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The Bethel Journals Donald G. Bennett, PO Box 763, Bethel, Maine 04217 |
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Bethel Maine History May 10, 2012
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1940, Hanover Co. Buys Stowell Mill February 1, 1940
Good news for Bethel this week is the purchase Monday of the local mill property of the Stowell-MacGregor Corporation by the Hanover Dowel Company. The deal follows some two months negotiations following the destruction of the company’s mill at Hanover by fire on the afternoon of Nov. 25. |
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December 22, 1911
“Maple Inn is the sign at the new house opened on Main Street. Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore formerly of Poplar Tavern, Newry, are the landlord and landlady” |
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Honor Roll Dedicated—November 11, 1944 233 Bethel and Mason Men and Women Honored
The Honor Roll which was erected this fall beside the soldiers monument was dedicated Saturday afternoon, November 11, 1944. , with a special dedication program. |
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Beside the War, Drought, Fires, Wartime Administration
The Dowell mill of H F Thurston & Son was destroyed Wednesday forenoon by a fire which was spreading from the boiler room when discovered abut 10:30. Before the arrival of the fire department a few minutes later that end of the building was ablaze to the second floor windows, and soon after 11 o’clock help was called from Rumford.. |
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In 1967 the Bethel Airport was renamed Col Dyke Field to honor the enthusiasm and energy that Lt Col Sidney Dyke, US Air Force Retired, had devoted to expanding airport facilities making the airport more attractive to general aviation and give those who aspired to fly encourage-ment by having a place to begin. |
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Then and Now 1918 “In one corner of the assembly room (of the 1881 academy building) was the library, a room of about 15 by 25 feet, with well stocked book shelves on either side or a large table in the center covered with periodicals, mostly about the war raging in Europe. This room also served as a conference room to which a student would be summoned to answer for some misdemeanor.” as described by Robert D. Hastings |
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Bethel’s Aviation History, Progress and Development
Around 1925 two men came to Bethel on “barnstorming” tours. One was William Turgeon, who kept his plane on a field near the Lincoln Cummings house, Vernon Street. Later there was a man by the name of Cleveland who flew from Wade Thurston’s field (between Alder River and Vernon Street) throughout one summer. Their success was not great. Eva Bean, “East Bethel Road” |
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Sunday River
Since the Pierce’s, Bruce, Suzanne, Hannah and Reece, acquired Goose Eye Farm from William and Susan Herlihy in 2005 they have worked steadily toward making the farm a place of self sufficiency like the Sunday River farms of a century ago |
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In late 1930 Henry Boyker purchased the “fair grounds” property from Newell Godwin. Mr. Boyker had also become president of a newly organized Bethel Fair group.
In 1945 Henry Boyker and Fred Edwards donated land for the development of Bethel’s airport |
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At the Bethel Outdoor Adventure center in Mayville, there is a hands-on gem dig and sluice attraction. The Dig and Sluice season runs from May to October. It is supported by The Maine Mineralogy Expeditions. MME consists of the Parsons’ Bethel Outdoor Adventure, Jim Mann and Mt. Mann‘s museum and crystal cave and Seabury Lyon |
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Dig—Sluice at Bethel Outdoor Adventure |
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A Brief History of Sunday River Chronology, articles and sketches about the Sunday River valley from 1780 to 1960. Farming, logging, visiting, schools, personalities, hunters, trappers and more.
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Bethel’s Pulpwood King
“That Mr. Hastings does business on no small scale is seen by his average winter’s cut which has been 15,000 cords each year, and a few years ago (1920’s) he delivered 27,000 cords, the largest (Brown Co.) contract ever fulfilled by a single individual.”
Mr. and Mrs. Hastings occupy (in 1931) the colonial style house on Broad Street, formerly the home of Hon. W.W. Hastings. This house was built for Major Gideon Hastings by his father in 1866 upon the return of the former from the Civil War |
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1958 Headline News Wildcat Ski Area opens—Sunday River Skiway Corp created—Barker Mt trails laid out—skating rink at Crescent Park school—Bethel Furniture Stock opens Bethel Area Development Corp formed |
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People in the news, businesses, cars, gas stations, flyers, airplanes, doctors, blacksmiths, lawyers, house painters, store keepers, radios, mills, lumberman, and town politicians |
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Fritz Tyler was born in Albany, Maine, Dec. 26, 1873, the son of William and |
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Dolly Paine Tyler. His parents moved to Bethel when he was young and in this town he acquired his education and began learning smithing and carriage skills. |
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VIDEO—Take a Stanley Steamer tour up Bethel’s Main Street in the summer of 2011 |
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Charles H. Hastings (1867-1951)
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The retirement of Mr. Hastings from the staff of the Library of Congress in November 1938, after 38 years' service, was an event which has occasioned sincere regrets to a host of librarians and bibliographers in all parts of the world. Few men in the library world have been so widely known and esteemed. Few are held in such warm personal regard. |
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1889 Bethel to build a lock-up – also available for courts and business engagements.
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