[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 109 (Friday, June 30, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S9573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CHURCH PUBLIC SCHOOL

 Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I am pleased to call the attention 
of my colleagues to an institution in Michigan that is celebrating 
their 100th anniversary. On July 9, 100 years ago land for the church 
school, formally known as Lincoln No. 2, was deeded to the school 
district by Julius and Sophia Labute for the price of $49.50. The Huron 
Tribune posted a notice on June 21, 1895, that requested sealed tenders 
for the erection of a veneered schoolhouse in District No. 2, Township 
of Lincoln.
  While the complete records of who taught at the school that first 
year were not preserved, we do know that the school was completed and 
was most likely in session because of June Nelson who authored the 
story, A Long Trek. The story is one of many in Ms. Nelson's book 
entitled ``Tales From the Tip of the Thumb.'' The story tells of a 
wagon train leaving from Filion, MI, in October 1895 and the travelers 
were looking for a map of the United States. One of them remembered 
that the new Lincoln No. 2 schoolhouse on the corner had such a map in 
its geography chart and they had no trouble obtaining it in the middle 
of the night.
  For 100 years that schoolhouse on the corner has taught thousands of 
students the basic building blocks that lead to a life of learning. I 
congratulate them on a century of success and wish them well as they 
enter the new millennium with the timeless values that have served them 
and their students well since the 19th century.


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