Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-24
STATE HOUSE.
Rail- 'ad Com'rs. Render
Iu'1 Pending Decision.
el,d'' Of the Railroad Crossing
CIinged al South Berwick.
Con ! ,st Association Organized In
Town Of Canton.
n TE HOUSE CALENDAR.
NestK sting Of Governor and Council
r, sday, April 20, at 10 A. M.


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r,el rabers of the Board of Rail-
road {, !, issioners Thursday, after a
deubers of four years, rendered a
dccis on ,nging the grade at South
Rerv icl which the Boston & Maine
R.iI, oad I'D the Portsmouth, Dover
IL, ,rk rect Railway. formerly the
Rer j .liot & York Street Railway
mas. petition was filed with the
Roa ',f :ailroad Commissioners June
81 1 the decision is one of the
mos 1r; ant rendered by the board
inr Y, ars.
A; stat .ng their reasons why the
era, ou' DC changed, the commits
sion ay
so ri, &c of the Boston & Maine
Raj { over the highway as changed,
shall e at least II feet hcad-rOoln,
and { g shall be "a feet space be
tive, aid abutmentS under said
brid
81 aid highway shall be graded
at | 9 "a feet wide in it's Travelled
part the cuts shall be sloped SO as
tor 1t sliding or falling in.
" 50 determine that The exist
ing tons, construction and man
ner If ossing of the former Ports
mou i, lovcr & York Street Railway
now tn Atlantic Shore Line Railroad,
shall b' changed SO that the said At
liant Sore Line Railroad shall cross
undo sd Boston & Maine Railroad
along q! s. d highway when changed
as heren. :. eciicd.
AN al he work for the change
of the said highway outside of the
limits of the Boston 6; Maine Railroad
shall be done by the town of South
Berwick but the Boston & Maine
Railroad and the Atlantic Shore Line
Railroad shall pay said town of South
Berwick one-half of all the expense
of said town in changing said high
way
1.-The land described in the aforesaid
change of location may be and is here
by taken for the above named pur-
poses, and the damages shall be assess
ed and paid as provided by law.
"AIl the work within the limits of
the Boston & Maine Railroad shall be
done by said Boston G. Maine Railroad
and the expense divided between said
Boston Maine Railroad and said
Atlantic shore Line Railroad as pro-
vidcd by u contract on file in the rail-
road commissioners office, dated the
third day of October, A. D.. 1906.
"If the said town of South Berwick
refuses .neGlects to alter or change
said his way as above provided, when
called up n so to do by the Boston 8:
Maine Railroad. the Boston & Main,
Railroad is hereby authorized and em-
powered to do the same, and the said
town of South Berwick shall pay the
Boston & Maine Railroad onr-half O
the expense of changing said high
way outside the location of said BoS
ton & Maine Railroad
Suitable surface drainage shall be
provided, and shall be considered a.
part of the construction of said high
way, within and without the location
of said Boston & Maine Railroad, IL
assessing damages for construction. bu
any drainage which may be nccessar!
by reason OF the cut under the Rostoi
& Maine Railroad by reason of spring
water veins, shall be done at thu
expense Of the Boston & Maine Rail
road and the Atlantic Shore Line Ran
road. and shall be considered an eX
pensc within the right of way OF thu
Boston & NJ inc Railroad
ut is not racticabIc to assess dam
ages to land owners at this time. W.
constructed, or until it can be known
what the cuts and slopes will be
through the owners land. When that
is known, the commissioners will give
notice Ia all parties and assess the
damages"
Hon. Leon S. Merrill of Scion, State
dairy instructor, was at tho depart
ment of agriculture Thursday on mat
tiers of business connected with his
Office. Mr. Merrill had just returned
from Il trip to Canton, where on Tues
day he organized a COW test associa-
ton, the organization being effected
along the same lines of those already
organized at Winthrop and Waterville
The above association will take in the
farmers of Canton, East Sumner and
Hartford nd it's purpose is to deter
nine the production of milk by tine
Individual 20 and the cost of the
puduction other words to keeT
10Th sides he account of each COW
70 as to de mine whether she is q
Profit or los o her owner. 1t places
Inc farmer il position SO that he may
dispose of loss makers, and also
Shows to hin hich cows of his herd
are the best eep and breed from.
At the NEE at Canton Tuesday
he bylaws the association were
adopted and subscriptions for member
snip opened. and the interest in the
movement was shown by the fact that
more than half of the number of sub
seriptions desired were secured ut the
Heetlng. The officers of the association
we're chosen as follows: President, c.
= bonney Of Canton: vice president, j
3. Palmer of East Sumner; secretary
a,'u treasurer, A. Hs Adams of Canton;
directors. P. c. Barker of Hartford, j.
., Head of East Sumner and F. S.
famer of East Sumner.