Phippsburg Faces Quiet Winter for Lumbering and Prospects
Phippsburg expects little lumbering this winter as timber lots are cut and portable mills reduce activity. Albert Storer may open a feldspar quarry in spring near the Basin with water shipments available, while others eye partnerships as labor remains scarce. In town, residents report soldiers at Fort Baldwin may decline, affecting social life, and a wave of local notices records residents returning to work, moving homes, and nearby travel plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Ormr
Albert Stqrer
Winnegance
Storer
Kennebec
Fort Baldwin
Horace Woodman
F. S. Bowker & Sons
Herbert Wy. Cutting
Chester Talbot
Bath
Weston
Popham ‘Beach
Frank Wyman
Parker Head
Oscar Williams
Baith
Gjolder Leach
Hebron Academy
Alvin P. Sylvester
Small Point
Topsham
Mirs
Hattie Bowie
William R. Bowie
Lisbon Falls
Sydney Coffee
J. D. Eastman
Edwin Curtis
Dora Fisher
Bebasco
Mrs Ducal H Potter Dies After Illness in Woolwich
Mrs Ducal H Potter 33 wife of Winfred Potter died Wednesday at home in Day's Ferry Woolwich after a short illness with influenza. She was daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Hersey of Somerville Mass. She leaves her husband her parents a young daughter and one sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ducal
H. ‘Potter
Winfred Potter
Day’s Ferry
Woolwich
West Bath Grange elects officers for coming year
In West Bath the Grange elected officers for the new year after a regular meeting on Monday. Plans were announced for an entertainment next Monday evening and members discussed state Grange events in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
G. Lemont Ovetader
Fn. Ois
William Wields
Rupert Wing Biowrlts
Harry W
Lemont
Frank Hughes Cropem
Fred Wright
James B. Lemont
Owen E
Rogers
Alvah J. Higgins
Fitting Tribute To Leonard H. Gibson Jr of Bath Bowdoin Alumnus
The Delta Upsilon Quarterly pays tribute to Leonard Henry Gibson Jr of Bath Maine Bowdoin class of 1914 who died of influenza in October while in military training at Camp Devens. An English literature student at Harvard he sought a college teaching career but joined military service after America entered the war. He faced repeated rejections for an officer’s commission before accepting service as a private and later training for leadership. his death occurred just as a commission seemed assured. His sacrifice is praised as quiet yet guiding, marked by duty and genial humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. R. Eliott
Delta Upsilon Quarterly
Leonard H. Gibson, Jr
Bath
Bowdoin ‘Orient
Leonard Henry Gibson, Jr
Maine
Bowdoin
Camp Devens
Bowdoin College
Gibson
Harvard University
America
Lafayette College
Pennsylvania
Mr. Gibson
Sam
Philip Sidney
Fortune
Grady Grady Knight Couple Wed in Worcester
Samuel J. Grady and Lena Knight, both of Worcester, were married November 28 at Lizzie Grady’s home in Worcester. Rev. LaFlash officiated. The bride wore a yellow chiffon waist with lace and pearls. bridesmaid wore pink silk. Best man was Winthrop Johnson. The couple will devote time to mission work in the coming years after the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
Lizzie Grady
Samuel J. Grady
Lena ©. Knight
Rge R. LaFlash
George R. LaFash
Winthrop Johnson
Mr. Grady
Chicago
Omaha
Denver
Salt Lake City
Grady
Moody Intitute
Committee Resigns from Labor Department Panel
Hon E. W. Hyde and several months manager Homes TM Registration Bureau along with the profit sering committee members Walter Glidden chairman Fred B. Reed and Joseph McCormick tendered their resignations to the Department of Labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Hyde
Homes
Walter $.Glidden
Fred B. Reed
Joseph McCormick
Department of Labor
Board of Assessors studies city revaluation progress
The Board of Assessors reports that its ten year city property revaluation is about half finished. The 1909 board members were Charles A. Coombs Henry G. Hodgdon and George W. Hunt, now deceased. Hodgdon remains on the board, a rare continuity across two revaluations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Assessors
Charles A.coombs
Henry G. Hodgdon
George W. Hunt
Hodgdon
Newson Funeral Held for Hyde Windlass Victim Charles A Newson
The funeral for Charles A. Newson, killed when run over by an electric crane at Hyde Windlass Co., was held at People's church Sunday afternoon with many Hyde Windlass employees and Acadia lodge, K. P. in attendance. Rev. Samuel A. Evans delivered the sermon. bearers were T. M. Larsen, Ralph Bertram, Vernon W. Miller and William Mann. The service moved to South Norridgewock for further rites under Echo lodge, K. P.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Newson
Hyde Windlass Co
People’s Church
Acadia Lodge
K. P
Samuel A. Evans
T. M. Larsen
Ralph Bertram
Vernon W. Miller
William Mann
Community Christmas Tree Planned With Park Music T
Community plans a park Christmas tree event featuring music by United Church choirs. The tree will be electric lit, creating a brilliant night scene on snow covered ground. The program may include patriotic airs alongside Christmas carols, a tradition in Gardiner for the past three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Church Choirs
Gardiner
Memorial Mass for Bath Boy John Flaherty at St Marys
A memorial requiem high mass for John Flaherty will be held at St Marys Church Tuesday at 7 30 am. Flaherty is noted as the first Bath boy to die for his country in the recent war, drowned from the torpedo boat destroyer Jacob Jones Dee after it was torpedoed while saving another. Sagadahoc council K C and the Holy Name society, of which he was a member, will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s Church
John Flaherty
Flaherty
Jacob Jones Dee
Sagadahoc Council
K. C
Holy Name Society
Snowy derailment delays early trolley service
Snow plow damaged the line and derailed the first car from the North street barn, delaying departures. Tracks were cleared by 7 30 as Brunswick Street inbound car ran by seven, with locals starting from each end thereafter. Shipyard workers and others walked to work during the disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Street
Brunswick St
Local Notes and Social Snippets from the City
Mrs Emma Walker is well enough to go out again Mrs Eugene Webber of Westport visits the city for several days Upper deck beams are installed at Percy and Small yard on the new schooner Mrs Fred H Kimball and Miss Priscilla Kimball return from Boston after six weeks Lester Davis moves his family from Five Islands to a Washington Park home Mrs Winona Tilton Stinson and John Waton depart for Newton Mass to spend the winter Mrs Frederick White and family of Richardson street recover from influenza A daughter Doris Elizabeth born Tuesday night at the home of Mr and Mrs George R Perry 11 Crescent street Capt Edna Hall of Morse high school basketball team decorates Leonard and Mitchell pharmacy with festive red and green and bells
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Perth
Auvboy, Dry Dock Co
Albert
Cressey
Freeport
Bolivia
South America
Cresey
Ethel Grant
Dromore
George
Gene
Deter
Horace ‘Wroodman
George Oliver
Bath
W. H. Daley
William F. Jewell
Texas
Henrietta Webber
Small Point
Charles Hutchins
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edward Thomas
Elbridge Morse
Bessie Sprague
Percy
Popham Beach
Ric ‘Carlson
Frank H. Oliver
Roy Chase
Boston
Walter Oliver
West Somerville
Oliver
Charles L. Knight
Rosa
Alma
Lawrence
Squirrel Point Light
Portland
Ina Pease
Charles True
Bain
L. W. Berry
Woodfords
Milliken, Tomlinson Co
John Morse
Asa ‘Percy
Elijah Morse
Clinton Beals
Chaffee Bros
Comet
Standard Oil
George C. Pease
Charles V. Minott
Gyfass Jsr
Agnes Fields
Giles A. Stewart
J. B. Neiley
State Grange
Rachel Trufant
Red Cross
James Lemont
T. W. Hagget
West Bath
Cora Doucette
Fred Brawn
James B. Lemont
Dr. Fuller
Annie Trufant
Delmar Bates
Samuel Bates
Littlefield School
S. R.brown
Llewellyn Rogers
Josie Winter
F. W. Winter
Auburn
Frank Huse
Court Street
Harold Freeman
H. A. Witham
Avis Louise
Campbell’s Pond
Winona Tilton Stinson
Con
John Waton
Newton
Mass
Frederick White
Richardson Street
George R. Perry
Crescent—street
Doris Elizabeth
Edna Hall
Morse High School
Leonard & Mitchell Pharmacy
Snowy weekend aids sleighing and hunting road conditions
Local notes describe fresh snow over the weekend improving sleighing and guiding rabbit hunters into the woods. Hockomock carried 120 passengers from a seven o'clock train at Woolwich Sunday evening. Read Nichols Co. reported a brick burn at Court street kiln totaling 425000 bricks and costing over $1000. Wood costs already exceed total expenses of a burn eighteen years ago, and it takes a half ton of wood to make one ton of bricks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hockomock
Woolwich
Read Nichols Co
Court Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Willard
Hi. Daley
Eugene ‘C. Perry
B. L. Warren
John R. Fox
New York
Perth Amboy
N. J
William H. Black
Mrs. “Winfred Potter
W. Brown
Walter T.brown
Texas Yard
New Meadows Landing
Brunswick
Litlefield
Miss Rogers
Standard Oil Company OF
AMV
Knight
Kuppenheimer
Patrick Macki
John J.desmondco
the House of Kuppeuuelans
A. Newson
Mass Kor
Island of
Madeira
Conley’s Specialty Store
American Express
Illinois
Isaiah R. Morrell
Brunswick, Maine
Emma Walker
Eugene Webber
Westport
Percy & Small Yard
Fred H. Kimball
Priscilla Kimball
Lester Davis
Five Islands
Washington Park
Fletcher
Castoria
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