The Republican journal., 1896-07-02
Notes by the Way.
[Delaved Correspondence.


the road for Pittstield, with twenty five
mile stretch Of distance between us and
our destination. but filed with pleasant
anticipation of what the day might have
in store for us. The early morning air is
invioorating and we were in condition to
eniov every mile Of the way. The roads
were rough until Unity village was reach
ed, after which we soon struck the original
horseback trail and found an excellent
road over which our horses made excel
| lent time Before nine o'clock the
ouadrupeds were stabbed and we were
duly registered at the Lancy House and
ready for the business that brought us to
the place. We found that several men
formerly from Waldo county are in bust
ness here. Among them is Oramel Murray,
formerly OF Montville, whom we remen-
Der as a school teacher and member of
/ the school committee; +. 3. Dow, former
| " of Palermo, but now boot and shoe
dealer here; J.. l.. Libby, who we under
stand is a son Of Hon. |. G. Libby, for
merly of Burnham; g. &. Vickery, who
passed his boyhood years in Unity, if we
mistake not, but who runs store here;
L. c. Morse, formerly of Liberty, but
now in business here; A. II. Conforth,
the dry and fancy goods man, with whom
we have had many tussle at the Unity
High School; E. c. Bryant, whom we
believe to have been a Knox man, ETC., etc.
We had no time to even call upon these
representatives of Waldo county, but
Joined the crowd in the street that was
moving towards Union hall here the
graduating exercises were to be held We
found the galleries already solidly filled,
but through the politeness of friend
was given a reserved seat from which
there was a good view of both the stage
and the hall.
Promptly at the hour the band struck
up and the business of the day began, as
into their places glided the thirty six
members of the graduating class of 1896
The gentlemen were all in their black
dress suits with white ties, and looked as
much alike as row of peas in a pod; and
the sweet girl graduates, oh, my! we can
never attempt any particular description
of their costumes, except that the dresses
We're nearly all white and of the same
style and that they looked very nice
The opening prayer was by Rev. Mr.
Whitcomb, well known as State mission
airy for the F. w. Baptist Society.
The various parts of the graduating class
We're generally we'll taken but we will
only notice those from Waldo County of
whom there were several
The salutatory made good impression
of what was to follow and was by Ralph
|. Morse of Liberty
Third we lad an address by Carl sar-
gent Coffin of Thorndike, subject
Environment
Albert Mark Jones of Brooks, who is
president of his class, and editor Of the
School Paper, took as his subject, 'Pro-
gress Of Civilization.'
Eva NJ. Wood of Thorndike took
"Beanty'' for her thence and Edith NJ.
Wood spoke of lone Feather from the
wing of TRUTH
Maude Z. Munroe OF West Troy dis
coursed on ''Tritles Light as Air
The class prophecy, for the afternoon,
was given by Lewis G. Glidden Of Liberty.
Edith Lorena Forbes Of Brooks spoke
OF Light After Darkness" and Lillian
Maddocks of Monroe, furnished the
Naiedictory, ''Alpha and Omega"
while the class ode, which was sung at the
close, was by Albert NJ. Jones OF Brooks
50 on the whole we came to the con
clusion that the young people from this
county We're we'll represented in the pos
ition of class honors, and we were also
pleased to note that they did justice to the
positions in which they We're placed.
We saw many familiar faces in the hall
and met many old acquaintance in the
street and as we turned our horses no ses
toward home at O'Clock ?. NJ, we felt
that it had been day pleasantly spe Mt,
even with the long twenty-five miles ride
| before us. BRUsoUE.