Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-21
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High School Building Takes
Form After Many Altera.
tons for Improvement
80 Girls Play Basketball

| Alterations on the High School build
| ing are now at an advanced stage. There
| is every prospect of modern building
with a good many of the. latest conven-
licences for teachers and pupils; some of
them rather new to the town. Among
! these. will be, the system of radiators
| In the. big cloak room in the new part
downstairs, which will serve to dry the
| clothing of pupils when coming in from
| the rain and keep them from catching
cold from dampness.
| Work is now being done in the addi-
ton. In the toilet rooms the plumbing
I and fixtures are being put in. The man.
| ual training and domestic science rooms
| in the west apart of the basement have
cement floors and the steel ceilings are
! now being put up. The main floor of
4 the addition is being plastered and the
upper floor will be plastered in few
days. ..-.
Very little remains to. be done in the
original building now, except the paint
ing of hlackboards on. the second floor.
! Downstairs the main room is to be used
as an assembly room for the school for
! entertainments and such like and plat
form about two and a. half feet high,
with steps at. one end, has been built.
The second floor. Is divided into two class
rooms, both with closets; the south. one
having glass doors - it with drawers
underneath. The walls are tinted in a
! pale syeenish tone. and the steel, ceilings.
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The third story contains laboratories
ION north and south and recitation room
toward the west, practically all painted.
Between the assembly room on the. first
| floor and the addition is a big corridor
running full length with the staircases
4 at each end, and the same on the sec
ofids floor. A large sliding door and a
small door Ion each floor connecting. the
I two parts are made fireproof. st't
| + the whole main floor of the addition
| is for the Eighth Grade and consists of
| two large and two small rooms besides
the central cloak room and corridor
| which connects on the west with STAIR
case to basement and one to second
T floor. The second floor OF the addition
contains on the. south side a recitation
room, commercial or bookkeeping room
and a typewrfting room connected with
the former by glass windows In the
north side a large study hail which will
hold the. entire student body. recita-
ton room. and a library toward the
vest. =, One of the features of the en-
[ frances is, the separation Of the main
corridor from the. small entrance halls
by double. doors. which will add greatly
! 70, the warmth Of the corridors and
t.. Ysla:r..E ':s.5f'ss -.
A birthday party was given in Hesel-
TOP hall on Tuesday evening by the
friends Of Miss Amelia Corvette, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter ]. Corvette
of this place. Refreshments Of fruit
punch. and cake were served. Dancing
was INDUCED in. r. j. washburn furnish
ing music of fonr pieces Among the
| gifts presented was q large birthday
cake.
f, Mayor Blaine s.. viies Of Augusta
passed through skowhegan Wednesday.
with an automobile party. bound on, a
hunting trip. ~
The Home Missionary Society Of the
Methodist church met with Mrs McGlau-
film at, the parsonage Tuesday afternoon.
A pledge was made for the Italian work
IN Portland. -1Ts
James Dysart Is moving his family to
the. Frank Estes house on Madison ave-
hue. For the past two years he has
resided in Pittsneld but his mercantile
and lumber business at West Athens and
the automobile agency in which ne Is :
partner Of Clyde II. Smith. require his
residence here. Mr.. and Ms. Charles
Dysart will also occupy the same hou..
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Locke have
: little daughter born Tuesday.
skowhesan people will be pleased TO
learn OF the marriage Of George Al.