Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-07

Sheriff Frank Thompson and R. F.
Parker were in Pittsfield and Cam
bridge Thursday on business.
Supt. of Schools L. w. Gerrish
Thursday completed the arrangements
Tor the opening of the school year. The
rural schools will open Aug. 81, closeX
Dec IL. Winter term begins Dec. %,
closes March 26. Spring term opens
April rs, closes June IS. Fall term of
Village schools opens Sept. s, closes
Dec. IL. Winter term begins Dec. zs
closes March rs. Spring term begins
April II, closes June IL. The teachers
that have been elected for the ensuing.
year are the following: Principal, R
w. Leighton; assistants, Dorothy NJ
Elliot. Blanche M. Emory, Ethel w
Scales, Efffe Noddin, Minnie Stinson;
Weston school, Lelis Wyman Healey;
Park, Principal Alice E. Mitchell;
Grade VI, Ethel M. Crook; Grade V,
Lizzie. B. Higgins; Grade w, Kate C.
Holbrook; Garfield, Principal Addie7
NJ. Swain; Grade VI, Nellie Parlin;
Grade V, Ethel Parker and Maud Ba-
con; Lincoln, Principal Gertrude
Townsend; Grade III, Mabel Sweet;
Grade II, Harriet Simpson; Grade l,
Josephine Leighton; Academy, Princi-I
pal Lizzie w. Healey; Grade 1, Grace
Ramsdell; Jewett Street, Nellie RI
Copp; Dudley, Della A. Sanford
Blunt, Eta S. Merrill; Gould, OliveI
Cleveland; Bigelow Hill, Leah VI
Niles; Malbon's Mills, Hazel V. Viles;
Parker, Pearl Jewett; Pitts, HelenI
Pratt; Richardson, Frank Pooler; Kin
dergarten. Principal Ethlyn Steward,
Mabel Ross; supervisors: Music, Ell
mer E. Towne; manual training, w.
L. Coggin; domestic science, Carrie NJ.
Carpenter; drawing, Marjorie Loring
Grade VII numbers 81 pupils and as|
that number cannot be accommodated
in Weston hall it will be necessary to|
make room for about one third Of the|
class either at the ark or Garfield
buildings.
Samuel F. Emerson Thursday wasj
circulating a petition to get the Prof.
hibition ticket on the September ball
lot The party has lost a large number|
of its members in this county on ac-|
court of the excellent stand that the|
Republican party has made for prohi-|
bition, and former members plan to|
support Gov. Haines this fall. One mani
in the county who has been a memberI
of the Prohibition party almost sinceI
its organization, A. S. Burke OF Bing-I
ham, has publicly announced himself
a supporter of the Republican ticket
this fall.
w. T. Seekins, clerk of courts, has|
received the name of B. P. Barker of
Athens to serve on the grand jury att
the September term of court Fairfield,
Charles p. Bates, Charles Conforth
traverse jury. Daniel l.. Gray, William
A. Hoxie and William S. Simpson.
The interest among horse lovers I'M
town is at present centered on the
three months old filly owned by DIR.
F. S. Bigelow. She tips the scales at
1855 pounds and is considered by the
best judges to be perfect. Her dam is
Fannie Wiles and sire Isle Dew by
Nelson, grand dam Bird Wilkes; sire
Nelson Wilkes, grand dam the Ken
dali mare by Knox. This colt, Gazelle,
was sired by Pilot Nelson, he by Nell
son, 2.09.
Miss Helen Bradford and mother of
Dorchester, Mass, are passing their
vacation at Fairgrieve bay.
Dr.. L. A. Dascombe was in Lewiston
Thursday on professional business.
John Walker is critically i'll at his
home on Silver street.