Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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'l'll IJ CLA IH UN the people who were in the path of the river, juniped upon a horse which was standing nearby, patiently awaiting its niaster, and rode to warn the unsuspecting inhabitants ot the valley. Uloppity, eloppity, eloppittv, down tl1e road galloped the horse as anxious as its rider to warn the people. liunl run for your livesl The river is rising l rang over the hillsides as 'l'oin galloped past towards Maekville, and it was ,iust in time for already he heard the terrihle roar of the waters like the great rushing of a tornado On it t'2lll1l', that great wall of water, leaving destruetion in its path, on it eaine rushing and roaring, wiping away great huildings as a ehild would knock down his tower of hloeks. Froni the people huddled together on the hill eaine a ery, Look what's Utlllllllg, a house all lighted up l .Xnd sure enough, Ullllllllg down the river was a house with all the lainps lighted and with people inoving ahout in the rooms. What a strange sight it was, this river with the living and the dead tloating helplessly down its rushing eurrentl But while the people had heen watehing the river. what had illtllll heen doing! Regardless of the warnings of his friends, illlllll, having fixed an old hoat whieh he had eaught as it was floating hy, had eontinued his work of resc-ue. 'l'here were many houses, whieh, although they had not heen in the path ol' the river, were surrounded hrv water. Toni with his old dugout reseued the people who had heen left in these houses and earried thein from their rather danip apartnients to the top of the hill. All night illfllll kept this up and when everrvone was safe he hegan eolleeting from the water household artieles that niight he of some use to thein. Baeli and forth hetween the houses and the hill he went. ldaeh tiine he was away the people would wait anxiously for his return with fear that something might happen to hiin. 'l'hen eaine a time when he didn't return for a half hour, an hour, two hoursg daylight eauie and still he hadn't eonie and there was no sight of hiin. llis friends guessed his fate and mourned llllll, hut illO1ll Green Mountain will always he reinein- hered in that litle village as 'l'he nian who gave his life for the people of Maekvillef, liirru 1IAZl'II,'l'UN, '2il. 26

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l,l'l'l9'Hzl 13 l ' all recognized at once as Red Fisher, the escaped convict for Wl10l1l there was a live hundred dollar reward. Stranffel enough the l1lll1lltC he saw tl1e111 he surrendered. e .Y They went downstairs, got some hreakfast, and then asked for explanations. VVhen Red had escaped from the prison nearly three weeks ago, he had gone to tl1e city opposite Perkins, Point where he found some of his pals. 'llliey provided l1i111 with a rowlmoat. 801110 IIIUIIUIY7 Zllld provis- ions, illlll direeted l1in1 to this lighthouse Oll l'c-rkins' Point. He had arranged signals witl1 illlllll hiv the use of the light which the hoivs and girls had previousllv seen. 'lle llilll used the baek door so that lie would lltli' he seen hiv people o11 tl1e Illilllllllllll. lle llzld taken Fred's hoat as l1is had gone adrift. The papers that he llllil taken illlx 11igl1t before told where some nionetv had been lett lu' the old lightkeeper. While the lioys watelied their prisoner, the girls found the inoiiev, about 344,000.00 in all. That afternoon they took their prisoner and went l1o111e. ilix- cept for the loss of sleep they were lllllll' tl1e worse off as eaeh had a thousand dollars and tl1e satistaetion of solving a 111'VSil'1 V. lQs'1'111-11: Osoooo. 720. Gem Green fllbountain x 1 1 'o o 1' iv s. o IU .o o' 1' eve 1 . ul,lll,1'lll t ry ll I e ' l tl t 1 t tl1el1ll r'vbcd.vl To tl1e top of the hilll 'llhe river is rising, rising fast l So like a seeoud l'aul lievere, 'l'on1 Green Mountain warned the good people of Maelcville of the ilPlll'1l21ClllllQ danger. ,lt might interest you to know how Vlllilll received a nalne so appropriate to the New lqllglillltl distriet i11 Whieh l1c' lived. llis lnother wished to 1-all lllxl' son 'llll0lIl2lS Green after his grandfatlier, and tl1eir last 1lZllll0 being Mountain, he lmeeaine Tliouias Green Mountain. 'lltllll Green Mountain for short. 'l'0111, while i11 an up-river village. had reeeived word that the dani at flreenshoro had lrroken, illltl the river, usually a quiet stream. was rushing ll1lWll lllltlll the helpless villages-a raging torrent. l'pon hearing this, illtllll illllllilllg' only ot' the safety of ' 25

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