The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-11-20

a numbering venture in Michigan. He
worked his way to the Mississippi
and down that river by hatboat to
Nicksburg. Looking for work, from
town to town finally brought him to
GAINESVILLE. That same day Judge
Wingate had been veXed by many
troubles at his saw mill. Machinery
prone always to go wrong, had been
especially malevolent and his work
men especially clumsy. "What can
you do in a saw MILF asked Win
gate of the traveller. 81 was next
TO born in One" was the prompt reply.
From mechanic to foreman and then
TO partner and finally to owner was
the rapid progress of this man. Henry
Weston, by name, who had come, with
very slender means indeed to Gains
vile. In 1860 Lois Mead became his
bride
The southern sun shone from the
bluest of skies on the morning OF
May 10. 1876. Cracking carryogs
drawn by long strings of oxen. wound
their way out of the pine forests and
down the trail like road toward the
Weston mill \ community had
grown up about this enterprise of
the New England Yankee and upon it
had been fastened the inelegant name
of Logtown. Darkes. the descend
ants of the former slaves of the
neighborhoOd came and went, useful
in all kinds of toll. In the house
hold there was an air of expectancy.
and while the gentlest of breezes
came over the marshes to ripple the
surface of the bayou. while the birds
sang in the famous old live oaks. all
about the house. a momentous thing
happened, toward which all these
things. from Carolina. from Massa-
chusetts, from Maine. had been tend
ing for a hundred years. a little girl
was born. The event was not with
out importance to the father and the
mother, although they already had
one daughter and six sturdy sons 1t
was of great interest to the men and
women of the locality for the Weston
family was almost baronial in its
ownership of the noisy mill, backed
by great areas of virgin pine forest
But most Of all ii was of external
significance to barefoot boy of 10
years, in a little Maine town, in Pts
cataquis county, and he knew abso-
lutely nothing about it Had he been
told by some fairy whisper that a lt-
tie being had been added to the world
in a far southern country ard that
that little human atom would ire
mendously effect his whole existence,
he would have paid very little atten-
ton and could hardly have understood
why any one should have taken the
trouble to convey to him information
so remote from the things in which
for the moment he was far more vt
! ally interested OF What possible
concern could a little babe two thou
sand miles away be 10 him. 4 youth
co soon to be a man AVID alwave 80
he hopelessly older than this new ar
rival
And so time SWANS along aud our
self important youth comes 10 live bv
the Kennebec. in the town first SOFT
tied by the Woetone ND iu whioh
men of that line euacled such i'm
nartant part ~ fo'e'lI co'rci-
dence he lives in tho former home
u on the lllilf son .f'i eur
i earns was that Of ~ -.3s ser.
Iohn Weston This onr Monsoon boy,
does not know had he beeu told.
would have cared yorV l'tt'e soon
The little one. born ~ tNo Ns=t-eteni
/ havOu. comes to the home of her M
ternal ancestors and studies In The
+ sh0ole they founded a-' = Ga81
he hills thev have etrioned - tha'r
timber and crosses ur aa- lie
river that has turned Their mill wheeis
and floated their loge 10 "'ill aad
thoir product 10 market
+ The boy and girl. for whose meet
/ ing 50 MANY events haye te's cham
're. pass each other from time 20
time and know not Of the raareo' that
IS 10 happen Plans cha0eed a"d
the little girl goes hack - the south
- study for six slow moving veare in
the great southern CITY OF New Or
'ears. then 10 re'nro for the 6eal
chanter of her girl life
Our Young man is ambitious He
learns French In his search for ~
Instructor he asks fair cone'n where
a teacher for that language NAV te
found and he is told that a high
] school pupil Lois We on. nv nome
could teach him fan'ons'v Tho los
sons are arranged for and nrove the
medium through which fri q dship.
+ love and marriage pursue their an
pfant