The independent-reporter., 1910-05-12

Fort Fairfield Review: Gabriel
Brothers store, corner Main and
Bridge streets, contains the mounted
body and heads of a two-headed calf,
which Gabriel Brothers recently Sc
cured in Calais. Each head Is perfect.
The whole forms a rare sight Isn't
1t too bad that these tWo-headed
calves cannot live? 1t would be in
teresting to see one mouth eating
straw and hear the other believing at
the same time, or see one eating grass
and the other drinking water stimuli
taneously, or eating hay while the
other is chewing it's cud.
The West Hartland correspondent
of the Pittsfield Advertiser says: We
learn from an old resident that Al
years ago on the 14th of April there
was horse trot on the ice at Morrill,
Pond. Quite a number of fast horses
took part and large crowd of people
were in attendance and there was
quite burden of snow on the ground.
Mrs. Lydia E. Sherburne, the oldest
native resident of Sanford, recently
celebrated her Saith birthday. Though
trolley line has passed her door for
| Is years she has never ridden in such
a conveyance. She has enjoyed an
automobile ride, however. She went
to school in the kitchen of a farm
house when child as it was the best
school that the town afforded at the
time.
The story is told that once when
Capt j. f. Murphy of Bath was in a
South American port, he was ordered
to dress ship on some local holiday
The port captain came alongside to
enforce the order in glory of gold
lace and gilt braid. Capt. Murphy
grabbed him by the seat of his trous-
ers and the scruff of his neck and
threw him overheard. The United
States frigate Omaha, which oppor-
ttunely arrived, took the Yankee skip
per's part, and the officious harbor-
master lost his job Admiral Collins
of the United States frigate Rich
mond, flagship at Callao, congratu-
lated Capt. Murphy.
! Maine Woods: There are not more
than six or eight clothespin factories
in the United States, and in these few
mills all the old-fashioned pins are
made. This bit of information would
not have been of much interest before
the Brayman Woodenware Co., the
| owner of one of these few mills of this
kind, moved to Phillips from Custer
Mich, with the promise of establish
ing the largest industry in this vici-
nifty. and the consumption of thous-
| ands of cords of the almost useless
hardwood lumber that covers the
| mountains and hills around us in ev-
cry direction. Now the clothespin in
| dustry Is of great importance to this
community, and its influence will be
felt either directly or indirectly by
every resident The mill is situated
on the Dodge road nearly opposite
Evergreen cemetery, and is five stories
in height including the basement. Ac-
cording to the statistical report of new
industries and additions to manufac-
turing plants in the State of Maine,
the value of the plant Is $4,000 as 1t
stood at that time, but $25, 900 has
been added to this and other additions
will be made later There are four
great boilers and an equal number of
powerful engines, the total force they
are capable of exerting exceeding four
hundred horsepower. The building
is full of machinery of many kinds
all of which are necessary to produce
the completed clothespin.