Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-27

ton depot yard, forgotten, and cast
away lies piece of old fashioned hol-
low railroad iron. Once it held place
in the line of the road. and over it ran
the cars that carried freight and pas
sengers in the Old days. This rail bore
the weight of cars that carried Names
sons away to the South in '62 and il
bore the dead weight of many of them
rs they came home to be buried months
and weeks later. Distinguished for
eigners,vice presidents, presidents, gov
errors and many other great men and
women rode over it in the old days.
And it is almost the only specimen %
that peculiarly shaped rail now left in
this part of the country.
Rev. b. L. Whitman. president of Co.
lumbar University and former Maine
man. has announced the adoption of a
new charter by the university of which
ne is at the head now and makes this
public explanation of the future policy of
the Columbian: The only radical change
which We desire is to make one board of
directors the supreme executive authority
Of the Columbian University. Heretofore
we have had a board of overseers and
board of trustees, an arrangement which
complicated business in an entirely I'M
necessary way. and because each body
was dependent upon the approval of the
other, often hung up important business
with needless delay and in an untnrifty
manner. Again. both oVerSeerS and trus-
tees held a life tenure of office. Now we
consolidate the body and invite the over
seers to become members of the board of
trustees and all are elected for a term of
three years only"
Sangerville has three mills which run
steadily. are we'll managed, pay ont
from 225 men and women. They are
managed by men who own homes il,
Sangervilie and have a double interest
in keeping them running. There are
good mail, express. railroad. telegraph
and telephone accommodations. elec-
trio lights. pure spring water, ten
stores, one doctor, one lawyer. two
blacksniths Il hotel well managed,
three churches. good SchoOlhouSeS and
progressive teachers. There is no de5y.
and the rate of taxation is low on d
conservative valuation, which last is
increasing steadily. Sangerville is also
good farming town and it is, it would
seem. n good town to locate in.
Mr., Lyndon Moore and Edwin Rob-
ertson OF Hampden. will leave town
some time in February for the klon
dixie regions. They have secured pas
sage in a steamer that leaves Seattle
about March for Duea. The steamer
will carry 500 passengers and Dec. 5
there We're but % unsold tickets. Moore
and Robertson will take along Is
months supply of provisions, and also
six young st. Bernard dogs for a trans
pcrtation team. They have the dogs
in training now at a camp near katah~
din Iron Works. They expect to trans
port their supplies over the pass be-
fore the crust breaks up in the spring.
and will build their boats on the
shores of Lake Bennett, and hope to be
among the first to reach the gold fields.
Rockland got scare few days ago.
Monday afternoon the people about
the Meadows were greatly frightened
by fire which gained its origin from q
spark from the limerick locomotive
THE sparks set fire in field on the
south of the track and the grass was
all abiaze. Help from all the quarries
in that vicinity was quickly sum
mCned and the men set hard at work
to try and check the Roadway of the
sweeping flames. Two powder houses
We're situated in the same field toward
which the flames were fast creeping.
In one of the houses about 100 cases or
dynamite was stored and as the hlaze
began to near the house the men ran
fearing that the building would take
fire and a great explosion occur.
Luckily the houses We're set up from
the ground and as there was nothing
but little dead grass about the build
ing it quickly burned without setting
fire to the house. 1t was very fort
innate thing fer had the building
caught fire the jar from the falling
timbers would undoubtedly have
caused great explosion.