Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-02-26
Fairfield Items.

see by the papers that you have had some
snow at Augusta. / have the honor to inform
you that you are not alone 10 your glory, in
this regard. We have had just a "leetle." 1t
fell on Friday night to the depth of eighteen
inches, and it "blewed' and whirled and drift
ed and piled, filling the roads and yards and
railroad track all full. We have had here
one continual Sunday until yesterday, with
scarcely q team or pedestrian in the street.
The only exception was the whstiing Of the
locomotives, the plungiug of the snow plows,
and the click Of the shovel, in the efforts of
the railroad men TO break through. The
train due here on Saturday at 8 p. M. got
within a mile Of this station some time in the
evening, about o'clock | think, and were
stuck, and obliged TO stay all night. 1t was
reported that there were some twenty child
rem on board. Didn't they have "squally"
timeO Some of the male passengers came
through on foot and reported, aud some Of
our good citizens, l am told, administered to
the temporal wants Of the suffering ones. The
next morning help came from Watervile, and
hauled them back. Then seven machines,
accompanied by snow plows and men, started
for Bangor, and two machines and a snow
plow, started with the Skowhegan train for
that place. The seven, some bay nine, got to
Burnham, where two locomotives and the
snow pillow were thrown from the track.
Some three or four men were considerably
inJured-one quite seriously, though we hope
not fatally. / he remaining machines and the
passenger cars finally reached Bangor about
o'clock Monday morning. The regular pas
senger cars left Bangor about 10 o'clock, and
reached here about o'clock z. NJ. Report
says that between here and Watervlle,
traveller, with valise strung across his back,
was walking on the track, and not hearing
the train. was struck by the snow plow and
thrown some rods, but not in)ured-a very
romant fight and fortunate alighting. The
Skowhegan train got about mile above here
and stuck fast, whore they stayed all night
At noon the next day, yesterday, it arrived
at Somerset mills, two and one-half miles,
and late yesterday afternoon, was reported at
Pishon's Ferry. The passenger train from
Augusta last evening reached here about
10 l2 o'clock. SO much FOR the storm.
AS the mills are shut down, business in that
department is quiet. Our other Manufacture
ing interests are all prospecting.
We had pleasant gathering the other
evening al the house of Orison Burrill, Esq,
on the occasion of the e9ta birthday Of Mrs.
PhUbe Ann p. Lord, tie mother Of Mrs. Bur
rlll. Some t~enty-three of her friends were
invited TO tea. A very pl, asant social inter
view vas enjoyed. Il was closed with sing
ing, m address by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Ran
dali, and prayer. The ages OF the persons
present were found TO average little over
sixty years, and the united ages, including the
children, were 1850 years. Mrs. Lord is a
very worthy lady, and enjoys a very pleasant
old age. She is most happy in the excellent
care Of her daughter and her husband, and
daughter in law, Mrs. Oliver Bragdon. Her
lite has been Somewhat eyentful, having had
three husbands, and seen a variety of life's
vicissitudes. May her lfe's close be pleasant,
and her "sun set as sets the morning star,
which goes not down behind the darkened
west, but meIts away into the lish, OF Heay
en-" r.
Fairfield, Feb. %, 1873.