Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-19
LAMOINE REUNION.
Home Folks Hold Seventeenth An
nual Gathering in Cambridge.
THE OLD HOME TOWN.
(By Edgar Guest.)

| 1t doesn't matter very much, be ITS
buildings great or small,
The home town, the home town is the
best town after all.
The cities of the millions have the sun
and stars above,
| But they lack the friendly faces of the
few you've learned to love;
And with all their pomp of riches, and
with all their teemng throngs,
| The heart of man is rooted in the town
where he belongs,
There are cities good to visit, there are
cities fair to see
| There are haunts of charm and beauty
where at times it's good to be.
But the humblest little hamlet seems
a melody to some,
! And no matter where they travel, it is
calling them to come.
Though cities rise to greatness and are
gay with gaudy dress,
There is something in the home town
! which no other towns possess.
The home town has treasure which
the distance cannot gain
|
| the geutlest friends remain;
1t is there a mystic something seems
to permeate the air
To set the weary wanderer to wishing
/ he were there.
And be it great or humble it still
holds mankind in thrall
For the home town, the home town is
the best town after all.
1t seemed rather a joke on the
reunion committee that, after decid
ing on date later than ever before
in reunion history-March lin
| order to be sure of a springlike even
ing, it should happen to follow on
the heels of the biggest storm of the
| season. But it was a clear, starry
night, and 1903 of the friends of La
moine climbed drifts and waded
through slush to meet and greet
each other at the Board of Trade
| building, Cambridge, Mass.
After an hour of sociability, the
| president requested the singing of
"Auld Lang Syne," after which the
company stood with bowed heads for
a moment and remembered those
who had gone from us during the
year-those who had been connected
with the association since its begin
ming and had attended nearly every
meeting.
AT the business meeting, Jesse f.
Young was reelected president, and
A. NJ. Young secretary and treasurer.
To say the program was in charge
of Mrs. Sarah Tweedie is to say at
once that it was a great success and
most interesting She gave an intro
ductory Renaissance of the educa-
tionaI and social life of Lamoine dur
ing the period when she (and several
others who were present. attended
schools there, and che program which
followed carried out the idea of the
school Exhibitor so popular in
those days. The readings were near
ly all from books used in school
then. A new musical instrument
a musical saw-was introduced by
its player, Stanley Greenlaw of Mel
rose, and created a great deal of in
terest and enthusiasm. This is an
ordinary hand saw played with
violin bow, and bent and vibrated in
such a manner as TO make music
which resembles melodious whistle
or a high, clear soprano voice, The
program:
Singing, Jingle Bells" All
Reading. "A Smack in School
Fred Cousins
Recitation, Farmer John"
Ernest Hodgkins
Selection on the saw Mr.. Greenlaw
story of Pocahontas" (from Barnes
History as given in school days.,
Mrs. Marcia Chamberlain
Reading, TOO Deep for That
Crosby Young
Selection on the saw, Mr., Greenlaw
Reading THE Home. Town"
Mrs. Tweedie
While the refreshments were be-
ing prepared by the committee-Mrs
Flora Bard, Ernest Hodgkins and
wife, Crosby Young and Mrs. Cham
berlain-interestin remarks were
made by F. l.. Hodgkins, Charles
Perkins and others. The reunion
voted to have an old-fashioned box
supper as its refreshments next year.
After refreshments, dancing was
enjoyed by all who wished, to music
furnished by the Arl-Lex orchestra,
consisting of Misses Marguerite Rich
and Mabel Belyea of Arlington, and
| Miss Hazel Whiting of Lexington.