The independent-reporter., 1909-10-14
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NV comes the call to the biz
woods the hunting season has com
menced. Paf;ridges are reported 10
be more plenty than for several
yeats
Finest Kind Of fall weather for the
past two weeks
The musicale at the V / s. Last
Friday afternoon was a very success
ful afalr aud much enjoyed By the
members The committee in charge
were Mrs Florence Whitney. Mrs
Frances Bolan. Mrs Mary Tobey and
Miss Florence Jewett.
Air and Mrs Joseph Brown Of
Freedom have been spending mum
'ber OF days visiting Mr and Mrs 5.
X. Fuller at the Fernside dairy farm.
The next meeting of the Village
Improvement society will be In their
rooms on Friday afternoon of next
week, October p. This will be the
second meeting on the subject New
York" The roll call answers will be
Facts worth knowing" The subject
will be sub-diyided into Description
OF West Point" Wonders OF Central
Park" and Landing of Immigrants. -
tion of a couple Of weeks in New
York and vicinity.
The corn shop finished packing last
week Friday. The total pack OF this
year was 683,204 which Is about half
crop on the average Although
quite a number of the planters got
fairly good crops. others were en-
tirely cut out by the frost. At the
time of planting preparations were
made at the factory to handle a crop
of million to a million and half
cans and they doubtless would have
had the corn to do so had the season
been favorable. But the pack will
figure out about five hundred tons as
it is. Several car loads have been
shipped without labels. One shipped
on Tuesday of this week goes to San
Francisco. What Is now left in the
shop will be labeled here and for this
purpose a new labeler which runs by
electric power has been installed
The company Is prompt to take ad
vantage Of all of the new things that
are of merit. An illustration of this
is in the soldering of the caps to the
cans; formerly the solder was carried
in wire form on big spools on the
Gaping machines and was fed
against the revolving soldering irons
by ratchet arrangement each ma
chine carrying twelve of these big
spools. 1t was found, however, that
by crimping little ribbon Of solder
about each cap in a separate ma
chine, when put into the Gaping ma
chine. the soldering was more perfect
as 1t reached the under side of the
cap at the point where 1t rested in
the cup shaped depression of the can
and added to this advantage was the
fact that 1t consumed less solder.
There was also no fuss about putting
on the spools and no waste. The
caps were made here but were after
ward sent to Auburn where they
were supplied with the little ribbons
OF solder and then shipped back. An
other instance is the new labelling
machine which vii, do more work
AS yet however the mechanical hus
kers have not been tried out here.
Quite number of the crew used here
during the packing season come from
Nova Scotia and they are employed
there by the Burnham & Morrill, Co.
in their lobster and clam canning
factories. These men left here Sat
urday and Monday for their homes.
An oyster supper was given by the
members OF Quinnebasset Lodge, l. o.
o. F., on Monday evening In honor of
Brother o. f. Hall before his de-
parture for the west. There were
about forty present and after supper
a pleasant smoke talk was INDUCED
In. Mr. Hall has been a citizen OF our
town for the past 20 years and
has conducted a successful business
on our street. He has been even
more successful in making friends
and though Ill health compels bin. to
leave US for mora cungeuial climate
he will always be pleasantly remrm-
when he returns to rare ,s visit
Mr.. Hall and family left Wednesday
morning for Boston where they will
take the train for California, going
via Niagara Falls Chicago, Salt Lake
and down through the canyons where
some of the most beautiful scenery of
the world exists.
Another electric motor has been in
stalled at the shoe shop. 1t is of five
horse power. There are now about
two hundred and fifty pairs of shoes
a day
Ames and Webster commenced
work on their building which will oc-
cupy the site of the Watts block,
Monday morning. Chauncey Holt has
charge of the job.
Both potato storehouses were filled
20 the oyerfowing point the first Of
he week and suitable cars could not
be procured fast enough to meet the
of shipping. After
lew days the rush will be over and
he work will not be as hard at the
Inc of Shoes, especially mems work
md dross Shoes. Call and look them
over.
The Soap club met with Mrs J. F.
Frye Saturday afternoon.
Street Commissioner Savage is
busy this week digging out for rhe
OF sidewalk on the north
sde of Main street between Ames's
store and the bridge. A piece of
State road has been completed on the
Mercer road just beyond the George
Saver place, in the woods, at which
point 1t was surely needed. This adds
another link to our good roads In
town. A few years at the rate we are
there will be but little
need of finding fault with our high
ways.
Nearly all of the French families
who came here IN husk duriuv rho