The 1892 Bethel Journal

1892 Happenings:   Map

1892 Milestones:

 

Timothy A Chapman of Milwaukee, Wisconsin died in March 1892.

 

Bethel’s Butter Factory opened in November 1892.

 

Voters used the Australian ballot system for the first time in September elections.

 

Pinckney Burnham died in December.

 

Garland Memorial Chapel dedicated April 28th by the Congregational church society.

 

Cole’s Hall dedicated May 18th.

MAJOR NEWS STORIES

 

·   Attention was shifted from the logging, railroading and building in the Gilead and Hastings area to Rumford Falls where a new paper mill, dam, power plant, railroad terminal and a new business complex was going up literally over night.

· Bethel’s continuing news story followed the development of a farmers’ cooperative based on producing cream for export butter sales from a new butter factory located on lower Church Street.

· Oxford County government joined the political fray by proposing a new county seat to be located in South Paris.