Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-03-19

1.-The teeter board Of life goes up,
The teeter board of lite goes down.

The teeter board of life goes up,
The teeter board of life goes down.
joaquin -HtHeT.
They prove this on March meeting day
throughout the State ill many u town.
Our good town-fathers are very tickle
minded in regard To their school COM
mlttee in this town of Brooksville.
Again they have changed three tor one.
Ihey say they do il To save expense. Now
IL stand, to reason that three young men
are worth more wages than one, unless
that one could be eXceedingl, smart and
handsome. Why don't our voters remeHl-
Der The old maxim, Two neads are better
Cbau one &c.t They must oe running on
the idea that The half Is better than the
whole and perhaps by and by they may con-
Ciude that none at all Is often better than
hall. Our lst assessor Is the same as Tor
years, Mr.. q. Ii. Perkins. Mr. Charles
Crockett Is second, also as before. He Is
from Cape Roster. james Condor is Sd
and though We have nothing against the
man who went out, We are truly glad TO
see something new in our old ,musty, slow
going town. We have also new TAX col
lector, Frank Billings. We remember him
rs he stood in his slippers at the dancing
school Well, man must needs know
how to take steps both .fne and quick to
BdJntT up dll lllt taxes. w e SilalI HISS MI.
Taplcy from his Old place
To-day the men are breaking out the
roads. This is the first real banking snow
we have had; only trile of shoyelns
once before.
Capt. w. f. Blake in Anna W. Barker
was IN Gloucester the 2nd of March. The
schooner was badly iced upon arrival the
2Sth of Feb. She has nearly 5000 casks
OF lime for New York.
In our last paper noticed that lftccn
men working on Il house at Bar Haltor
were all free from the habit of smoking
tobacco. The writer says that this Is
rare sight. He has not been to Cape
Roster There are several times tttc,n
men here, both young and old, who do MT
use tobacco. Only few evenings a%o
there were fifteen young men IN my own
house one evening, and no one OF them
uses either rum or tobacco. There are
very few OF the >eamcn perhaps VINO are
free from these disgusting habits, but
crew of six recently sailed from this place,
not one of whom USES either rum or to-
bacco. Please put this down, Mr.. Editor,
for want every one to know that We haN
some rare young men on Cape Roster.
y. B.-'Ihc mate OF SAID schooner wNS
Mr.. c. G. Maddox, of Orland. wonder
If they have many more tobacco less men
in Or!aud.
Some one in Ellsworth says lie saw u
robin lately. We saw one III January but
didn't think any one would believe it if We
told 1t, 50 sald nothing about it, Poor
robin,
March &,
East Rlurhill.
In the absence of J. NJ. Ridlon b,
brother, Wood, Ridon, ha, the care of h,>
store, assisted by Albert Morgan.
Mrs Byron Young, Of Brewer, Is spend
ing the winter at her father, capt. j. L.
Mllers.
The Grange store here seems to be do
ing thriving business. The agent, f. G.
Long, has for clerk Mr.. John Tufts.
Mrs. J. T. Miller is coa f,.eu 10 the house
by ill health.
Rev ID. b. Phelan, of Surry and Rev.
Mr.. Ross, of PenOh~rot, have been holding
series of meetings. Several conversions
arr reported.
Mrs. Irene Marks is quite sick attended
by DR.. K. 2, GrIndle.
Mr. Cyrus Cook who has been i'll for
some time past has got out again.
Henry Marks and Mrs, Emery Leach arc
on the sick list.
The grammar school closed ia>t Satur-
day, taught by Mr., Hartman, of Brewer.
A good school is reported.
Miss Ethel Long has returned home from
Castine Normal school.