NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SCHOOLS OPEN 
Four New Teachers Take Up Work. 
List of Teachers. 
The public schools of Manchester 
opened Tuesday morning for the 
fall term. A total of 439 pupils are 
registered in the three schools in- 
eluding 93 at the Story High school, 
240 at the G. A. Priest school and 
106 at the Price Primary § school. 
This number will be increased 
slightly as the summer season closes 
and some whv are unable to enter 
on the opening week are at school. 
During the summer vacation all 
the buildings were overhauled and 
cleaned and the customary changes 
were made. The G. A. Priest school 
has been painted.. A new fence has 
been built in the rear and the com- 
mittee at their last meeting voted 
to replace the old wooden post and 
iron railing fence by a _ concrete 
curbing, six or seven inches high, to 
surround the lawn. The ventilating 
system at the Primary school has 
been changed so as to give better 
results. 
Four new teachers 
added as follows: 
Leon MeKusick will have charge 
of mathematics and athletics at the 
High school, to take the place of 
Ralph Hayward. He is a Bates 
1910 man. Last year he taught at 
the Kimball Union school, in New 
Hampshire, a private institution. 
Miss Blanche Bragdon will have 
charge of the French and German 
department at the High school, to 
sueceed Miss Mae Stenhouse.: She is 
a Bates ’06 graduate. For the last 
two years she has been teaching at 
Dalton, Mass. 
Miss Lida Ladd, a graduate of the 
Farmington (Me.) Normal,  suc- 
succeeds Miss Alexander as 6th 
gerade teacher. She has been teach- 
ing at Bar Harbor the last year. 
Miss Gertrude Gray of Lowell, a 
eraduate of the Lowell Normal, suc- 
ceeds Miss Lola Durrell, as teacher 
of Grade 5. 
The complete clientele of the 
school department for the present 
year is as follows: 
School committee: Edward A. 
Lane, chairman; Albert Cunning- 
ham, secretary; Waldo H. Tyler, 
purehasing agent. 
Superintendent: John C. Mackin. 
Truant officer: Charles R. Peart. 
High school teachers: A. L. Sa- 
ben, principal; Leon McKusick, 
sub-master, head of mathematics 
and athletics; Miss Edna Parker, 
science; Miss Bella C. Porter, Eng- 
lish; Miss Blanche Bragdon, French 
and German; Miss Lilla Alger, 
have been 
commercial department. 
G. A. Priest school teachers: John 
C. Mackin, principal; Miss Edith 
Folsom, asst. prin., teacher 8th 
grade; Miss Anne Clark, 7th; Miss 
Kdna B. West, 7th and 6th; Miss 
Lida Ladd, 6th; Miss Gertrude Gray, 
5th; Miss Teresa Walsh, 4th and 
Sth; Miss Lila Goldsmith, 4th; Miss 
Lena Jones, 3d. 
Price Primary school teachers: 
Miss Audrey Caldon, principal, 
teacher Ist grade; Miss Fannie 
Knight, Ist; Miss Alice Sides, 2d; 
Miss Nellie Leonard, 2d. 
Director of manual arts, Law- 
rence F. Loring. 
Director of sewing, Grace B. Ket- 
chum. 
Director of music, George HE. 
Wales. 
Boy Scouts. 
Troop No. 1, Manchester Boy 
Seouts returned last Friday in the 
best of health and spirits reporting 
that their camp on Lake Province in 
the foothills of the White Mountains 
was a great success. There was not 
the least sickness nor any accident 
of any kind. Every precaution for 
the health and happiness of the 
boys was carefully. planned and 
carried out and those that had this 
movement in charge are to be con- 
gratulated upon the successful out- 
come of the most ambitious plan 
now inaugurated for the boys of 
Manchester and vicinity. 
It appears that with the financial 
assistance of some of .the wealthy 
North Shore colonists the Boy 
Scouts Movement ought to found 
something permanent in the form of 
a building in Manchester and a 
camp at Lake Province, where the 
situation seems to be ideal for all 
outdoor life such as is embraced in 
this movement. The situation is 
beautiful, surrounded by the lesser 
peaks for climbing. The lake is 
stocked with bass and pickerel and 
other fish. The bathing is very safe, 
the waters warm. Here freedom to 
roam, build bungalows, study na- 
ture, ete., is at its best, the situa- 
tion being as yet untrammelled by 
the conventionalities of other places, 
and it seems to be a_ spot chosen 
with unusual care. 
The camp life was devoted to 
camp duties, instruction in bunga- 
low building, athletics, hiking, 
swimming, fishing and other outdoor 
diversions. 
Some time was devoted to read- 
ing and games and one of the fea- 
tures of mental drill was a mock 
trial that proved most interesting 
and instructive. 
MANCHESTER 
A. A. Cushing went to Rockport, 
Me., Tuesday to get his two young 
sons who have been spending the 
summer vacation in Maine. Another 
son, Raymond, spent most of the 
summer at Hingham, on the South 
Shore. 
The funeral of Mrs. Solomon Rowe 
who died recently at Gloucester was 
held Wednesday from the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Amanda Smoth- 
ers, Lincoln street. She was buried 
in the Rosedale cemetery. 
‘Miss Flossie Stevens left Sunday 
for a fortnight’s visit in the White 
Moutnains. 
Last Saturday D. Elmer Butler, a 
carpenter employed by Roberts & 
Hoare, fell from the staging where 
he was working at the Putnam es- 
tate and broke a bone in his leg. 
Dr. Washburn attended him and he 
was removed to: his home. It is 
feared that he will be disabled for a 
number of weeks. This is the sec- 
ond time Mr. Butler has met with an 
accident of this nature. 
After a few weeks’ visit with Mr. 
and Mrs W. W. Soulis, Lincoln 
street, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Soulis 
have returned to their home in 
Boston. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Greenough of 
Beverly spent Labor Day in town 
with the former’s parents. 
The moral influences brought to 
bear upon the boys were carefully 
thought out and considered. ‘I'he 
boys attended the local churebh in a 
body on Sunday mornings. At the 
close of the evening’s camp fire 
story telling had a moral point in 
which Rey. A. G. Warner, who as- 
sisted the Scout Master Rev. L. H. 
Ruge, was very effective. 
The boys traveling and transpor- 
tation expenses to and from the 
camp were paid by the proceeds of 
entertainments and the liberality of 
a few of the North Shore summer 
residents and only a very nominal 
sum was chaged each boy for board 
during the camp. 
There is a looking forward to 
larger things in the establishment 
of some permanent building in 
which the work of this great move- 
ment in boy development of com- 
prehensive character may be more 
fully earried out. 
Rey. L. H. Ruge, pastor of the 
Congregational church, who is the 
founder of this movement in Man- 
chester, and Scout Master, will be 
glad to give such information as 
may be desi to further explain 
the work and the plans proposed. 
