Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-11
SOMERSET.
MADISON.

| Gertrude May Lane was born in
Emblem, Me, Dec. 4, 1886, and died at
her home in Arson, about l O'Clock,
Sunday morning, Oct. ,, 1904. AL
| though not well for some time, her
final illness came very suddenly and
was exceedingly brief. Bereft sew
eral years ago of the mother to whom
she was devotedly attached, she
| never ceased to mourn her loss and
was often heard to express the wish
that she might go to be with her.
Yet with gentle patience and self
forgetfulness she put forth every eff
for to make a happy. home for her
loved father and brother. She took al
two years course of study in North
Arson Academy and two years in
Madison High school, graduating from
the latter in the class of '04 and deliv
ering at her graduation one of the
honor parts-a beautiful essay upon
the class motto. Let US seek the SUBJ
stance. not the shadow" which so we'll
expressed the purpose of her own life.
Though very, sweet and lovable by ma
ture. yet new grace and beauty came
to her character from the day when,
less than two years ago. she gave her
heart to her Saviour NShe was bap-
tized and received into membership in
the Free Baptist church a year ago
last Easter, and outside of her i'm
mediate relatives, it is upon the
church, the Endeavor Society and the
broken circle of her Sunday-schoOl
class, that the sorrow Of her death
rests most heavily. She almost never
missed a prayer-meeting after her con-
version. nor does her pastor ever re-
member one in which she was present
without bearing testimony to her love
for Christ. At the last covenant meet
ing of the church, Tuesday night. one
week before the day on which her
al service was held, she expressed
her desire to be yet more faithful"
When told by her father that the
physicians said she must die. with a
smile she looked up into his face and
said Il am ready to co. During the
evening she repeated softly several
times 1t is His WILL having evidently
in mind the words of a hymn which
she loved-"It is His will and l am
Satisfied She was apparently uncOn-
SciOus for half IN hour before her
| death, but at the last, breathing the
word mother" she passed on The
funeral service was held at the Free
| Baptist church Tuesday afternoon con-
Quoted by Rev. Mabel G. Andrews and
Rev. II. S. Ryder of North Arson. The
| choir rendered her favorite hymn as
| one of their selections and the pro-
fusion of floral offerings bore witness
| to the love and esteem in which she
was held. Among these was an anchor
l n,,.J ha, . 41.Nl
| Madison High School: pillow with the
| name Gertrude" in the center, from
the Glass of 1904. and on this. tied with
| the class cOlOrS was her diploma:
| Christian Endeavor emblem from tn
Society; beautiful basket of flowers
from her pastor: broken circle from
her Sunday-school class; anchor Of
roses and pinks from the church:
wreath of pansies from Mrs. Delhi
Sweat: bouquet Of pinks from neigh
| bors: wreath from Mrs. Nathaniel
| Noyes; bouquet of pinks from friends
in North Arson Academy and roses
broken lily from the family. To her
father and brother, her aunts and
otner relatives and to the wide circle
or her friends, the sympathy Of the
| community is extended.
| HARMONY.
| Mrs. Ernest Willis has returned from
Brockton, Mass. where she spent two
weeks visiting her sister.
| Mrs. F. Q. Turner has returned from
Boston with a stock of millinery and
fancy goods for her fall trade.
| c. F. Spanlding has the machinery
nearly all in his new feed and grain
building where he can do all kinds Of
grinding, as soon as he getssthe Mat
J form scales set in front of the build-
| ing.
A deer was seen one morning last
week in the village walking leisurely /
Forty members of Good Cheer Lodya
I. Q. Q. F., visited Evening Star Lode
Saturday evening, and the degree star
'exemplified the work of the second
and third degrees on a new candiaa..
in an excellent manner.
| Prof. A. E. Morse Of South paris ).
popular reader and impersonator r'u
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