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1894 Bethel Journal Railroad News
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July 31, 1894, Ten cars of Bob Hunting’s circus came to Bethel from Berlin, NH on July 28th. There was the parade, big tent and side shows.
August 14, Bethel, The Grand Trunk painters have painted the outside of the station with a coat of dark red paint with yellow trim.
August 28: Bethel: The several thousand (first report said hundreds) cords of poplar that was boomed near Skillings spool mill is being loaded onto rail cars with a portable engine and an elevator made of a belt carrying sharp spikes that runs into the river, catches the floating wood and lifts it into the cars forty feet above the water. Three men can easily load ten cars a day.
September 25: Pulp wood is still being loaded on cars in the Skillings mill yard. The side tracks have been full of loaded and empty cars for the last three weeks.
Rumford Falls 10/16/1894: Huts are being erected up along the Swift River valley to accommodate the railroad men—(this will be for building the Rumford Falls and Rangeley Lakes Railroad—Hugh Chisholm, President.)
November 20, West Bethel: Business is quite lively at this place. Thirteen rail cars were counted standing on the sidings loaded and being loaded.
Gilead, 11/27/1894: Mr. Fairbrother who was so badly scalded in the Wild River railroad accident is recovering and will soon be able to return to his home in Portland.
November 1894: PARIS AND NORWAY RAILWAY
The article of association of the Paris and Norway Railway have been approved by the railroad commissioners, and the following subscribers have chosen directors: George L. Beal, Norway; John F. Hill, Augusta; H.L. Shepherd, Rockport; George E. Macomber, Augusta.
The company expects to begin the construction of an electric road between South Paris and Norway villages in the spring.
December 13: Harvey C. Philbrook is loading wood on rail cars at West Bethel to send 1,200 cords to Lewiston.
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Donald G. Bennett, The Bethel Journals , PO Box 763, Bethel, ME 04217
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