Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-07
WINTHROP
Teachers in Winthrop Schools
Are Elected for the Com
ing Year
EXTENSIVE SCHOOL RE-
PAIRS FOR THE SUMNER

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The following teachers have been
elected for the school year beginning
next September:
high school; Ruth w. Goodwin, Mary
Putnam, assistants; Grace l.. How
ard, principal and teacher of grades
l and 2. primary building; Winni
fred F. Grant. and 4; Leah M. Hoxie,
assistant Bertha 0. Hackett, Grades
S and 6; Myrtle F. Jack. Winthrop
Center grammar; Marion w. Sleeper,
Winthrop Center primary; Muriel
Rollins, East Winthrop; Esther Swartz,
Maranacook; Raymond Blaisdell, How
ard Gladys Cooper, Union; Miss
Gertrude Benjamin, music and sewing.
Teachers to take the places of Miss
Bessie Robinson and Miss Elsie Moore,
who have resigned from the Pisgah
and Winthrop Grammar schools. have
not been announced. Miss Goodwin
will return to her former position in
the high school and Miss Rollins will
take the East Winthrop school made
vacant by the resignation of Miss Lee.
who plans to teach in Massachusetts.
Miss Swartz of Winthrop Center will
take the Maranacook school. She has
been teaching in Dixfield the past year.
Mr.. Blaisdell is a Bates College stu
dent and will teach the school occu-
pied by Earl Hobbs Of Hallowell, who
will return to business college. Miss
Benjamin will take the position made
vacant by the resignation Of Miss
Snow in music and domestic science.
She has taken courses in public school
music in the New England Conserva-
tory and Boston University and is a
graduate of the Boston School of Do
nestle Science. Her home is in Som
erville. Mass.
buildings will be done this summer.
The village grammar school will be
completely shingled as well as have
many minor repairs made. The Ma
ranacook and Union schools will be
thoroughly renovated inside and out.
New seats will be installed. floors laid,
interiors tinted and painted and the
exterior of one of the buildings paint
ed. Minor repairs will be made to
nearly all the other buildings in town.
Mrs. Frank Tappan, Mrs. Herman
Collins, Mrs. James Gigmore, Misses
Linda and Miriam Payson, Mrs. c. w.
Taggart and Mr.. and Mrs. r. C. Riley
and children were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Steward Of Lewiston
Monday at picnic lunch, afterward
the party attending the circus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Waterman Of Au-
burn have recently been the guests Of
Mrs. Waterman's grandparents, Nj.
and Mrs. ]. Henry Moore Of West Win
trop. Mrs. Waterman was formerly
Miss Grace Lara and made her home
with Mr.. and Mrs. Moore for many
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester L. Wright Of
Brockton, Mass, are the guests Of Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Webb on Main street
Mrs. Wright is a niece of Mrs Webb.
Mr.. and Mrs Dellie Stanton of West
Winthrop have gone to Plymouth,
Mass, to attend the funeral Of Mrs.
Stanton's mother, VINO died at Norway
Monday.
Miss Elsie Moore, who attended tho
Commencement at Colby College and
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week, returned to her home in West
Winthrop Sunday night
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Ball Of Brookline.
Mass. Mrs. Henry C. Thorn and
daughter, Miss Helen. and Mrs. H. r.
Strout of New York. Miss Mildred E
Parker of Duluth, Mimi, Mrs. H. w
F1ynt and son Charles Of Winthrop,
Mass, and Miss Fannie Roberts and
Miss Mary Moseley Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
are guests at Piney Heights Inn, Stur.
tevant hill
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank D. Barr of
Bridgewater Mass, and Mrs. Helen
Jackson Of Brockton are guests Of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Towle Mrs. Barr is a
sister Of Mrs. Towle The party came
in Mr.. Bars auto.
Frank Tappan, James Wigmore and
Mrs. James Wigmore, Jr., who have
beer at Mr.. Tappan's cottage on Will
son lake over the Fourth, returned to
Attleboro Thursday morning.
Mrs. r. c. Riley entertained as
guests Tuesday afternoon and at tea
Mrs. Frank Tappan, Mrs. Herman Col
Inns. Mrs. James Wigmore and Misses
Linda and Miriam Payson. At tea a
birthday cake was cut, it being a sur
prise to Mrs. Collins as it was her
birthday
Miss Alice Hopkins is visiting at
Thomas Jackson's at Manchester.
r Miss c. Anna Smell went to Fairfield
Thursday, where she will be the guest
Of her brother, George N. Smell
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