Reported in the Aroostook Republican newspaper on August 1, 1894 (from Charlotte Lenentine Melvin’s files):
Jemtland Sunday school had a picnic at Madawaska Lake June 26, over 200 there. Tables, etc. A trip across the lake on the steamer.
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