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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
MR. ELISHA PRATT, RUMFORD FALLS.
THE rushing falls that turn the wheels and restless, ceaseless roar Have well endowed our Rumford Town to hustle evermore. The spirit of the hurry, sharing this and that, Placed brains and luck and judgment, all, on friend, Elisha Pratt Whose specialty is banking, following his bent Delighting all, especially those drawing four per cent. The worthy treasurer is he, of "Rumford Trust," all sound The bank that pays this four per cent on coin well trusted found. A spanking pair he likes to drive, none but the very best, The kind that takes you down the road a bit in front the rest. If wheels of ruthless business, turn out the chaff from wheat, Elisha Pratt will drive around till all the earth's deplete.