Postmaster Owen Talks Postal Service to Central Club
Postmaster Henry W. Owen spoke on the Postal Service at the Men's club of Central church after a supper. He detailed the system’s scale in 1927 27 billion pieces of mail and 3 324 770 tons, the 1928 finances, routes rail rail air and star, and the 350 000 employees including postmasters clerks carriers inspectors and others. He stressed proper mailing prep addresses stamps placement packaging and return cards noting $325 000 worth of Christmas cards went to the dead letter office last year due to bad addresses. The next meeting is slated for Tuesday Jan 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Mail Service
Sea
Bath
Guard of Czar Passes U S Citizenship Test
Col Alexander Paul Gregorieff once commanded a czar’s bodyguard with his wife and eldest daughter passing the U S citizenship exam in Hartford Conn Dowager Empress Dagmar godmother to two of his children and Grand Duke Michael godfather to another
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Hartford
Conn
Alexander Paul Gregorieff
Russia
Dagmar
Grand Duke
Michael
Phippsburg Local News Roundup Includes Deaths and Visits
Everett Harrington is housebound with leg complications. Jeremiah Harrington is ill from indigestion at Walter Parsley's Brunswick home. Mrs Grace Cullity plans a stay with Nathaniel Percy in Rockport. Bowker and Perry families visit Meadowbrook camp. Christmas Seals sale near complete at Center school. Center pupils plan Christmas tree December 21 before a one week break. No smallpox in town. some residents vaccinated. Clark Bowker and James Perry visited Phippsburg Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Harrington
W. A. Coffin
Sebasco
Winneganee
Freeman Merritt
Jeremiah Harrington
Phippsburg
Walter Parsley
Brunswick
Parsley
George C. Beals
Harrington
Grace Cullity
Rockport
Nathaniel Percy
F. S. Bowker
Bath
Jennie Thompson
Waterville
James E. Perry
Gardiner Rogers
Walker Libby
Meadowbrook
Catherine Berry
Wynburg
Clark Bowker
James Perry
Center School
Alice Galvin
Phippsburg Center
No Navigation Above Bath This Winter Ends
There will be no more navigation above Bath this winter. Tug Seguin brought down Sunday afternoon barge Tamanend with 856 tons of anthracite for Stone & Cooper and the Augusta Ice Co. Heavy seas and ice hindered travel, while barge Cacoosin from Philadelphia with 822 tons of bituminous for Purinton Bros. Co. Awaited orders in port.
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Bath
Seguin
Tamanend
Stone & Cooper
Augusta Ice Co
Cacoosin
Philadelphia
Purinton Bros. Co
Augusta
Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Coast Patrol
Popham
Smelt Fishing Season Opens on Winneganee Creek
The first smelt shanty appeared on Winneganee creek opposite Steep Landing as Harold J. Sonia of 103 Beacon Street hauled about 12 pounds of smelts. Bath and Woolwich men rely on smelting for livelihoods, with potential prices around 30 cents per pound if the season yields good catches. The Sasanoa and Arrowshgut camps face annual storm damage, including a gale last year that caused over $1,000 in losses.
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Winneganee Creek
Harold J. Sonia
Beacon Street
Sonia
Bath and Woolwich
Winneganee
Arrowsh Gut
Sasanoa Bay
Sasanoa
Six Applications for Membership at Topsham Grange
Topsham grange held its regular meeting Saturday evening with 71 present. Six applications for membership were received. The program featured Irene Graves Ber tha Wright Vera Small Marjorie Stevens Sherine Ripley and Margaret Marriner in a surprise segment. Marjorie Edgecomb played a piano solo. Gertude Tarr and Myrtie Cutler sang. Harry Tableau Maria Atkinson presented Seen to ereeran Bee Ne Grow It. Warren Merrill performed a mandolin solo. If conditions are favorable, the meeting next Saturday will be in the new hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topsham Grange
Irene Graves
Bertha Wright
Vera Small
Marjorie Stevens
Sherine Ripley
Margaret Marriner
Marjorie Edgecomb
Gertude Tarr
Myrtie Cutler
Harry Tableau
Maria Atkinson
Warren Merrill
Families driven from home by fire on Center Street
Two families at 214 and 216 Center street fled as a blaze engulfed their double residence Saturday before 10 am. The Staples and Guynn households lost all furniture with interiors gutted and roofs damaged. Fire origin blamed on a defective chimney. damage estimated well over $1,000.
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Center Street
Charles Staples
James Guynn
Center Street Hill
Ike” Chase
Mr. Staples
Mr. Guynn
Marjorie
Bath Trapper Fined in Brunswick Court
Percy Plant of Bath was fined $10 and costs in Brunswick municipal court after being charged by game warden John Perkins for trapping within Bath city limits. Plant pleaded not guilty through attorney John P. Carey Jr. and appealed his conviction to Cumberland supreme court. Carey may pursue a suit for false arrest. Also noted are unrelated obituary and derailment references involving Webrin Mass, Hannah Smith, William Brownsky, and Emily Withers.
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Percy Plant
Bath
Brunswick
John Perkins
Plant
John P. Carey, Jr
Cumberland Supreme Court
Carey
Perkins
New Maine Publicity Advisory Committee Formed
A committee of eleven Maine newspaper men led by Frank Hoy was named to advise the Maine Development Commission on publicity policy and a year long program. Members include editors and managers from Portland, Bangor, Lewiston, Bath, Eastport and other papers. The panel aims to shift local publicity duties to organizations while expanding statewide broadcasting and avoid political use.
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Maine
Frank Hoy
Lewiston “Sun
Journal
C. Isola
Maine Development Commission
Augusta
Hoy
Charles H. Pegg
The
Houston “Times
Bath
Times
Roscoe C. Emery
Eastport
Sentinel
R. Palton Wormwood
Biddeford
Arthur G. Staples
Lewiston
Charles FP. Prynt
Kenniebec Journal
A. S
Former sheriff indicted for approaching juror in Georgia trial
Gainesville reports a former Jefferson County sheriff is indicted in Georgia for approaching a prospective juror during a trial. In Washington, Representative Kvale urges simple Hoover inauguration rites to symbolize national peace.
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Gainesville
Jefferson County
Washington
Kvale
Hoover
Also Mentioned on This Page
Women's Auxiliary
Munity Club
Community House
Yoing
Robert P. Manson
Fred L. Parks
Harry C. Williams
Winfield W. Morse
Arthur Totman
Walter Morse
Zina M. Eaton
John G. Morse
Omar R. Perry
Sherman L. Morse
Frank Perow
Alphonso D. Adams
Bangor
Adelaide Jackson
Dorothy Morse
Beulah McIntire
Charles E. Hewitt
Harry F. Oliver
Caroline
Herbert W. Cutting
Dromore
Parker O. Rogers
Bath City Hospital
Alfred Cornish
Telephone Company
Harry B. Williams
Chandler Cottage
Small Point
O. M. Redlon
Page Wyman
Lillian Parks
Squaw Club
Frank Perry
Marion Morse
Women’s Auxiliary
Winneganee Community Club
Community Club
Omar Perry
Monday Bridge Club
Winnegance
Danford MacDonald
Nell Totman
Abram Oliver
Owen
U. S
Quaker Qal Company
Bath Grain Company
Brown
Norway
Webrin Mass
Hannah Smith
William Brownsky
South
Boston
Emily Withers
Brooklyn
N. Y
Boston & Maine
Commission ON Maine Publicity
Chevrolet
General Motors
Fisher
San Francisco
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Olive Street
Atlanta
Aremory
Dallas
Portland
Ore
Chassssis
Cate
Ishex
Phaeton
Washington Street
Atlantic Motor Co., Inc
Damariscatta
O. M. McKown
Boothbay Harbor
Turner & Gilpatrick
Richmond
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