Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-30
MECHANIC FALLS.
Is Il Big Enough for 1Ie
Village Chlrte7s?
Dsmoor6s Wrss Frsse Il Bu. DID
Not Say Anything TIL R.g's1stfou
Bill Was Tabled.

nli.tee since the beginning Of the session.
The HaInes rglsnx;ion bill Vas among
tie first matters to come up for considefa-
ton. Quite large number we're psese nj
among them being representatives Of both
parties Among The d. mocrsts presen,
vas City Marshall Bunker Of wa,ervilIe.
Das notice was given THOSE present that
the bill vas ready for discussion, but no
ore offered any remarks. The bill Vas
accordingly laid on the table.
The hearing On the bill relating TO III.
pigeon law vas cortin ued till smother meet.
ing,
The next matter 10 be taken up va, the
measure TO incorporate that portion OF
Mechanic Falls villsg. which lies in the
town Of Polsad into village corporation.
The old warfare that existed and was
brought into the Legislature Of 1889, hal evil
IDENTIFY not lost any Of Its yizor 10 the lapse
Of two years and that large committee room
was packed with Representatives Of the fac,
ton DESTROYS Of division under the new bill
ter and pct Its acceptance to anothe. vote,
il being entitled to Ave trials at the polls,
Mlnot par; and the Poland part Of the
village voting separately. The FIRST vote
vas taken last February, and resulted 10
the Minot side of the river voting ID accep,
the charter of 1883 and the Poland side
defeating 1t by = majority Of Ave votes
The hearing Was assigned for Jan. 20. bat
was postponed 4. the reqaes. Of the friends
Of the old charter. who wished to &c. in
,emonstrsnts agsins. the granting Of the
Poland psrt a village charter. A long
lis. of Witnesses were called upon Amor
those who spoke were Senator Libby OF
the committee " ho stat d what he conslds Yed
the particulars CT the matter. The Andru-
se0ggin river divides Poland AID Minot.
lie said that uniting forcibly~ two munich
pslties into one had never been success-
fully done in this state. Several years ago
. union school district was formed and dis
sxtisfsction arose. From that time the union
Schools bad not been successfully run,
with the possible exception Of two or three
ears Later the town Of Poland WAS
obliged to loan property in the .own Of
Hinot. eostiog some Sl5.Coo and come
back to their side and build schools. There
were several cases of dissatisfaction which
Senator Libby stated. Seemed to
him far principle that when
people could now be uoied
reaceably they had better be divorced, and
when there vas All attempt to unite the m
against their will it was not feasible
Poland people desired that they be granted
Il charter, and the people Of the Mino. side
oh, M 49,, -t.b
may unite for the purpose Of Nhateyer COO
veniencs may be desired and each side
pay for what il gets. They
eam they should not be coerceI into
adopting such charter as thai Of 1889
The other side declare ths, ii any charter
be granted il must be to include the tao
municipalities divided By the Androscossin
He believed thst if such charter should be
GRANTED there would be bntinusl .treAm
OF Money across from Poland into Minot
SeIectmsn Jordan Of Poland gave
some facts regarding the taxation
# bis town. lie claimed tia,
under the proposed charter for Poland
there are about 1900 people. No grea.
objection among the citizens of the whole
town CT Poland to the proposed village
charter They believed they would receive
= benefit from being empowered to tux
themselves. s. A. Lowell Esq. of Auburn.
representative of the remonstrSnts, qaes
Toned Mr.. Jordan on the amount of taxa
bic property in the village. Mr.. Jordan
thought about FIVE 81 ghihs. Mr.. Perkins
next was called upon. He said the charter
II 1889 left out portion Of the district
No 30, and he thought that was one reason
that it wasn't satisfactory. lie didn't be-
liese in three governments for the two
pisces. Mr.. True spoke on the m after brief
by and 10 favor of the proposed charter
Mr.. Lowell said he represented nsuy
youog people Oh the Poland side, and all
b1. two of those present were from the dis
trlct 10 question, who will in the future
have to pay the taxes aGd support the
schools These people realize that Me-
thsuic Falls is not likely to Increase much
in sils, being only ten miles from Lewis
ton. and that in order to have the desired
privileges from fire department. school sss-
tenn and water supply it will be nc cesar,
u unite the whole Efforts Of the village ard
forget the old ieslOusies that have existed.
Testimony WAS introduced by the re-
monstrsnis to show that Poland had defrst
ed the old charter by slight majority ard
inst IL il shoult come 10 vote again il would
pass by ulai 1ritv of twenty-five. Also,
that il bad been shown that the amount ex-
pendt i under the presen, sPstem of schools
Was considerably larger than when the
schools we're run under the uti)n school
.y,tem. The opponents 70 The charter of
1894 expressed the opinion that under the
union school system Mino. got the best
part of the bsrgsin and those on the other
side would decline that the only way in
which Mechanic Falls could have graded
schools would te for the whole village TO
unite its efforts.
Mr. purinton, who was one of The priuci
pal sivocates two " ars sgo of the charter
granted by the Legislature. addressed The
committee. Mr. Parinton resides on the
Mnot side of the river He told why the lice
had been drawn as il WAS uader thst char
ter that they were glad to have all come
in that were willing, but understood that
those living \ mile and half from the
village ill not wish 10 come in aud pay
taxes. lie WIS Interested in water com-
paay but didn't underst,ad that the old
chatter prevented sno'her from comm &
into town
Mr. Flank Merrill of Polsni, chic
of the Ore department. spoke on the unsstis-
factory water supply. he did no. believe
the town uf Poland could afford alone to
put Ia system of water works.
Statements we're made by those in favor
OF Incorporating Poland that there would
be no reason why even # there were two
village corporations in Mechanic Falls, one
water company could not ,me in and fur
ni.h water for both sides of the river.
.s
Mechanic Falls said that he thought If o
vote were taken on that old charter it would
be adopted by t~enty- 1--WE majority He
had heard more about this bitterness be
tseen Poland and MIRO. st this hesrip2
than ever before lie believed the schools
could be conducted in injunction 10
much better manner and II
eost much less. He believed that the old
chSrser vas ju.t ard reasonable.
| lRepresenistlve Denr en- read resolution
from the Poland Board Of Trade sskins
tina, i charter be granted Poland for vii
lage corporation.
When six o'clock q me and the commit
tee were leaving their seas to go cut, City
Marshal Bunker of wsterviNe wanted 10
know shs. had been done with regard &c
The registration bill. AMI said something
about the matter being smoihered
lie Acknowledged. however. thai
Democ-s's were present when the bill
come up and made no opposition to il
Chairman Hsines said the matter had beer
far and shove board and limited that Mr.
Bunker mad waited till the meeting wa
over fer the sake of delaying the measure
which, il il did rot pass the Legislature
next week, would not affect the sprinl
elections. The committee finally decideS
to give another bearing on Tuesday next.