History of Sabattus, Maine, USA

Sabatus, a post-office of Lincoln co., Me.

Webster is situated in the south-eastern side of Androscoggin County, and joins Lewiston on the west. Lisbon bounds it on the south, Bowdoin on the east, and Wales and Litchfield on the north. The town is nearly square, and has an area of about 12,000 acres. A portion of Sabattus Pond lies in its northern part, and its outlet bearing the same name runs through the western part of the town. This stream has several falls within the limits of the town, which are improved as water-powers. At Sabattusville near the pond are two woollen-factories, an excelsior-mill, and two lumber-mills. The first mill at this point appears to have been the saw and grist mill built by Robert H. Niles and Robert Ross above eighty years ago. These were rebuilt in 1844, by Messrs. Lombard and Watts.

Sabattusville is the only village, except a small cluster of houses at Webster Post-Office, in the southern part of the town. The Androscoggin division of the Maine Central Railroad runs through Sabattusville...

Sabat'tus, a post-village of Androscoggin co, Me, on the Androscoggin Railroad, 4 miles N. of South Lewiston. It is on a fine lake (Sabattus Pond), and has a cotton-mill, 2 woollen-mills, 2 churches, and manufactures of lumber and excelsior.

The Sabatis line of the Lewiston, Bath and Brunswick electric road is sufficiently completed that a car passed over the road to within two miles of Sabatis Friday forenoon.

At eleven o'clock a gravel car left the head of Lisbon street... Everything was going smoothly and Supt. Farr said, “Boys, do you want a fast ride?” All on board allowed they did, and the superintendent let out another link of the manufactured lightning.

The car fairly flew down some of those long declines. People rushed to the windows to see the first car over the course. At the crossroad which leads to Wales an old gentleman who was riding to Lewiston caught sight of the newly constructed gravel car with its large black feed pipe, which resembles the smoke stack of a Spanish cruiser, coming toward him like the wind. The old gentleman gave one glance at the oddlooking object with its crew, and quickly turned his horse and ran him for life toward the Wales road. He crossed the track, and after driving about...

SABATIS, Me., Nov. 11 (Special) – When car 18 slid up the main street of Sabatis and finally anchored in the driving rain and slush by the co-operative steps at 6.20, Thursday night, a good number of passengers for Lewiston furled their umbrellas and boarded the car with a rush. Two people bent on seeing Old Kentucky in Music Hall; a number of day laborers 8 miles from home and supper; some Germans who intended to meet their brethren in the Shillerverein in Central Block; and two students were among the party, to say nothing of the dog – a black and white purp with solemn mein and melancholy eyes, whose cognomen “Sport” was as belying as the name Lillian when tacked on a plump brunette. Everyone settled himself for an immediate start, when the motorman grabbed the lever and started for a lunch room, and the conductor, with the remark that he “shouldn't start for fifteen minutes sure,” slumped after him. The student slammed his Latin grammar shut. “Ain't yergoin'?” said somebody....

SABATIS, Me., Feb. 17 (Special). - The public opinion in this section is aroused to a degree.

The Saturday night dances have arrived at the period in their career when the better class of residents call them a nuisance. It is but a very small percentage of the villagers, say the citizens, who attend these dances. The greater part of the crowd comes out from Lewiston by electrics.

“The morality of the town has decreased steadily since the dances were started,” says O. R. Jones.

At 11.30 Saturday evening, it is reported, the dance was closed, and the doors locked. It was about one o'clock before the electric cars arrived from Lewiston, owing to slack power. In this ninety minutes, the crowd of dancers kept things lively up and down the street. Shouting and the singing of ribald songs, say the residents, kept the central portion of the village awake until the car carried the crowd
out of town.

Having considered all these matters, O. R. Jones is circulating a petition...

There will be another one Saturday night and one the following Tuesday. The dances are under the management of Mr. Goodrich and the music is furnished by Drinkwater's orchestra.

Sabattus, a post-village of Androscoggin co., Me., on the Maine Central R., 4 miles N. of South Lewiston. It is on a fine lake (Sabattus Pond) and has woolen-mills. Pop. about 500.