Proposed New Road at Popham Attracts Interest
A correspondent argues that a south side road behind Popham Beach cottages would benefit Phippsburg by boosting tax revenue creating construction jobs aiding supply deliveries and accelerating summer tourism development. The plan would use a steam shovel to remove sand and prepare a clay and gravel finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Popham Beach
Urally
Pospham
Phippsburg
Phippsboro
Phippburg
Maine
Paippsburg
Central Church Parish Reception and Wiscasset Bridge Progress
The Central Church parish reception featured a lively program with music and a play. In Maine, the Wiscasset Davis Island bridge project nears completion with a steel and creosoted timber span and a 22 foot roadway, 84 fender piles, and a 109 ton draw span under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Wiscasset
Rockland
Sheepscot River
Davis
Kerr & Houston, Inc
Portland
Bath
Portland Sunday Telegram
War Department
Davis Island
Highway Department
New England
American Bridge Co
S. E. Norman
Harbor de Grace
Bucksport
Baltimore
Norfolk
Clark Rowe
Boothbay Harbor
Edgecomb
Frank Bell
Lewiston
William Crowell
Rangeley
Ray Houston
State Highway Commission
Harland Towne
Dover-Foxcroft
Parker Cushman
Ellsworth
L. S. Cotton
Gorham
John Marston
Seventeenth Birthday Parallels Across Two Families
Two Bath residents born February 29, 1860 share life parallels as they age. Charles J. Cain and Wilbur C. Oliver both serve Bath in local government and state legislature roles. They are grandfathers to the same children and great-grandfathers to a Rotterdam-born child, with notable descendants in Boston and Rotterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Head
John Oliver
Bath
Warren M. Cain
Charles J. Cain
Wilbur C. Oliver
Rotterdam
Holland
Warren D. Oliver
Boston
Chauncy Hall School
Mary Evelyn Byhouwer
Jan T. P. Byhouwer
Wilbur Pieter Byhouwer
Bowdoinham News Highlights Details of Local Life
Bowdoinham residents mourn the death of a longtime farmer Mr Siegars at his Bowdoinham home and burial in Ridge cemetery. The senior class to present a comedy The Dutch Detective at town hall to raise funds. Other items include duties of Miss Jessie Ames, illness in Richmond workers, ice race results, measles at school, and various visits, trips, and community events.
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Mr. Siegars
Bowdsinham
Bowdoinham Ridge
Siegars
Wallace
Albert
William
Frank
Lida Pattee
Brockton
Mass
Ridge Cemetery
Coombs High School
Town Hall
Jessie M. Ames
Harvey Ames
Watertown
Lena Patten
Richmond
Karl Hatch
Clifford Smalley
Yarmouth
Hatch
Kitty
Kitty Gatewood and Smalley Entered Belbin
Henry Woods
Springfield
Elmer
Winefred Dodge
U. of M
Sarah Howe
Bangor
George McPherson
Erla Browne
Boston
Foster Meserve
Topsham
George A. Hackett
Curtis
Board of Selectmen
Charles Biglin
Minnie Waldron
Martha Totman
Marshal Rogers
Bowdoinham
C. D. Roberts
Merle Downing
Arthur
Taxation talk warns Bath of rising costs and debt
Hon. Frank H. Holley Maine state tax assessor spoke at Bath Rotary noon luncheon about mounting municipal costs. He cited towns overexpanding with highways and buildings, rising education and welfare expenses, and low tax collection, urging united effort to curb expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Holley
North Anson
Bath
Hotel Phoenix
Oxford County
Maine
State Department
Highway Commission
Small Family Visits in Bowdoinham Post Road
Mr and Mrs Irvin Small and daughter of Portland visited Mrs Alden Small and Mrs Herbert Heath on Monday. Lloyd Curtis has been ill with the measles. E D Cornish will operate his saw mill on the State road once weather warms. A few logs have been hauled. Locals are filling ice houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stacy
Ms. Stacy
St. Petersburg
Charies Ingraham
Maine
Silver Bay
South Shore
Bath City
Charles F. Hathaway
Huron Avenue
Cambridge
Florida
Herbert J. Kellaway
Newton Center
Planning Board
Kellaway
Bcard
Anna C. Tillinghast
United States
New England
Boston Sunday Post
Woman's Court
Lernice Brecon
Radcliffe College
Grace Morrison Poole
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Louisa Pryor Ski
Frances McDonald
Good Will Family Court
New York
Radziwill
Tillinghast
Popham
Irvin Small
Portland
Alden Small
Herbert Heath
Lloyd Curtis
E. D. Cornish
Hermes launches as Coast Guard patrol craft joins fleet
The Hermes, fifth of seven 165 foot patrol boats, slid from the Iron Works launch ways after grease delay. Sponsor Miss Petersen of Portland, Lieut. Harold C. Moore as escort, and Lieut. James A. Hirschfield to command. Trials set for March 1 before commissioning from Stapleton base to patrol Atlantic coast from New York onward.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Hermes
Iron Works
Rentaseee
Miss Petersen
Portland
Land
Harold C. Moore
Coast Guard and
James A. Hirschfield
Thetis
Aurora
Calypso
Central Church Men Hear of Far East
The Central church Men’s club heard Charles J. Donnell describe Japan and China with a personal view gained from years in the region. He noted Japan’s postwar growth, Shanghai’s trade tension, and China’s resistance, warning a troubled world outlook. Next meeting speaker will be L B Costello of the Lewiston Sun Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Church
Japan
China
Charles J. Donnell
Shanghai
Donnell
International Banking Corporation
Mr. Donnell
Manchuria
England
India
David Rich
J. Maurice Haynes
L. B. Costello
The
Lewiston Sun-Journal
Palestine
Egypt
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Senter’s, Inc
Paramount Public Theatre
Paul Lukas
Sidney Fox
Walter Huston
LAW and Order
Nancy Carroll
Richard Arien
Chester Morris
Chinatown
Carmel Myers
the Guardsman
Alfred Lunt
Lynne Fontaine
Wiscasset Bridge
David L. Wilson
Owen Ledyard
Edith Savage
Alfred Rowe
E. P. Briggs
Maurice Haynes
Carrie Thompson
William R. Kimball
John Shaw
Shaw
Woodbury Bailey
Francis McPherson
Bailey
Katherine Dinsmore
Bowery
Joseph Dinsmore
Alfred Noyes
Ethel Parks
Ernest Woodvenor
William H. Small
Men's Club
League
Belle Welch
Raymond Brown
Central League
Lulu Turner
Estelle Ledyard
Nellie Lord Speaker
Associated Press Corr
Martha Foote
Central Parish House
Noths
A. B
Care Times
Mr. Dain
North End
Oliver
Dain
Thomas P. Gibbons
Washington Street
Union Street
Arthur G. Oliver
Norwood City Hospital
Norwood
Eugene McGrath
Marion Dain
Elizabeth McGrath
Bates College
Reginald Aldworth Daly
Harry F. Morin
Hayden Memorial
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia
Daly
Harvard University
Leslie Brown
Emery
C. L. Browne
Betty Merchant
Farmington
Willie Gile
J. E. Allen
Clayhill
Brunswick Hospital
Litchfield
Richmonds High School
Irene Millay
Gardiner Hospital
Edward Gile
Emily Rideout
John McCart
Charles L. Browne
McDonald Temple
Pythian
Kennebec Lodge
K. of P
Washington
Sarah Tarr
Bowdoinham Post Road
Coast Guard
W. Dayton Hill
Hon. R. H. Baxter
Far East
Natalie B. McNeil
Bath Box Co
Charles Avery
Jennie
Vic d
Hatch’s Shoe Store
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