Phippsburg Farmers Seek Help as Seeds of Struggle Grow
A Phippsburg column laments farm labor shortages and rising wages while noting farming as a growing concern. It references local families, balcony rumors, and community movements, with mentions of residents moving, farms planted, and a three mast schooner seen upriver. The piece closes with church notes and a tease of continuation on the next page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Chambless
Lynn
Maine
S&s
C. Campbell
William Roderick
William Butler
Frank Allegrin
George D. Weston
Walter Small
Emery Keith
F. B. Williams
W. R. Dickinson
N. W. Eaton
George Weston
H. W. Cutting
Small Point
Roland Eaton
Sebasco
Tufts
Freeman Merritt
McCormick
Evelyn
Stoneybrook
Winter Quarters
Bath
Sewall
Edith Eaton
Slade
Jesus Christ
Parker Head
Drummond Kelley
Mr. Slade
George Lang
Rodney Wyman
James Oliver
Harold Gray
Alice Minott
Sebasco Estates
Fitch
Bath Office Bowlers close season with banquet in 1917
The Bath Office Bowling League wrapped up the 1916 17 season with a banquet at King Tavern. Frank J. Turner served as toastmaster as speeches songs and stories followed. The event praised the season and hinted the league would return next year with notable attendance from Texas Office Hyde Windlass and Park Alleys teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Office
King Tavern
Jackson
Pepper
Park
Frank J. Turner
Hyde Windlass
John J. Frost l
Stevens
America
Ramsay
Correll
Ben Smith
E. A. Guerin
E. E. Ramsay
F. |H. Turner
William Alexander
P. Lake
W. Correll
Mr. Lee
Texas
League
Texas Office
Edwin A. Lee
W. P. Gaynor, Jr
Charles Connor
J. B. Greaney
E. Guerin
J. G. Maley
C. E. Dodge
F. H. Turner
E. F. Ramsay
C. C. Reed
E. 0
Woolwich Notes Reveal Seed Shortages and Local News
Woolwich correspondents report seeds hard to obtain for gardens. The item list includes visits, marriages, property moves, livestock sales, and local doings. A spring mood mixes with war fears and rising taxes as residents share poetry and town updates.
Banquet Attended by Rebekahs and Richmond Lodge in Brunswick
Thirty five from Queen Esther Lodge of Rebekahs attended a Brunswick banquet Monday evening with Beulah Lodge of Richmond also present. Tables were decorated with flags and flowers. cold meats salads rolls coffee and cake were served. After supper the play The Peabody Pew was creditably presented with Albert Tedford delivering a strong Justin Peabody. Tedford, a former Bath boy, has lived in Brunswick recently and works at Senter's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Esther Lodge
Rebekahs
Brunswick
Beulah Lodge
Richmond
Peabody Pew
Albert Tedford
Justin Peabody
Tedford
Senter’s
Equal suffrage discussed at noon meeting presided by Mrs Le Ma Knight
Mercy superintendent reported that on Humane Sunday Bath pastors mentioned equal suffrage in sermons at various churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMLCA
le Ma Knight
Mercy
Bath
A World Tour by Carolyn Wesson Bongartz Continues
The writer tours Yokohama Kamakura and Tokyo, describing markets temples shrines and artifacts. She notes Isezakicho street Teahouse of a Hundred Steps shrines and a dragon origin story, and details temples Kwannon statue and Shogun era mortuary temples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Japan
Izanagi
Izanami
Kamakura
Also Mentioned on This Page
Phippsburg
Small Point Summer Colony
Everett Hasyington
Tee
the Bath Trust Company
Center Street
Bath, ME
House
Lewis B. Goodall
Ira G. Hersey
John A. Peters
Wallace H. White
Department of Justice
Woolwich
Carston Trott
Millard
Auburn
Harold Bruce
Harold Snipe
Hawthorne
George E. Gove
Arrowsie
A. B. Thwing
Mr. Larrabee
Willard B. Reed
Fayette
A. H. Carlton
Edward Crocker
Edgar Blanch
Ralph Rice
Clarence Wyman
R. F. Rice
A. A. Stott
Delmar Trott
Walter McCrater
Emerald Hills
Clara Hathorne
Massachusetts
Arthur Carlton
Daily and
Independent
Eugenia Bartlett
Herbert Ayer
Frank Card
Dana's Mill
Sarah P. E. Hathorne
Mary Gowen
Ida
Town
Ohn M Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Breed St
BY Carolyn Wesson Bongartz
Bentondori
Buddha
Hase-no-Kwannon
Kwannon
Tokio
Uyeno Park
Asa Kuga
South America
Kanda
Sakyamuni
Girls’ School
Kobe
Johnson Bros. CO
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