Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — Find Steel Ladle in Oak Tree. [ARTICLE]

Find Steel Ladle in Oak Tree.

’ A steel ladle, seven inches long, sup-'-posed to hafe been used by Indians In melting lead for bullets many years ago. was found imbedded in the heart of a red oak tree sawed up for flr« wood at South Al>oona. Pa. Rings on the tree Indicate that it was more than one hundred years old. The ladle, made of the finest charcoal steel, is believed to have been driven Into the tree whew It was a sapling.