The Portland daily press., 1895-07-27
WESTBROOK.
The Last HOnOrs Paid Hon. Leander
Valentine.

The Funeral Services Were Very impress
| sive and Business Was at a standstill-
| Beautiful Floral Tributes.
| The Universalist church of Westbrook
was filled to the doors Friday afternoon
with citizens of Westbrook, who gathered
to pay their last tribute to the memory
of the late Hon. Leander Valentine. The
esteem with which this honored citizen
was held was manifest on every hand.
The whole city bore the marks of mourn
ing. the flags on all the public buildings
being at half mast and all places of bus
fness were closed. Seats at the church
were reserved for the officers and en-
ployes of the Westbrook Trust Company,
of which he was president at the time of
| his death, the Valentine Hose Company,
which was named for him and of which
Mayor and City Council The Valentine
Hose Company acted as escort to the fun
eral cortege. The following friends of the
deceased acted as pail bearers: Charles
Roberts, Joshua Roberts Eben G. Stur-
gis, J. R. Andrews, Cyrus King, James
Pennell, Lewis.P. Warren and Isaac F.
| Quimby, the agyerage age Of these eight
gentlemen being 80 years. Among those
from out of town present were Hon.
| Thomas B. Reed, J. G. Merrill, Judge
Bonney, A. W. Merrill, ex-Mayor True
E. P. Chase, B. M. Edwards, Leonard
Jordan, Henry W. Swasey, Frank Hazel
ton and James Thompson of Portland
Hon. Andrew Hawes, George B. Leayitt,
| William Larrabee, John Read, Horace
Milliken, Frank Clark and John L.
| Winslow of Deering, Humphrey Cousens
and Roscoe Harding of Gorham. The
| gree high regard in which deceased was
held by his neighbors, business associ-
ates, citizens and friends. Among the
many we noticed the following: A beau
tiful floral piece 'gates ajar, !" from citi-
zens; a pillow of roses from Mr.. and Mrs
Merrill; a shield from the Valentine
Hose Company; pillow from Mr.. and
and Mrs. Leonard Valentine; a beauti-
full wreath from the trustees of the West
brook Trust Company; crescent from
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Quimby; eighty -one
white pinks from the W. G. Il. o.; fifty
pond lilies from Frank Grant; bouquet
w
| from Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Adams; ivy
wreath from Mrs. Jonas Raymond and
Mrs. l.. W. Edwards; sickle and sheaf
roof wheat from the Universalist church
bouquet from Mrs. Small also flowers in
profusion from neighbors and friends.
The services were opened by reading
scripture. selections by Rev. George E.
Leighton pastor of the church, followed
| by sermon by Rev. Mr.. Hayden of Au-
gusta, a former pastor of this church.
These very appropriate words were select
| ed as his text, ''By their fruits ye shall
know them" The upright useful and
unselfish life of the deceased was very
touchingly set forth by the speaker. He
| referred to the many places of public
trust that he had been called upon to fill
| by his fellow townsmen and the impartial
manner in which he had always dis
charged every duty that they placed upon
him. He said that local paper in
| speaking of his death had well said that
in his long life she never lost confidence
| in mankind and always looked on the
bright side of life. He was a man in
whom everyone reposed the utmost conf
dence and in his long life he never did
anything to shake that trust" (From
the PRESS. He spoke about his valua-
BILE relations to ihs church and how when
he was pastor he always found him very
|regular.sattendant with an encouraging
word and liberal benefactor, a friend to
everyone and alwaysYready to give council
| and render assistance to anyone in need.
At Warren church tomorrow the pastor
Rev. William G. Mann, will preach in
the morning on Temptations, and in
the evening on "Faith is our victory -
Theyseats at this church are all free and
the public are cordially invited.
Last evening at the Warren church
there was a union Christian Endeavor
service. The subject of the meeting was
| the "Boston convention
At the Advent church tomorrow at 9
p. m. the pastor will speak from the
words of Jesus, "Have .faith in God -
Long service at Z, followed by a social
meeting.
The employees of the New England
Furniture Company will have a day S
outing. at Long Island today, Mr.. Wood
man, the proprietor. paying the expense
This, we think, is very handsome thing
to do and goes great way toward spro-
| noting good feeling hetMeen emnloyer