Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-12-10
East Lamoine and its Surroundings.

Stern winter has come at last; he her
aided his advent on Saturday with a tenn
pest Of bail, rain and snow. The coming
Of extreme cold was not unexpected, for
our older people said some weeks ago,
when winter comes after such fine weather
as we have had it will be "butt end first. "
Mr.. L. W. Rumill, of West fremont,
Me-, is the teacher Of our district school :;
he has large number of scholars and
from what we can learn from the pupils
he is doing pretty good work.
One of our newspaper correspondents
very aptly says, "every school district is a
world in miniature; every neighborhood a
mlcrocosm of the universe" The crown
ing glory of our country is our tens of
thousands of common schools; every flag
raising Is an object lesson to the young Of
patriotism which will never be forgotten.
During the excitement peculiar to our
people on the eve of the presidential cleo
tion, we would say, no true American
should ever utter or write line that can
be sneeringly quoted by an enemy Of our
great republic against the candidates
chosen by either of our great political par
ties.
A large number of our people are COM
PEELED to leave and seek employment in
other places; some carpenters are, and
have been. at work this fall in other states ;
but we hear that they will spend part of
the winter, at least, at home with their
families.
Fishing and lobstering in our bay have
about closed for this season; quite large
number of mackerel have been caught and
shipped westward and enough left for
home consumption.
Leonard H. DesIsles, one Of the engi,
neers on steamer Sappho, is home for a
short vacation prior TO spending the sea-
son in Boston, Mass. Clarence DesIsle,
who spent the summer in hotel Brewer,
Bar Harbor, has secured an engagement
for the winter IN Brewer, Me-
With the exception of colds there is not
much sickness among our people. We are
glad to report that Mr.. Charles F. Walker.
who has for many months past been con
nned TO his sick room on the second floor,
has been able to move down to the sitting
room and gains strength slowly.
Thanksgiving was pretty generally en-
lily gatherings; plenty of everything good
in the way of eating, plenty of fun by the
younger ones in particular in the interval
Of dinner and supper, after that music
and song and recounting scenes of the
past. Our people ought. above many
others, to be thankful tor health, if not
for wealth When we are able to say that
the office of overseer of the poor is sine
cure, We say what very few towns can
say, and that our tax collector reports that
he has no serious difficulty in gathering in
enough to keep things going. As people
we were right in observing this day royal
ly and thankfully.
The town Of Lamone, although small
town, has as much diversity Of religious
sentiment as can be found in many much
larger with few, if any, who have not any
religious belief. We have Baptists, Meth
odists, Cnlversalists, Adventsts, Unita-
rians, EpiscopaIans and Catholics; but
We have only two church buildings; one
of them is Union church. During the
summer season the pulpit OF the East La
moine church Is occupied by Unitarians
Methodists and Baptists. The Lamolne
church is a Baptist church with a resident
minister, Rev. Mr.. Bickford There are
A'uuddN StHOclS III tttu Oh the ISt us
tricts of the town; the one in our district
has an attendance of over fifty teachers
and scholars during the winter season; the
superintendent is 4 woman. In the alb
sence of church service the school is held
in the district School-house and is great
means of keeping up an observance of tie
Sabbath.
Some people are under the impression
that free text books in our common schools
are modern movement, but soon after
Maine became State an act was passed by
the Legislature providing for the distribu-
ton of copies of the constitution of this
State and of the United States to be used
IN schools. Ten thousand copies were
printed and bound together in spelling
book form and execution" and distributed
throughout the State. Section second of
the act required that the book should be
read in the schools land also when and
where 1t may be practicable, from the age
and advancement in study of their pupils,
10 cause the same TO be committed to
memory 1t would be a step in the right
direction, especially in our winter schools
If the spirit of this section of the act
should be put in operation.
But we must draw this sheet to con-
clusion as to say verify there is not much
news in it, but what there is we give to the
readers of the AMERICAN for what it is
worth. East Lamoine may be considered
under cloud at the present, but your cor
respondent may be pardoned if he is a tirm
believer in the good old song, There's Il
Good Time Coming" for Lamoine.
Nov 80. J. C. W.