Ancient Augusta Once Prominent Among Settlers
Arthur G. Staples recounts the tale of the lost Augusta at Small Point Harbor, a planned Maine port founded ca. 1720 by Pejepscot authorities. It describes its strategic river-access location, growth with farms, fort, and trade, later destroyed in the 1772 conflict, and notes revived interest by locals and historians seeking its buried remnants and potential future harbor prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur G. Staples
The
Lewiston Journal
Small Point Harbor
Augusta
Atlantic
Atlantic Coast
Maine
America
Brunswick
Bath
New Meadows River
New Meadows Inn
Merrymeeting Bay
Kennebec
New Meadows
Stevens River
Stevens
Williamson
Androscoggin
Arrowsic
Casco Bay
R. K. Sewall
Wiscasset
John McKeen
Harold M. Sewall
Allequippa
Cape Sabino
Soldiers Brave Cold to Aid Needy Families
Salvation Army volunteers endured 12 hours of frigid weather to staff two red kettles for Christmas dinners, but the first day collected only 9.25 dollars to aid about 150 families. With higher demand this year, a third kettle will join next Monday in the business district until Christmas Eve.
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Salvation Army
Eight Grammar School Teams Open League December Sixteen
The Y M C A Grammar School Basketball league begins December 16 with eight teams and 56 games scheduled mostly on Saturdays. Morning games feature early rounds and a few Wednesday matinees. Coaches, practice hours, and student crowds are planned as many players debut in regular-season play.
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Y. M. C. A. Grammar School
St. Mary's
Central Reds
Central Blacks
Central Whites
South North Grammar Covery Tyne
Central Blues
South
North
St. Mary’s
Navy Films Shown at Grace Church Men’s Club
Five reels of Navy motion pictures were shown to Grace Church Men's Club in the parish house by Selwyn Towne with Fred Hoffman securing and operating the projector. The program included depictions of the Dalmatian coast, Jugo Slavia, Greece, Guam, the Philippines, Palestine, and a sailor’s life. The vice-president opened. next meeting set for Dec 13 with Fuller Day and Baxter as committee. No meeting on Dec 20 due to Christmas. Light refreshments served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Grace Church Men's Club
Fred Hoffman
Selwyn Towne
Dalmatian
Jugo-Slavia
Greece
United States
Guam
Philippine Islands
Palestine
Harry B. Briggs, Jr
John Freeman
Eliot A. Fuller
Harry L. Day
Rupert H. Baxter
Oscar Williams
Henry C. Wright
Albert Perry
Thespians Plan Season Plays at Rehearsal Rooms
Active Thespians met at the rehearsal rooms on Thursday to discuss a season of plays led by The Late Christopher Bean by Sidney Howard likely opening. Officers will be elected at next week’s meeting for seven o clock attendance. members from the last two years and new associates are urged to participate in a varied program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thespians
Christopher Bean
Sidney Howard
Roosevelt Endorsed By Democratic City Committee
The Democratic city committee endorsed the Roosevelt administration and its national recovery program at a special Monday night meeting. Resolutions of endorsement will be sent to President Roosevelt by John J. Mulcahy, committee chairman.
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Roosevelt
Democratic City Committee
John J. Mulcahy
Minott and town residents noted around Sebasco and Bath
Phippsburg notices report the Minott sisters planning winter in Roxbury Mass and C V Minott's home. Reginald Kaufman and Andy wintering in Sebasco before Christmas in Trenton N J. Cushman family visited Sebasco. Blaisdell returned from West Newbury and Kittery. Stover on Coast Guard leave. Leon home at Marshall Ave. Bath residents Hill and Tracey hosts. Perry family visit Meadow Brook. Barbour ill at home. Loring Darling tends James Perry. Gilmore trio at Bath movies. Beals machines wood for Pease. Skillings in Sebasco. Perry building ice house at Brig? s Gove.
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Minott
Alice
Abbie Minott
Roxbury
Mass
C. V. Minott
Reginald Kaufman
Andy
Sebasco
Trenton
N. J
Nathan Cushman
Sylvanus Cushman
Portland
Gertrude Blaisdell
West Newbury
Kittery
Eugene Stover
Coast Guard Station
David Leon
Popham Beach
Marshall Avenue
Bath
Walter Hill
J. E. Perry
Howard Bowker
Imogene
Thomas Tracey
Martha Hutchins
New York
Laura Cutting
Winnegance
Meadowbrook
Lyman Barbour
Joseph Smith
Loring Darling
James Perry
Virginia
Robert
Richard Gilmore
Clinton Beals
J. H. Pease
Ruth Skillings
James E. Perry
Edward Sampson
Brig"s Gove
Public Requests by Miss Sewall Continued
Affidavit of witness to will filed. Estate items listed include Tarr Richmond. Bell administrator. Albee Bath. Drouin Concord N H guardian. Harford Richmond. Beal Bowdoin guardian. Bell Richmond administrator. Inventory, accounts, and distributions recorded. numerous estates and trustees noted with petitions for commissions, changes of name, licenses to sell real estate.
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Harry L. Tarr
Richmond
Ernest L. Goodspeed
John M. Morton
Laura M. Morse
George Lewis Bell
Charles A. Bell
Clara W. Albee
Bath
Sidney B. Lermond
George M. Wyman
Phippsburg
Wilbur H. Wyman
Marilla B. Tarr
Frank M. Talbot
Grace L. Talbot
Lillian C. Plummer
Edward C. Plummer
Seneca H. Conley
Carrie J. Conley
Edith A. Wood
Frank A. Wood
Bowdeinham
F. Raymond Richardson
Annie M. Richardson
George J. Hart
Margaret J. Hart
Thomas R. Merrifield
Lee E. Haley
Floyd C
George K
Joseph P
Charles P. Curtis
Norris G. Curtis
Topsham
Emma Dunton
James F. Dunton
Emma E. Walker
Helen A. Walker
Eleanor Bailey Morris
Abbie S. Lilly
John P. Carey Jr
William J. Rouse
Julia T. Clason
Thomas G. Huntington
Azella H. Huntington
Pauline Marie Drouin
Concord
N.H
Edward W. Bridgham
Sarah H. Percy
William V. Percy
Ruth F. Coombs
John J. Keegan
Gardiner R. Deering
Thelma May Campbell
Thelma May Green
N. H
Leda Drouin Guardian
Horace D. Manwaring
Byron L. Ludwig
Zacheus M
Bowdoin
Ella A. Hovie
Aministratrix
Annie A. Lint
Don O. Cate
Farm Bureau Meeting Plans TaxTalk at Montsweag
Montsweag Farm Bureaus hold their annual planning meeting at the Montsweag grange hall on Wednesday Dec 20 at 10 am. County agent Charles Eastman will discuss taxation problems. all interested invited. Dinner will be served by the Women's Farm Bureau. Friday evening at the University of Maine the military ball elected Miss Charlotte LaChance of Biddeford honorary lieutenant colonel. Adjutant General James W. Hanson attended with Mrs. Hanson. he became honorary member of Scabbard and Blade with 14 military students.
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Montsweag
University of Maine
New Memorial Gymnasium
Charlotte LaChance
Biddeford
Adjt
James W. Hanson
Augusta
Hanson
Scabbard and Blade Society
Demonstration Agent Hampers Club Talk on Maine Farm Work
Miss Hortense Welch home demonstration agent of the University of Maine spoke to the Cosmopolitan club about her work in Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties and with the College of Agriculture and Twin County Farm. The meeting featured songs by the Singing club and announcements of future events including a card party and the annual Silver Tea on December 17.
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Hortense Welch
Home Extension Department
University of Maine
Cosmopolitan Club
Miss Welch
Androscoggin
Sagadahse
College of Agriculture
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Twin County Farm Bureau
Atlan Spear
William S. Newell
Carl C. Anderson
Edith F. Wheeler
Elizabeth D. McGrath
Marjorie H. Dearborn
Edward A. Rowe
Clarence
Clinton D. Wilson
Frostina E. Marston
George A. Churchill
Guy Crosby
Welch
Bath
Nequasset Farm Bureau
Lewiston
Bradley
Ernest A. Welch
Twin County
Andrescoggin
Sagadahoc
Bessie M. Hunt
House
Central Church league holds 26th Christmas sale and supper
The Central Church league reported a successful 26th annual Christmas sale and supper held in the parish house last Wednesday despite stormy weather. Mrs. Leonard M. Lord led overall arrangements with Mrs. Owen J. Ledyard supervising the supper and numerous committees named to run fancy tables aprons cooked foods greens and refreshments.
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Central Church League
Leonard M. Lord
League
Owen J. Ledyard
Lord
Lula H. Turner
Agnes W. Humphreys
Horace P. Morse
George W. Dean
Beatrice M. Jenkins
Perry L. Thompson
Marius H. Pave
Charles A. Soule
Ralph C. Whitehouse
Howard A. Parks
Sherman N McQuaide
Arthur W. King
David L. Wilson
Adolph H. Ehlers
James T. Bonney
Charles E. Curtis
William E. Palmer
David E. Rich
Benjamin F. Savage
Frank S. Wakefield
Charles E. Helah
Ethel Blake
Margaret R. Foote
Luther S. Thompson
Elmer Sidelinger
William S. Newell
E. Motley Fuller
Charles W. Welch
Harold S. Avery
Dora L. Howard
Byron F. Barker
Archibald M. Main
Archibald Miller
Reginald Stacy
William_H.Small
S Foote
Fred A Fuiler
Morse High Students Enter Prestigious Colleges Nationwide
Morse high school publicity notes students gained entrance to Wheaton Dartmouth Yale Harvard Mt Holyoke MIT and Maine colleges plus music art and business schools. In 1932 not one Morse entrant failed in freshman year, per N E college entrance certificate board record.
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Morse High School Publicity Committee
North Center
Morse
N. E. College Entrance Certificate Board
Winnegance Club Officers Elected At Annual Meeting
The Winnegance Auxiliary and Ladies Aid held meetings at local homes electing officers for the coming year. Mrs. Walter Morse served as president with Mrs. Oliver as vice president, and other officers named alongside retiring president Mrs. Hewitt. Community club plans included vaudeville at the community house and weekly card parties. Skating on the lake drew many locals with multiple ice boats and nets observed, while fishing reports noted fair luck. A funeral in Bath honored Mrs. Almeda S. Hayden of Winnegance, a Baptist church member, survived by husband and siblings. she was praised for kindness and community service.
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Squaw Club
Ormond Coggeshall
Walter Morse
Harry F. Oliver
Harry C. Williams
Winfield W Morse
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Parker O. Rovers
Pitch Pine Hill
Totman
Frank Perry
Herbert
Portland
Ladies’ Aid
Winneganee
Parker O. Rogers
Almeda S. Hayden
Seymour Hayden
Winnegance
Maine General Hospital
Arthur F. Mayo
High Street
Bath
Charles R. Sims
First Baptist Church
Willard Cromwell
Frank Allegrin
Wilfred Stover
Eugene Spinney
East Union Cemetery
Mayo
Hayden
Daniel Gould, Jr
Hannah Jones Gould
Union
South End P T A Christmas Sale Held Tuesday Afternoon
The South End P T A ran its annual Christmas sale in the 488 Washington street rooms on Tuesday at two. Articles included fancy work cooked foods aprons candy and greens with a fish pond. Refreshments were served and 475 candy boxes were packed for distribution to South End school children.
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South End
P.T. A
Washington Street
Association
Arthur C. Lemont
Charles E. Hewitt, Jr
Albertha Williams
Edward Brown
Wilfred
James S. Knight
Alfred E. Carpenter
Russell M Colby
Wellington A. Moore
John Burgon
Nate H. Young
Chester A. Plant
Perley E. Dunbar
Banquet Marks Close of Artisans Canadian- Francais Drive
A Sunday banquet at the Marcotte Home in Lewiston marked the closing of the Artisans Canadian- Francais drive. Attended by 113 people, the event was honored by Rodolphe Bedard of Montreal, president general of the order.
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the Artisans Canadian- Francais
Marcotte
Lewiston
Rodolphe Bedard
Montreal
Order
Noted English Author Speaks at Bowdoin on Wednesday Night
John Strachey noted English author and former Labour MP spoke at Bowdoin Memorial Hall on Wednesday night about The Coming Struggle for Power. He labeled the CWA a British dole form and warned capitalism carries within it its own destruction, urging recovery or natural repair.
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New Republic
John Strachey
Labor
Memorial Hall
Bowdoin College
C.W A
Strachey
United States
MacDonald
Baldwin
Great Britain
England
America
John St. Lee Strachey
the Spectator
Lytton Strachey
Bronaha Muardalen College
Oxford
Spectator
Labor Party
Astor
Birmingham
Ramsey MacDonald
London
Ralph C Dale Speaks To Winter Street Men
Winter Street Church Men's club met with 39 attendees and no scheduled speaker as County Attorney John Carey Jr. was delayed. Ralph O Dale filled in, delivering a one hour legal forum and humor filled talk that engaged the group. The meeting approved suit purchases for the basketball team, set the next gathering for December 14, and enjoyed an oyster stew prepared by Charles E Blaisdell Horace Herrick and William A Fell with Dr Charles E Helah as chef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street Church Men's Club
Ralph O. Dale
John P. Carey, Jr
Dale
Winterstreet
Arthur C. Lemont
Charles A. Andre
Charles E. Blaisdell
Horace Herrick
William A
Golden anniversary for Mr and Mrs Fred Stilphen
Mr and Mrs Fred Stilphen of 66 Richardson Street observed their 50th wedding anniversary at home last Tuesday due to Mrs Stilphen illness. They have a son Clyde and two grandsons Clyde Jr and William. Gilbert H Fowles of 285 Middle Street left Saturday for Bridgeport Connecticut to spend the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Stilphen
Richardson Street
Gilbert H. Fowles
Middle Street
Bridgeport
Conn
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Cape Small Point
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Small
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Francis Small
Small Point
Charles II
Richard Wharton
Wharton
John Parker
Parker
New Mess River
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Kennebec River
James
Fort Ed
Falmouth
Thomas Purchas
Pejepscot Co
Purchas
Popham
Plymouth Company
Cushnoc
Powalborough
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Ae Ord
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Pejepscot Company
John Penhallow
Cape
Small Point Augusta
Boston
James Hillhouse
Ireland
Hillhouse
Weeks
South Central Reds
North Grammar
Dike
South St. Mary’s
Grace Church Club
Howard
UBLIC
Miss Sewall
Farm Bureau Meeting
South End P.T.A. Sale
Ralph C. Dale
Winter Street
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