The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-06-11

the WadsWorth mansion is summer
hotel although not conducted by a
Wadsworth. There are villages Al
South Hiram and East Hiram aud
Bridgton junction. where the narrow
guage Bridgton x Saco River Rail
road Joins the Maine Central within
the town limits.
Sangeryille is a snug, lively and
progressive little town in Piscataquis
county and, unlike the great majority
of Maine country towns. showed NOR
inhabitants in the count-up OF 19le
than at any other time in its history
numbering 1919 people.
The principal industry is the wool
en- manufacturing of two mills and The
town has many fine farms. The out
lets of several ponds furnish water
power. As il is on the apex of
watershed. some of the streams FLOW
into the Kennebec and others into the
penobscot river.
Phineas Ames was the first settler
clearing for a farm and building
sawmill and grist mill as early as
1902. The township was owned by
Col. Calvin Sanger of Sherburn, Mass,
for whom it was named when incor-
porated in 1914, having previously
been known as JAMESTOWN, for the
first settler.
Early families were the Weymouihs,
Brockways. Carletons, Dudleys, Ponds,
Browns and Woodwards. Guy Garlic
ton started a carding machine in 1916,
the first in that part of Maine, and it
is said the wooden industry has been
kept up ever since. Sangerville will
have an elaborate celebration of its
Tooth anniversary.
South Berwick really is much more
than 100 years old, but has the OPP
portunity to celebrate it's separate ex-
istence as an offshoot from old Ber
wick which was a part of Kittery III
the southwestern corner of Maine,
settled in 1928 South Berwick is a
pretty village with many fine old resi-
dences dating back to the beginning
of the century.
Here is Berwick Academy, one of
the oldest in Maine, receiving its origi-
nal charter with a grant of a town
ship of land in 1891. The Fogg Me
mortal Library is beautiful build
ing housing 1000 volumes and is one
of the show-places of the town. The
village has a shoe factory and numer-
Gus small industries and many people
come there for the summer, especially
former residents.
Rich in historical lore it is sure to
have a due and fitting observance of
the Tooth anniversary. This will no
doubt have as a feature a reunion of
the alumni of Berwick Academy, who
are very loyal to the old institution
and include many high in professional
and business life all over the country
! Newport is a town which will sure
| ly celebrate long and loud on its Tooth
anniversary. 1t is town which has
come back" and after a big drop in
population won its place again by new
industries and general hustle.
Newport is on the line of the Maine
Central, 25 miles west of Bangor, the
junction of the Dexter branch, which
also makes a short cut to Moosehead
Lake by the way of Dover 1t is a
combination of a farming, manufac-
turing and summer resort town. With
large condensed milk factory, wool
en- mill and buyers of all kinds of
farm products. it is a ready market
for both produce and labor
Sebasticook Lake is one of the lar
gest and most beautiful sheets of wa
ter in Maine and is we'll stocked with
fish. On the shores is Camp Benson,
a large summer colony.
Newport was settled in about 1908
and was originally called East Pond
Plantation. The early settlers were
the Martins, -Lawrences, Burrills,
Bicknells, Irelands and Pratts, who
came over from the Kennebec. New
ports population was 1859 in 1870
and dropped to 1888 in 1890 but is
now the largest in its history, having
1747 in 1910.
1t has all the outfit Of an up-to-date
Maine town, municipal court, electric
lights, water works, baseball team,
band, bowling alley, moving picture
show, bank and good fire department