Bowdoinham Town Notes and Local Namefactors
Massachusetts inquiry into locating a shoe factory prompts Board of Trade review. Electric lighting spreads, road work, farm labor changes, and multiple town figures in Bowdoinham, Maine. Community events include obituaries, school term starts, and local business travels.
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Massachusetts
Board of Trade
J. C. Moore
Dingley
Moore
S. Lancaster
E. S. Edgecomb
T. H. Rogerson
Bowdoin
R. D. Coombs
Lisbon Falls
A. J. Gowell
Auburn
Mr. Gowell
George Jack
Hollis High School
H. E. Jack
E. W. Warren
Brunswick
J. E. Clark
Portland
T. W. Skelton
E. P. Kendall
Butler
Guy Carpenter
Charles Brooks
the Ridge
George F. Denham
W. H. Blanchard
Woolwich Landmark Saved From Blaze At Thompson House
Great excitement at Day's Ferry as Capt Albert Thompsons home caught fire from a defective chimney. Neighbors formed a bucket brigade to separate the ell from the main house and saved the landmark colonial residence on the Kennebec. Insurance covered the loss. ell to be rebuilt.
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Albert Thompson
Bath
Gould Hathorne Place
Thompsons
Kennebec
Thompson
Milan J. Smith
Camden
Marion Carlton
Cosmopolitan House
Lynde
Aes
John Reeds
Reed
Grange Hall
Christian Endeavor Society
Congregational
Calder
Georgetown Union Hall Begging Drive Details
Interest grows as folders go out to Union Hall friends begging for repairs. Workers aim to reach all potential donors in town and beyond while acknowledging some may be missed. The flyer features a verse noting the hall’s dire state and a plea for support over the coming year.
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Old Union Hall
Dorchester fund drives parish maintenance gift
A Dorchester friend funds a Hall Repair Fund with folders and envelopes for donations. Mrs. William A. Todd of Georgetown Center serves as treasurer. others praise congregation efforts and note local residents’ movements and events as townspeople collect for repairs.
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Dorchester
William A. Todd
Georgetown Center
A. E. Rowe
Bath
Virginia
A. E. Bradford
Rockport
J. Everett Jewett
Five Islands
Martha J. MacFadden
Lewiston
George Mains
Cotton Island
Cragin
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Bowdoinham
Stork
J. E. Warring
New York
Lysle Temple
Bert Adams
H. L. Clark
Edwin Netleton
Edwin
Gardiner
Arthur Nettleton
F. K. Jack
Mary T Purinton
Methodist Aid
Lena Cobb
James H. Millay
Emery Purinton
Mr. Smalley
Lena Patten
Upper Main St
R. B. Andros
Hattie O. Andross
James Given
Judith Pratt
Thomas Pratt
Sherman
Charles Philbrick
Samuel Wildes
George Powers
W. H. Gould
Harry Sawyer
Woodfords
Postoffice
Charles Rideout
W. E. Rideout
Ridlon
Elias Reed
Frank
S. W. Carr
Jessie Cromwell
Bert Fulton
Carrie Purinton
Richmond
Robert Sedgley
Cathance
E. D. Cornish
John King
Boston
Simmons College
L. P. Umberhind
Ralph Cutler
Kenneth Wilson
Bates College
Gil Brown
Gladys Small
Hazel Tibbetts
Harvard
Crossing
Pearl
Junior League
M. E. Church
City Hospital
Morin
Ruth Bishop
Dan Bishop
Roscoe Stacy
Popham
Miss McGinnis
Woolwich
Day's Ferry
Georgetown
Mhree
Dresden
Spinney
Varney
Bay Point
Popham Beach
Bay Point Landing
Effie Spinney
Walter Oliver
Forrest Drake
Margaret Hodgkins
Herman Spinney
Carrol Varney
Horace Cragin
Louise Perkins
Center School
Boothbay
Miss Perkins
William H. Dearborn
Stella Scott
Mr. Clarke
Lisbon
Sewall P. Oliver
Wilson
Marrtown
West Georgetown
William Noble
Riggsville
Frank Moore
Charles Mains
W. P. Baker
Everett C. Higgins
Harold F. Hunt
Powers Bros
Westport
Lady
George Clough
Alfred J. Rowe
Clayton
Evelyn
Islands
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Methodist Church
Elsie West
E. A. Williams
Sewall Dow
Damariscotta
Ellsworth Loveitt
Stearns W. Scott
Fred P. Oliver
Ipswich
Mass
Perry
Bangor
William Davies
H. A. Jordan
Elijah Spinney
Wendell P. Todd
Salem
Earnest Curtis
William Damon
Silas Damon
Clarey Shore
Mr. Damon
E. B. Lovettt
William, A. Todd
Bessie
Ethel Todd
Wendell P. Barker
Lowell's
Salesman Clarke
Heinz Company
Robert West
Masters Henry
Levi Totman
Will Mains
Ralph Reynolds
Town
Reynolds
Bath Iron Works
Ferdinand Brilmayer
Adeline Massey
American Chemical Fertilizer Company
George West
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Charles A. Newton
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