Christmas program delights at Wiscasset Methodist Church
A large chorus performed carols and scripture readings led by the pastor. Mrs. Titus gave two solos, and a wreath from Mrs. Hu Mason adorned the pulpit as lighted candles added to the season.
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1928
Page
3
Silk hose study finds most women favor silk in New York survey
Over 10 296 stockings observed by Miss Helen C. Spaulding of the University of Maine show silk hose worn by 91.69 percent of all women and 94.27 percent in the high price group. Wools and cottons have small shares while beige and grey tones dominate daytime wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helen C. Spaulding
University of Maine
Fifty Cent Toy Led to Airplanes
Five dimes sparked the Wright brothers fascination with flight. As boys in Dayton, Wilbur and Orville watched their father’s fifty cent helicopter toy whirl its rubber-band fans, sparking dreams that grew into a lifelong chase for powered flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright Brothers
Wilbur
Orville
John R. McMahon
Wilbur Wright
Popular Science Monthly
Au Neighbor
Wright
Destiny
North Carolinians Boost Acre Values
North Carolina farmers increase per acre yields across corn cotton tobacco wheat rye oats and potatoes from 1905 to 1927. Dean I. O Schaub of NC State College cites gains with corn rising from 13.9 to 22.8 bushels per acre and lint cotton from 240 to 292 pounds. Boston pursues anti false fire alarm drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Dean I. O Schaub
North Carolina State College
Woolwich Grange Officers to Be Installed and Weekend Events
Woolwich officers elected for the grange will be installed on Wednesday evening January 2 with a slate led by Fred Soule as master and Anna Soule as secretary. A tin shower and Christmas tree honored newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Grover of Wiscasset. The Nequasset church hosts a Christmas pageant The Angels’ Message to the World at 7 30 p m Sunday. Nearby residents and clubs hold Christmas gatherings and community events as schools close for recess and people travel for holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Grange
Fred Soule
John Carter
Rachel Hodgdon
Edward Hodgdon
Anna Soule
Oswald Rankin
Evelyn Bailey
Pomona
Mary Hunnewell
Ceres
Lena Grover
Flora
Frank A. Hodgdon
Ruth Hodgdon
Alton Erskine
Grange Hall
Ernest Grover
Wiscasset
North End
Bath
Nequasset
Day’s Ferry
Angels
Woolwich
Fred Scott
Lyden
Raymond
Ethlyn Marston
Auburn
G. W. Marston
Duncan McIntosh
Elizabeth Wright
Bates College
Winfield Wright
Georgie Walker
Georgetown Center
Boston
Maxine Walker
Roy McIntosh
Ashdale
Genesta Corliss
Cora P. Corliss
Corliss
Woodbury Merrill
Carl Longfellow
Worcester
Mass
N. E. Tel & ‘Fel. Co
River Road
Woolwich Farm Bureauu
Wee
Center Baptist Hall
Clarence Preble
New Hampshire
George Crocker
Lewiston
William Crocker
Moscow Boasts Few Private Motor Cars
Moscow presents one of Europe’s quietest traffic scenes with 2,225,000 pedestrians and scarce private cars. Buses speed like no others, trams are slower and fare runs about five cents per mile. Ditching with dynamite describes a timber-land blasting size, while the Fisher Bros. claim a near billion-dollar fortune from seven auto body makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Reds
Europe
Paris
Fisher Bros
Christmas Concert at Winter Street Church
The Winter Street Church Sunday school held its annual Christmas celebration in a Giving Christmas for the Child Welfare Work of Ellis Isle. Two trees displayed gifts and candy bags while classes performed songs and readings under a committee of Mrs. Maxwell Powers Mrs. Clinton D Wilson Miss Alice Varney and Miss Ruth Skillings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
Maxwell Powers
Clinton D. Wilson
Alice Varney
Ruth Skillings
Langdon T. Snipe
Edwin D. Hardin
Madelyn Deming
Marie
Leah Merrill
Holiday Visitors and Family News From Bath Area
Personal notes detail holiday visits and travels of Bath residents including Joseph Small from New York to see his mother Mrs. Frank A. Small Paul G. Honstret returning to Portland after Christmas in Bath and many others visiting relatives in Gardiner Waterville Springfield Boston and Somerville. Phyllis named daughter born to Rexford B. Stover formerly of Bath and Earle S. Thompson returning to New York City after weekend visit with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Small
New York
Frank A. Small
Paul G. Honstret
Portland
Bath
Galen Watson
Waterville
Charles Kaler
Hinckley Street
Linwood Kaler
Ralph Fitch
Gardiner
Fred P. Emmons
Catherine
John G. Haskell
John Sheldon
New England Conservatory of Music
Boston
Harriet Johnson
Springfield
Mass
Carrie P. Johnson
Bernice Hunt
John Hunt
Middle Street
Ray Oliver
Quincy
Edwards Philips
Crocker Street
George Moses
Somerville
Lewiston
Rexford B. Stover
Phyllis
Bruce H. M. White
Topsham
Alden Smith
Chester S. Kingsley
Virginia
Earle S. Thompson
New York City
George E. Thompson
Harding's
West Bath pupils deck Christmas tree with school event
Pupils at Lowell school decorated their Christmas tree during a Sunday program that included an artful program with recitations, pantomimes, and songs. The event featured an ice cream and candy sale and a gift exchange among students and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
Mary Bailey
Santa
Carlton Bailey
David Wharff
Daisy Lemont
Dolly
Corrinne Brown
Stanley Brawn
Aunicaim
Mindy
Betty Rose
Ames
Emily Larrabse
Holiday Visitors Trace Through Local Homes
Mr Footer and family visited over the weekend to spend holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Foot. Miss Helen Rogers of Gorham Nor mal school stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs Llewellyn Rogers for the holidays. Mr and Mrs Lewis Williams of Tops ham were guests at Sabino home of Mr and Mrs Samuel F Bates. Emma Ryan of Bath visits Mrs Annie Wylie Stackpole for a few weeks. Delmar Bates and daughter Mary of Snow Park were guests at Sabine with Mr Bates parents. Mr and Mrs Robert Cameron of Granite Street Bath and daughter Mrs Woodbury Brackett of Hot Springs Virginia were visitors to Mr and Mrs Fred W Larrabee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Bates
Oscar Landean
Portland
Bates
Samuel F. Bates
Sabine
Ina Williams
Bath
Ernest E. Williams
Campbell's Pond
Julia Coombs
Amy Coombs
James E. Perry
Meadowbrook
Ernest Williams
Wendall
Myra Coombs
Attleboro
Mass
Charles Stackpole
Rockland
B. H. Stackpole
Marguerite Williams
Brunswick
Wendall Williams
Wentworth Institute
Boston
Alfred Snow
Wilson
Freeport
Nan Brown
Eugene R. Brown
E. W. Haggett
Edward Footer
Edward, Jr
Hyde Park
J. B. Lemont
Helen Rogers
Gorham Normal School
Llewellyn Rogers
Lewis Williams
Topsham
Sabino
Emma Ryan
Annie Wylie Stackpole
Delmar Bates
Mary
Snow Park
Robert Cameron
Granite Street
Woodbury Brackett
Hot Springs
Fred W. Larrabee
Tank Trucks and Static Sparks Attract Fire Hazard
A static spark from touching metal can ignite fuels and dust in factories, stations, and trucks. John E. Lodge notes tales of gasoline tanker fires caused by static and describes a man who acted as an extraordinary human electric generator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Lodge
Popular Science Monthly
Static sparks and fiery gas pumps spark cautionary tale
An Arizona oil company driver fueled at stations by five-gallon pails hung on pump cocks ignited by accumulated static electricity. After multiple fires he was reassigned. Massachusetts police warned gasoline flow can generate enough charge to ignite a tank, urging the nozzle to touch the rim during fueling for safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona Oil Company
Massachusetts
Lincoln's granddaughter donates bells for memorial church spire
Mary Lincoln Isham gifts bronze bells to New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington for a Lincoln memorial spire. The Meneely company, led for years by Clinton Hanks Meneely, built the bells, with ties to Lincoln through Philena Hanks Meneely. Chicago electric car lines carried 1,500,000 more riders in October 1928 than the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Lincoln
Mary Lincoln Isham
Clinton Hanks Meneely
Philena Hanks Meneely
Chicago
Probate Notices Set for Sagadahoc County Estates
Two probate notices from Bath Sagadahoc County detail the appointments of administratrixes Livyle A. French for Ethel French Pearson and Katherine E. Perkins for Charles M. Perkins. Both were duly appointed on December 19 1928 and qualified to accept the trusts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livyle A. French
Bath
Idahoc
Ethel French Pearson
Sagadahoc
Katherine BE. M. Perkins
Charles M. Perkins
Berthe E
Katherine E. Ot Perkins
Wanoenee
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W. E. Albee
Water Street
Cowley
Charles Pomeroy
Beverly
H. Louise Lincoln
Henry Johnson
Freeman J. Southard
Hrooper Street
Mary Groves
Helen
Juanita
Georgia Quinnam
Ella Butler
Frances Murphy
Bridgeport
Ralph Webber
Damariscotta Bei
Webber
Damariscotta
E. S. Pooler
W. G. Serle
George Swain
Fred Merry
Albert J. Galloupe
P. B. Stinson
American Legion
Lincoln County
Legion
Joseph Crocker
Keene
Bristol
Elizabeth
Dorothy Sewall
S. J. Sewall
Herman Fowles
South Windham
J. W. Fowles
Kenneth McFadden
Stamford
Woman's Club
St. Philip's Parish House
K. C. M. Sills
Josephine Plumstead
South Portland
Antoinette Plumstead
Harry Bradford
Red Men's Hall
Richmond L. White and Son
Foote Home
High Street
Priscilla Lewis
Bangor
Carl Hughes
Congregational
First Congregational Church
Henry W. Webb
Egypt
Sunnday Dee
Sheepscot
Newcastle
Charles E Titus
B. C
A. D
Methodist Par
Federal Street
Herbert Lewis
Clara
Providence
R. J
Sanford Lewis
Lewis
Frank Fairservice
Fairservice
Webber's Tavern
JF. Medicine Co
Portland, Me
Helen Spaulding
Hollis Leeman
Harold Leeman
Elmer Hayward
Artell Hayward
Royland McIntosh
Day's Ferry Community Club
Luxton
Buxton Rheumat Stic Medicine CO
Abbot Village
Maine
Virginia Falin and
Mary Hodgkins
Alma Swanton
Charles
Miss Carter
McCabe
Miss Goodman
Miss Jaques
Orient
Miss Dickinson
Bethlehem
Mrs. Purington
West Bath
Fred Brawn
Clayton Holden
Marguerite Donnell
Flossy
Wait
Nedwaiho
Corinne Brown
Stanley Rose
Bath Savings Institution
Mr. Footer
Mrs
Joseph Footer
Kennebec River
Thornes Head
Ong
White Mountains
Ocean
Babe
Kennebec
Henry C. Rowe
P. O. Drawer
Rhode Island
William F. Dunham
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