Jane Caroline Reed's Poem Book-Battle Hymn of the Republic

 Battle Hymn of the Republic

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trapling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored:
He hath loosed the faiteful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps:
They have builded him an alter in the evening dews + damps:
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim + flaring lamps;
His truth is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:

As ye deal with my condemners, so with you my grace shall deal;

Let the hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,

His truth is marching on.

He has sounded form the trumpet that shall never call retreat:

He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgement seat;

Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him, be jubilant, my feet!

Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea.

With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;

As he died to make men holy let us die to make men free,

While God is marching on.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe

From Jane Caroline Reed's Poem Book-Rest

 Rest-from hymnbook

Rest is not quitting
The busy career;
Rest is the fitting
Of self to one's sphere.

'Tis the brook's motion
Clear without strife.
Fleeting to ocean
After this life

'Tis loving + serving.
The highest + best;
'Tis onward, unswerving.
And this is true rest.

Minneapolis Oct 18th, 1868

Goethe

Merrick Smith's car accident

 My cousin Frank has found a number of interesting newspaper articles that I thought I would transcribe.

August 27th, 1932

The civil cases of John Scarmana vs. Merrick Smith and of Merrick and Catherine Smith vs John Scarmana were heard in the district court Friday and the court will render a decision Friday of next week. The cases were brought as a result of an automobile accident at the subway in Housatonic sometime in June. Attorney Frank H. Wright appeared for the plaintiff Scarmana in the case against Merrick Smith and the attorneys in the other case of Mr. and Mrs. Smith against Scaramana were Paul Stoezel of Adams and C.E. Bigg of Springfield who represented insurance companies.

September 2nd, 1932

Defendants Win

Judge W.B. Sanford this morning found the defendants without costs in the civil cases of John Scarmana against Merrick L. Smith, both of Housatonic, and Merrick L. Smith and his wife, Catherine Smith against John Scarmana, which were tried in the district court earlier this week. The cases grew out of automobile accident which occurred at the underpass in the village of Housatonic on June 1 and the court in rendering it's decisions stated that the accident was due to the failure of both parties to exercise ordinary care.

Jane Caroline Reed's Poem Book - Labor + Rest

 Labor + Rest

Two hands upon the breast,
    And Labor's done;
Two pale feet crossed in rest,
    The race is won;
Two eyes with coin-weights shut,
    And all tears cease;
Two lips where grief is mute,
    And at peace;
So pray we oftentimes morning our lot;
God in his kindness answereth not;

Two hands to work addrest,
    Aye for his praise;
Two feet that never rest, 
    Walking his ways;
Two eyes that look above
    Strive, through all tears;
Two lips that breath out love,
    Not wrath, nor fears
So pray we afterwards, low at our knees;
Pardon those erring prayers, Father, hear thee!

Miss Mulock

Minneapolis, Minn.

Oct. 18, 1868

This appears to be a slight variant of the hymn Now and Afterwords.  

Frank H. Washington Carpenter Obituary

 WAS THE OLDEST MAN IN HOULTON

Sudden Passing of Frank Carpenter At Age of 91

HOULTON, Jan. 22-THe Death of Frank Carpenter, 91, occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Amos Putnam, Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Carpenter was playing his usual game of solitaire and listening to the radio which had been his custom for a great many years when death came instantly.

He was born in Lincoln, son of Benjamin F. and Rebecca Hammond Carpenter, and was the oldest resident in Houlton.  He was a member of Monument Lodge, F. and A. M., for 70 years and he was presented a medal from the Grand Lodge of Maine this past summer.

He moved to Hammond Plantation with his parents when he was a small boy and with the exception of a few years  he lived in Fort Kent, the greatest part of his life was in Houlton and vicinity.

His wife, who was Elvira A. Green, died in 1917. Mr. Carpenter was the holder of the Boston Post cane.  While listening to the radio he heard the tolling of the death of King George V. Mr. Carpenter's eyesight and hearing was nearly perfect and he saw the town of Houlton grow up, burn down and grow up again.

He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Cora Putnam of Houlton, Mrs. Nora Burrill of Canaan and Mrs. John L. Johnson of Bangor; three sons, Walter and Frank Carpenter of Vancouver and Charles Carpenter of Smyrna; ten grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, three of whom are the children of the late Joseph Putnam, who reside in Bexhill-On-Sea, Sussex, England. He also leaves two brothers, George and William Carpenter of Hammond Plantation and one sister, Mrs. George V. Hammond of Tacoma, Washington.

Funeral services will probably be held in the Unitarian church Friday afternoon under the auspices of the Masonic Lodge.

Ervin Putnam's Obituary from the Marietta Times

 March 17th, 1988

Ervin E. Putnam

Houlton, Maine - Private services for Ervin Earl Putnam, 94, of Houlton, who died Thursday, March 10, in Licking Memorial Hospital, were Sunday in McPeek Funeral Home in Granville, The Rev. Thomas J. Lowery Officiated.

He was born July 9, 1883, in Houlton to Amos and Cora Carpenter Putnam. He was a retired director of radiology at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northampton, Mass., and served in France with the U.S. Army during World War I. 

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Connolly Putnam.

He is survived by two sons, Robert E. of Marietta and Richard D. of Granville; one sister, Mrs. Harold (Hariette) Cates of Peacedale, R.I.; eight grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters.

Burial will be at a later date in Evergreen Cemetery at Houlton.

Jane Caroline Reed's Copy Book - Christmas

 Here is a poem by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott:

Christmas

Over the hills of Palestine

The silver stars began to shine;

Night drew her shadows softly round

The slumbering earth, without a sound.

Among the fields and dewy rocks

The shepherds kept their quiet flocks,

And looks along the darkening land

That waited the Divine command

When lo! Through all the opening blue,

Far up the deep, dark heavens withdrew,

And angles in a solemn light

Praised God to all the listening night.

Ah! Said the lowly shepherds then,

The Seraph sang good-will to men:

O hasten, earth, to meet the morn,

The Prince, the Prince of Peace is born!

Again the sky was deep and dark,

Each star relumed its silver spark,

The dreaming land in silence lay,

And waited for the dawning day.

But in a stable low and rude,

Where white-horned, mild eyed oxen stood,

The gate of heaven were still displayed,

For Christ was in the manger laid.

“Our Young Folks”

Harriett E. Prescott

Dec. 1865