THE BROWN BULLETIN to Further the Cause of Co-Operation, Progress and Friendliness
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THE BROWN BULLETIN To Further the Cause of Co-operation, Progress and Friendliness Vol. X, No. 2 Berlin, N. H., August, 1928 WORST AID THE BROWN BULLETIN "It takes too much time to go to the PRINTED UPON NIBROC SUPERCALENDERED BOND uurse for first-aid treatment. That scratch didn't amount to anything. I can fix up cuts and scratches myself. Vol. X. AUGUST, 1928 No. 2 I've never had blood poisoning yet. ." You've heard all of these excuses for BROWN BULLETIN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION neglecting slight injuries. But very few "The object of this organization is to publish a paper for the benefit of the employees of the Brown injuries that result in serious infections Company and of the Brown Corporation, in which may appear items of local and general interest; and look serious at first, and every man who which will tend to further the cause of cc-operation, progress and friendliness among and between all has ever had a serious case of infection sections of these companies."—B>-Laws, Article 2. has had previous wounds heal up without any trouble. EDITORIAL STAFF The fellow who practices "worst aid" on Editor-^G. L. Cave Photographic Editor — Victor Beaudoin himself and others without having any Associate Editors— Louville Paine, John Cartoonists— J. Daw, George Prowell training in the treatment of injuries helps Business Manager-Gerald Kimbal, to boost the time lost through infection. EditSoh^1 T Howard, In fact, unskilled treatment may aggra- James McGivney BOARD OF DIRECTORS vate the results of an injury. In preventing an infection promptness counts. Get the proper treatment at once. President—O. P. Cole Secretarv—A. L. Laferriere Ordinary first-aid methods are useless the UPPER PLANTS SULPHITE MILL CASCADE MILL BROWN CORP. next day or even a few hours later when G. L. Cave A. L. Laferriere Jos. Hennessey W. L. Bennett P. W. Churchill Paul Grenier A. K. Hull John Heck the germs of infection have started their Walter Elliott Jas. McGivney John A. Hayward W. E. Creighton dirtv work. PORTLAND OFFICE W. E. Perkins FIRST AID Items, original articles, and photographs are invited fiom all employees of the companies. These ROOM may be handed to any member of the Editorial Staff or Board of Directors, or sent directly to the Editor. The Brown Bulletin, Berlin, X. H. All contributions must be signed. SERVICE DIRECTORY BROWN COMPANY DISTRICT NURSING DEPARTMENT (Established 1903) Miss E. A. Uhlschoeffer, Supervisor; Miss Gertrude Kennedy, Assistant Supervisor; Miss Dorine Trucheon, Miss Dorothy Goodwin. District Nurses. Office, 226 High Street; telephone 85; office hours, 8-8:30 a. m., and 12:30-1:30 p. m. Calls may be sent to the above office, to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, telephone 283-W, or to any Brown Company time office. Working hours, 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. A nurse answers all first calls, but may not continue upon a case except a doctor is in charge. BROWN COMPANY SURGICAL SERVICE L. B. MARCOU, M. D., Chief Surgeon, Office, 275 School Street C. L. GARRIS, M. D., Residence, Berlin National Bank Building. On daily duty in the Industrial J-/VKOENIG Relations Department at Burgess Place. f« «m- stray COUNCIL E. R. B. McGEE, M. D., Office, 45 High Street. NORMAN DRESSER, M. D., Office, 143 Main Street. Industrial Nurses: Miss Hazel Locke, Industrial Relations Department, Burgess Place; Miss Victoria THE SPEEDER'S SONG Pacquette, Upper Plants; Miss Florence Sheridan, Cascade Mill. Blow that horn, blow that horn, jump upon the gasl O what red-hot fun it is another car to passl BROWN COMPANY RELIEF ASSOCIATION Roaring down a concrete road with surface smooth Open to all employees except those eligible to Burgess Relief Association and fine, President, W. E. Haines, Box Shop Secretary, P. L. Murphy, Cascade Give her all that's comin' kid, we're touching Vice-President, Peter Landers, Cascade Treasurer, E. P. Bailey, Main Office eighty-nine. Visiting Nurse: Miss Martha Fagan Ninety-five, the meter says, the speed laws all are EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE hash, A K. Hull, Riverside L. A. Morse, Cascade Holy sweet patootie, but we're headed for a crash I Olaf M. NNelson, Saw Mill P. K. Ross, Cascade Toll, oh bells, toll, oh bells, keep tolling all the day, John Briggs, Labor Geo. Doucette. Cascade For another dumb-bell is being laid away. Raymond Oleson, Tube Mill No. 2 John A. Lynch, Cascade * * * Executive Committee meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A. How's this for hard luck? A California woodworking plant with 180 men had gone BURGESS RELIEF ASSOCIATION 192 days without a lost-time accident and President, Joseph MacKinnon Secretary, A. Stanley Cabana looked good for many more. Then one Vice-President, Willis Pliimmer Treasurer, Edmund Chaloux Visiting Nurse: Miss Martha Fagan day a gust of wind blew a board from a DIRECTORS pile of lumber striking a man on the head. Theo. Belanger Frank Morneau His head was not seriously damaged but Benjamin Dale William Morrison Victor Lacombe W. C. Plummer the blow caused him to swallow a chew Charles Pinette of tobacco. He lost 36 hours on account The Directors meet on th» first Tuesday of each month at 4 p. m., at the Sulphite Mill of sea-sickness. SUCCESS POND AND VICINITY By LOUVILLE PAINE, Associate Editor OR close up to a century, at different for the Blanchard and Twitchell Co.'s bore large crops of hay which the farmers F times for different objects, Success immense R. R. logging operation. It is cut and stacked, and hauled out in the Pond and vicinity have been a twelve miles from Berlin. Here was lo- winter. Some seasons the farmers pas- favorite resort of the lumberman, the cated the "Y" for turning purposes. There tured their cattle and young stock there, farmer, the huntsman, the fisherman, and were numerous camps and storehouses. It going in once a week to salt and keep the recreation and health seeker. A short had so large a population that a school tabs on them. Catching a mess of trout review of its history, geography and was maintained for the children. A priest was always included in the program. Per- charms will not, perhaps, come amiss to went in from Berlin and conducted reli- haps, this was adopted as a sure reminder those familiar with the place, and may be gious services each Sunday morning to salt the cattle. Perhaps, salting the of interest to some who have not been The many large pine stumps all through cattle so often was an excuse to go fish- fortunate enough to have paid it a visit. the woods indicate that sometime the ing, something like the old man who drank The pond is fifteen miles east from lumberman of long ago, no one knows cnly when he washed sheep. Washing the Berlin. It is 1J4 miles long and a -)4-mile who or when, got "punkin' pine" for his sheep was necessary only a couple of wide. The inlet is at the south end. The mill. It is presumed that it was sawed at times a year, but the old man kept one outlet is Chickwolnepy, at the north end Chandler's mill located on Steam's Brook, sheep that he washed every day. which flows north-westerly ten miles and opposite where Chas. Mitchell now lives in All the conditions of land, water and empties into the Androscoggin a mile Hickeyville, and at Steams mill which forest, combine here and make it the above Milan village. Two streams, Silver- was near where the steel bridge stands at ratural home of all game usually found slream and Blackstrap, unite in the the Hamlin farm on the same stream. It in this region. "Meadows" a mile below and run into must have been a "one turn" a day road Deer can be seen almost every morning Chickwolnepy. These streams are appro- and a long da}', too, to bring out a load drinking and feeding in the pond. A priately named. Silverstream is one of of logs with oxen, as logging was done beaver was seen out in the road a few those clear, sparkling brooks from the in those days. A Mr. Ames of Bethel days ago. Within a week or so three hills. Blackstrap is just the opposite. It was a later owner of the Chandler mill, bears have been seen. It is hoped no one comes through a boggy, muddy territory and Henry Paine, grandfather of the will get timid, as all the bears were per- and probably got its name, because its writer, succeeded Stearns in the mill busi- fectly civil in behavior. Perhaps in time waters resemble the color of the black ness. when the tourists and bears become more molasses formerly used in logging camps. For a long time the natural meadows numerous, they will fraternize the way Two miles or so south are the headwaters of the north branch of Steam's Brook. All these waters are noted for excellent trout fishing. The pond is flanked on the east and west by beautiful hills, while southwest five or six miles away are the Mahoosuc range and Goose Eye. There used to be a tote road through to Lakeside on Lake Umbagog twelve miles away to the north. It is five miles easterly to Grafton. The road for the first many years into the Meadows and Pond started from what has come to be called the "Red Barn," and went over Pond Hill a distance of six or seven miles.