Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-01

own GNtAllUE. I'VE anu HllhFt II iilO euitlSit
and somehow get them to the place where
they could be exchanged for the necesssries
of life.
Happy Days of the Pioneers.
Many farmer who now looks with pride
over his broad and ferue acres, who rides
to church on Sunday in his covered carriage
and on week days hauls mary barrels of
high priced potatoes to his nearest station,
has in his pioneer days kept bread in the
home by means of the cedar shingles shaved
by the big open fire in the old log house
and hauled many miles, sometimes on a
handsed and at others with a team hired of
some neighbor and paid for in labor 1t
would be hard indeed for these men now to
return to this way of living and of working
but they tell US that at the time the toll did net
seem 90 very hurdeusome, that the days Of
their early struggles we're happy days and
II at the hardship WA not 40 apparent
to them then, but is only
msgnia 4 b. the retrospect and by
comparison with their present manner of
living and with the larger measure of com
forts and conveniences by which they are
now surrounded. Though, as We have
seen, il was the great lumber industry that
afforded the market for the settlers pro-
duce, ye' II was the unexsmplei fertility
of the soil ct Aroostook that encourssei
settlers II come and make homes IN the
mits, OF tho rest, snd it is the sol of thi.
garden county that has fu'nl he'd the soltd
foundation upon witch IT has made It's
growth "A the country began to b. devel
opeh and roads were made connecting with
ol1ers.t lements and with the great highway
to Bangor the farmers OF Aropstook began
10 devote themselves to the raising of other
products than those esp eially demanded
for the lumber woods The rslsing Of
sheep and cattle came to be an important
industry and buyers came to the county
ard gathered large GROVES which at ths'
time. wer driven on foot ''sii the way TO
Brighton In the years before the bust
:, ~ ~ - rs.
a. a-oos,ool, -, I'll, b,,ds of fsrrars ,bo
h,i I.r1 a,or,h ciearsd r, ono 1le than 10
ar,,a,,a :, ,,a,,;.I 49, bnsba,a,v
,no,ba, rraarc, uhich ,Y.s so,od
e,ahIe - ,ha clovar 81 anJ
80. .oas ,.h;oi, oo,ld ha -,;saI
= - ,a,t5,ias nv ,h, 40.
sa-,,s D.;,v;r@, al.o he,a, Ia be c,r,iss
80, III :, lfSo.,,,o ,ho -,
q ~ f..r.,, h., L,, 90, s.,,,,1r, -
go 30 n,.ta ~, ioa5 81 cl,ver seed
- +nho nf h,,,t,r ar5 ,a-h.ns go ~
- 1T !. -. ~.
-. -, a., ,,,,,,a,, ,o,,o 80
- ~ o,a,arias 81 80 go.
e,.,. 49, a,d ta,loa b.oL 70 .ha fa,,,
:, ,se,,,.,,ts IS IL, sh;r,Ia. 80 ais,,
~, ~ -, - - 80, 60,
Northern Aroostook. for shingles were at
one time the recognized currency of the
county. as was tobacco in Virginia in the
olden time. We have seen upon the records
of one of the most prosperous towns in the
county the vote of the town at its annual
meeting empowering the collector to sccep.
| cedar shingles for taxes at the market price
and appointing a place for their delivery
In those times farming in Aroostook was q
f.. pts.r.r, rnars,.x
-,
from WE, IL Is ,ouss On au 'ee."us Si'iiin
,eae,i VI 'Ne 80 ~ 'tauo"' nus
oAn.Is MI , .' u.s anu ~
vo'p liz ''iAs ~ ~
N.'le .. ~. 'ne "1Iesssrle. Vi ,..e Poss'oLs
Oh Pfouuetion ~ tii.s elIn.a'e arr macnili,
q! Va. 'nsu o,1AnoN. ~ ny eAtea'. ~
ms Vi ,re ~oiN upon N'e iSini =" az uo"e y
ha"H- orr "os ~" speaAnns VI very
aNeisnS '''"e', ''' va t''ns SriN' iien "n'
~ouId r,seh, oeihs calico OH can reihem-
per as ,ne asys OF ueir carly msnhood-
Up 10 tue TIME Oh 'ns Hsf' shd ihaeed iof
some !ea's aI'erNar's' tns coming OF 'he
arI ~ i am. Vas ',au LEU nsnn 'ne ~oo.