Howard S. McPhee Making His Mark as School Coach
Bath born Howard S McPhee is acclaimed as a standout New Hampshire school coach. At Woodbury High Salem his teams across football basketball and baseball have produced an undefeated football season and deep basketball runs, credited to his discipline and fundamentals driven approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
Bath
Howard S. McPhee
Salem
N. H
Rockingham Race Track
Woodbury High School
McPhee
Daniel E. McPhee
Summer Street
Morse High School
University of Maine
Allentown
N. J
New Jersey
Granite State
Woodbury High
Massachusetts
Fitchburg
Mass
Chelmsford
Woodbury
Methuen
Johnson
North Andover
Maine
Academy Club
Pine Tree
Coach McPhleé marries Miss Helen Madelyn Brown
The couple from this city marry at their cottage, joining families with seven months since the engagement. Jackie and Elmeer are noted as their children in the local report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPhleé
Helen Madelyn. Brown
Jackie
Elmeer
Tive Mord
Keene Farm Field Day Demonstrates Soil Conservation Practices
West Minot farmers observe soil conservation at the R. E. Keene farm during Twin County Farm Bureau field day on Aug. 20. Keene, an early adopter, explains lime use and fertilizer plans under the Soil Conservation Act, with demonstrations of pasture improvement and long term effects through future years. Questions welcome as treated areas are inspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Keene
West Minot
Twin County Farm Bureau
Keene
Middle West
Sagadahoc Farmers Access Long Term Land Bank Loans
In Sagada hod county, farmers obtained 43 300 in long term mortgage loans from the Federal Land Bank in Springfield between May 1933 and July 1 1936 via 32 loans. Most financed debt refinancing, with some funds for improvements and farm purchases at four to five percent interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoe County
Federal Land Bank
Springfield
Mass
E. H. Thomson
Thomson
Cooperative Land Bank
National Farm Loan Associations
Commissioner
Land Bank
Memorial Service Scheduled at Congregational Church
A memorial service will be held at the Congregational church at Phippsburg Center next Sunday with Rev. Horace F. Holton of Porter Congregational Church Brockton Mass and Rev. Charles L. Stevens of Alfred as speakers. The memorial communion honors Hon. Charles V. Minott Deacon John F. Leach and Dr. John C. Berry. The service begins at 11 30 daylight time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Phippsburg Center
Horace F. Holton
Porter Congregational Church
Brockton
Mass
Charles L. Stevens
Alfred
Charles V. Minott
John F. Leach
John C. Berry
Marta S. Poulson
Wynburg
Penny Farms
Fla
Horace Holton
Alfred Will
Old Orchard Beach Transit Through the Decades
The piece recalls Old Orchard Beach in the 1870s and 1880s when access depended on the Eastern and Boston & Maine rail lines. It notes depots at Saco North Street, stage and horse-drawn transport to the beach, and an 1879 boost with four trains plus locals linking Kennebunk and Portland, as advertised then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Old Orchard Beach
Boston & Maine Railroad
North Berwick
Portland
Old Eastern Railroad
Boston
Saco
North Street
Old Orchard
Kennebunk
Popham Beach notes from a busy Maine season
Charles Farrell returns to Boston after vacationing with Mrs Farrell at Hathaway cottage. Miss Dora Crowley works at Mrs Donnell's cottage for the summer. Many visitors, boaters, and artists populate Popham as beaches and lighthouses attract crowds. The local tennis club thrives and the library opens at mail time for summer readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Farrell
Boston
Roscoe Perkins
Phippsburg
Augusta Todd
Cora Hershey
Waterville
David M. Rodgerson
Groveville
Seaman E. Drake
Walter Williams
Bath
Evadna Drake
Carol
David
Old Orchard Beach
Charles Donnell
Carroll Watson
Donnell Cottage
Minot Percey
Dedham
Mass
Percey
Arthur Phillips
Bronx
N. Y
Maine
Phillips
Phillip
Popham
Kennebec House
Jane Donnell
Japan
W. E. Strong
Kobe
Strong
Charles C. Donnell
Ethel Luke
Helena Oliver
Seaman Drake
Raymond Webster
Ann Burnham
Providence
R. I
Burnham Cottage
Donaldene
Beethbay
Wood and Fox Islands
William Adams
Brooklyn
Mark and
Leo Conley
Somerville
Popham Library
George Percey
New Meadows
Richard Randlette
Portland
Randlette
Ella Marr
Marr
Nettie Randlette
Fort Baldwin
Old Fort Popham
Eugene W. Osgood
Osgood
Worcester
Scott
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert’s Head
Mildred Caswell
New York City
Ruth Taylor
New York
Fred Haminston
Riverside
Carol Drake
Clarence Perkins
Norman
Glass proves link in Gardner apothecary past
Hiram Stebbins unearthed a two ounce medicine glass in Farmingdale and brought it to Beane's Drug Store in Gardiner. The glass bore the name of George E. Warren, once a leading Gardiner apothecary, linking today’s business to a mid 19th century shop that stood on the same spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Stebbins
Bowman Street
Farmingdale
Beane
Gardiner
George E. Warren
Chester Bean
Blacksmith Delano and the Cape Elizabeth Siege Tale
A Maine man recalls a legendary strength tale of Thomas Delano the village smithy who once faced a group of attackers at Cape Elizabeth. While prisoners, two Indigenous warriors attempted to lead him to a boat but he struck them, killing both.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Thomas Delano
Scarboro
Cape Elizabeth
Chimansematas Eeets
Highway Safety Advice Amid Maine Vehicle Fatalities
The report notes Maine vehicle fatalities for the first seven months of 1936 show a 9.4 percent rise from 1935 while overall traffic is down. Knox and Lincoln counties each had one fatality. Waldo County rose from two to four. Pedestrians accounted for 24 percent of deaths, and readers are urged to walk facing traffic and avoid drinking and driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Knox Aese
Sagadattee
Lincoln
Waldo
Popham Beach Improvement Association Holds Annual Meeting
The Popham Beach Improvement Association met August 8 at the library with Stanley Hyde presiding and Dr. William E. Hill as secretary pro tem. Officers elected include Hyde as president and D. Thomas Percy as vice president. Plans discussed cover a June 1937 tennis-season prep, a potential wharf near Fort Popham, and funds for a two foot board walk to replace a washed away section. A card party was scheduled for later in the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Popham Beach
Henry W. Owen
Seesey Allan Spear
Ralph T. Marsh
Wilmer I. Voorhees
Elizabeth Webber
Vernon H. Mattson
Herbert J. Kellaway
Stanley W. Hyde
Martha P. Small
Frank Scott
D. T. Percy
Fort Popham
West Bath Grange Plans Annual Lawn Party
West Bath Grange announces its annual lawn party with new and old games including beano, plus evening dances in the grange hall. Free numbered tickets will be distributed for prize drawings, a guess cake, and various booths offer balloons, dolls, food, quilts, soda and ice cream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Grange Hall
Miss Bers Returns to Senter's After Appendicitis
Miss Virginia Bers of Whiskeay road resumes duties in the bookkeeping department at Senter's Inc after a month away for an operation for appendicitis at Bath Memorial hospital Mrs Chester W Dalla steps in for Miss Rogers during her absence
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Bers
Whiskeay Road
Senter’s, Inc
Bath Mémorial Hospital
Chester W. Dalla
Rogers
Overnight guests at Sun pyeide Farm East Brunswick
Overnight guests Monday at Sun pyeide Farm the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Freeman in East Brunswick were Mrs. C. G. Blandford, Miss Adelaide K. Willey, and Miss A. M. Forner of Ossining New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunpyeide Farm
Arold Freeman
East Brunswick
C. G. Blandford
Adelaide K. Willey
and M. Forner
Ossining
N. Y
Phippsburg Social Scene With Coast Visitors
Mrs. Mary Manatian and Miss Mary Wheeler of Baltimore arrived for a three week stay at Sebasco Estates as guests of Mr and Mrs Joseph Brazier. Numerous other visitors and residents frequent Sebasco Lodge and surrounding areas, with social events and meals at Rock Gardens Inn, Dromore Grange hall, and Camp Wyconda noted throughout the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Manatian
Mary Wheeler
Baltimore
Ita
Sébasco Estates
Joseph Brazier
Edda Ower
Stamford
Sebasco
Lillian Donavan
Rock Gardens Inn
Paul Jacos
Jimmie
Betsy
Wheeling
W. Va
Burnt Coat Island
Charles Peddle
Florence Piper
New York City
Rose Wyman
R. E. Wilkinson
Ernest Hampton
Richmond
John Stevens
Alfred
Mary Carroll
Carroll Club
Alice Hampton Minott
Lucia Ferguson
Boston
Charles V. Minott
Abbie Minott
Mariia Williams
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fred S. Brown
Henry Smith
Russell Smith
Kittery
Maine
Kennebec
William B. Perry
Reginald Wright Hauffrhan
Washington, D. C
Kauffman
Sebasco Estates
Robert DeFarge
Nathaniel Newman
Hartford
Bertha Nickerson
Andrew Black
Bath
Meadowbrook
Howard Bowker
Jean
Leon Bickford
Woolwich
Eric Carlson
Arthur Murphy
Ruth
Helen
Elizabeth
Anthony Thomas
Edward Thomas, Jr
Percy O. Johnson
Union Street
Mattie Cutting
George J. H. Ingalls
Miss Cutting
Dromore
Lyman Barbour
Phippsburg
Small Point Road
Harold Atwood
Minnie C. Woodman
Belgrade Lakes
Eleanor Goodwin
Camp Wyconda
Thomas Tracy
Brunswick
Phippsburg Notes Include Weddings News and Road Work
Local column reports on residents' visits and events from Bath to Freeport. Items include Mrs Minott winning a Song quilt, couples marrying in Freeport, visitors at cottages, trailer life, road work progress, and upcoming community events at Bodwell grange with a dance after a beans supper. Local clergy and unions noted with Memorial Communion services.
Arrowsic Methodist supper aids church fund
A large attendance at Tuesday night supper in Arrowsic town hall hosted by the Ladies Aid raised funds for general church work. Chairwoman Mrs. Norman Drummond oversaw a menu of baked beans and salads prepared by multiple volunteers. Mrs. Charles Crosby hosted a luncheon Monday on Mill Island with several guests. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Phinney and their two sons are visiting T. O. Steen in Arrowsic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. Minott
Sarah Lermond
Bath
Raymond Small
Perry's Cove
Hollis Butterfield
New York City
Footer Cottage
Adelia Bolton
Portland
Foriday
Ralph Cotmbs
Thomas Robson
Hopkinton
Mass
Walter McCourt
Freeport
Raymond Jackson
Charles Clark
Leslie
Wyman
Clarks
Mr. Clark
W. Frank Jewell
Christine McCourt
Chebeague
Marilla Williams
Fred Medernwald
Margie Heald
Indianapolis
Ind
Menenwald
Methodist Episcopal Church
Nelson Heald
James Chambers
Susie Barbour
Phippsburg
Mark Harrington
James Sherman
Sibasco Estates
Young
Natick
Arrowsie Town Hall
Ladies Aid of the
Methodist Church
Norman Drummond
Evelyn Ater
Lloyd Doty
Frank Rittall
Alfred Rowe
Esther Druthmond
Ruth Sturmer
Charles Crosby
Mill Island
Horatio Baker
Miss McConnell
Fred Hayward
James S. McFarland
Edgar Phinney
Robert and
Edgar Jr
West Orange
N. J
T. O. Steen
Wild Ducks Must Face Firing Squad
The Audubon Association opposes a permanent closure and calls for a temporary halt in duck hunting to allow natural restoration of breeding stock. The piece argues that new regulations merely delay recovery at incalculable risk. Mrs Arthur Z Miller and daughter Joan Elinor visit while Mr Miller returns to Brooklyn after a week with relatives at 107 Lincoln Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Audubon Association
Arthur Z. Miller
Joan Elinor
City
Mr. Miller
Abraham Miller
Lincoln Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sunday traffic and local notes from a New England town
A Sunday report records heavy vehicular flow with 81 crossings on the causeway between 6 and 6 30 PM. Local improvements include expanding a drain on the west side of McCtteth hill to handle water runoff. Visiting residents include Miss Lillian Parks of Lewiston and Miss Elizabeth Webber of Cambridge Mass. The Nason family hosted campers from Hillcrest Greene with swimming boating a clambake and tent sleeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfréan Fife
Hag Been
Suniday
Cambridge
Mass
Harry C
Webber
Harry P. Nason
Cottage Park Avenue
Ruby N. Robertson
Hillcroft
Greene
Evelyn
Priscilla
Henry Packard Jr
Harriet
Susanne Stetson
Betty
June Wood
Bruce Adams
David Sprague Promoted To Boston Branch Manager
Bath native David F. Sprague, longtime associate manager in the Union Mutual Life Insurance Boston office, is named manager succeeding the late J Everett Hicks. A 1902 Bath High School graduate and prominent local singer, Sprague has been a leading producer in Boston since 1917 and holds memberships in several clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David F. Sprague
Bath
Boston
Union Mutual Life Insurance Company
Portland
J. Everett Hicks
Sprague
Old Bath High School
Woodland Country Club
The
City Club
Canadian Club of
Trinity Church Choir of
Trinity Church Men’s Club
David Sprague
Grace Church Choir
John Shaw
Bryant and Stratton School
Church of the Emmanuel
Arthur S. Hyde
Hyde
Perry Oliver Wedding Held At Home Of Groom Family
Miss Ellen M. Oliver wed Frederick Duncan Perry in a Sunday evening ceremony at 7 at the groom’s sister’s home. Rev George B Wolstenholme officiated the single ring rite. Attendants were Miss Eva C Tatro and James Skaling. The couple will reside in a furnished Deering street flat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen M. Oliver
Frederick Duncan Perry
Clayton B. Armstrong
Mr. Armstrong
Willow Street
George B. Wolstenholme
People’s Baptist Church
Eva C. Tatro
James Skaling
Miss Tatro
Jim Crow Is Pet of Popham Youth
Fred Spinney, 17, son of Ernest Spinney, keeps a tame crow named Jim at Popham Beach. The young crow, found in Harpswell, befriends visitors, answers to its name, and avoids harming people. Jim seems happy and shows no desire to fly away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Spinney
Ernest Spinney
Popham Beach
Harpswell
Jim
Also Mentioned on This Page
Howard S. Wphee
Howard
McPhee Young Bathman
Farm Bureau
Keene Farm
Sagadahoc
Federal Land Bank of
Popham Improvement Association Meeting
David Small
Beverly
Arline
Orville
Robert
Junior
Richard
Auburn
Lucky Club
Jane Carruthers
Melrose
Philip Carruthers
Sergeburg
Harry Oliver
Louis N. Clarke and Sons
Edwin and
Albert
Greenland
Errold Blaisdell
Phippsburg Warfare Club
Dromore Grange Hall
George Larrabee
Bodwell Grange Hall
Wild Ducks
David E. Spragueceives Promotion
Union Mutual Life Insurance Co
Perry-Oliver
Bath of Bath
Jim Crow
Popham Youth
Bird
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