Local Jottings and Small Town Notes
Joseph Rogers buys a Ford. The Times installs latest white light signs. Gray squirrels nest in bird houses on High Street. Salvation Army kettle donations continue at Thompson’s Corner. Rumors surface of Middle Street valley as a freight yard for MCRR with a map arrival Monday. A Kennebec shot hints at a mild winter. Merry meeting Bay hunts yield few birds. Daisy Farlin schooner arrives St Andrews Florida. captain Plummer joins voyage. Turnip from Boothbay weighs 20% pounds, large around one yard. Philip L Wilson bailed in $200 for illegal liquor possession. whiskey found on Front Street belongs to another party.
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Joseph Rogers
Telephone
Times
High St
Salvation Army
Thompson’s Corner
Middle St. Valley
M. C.R.R
Robert Sturtevant
Kennebec
Merrymeeting Bay
Daisy Farlin
St. Andrews
Fla
Cardenas
Plummer
Boothbay Register
Harry A. Nickerson
Philip L. Wilson
Front St
Adderton
Local Highlights Include River Trades and New Bridge Opening
The report notes lumber and sand cargoes, a Bay sand unload at Hyde Windlass wharf, and a Portland beef purchase amid Bath rivalry. It covers Hyde Park transfers, Lynde Island skiffs, the new New Meadows bridge opening, and trolley service upgrade. American Ice Co. centralization plans seek substantial yearly savings with no stock issues. Prince the steamer mascot missed Virginia, ending mud covered at Popham Beach. A kitchen fire scare in Richmond Corner is contained with neighbor help. Bangor sees a managerial change at New England Tel and Tel with E T Emerson leaving Jan 1 for Portland, Harry H Carter taking over.
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Texas
Lynde’s Island
Crocker
Eastern River
Charles Hacker
Portland
Bath
Burnett
Hyde Park
Mass
Durham Road
Squirrel Island
King of the Bay
New Bridge
New Meadows
American Ice Co
American Ice Securities Co
Prince
Virginia
Hodgkins
Popham Beach
Bangor News
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Bangor
E.T. Emerson
Harry H. Carter
Lynn
Emerson
Barry is Reappointed Secretary of Pharmacy Board
William S. Barry of Melrose, a member of the State Board of Registration in Pharmacy, was reappointed as secretary and chosen secretary treasurer of the New England Pharmacy Boards. He led a crackdown, closing 16 Massachusetts drugstores and denying 50 permits, while personally investigating illegal compounding and securing convictions.
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Boston Globe
William S. Brrry
Melrose
State Board of Registration In Pharmacy
New England Pharmacy Boards
Barry
New England
Massachusetts
Sec
Brrry
Boston
John Tobin
Sec. Briry
New England Pharmacy Boards Push Regulation of Patent Medicine Sales
State Board drives weed out of stores selling patent medicines as Massachusetts narcotic law aids enforcement. Sec Barry foresees next legislature placing grocery and drugstore sellers of patent remedies under the State Board of Registration in Pharmacy with permit requirements. The New England group also backs shorter clerk hours.
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Massachusetts
Sec
Barry
State Board of Registration
Pharmacy
Boston
New England Pharmacy Boards
State Boards of Registration In
New England
Wesley Notes on Church Appeals and Devotional Plans
The sermon by Dr. Ackerman pleased Wesley attendees as Epworthians consider new Sunday evening devotions. Rev. Wilson Harrison named Fred W. Armes as class leader. an appeal for the Conference Claimants Endowment Fund is set for tomorrow with pledges due in five years or via wills and bonds. Wesley apportionment listed at 1,454. loose offering funds the regular claimants collection. Choir and Sunday school plan Christmas preparations while a decorating committee is chosen.
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Ackerman
Wesley
Beacon Lights M E Church Activities and Vessels News
BEACON LIGHTS reports a busy church week with class meetings sale and entertainment to aid the music fund and prayer meetings. Dr. J T B Smith addressed the great Methodist campaign in Boston and Portland, praising his eloquence and Edinburgh training. A new schooner named Elizabeth Howard, ten feet longer than the Howard, is under construction at Adams Bros. yard in East Boothbay for a New Yorker, with the vessel carrying two large American flags and named for an elderly donor.
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Dorcas Guild
Music Fund
Ladies’ Aid
J. E. C. Sawyer
D.D
L.L.D
Beacon Street
Boston
J. T. B. Smith
Chicago
Methodist Episcopal Denomination
Smith
Scotland
Edinburgh University
Sawyer
Chestnut St. Church
Portland
Elizabeth Howard
Adams Bros
East Boothbay
Howard
Labrador
Portugal
Ten Vassar Girls Heat Bath Onera House Vaudeville
Monday evening the Bath Onera House packed to capacity to see the Ten Vassar Girls touted as the most elaborate and costly vaudeville act the house has presented.
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Bath Onera
Lisbon Falls native Col. Potter assumes Boston engineer post
A Lisbon Falls born officer, Col. Charles R. Potter of the U S Army Corps of Engineers, succeeds Col. Craighill in Boston. Potter, a West Point graduate 1882, earlier led river and labor work in Portland Oregon and built the largest Lake Superior breakwater at Duluth. He is tied to Lisbon Falls families and previously served as a volunteer colonel in the Philippines.
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Charles R. Potter
Corps of Engineers
U. S. Army
Col
Craighill
Boston
Lisbon Falls
Colonel Poter
Portlan
Oregon
Cornel
Paul
Duluth
Lake Superior
Col. Potter
Benjamin Potter
George E. William
Sara Potter
West Point
Gen. Pershing
Mexico
Potter
Philippines
Engineers Department
Capt
John Potter
Collier
Navy
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Senter
Brunswick
Maine
Kayser
Boudoir
C. L. Farnham CO. Inc
Chilton Paints
Beaver Board
Elm ST
Bert Baker
Richmond Corner
Johnson
Bowdoin
Baker
Bath Boy
Massachusetts Pharmacy Board
Hamilton
Wallace
A. G. Page Company
J.W
O. R. Pennell
Cash Clothiers
Wesley Notes
Bath Steam Dye House
H. E. Douglass
Prop
Bath, MB
Maine St
Brunswick, Me
Citizens Laundry
Harry P. Bridge
Maine Street
Col. Potter of
Joseph C. Footer
M Cole Frasier
Mayne
Cambridge
John McLean
Watown
McLean
Carter
Hoc
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