A team belonging to the Parker Spool and Bobbin Company tipped over in the electric car track on Main Street near Hotel Atwood early last evening and the horse had a wild run before he was stopped. When the sleigh tipped over, the horse managed to free himself and ran down the railroad track over both bridges and was finally stopped about a mile and a half below the city. How the animal managed to get over the lower bridge by the Androscoggin Mills is a wonder. The sleepers are some distance apart and there was almost every chance that he would fall through and break a leg. But he didn’t and was uninjured when stopped.

50 years ago, 1959

A State Police turnpike officer yesterday warned against youths’ actions of dropping objects from turnpike overpasses and endangering vehicles passing underneath.

Lt. Roger M. Whitmore referred to the recent incident in which two youngsters dropped ice chunks that shattered a bus windshield injuring the driver and endangering the lives of 23 passengers. Various objects have been thrown onto the turnpike by unthinking youngsters.

“I have seen the windshield of a car completely cleaned out by a corn husk dropped from an overpass. This too nearly resulted in a fatal accident,” Whitmore said.

25 years ago, 1984

Officials of Rivendell Corp., which plans to construct a hospital in Auburn, will hold a public meeting in Auburn at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Danville Grange.

Susan Carlson, a spokesman for the Memphis corporation, will speak on what the hospital would be like and why Auburn was chosen for the site. The hospital would be built near the turnpike interchange and treat emotionally disturbed children and adolescents from ages 5 to 18. Rivendell is hoping to have the 64-bed hospital in operation by 1985.