The Republican journal., 1905-06-08
HALLDALE.

hALADALEs
Farmers in this vicinity are about done
planting. About the usual amount of pota- |
toes have been planted, regardless of the
present low prices. Apple trees have
blossomed very full and there is good
prospect of large crop OF apples. MIR.
and Mrs. Fred NJ. Poland left last Monday
for Hancock county, where they are to en-
gage in business. Mrs. George Trundy,
who has been very sick, is improving. ID.
W. Plummer moved to Freedom village last
week.
CLARK's CORNER (Prospect).
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Boyd of Stockton
Springs were the guests of their daughter
Mrs. Mamie Clark, in Prospect Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Clark was in Searsport last
week. :. Mr.. Thomas Dorr of North Sears
port was in Stockton Springs Monday on
business. Miss Lillian Grant visited her
father, Mr.. Charles Grant, in Stockton
Carter still holds the old farm at the cor
ner, formerly owned by E. Clark: Mrs.
Adelne Overlook and Mrs. c. II. Gross
are in very poor health. Every stranger
we meet now enquiries the way to Stockton
and besides, Mrs. E. F. Staples is selling
out at 20 per cent below cost.
APPLETON.
Memorial Day was observed here in the
usual manner. The address of the day was
delivered by Rev. George A. Chapman in
Union church at 10 a. III. The church was
well filled by members of David Easancy
| Post, ladies of Almond Gushee Relief Corps
and citizens: Music was furnished by
quartette The address by Rev. Mr.. Chap
man was pronounced one of the most elo-
quent memorial orations ever given here;
| The speaker being veteran of the Civil
war spoke from experience, and his words
We're more fully appreciated by those who
served by ladies of the Relief Corps in G.
A. r. dining hall. Mr.. Chapman delivered
the address for Cooper g. A. K. Post OF
! Union in the afternoon, services being held
| in the new Methodist church. 49,. Friday
evening the Rebekah District Lodge met
here with Golden Rod Lodge. A large dele
CATION was present from Bethel Lodge of
| Union. The degree staff of Bethel Lodge
| conferred the degree on a candidate. Among
the visitors from other lodges we were glad
to see Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Adams OF Bel
| fast. Supper was served at O'Clock in the
| lodge dining hall and ice cream and cake at
| the close of the session. Mr.. and Mrs. Adams
were guests while in town of Geo. II. Page.
....Dances are held in Riverside Hall every
Saturday evening by Ormand keene and
| Fred Waterman. There has been Il good
attendance and the best of order at these
(, dances.
LIBERTY.
Memorial day was observed by E. II.
Bratistreet Post, G. \. r., in this village in
the manner in which we have been accus-
toned to observe it for the past twenty
years, with slight variations. The graves
of the departed soldiers within our limits
were decorated with flags and flowers.
The flags furnished by the post and dis
tributed throughout the several towns were
as follows: Montvile, 10; Searsmont, so;
Liberty, SO; Palermo, 55-21l in all. In the
afternoon services were held in the church
in this village, which had been beautifully
a former Boston decorator, now stopping
here The old comrades sat under green
canopy in the form of a bell made from
ropes covered with green tissue paper.
The pulpit and every available part of the
church were hung with flags and flowers IN
profusion. On the walls back of the speak
err were portraits of President Lincoln and
of E. III. BradStreet, from whom this Post
derived its name and who was one of the
many of the country's defenders who starry
ed TO death at AnderSonville, and whose
grave was looked up by Hon. L. c. Morse
and decorated by him last June on the oc-
casion of his going to Andersonville to Sc
lect the site for the Maine monument that
was erected there by the State last fall.
The music for the occasion was of the very
posed of young men of Liberty and Mont
vile, who rendered fine selections both at
the church and on the streets and which
were highly appreciated. The singing was
by selected choir, two of whom-Alrs. e..
NJ Hurd and Mrs. G. H. Cargil-have sung
for us at every memorial service for the
past tWenty-f0ur years, and it is the hope of
every c0mrade of this Post that they may
live to sing the requiem Of the last comrade
of this Post as he wings his way toward the
MAJ, ,i,1fr mo I'M
members of the choir were Mr.. Eben Cobb
of Searsmont, tenor, l1azen Bickford, Esq.
of Montvlle and DR.. W, l.. Cargll of Lib
erty, bass, and Miss Mabel Pentecost of
Montville, organist, who all acquitted them
selves in a manner highly gratifying to us
cises began with music by the band,
"Nearer My God to Thee followed by
reading of general orders from both the
commander-in-chief and the department
commander relative to Memorial Day also
the first general order of the first command
er-in-chief, Gen. John A Logan. The Post
Commander, f. p Rowell of Montville,
then gave a short address. Next was an
anthem by the choir, beginning with So
prano and tenor duet, Mrs. Hurd and MI.
Mr. Bicklo and Dr.. Cargill, and conclud-
ing with the full choir, which was very eff
fective. The reading of the Roll of Honor
by the Adjutant was made most pathetic
by reason OF the 0rganlSt lightly playing a
march in slow time during the entire reaG-
ing. soprano solo by Mrs. Cargill EN-.
titled, "A Soldiers Dream was a story of
itself and was finely rendered. But to be
fully appreciated it must be heard. | here
with give the substance:
In the Pickering light of the watch fire
bright
A soldier lay asleep,
And by his side in the eventide
His comrade watch did keep.
And the gates of heaven seemed open wide,
lie heard the harps of gold,
He stood once more by his darling's side,
Who smiled as in days of old,
And the soldier in his restless dream
That called back brighter day,
AS he gazed on the loved and lost
Once more in visions far away.
The bugle rang. The dream was passed,
The soldier called to the fray,
And when the battle had ceased at last
The soldier dying lay.
And his last dream flashed DER his eyes
| once more
As his spirit passed away.