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Thera' Ohenzos in the work in the svmperuttu.
room sines A vorL at Great gecko When X started go* there
they ussidto b4rn he liquor by bes44 This they put in those throe
rotarl bursors. The automatic burner they have n4w to the best of
them
neve sees some bed eosidents down there. Jo Gallant vas dews
it the benemegat he a digester started to blow* The eollar came
oft a valve and tile digester blew right in the besenent roma, rhem
ve cleared away that pulp is found JO oa hia heads and knees age test
tee well. His ascii, Ilift4 cooked so much that iken we tried to plok
bits up, the flesh came off it our bands. You probably remember whoa
01S Beery GOrnst get kis steer, sought when he ves e abaft,.
Before they got the peeler shut off every bone in Curranis body ens
brobilto
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°I don't think weIll ovor co back to eight houre in the pulp
=ill at Groat 17orlm. The men wotldnit end the extra hour-, they
cot po.id for then, but if they dictlit the F. otld put tz
(pito B kick. ie .1re a =ion down there that:-.....b'elonge to the federa-
tion. I don't thin?: the vorTany u51;leisant to co back- to tlasoc el;ifts
just now beams° if they di xyld have to lay off 150 men. Those
men couldn't find any -.er work around hero, and if the town didn't
take care of th I don't know vshat they'd do.
"Prirg:::""Cr"rtterf tr-4.1111"t;
Ere. P:o:1 t ter I —"Tell -toblerie
cw-ht thr.t'n:stal:e vet- very funr7u
Eike: "It vat fumy, all ritht, to that social that was tiven
for rather Ouillotto 'sus givon to nark his twonty sears at aPiiost.
There rust have been seventy-five or a hundrod peoule thort and be-
sides those speedhos I spoke about, we had a little yin:- nueic and
wife and I played the accord:inns, ba alcb of coffee, cal7t,
ane tandrlohoc. 2hctt. ctffrar, rrec won= of the p:17 -1r.
13 /1 few weeks a7c tic had a vlst paAy over there in the- convent
to raise roncy for the school. Besides the. card playin' son7c
novin" pictures. Thom wee ajfriost there from Lewiston, where lather
Ouillette came from, am:IL:Ito had one of those home projectors and none
novinc pictures bold,taken in different places, There were some real
Cood colored picttres cf Yontreal. Ono of the scenes Eaclwed paraCe
or prioctc. -tbet vur narrow film, of course. The pictures on the
screen w.Cr'7 o only abort four foot evrro. nut they rem tort..
vThat wasn't a clan Chowder ve had at that crane neetinc: it vas
Heine
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6 they hed Cc oxpel him for :stilt' rWii swe67lni. Ho threw
a book .•-se hit Pia* Age •to th feat. ;,ta mks a daughter
"1 don't think anybody carried a lunsh then all liv
ad ritht in town. The kids that lived ihe *pantry Amid their
own lit as *shoals then, but closed acme of them heaviness
Ws *heaps, to brino OAGIus in to teen in Masao5 thee it is
to rtzn the 11 sebooli. That would hove been pretty hard to
bi'i kids in sixty years ado beesuee they had no big, fast
*rho eonvent is the only wooden school they have sae right is
the city. I went hsre tho last two years I went to aehool. They
had no pinahier, in that then, but they have new. lberibeiweeettepw
ye
t7inso of my o_ume, iroddie is arts tilled
.0
in ni- struck his head
old. Be W3 out ewlemin. AM
e sven
a rook under the eatiore' wenn there when he got hurt, but
eat to h 40tiiiral. Us lived lust throe days and his heed swelled
Weise
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014 Tows• -..11
1:'Whee the Metes Central first new here it the Moreeeen
•gallroade The Bawer aad Aroostook was oa/3014 the Basgor sad flew
*stag -oleo sad it ries from Saeger to aroOkWille, Later they ma the
trains to Manger around the other oii and the treble firm 044tons
scomseted with them at ieoth srsae. That train was called the
Ihre !more4 4o4ress boos Gwadar:4er. Jim &Ides, ewe himphecked.
The Masser sad A20000 were tens up five years ago, sad
the people who eiv, lots sloes the right of way shared in that lead.
They tors up of the bridges up above here, and ober* their
reandheesches to Hartwell there is sow a trailer snaps
akts That old house ea chest -r Street used to be sailed the
hastelle house* 3eorge HardIag's elf*, eho wee a 3etehell, 1
11.4 that place. and Mardiag *old It to Aebbins, hese
the land belongs to the oaths fleatral, and some /ivy
city owns
it. The house use about reedy to fall dews* aWeeery ow. thooght
:lobbies, she has lot of civic pride, was lag to tee? It down
to rid the town of ancopseors. But that he started to
repair it. M4 put sa ea t sew fouodetloae, ead
put ia new s1*da'w ad orth. I asderstead he leteaded to sake
the place ever is inns but for some reason he 0444 omelets
iLe repair'. ybe he thosight he'd lose mosey if he started
hotel ere so nosy evermi,lit mope around hem. That would
a geed leestlea for a hotel, though, as Woe as :tear the
Maine
Wviag bare
Old Tows.....111
"That sammIll or General Yeasts", where
worked sae before my tine I know be worked there,
deseribe it, ro the winters they never used to r.m,$ the snow
!roe the road.; they Just broke then oat, The would just
*hovel paths from the deer to the reed.
At these kitchen breakdouse we unytete have whatever tied or
father",
t rem:160i
masts there sea available, SeemelwArdnight have fiddle, or maybe
it would be as assordias or e Joel hp.Sonetinse we sang songs.
Zr there wasn't roan for oq90ke d damn slogs, 4,e used
to have etrau rides, too/but guess they kind of went out vete*
the eutomobiles esme1n4 About twenty of um -or ten eouplee-used
to fill a bamek,41th strew, toes in a barrel of beer, and set
out for someAraboueed. /*begone en sore than eee or the. out to
ANN& Setilessett-4iest °Meow, or Pashas ?cod, when we meat to
trench Settlesset *see one would go eat around to all the farms and
00Ileet as many people se they eould to joints the fuss ,to *elle
eases, danced, played evalei.. like postofflee-frent the beer *ad bad
a good time genavelly.
ceIlv th n days nt that.
plzoo, ano he dsid tl:,et eh
mg pretty entbusinstie ab6ht this
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started on his vacation next year
ha wasn't goine, to stop anywhere euroute
come strsilbt to Oldtows.°
Mrs. eel -letter: 'Its so wonder tp liked Oldtown so slle
were out there in ,:;sint Louis That Is sush a ameky sityt
If you pet your hand on a rail os net It sooty, eel the
Xst he nos going to
bricks is the buildisgs are so red, but bleak from soot. The
awoke ig sn't rise like it here: it tr,ttlee down near the
grotto-ed.
de se the trft ea the bus. Mose drivers are emeh smart
yeusg east c. to think about our baggage."
mam. Pored watching thous drivers out ereusd pursers
in n Ork/i'tv with those big busses. Is meet on the areybened
Una, ii4nt through the Itailesi Thnnel sad serves Sew Zeros,,
reessyyrenis, ale. and Indians. Os the way be* we Some by the
rn route through Virginia. at the and or the run I sensed
!lAire was a seek on the took of the driver, east where the test or
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were here now. Y- 4 get R lot about Oicitown rrom them Jamen
around to lot of 71.41as in the r. He is tho ahleff0 poi—
Ise* to Y-11ey Perk, la-*ouri* ne at with mn oi&tAi.re in
the sun porch with the tndowe open end a breeki bloat& in,
he says to me, **Ike, ta breeze from/that pine wood is
wonderftl 1 never et anything U. that in Missouri*"
I'd been liviniT right near thatAlbod all my life, and never
th,wt ht anything about it,_ !As took them :Iowa to 3ar Harbor
Thunder Aolo ithl down to the *oast to 5i clams*"
Pelie "James enjoyed that is digging: it
was so.uathW ntirely new to him, .0 hen a clam bake on the
shop,:
f:ete r bi
kiolt out of photairephy and he took
and his family were visiting us test sumer, and we toot the6
Nettie
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OldTowm........31
cN,
iTmed thq earth now on ~IMO of otrloity. sew: Wiere's uo
reandsoity they eouldest hews heer then. _'ecordle to story,
sounds of on
re etttle on e pereh one nt4ht, u thy heard the
rowlocws. It eohrded -ou SOMe 0114 wes
roles' a best up ln t. r. ?Len y hearl r :tout: TJT1
TiliftVol 4,- 30Y Wow
a thoosei.! mlies away, the s ds ther made iiht have twin
picked up and ea
to that some mature]. meenet tn the -ks. Back IA the old
days ey sett, thisgs like that were to work o
ple in that hoet i;ht have beeu
a/one by eleetri ty in t- ir cud ettzest.d
ie
to describe the teprevemerts thet hei so
rted 'Nark there. He describer, three preeeessejegtell, but
4114 La his room
s seld before. I (made% ressmherx-mttrpor-t of them. Ads time
asked him to e.erioihe firtt one. ?id that b -t he
t op sad,delithed the other two ss wail. so T was 4ust es bad
Maine
livinIT tore
Old ToweR.R.R03
because a lot of other people hid left and he ha
rd that there were more Jobs over he Ad better pay. I neve
k e him tell of any neueurl ensea on the trip down. That
about five days. Ijgiebr mow he dld say that one night
of the kids fe *red because the piece where they stepped
p woo itt
red vtgon.) The reads wars putty bad then. That count
t—VENIPANNIPaw
ft 00d
(Ms amid before that they hoe ease
nWe travel a lot in our as in the summertima.
we went to see the
nemeriel_kurid
es a
In 3alut Louis. 3e'', hout everythiag you eouldrine wee t
diamond plus, watches, *ups, and the lard kao64 wha elee. Ali given
Lindberg by admirers otiernflwea so mush lff that he oos.
ulee,ot pcssibly all Rad he Lott it tn,Ai. arehorie/ builds's
inn. aould e: rll day theme looking overttbeeee
eo out berry plekin• evar Last rear wo got sixty
qu- to of reephorrlea up r:t the den cuttings. They used to be
thick a few years ago over at radio line, is redlay, but that
place is all ),rumiad up now: It's pretty well ,Towed up too out at
Push ew Pend. Those plea last only about three yerre. 44e stony*
tKke out a few seedwl for a leash sad a little drinking ester.
could have Tot without a lunch last summer, theup, set
at th Jordon euttlaga. I never ewe mush big beret's. lie filled
or prils in no time.
W1I ever got enough of those wild west
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Maine
Livia,- Lore
Old
shut does for two years) ha* best sold. They Sny they're -1,1,407,-
leak some of the old looms f.ad pat in automatic
heard, too, that it was going to be a
factory. I wish that hill
1 end an aeroplane
rt it would be such s fine
thin?; for Oldt 1411 believe it two weeks efter it starts ops,
halOre oame In about here to tell about the accidest to his
ihy don't have Cly of those straw riles ev,d, brae
allitamblilleadariglIPOWINAPPIRMININ, no.
They wen en the
automobile GOA* it, The youne; folk,trox4r0 to &-toes end themovles,
Tht older people go to In:0410 and *blot partis. 3ose times
thermos
folks have par.tiesriibere they play postofficas Those oli .mmes like
'spin teir4atss would mate a hit with the now it because we've
we've been to th-t movies twice la the last -Pear. Ti-ola 'love
pictures re so good but a „;00d western. I don't road mesh
sow, but 1 steed to liteftestern magazines and starlet. 'lien I was a
iPt.41
oWe to to card partlos onto In a while but I don't believe
Maine
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Old Town 1
TEE LIFE OF 1va.E LLt;TIJi. FNCH CA DIAb
(EXTRACTICT), /MP AND ,AiER MAKER
tf.iy father lived on4 fa pm in Canada. He came to Old
Town f -2o St. Nere:to Quebec in 1865. The first place he worked
1,r1 s. sawmill in Veazie t WOE owned by -enertjl Sr,mnel Veazie
who built the old Venzle i road between Ba4:Or and Old Town. That
Veazie road ("56-fOre-rs- nue-
*6-i-Attern.44./
tbra a-thei...ssfeermoa.asainaatta•S wn s twenty
feet hi2her than it/ts now wLcn thc rilroad 1-r1 alon: there. It
wan much narrower, the top and wide enouLh only for the rails,
let:Tp rnils,t and they were
itimbern with ntrip c iron nailed o the tops. After
kon u. they cut down the road bed to it precont
The niAls in thoe days were known as
made of wooden
the mils Inne
level ad u
where
Pr
ctical_y in
winters LI-
w- to use ski
the dirt to fill in the. part of the town
outh arnnswick 4 tree ti 4 rtUrtallititaitiell,
f)1 7t41
A
1)own 4b.P. wIlere
A
the :oo&. The
feet hih, 2.1C
or snowshoes,
my f'ther _ived
tl
ipairagsthorreft+ w
sed to be driftl down here s me
only way they could :.et uptown
(lbe aria et Itline Pelleader)
d,
wry nese la Illegleire ralletier
4ameredirteirepwatelee. "LW is a elehmeme that
they sail WI ter Obert• My last name onetime, bet *mottoes
I spell It Pair NItebell is just linell*h way at serial si rivet
Mae
...own
;4-1trr "y fthor livud on
St.
Joe
w• i a samill in Veazio
fa-pra in Canada. He cane to Old
In 1365. The fi:zt nlace he worked
war owned by enora riue1 Voazie
who -cunt the old Veszie i road betve-t:m Ban. or an:: Old Town. That
Veazie road. Cab
WR- much nar2owor
feet hizher than itAs now
enue
-1-ciiid-hrter the
-Arfette4.e.Lallsooe'S w s twenty
when the rsiiroad r,n alon there. It
4L the top and wide enouLi only for the rails.
The rA.ls tho e days were knwn as Ist9.p rils,t and they were
..2ade of wooden ilnbers with strips o: iron nalied the tops. After
the rnils mu flken u they cut down the, road bed to its proeent
lvol ad u c the dirt to fill in a- thaL part of the town
where 'outh ranswick treeti4e.
kt,N4, V'Ate.4.1." A
1)own *seeA elere my f6ther 4iiimemistiPPPO* w -c
in the woods. The u8cd to be drifl: down here s me
77ir ctical_y
winters Li1tn feet hiho flnci the only way they could -et uptovn
w to l'4.se ski or snowshoes.