The Republican journal., 1914-08-13

T,esSots, Mf1. oaran, wife Of the late
Thomas Morrow, who was Of the Lem
nan family living at the village. and
whose sister. Susan Lehman, was Of such
marx tnat ner funeral in 1850 has notice
IN the photography of Maine; Mrs. Sarah
narrow, daughter OF the late Alpheus
Mcfarland, and sister to Jane McFar-
land living in the village; Mrs. Eliza,
wife of the late Joshua True. daughtar
of Col. Prescott; Mrs. Keatinp, mother
of John and William and Michael Keat-
ing; Mrs. Phoebe, wife of the late vii.
liam Cox, of the Thomas family. whose
daughters are Viola, wife of The late
frederick M. Richards of Camden. and
Ellen, wife of Professor Abdon w
keene, for years teacher of vocal cuI-
ture in the New England Conservatory
OF Music in Boston, whose son. Frank
Cox, is in mercantile life in Boston: Mrs.
Nancy Adams, daughter of the late Ed
mund Prescott, and wife of the late j ohm
Y. Adams, who cared for his children
while he bore arms in the great Amer
lean conflict, whose son, Charles S, Ad-
ans, has for many years been an official
OF the town and county, whose daughter
Bertha is the wife of Rev. E. A. Dins-
low, a citizen of the town. whose sole
surviving sister, Mrs. Jane Moody. is a
resident of the village; Mrs. lydia Ber-
ry, of the family from which by Brad
bury and Sabra Berry Toothaker des-
cended Mrs. George b. Dyer; Mrs, Jere
Crockett, Mrs. Robert Shibles. Mrs. AL
len Longfellow; that brings the chronic
Ter to the very door of his childhood. to
hear in memory Robert Shbles say;
flames Phillips could never knowingly
take cent that belonged to another
person. and to near Allen Longfellow
say: mo storm, day or night, summer
or winter, was severe enough to stop
Mary Phillips from going to the house of
neighbor in sickness or sorrow -
Worthy of special mention are Mrs
Harriet True, Mrs. Martha E. Heating,
Mrs. William Morse, the gifted preach.
er, Mrs. Lucy A. Bean, widow of Sam
uel Bean, Mrs. lothian Clark, Mrs. Isaac
Mariner, descendant from one of theMay-
flower company, Mrs. Horatio Dunton,
mother of R. F. and J. R. Dunton, Mrs.
Susan Andrews, who has rare collec-
ton of Chinese curios; Mrs Charles l..
Brown, Mrs A. G. Caswell, Mrs. Josiah
Sweetland, Mrs. Abbie (Fuller) Potter,
Mrs. Lucy N. Moody, late deceased at
the age of IS years.
For Pisgah view of the promised
land of the pines encircling the idylic
lake Quantabacook, a lingering look,
centennial farewell by those living else
where, ascend with US the Hatchet
mountain road, or the Moody mountain
road, with back to the lake, mountains
and sea on the south, and just north Of
the brow of Lincolnville mountain be-
hold the quiet beauty of the dales of the
river and lake basin, where General
Henry Knox, in the closing years of his
heroic life in his country s service, sought
to retrieve his broken fortune in the tall
pine timber of Plantation Bonaparte.
that had never resounded to the stroke
of an axe. Let the eye follow the wind
ing course of the Georges, given sharp
angle by the great spur of Appleton
ridge, then hiding in chain of lakelets.
stealing past the dale with white spire
at South Montville, kissing meads, dash
ing down declivities with eight water
powers in our town, as it courses from
its partial source, behind "Haystack, y
in the lake of its own name, the Georges,
the twin and rival in beauty Of lake
Quantabacook; thence easterly five miles
along the ba ses of "Hogback' and Frye
Mountain behold the northern terrace
Of the lake shore in North Searsmont-
Incompatible the landscape from that
point TO lhe SOutn, flcHly Tepdylig
visit-then follow back over the ten
miles fringed with the modest green of
fir-bearing trees the shore Of Lake Guam
tabacook and it's outlet the east branch
of the Georges with its seven water
powers in our town, Moody pond enhanc-
ing the picture, buttressed by the goodly
hills of Morrill, and Belmont. This is
the town of Searsmont, with its homes
of beauty and peace, its century of
humanizing hearts and hands, welcom-
ing a new century of the magic of
science. FRANKLIN F. PHILLIPS.