are brighter than ever
before for a new building to take the
place of the inadequate and unhy-
genie buildings which are now in use.
Contrary to all reports, Northport
| eampmeeting is going to continue,
said Rev. Oscar S. Smith of Bangor
in a recent interview. Sometime ago
it was reported that, this season,
would be the last of the series of
campmeetings at Northport, and that
the people had lost interest and the
| little eampground had become sum-
mer resort and nothing else. This is
not true, according to Mr.. Smith, for
he stated that there is still great
deal of interest in the meetings, and
these which closed, on Saturday aft
err a full week, were better attended
than for years and that the interest
| is growing.