Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-07
Dexter .
List of Teachers for the Village
and Rural Schools r Amy
Weather Spells Success of the
Firemen's Carnival

The roster of teachers for the village
and rural schools Is as follows: High
school, Thomas H. Blanchard principal;
Miss Francis Arnold Latin and history;
Miss Mary A. Strickland English; Miss
Berle Cram. German and mathematics;
Mrs. Mary r. Pierce, French; special
teachers. Frederic j. Quigley, manual
training; Margaret L. Hayes, domestic
science; Miss Ruth Bourse, Moseley, su-
pervisor of music and drawing.
The elementary teachers are: Miss
Alice Bradford principal, Spring street;
Miss Bertha Smith. grade :: Miss Static
Roberts, grade G; Miss Mabel Knowles,
grade 5; Miss Eunice kelar, grade 4:
principal Pleasant street, Miss Lillian
Spinney; Miss Hazel NJ. Tracey. grade 3;
Miss Grace Pooler. grade .: Miss Murtie
Swanton, grade /; Miss Winifred Beverly,
sub primary. Principal Cedar street. Mrs
Esther c. Rowe: Miss Mabel Howard,
grade l and sub-primary. Free street,
Miss Fannie X. Putnam, grade l and SUBJ
primary.
The rural school teachers are: Mrs Sa-
die F. Fellows. Russell district. Miss Ruth
Towle. Barton district; Miss Mildred
Race, North Dexter; Miss Matte White,
Haseltine district; Mrs. c. A. Bugbee,
district No. 10.
THOMAS Blanchard, the new High school
principal, has taught for the past two
years in Fort Fairfield High school and
comes to Dexter highly recommended. He
is a graduate of Bates College.
Miss Mary A. Strickland, the new Eng
Ivb RI
croft Academy and IS considered one Of
the best English teachers in the State
Miss Berle Cram has been a very sue
cessful teacher in New Hampshire Mrs
Mary r. Pierce. the new French teacher,
is the wife of Hon. William B. Pierce and
the superintendent and school board feel
very fortunate in being able to secure her
services. Mrs Pierce has passed consid-
cradle time In Paris and in other places
on the Continent, studying French under
some of the best teachers, having later
served as a French teacher in Bangor.
Miss Moseley. music and drawing teach
er, is a native of Needham, Mass. She
has taken two years at Radclif College
and is graduate OF the New England
Conservatory and the Boston Normal Art
school.
Maurice Provost, who has been a
member Of the Canadian Battalion
fighting in France for the past two
years, has been taken from the firing
line and placed In a munition factory. |
He was relieved from further mill |
tary service because of the result Of
wounds received last winter which left
him unfit for military service for the
a q q L.
a letter having been received from
him recently by his brother, Philip
Provost, market dealer in this town.
Lieut.. E. Clifford Call of Dexter
recently made I'd Lieut.. at Plattsbure.
has just been transferred from the
cantonment at Aver, Mass, to West
held, where he has been attached to
the 1880 regiment. His relatives ana
friends here are glad to know that
when he crosses the ocean 1t will he
IN company OF many men from his
town.
Ralph T. Salisbury. who has been
employed at Nantucket Beach during
the summer. will return to Dexter soon
20 drlve the bakery cart for c. F. Ire
iano. roy L. Upton has resigned the
position with the bakery and has on.
- - HS oAAu oCOtl 5 machine ShOn |
The fremen's carnival being con-
Quoted near Crosby Park by the East
ern Amusement Co., under the au.-
pices Of the local firemen, received
check Friday by a steady down.
pour OF rain. The company was book
ed for Dexter from the Sd to the sth
but did not arrive until the 18th ana
unless the weather improves will not
remain until Saturday. The attrac-
tons drew a large number of children
Wednesday and a few adults appeared
on the grounds the latter part of tho
afternoon. VIC
The crew Of Italians workine :,
the sewer on Church street are mai
ing excellent progress and are pi,,,n,
much satisfaction to the reside.
owners near the Shenherd
estates and the Maine Central pail
road.
John J. caswell Of Bangor former,v
II this town. is In charge Of the East.
ern Trust and Banking rooms here
Turing the absence Of James A. A.
wood, who is in New York undergoing
surgical treatment at a hospital.
A large number OF Dexter people are