Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-29
Report of Agent of Passamaquoddy
Indian Tribe.

Indian Tribe.
There are at present $50 members or
the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indians
and there were IL births and Is deaths
during the past year according to the
annual report of Justin Il. Cove OF
Perry, the agent of the tribe, which
was filed with the Governor and coun-
ell Monday. The general health Of
the people of the tribe at present is
fairly good.
Agent Cove says in his report:
1.-THE schools at Pleasant Point have
been in operation about nine months
and at Peter Dana's Point about four
months. Sister NJ. Dolores in charge at
Pleasant Point and Sister NJ Rose in
charge at Peter Dana's Point. Fffty-slx
scholars were registered at Pleasant
Point, with an average attendance for
the year of 81. At Peter Dana's Point
II were registered, with an average
attendance of IL. The policemen are
very efficient truant officers, and moth
ing but sickness is taken as an excuse
for absence from school. / find on my
visits to these schools that in drawing
maps, etc, they are far ahead of the
scholars in the country or city schools,
and are doing fairly well in all other
studies. ...a
1T requires four Sisters of Mercy at
Pleasant Point, and three at Peter
Dana's Point, and they are doing re-
markable work among the Indian
families, with whom much of their
time is spent when out of the school
room.
Il find that $500 per year, with the
advanced cost of living. is not enough
to take care of the Sisters as they
should be, and keep them out of debt.
The four hundred dollars at Peter
Dana's Point does fairly well, but !
should recommend an appropriation Ut
$500 per year for the two reserVa-
tions. Not a penny. of 1t would De
wasted, as what was not used for the
actual needs of the Sisters, would De
nut out oft-the sick by the Sisters
when making their rounds. The ap-
propriation of $50 for school books
and supplies is not sufficient to furn-
ish the schools as they should be, and
| would recommend an appropriation
of $50 for each of the years 1915 ana
1916.
CnuFCneS.
REV. FIR. Joseph j. Ahern of East
port and Rev. FIR. Colin F. Shea OF
Woodland have attended to the re-
ligious needs of the tribe at the res
ervations, and they surely earn the
small salary they receive. rather
Ahern lives eight miles from his
charge and Father Shea 16 miles from
his charge, and they both are obliged
to pav their own transportation to AMI
from each point. They are doing
great work among the Indians, who
have much respect for them.
Public Buildings.
1.-The church building at Pleasant
Point needs coat of paint on the IN
side as we'll as the outside, but the
one at Peter Dana's Point is more than
100 years old and should be torn down
and replaced by a new one, as every
one who has visited it for the past
year knows it to be unsafe. The
school buildings at both Points are in
good condition, except that rail is
needed on the steps of the one at
Pleasant Point, and new windows ana
frames in the one at Peter Dana 5
Point, as well as some other small re
pairs. The Sisters home at Pleasant
Point is in bad shape, needs new
roof, and the plastering in the kitchen
has all fallen off, in fact, the whole
house needs papering and painting.
A part of this building is more than
100 years old and should be torn
down and replaced by building to
connect with the church.
ION my last visit to Peter Dana's
Point l found\ the plastering on the
Sisters Home in very bad shape, and
would recommend steel ceilings being
put up the coming year. A wood shed