Phippsburg Cut Off From News of Outside World
Long winter storm isolates Phippsburg with heavy snow and northeast winds. The article notes wireless updates from the U S St Louis and ships, disrupted mail service, and local road crews battling drifts. Community updates include residents visiting Bath, Bath merchants, and holiday events amid the blizzard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
Terra Firma
U. S. St. Louis
A. F. Johnson
J. E. Percy
Hoboken
N. J
Cox
Associated Press News
Arlington
Charles
Poland
Lanae
Powhattan
California
New York
Daily News
Ocean Wireless News
Marconi Wireless
B. Payne
M de Martino
Virginia
Bath
William Oliver
River Road
Sam Day
Bath Y M C A routs Pine Tree A A Bangor Maine
Bath Y M C A crushed Bangor’s Pine Tree A A 51 to 18 in a Bangor gym game. Sullivan Farnham Cartmill and Foss led the scorers with nine and Dallas tied for floor points. Corridon added 32 points from fouls. An earlier Y M C A Juniors versus Webster Grammar match followed with Webster hampered by Grove’s absence.
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Bath Y. M. C. A
A A
Bangor
Y.M.C
Maine
Bath Y
Pine Tree
A, Sullivan
R. F. L. G. Berger Cartmill
L. F. R. G. C. Fitzgerald Farnham, C. Cc. Hale Lyden, R. G. L. F. Corridon Foss
J. Fitzgerald
Pine Tree A. A
Sullivan
Farnham
Cartmill
Foss
Corridon
Fitzgerald
Berger
Hale
MacCormick
Timer
Dunton
Ramsay
Ymc.a
Webster Grammar
Grove
Bath
Y.M.C.A
Webster Cummings
Lf Rg
Soule ‘Holbrook
Butler Perkins
Espey
Curran
Matthews Thistle
Whittle
Y.M.C.A. Jrs
Webster
Ene
Perkins
Hol‘brook
Cummings
Thistle
Call
Matthews
Abandoned five-masted schooner Marcus L Urann
Despatch from St. Machias Azores reports the Marcus L Urann abandoned waterlogged. Three crew landed at St Michaels while the rest drowned. The 1889 ton vessel built in 1904 at Phippsburg belonged to Coastwise Transportation Co of Boston and sailed from Port St Joe to Naples.
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Marcus L. Urann
St. Machias
Azores
Lloyd’s
St. Michaels
Phippsburg
Coastwise Transportation Co
Boston
Port St. Joe
Naples
Canoe Sold by Advertisement in Times for $25
Hon E W Hyde advertised a canoe for sale in the Times and that evening J Frank Jones purchased it for twenty five dollars. The brief record notes the sale event and the buyer by name with the price.
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E. W. Hyde
the Times
J. Frank Jones
Bath Tonnage Record Best in Seven Years
Nine vessels built in the Bath district over the past year total 7,709 gross tons, the largest yearly tonnage since 1909. Major yards and firms like Kelley, Spear Co. and Percy & Small report underway ships and upgrades including a 2,000-ton barge and a four-masted schooner with twin screws. The Bath Iron Works advances include a luxe yacht for John N. Willys and four torpedo boat destroyers, with one destroyer Allen arriving for propeller replacement after a collision.
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Bath Tron Works
Bath
Kelley, Spear Co
Percy & Small
Bath Iron Works
John N. Willys
Allen
Texas Steamship Co
Winchester
Jerome Jones
Chas. D. Loveland
C. C. Mengel, Jr
Westmoreland
Jas. M. W. Hall
Ereeel Eter
Naval Reserve enrollment expands under new Congress act
Bath prepares for a six-class Naval Reserve system authorized by Congress with emphasis on the fleet naval reserve. Enrollment targets former officers and enlisted men with retainers from 50 to 100 dollars annually, plus incentives for early reenrollment. Active service rules set three months per four years, with potential commissions for qualified fleet reserve members.
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Bath
Naval Reserve
Congress
Navy
Fleet Naval Reserve
Naval Auxiliary Reserve
Naval Coast Defense Reserve
Naval Reserve Flying Corps
Volunteer
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Our Own People Health and Travel Notes in Town
James McGrath is on the sick list. Mrs Thomas Elliot returns to Boston from a visitor home. Mrs A D Colby comes home from Gardiner to visit son A W Colby. Mrs A N Morse returns from Gardiner where she was with Mrs F H Goodrich. Misses Helen Haraden and Margaret Conley are home from Gorham Normal for Christmas holidays. Mrs Clara Donaldson returns from Thomaston after attending Miss Tacy Jones’s funeral. Mr and Mrs E E Williams Campbell's Pond go to Winthrop for death in the family. S A Alexander enjoys a few days’ vacation with relatives in Cape Elizabeth. Grover Moody visits Bath and departs for Gardiner. he’s worked as boss carpenter at John Evans camp. Mrs Peter Hynes returns to Quincy after two weeks visiting town with husband, foreman at Texas Steamship Co. Mrs Elizabeth B Poster, longtime Squirrell Island resident, suffered an earlier apoplexy and is now helpless in Waterville.
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J. Bradford
Sprague
John Morse
George Sprague
John Pye
Ralph Pye
Martin Wyman
Ernest Rogers
Asa
Frank
George Wyman
James Thompson
Walter Small
Timothy Small
Frank Frisbee
George Weston
Messrs
Desmarrais Geith
H. W. Cutting
Thomas McCormick
Willard Daley
John OD. Rogers
Ruth Sylvester
Gardiner
A. M. Sylvester
Nathaniel Sylvester
B.H.S
Bodwell Grange Hall
Myrtle Pye
Hayden Conant
Winnegance
Alice Campbell
Albertina Ridley
the Basin Church
Elijah Morse
Allequippa
John Williams
Hebron Academy
Arthur Roderick
George O. Curtis
Ruth Morrison
Cliff Island
Mabel Bartlett
Allen
Portland
Ethel York
Eugene Perry
Bath City Hospital
James McGrath
Thomas Elliot
Boston
A. D. Colby
A.W. Colby
A. N. Morse
F. H. Goodrich
Helen Haraden
Margaret Conley
Christamas
Gorham Normal School
Clara Donaldson
Thomaston
Moody
John Evans
Peter Hynes
Quincy
Texas Steamship Co
Elizabeth B. Poster
Squirrel Island
Waterville
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Savings Department
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Bath Truts Company
Bath, Maine
Commercial St
Thomas Leydon
Read Nichols Yard
Tommy
Good Samaritan
Mr. Leydon Promply
Mr. Leydon
Rockland
Joseph McCole
Toledo
Ohio
Overland Automobile Dealers
Willys Overland
John M. Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Front St. Tel
Deems
Breed St. Tel
Dame Nature
New Naval Reserve
Bous
Johnson Bros. Co
Snow Shoes
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