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"Lexicon of Trade Jargon" assignment, and Buxton's interview s men..
tioned. -Wentworth W -J15 amused by Buxton's reference to th "horse and
buEy days." Mr. Wentworth is a familiar f!4ure on 01 own's streets
where he may often be seen sittinL primly erect in h bugiAr while an
employee, who drives hi to and from the mill, hold% the reins.)
As,
"Wentworth says to me,. 'How 1 rig have you wrked here, Mike?"
'Fifty one years, sir,' I says.
'Well, well,' the reporter says, 'that oesn't look as though
they fire people who are over forty five h ret'
244 "1 thought I had heard of all/the roma in that mal, but
the evaporating room is one I can't pl ce. Whit do they do there?"
Mike; "Well that is where the ter is taken out of liquor
that has been usAl in the digestersy. When that reorter (Buitton) was
in there last sumo3r Wentivorhh as)ied me to show him some of the water
that w s removed. I dipped semi out in a dip3er and handed it to the
.reprter.
'Why, he says, lit lo9ks clear enough to drink. Do you mean to
say this water came from Ztst black liquid down tla::re?.
"Yes sir,' I says /the water has to e taken out before we can
burn what is left.'
."That liquor i /made up in the soda ro..ms and pu..:ped to the diges-
tevos where it ehans the wood phips into pulp. From the digesters
the liquor goes t,4 the wash room, then to the evapor- ting roam and
back to the so4 room wheve it is used avev acuin. You see it keeps
going around id d. During the evaporating process the carbon
is burned ?i6 of the liquor and the 11014d that runs out of ther_ to
go back tbesoda rom looks j1;at lie molten .lend.
t work used to be done i. the three large rotary burners.
(I r member now seeing those burners. The—hree of them, one next to
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the other, were individually as large as or arger than the
bciler.s of large freight locomotives. were heated by coal
fires underneath, and they were always volving. The burning
liquor appeared i side as a white molten mass. always
thought they were rotary furnace.)
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"Last winter they insta ed a new tyAl burner that replaced
the three old rotarys. Thaf new burner cost a quart3r of a million
dollars and it saves the ompany 5000,00 a week in operating costs.
It produces 40,000 pos of ate in an hour, so you can see there
is quite a saving r ght there. this new burner the fuel used
is the liquor it lf and that saves in fuel cost. It is only the
carbon in the Alqu.or thtt burns. Alas rest of it goes back, as I
said, to beAsed over."
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activities he woud be engaged in that would p 1m from
granting me aa intLrview Saturday or& eveninc. I 14kink
he avid he had to attend a eting Saturday. I told him
that the later date suit ms erfectly because I had to writ
up .the intery
a okay, then," he said. *You whip that into shape, and
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Mike Pelletier is a remarkably keen minded man and such a
rapid talker that it is quite a task to remember all be says.
Once he gave me so many figures and dates all at once thnt I had
to ask him to go over them again slowly so that I c:,uld get them
down. A stenographer would surely be a great help in interviewing
him.
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"Sure he would," said Rioux. "Held be glad to and yo couldn't
run &taro* a better man to tell you what you want to kn
Miel and I were talking thet night ie apo gised and
jumped up to lea*, the roam.
"I'll have to go down and close up tht;t c," he said, "or
it'll drive us out of the room." lie said he u d coal in the furnace
and oil in a kitchen range.
When he came b&ck from the cellar he id, "My wife asked me
who you were. She said she had seen yo mnewhere, but couldn't
exactly place you.. I told her she ou. to know you Bob Grady."
I know Albert, one of the boys and a.daughter„ flora, by sight,
but to the best of my knowledge I d never seen either Mr. Pelletier
or his wife before that night. e I hadn't mentioned my name I
wondered if the man had clai t power, and out of curiosity I
asked Sim how he knew my n
"Know your name?" h uplicd. "I've known you ever sInce you
were Lorn in that house our father built over on Perkins Avenue. I
knew your fa!ther, Nio too. He worked down there in Greet Works on
the filters* Nick d I and the Runts you remember them were
about th only po le who live: down this way once. Yes indeed, I
know you all r t."
Mike sat.,' 'd ke glad to have miv.-call again, but he didn't think
he'd have t opportUnity to talk until next Monday afternoon (the
30th). e said he'd be working from 6 a.m. to 12 noon tviflt week and
would h plenty of tIA, in the afternoons and evening. Friday
eve of this week (th 27th) he said he had to at:end a rece7:tion
In or of his grand daughter kho is to marry a chile named Coffin*
Coffin, who also works In the pulp mill, became a Catholic in
rder to mar y the in. Because of the larger number of guestv the
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dioserzaubt.
°Mks anoi I piNyed over at the aemvost it a eosial v might*
Thst WW1 given for Father Oullette."
tgav Bee a fine Bet, sad well liked here*"
lire, PIAletler: svie played the amsordians end thers was violin
sad piano mule. There was no dousing*"
Bill Rioex: There'd be no roam for daneing in a school room."
Mike; °gal, they wouldn't hove d.nasd5snjvey, oft dunday WM,
There was a few speakers, and after that wf'hed some 11, -ht refreeh•
gents in the shop* of otka and coffee*
PO*. F4Istinr: 'There *es some Ileseinr, thermh, down in Bempi.,
den lioadsy ul-ht when we played at Lt grws meeting. 40 didn't
get home 'till four °cloak in the,Mornin- nd it we. fire before we
got to bed.*
Wars *That damming ussejust to keep were, I played the asooriw
ten for about en hear *hill, we were Ileitis' for t bus to some
along sad pick me up. p3.r. was about 300 4141MA* members if's gum
and T mass the testy,* GI' this eveuin/ 4444.4 Vie dliii ehawderaw
(I mentlomod t I had 004A Mr. end Mrs* Pelletier's nutmeg
in the paper had played at the, Aber OsIlatte *octal
but test I el t r
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:palled'hors.")
*4142ottims "Mike's name is really 'Mitchell'. Ivo *leaps
the names at first becebss “Mishael* use
epos moms 'Pelletier,' but he spells his 'Pelkyi,' It's funny
ie‘ up, th-, voting lists they have we deft as Mre. Catherine Pelletier
end hiu as Like Pelts.
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Bangor Nesdey nigh to but we'll have to use our old seeordiftues
went for two um ono* to Montgomery. Iord, sn4 Oompony, but when
they got hero I found they weren't matched. *ben we pl?..1c ea t
old ones you'd think it sea just one instrument, but T kiwi/the
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minute r touched the keys 02 theo e new ones that thor wjere di erest•
t'
keys. rho keys, e a supposed to be stepped be s litPite t lOcat
goes t:v: top of the eAtordlens, but those didn't nacee enY. Ralcavar
I shoulA thin they would hove known at theroAtist the two velvet
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weteeld. All they had to do use to press clOws an the fifth key.
That 4lves tho ktic to the odeordlon. "'suppose some sbirpin' els*
eqw they lihked niPte thooTt! 91Cy were elite, but if you
played two 11%e that togethor iyrould sound pretty bad. I like
0 or a beoatche they ter with* 141110.
u Tentacled Mikr, tvt be had promised to pl sy tho oesordten
for wy other boy 1? Olrought htm over, so hoc Obltringly lei the
rs
tato th liv room Rod plokod up ons of the instruments. II*
played the 1%$1 Iurt,y in th7. 5toan end then be told te boy
that ha ha time to play just one wore beer* it mool0 he ttue for
btu to4t reedy to wo to work. Ily boy, he sold, "7 knew rovers
0Z(/'
II of listonia* to old Ake ts11 starts*, and you'd like to be
playa*, so I'll plity one you'll be Tied to teer..-•lood old
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(The Life of 34t1ke t'elletior -Canadian Paper Maker)
(Thla evntn I vent over to interview Mike Pelletier,
fellow named Paul Cyr and Mr. Pelletier's_ son, Albert, vere
paying a visit. I knew both of this. Paul is a quiet tell
mnst every one is *len Albert is around. Mike is youthrpt and vie.
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mous in spits of his *bar -eight years, and Albert yeseMbles his
father. moth of them are interesting and rapid ;Algt talkers, but
Albert, with the advantage of youth on his s, did meet of the
taninc. Fels net a bore at all and he hafsuoh a pleasing and
foronful7lereonalitythatpeopseem.like to hear him talk,
Rill Rime was holdlnp a thr94.sr old child on his knee when
T entere(1. They told me the belonged to Robert Oust, a son-
in-law of the Pelletier* young fellow fell asleep on Bill's
lap shortly after I but vberther it was a natural sleep or
a treneo indneed s of Bill's pipe would be bard to say.
The elli/d yoke a little while after his rather called to get Wm,
and beran lk about venting his ball bask. As be had no bell
with thai decided that he met have been dreaming ifoout one.
If bad not been there I don't tYktimr I would bay° got nearly
teh of the incredible story that was told that night.)
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Alhdrt* *Bello Bob. I see Jo Martin is not with us any more.°
(11•148
referring te a IPA worker who dropped dead today while welting in a l at
the oity hall tor an allotment of federal food. Martin vas fifty yOirs old.)
'Old you hear about then closing up Bosse down hares the fellemithat runs
the White Cafe Pretty tough for hiss hoed just slatJped dealt $200.00 for a
lioense to keep open. Thor) vas a mann vest in there ansItold Bosse to send
her husband homes he w. pendia* to muds tine thermos' Bose wouldn't do it,
se she seise eAll right, Zr. posse, I'll hare this 4aed Ap. h. wont to
as a lawyer and the next day Guy Moors (Old Tom* police °hist) want in there
with cme kind of a paper and Boise had to olcie his restaurant.'
hoard that the rowernment hefi closed up that noccasU: factory."
Alberts 'They o-,Tbt to close that+laee up* it's noth7ne but a &nosed
swestahop."'
Mrs. Pelletier* °I don't th*fik they closed than up, vy girl works
there and she worked today.'
Albert* 'They havenstAlosed this up, but they're goine to make this
pay people while theyers4ssernine -rade. They made them work there five
weeks without a niakle
Paul Cyrs 'Tee and they get just as ems* for those 'A' and 'Be mocoasins
as they do for the rest. They all co in togeUer.*
Alba
,41/Sura they do.'
'that about ths...t old mill? Arthur Lehlatio told we I amid be
surprised if I knew who was &bag in there.'
lake* 'All I know is that they auctioned oft the neshInery and that
thIC fellow Smith. from MasAsohusetts, has an option on the plant mAll June.
1Ahat option oast $5000.00,'
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R.0.1 eLiblano says that they haven't sold the maehlnery aeri that it's
going to reepen as a wlen edli.°
Albert, nsv r see me beak ther,3 if they do. have eAiteady job
now at Great Works sad I'm role* to hang on to it.'
Mrs. Pelletier' 'Steady Pay down there even if it sn't so swab, would
be better then hitth pay in the woolen
Alberts 'Bur.; it would. I hear sone of the big fellows are eosin* down
there tomorrow, and maybe we'll get bar* that cut. That would help out.'
Mikes 'It sure mould; 7%.*
Alberts 'In that we len mill I know how it would be. We'd work for.
thro woks and then weed get laid of for thrsv lanths. WO thanks.'
R.G.s 'Is that Lincoln rill running nowt'
Alberts 'Yes it is w and, believe me, that Is same place to work.'
R.0.1 eopposeWilbur is there yet.'
Albert, y:41, Ilibures there. Ross t to stay there mv, Immense
there* fired him everywhere else. The first night he worked in the new mill
(in Old Town) he had four outomatles, with those time cloaks on then, to ran.
The boss looked in about sine o'clock awl there was Wilbur rennin around those
four looms and the tie* clocks -hadn't novel on sey of then. *Toy, Wilbur,* he
says, Nat's the meter with you? Why aren't those lo-Ase runrinl?' 'There's
nothing the ratter with7s41,4 Yorry camp *it's the dannei looms: they wont
run.' We evnt up to Linooln for a job sod the boss says, 'your boys this is a
different type of work from mtvt rv*ve b e doin*, and I'm not sure you underw
stand it. Do you know anythng *bout double reeds?* *sure,' Henry says,
*SURAIReRE.1 *Well the bon says, nrh t ere they,' */*11 be damned if I
know,* Wilbur ssys. The boss explained the do -.Ato reeds to us, an we went to
mei*. Those double reeds wero two roe& cleepsd together. The front one /sae
twice as fine as the Akek owe. Six threads ammo through a reA in the beck,
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but those six went through two n front. Zr an and broke out you had t4res.
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those down to find whisk of the reedz hsi or..ly two threads1 and you!Cid to iut
that end through ono of the reeds in front, it over and get It through
the book one. U a bit of flyins get in there and started toAnliqd up on a
thread you had to nisch down between t oat ritod. If youfdidn't know how to
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do it, it would take you all dry to yet that out, but thee.) weavers had a
special hock for that and they could get three th'nge out n no time.
"That ftllin is so tine up there that when you fill your shuttles you
hik,e fifteen m nut s before they run out. If a bobbin la left with mob filling
on it you have to cut if off. It's so flne it would take you all day to pull
it off. Drop a little piece of that yarn- aii3: it float5.. down ilk, a feather.
They have a smoking room riAit n the *Jove shop end you eon go in there and
amok* anytime. If you get any grate on your hadde you have to umd% it ridht
off. When you oet your warr out on a /0.1a you go on another Oft42 CO °limning
up. Somibody else does tnat ond he spends Lout three hours on a 1f7lin. Milan
he gets dons that loom is just the acme itE when it oane from the !'sator74.
*They have autonatie worn tokeups on those looms and the =first time get
a isepp out I didn't know .1.iow to roll down the Cloth. I didn't ant to spend an
hour eindinl that down by 4art, and I knew Henry Wilbut had worked On Knowles
le Ass, se I want over to him and asked him haw work that gear. Minry,' I
soya, 'how in: the 041 do j,at that cloth wound down?' 'Dame if I knows*
Henry says.- I wet book tit tha loon and start „i to fool around with that tt.kes.
up am': I nOtiood a jt.le lever olcir'd into a slot ea the side of a gear. I
pulled that lever out and whirevoort that *loth wound up in a second. After that
I ruo- across snythinv I didn't understand I didn't west",, 000 time ackln" Henry
Wilbur about it.
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'When I at through there they were running .114et three days a week; and
to hold the crow they made lhea work every other week. I at a dotible and
twist end through a wrong red and the boss oars, 'Albert, Igve,got to lay
you oft for a week.' He said no mu4 sorry but hold got orders to lay off
'movers for a wziLe when they mad, mistakes so they'd loare to be wreful. I
asked him if I multi get mv pe4 and he says, 'Nos you sten't fired you're
just laid off for a week.* give1.411 I says, 'if you lay me off, you micht just
as will: fire me.' He told me that all tine I eantod te con* back the job was
go d.
l'I saw old man Merton the other (ivy. Holies tel me hw near he ammo
to gotting a jcib in Lincoln once, An old triond of his got job up there as
tle boss waver, and 'Aortae tul4phonei ate h'ile for a job. Tho boss telephoned
'beak, 0Surs our but /01i have same ono *lee to ants a Aso* for you. Come
up in a weok.0 lastec4 of i-ping up it a week; Morton wait* two weeks. He
went uf, there ad wont in the mill and he saw a big fellow strut in' around
the -.reeve shop and he went ur tO him and gays, as you tell ne ober*
the boss leg gSuroog the lilt fellow says, tapping himsalt on th,. *host, *Ism
tilt boss.' %kW Dec sopa, gI tnought a folkaw nsmaki hndall we the boss
herAg Moll, he vas ltt we,140 the big follow says, 'but they ftr. him,'
If Dave -ad goo, 1L;nd 11 oold him to, he ould have get a job, of course.
He said it wus the 4e. rest he over cane to,get-ins a job without asansetin.1
Old Dave doesn't/base to worry, the 4h begs prety well awed. He just bought
a now house upAuero.
'Say, if you're writing something you ought to say something about those
eagle they awe out at Puibau pond t. is wintor. !Humpy* Moore was out there
field* throUkh the ice with a obu:le of other fellows, and they saw that,* throe
otig es flying 'round. There one one tnd small ones. gas mpys say*
saildd around TIp there for two hours without flapping a wing.
IMMO
L1vag1ev.
ad sem as
was ItetemloP to radio pregrme last ems* alinrtlela*
elgaretts• .2he ammo of thst programing ONO% Tea Seiler* It. anuouseer
told sheet a it if things that peeple believe that ereaft Se wouldmot
name the teams but he amid there was a p• up bore is pimple
*eight tbe down bad lett weak* sorsa:, a lodge et re h•,/iiin't yee believe
it.' 441 may*. 'The devil movti, ett tracks earwhore• Thies mirk* mere mode
by Ohs sietta atter eat, mashie ageism* the lairs,"
*511 NW, IMP* the ir-Ary yea telt mos a owls of gouts age.
*host the tmdke et the devil lett is that 10441deme helm Mae* IWO
lame °Theme inglie awes" made 41 Mrsalwasp *kcal It umplor is. up
that M. TharTaw- "tre--.4&,.. fee'thsIsere, Tile imam thseereelit•
Thmre wissadegis treats 'nib% almegstdisiet tbowie you suppose that
story ever get in Vie reiller
Alberts llissome that is temmykeemmiss Tightener yea told bob *beat 116
I amppoeso tho$gh. ether people des ea knew aisent that. That progress sew
&sea New York ettlime• Thst4eme night he ammtleeed that grmeoeteme deem is
haekapert eller a wammaft /fig le sappolvd to ewer es the stems, IS dIdatt
eay ebeetspert,0 he ,„alCiametsodsere is melees, that gee swathe, et !hie 'tea%
you Wives its. is ailid there wa,41 ae to *beet that, Asks last _weed
by a fLolt it thereat. felled of mime te I ma he saw tmo perteet 'shalt*
ease a graweetwasse They patuted teem eat, but they %apt was' bask* They
soneaseed by IS that is the atoms. Me teld me sheet smother *tome he sew
tbs.. bedemes‘awlikabe.e co ttes
(galasssi Coat ammo la sweet here to got his eallia end is dleeueslag the
slag mt the 'date Oafs. Oast meld that the trouble *tested Marl is... sew
tezheOlhe wave it the haelmall of the gems eho ask settee egoist* blow)
/Alberti 110b. moo so. Teem weft t4,1er• Tow mitt etttah may bodes
'404 melee be ret wore U•- tunny dollars week. er4 that follow deeeeft•li
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014 Toes w IT
Oasts 1141, save be was go at to have the follow jugged for mot mini
MOW BO you knew you eon have susyuedy put is jail for the debt of o dollar
If 7011 melt Is pay the ota a do lox adoy for the S. Lures beard. OM
•liss wee
emme seer putting my brother MR jail for a debt he didget re Ily sem
managing a beaketball teem klp here, and tho boys vented sults,
mere
eight of the and they soot down to Noagaro ad Dow wont at (learoth
Coat, his brother) Tho boys eaoh had flee dollars to pop' their suite, but
Mit (et the Melo Mpertift GOoits Cowgirl didn't moat open might so °ante.
110 thought these young follows might not ay his, sad knew it wouldibe
easier to eolleet ems almosat than eight. Those to east $16400 Woo*.
They had the r:7guler -ants, blosa4 and meat 14.1, lot them -at the
eacowat la his names but of emaree hop mass'
mover paid Cairlit 41041** lenay sea
day Fellotier (a pelloomaa) aad Omy
asked K.mi, If bold like to
about it and the loner says,
sod thereto only eme say you
tibias the pemperfo oath
tin' soy emit. The.. fellows
up here in the woolsa mill sad oleo
'ear la *Mb a paper. Pellaelor
to for a sill.. 11* brother mat to a lower
you've got yourself in a joy all riot,
t out of it besides pore this lll, by
yo know whet that lift iser, said he didn't home
a poesy and us prospeets over gettInt Imo. No soya. Maitre wort will be me
good amphorae you eon r got trusted eget...
Ilk., 'he'd a sort at an outgo:A..
Ousts *Vasa a tha id a. That bill ousaft big eaoughtte go through beaks,
ruptoy tore on OW4r34, lesowy didn't mmot to take say paupers* seti4 NO bad
to pay it. had to psy for allethame basketball suite or go to jells No teak
that ree 1pt sad west around to pee those follows. No Air, to Applebee, %ea&
bar., I've paid for tha basketball suit of youre. sad it you don't must to
me fOr it, &rose the suit.' tite beak.' Applebao aoyeotitve sold that emit.'
taint teiwy coyote tgi e me the money then,* Applebeo says, °I slat got
any mrmoy.t Pnell,' Lenny says, gy u beti,er got prstty moos. You fellows
(1 nt1ozadthealtiisr&ty of the noes of the old
gass Poe sad the elm spoken at ley Mao septa
sad has Henry i11 said bow ow of the forfeit* vas
ten reeds at ribbon,* noes, said iiikaik tad sdfepoly that
forfeit barer too. easstioss it los 'ty'.Ct at wiliben
and they'd have to kiss each ether every tinsthV.uur. a
ties 000114111 Gardior nentisasd in esanastius
pesteaster• Theban been yessiesent polities hares as a
dat resales* tiles: Be mead to ,4 store ahem trunks* sults,
hlordeete baraess
and leather seeds mate
eellector for a lama tins
Des Jardine,
Mat *Gardner
of maple syrup erten
from those knew*
mks. a little ter
though, and
tee. bet he gets
out In
before
used to
Mere has a
He
now•
ens of his boys raw
George vas the tea
and slaays signs his sums
toms out there. H. sells a let
souldb4 say just has sash in gets
I .she law seem to well. but I gases be
eon uss• Be kits a maw ;rues ant there.
he avoid lobe pleat, of it if be santsd
the amp* Ionia itsraisr 0, anti Is lives
doss same auger sakin*, and his father did
you sash *bout his business. but Iknew he
around here in little Wirt* bark sontainers•
as out there, but Gerdear or lisreder seed
'Then there's the 'Gold Mine Road' out between MlifOrd and
Greenville. It come* out on the county road* That get its
because some people found gold there. Not very much, but were
nugcets and gold sure enough., Baker Brook, out on the lle
road, vas named for a fellow named Baker that used to a lot
out that way.. Otter Stream, on the Bradley road, we called that
because a lonc time ago there used to be otters tlyWree An otter is
something like a seal. There's only one strot,Ahcre but you cross
it three times going along that road, and the 11 them 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd Stream*, They're all the same one,/
aA lot of birdh grew along Birch S mp near Pea Cove. Hew
Sunkhase Stream, out beyond Milford, go its name I don't know* may
have a story that a fellow named Bs,é was drowned there a long time
aco and an Indian brought some wilpes up to *how than where the plane
gas, and he pointed to the we and said, 'Sunk Mitarc.' Of course
ydu can't tell how much is in stories like that* Maybe
the Jo Pease Rips between Milford and
it's an Indian name.
Indlan Island, and the 'look' (another rips) between Indian Island
and Cld Town. That fir le we mimed for a fellow named Cook who used
to tote vangan that way to the booms and drive*. Bow they
came to name on74f those booms 'Nebraska' I don't know. It must be
an Indian (I poInted out to Mike that the word 'Nebralkal
didn't sc4i like a local Indian name, and he agreed with that. Peri.,
sonall think it wee called that by river men, in ts facetious mood,
to a place far avary.) uNebraska is on the upper and of the
and the Argyle boos:isms on the Iowan end. There's no doubt
that state out rest has an Indian name.'
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Old Town 41
d aLlowap
city. The best place for one of these is out in the
Greenville way would be a lot better. I d
*None of my children learned to play the a,irndian except Bernice.
She could play a few pieces on it, The girls learned to play the
piano, though, Clara, Bernice, and Alberta,/
*That French Settlement is two milele‘est of Old Town. There's
just a few farms there and a small sch,pl. That was called French
Settlement because just French livel/there. The Uerciers, Paradis,
Cotes, Martins, and so forth. Thet broke the ground and made that
little settlement a good many Tilers ago. Bestowa, out hack of Still.
ester, is another little plap. A voman that used to live tut there
used to raise a lot of pipit they've called the plume 'flogtosim0
ever sine*.
°Do you know hei(they omme to call that lower end of Great Works
1Picketville?' Silie people think it must have been because some one
named Picket It have lived there, but that's not the case. It's
because a 10 of the old houses down there were built with pickets
instead c beying boards nailed to the studdin". You know ordinary
picket i like they use in fences about three inches wide and one loth
thi*k. Of course they were square on the end instead of pointed, and
Maine
Living Lore
Cad teren IN
'San thoOst of something sinse the last time you were here.
guess it would we under the heed of superstitions. Ihem I was a
the used to have treasure *eskers here. The story got aroundth there
wes trdasure buried somewhere along the river, and people mood* piek
out likely plows to dig for it. There wae a medium over in/tradloy, hero,
and some follies got the ides that she ndeht help them4 'goy went over to
see her and Si• went tots a trots* and final y deseribei se e plea. where
ehe said th4re was woe treasure buried. Those fa14#4We found whet they
thought wus the plass* and started to dig: Final: they unearthed a NO
with a metal cover, but when they got the owrerfoff all there was in the
pail wee something that looked liAo a lot of/leevee. They were pretty
ewe and they threw the pail away and -loolYbeek and told the medium tout
at happeded. 'Tau fo-1800 'he says, one of you broke the spell. You
had the trerysure in your hands, and threw it awey411 Accordinv to the
'tory if any one spoke before th rot the treasure in their hands, it
turned out to he morthleor, anyethatgs ubet the medium netsiz whoa'''. sdi.,0 to14
them that one of them twedinAhe spell.
"Thee* stories were/ ell isout the same Asttern4 I've hoard a lot or
thou. some men wsnt,,vm the ri-ar a ways to the tide meter end startou
to dig there. Thef os to a ohost and ono of the men shouted, 'rFITY GOT
IT!' That, o Jrse, broke the spell, end they found the Obett ems emrty.
Prety neer e same story was toad about a party that dug u here neer
Eva's Pe,et, epposite Indian Island."
/All Riotags 61 remember Lewin" about that. It happened ab-ut
///77 there 441111,
m ust be slot of ottlr b urie e hare lett the
years ace.'
WIRMINIIII
Mikes 61 guess embody111 ever dig u, spy treasure ar,)und here, but
same.'
about those alibis.' And that was just what he
Elise up then and told her she had had a lot
me to quit worryin about gettinl my house
spend any money an it because I could
I thought thereimain't muoh danger of
could do it goys, 'Yew mite is a very nen
careful housekeepers but you did something tonight that an't look
veer good.' 'Good nights' I says to nyselfs qbe's to tell
He called
*knees. He tad
sheds and to not
done for nothing.
spendtat any minor fisin
up my house became I didn't have i nonsy to spend. A few day*
later a fellow osne over and to if he bad a little building stuff
I could have and that held ompif over and help as put it on. I got
that soft done and it diaWyreoet ne anything.
*He told Neil Nit Wins goin" to get into some trouble with
tvo other bates but
course we lalow Neil
fellows wont to jaoli
anything on
Portland..
R.G.
°Oh
re wife."
.11a mean were
'd get out of it all right. Well, of
into that trouble and the other two
11 got off because they couldn't pin
s name vas Strout, and he cane from
those meetings held?"
noes I won't tell you that. Ile ran away
Id in a hall or in a private dwelling.
Alberts "Alemys in private bones. I oan't tell you that fellow's
Maine
Laving Lars
401 tosa Ed
R•Get
'Say. do yea fin meters? brAre ens aver to the bv-400 that
ren. It belongs in a aostlas svablao.•
Alberts *Petah it ever and leek at its they bring as ell ads
or /ter to Mae CIA Ober/at* gebeblasem had a shim *leek tim'i
fined* "Alberto" be gem 'tb tee a flap Ole* end I bete te/ias it steedie
Ale bat it I take it %optima tberil aunt agre lima itte tk to tinker gitb
it.' I ikba tv reel NIM sleeks sad I %OA ilharlieethel). 4 take the *leek
a
beim amid fin it amd ha solid pely as gba-ewer it Nit *rib to bin.. (Albert
told us bore eametbins about sleeks s several madynheat beg ch,rito. Alas
i`
slack &flared tram artiaery awe. Ws told no oat the tremble ass sad Mu
be fined its bet it gas sill tee tevhelsol frfele to remeaber4 Charlie
O5 m up to got it a week lattA6 tbe hoer s'ilesk woolen aill Wstle gas Fet
blemia"4. ?het sleek was settles en thee tleytees *ad the bend* pointed to
jest rear• 'Charlie' I says. 'yes t °leek' It hasn't lost a Masts
Anse it as finedo! Clearidie t sleek is mng fine nee.
voggeobe Lomaso biGlagie ler last gees meld selatrg thtsgs
sone 41) to the biome once WAX a big ta bie bead cod be sem taberto Ione sib
a look bare that the kid liiek sport. It yo v 'Napo% life late that I'll Day
you're rardO I loAav that bag. and sayli it gas jaat selleetlea at
Wrinvo 16441*, &MO 0 'I'll bet yes a dollar yo J long% 7at tint to.
setaar as it'll ran sc so 'boy rytblag hero?' I eerie 'loll r4aracte•
ell the parts or his rays. I pet tht °leek tesittber sad erJrytblag
vas there bat lin af the wheels end a fog eer4us, but I happened to hose an old
doelk OKA Jest the parte I newied. lbe neat time be sailed the desk as.
ruertapse
ilk06 °That romiade se or the oxperleavo of a raii4w that took a *leek
apart/ie oleos it, le pat it te!sther again ee it would ran, bet be bed
bvailel at seers th t be hadn't rood ea, is. Sir in the eloskipe
Gad Imme 41,
Alberto 62 timed erne *lost tor a Mims thet he had been tryin* to Is
agar. Thor* wore sem long eoreum in there that babied 1..%ihe
sad he be* beet ewer the mode at theme eereem se they% stay la. lytheiret
VGA mo meed fir deist theta it weal4 have beak emes6 bitter to b.if'jest peeked
the *Trews la es,-; left the. Its th#to ft. tremble wiv one *eh that a
Aglow breech% as ese that it kept eterpis* at twisty elmate4 of olektp I.
Vbeetht the heels *aro estohings smd he had twisted theafill Made et gays**
(Albert gave me awe mors tasbaleal details Wee botioceldstet remember
Owe. So tremble ass. he said. that a hemse teethei had rotten intellhat
sleek mod get wedged seseehere as that the aleetAlepold step at TOO. lbe
beside egad be turned by but the spring wass!'"etreme easeth te rem the *heel*
by the feather. Re said he notieed the teotber es moos so be spoked the sleek)
and Wet ell he did wee to tabs s catrsac ,omed pliers sad pall the feather
etto *The Winer *owlet ay ristie slosh as essethime of odreeleof
Albert aside abut I sever told him Mbet the matter was with it0
ORAme °?het 11164 pretty asorAimit 1.4 so owes tremble that 2 eme JAIN,
7
Raines au ense. (iimes raa/4 jewelry repair shop here about forty five
years ape.) 1 mo,1 up the sir his Asp and sew:dimes OMMS 5n with a meta
that hod dapped oe kin* At wee ose of 'theme old flambiesed hey vied vatehoe
lilt* tee *over. s the)beek. Too bed to epee beth °were to ivied the eateh.
I have one he yoldiet, ri.ht ye, thet /I*, had ter fifty years• Jetvog
epeaed that and mores** clam late his eye sod started paint at the
verbs. By .'bi he let tiv woodsman tete his glee* se he esebd se. vhst the
matter wao,.//steme over here. alkeloit John', $ays. el emit 'mu to ese this tee.,
kbOt lees of his sad looked 56 at the naireprime end there woe doed
1 IM /'.d(.. is there. I suppose the veodaman opened the mateb to And It end
th 14.400 get in there end got eenght. ewe with Johnny** gloat list 1owee
lo ked to be inehou
Malmo
LWlig Lire
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aborts eThatts ssittsg uI s ono shwa Mims *bet
set* is to a jollier to Mod sot oft it stemsd
41ovel bed bugiatebesseksa
t.! Is sots& .eftsr Is
soslor toot is
sok s to the fallow* *op ussise