Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-08

He has been in Bath three and a half
years. He was born at Kcnsington,
z. E. bath Daily Times.
The women of Bangor have pledged
1886 to the Bowdoin endowment
fund. This includes three memorial
gifts, Mrs. George F. Godfrey giving
$3.50 in memory of her son, Henry,
who died while a student at Bow
doin; Mrs. Franklin y. Wilson, a
substantial gift in memory of her
husband of the class of 1854; and
Mrs. Charles II. Wood, a gift of
$4,000 in memory of her son, Earl
E. Wood, of the class of 1892.
One of the most remarkable fig
ures in Names educational world is
the principal of Rockland High
school, Miss Anna f. Coughlin,
whose initiative, study and wonderful
personality has carried her from a
district school teacher to the highest
teaching position in the community.
Herself Il native Of Rochland and q
graduate of ROckland High school,
she Immediately became 4 teacher
being elected to the Middle street
mixed school,now the grange hall,
in1SS4. From the first She was q
remarkable success as a teacher.
She was q great reader and student
and to a large extent educating her
self. She studied, too, under The best
private teachers and attended sum-
mer schools, thereby with her per-
sonal effort gaining an education that
has helped to carry her to tho top in
her profession. Yet, with all this.
her personality and understanding
and love for the children in her
charge has probably been the larg-
est factory in her success. In jan
uary, 1899, she went to Aver, Mass,
where she taught five terms, return
ing here on account of her fathers
i'll health and subsequent death. At
ter her return, she continued to
teach in the Rockland schools. For
one year she was masters assistant
in the grammar school under Harry
DeFOrrest Smith, now professor Of
Greek in Amherst.
Miss Mary and Miss Martha Robin
son, of East Sumner, known to their
towns people as the Deacon Robin
son twins" observed their 77th birth
day on June Z. They are tho fourth
generation from Deacon Increase
Robinson whose family was the sixth
to locate at or near East Sumner in
1888. The aforesaid twins" reside
in the first frame house erected in the
place about 1879 years ago. "Mary
and Martha" as they are Familiarity
known are in good health ana can be
seen on the streets daily. Their
brother, Sharon Robinson, now past
s. years old, still resides on a part
of the old farm, and is the oldest
man in town.
Arthur L. Race, son Of Capt. Race
OF East Boothbay, has been appoint
cd head manager of the Coplcv Plaza
hotel in Boston. He handled the He
ron Islands hotel some years ago with
t'Nplt NItli'ltls-N' ttiINi l4tJS maui a. SUI
cess in all his undertakings. He is
president of the Hotel Mems associa- |
ton of Massachusetts, and has Il
summer hotel at Swampscott His
brother Leroy Race is also a COM
ing hotel man.
Here is an experience that II. +.
Farmer of Temple had with a rooster.
About the last of March he pur-
chased a bird of George Stevens. who
lives about two miles from the Farm
CT place. The first of April the roos-
ter got out of the pen and went in
To the field. All efforts TO catch him
proved unavailing ana lie finally dis
appeared in the woods. There was
snow on the ground at the time and
for q short distance he could be
tracked. but that clue was soon lost
by bare ground, so the hunt was Civ
en- up. Last Wednesday morning
Mrs. stevens called up the Farmer
home and said the rooster lad re-
turned to them that morning.-The