Putnam patriot., 1908-06-19
THE PUTNAM, PATRIOT June rs 1908
Industries of Arlington.
BY N. N.

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 wolves. caught shad and salmon in th 1 MAshmoquet, sowed rye, and piante
 beans and pumpkins and anon
 them "a man was famous according a
 he had lifted up axes upon the thie i trees" .-awmiils were soon built apo
 the streams to furnish building mate rial and gristmills for the grinding c
 grain. The quiet agricultural commu nity VAS almost seif-sufiicient. Tn I blacksmiths not only =bod the horse
 and oxen but forged the nails used b.
 the housewrigbt, wrought all the ifoi
 utensils used in cooking, including fin
 bean p0rfidge pot. and forged the irof used in the clumsy farm implements
 Tn the time Of the Revolution l.ema ei Ingalls made and repaired guns, ane his son, Captain George lngaiis, had the same accomplishment in the time of the war Of lsi2. The masons made mortar of clay until lime came ihte use. sheep grazed upon the hills, and furnished the wool that WAS carded, spun. woven and made into garments at home. Flax was raised, daly pre- pared and woven into many grades from eoaf.e tow cloth to finest linen. Farmers sent calf and COW hides 10 the local tanBefy, and the neighbofhood shoemaker converted the leather into fooi-geaf for the family.
 All the soap and the taliow candies were of home production. Beef, pork, mutton, butter and cheese were for To- cal consumption until the city Of Pro yidence became the market for farm produce.
 -altpeteT was made and sent to tine powder.mill in Windham. samuel Holbrook had 4 potash mill in Marcy Hollow. and there was Il mill just south Of the Lord house. Local eabineima- kefs fashioned choice pieces Of furniture from the nati' e cherry, maple and wal nut. Ensign samuel Sumner employed one for a year, about l590, making chairs, tables and desks for a part oi the setting eul 6f the sumner daagh- ters. Obadiah Eliggin5otban made ail kinds Of spinning wheels. Janes eua- ningham and Af. Waters were, later, makers of furniture.
 In tse0 Solomon Gilbert had I store on lhe Niadham road. near the lofd house, and soon nftef Huntington Lyoa buit store opposite the Lyon paf-oa- age lemuel StoNelI1s tannefY Was below the bridge on the highway near Ablneten station. Nathaniel Ayers saVmili and fuiiing mill were south q the bridge, and Capt. samuel Dresser is di,liliefy was west of lhe bridge. Sa- mael Raxtefis turning shop, built in MS, on the Mashmoqaet, south of the bridge, in Marcy Hollow, was in ope- ration thirty years.
 In ISIS woolen company was form- ed and mill built in Marcy Hollow where bfoadeloth was manufactured. fIand- power was used, and men, wo- men and children employed. The ven lure was not successful, and in four el i've years Thomas tifow bought the mill but sold Il h Erastus stebbins 9ho puf III power leams and manafae- tufed woolen cloth for ten years. Stcbb. ins opened a slere in the Hollow which al that time WAS called StehhiHSyille The school district WIS known aS the Factory district. Stebbins fled frou his creditors and new propfielors toek possession of the miil and manufacture ed cotton cloth, and, later, peIisse wad. ding was made. The miIl was destroy ed hy fire about isid.
 In ls4o George A. Dresser employed several men in his shoe shop and, later, George Randall, on Ragged liill, gave work to many in his shoe manufaeto- ". Daniel smith supplied farmers with blows of his own make, and the sign "E, Davis, Fashionable Tailor, was displayed from the shop opposite the Lord house.
 Three generations of the Marcy family have worked at the forge and anvil.
 Tor several wears Charles osSood s nursery fanished the vicinity with ma ti>e and imported fruit and eraament- al trees.
 In is6s George N. Taft came to Ah- inglen te engage in the hH'eSF dgsi. ness. The condition II the highway led hum to taae the contract for re4 paarv the section of road oNef which hts lumber had Ia be transported Finding Brook's road sctaper crude implement, he built a better; and still seeing opportunity fer improvement one or twa new designs each year were made aatii, m lS>s, the Cham pian Road Machine was evolved and secured the ready sale that il merited, and a large business was deseleped The real story of this Road Machine is similar to that of many other tnNen. lions. obliged to design and make the tools and machinery with which te work. discouraged by friends and reia lives, driven to expensive iitigation' an account of infringement of his pat en,s-Mr. Tafi says "lhose wears wer, the mast trying period of my life, in which literally worked night and day.n Following theorgantEation o inc American Road Machine tompa n,, the works were removed te kennei Sausre, Pa, resulting in more exten
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