Wiscasset News Briefs From Lincoln County Churches And Local Events
Lincoln county Methodist churches plan a Young People group meeting at Damariscotta and Newcastle with a banquet at six followed by songs and speeches by Jeff C Smith of the State Y M C A. A card party benefits the Christmas Stocking Fund for Disabled Veterans. Local officials discuss school repairs and Civil Works funds, while a joint Christian Endeavor service unites Newcastle and Congregational church groups. Marriages, visits, and civic notes fill the period with a church union service, local travels to Portland and Boston, and ongoing community activities in Bath, Wiscasset, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Lincoln County
Damariscotta
Newcastle
Damariscotts
Waldoboro
New Harbor
Wiscasset
Legion
Soldiers’ Home
Penite Wns
Christin Endeavor Socety
Congregational Church
Endeavor Society
J. C. Spinney
Josephine Packer
Starvey R. Pease
Lawrence Po
Charles Barnes
Merle Day
Grace Barnes
Corliss Merrill
Portland
Wesley C. Day
Local notices and events from Wiscasset and area
Wiscasset residents heard music from academy pupils and a speaker, with Garrison Hill O E S hosting Lincoln lodge officers. Pendleton boat yard wins contract for a work boat, while a Rebekah lodge anniversary was celebrated. A fire at A J Main house caused loss of goods, and a charity shower aided the couple. Deer tagging totals and C W A road work on Sheepscot road progress. Newborn daughter to Dana Rines, Christmas sale success, and Farmington Normal students earning honors and taking leading roles in college activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioner
Wiscasset Academy
Garrison Hill
Lincoln Lodge
Bradford C. Redennett
Charles E. Titus
March of
Sheepscot
Louise Blagdon
Pendleton Boat Yard
F. F. Pendleton
John Dunton
Nina Fowles
Grace Merry
Round Pond
Fowles
Mabel Lewis
Rebekah
Clifton Munsey
George Main
Woolwich
Stanley W. Dodge
Frank Gray
Frank Haggett
Portland
A. J. Main
Gardiner Road
Walter Adams
Frank Quinnam
Sheepscot Road
Pray
Academy
Leona Weeks
Farmington Normal ‘School
Miss Weeks
Dramatic Club
Christian Association
Helen Hodgdon
Economiecs College of
Farmington Normal School
Alice In Wonderland
Home Economics Glee Club
Miss Hodgedon
School Christian Association
Home Economics Club
Home Economics
Farmington Normal
Local notes from Sheepscot Echo on December 15 1894
Arthur Foye returns home from Kennebec and Boothbay Harbor visitors travel through town. James Dickinson loses a valuable cow while Willard Savage moves to South Gardiner for winter. Mrs L Trufant visits her son John Trufant in New Hampshire, Warren Grover and wife back from Portland. New windows at Vincent house. Ice on pond four inches deep. scraping began on the 7th. Benjamin Dickinson ill but now active. George Hilton rejoins the store. Sagadahoc steamer moored at Erskine's wharf. tug Marion active. Martha Grover sick during vacation but now able to attend school. Rails for W and Q arrive. ironwork underway. track laid toward Cooper's Mills. C M Patterson cargoes of ice sail to New York. flange digger arrives for W and Q. Emma 8 Briggs and Douglas Haynes lumber bound for Sound ports out of Sheepscot. Capt F B Wells of Mavooshen rests at home in Bristol. praised for plucky and lucky service with M S B N Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Dickinson
George Hilton
Sagadahoc
Erskine’s
Marion
Martha Grover
Sheepscot
Marvooshen
C. M. Patterson
New York
Cooper's Mills
Emma
Briggs
Douglas Haynes
Sound
F. B. Wells
Mavooshen
Bristol
Wells
Wiscasset Remembers 1908 December Community News
Schools close next Friday for a two weeks vacation. Town residents record a storm delay for the village schools and report visits by Bath and Boothbay Harbor residents. Social events include a Whist Club supper, a farewell sermon by Rev. E W Moore, and a Pine Cone Rebekah sale with dancing and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset
Sheepscot Echo
Arthur K. Purington
Bath
John Small
Augusta
Essie Adams
Boothbay Harbor
Ralph Colby
Bessie Colby
Westport
Prentiss
Dana H. Miles
Sumner Smith
Hampden Corner
B. Leathers
Eliza Batchelder
L. W. Gibbs
North Reading
E. W. Moore
First Congregational Church
Christian Endeavor Sewing Society
Congregational Church
F. W. Moore
Chester McKay
Arrowsic
Elms House
Bracoury
Pleasant Streets
Small
DeForest Munsey
Sewing Society of
Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge
Franklin Hall
H. W. Hawes
Roy Marston
Estella Cowley
Herman B. Dodge
Business Outlook Improves in Maine Says Umbrella Mender
Albert Shapley of Rockland plans to stay in Bath while business warrants it. He rode to Washington in three days during a previous trip, found Philadelphia carpet factories weak, and Pennsylvania mining slow. Returning to Maine, he reached Brunswick by trolley and resumes umbrella repair work. He claims age 90 though looks 50, spent 54 years at sea including 41 years as a master mariner, and survives on the umbrella trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Albert Shapley
Rockland
Bath
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Maine
Brunswick
Hin
Bath Odd Ladies at Portland Meeting
Myrtle lodge members attended the quarterly government session in Portland with visiting officials. Back in town they organized a baked bean supper for December 22 with committees named and plans for an official lodge visit by government instructor Mrs. Alice Peterson on January 26. The article notes a growing sense of fragility in the wartime and postwar era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred S. Curtis
Seth Stewart
Mary Lowell
Walter P. Kingsbury
Wallace L. Atwood
Charles O. Nelson
Emma ‘Daley
Wilfred W. Chaney
Myrtle Lodge
No. 8
LL. O
Pythian Temple
Cumberland Avenue
Portland
Lois T. McKiever
Curtis
Stewart
Chaney
Kingsbury
Mryve Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Howard E. Blake
Arthur C. Lemont
Raymond M. Clark
Alice Peterson
Zella Dearborn
Waterville
Taxation Problems Discussed At West Bath Farm Bureau
The West Bath Farm Bureau held a discussion on taxation rather than investigation. County Agent C L Eastman explained current taxes by component and spending, noted real estate bears an unequal share as wealth shifts to intangible assets, and stressed the need for informed public debate without endorsing a specific plan. Similar meetings are planned for Montsweag on December 20 and Dromore on January 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Group of
West Bath
C. L. Eastman
Extension Service
West Bath Farm Bureau Plans Planning Meeting
West Bath Farm Bureau held a joint morning session on taxation with speakers Charles Eastman Raymond Atherton and Miss Hortense Welch. The women elected officers and outlined a year of projects from Jan to Dec including reed work, coat making, garden care, and preserving foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Farm Bureau
West Bath Grange Hall
Charles L.eastman
Raymond Atherton
Hortense Welch
Loring D. Small
William A. Coombs
Bath
Jerry L. Haile
East Brunswick
Annie H. Trufant
Daniel A. MacDonald
Grange Hall
Walter W. Smith
Fred J. Ross
Joseph W. Larrabee
Earle C. Donnell
Frank A. French
Fred J. Rose
Annie H.trufant
Arthur W. Brown
Chester G. King
Driver Pleads Not Guilty After Collision At Lewiston
A truck driver pleaded not guilty to a crash that tore part of a waiting room at a Lewiston area stop. Witnesses described injured children being carried to Hinds Store as the wreckage slashed the front of the shelter. Mrs. Wakeley, mother of the victims, is related to Bath residents Fred S. Curtis and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinds
Lewiston
Maine Central
Charles Wakeley Jr
Fred S. Curtis
Pleasant Street
Bath
Santa Eulalia brings sulphate of ammonia to Sagada hoc Fertilizer Co
West Bath workers unload 500 tons of chemical cargo from the Santa Eulalia at Gibbons Coal Co after an 18 day voyage from Hamilton Ontario. Foreman Edwin W. Hagegett directs a Civil Works crew blasting ledges at Perry's Hill toward Bath began Dec 4. Pine grosbeaks visit Campbell's Pond and Mrs. Williams feeds them. local notices report residents, birthdays, and Christmas plans as schools close Dec 22 for vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester G. Munsey, Jr
Sabine Road
Bath
Santa Eulalia
Gibbons Coal Co
Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co
Bowdoinham
Hamilton
Edwin W. Hagegett
West Bath
Civil Works Administration
Perry's Hill
Campbell's Pond
Ernest E. Williams
Annie H. Trufant
Trufant's Crossing
John H. Gage
White Street
Charles C. Chesley
Larrabee'’s Grove
Florence A. Neiley
Trufant’s Crossing
Brunswick
Herbert C. White
Highland Spring Ice Co
Annie W. Rogers
Samul H. Rogers
Rural kitchen contest winners announced by bureau
Winners in the statewide kitchen improvement contest were announced. First prize went to Mrs. Madeline Black of Dedham for $20, followed by Mrs. Hattie Hansen of Whitefield $15, Mrs. Helen Pinkham of Hampden $10, and Mrs. Ethel Hodges of Turner $5. Twenty nine of 60 entrants competed. county eliminations set eligibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeline Black
Dedham
Hancock County
Hattie Hansen
Whitefield
Lincoln County
Helen Pinkham
Hampden
Penobscot County
Ethel Hodges
Turner
Androscoggin
Maine Farm Bureau Federation
The
Extension Service
Edna M. Cobb
Clesson N. Turner
Glenn K. Rule
Former Bathman Loses By A Fire At Lewiston Market
Loss estimated between 30000 and 35000 to stock and fixtures of the Lewiston Sanitary Market at 65 Lisbon Street as a two story wooden building housing the market owned by J.H. Stetson Co. The market, once run by Bathman Louis Abramson who previously operated a Cut Price Market on Front Street, was engulfed in a Saturday morning fire. Over 100 Bates students attended a French singing program in Chase Hall led by La Petite Academie to showcase old Christmas carols with Carl Woodcock projecting lyrics and Norman Lafayette guiding the singing under Blanche Townsend Gilbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Lisbon Street
J.H. Stetson,Co
Propr
Louis Abramson
Front Street
Bates
Chase Hall
la Petite Academie
Carl Woodcock
Norman Lafayette
Blanche Townsend Gilbert
Dromore Farm Bureau Holds All Day Meeting
The Dromore Farm Bureau held an all day meeting at Winneganee Community House with 26 attendees and noon dinner. Plans include a December 22 combined planning and taxation meeting, a later all day Red Cross work event, and a Christmas tre social, with Mrs. Rachel Hodgdon tasked to obtain Red Cross duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Farm Bureau
Winneganee
Albertha Williams
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Hattie Cromwell
Clara Oliver
Isa McIntire
Florence Morse
Myrtle Pye
T. K. Haley
Woman's Auxiliary
Hortense Welch
Eastman
Red Cross
Rachel Hodgdon
The
Legion Auxiliary District Council Meeting Highlights
Mrs Anne F Snow of Rockland attended with other prominent Auxiliary members. Lt John A Lord Bath mayor welcomed guests while Sumner Sewall spoke. Rev Purdue discussed travel to Norway. The gathering featured music and readings and outlined district committees and officers for Second District Council with meetings planned monthly in Androscoggin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne F. Snow
Rockland
William R. Freeman
J. Horace McClure
Ralph Gay
John A. Lord
U.S.N
Bath
Sumner Sewall
Roland Smith Post
American Legion
Sewall
Charles W. Avery
Carrie F. Luce
Betty Rice
Carleton L. Rice
Turner’s Court
Luce
Roland Smith
Friml
Perry L. Thompson
Guy Crosby
Gardiner D. Rogers
Edward J. Murphy
Carl C. Anderson
John W. Costain
Auburn
Alden M. Gayton
No. 31
American Legion Auxiliary
Second District Council
Bethel
Boothbay Harbor
Bryant's Pond
Buckfield
Camden
Damariscotta
Rena Jones
Sabattus
A. R. Richardson
Strong
Dorothy Downing
Norway
Maude Hall
Leona Pinkham
Fidac
Irene Metcalf
Wiscasser
Mary Carr
Lewiston
Mary Williams
Olive Tinkham
Androscoggin
Woolwich Christmas Pageant Rehearsals Underway Before Eve
Rehearsals are underway for a Woolwich Christmas pageant to be held at the Congregational church on Christmas Eve. A program and Christmas tree for children are planned for Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Edward Holbrook
Flossie Beals
Ida Beals
Woolwich School Board
Augusta
Grange Hall
Baptist Church
Maude Gay
Bath City Hospital
Bessie Small
Nequasset
Henry Dubar
John Carter
Bangor
Edward V. Reed
Costello P. Hall
A. W. Hall
Bath
Boston
Ladies’ Farm Bureau
Charles R. Farnham
Carrie Wing
Ruth Marston
Project Clothing
Legion Council and organizational sessions and joint social
The text notes separate business sessions of two organizations and a joint social hour with refreshments after the meetings. It implies a combined program following the parallel sessions and a shared social element.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ings
The
Legion Council
Talk on Preservation of the Wild Flowers
Hubert T. McCarty of Bath and Popham Beach spoke to the Camden Garden club on preserving wild flowers and roadside beautification. The Camden Herald praised his deep knowledge and wide experience, noting his charm, shade tolerant plants, and lifelong passion for cultivating wild flowers in rock gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert T. McCarty
Morse
Camden Garden Club
McCarty
Camden Herald
Hubert McCarty
Bath and
Popham Beach
Rock Garden
Tre Club
Willing Workers Entertain at Montsweag Grange Hall
The Willing Workers of the Montsweag Baptist church hosted an entertainment night at Montsweag Grange Hall led by Rev. Plinette Allen and committee members. The Clash and Clatter Band performed skits in costume with songs, solos, duets, and musical pieces. Mary Hunnewell impersonated an organ grinder with her monkey Jack-O acted by Marion Soule. The band featured Miss McGinnis as director and Melion Bailey as introducer, with a long list of performers on piano, harp, violins, bass horn, slide trombones, drums, banjos, cymbals, and other instruments. Community singing included favorites like Long Long Ago and Old Folks At Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montsweag Baptist Church
Montsweag Grange Hall
Plinette Allen
McGinnis
Beatrice Bailey
Anna Soule
Sadie Nelder
Clash and Clatter
Mary Hunnewell
Jack-O
Marion Soule
Miss McGinnis
Melion Bailey
Ray Rice
Georgia Walker
Miss Williams
Blanche Groves
Gilbert Hathorne
Alice Baker
Melion Soule
Frank Baker
Katherine
Frank Soule
Marion
Ella Baker
Lonie Grove
Vial
Anne Mae Soule
Pickanning
Kentucky
Annie
Laurie
Bates Outing Club Hosts All College Cabin Party
An all college cabin party at Thornday Sunday afternoon drew about 75 Bates College students. Coed event with Dr and Mrs Sawyer and Prof and Mrs Kendall as chap erons. Refreshments served. Committee included Crescentia Zahn, Russell Hager, Walter Gay, Edith Milliken, and Margaret Hulbert, all class years noted. First in a series by the Outing club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornday
Bates College
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Red Man's Hall
George SS. Tincoln
Board of Selectmen
Gene
Arthur W. Young
Orlici
Scheomeds
Schol Board
Donald Winfield Leavitt
Dorothy Louise Merry
C. M. Tubbs
Reginald Cook Gordon
Frances Fvlyn Farrington
Ralph Raymond Palmer
Brooklyn
N. Y
Helen Lincoln Bailey
Charles E
Old Orchard
Isley
Warner
J. E. White
A. L. Wellman
North Whitefield
Delia Rings
John Rines
West Street
Bradford C. Redennett, Jr
Ira Redennett
Mildred Holbrook
Winchester
Mass
Eliza W. Holbrook
Mark Stinson
Templeton
Stinson
Emma Stinson
Henry F. Butler
Cambridge
Montsweag
Alvin L. Berry
Robert S. Foye
DeForest S Day
Joseph P. Tucker
Josephine Tucker
Walter Chase
Skowhegan
Lawrence B. Haggett
S. W. Dodge
Neal Cramer
Albert Galloupe
Hallowell
Woman's Club of
LD F. Preble Perguna Hise and
Optician
Center St
Steeves Market
Arthur Foye
Kennebec
L. E. Hallydon
James Dickinson
Willard Savage
South Gardiner
Umbrella Mender
ODD Ladies AT
Dromore
Weton L. Bonney
Fred Rose Club
Ernest Rose
Craps
Earl C. Donnell
Joseph WN. Day
DR. H. B. Duce
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