Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-16
Committee Hearings
WAYS AND sRlp0Es

| Rep. J.. w. Eastman OF Fryeburg
conducted the hearing before the
committee on ways and bridges
Tuesday afternoon on the resolve to
appropriate $1,000 to repair the road
j in the town of Hiram leading from
South Hiram to Warren's bridge, So
1 called.
| f. E. Stearns of Hiram said that
the road was located in the south
! western part OF the town towards
4 Cornish and that there Is a great
amount OF automobile travel over
| this road. The town has 80 miles OF
road to maintain, the tax rate or the
town is 33 mills and that the town
has never asked the Legislature Tor
! a road appropriation but once. He
, thought that it would cost $500 to
| fix up the road and the town. he be-
1 lieved, was willing to spend $500 for
/ this purpose.
A delegation Of York county citi-
zens appeared in favor of the resolve
to appropriate $1,000 for each of the
( years 1921 and 1922 to repair the
road beginning at Wells, running
through the towns Of Wells, North
Berwick and Berwick to the New
Hampshire line. The hearing was
conducted by Senator Spencer of
York. who stated that this highway
was the direct route between the
White Mountains and the Maine
coast, and the three towns have
spent some money in keeping this
road in condition.
Rep. Wentworth of Berwick said
that this road is the gateway of
Maine and he thought that money
appropriated for this road would be
money we'll expended.
John E. Abbott of North Berwick,
one of the county commissioners Of
York county. said that there was no
more travel on any road than this
road in the county with the excep-
ton of the trunk line, and all the
State aid money was laid out on this
road. 1t is the gateway to Maine
from Concord, Rochester and other
points in New Hampshire.
Ex-Councillor Edward F.. Gowell
of Berwick Rep. John H. Austin of
South Berwick. Clarence L. Hussey,
chairman of the board of selectmen
of Berwick ex-Rep. Willis A. Frost
of Berwick and Ex-Rep. Lucius r.
Williams of Wells, Also spoke a good
| word for the resolve.
G. Allen Howe of Brunswick con-
Quoted the hearing on the resolve to
| appropriate $4,000 to repair the Mere
| Point road in the town of Brunswick
providing the town appropriates a
similar amount. Mr.. Howe said
| I,
at Mere Point since 1884 and he was
interested in property at that place.
Brunswick is not a rich town, he
said, and he thought that the occas-
ion warranted the outlay of the
amount Of money asked for in the
appropriation. Rep. Woodruff of
| Brunswick told the committee that
the laying out of money on this road
would accommodate the summer
| people of Mere Point as we'll as the
farmers in that locality, while Rep.
Mase of Brunswick thought that the
| road would help the farmers to a
great degree.
| Rep. Albert T. Nickerson of Swan
vile, said that his town was very
modest for it only asked for an ap-
preparation of $500 from the State to
assist in the repair of road leading
from the Belfast line to the Swan
Vile town house, a distance of five
miles, provided that the town appro-
PIRATES the sum of $500. He said
that there was quite an amount of
travel on this road and that it was
in very bad condition.
Rep. O'Connell of Millinocket
spoke a good word for the resolve
appropriating $1,000 for the repair
of the Sourdahunk road while Rep.
E. Donald Chase and w. L. Gray of
Unity favored the granting of an ap-
preparation to repair the road lead
ing from Unity to Dixmont.