Bowdoinham Records Coldest Day of Winter Thursday
Bowdoinham reports the coldest weather of the winter with readings between 20 and 25 below zero. The drop slowed trains and extended wait times at the station while farmers push potatoes to markets ahead of spring and sledding remains excellent.
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Bowdoinham
Percy Blanchard
Mechanic Falls
Blanche Moore
John Wins
Lewiston
Amandius Borjesson
J. Pearle Cardle
Edward Denham
Wesley Williams
Richmond
Board of Selectmen
Flora Dunham
Carlton Lancaster
Robert Woodworth
Spinney
Nellie Woodworth
Bath
Miss King
Sister's Hospital
L. D. Small
Aroostook
Lewis M. Fulton
Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co
Robert IH
Jack
Bowdoinham Station
Charles H. McEwen
Freeport
George P. Coffin
Ohio
Coffin
Rhode Island
Bowdoinham Notes: Visits and Local Happenings
Miss Edith Wood and Miss Ruby Wood travel to Sanford with Mrs. W J Graves to visit relatives and teach in Sanford. Capt George T Getchell travels to Richmond after a friend’s death. Local horsemen plan an ice trot. weather postponed Bowdoinham Library Association meeting. Board of Trade to select delegates for Maine Development meeting. Sucker fishing slow on Cathance Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers. Pipes freeze causing trouble. reunion of Bowdoinham Board of Trade postponed. Central choir enjoys sleigh ride and oyster supper at Chapel House with Rev Wilson and local families.
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Edith Wood
Bowdoinham
Ruby Wood
Sanford
W. J. Graves
Ethel Graves
Misses Wood
Graves
George T. Getchell
Richmond
Bowdoinham Library Association
J. D. Small
Bowdoinham Board of Trade
Charles Hl. McEwen
Maine Development
Augusta
Bowdeinham
Cathance
Kennebec
Andros
Orgin
Bowdeinham Board of Trade
Desjardin
Ivon House
the Independent
Bath
Independent
Brunswick Road
Court House Square
Chapel House
Wilson
John Shaw
Misses Houston
Temperance Essay Contest Offered by Maine WCTW
The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Maine WCTW invites public school teachers to submit essays on The Best Method of Teaching Temperance. A state prize of ten dollars in gold awaits the top essay, judged on presentation. essays must reach the office by June 1. The winning piece will enter a national contest offering fifty dollars in gold.
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Maine
Suffolk Club Holds Annual Meeting and Colonial Supper
Members met Wednesday evening in the First National building to conclude business then adjourned to the Colonial for a turkey supper with oysters on the shell lobster stew boiled halibut roast turkey lobster salad ice cream cake and coffee. Afterward the clubmen returned to their rooms for smoke talk and song with orchestral music enhancing the banquet.
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Suffolk Club
First National
Colonial
Grange Plans Tuesday Night Event in Woolwich
Woolwich Grange members meet at Montsweag hall to organize a weather dependent entertainment for next Tuesday evening. A valentine meeting and a lively program are promised with a large attendance if sleighing and cold weather cooperate.
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Albert Carde
Hebron Academy
J. Royalist Browne
Sons of Veterans
Grange Hall
Menander Dennett
Lewiston
Nelson
Arrowsic Family News and Local Moves
Harold Wheeler from Waterville visited grandparents Mr and Mrs Gove. Thomas Wheeler plans to move lumber from his Arrowsic home to Waterville to build a new house. Mrs Robbins, recently moved from Winthrop, is ill. Dr A A Stott was summoned. Mrs Frank Clark attended the Meller Pelton wedding in Bath. Wilbur Freeman has had measles the past week.
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Bowdeinham
New York
Staples
Thomas Wheeler
Waterville
Robbins
Winthrop
Mass
A. A. Stott
Frank Clark
Meller-Pelton
Bath
Wilbur Freeman
Dromore Grange Program Includes Music Talks Pie Social
Next Tuesday evening at Dromore Grange Phippsburg the program features music by Bessie and Grace Dickinson readings and stories by D A Merry Agnes Cutting and others a town affairs dialogue and an impromptu question session about what to do with an extra five thousand dollars plus a choir and a pie social led by the ladies.
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Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Bessie
Grace Dickinson
Winnegance
Reuben Purington
D. A. Merry
Agnes Cutting
Herbert S. Bowker
Ralph Trask
Martha Rogers
Rebecca Bowker
Scott O. Campbell
James E. Perry
Bessie Dickinson
George D. Weston
W. A. C. Rogers
Kate O. Weston
John D. Rogers
Herbert W. Cutting
D. A. Merry Music
Choir Pie Social
West Bath Grange Monday Evenings Program
West Bath Grange lists a Monday program with a piano solo by Sadie Armstrong readings on St. Valentine origins by Ruth Mitchell and Ruth Fuller with contestants Esther Peterson Mazie Plough Peggy’s Valentine a Valentine reading and a hearts contest. A discussion chaired by Fred Wright and W H Brown considers which workers future generations will depend on.
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West Bath Grange
Sadie Armstrong
St. Valentine’s Day
Ruth Mitchell
Ruth Fuller
Earl Donnell Long
Esther Peterson Valentine
Peggy’s Valentine
Mazie Plough
Mrs. Harding
Fred Wright
W. H. Brown
I. W. Cornish
T. F. Perkins
Democrats weigh Larrabee nomination for mayor
Ernest F. Kelley predicts E. W. Larrabee will be nominated by the Democrats for mayor and that the caucus will endorse his administration from the past year.
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Ernest F. Kelley
E. W. Larrabee
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