BARKERVILLE – “Talk about cold weather,” remarked a woman to The Sun yesterday. “A man at this place has been harrowing all the forenoon with his winter overcoat, winter mittens and winter cap on, and even then occasionally he was obliged to come to the house to get warm. I never heard of such weather – why, ice half-an-inch thick formed in the rain barrel last night.”
WATERVILLE – Two of the new one horse sprinklers have arrived, and the third is on the way. These are of the same style as the two horse sprinklers, but smaller. They have a capacity of 300 gallons, and the tank is about 8 feet long and 2½ feet in diameter.
50 years ago, 1957
AUGUSTA – The Maine House rejected today by a 70-40 standing vote a bill to ban television advertising of beer and ale within the state.
LEWISTON – The city got shortchanged last weekend with the theft of three 8-foot Norway maple trees recently planted in the city park by the Public Works Department. The thief, being sought by police, stole three maple trees and replaced them with little pine trees measuring about 18 inches in height. PWD Director George J. Maher said the pines will be taken out and the spots left vacant until the maples can be replaced.
25 years ago, 1982
FAIRFIELD – The town policy which forbids Fairfield police officers to answer emergency calls in Benton, across the Kennebec River, is more than provincialism at its worse – it is courting tragedy.
Fairfield has 6,000 residents and a six-member police force. Benton has 2,000 residents and no police force. It was after budget pinches took place that Fairfield asked Benton to pay for police protection. When it refused, Fairfield adopted a policy of not responding to Benton calls. Since last November, that policy has cost one police sergeant his stripes and another officer a day’s pay: – they answered emergency calls from across the bridge.
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