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that some seem to suppose it to be. Though small in size, and 

 with a population of less than looo, its farms are numerous and 

 productive, its farmers are prosperous, and in fruit-growing it 

 is one of the leading tow^ns of the county, having within its 

 borders two of the most noted and productive fruit farms of the 

 State, and several others whose average product goes up into 

 the hundreds of barrels. It has several manufactories, which, 

 though making no great pretense, are doing a more flourishing 

 business than some other more pretentious concerns, and I trust 

 that you will take occasion to look them over before your stay 

 is completed. I assure you that you will find that visitors from 

 outside~ are welcome, and that the proprietors will be ready to 

 show you what they are doing. 



You have doubtless discovered that Harrison is not a very 

 difficult town to reach, and, if you could have made your visit 

 in midsummer, you would have found our transportation still 

 better. We are at the terminus of a railroad, which, though it 

 is at present of the narrow gauge pattern, is in the hands of an 

 enterprising corporation, which gives us three trains per day 

 each way during nearly the whole of the year, and sees to it 

 that the officials are always gentlemanly and obliging. We are 

 also at the terminus of the famous "Sebago Lake Route," one 

 of the most beautiful and attractive waterways in the whole 

 country, a portion of the route being the celebrated Songo 

 River, of which the poet Longfellow wrote: 



'■ Walled with woods or sandy shelf. 

 Ever doubling on itself. 

 Flows the stream so still and slow 

 That it hardly seems to flow. 



Never errant knight of old, 

 Lost in woodland or on wold. 

 Such a winding path pursued 



Through the sylvan solitude." 



It is a route over which thousands of delighted passengers 

 travel each year. 



Lakeside Grange represents the larger part of Harrison and 

 the contiguous territory in Bridgton, and we are somewhat 

 proud of our place of residence. Harrison and North Bridgton 

 are two villages but a little more than a mile apart, each served 

 in the same way, and with interests that are verv nearly iden- 



