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Albany.-George W. Lyons, of Mayfield, is the new principal at Coeymans.

Broome. Mrs. Ida Lane, principal of a Binghamton grade school has been fined $25 for brutally punishing a small boy. The case has been appealed.

Cattaraugus.-An appropriation of $12,000 was made at the annual school meeting at Little Valley for the erection of an annex to the present building. E. B. Luce is the principal.-Fred E. Simmons, of Spencer, has been elected principal at Olean to succeed W. S. Steele, who just escaped being elected principal of the Harrisburg, Pa., high school. He had the unanimous support of the teachers' committee, but a local candidate won out on the sixth ballot.

Cayuga. The new superintendent at Auburn, succeeding Mr. Marsh, is Alfred C. Thompson, of Palmer, Mass., a Yale graduate.

Clinton.-Principal and Mrs. W. B. Richmond will remain at Rouses Point. They had accepted positions at Ontario, but public protest and a new board of education secured their return.

Cortland.-Chorus singing will be introduced in the public schools of Cortland this fall.-Harriet E. Day, of Chittenango, has been elected teacher of Englsh at the Cortland normal.

Dutchess.-J. C. Van Etten, formerly superintendent at Dunkirk, has been elected at Matteawan.-W. S. Knowlson, formerly of Saratoga Springs, has secured the high school principalship at Poughkeepsie, to succeed C. S. Woolsey.

Fulton. The new principal at Gloversville high school is Ernest L. Merritt, for the past three years a post graduate student at Yale.

Herkimer.-Prin. C. F. Mosher, of Canton, goes to Herkimer to succeed J. E. Massee as superintendent.-Schuyler F. Herron, superintendent of schools at Northampton, Mass., and formerly of Herkimer, has accepted the superintendency of the American schools in the City of Mexico. The American and British citizens have organized "The American School Association," the object of which is to establish and maintain a system of non-sectarian schools for the education of the children of American citizens and British subjects, to be patterned after the most advanced public school systems of the United States, and to comprise all the grades from kindergarten to collegiate courses. The position came to Mr. Herron through the recommendation of the American Consul-General, James Russell Parsons, formerly secretary of the Board of Regents.

Jefferson.-Vincent K. Barker, of Turin, succeeds Principal Robinson at Clayton.-Robert W. Bowman, of Simbury, Conn., has been elected principal of Belleville Academy.

Livingston. The faculty at Caledonia this fall includes: Principal, C. F. Walter, Fillmore; preceptress, Miss Emma Chismore, Ilion; train

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ing class, Miss May Manning, Harpersville; German and English, Miss Ernestine Miller, Wellsboro, Pa. Miss Miller spent her vacation traveling and studying abroad; seventh and eighth grades, Miss Ellen Harris, Penfield; fifth and sixth grades, Miss Frances Keisler, Caledonia; third and fourth grades, Miss Elizabeth Scott, Caledonia; first and second grades, Miss Anetta Weeks, Scottsville.

Montgomery.-School Commissioner A. W. Smith offered as a prize last year a picture to that school which maintained an academic department and scured the best attendance of children from 8 to 16 years old. Canajoharie won it, with St. Johnsville second.-Leon V. Arnold, of Waterloo, has a grammar principalship at Amsterdam.

Nassau. Frederick V. Lester, formerly principal at Ticonderoga, is the new head of the Oyster Bay school. His record at Ticonderoga is excellent, having raised the standard of the school from thirty high school pupils and no graduates when he took charge to 150 high school pupils and eighteen graduates in the fifth year, and no larger population.

Oneida.-Prin. Samuel J. Neff, of Lyon Falls, succeeds Principal White at Boonville, who goes to Lansingburgh. Mr. Neff is very well known in this section, having taught at Port Leyden for four years and at Lyon Falls for four years, and is also well known in summer school work. He was re-elected at Lyon Falls, but the board

generously released him when the Boonville board wanted him. Miss Anna Watson was elected to fill the position in the second primary room, and Miss Clara Miller advanced to the room now taught by Miss Anna Thorpe.-J. M. Scoville, of Prattsburg, has been elected principal at Waterville to succeed D. H. Naylor.

Onondaga.-Prin. Earl T. Henry, of Assembly Park, was married in June to Miss Belle Snyder, at Berne, N. Y.

Ontario.-L. W. Herrick, of Naples, has secured the principalship at Clifton Springs.Superintendent Norris, of Canandaigua, is succeeded by James Winne, who has taught at Holland Patent, Troy, Poughkeepsie and Greenwich, Conn.

Orleans.-Prin. Fayette W. Van Zile made a great record at Caledonia during the five years he was there.

Oswego.-O. B. Ruland, of Sidney, has accepted the position of principal of the Pulaski high school.

Otsego.-Miss Alice Lattin, of Ithaca, is the new teacher in the English department of the Oneonta high school. Miss Lattin was graduated from the classical course of Cornell university in '97. She has since taught three and one-half years in the English department of the Cattaraugus high school and two years in that of the Walton high school. She also attended the State normal college in Albany one-half year and then

spent a year in travel and studied in England and Germany.-Henry W. Rockwell, principal at Gilbertsville, has accepted the principalship at Oneonta. He is a graduate of Colgate and was an instructor in Peddie institute, Heightown, N. J., before he went to Gilbertsville.-H. J. Wightman, of New South Berlin, goes to Altoona, Pa., at a salary of $3,000.

Rensselaer. John Wesley Root, the new principal at Hoosick Falls, and Miss H. Clara Eaton, of Saratoga Springs, were married in July.James R. Craighead, former principal of the Upper Troy high school, has been tendered a prominent and important position in connection with the work on the barge canal through the faculty of Cornell university, which selected him upon an application made to it for a man for the purposes required. He was compelled to decline the honor for the reason that he had already arranged to accept a situation of still greater importance on the completion of his course next spring at Cornell university, where he is doing special work.-Frank M. Boyce has resigned as grammar principal at Troy and exSuperintendent Willets was forced out of his position as grammar master. Their places are taken by Michael J. Kling, a Harvard graduate of 1900, and R. V. Eldred, a graduate of Williams. Miss Mary Curry has resigned as kindergarten teacher.

Richmond.-Otto Louis Zentgraf, who died July 17, at his home in Stapleton, Staten Island, is said to be the original of Arthur Sincroft, that

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St. Lawrence.-D. Howard Naylor, of Waterville, becomes principal at Massena, to succeed J. L. Walthart.-Leon W. Jenks, of Waterville, goes to Ogdensburg as science teacher.

Saratoga.-R. S. Roulston, principal at Oneonta, has been elected superintendent at Waterford to succeed Mr. Falconer, who retires on account of ill health. Mr. Roulston is a graduate of the St. Lawrence university, class of '91, and post graduate at Cornell, with the Masters' degree. He has since been a teacher for 15 years in the high schools in Rockton, Trumansburgh and Oneonta, and at the latter place principal of the high school for six years. During that time the high school class increased from 135 to 238, and of the 121 graduates during that period 32 have or will have entered colleges this fall.

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Schoharie.-H. F. Collister, of Macedon, a 1905 graduate of the Albany normal, has the Schoharie principalship, succeeding R. V. Spencer, who goes to Caldwell, N. J.

Suffolk.-Miss Frances Mickey, primary teacher at Eastport, was married in July to Rickford L. Robinson, of Eastport, at the bride's home in Glens Falls. Miss Margaret Tucker, who taught last year at Luzerne, has ben elected to fill the vacancy.-Prin. Edward M. Sanford, of Northport, and Miss Harriet A. Robertson were married in July at the bride's home at Adamsville.

Tompkins.-The teachers of Ithaca all made a visit to Batavia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. They had a special car, a special rate, and were gone two days. The board of education paid their salaries, and at Buffalo, Superintendent Boynton gave them a dinner, at which the post prandial exercises were a delightful feature.

Ulster.-E. Lynn Fisher, of Oneonta, has been elected to the position of instructor in English, at the State Normal and Training school at New. Paltz, for the coming year. Mr. Fisher is a graduate of the Oneonta normal school and of Amherst college, class of '03. Since his graduation from college he has been an instructor in the Newark academy at Newark, N. J., and has been very successful in his work.-Frank M. Boyce, Jr., of Troy, has been elected grammar principal at Kingston.

Warren.-Ernest Robinson, for the past seven years principal at Clayton, has been elected principal of the Glens Falls high school, to succeed John M. Sayles, who goes to the Albany normal as the head of the grammar department.-Prin. and Mrs. James M. Barkley, of Lake George, attended the summer session of Columbia university, where they did special work.-F. F. Gunn' becomes principal of the Glens Falls academy, succeeding Mr. Cox, who goes to Troy academy.

Westchester.-Prin. Clarence Woolsey, of Poughkeepsie, goes to Irvington to take a similar position. Harriet K. Ballou, of Stockbridge, Mass., has a high school position at Tarrytown.Miss Mary F. Harris, of Hornellsville, is the new principal of the Ossining high school.-L. V. Case, of the science department, succeeds Principal Sturges at Tarrytown.

Wyoming. Ralph R. Blackney, of Angola, is the new principal at Castile.

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