The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-09-12

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4, there was no last cent there, the opin.
ion is here ventured that. being
pressed with the question. he would re-
] specially suggest who ought to give it.
Such faithfulness merits perpetuity in
Office; but we elected good successor.
, Many people in attendance for the
first time were made honorary members;
among them we noted Mr.. and Mrs.
David c. Gilman, who were among the
enterpriSing young men and women OF
Mr.. Warren Hartman from Appleton,
be heard in our winter night.singing
Mrs. Hattie Cram, nearest neighbor
to the Grand Duke. She contribu-
ted to the floral decorations beautiful
nasturtiums, sweet peas, feverfew, and
large bouquet of mixed flowers. The
Ryan children furnished a huge bunch
of pond lilies, and Miss Erva Conner
did some fine work among the over
head floor timbers, decorating them
with ferns and golden rod.
George W. Prescott, now advanced
in years, respected and beloved of all,
was with us, young in spirit and keen
to enjoyment as in the days long gone,
when he kept the Union Store at South
Montville, told stories and treated the
boys and girls to nuts and candy as
they stopped in to warm their toes and
fingers while coasting those inetfable
winter pights. Subjoined is list of
some of those present. The names of
others grouped about the open door Q,
were not obtainable:B. F. Knowles, SIP.
I A " ri in,
Cassie A. Martin, Carrie E. Prescott,
Minnie Prescott, Vera Gushee, Mary
Martin, NJ. A. Conner, George Colby,
Edwin c. Martin, Ralph R. Howes,
Everett Prescott, Bertha A. Dinslow,
Rev. Edwin A. Dinslow, Irving Ring,
Pearl Ring, w. H. Slower, F. E. Howes,
Nettie II. Newhall, O. W. Newhall,
c. M. Howes, D. C. Gilman, Mrs. d. C.
Gilman, Oren w. Ripley, Helen A. Col
by, q. S. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Gilman, Alfredo Eastman, Erva Con-
per, Mrs. J. F. Gilman, Mr.. J. F. Gil
man, Wilhelmina Eastman, Rita NJ.
Cox, Vena M. Randall, George Skin
ner, G. F. Randall, Olive Randall, Eva
n. Ripley, Mary A. Randall, Lii F.
Sukeforth, G. W. Prescott, Mrs. w. H.
Slower, ]. W. Hartman, J. F. Ramsay,
T. A. Ramsay, B. A. Eastman, Edward
Spence, Ernest Davis, William H.
Spence, Charles Leighr, j. NJ. Suke-
forth, John @. Adams, Simeon K.
Cram, c. s. Adams, J. w. Skinner, E..
S. Adams, Mrs. E. S. Adams, Clifford
c. Randall, C. E. Gilman, G, F. Con-
Der, F. F. Philips, Mrs. j. B. Ramsay,
Mrs. Hattie Cram.
First on the program, America was
played in the Photograph and sung by
the singing attendants. which conStitu
ted large majority. Then came the
Presidents address, brief as to world
matters, making most of the Hague
Conference in that feature relative to
the prospective appointment of a Su-
preme Court of the World, happily pro-
posed by Americans, a court in which
international differences should be so
settled that wars should no more be
known, save in the Wonderments Of
histories, memories. and traditions
He made little account of current talk
of war between Japan and the United
States. He spoke with enthusiastic
conviction of a day not distant when
corporate aggregations of wealth
should be taught to bow gracefully to
the edictS of wise and just law through
out our fair land, and when labor
should not be more arrogant than cap
ital, because of the same reasonable
restraints; and these evils would be
corrected because, unlike some of the
Old world conditions, the public mind
is awake and alert to the existence of
wrongs in the body polite. He spoke
at length, and with great enthusiasm, of
Maine, his native State, dwelling on
the surprising beauties of the "GeOr-
geS," the Islands, the river the lake,
the sunset valley nesting among the
hills with ranges alternating in wood
pasture and cultivated field, with at
tIactlye homes, lawns and shades, good
ly mountains of seeming pride and
calm exultatation at such delightful
confines; mountains, whose circling
chain, as seen from South and East
Ridges, afford, with the vale enclosed,
picture at sight of which the eye
never Wearies, nor does the mind fail
of exultant appreciation. He spoke
with feeling of the fathers, who selec
ted with poetic taste, as we'll as with
an eye to thrift, these lands, and hewed
out of the wilderness the habitable hill
and dale. He named all the tribes
and declarations of tribes of Indians,
their wars with themselves and with
the white settlers, that have been
known in these parts for five hundred
years, making special mention or some
chiefs, particularly of Samoset, who
left our Georges Shores to visit the
Pilgrims in their distress at Plymouth.
He referred feelingly to the demise
within the past year of a teacher of
the South Montville school when he
was a boy of ten years-Miss Anna
Woodman, gentle, genial and devoted
to all true ideals: also of the demise
within the past year of a schoolmate,
in the old days, Mrs. q. F.
Knowles; gentle, thoughtful, quiet and
beloved of her mates. He also re-
ferred to the recent death of his old
schoolmate, Representative Charles L.
Randall, with whom in boyhood he
played, swan, coasted, skated, walked
and talked as with none other in the
Dale. He paid high tribute to Mr..
Randall for his qualities as a man in
many ways, and said that his death
seemed to remove the landmarks set
when both were young, so that it now
seems necessary to set up the sextant,
take his bearings, and make new
eckoning from the stars growing dim
in life's sky, to determine present lati-
tude and longitude on its high sea.
The next part was music by James
w. skinner and his little machine
under his magic setting acted like a
vertable wizard for enchantment. The
next part was recitation by Miss