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34F. J.T., September 23, 1909. There had been many complaints prior to the posting of this notice concerning the reckless driving habits of local and visiting motorists; e.g., F. J-T., August 19, 1909. A year earlier, a shocked observer of motor congestion on the public highways counted 37 automobiles as having been seen in New London in a single day! F. J-T., October 22, 1908.
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35In 1948 Police Chief William A. Colburn during the months of July and August noted cars in Town from every State in the nation and from many of the provinces of Canada.
36The Manchester Morning Union, December 4, 1946.
37A somewhat similar water system, built by George Thurston in Elkins after Shepard's installation began functioning, was still partly in use in 1950.
38F. J-T., September 27, 1906, November 29, 1906.
39T. C. Records, Vol. 7, pp. 661-663.
40T. C. Records, Vol. 7, pp. 658-59. The August, 1950, extension to the precinct included a larger area on South Pleasant Street and old Main Street, on Seamans' Road, and on State Highway 114 to the Sutton Town line.
41See, for example, F. J-T., December 17, 1925, September 1, 1927. 42F. J-T., December 22, 1938.
43The important relations between P.W.A. and such local water and sewer improvements as those built in New London during the 1930's is indicated in America Builds: The Record of P.W.A., Washington, D. C., 1939, pp. 155-180.
44 Time, November 22, 1948, p. 66.
45 As early as 1908 the Town had voted $50 for an investigation of alleged dumping of sewage into Lake Sunapee. T. C. Records, Vol. 7, p. 126.
46The newly-formed New London Civic Association supported the project of a municipal sewerage system.Their public meeting on the matter is reported fully in F. J-T., January 29, 1931.
47F. J-T., September 7, September 21, 1933.
48In the first two years of its existence the new Commission annually made comprehensive reports on its activities; N. L. T. Rpt. for 1940, pp. 54-61; N. L. T Rpt. for 1941, pp. 50-55. At the end of 1940 the sewer debt of the Town stood at $61,400; at the end of 1949 it had been reduced to $32,900.
49The complexities of New London's sewage problem are admirably set forth in a special report of the engineering firm of Camp, Dresser and McKee. This document, based on conditions in 1947-1948, was used as a basis for actions taken by the Town Meeting of 1950. It is on file with the Sewer Commission.
50The Speaker, May, 1937.
51Other names connected with the New London mail services since 1900 are those of John K. Law, Frank Mastin, and Ervin P. Edmunds as R.F.D. carriers or substitutes. Bert Gray, familiar figure at the Potter Place railroad station, began his duties there on November 1, 1919.
52J. T. Adams, Album of American History, IV, p. 318.
53In 1950 it was understood that in the next building program of the Postal Department New London was high on the preference list for a new and modern Post Office.
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The Sesquicentennial of New London, 1929
"There are towns in America that keep the past for us. Little towns they are, but there is an air of greatness about them, worn with tranquil modesty."
-D. C. Peattie
New London was incorporated as a Town by the New Hampshire Legislature on June 25, 1779. By virtue of author- ity conferred upon him in connection with the passage of this act of incorporation, Samuel Messer called a meeting of the freeholders of the Town in his residence on August 3, 1779. At that time, in Squire Messer's home, the first New London Town Meeting was held.1 A century later, in the summer of 1879, a noteworthy centennial program commemorated that first Town Meeting.2 As 1929 approached, bringing with it the 150th anniversary of the beginnings of New London, there was a widespread feeling that the sesquicentennial also should be worthily celebrated. In 1927 at Town Meeting it was voted to observe the forthcoming anniversary in a fitting manner. Appointed as a committee to make preliminary plans for the occasion were Mrs. Emma L. Colby, Mrs. Mary B. Macomber, and John D. Pingree. In 1928 the planning group reported to the March meeting an outline for an elaborate celebration in 1929. The report was accepted; $1,000 voted for anticipated costs; and a General Committee, consisting of Mrs. Colby, Charles E. Shepard, and Stanley A. Spiller, was named to take
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charge of the affair. A year later, in March, 1929, just a few months prior to the celebration, the Town voted another $1,500 for the sesquicentennial.
The general committee for the anniversary began working in November, 1928. The group consulted Miss Leila M. Church, a well known writer of historical pageants, and ar- ranged with her to come to New London, familiarize herself with the local background and history, and prepare an all- community pageant for the celebration in 1929. An outdoor amphitheater was developed on land belonging to Will San- born and Leon Bickford at the left of Highway 11 between New London and Elkins. In this beautiful natural setting "The Hills Against the Sky" was thrice presented during the sesquicentennial. The actual days for the celebration were set for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 2-4, 1929. On Friday, August 2, an historical marker was unveiled on the Anthony Colby homestead, and Governor Charles W. Tobey made an appropriate address. That afternoon and again in the evening came the first two presentations of the pageant. On Saturday morning, August 3, there was the dedication of a marker on the site of New London's first school building and a similar ceremony at the site of the first log cabin in town built by Moses Trussell in 1774. In the afternoon there were a base- ball game and a band concert, and, that evening, the third and final performance of the pageant was scheduled. In- clement weather, however, forced its postponement for twenty- four hours. On Sunday, August 4, special religious services were held in the New London Baptist Church, with the sixteenth pastor, the Rev. Harold W. Buker, giving the sermon. That afternoon a marker at the site of the original meeting house of 1788 was dedicated, and another band con- cert presented.
The whole celebration was perhaps the most ambitious community enterprise in the history of New London, and reflected great credit alike on those in charge and on all participants. Since many thousands of people witnessed the pageant and other events of the three days, the Town received
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an abundance of favorable publicity throughout New Hamp- shire and New England. Because of the largeness of the under- taking and the historical interest of the pageant, the committee and the drama synopsis as printed in the souvenir booklet prepared for the sesquicentennial are herewith included in full.
Organization for the New London Sesquicentennial
GENERAL COMMITTEE
Elected by the town
Emma L. Colby Charles E. Shepard
Stanley A. Spiller
Appointed by General Committee PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
Calvin E. Sargent James E. Shepard, II
FIELD COMMITTEE
Charles E. Shepard Ira S. Littlefield
PROPERTY COMMITTEE
Ausbon Sargent Wilbur C. Knowlton
Horace C. Stanley
William Smith
COSTUME COMMITTEE
Lizzie Smith Eliza B. Robbins
Maud J. Shepard
LIGHTING COMMITTEE
William M. Kidder
Charles E. Gay
Merle C. Gay Ernest E. Welch
MUSIC COMMITTEE
Dura P. Crockett Gilbert Wiggins
Helen Colburn HOUSING COMMITTEE
Evarts W. Messer
Arthur J. Gould Emma S. Gould
Gertrude Messer
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DECORATION COMMITTEE
Joseph Cutting A. Stanley Little
Ervin P. Edmunds Edgar F. Sargent
INVITATION COMMITTEE
Kate Mastin Ruth P. Granger
Percy M. Thurston
COMMITTEE ON MARKERS
Fred A. Pressey George Lovering
COMMITTEE ON HISTORICAL EXHIBIT
Elmer F. Messer
Harold E. Messer
Hattie Burpee
Gertrude E. Messer
Emma B. Sawyer
Emma I. Stanley
COMMITTEE ON SPORTS
Bernard A. Hoban Henry J. Homan
GROUP COMMITTEES
Crusaders-Karl M. Sholes
Early English Dance-Marion S. Little
Pioneers-Dorothy Crockett
Indians-Fred A. Todd
Blue Sky and Silver Dance-Lura V. Stanley Minuet-Mildred J. Peaslee
Bonnets and Shawls-Mary V. Messer
School Children-Verna B. Edmunds Academy Girls-Nellie F. Stimson Street Scene and Governor Colby-Lucy E. Parker 1812 Soldiers-Thomas O. Parker Civil War Boys and Girls-Bertha M. Kidder
Revolutionary Soldiers-Julia E. Todd British Soldiers-Dorris M. Smith Civil War Dance-Celina Todd World War Soldiers-Lura K. Butler
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SEWING WOMEN
Lizzie Smith
Eliza B. Robbins
Maud J. Shepard Josephine Messer
Mabel M. Burpee May Gordon Mary Prescott
Ethel M. Campbell Allie J. Sargent Lizzie Morgan
Emma B. Sawyer
Lucia N. Shepard
Louise H. Shepard Alice Brown
Mary B. Macomber
Grace Dean
Zelma Freeman
Mary Pingree
Mabel Pingree
Emma S. Gould
Hattie Burpee
Gertrude Messer Marie Parker
Dorothy Crockett
Esther Crockett
Lura Butler
Emma I. Stanley
Julia E. Todd
Gladys Carson
"The Hills Against the Sky" An Historical Pageant, written and presented under the Direction of Leila M. Church Music furnished by the Greenfield Military Band of Greenfield, Massachusetts
PROLOGUE
Against the sky,
The mighty hills in blue and purple lie;
Steadfast their strength.
If storms turn blue to misty gray,
Or sun makes clear each lovely rim
Where sapphire shadows dance and play, Steadfast their strength, Night unto night, Day unto day.
Each springtime brings The gay return of birds, from winter harborings; Unfailing spring. Each bird, the songster we engage
For spring's great symphony. Each flow'r
A lovely scene, on earth's green stage. Unfailing spring, Year unto year Age unto age.
Georgia Huntoon
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As sure, we know,
Are faith and strength to make the soul live on and grow; Eternal things.
Faith, and strength, and love, each one;
And courage, like a thread of gold
From age to age, forever run;
Eternal things, Father to son Father to son!
Against the sky.
The mighty hills in waves of blue and purple lie;
Steadfast their strength,
If storms turn blue to misty gray, Or sun makes clear each lovely rim
Where sapphire shadows dance and play,
Steadfast their strength, Night unto night, Day unto day.
EPISODE ONE THE PIONEERS
The pioneer settlers of New London, who had established homes in 1775 were James Lamb and Eliphalet Lyon. They were soon joined by Nathaniel Merrill and Ebenezer Hunting. During the winter of 1774- 1775 Moses Trussell lived alone on New London land.
The Four Men Start out to Clear the Land.
Ebenezer Hunting: Sings -
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
Whence cometh my help
Whence cometh my help For He who made the heav'n and earth,
For He who made the sun and moon,
Shall neither slumber, nor shall sleep.
He keepeth me, He keepeth me, forever more.
James Lamb: Our new neighbor, Ebenezer Hunting seems led forth with joy to the clearing of his land - this spring morning. What stirs your soul to happy song - Friend Hunting?
Ebenezer: The Hills! The girdling hills, with their changeless strength from which my own is renewed. The distant hills, and the near, the great hills, and the little hills. It is a fair place - this land that you are pleased to give the name, New London. Nathaniel Merrill: Aye, and as unlike old London as it can well be. Eliphalet Lyon: Except in the sentiment we may yet have for this settle- ment, if so it comes to be, in time.
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James Lamb: Time, if we have patience, is what will bring others to join us, until we have achieved a fair settlement.
Nathaniel Merrill: But never another City!
Ebenezer: We are the pioneers - whose faith and strength need daily, hourly, renewing. Look back upon the Crusader, and upon the Puritan - led by faith! Vision them, and your own faith renew. Vision: The Crusader, the Puritan, the Pioneer.
James Lamb: We go on then, with faith and hope, that these hills shall some day encircle a town fair to see.
Ebenezer: Aye, fair to see, a New London! But instead of towers and battlements, the hills; instead of Kings and Queens, the unknown hewers and builders; instead of pomp and circumstance, the moving on, in quiet ways, of uprightness and integrity, and an honorable growth and progress. A New London. whose battle- ments are the strength and beauty of the hills.
PIONEERS
Ebenezer Hunting,
James Lamb,
George W. Philbrick Percy M. Thurston Howard E. Todd
Nathaniel Merrill,
Eliphalet Lyon, Joseph Cutting
Crusaders (Group from Camp Wallula) - Maurice Shepard, leader, Woodman, Ridgely, Wetherhill, Eddy, Kendall, Wicker, Macklin, Kep- pelman, Daniell, Thomas, Meigher.
EPISODE TWO HEWERS AND BUILDERS SCENE ONE
The Velvet Gowns of Old England - An Early English Dance.
Dancers - Elizabeth Griffin, Betty Barnes, Janet Babcock, Mary Pearson, Pauline Shaw, L. May Fournier, Molly Alford, Beth Woodard, William Foster, Gerald Collins, Donald Hayes, Warren Thetcher, Free- man White, Pierre Fornier, Thomas Walch, Leslie Ferris.
SCENE Two The Homespun of the New
The petition to the General Assembly to be incorporated as a town was granted June 25, 1779. The first town meeting took place in Squire Messer's house, August 3rd.
Samuel Messer: It has seemed to me advisable, as well as proper and pleasant, to have you gather here at my house, for this, our first meeting as townsmen. Shall we appoint a moderator?
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Benjamin Eastman: Aye, none other than yourself, and none better.
Several: Aye! Aye! Squire Messer!
Samuel Messer: Then it shall be my first pleasure to hear the names of those present. Benjamin Eastman has the list, I believe.
Benjamin Eastman: Samuel Messer! Jedediah Jewett! John Austin! Ephraim Gile! Nathaniel Everett! Thomas Whittier! Israel Hunting! Noah Kidder! Jacob Hadley! Nathaniel Stevens! Eben- ezer Hunting! Nathan Goodwin! Benjamin Eastman!
Samuel Messer: There are some 16 families here now, in this settle- ment of Heidelberg or New London, so-called, and it has been discussed among us all, that with so much increasing travel, new roads had better be laid out. In that we agree?
Several: Aye!
Benjamin Eastman: I move that we appoint Squire Messer and Na- thaniel Everett as perambulators of boundaries and limits. We will do our share in the making.
All: Aye! Squire Messer! Nathaniel Everett!
Samuel Messer: Samuel Messer and Nathaniel Everett are thus appointed. Having all together, at various times, discussed the advisability of having three months' schooling for the children of the settle- ment, it is the pleasure of each and every one?
All: Aye!
Squire Messer: Benjamin Eastman might look into the matter of teacher. Jacob Hadley: Can we, as a little body gathered together, go ahead into new fields, till we see how we come out?
Squire Messer: If we do not venture, we would make little progress. It takes courage - to enter new fields.
Ebenezer Hunting: Aye, courage! Look back upon the past. Our fore- fathers in this land knew courage, as they journeyed thither making new homes.
Jedediah Jewett: Which we have done as well.
Ebenezer Hunting: With no molesting red men, to strike terror to our souls! Look back upon them, in vision. It is not an easy path they journeyed upon!
Vision: Journey to new Homes
Squire Messer: With such an example, let us go on then, with our en- deavors. We will meet again soon, about these matters. We are about to build a town. Before we leave this, our first meeting together let us pray this prayer. Our God, hear our prayer. Let us build with honor forever.
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TOWN MEETING GROUP (*indicates actual descendants)
Samuel Messer,
Harold E. Messer*
Jedediah Jewett,
Forrest Loverin*
John Austin,
Fred Austin*
Ephriam Gile,
Clifton Williams*
Nathaniel Everett,
Frederic E. Everett*
Thomas Whittier,
Almon Morey* Herbert Hunting*
Israel Hunting,
Noah Kidder,
Andrew Kidder*
Jacob Hadley,
Howard E. Todd*
Nathaniel Stevens,
Percy M. Thurston*
Ebenezer Hunting,
George W. Philbrick
Nathan Goodwin,
Rev. Warren Goodwin*
Benjamin Eastman,
Edwin Walter Eastman
First Settlers - Soloist, Mary W. Bond; Ervin Edmunds; Willis Philbrick, Wilbur Knowlton, William Croteau, Alston Messer, Evarts Messer, Dura Crockett, Clarence Granger, Charles E. Gay, Will Ray, Fred Todd, Horace C. Stanley, Raymond Knight, Oren D. Crockett, Adelbert Messer, David Crockett, Donald Gay, Edward Todd, Robert Sawyer, Phyllis Worthen, Karol Knowlton, Winifred Little, Avis Phil- brick, Eunice Worthen, Bertha Kidder, Lucy Morgan, Ira S. Littlefield, Dorothy Crockett, Nellie Stimson, Emma Philbrick, Isabel Duffett, Ger- trude Messer, Mabel Pingree, Vinita Gay, Marjorie Holmes, Villa Gay, Gustie Messer, Allie J. Sargent, Minnie Knight, Emma B. Sawyer, Julia Todd, Celina Todd, Charlotte Hanscom, Miriam Shepard, Marion Little, Josephine Messer, Eliza Robbins, Hattie Burpee, Mary Macomber, Fannie Adams, Lizzie Morgan, Kate Mastin, Fred Morgan, Evelyn Buker, Norman Buker, Winifred Palfrey, Muriel Sanborn.
SCENE THREE. TOIL
The building of new homes went steadily on, and then, a school house, and then, before ten years had gone, a meeting house.
INTERLUDE
DANCE-"BLUE SKY AND SILVER STARS"
Dancers-Barbara Everett, Janet Porter, Elizabeth Everett, Ruth Colby, Deborah Perkins, Barbara Smith, Helen Lily, Dorothy Goings, Athelyn Gay, Elizabeth Green, Helen Stanley, Janet Gordon, Margaret Bradley, Marion Smith, Dorris M. Smith, Lura K. Butler, Dorothea Lamson, Mary Killelea, Frances Wallace, Evelyn Shepard, Catherine Carlyle, Ruth Sumner, Alfreda Goings, Mildred Messer, Gretel Palmer, Dorothy Taylor, Louise Hockaday, Florence Dana, Bess Houghton, Eleanor Preston, Willow Heman.
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Group from Soo-Nipi Park.
Minuet-"The Courtly Days":
Maitland Shepard, Ernest Welch, Malcolm Sargent, Alwin J. Hawkins, Edgar Knowlton, Myron Adams, Ralph Cummings, Seth Lamson, Orra Smith, Herbert Hayes, Maurice Sargent, Carl Duffett, Sherman Morey, Archie Granger, Dorothy Holmes, Phebe Welch, Marion Jesseman, Bar- bara Sholes, Edith Mowat, Hazel Adams, Naomi Elder, Marion Powers, Georgia Huntoon, Marion Smith, Marion Sargent, Catherine Wallace, Helen Morey, Verna Granger.
EPISODE THREE
AN EVENING WALK, 1798
Elder Job Seamans, New London's first regular pastor, first preached in New London in 1787, and in 1788 moved his family to town, where he was the much loved pastor and citizen for many years.
Elder Job: I will walk as far as the stone yonder, and then you must go the rest of the way, Manning. It is not far to Brother Good- man's house.
Manning: No -!
Elder Job: Look at all the little trees at the edge of the brook, the alder bushes, and the elderberries - They stay there all through the night, without even any big trees to look out for them.
Manning: Ye-es!
Elder Job: And as for the white birches - they put on their robes, and come marching right out of the woods! They are not afraid.
Manning: Neither am I! I am as brave-as brave-as-as brave as- Elder Job: As Moses Trussell!
Manning: I know! Because he lived all alone here, the very first of all! Elder Job: And because he fought so well in the War - they had to tell him to stop! We have many men in our town who marched away at the time of the Revolution, and from other towns, more than twenty years ago - Brave men. Can't you see them going - with fife and drum?
Manning: Yes! Just as plain!
Vision: Colonial Men.
Elder Job: And then, after a while, they fought the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Moses Trussell fought the British from behind a wall with the other Yankee soldiers, until the command came to stop! But Moses Trussell kept on, and they had to finally come and drag him away. Can't you just see him? Old Mr. Redcoat over there! and Mr. Moses Bluecoat - down behind the wall -
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Vision: Battle Scene
Elder Job: And that was Moses Trussell. And here we are at the stone. And it isn't far to Brother Goodman's house, Manning.
Manning: I'm not afraid.
Elder, Job: No, of course not! I'll stand here for a minute. Goodbye! Manning: Goodbye! Are you right there, Father?
Elder Job: Right here, Manning.
Manning: Are you right there, Father?
Elder Job: I'm right here. And I know, Father of us all, that you are there! You are there!
CAST
Elder Job Seamans, Manning Seamans,
D. Dunbar Seamans*
Malcolm S. Seamans*
Moses Trussell,
Luther Morse*
Revolutionary Soldiers - Karl Sholes, Walter Heman, Fred Whitte- more, Albert Sholes, Anzel Messer, Henry Huntoon, Edgar Sargent, Mark Shepard, Charles Messer, Perley Marshall, Edwin Sholes, Elmer Messer, William Urquhart, Patrick Barrett.
British Soldiers - Reverdy F. Smith, Alden Haskins, Bernard Peder- son, Fred Rayno, Hiram Eastman, Thomas Smith, Jack Sharp, Herbert Smith, Herman P. Messer, Charles Prew, Arthur Heath, Tyler Grace.
EPISODE FOUR
"BONNETS AND SHAWLS"
From Hominy Pot, Goose Hole and Thereabouts.
A hat factory was established by Joseph Harvey, near the end of the century.
Dancers - Albert Lamson, Clifton Lull, Maurice Rayno, Robert Hall, Ralph Colby, Charlie Sanborn, Ruth Thurston, Dorothy Knowlton, Leah Johnson, Catherine Hickey, Frances Morey, Catherine Pierce, Lottie Knowlton, Luella Bickford, May Plimpton, Lucia Shepard, Charles Cunio, Rita Cunio, John W. Hodges, Harry Emerson, John Hannon.
Indians - Joseph Johnson, Roy Marshall, Frank Dow, Nelson Cassa- vaugh, Harry Towne, Waldo Woodard, Harry Jackson, Clarence Prescott, Claude Prew, Gilbert Roberts, Roy Davis, Fred Haggett, Walter Prescott, Ralph Wyman, James Messer, Leslie Downs, Raymond Dow, Fred Simp- son, Wesley Woodard, Henry Jackson, Ivan Getchell, James Morey, Arthur Roberts, John Todd, John Pinard, Charles Lyman, George McDonald.
*Descendants
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EPISODE FIVE
ON HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF A NEW CENTURY
SCENE ONE
In the early 1800's Joseph Brown was the first to raise Merino Sheep. Joseph Brown: Sam Stoddard.
SCENE Two
The first stage coach passed through New London in 1832 on its 100 mile trip from Lowell to Hanover - due in great measure to the efforts of Colonel Anthony Colby. The school stopped that the children might see it pass.
Child: But how did people go away before this 'normous carriage came? Farnum: Just as you can see them any day, or night.
Vision: Going for a Ride
Child: But a long, long time ago, how did they go?
Farnum: They rode on a horse, in quite a quaint way.
Vision: The Pillion
J. Everett Farnum, Teacher: Paul Shepard.
Pillion Riders - Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Messer, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Philbrick, Wilbur Knowlton and Julia Todd, Fred Todd and Marion Little, Ervin Edmunds and Mariam Shepard, Clarence Granger and Mabel Pingree, Mr. and Mrs. Dura P. Crockett.
School Children - Katherine Daniels, Phyllis Daniels, Elizabeth Bar- rett, Marion Lovely, Eleanor Pederson, Ellen Gay, Lucile Smith, Gladys Buker, Althea Powers, Emma Duffett, Harold Buker, Harold Welch, Maurice Messer, Earl Rowe, Frank Shepard, Bert Gay, Gerald Philbrick, Clyde Smith. Charles E. Shepard, driver stage coach.
SCENE THREE. DILIGENCE IN LEARNING
The New London Academy obtained its charter in 1837 and opened as a school in 1838, with many students.
Students - Louise Shepard, Emma S. Gould, Verna B. Edmunds, Ruth P. Granger, Elsie Barnhart, Jane Wallace, Pearl Gordon, Theresa D. Hayes, Mildred Peaslee, Mabel M. Burpee, Helen Watts, May Gordon.
SCENE FOUR A Salute for the Governor
Colonel Anthony Colby was elected Governor of the state in 1846. Governor Anthony Colby: William Colgate Colby .*
(Street Scene) - Rev. H. W. Buker, Mrs. Annie Bean, Clara Y.
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Messer, Hattie Woodward, Eliot Clemens, Richard Messer, Ruth Moreland, Earl Lawler, Edith Lawler, Lucia N. Shepard, Lucy Burpee.
1812 Soldiers - Willie Ray, John Morgan, George Lovering, Murray Sargent, Frank Harris, William C. Sanborn, Ralph Ashby, Edward Ashby, Roy Sanborn, Withey Tenney, Joseph Parshley.
EPISODE SIX
THE CIVIL WAR
SCENE ONE. THE CALL
The second day after the call, April 15, 1861, Capt. Andrew Sargent offered his services to the state. The first volunteer was George McFar- land. Each came home on leave, within two weeks, to marry his sweet- heart. Forty-two men enlisted.
Civil War Boys - Calvin Sargent*, William Clough*, James Knowl- ton, William Kidder, Nathaniel Parker, William Welch, Leland Welch, H. H. Beck, Richard Croft, Richard Merrill, Dick Andes, John Burk- holder, William Armour, John Shanley, George Smith, Sherwood Hollo- baugh, Milford Greenberg.
SCENE TWO. CIVIL WAR BALL
Henry Stanley, Walter Preston, Wesley Cobb, Maud J. Shepard, Hazel Preston, Susie Cobb, Lyman A. Ford, Willie M. Knowlton, Clinton Medford, Mary Goings, Flora Richards, Hazel Woods, Frank Andrews, Ethel M. Campbell, Emma I. Stanley, May Andrews, Edward Smart, Edward Gagnon, Thursa Dean, Belle Dean, Gertrude Everett, Sadie Shepard.
SCENE THREE. SOLDIER AND SWEETHEART
Sweethearts - Alice Todd, Evelyn Wheeler, Mary Nichols, Helen Kidder, Eleanor Mastin, Donna Mastin, Mary Barrett, Eunice Stanley, Marjorie Towne, Laura Prescott, Lois Sargent, Marion McGregor, Mar- ion Boole, Julia O'Brien, Christine O'Brien, Rose Le Page.
Arch Boys - Robert Messer, Maurice Taylor, Kenneth Rowe, William Stanley, Sumner Stanley, Ernest Worthen, Charles Davis, George Cricenti, Theodore Towne, Elmer Goings, John Dayton, Walter Sharp, Arthur Little, Lee Knowlton, Robert Simpson, Walter Simpson, Lester Marshall, Edward Todd.
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