The Portland daily press., 1889-06-17
MAINE TOWNS.
Fryeburg.
RAMBLING NOTES.


To the Editor Of the Press:
1t is bright June day, whose breezes lure
one out to visit the many places of interest
to the stranger. The beauties of the river
trees, hills and lakes have leen SO many
times written of that they are as twice to'u
tales. Yet the town is beautiful ana reSem-
bles very much in some features the coiege
town of Brunswick which has Just awak-
ened to celebrate the birthday OF .her SETTLE
ment. Great are the changes In times and
people during 100 years.
This has been busy week in this town al
so. The first few days were given to the
graduation and the various examinations
and other meetings of the school, On Tues
day the day of graduation the weather was
so sultry that one could say with truth that
Fryeburg gave acdrm greeting to the sons
and daughters of her old Academy. This
Institution is nearly 100 years old. Her
graduates have in the past taken honored
rank in the halls of learning and in the mis-
tory of our nation.
The exercises Of the graduation through
out were grand success. The class, though
small in numbers proved equal in talent to
the larger ones of previous years. We learn
that WELLESLEY, Yale, Bowdoin and Dart
mouth, will receive some of the members of
this class. The concert seemed to be much
enjoyed by the audience and many were the
encores that were called for and kindly re-
sponded by the artists. The decorations
which consisted of hedge of foliage plants,
ferns and plants in bloom: an evergreen arch
bearing the class motto "Nulla vestigia re-
trorsum," "Fryeburg Academy" and 49,"
in silver letters, and the bunting draped al
cove were very attractive. The Alumni
formed an association, SO we were told, TO
further the interests of the school and to
plan for the celebration Of the centennial.
Dennis Nj. Cole Of Bowdoin College was
chosen the president and there was also
chosen a corp of efficient assistants.
The trustees at their meeting concluded to
extensively repair the school building dur
ing the summer vacation and to retain Pro-
fessor j. e.. Dinsmore, the popu-
lar preceptor for another year.
1t Is also said that they chose a new trus-
tee, Mr.. A. X. Jenness OF FTyeburg, to fill a
vacancy.
In our wanderings about town we notice
some changes which are not for the better.
The ruins of the Oxford House and those of
the old Dana Mansion are sad sights TO those
who remember those old ancestral halls.
The old Stickney place, with its new mod
ern buildings, the home Of artist Newman,
has blossomed like the rose, and we looked
in vain in the old orchard adjoining for our
favorite sour apple tree.
The town is indeed quiet, and the surgiug
tide of life in the outside world hardly causes
a ripple here. There is bone new interest
however, Martha's Grove. fine place, which
is soon to be, if we credit reports, the mecca
Of the Chautauqua Union, as it rivals in
beauty Chautauqua itself.
The three churches still stand with steep
les pointing heavenward. The Methodist
just at present Is not much used.
There is one thing of which the people of
the village may well be proud, and that is
of their Green Mountain spring water 1t is
unrivalled for sweetness, purity and health
fulness. Anyone who has once drank Of its
waters thirsts for it ever after. Even the
Sebago water will not quench this thirst
While we write we hear in the distance
the street car-bell, which innovation has
cation, and so we bid goodbye to the pencil
when the conductor at the head of Portland
street says. "All aboard for the station"
Cape Elizabeth.
Last Thursday evening about one hundred
Portland Masons attended a meeting of
Hiram Lodge and the work in the third
degree was finished up in due form. At the
conclusion of the work a fine collation. was
served, and the visiting brethren departed
with expressions of high praise for the en-
tertainment furnished by their Cape breth
rem.
The commencement exercises at the High
school will take place at Town Hall next
Wednesday afternoon. A very interesting
order of exercises will he given.
Mr.. James A. Thurrell has commenced the
erection Of fine store house in Mt Pleasant
Cemetery.
peerlng.
The grounds belonging to Westbrook
Seminary have been made still more beauti
full by the addition Of large number Of
towering plants, the gift of Mr.. Goddard,
the florist.
The class-tree of the present graduating
class Is silver poplar.
Remembrances from various quarters are
being received by the Seminary, the gifts of
former graduates who remember their alma
mater with affection.