Wiscasset Open House Showcases Historic Homes Tour
Open House Day visitors toured Wiscasset houses dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. Notable properties include Nickels Sortwell, Tucker-Brown-Hilton-Nash, Cook-Hubbard-Marean, Colby Adams Wilder Clapp, and Lincoln County Court House, with period interiors and memorabilia on display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Round Pond
Ida Neal Creamer
Wiscasset
J. K. Neal
Robert Murray
Sarah Wadsworth Neal
Lincoln County
Rachel Quinn
Sarah W. Neal
Alexander Johnston
Norton
Birch Point
Webb
Frances Creamer
Edwin Moulton
Rita Gillette
Virginia Farnham
Paul Macurda
Janet Patterson
Barbara Bailey
Josephine Tucker
Christine Bronson
Carrie Knight
Murray Senter
Antoinette Plumstead
Frances Plumstead
Jessie Hunt
Roy Marston
C. S. Sewall
Anna Holbrook
Mildred Holbrook
C. S. Barnes
Bimson
Frank Metcalf
Andrew Wilband
Maude Jones
Mabel Rhoades
William Nickels
Alvin F. Sortwell
Tucker-Brown-Hilton-Nash
Main
Pleasant Streets
Rice
Judge Rice
Clark-Metcalf
Atlantic Highway
Mary Sewall Metcalf
William H. Clark
Henry Y. B. Nash
Wanted nurse for two children and housework in Maine
Classified notices show a nurse wanted to assist with two young children and housework with reference required. If suitable, may relocate to Florida for winter. contact Mrs. Wideman, MacMahon, Me. August 13 1911. Also sale ad for a furnished one room cottage with electricity and running water near Maine coast beach, plus ocean view properties and a single shore lot. write Box 26, Popham Reach, Me., for details. May 28 1911.
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Florida
Maine
Popham Reach
Surprise Bowdoinham Birthday for Miss Clara Fogg
Masses of sweet peas decorated the Bowdoinham home of Mr and Mrs W D Willes for a surprise birthday dinner honoring Miss Clara Fogg. Dr Wilbur Browne of Brunswick and Miss Doris Cornish of Bath led in highest bridge scores. Guests included Mrs Horatio Hall, Mrs C L Browne, Miss Fogg and many neighbors.
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W. D. Willes
Topsham
Clara Fogg
Bowdoinham
Wilbur Browne
Brunswick
Doris Cornish
Bath
Charles L. Browne
Miss Fogg
Horatio Hall
C. L. Browne
R. D. Purinton
Emma Ferguson
Fogg
Mary Lilly
Marie Jack
Frederic Jack
Loomis Duer
Grace Maxwell
Alice Maxwell
Larchmont
New York
Madam Putnam
S. W. Putnam
G. Gray
Fitchburg
Mass
J. Bowdoin Lilly
Malden
Geraldine Browne
Elmer Powers
Ada Rogers
Harriette Fisher
Arthur Carr
Beverly
Erland Rogers
George Brown
Carrie Merrill
James
Belfast
Merrill
Frank Thorne
Alice Browne
West Medford
Pleasant Pond
Emma McCausland
Hallowell
L. P. Temple
Summer Sewall
Margaret Foote
Helen Brett
Boston
Harry Smalley
South Berwick
Clifford Smalley
Jessie Cromwell
Mere Point
Lena Patten
Harold Adams
Springfield
Adams
Ella Adams
Herbert
Linwood Hackett
Roberta Lancaster
Barbara Lancaster
Wendall Heenie
Louisa Given
Lois
Charlie Pratt
Daniel
Hall Craney
Junior
Elmer Hunter
Linwood
Emily Rideout
Connecticut
Sagadahoc Pomona
New England
Patridge
Portland
Ruth Jones
Nova Scotia
Social visit notes from town and surrounding areas
Visits featured Mr. Ames' daughters and families Mrs. Forest Wall and Mrs. J. L. Sawyer. Mrs. Cora Wilkinson hosted supper guests Miss Edith Wood Miss H. O. Andros and Mrs. Thelmer Boene of Florida. Miss Eva Rideout returned from Fitchburg Summer school. Henry Cornish assisting in Jackson's pharmacy in Gardiner. Selectmen W. J. Graves and E. L. White in Bath on town business. Iron bridge planked and topped. Fire Warden Clifford Gray on duty in Turner amid a forest fire. George Purington and wife of Lewiston and Rev. J. E. Clancy of Mechanic Falls visited Ida Purington. Ezra Webber and children of Arlington Mass with his parents Elisha Webber. Stephen Chapman of Worcester Mass visited. two Webber children stayed with grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Forest Wall
J. L. Sawyer
Cora Wilkinson
Edith Wood
H. O. Andros
Thelmer Boene
Florida
Eva Rideout
Fitchburg
Mass
Henry Cornish
Gardiner
Jackson
W. J. Graves
E. L. White
Webber
Elisha Webber
Stephen Chapman
Worcester
Auto-Bus Service Set to Start in Bath This Saturday
G W Dunn of Whitman Sawyer Co announces new inter-state bus service between Bath and Portland in collaboration with Boston and Maine Transportation Co and New England Transportation Co. A daily round trip will operate including Sundays with 9.30 a.m. departure from Bath and 1.15 p.m. return, offering 30 day stopover privileges and a shortest ticket haul to Portsmouth New Hampshire.
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Boston
New York
Boston & Maine Transportation Co
New England Transportation Co
Bath
G. W. Dunn
Portland
Whitman Sawyer Co
Mr. Dunn
Dunn
Front and
Arch Streets
Eastland
Bath Elks Clambake Set at Meadow Lodges
Bath lodge of Elks announces its annual clambake and field day at Meadow Lodges on the Summer estate of George O. Curtis in West Bath. Activities begin at 11 with the bake at 1:30. rain date is the club rooms. Members statewide are expected. transportation is arranged from Lombard Street.
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Bath
New Meadows Inn
Elks
Meadow Ledges
Lombard Street
Transportation Committee
Life Saving Scouts Enjoy Fine Cruise
Life Saving Scouts of the Kennebec Salvation Army enjoyed a cruise to Five Islands on Saturday. Fishing was enjoyed and a fair catch was realized. The voyage was led by Capt. J. C. Miller of the Bath corps with Scout Master Howard Fleming. Thomas Donaldson provided the boat.
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Kennebec
Salvation Army
Five Islands
J. C. Miller
Bath Corps
Howard Fleming
Thomas Donaldson
Maine A A Attempts To Check Rumor
The Maine Automobile Association seeks to counter rumors that out of state motorists are barred due to infantile paralysis in Maine. ASA and state health officials report eight Maine cases, two in the past weekend, with no quarantine planned. Citizens are urged to state the facts to keep touring Maine unrestricted this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Automobile Association
Maine
American Automobile Association
Mr. Barnard
State Board of Health
Whitney Yacht Whileaway Visits Kennebec River
Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney widow of Harry Payne Whitney arrived in Bath aboard her yacht Whileaway anchored above the Kennebec bridge. The 166.2 foot steamer, built in Philadelphia in 1915, carries 1500 horsepower with a crew of 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney
New York City
Bath
Kennebec Bridge
Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
America
Philadelphia
Salvation Army Names New Bath Leaders
Capt. and Mrs. J. C. Miller assume the Bath Salvation Army work after transfers from Berlin New Hampshire to Bath. They replace Capt. George A. Martin retired in Boston and Lieut. Ralph Richardson moved to Westbrook. The Millers emphasize youth work and band support and invite public services at the local citadel.
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J. C. Miller
Salvation Army
Bath
Berlin
N. H
George A. Martin
Boston
Ralph Richardson
Westbrook
Manchester
Salvation Army College
New York
David C. Miller
Citadel
Estate Sale Items Include Household Goods and Furniture
A list from an estate sale features a Heatrola piano singer sewing machine quartered oak dining table six leather seat dining chairs gun case desk reading lamp beds chairs stands dishes baby carriage and various household goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heatrola
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senter’s, Inc
Princess Eugenie
le Maires
A. H. Lennox
Frances Sortwell
Freeman Southard
W. S. Warland
Helena Bellas
A. H. Dodge
First
Wiscasset Bank
Mariners’ Bank
Woman's Club of
Andrew Jackson
Richard Tucker
McCrate
Water Street
Henry
V. B. Nash
Cook-Hubbard-Marean
Parker Marean
Cambridge
Francis Cook
Wales Hubbard
Hubbard
United States
Frances Sorthes
Colby-Adams-Wilder-Clapp
Benjamin Colby
John Adams, Mariner
Darius Wilder
Clapp
Carolyn Thornberg
Magnolia
Hodge-Young-Taylor
Hodge Street
Henry Hodge
Silas L. Young
Nathaniel Coffin
Tileston Cushing
Daniel Webster
Benjamin F. Butler
Thomas B. Reed
Jeremiah Mason
First Congregational Church
the Common
Anna and Walpole
Bristol
Paul Revere
Nickels-Johnston-Lennox
Thomas Nickels
John Johnston & Sons
Alfred Lenox
Lee-Payson-Smith
High Street
Silas Lee
Massachusetts
Congress
Lee
David Payson
Samuel E. Smith
Smith
Blanche Willis Howard
Nelson Borland
Clark-Wood-Scott-Chase
Walter G. Chase
Brookline
Henry Clark
George H. Wood
Erastus Foote
Abiel Wood
Wilmot Wood
Freeman Parker Erskine
Erskine
Foote
Fort Hill Street
Beltry
Hartley Wood
Sidney Howard
Claire Eames
John Sternhagen
Washington
Cook-Call-Hubbard
Gardiner Road
Sheppard-Coffin-Grant-Rafter
Grant Rafter
John H. Sheppard
Isaac H. Coffin
Rice-Parker-Andrews
Martin Andrews
Thomas Rice
High School
Modern Ambulance Service
Arthur F. Mayo
Bath, Maine
Thaddeus Orne
New York Life Ins. Co
Boothbay Harbor
Lillian Yeaton
Dana
Belgrade
C. B. Randall
Paul Hatch
Boothbay
Augusta Robbins
Charles Cary
J. B. Lilly
Hazel Cornish
Cornish Camp Pleasant Pond
Charles English and Son
E. V. Cleveland
Richmond
C. P. Curtis
Broad Acres
Georgie Denham
Denham
Frank Siegars
Maynard Dow
Kenneth Bartlett
Bartlett
Lucia
Stella Nickerson
Isabel Duke
Fort Fairfield
A. S. MacDougal
MacDougal
Old Orchard
Norway
Alice McPhee
Elsie
Siegars
Louise Bete Gould
Oakland
Cal
C. O. Purinton
Annie Morehouse
Nellie Morehouse
Annie
Lewiston
H. D. Cornish
al Martin
Lake Moxie
George Cutler
Charles English
Baptist Church
R. A. Dickinson
Plymouth Pioneers
Dickinson
Hall
Jank Brown
Vina
Litchfield Corner
Abbie Hulse
Erskin Gay
Margaret Given
Bustin Island
Grimes
Mildred Stantz
Mary Millay
Robert Millay
Karl
Carrie
Blanch Woodworth
Lottie Cobb
Florence Sparks Neff
Montclair
N. J
Ellen Sparks
Miss Andros House
Neff
Cantwell
Silas Hamilton
Pleasant Street
Everett Howe
Lynn
Millay Farm
Capt
C. F. Staples
Camden
Michigan
I. M. Fowle
Charles Hatch
Millard
Hatch Farm
Thomas Point
Eastern Star Aid
Fannie Williams
Aid
Judge Ames
Gordon Wallace
Unity and Tenants
Columbia Hotel
Lee and
Leeland
Socony
Front Street
John Crane
Charles Edgecomb
West
South
Bath Lodge OF Elks
George O. Curtis
West Bath
A. A
Whitney Yacht Pays
W. H. Lowell
Bowdginham
Hatch’s Shoe Store