Aurora displays and village notes fill Phippsburg letter
The Phippsburg News Letter reports an aurora borealis display Friday night and a mild winter. It covers Busy Bodys club meeting with the Minott sisters, whist and flunch, grafanola music, and refreshments. It notes travels of F S Bowker and W F Webb to New York and Boston regarding the schooner John W Dana, plus local visits and accidents aboard the steamer Jule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Williams
Candy's Harbor
Portland
Alex Coffin, Jr
Morrison
William Ham
Kansas
Mr. Ham
Leonard
Elijah
Harold
Richard
Letters Recall Steam Boat T. E. Secor and War Echoes
Gustavus Pease writes to the Times recalling the T. F. Secor on the Kennebec River and the Civil War, asking if any records exist of the schooner Fanny Keating and noting a guard detail aboard her. He fondly remembers Maine comrades and the shared meals with Maine men during guard duty near Daufuskie Island in South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Damariscotta
T. F. Secor
South Carolina
Kennebe
Upper River
Esterly
Daufuskie Island
Carolina
Fort Pulaski
Savannah River
Fanny Keating
Maine
Captain Carlisle Cleared After Limon Collision findings
The United States inspector found Captain George A. Carlisle blameless for the Dorothy Palmer collision with the steamer Limon off Peaked Hill Bar on December twenty eighth. Chief Officer Reginald Rose of the Limon was found negligent and suspended for three months. The Dorothy Palmer is under repair at Percy & Small's yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Carlisle
Dorothy Palmer
Peaked Hill Bar
United States
Reginald Rose
Limon
Percy & Small
Bath Peninsular Sunday Schools unite district and invite state convention
The Bath Sunday Schools formed the Peninsular District reestablishing itself with Bath Winnegance Phippsburg Popham Beach Ashdale Parker Head and West Bath. The district elected Milton H. Douglas president Sidney Eaton vice president Mrs Langdon T. Snipe secretary treasurer and all school superintendents form the executive committee. The group invited the State Sunday School Association to hold its 47th annual convention in Bath next October attracting about 350 delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Winter Street Congregational Church
Winnegance
Phippsburg
Peninsular
Winneganee
Popham Beach
Ashdale
Parker Head
West Bath
Milton H. Douglas
Sidney I. Eaton
Langdon T. Snipe
State Sunday School Association
Winter Street
C. R. Crappell
M. J. Duncklee
H. A. Corey
James L. McConaughy
Bowdoin College
McConaughy
Jesus Christ
Christ
Resettlement plans for Sagadahoc by Clarke and Lake heirs
The article outlines early 18th century efforts to reoccupy desolated Maine lands after King William’s and Queen Anne’s wars. Boston investors Clarke and Lake, with Edward Hutchinson and Josiah Wolcott guiding, appoint John Watts as superintendent. The group contracts for supply ships in 1714 and secures a 40family town at Arrowsi island with a provisional guard from Casco Bay, to be developed next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rowdon
Rowdon
Stage Island
Sagadahoe
Kennebec
England
France
Utrecht
Maine
Boston
Clarke and
Captain Lake
Anne
Increase Mather
Thomas
Bibye Lake
London
Major Clark
Edward Hutchinson
Josiah Wolcott
Salem
Mr. Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson
Massachusetts
John Watts
Watts
Major Clarke
Clarke
Watts Settlement
Lawyer Lake
New England
Mary
Thos Leatherhead
Thomas and Sarah
William Beard
General Court
Hutchinson and Watts
Sir Bibye Lake
Arrowsi Island
Accident Shoots Boy at Pattee Home on Dummer Street
City Marshal Hiram Pattee mourns as his son Ralph in his teens is accidentally shot while handling a revolver with a friend at the Pattee residence. The bullet lodged in breast tissue. Ralph rests in City Hospital with hopeful prospects. Also noted: Capt Lucien B Keen, 74, Rockland mariner and shipmaster, dies after long seafaring career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Pattee
Ralph
Leland Plummer
Pattee
Dummer St
Young Pattee
Morin and Fuller
Lucien B. Keen
Rockland
Young Mechanic
Susan
Mary
Star
William Jones
Clara Smith
Hannah McLoon
Adelle McLoon
Charles Brewer
C. H. Dixon
Cuba
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. S. Bowker
Herbert Morrison
Hezekiah Harrington
Edward
Irving
Cranberry Point
Fred Oliver
Susie Fletcher
Clayson Wallace
F. B. Williams
Roscoe Stacy
Knights of Pythias
Helen A
Walter McCourt
Chebeague
John Morse
B. F. Barker
E. Motley Fuller
Edmund P. Briggs
Parker Head Farm
Harry Plummer
Augusta
Mr. Plummer
Abram Yorke
S. B. Richardson
Henry Wyman
John D. Eastman
Ridley’s Landing
Alvena Oliver
Sebasco
Ruth Morrison
Cliff Island
Olive Bowker
Guy Nickerson
Brunswick
Beatrice Bowker
Miss Bowker
THE
T. E. Secor
Steamer
Gustavus Pease
John M. Clark
Conducted BY
Wm.c. Chadbourne
Front St
State Sunday School
Tion
Peninsular Schools
Chester A. Plant
United Children’s Chorus
S. J. Willis
Pauline Adams
Elm Street Baptist Church
Margaret Bakeman
Sagadahoc
Henry O. Thayer
Casco Bay
Johnson Bros. Co
Bath, Me
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