Guilford, Maine Centennial
Vol 3 page 219
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Guilford Centennial



                           (Brunswick Record)

   Guilford, one of the best towns in Maine, will celebrate its
  centennial in June.  We know that the citizens of this town will
  do the thing well.  The history of Guilford is exceedingly inter-
  esting  because throughout there has existed that greatest of all
  assets  in any place, loyalty to the home town. When Guilford
  people  have needed to build a church, a new schoolhouse, a new
  hotel,  (it has one of the best of any town of its size in the State),
  or a large and costly woolen mill, it has had public spirited citizens
  come forward with the necessary votes and cash.  Loyalty to its
  institutions and to its business men has characterized its whole
  history.  "Trade at home" has been a motto which has always been
  well lived up to.  This is the reason that Guilford has some of the
  most attractive business places in Piscataquis county.               Satisfied
  with two prosperous churches, both have modern edifices for wor-
  ship, good parsonages for the ministers and the latter have always,
  received salaries above those usually paid in a town of a population
  of about 2,ooo.  There are no classes or cliques in Guilford.  In
  social and business life there is a spirit of unity which has made
  for happiness and success.



A Maine lumbering Camp in Winter Season

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