Phippsburg Gleanings Excellent sleighing and town notes
Cold weekend across the area with barometer near ten degrees below zero in places. A flock of over two hundred ducks wintered in Dromore Bay for the fourth straight year. Local society items list visits, family gatherings, school news, and community notices from Dromore, West Bath, Popham Beach, and Bath. Several marriages, hires, and local commerce updates accompany the verbose column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore Bay
Lee's Island
Fire destroys Harpswell center buildings including town house
Fire early Sunday destroyed John A. Curtis properties at Harpswell Center. The blaze leveled a store, grist mill, and dwelling near the town house and Kellogg Congregational Church. Harry Allen alerted help, saving horses, automobiles, and the town hearse. Loss set at 4000 on buildings and 2500 on contents, partially insured. Sasanoa Tribe of Red Men performed and planned a trip to Brunswick to install Domhegon chiefs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpswell
Congregational Church
Elijah Kellogg
John A. Curtis
Harpswell Center
Kellogg Church
Harry Allen
Sasanoa Tribe
Domhegon
Brunswick
Sasanoa
Georgetown Tugs Dick's Tail in Moonlit Lane Fete
A lively night on the hill features a tug of war to pull Dick into a standing position as youths enjoy moonlight. Nearby, a First Baptist Church concert benefits from Sunday School teachers and local students with a long Christmas program of recitations songs and readings led by Rev. G H Grey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane Hill
First Baptist Church
Center
South
Bessie Todd
Junior Williams
Rex.g.h. Grey
Lester Grey
Miss Grey
Santa Claus
Olive Drake
Christmas visits and small-town notes at Sebasco
Ralph Harris of Massachusetts is home for Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs George Harris. Walter Ridley had hip stitches removed in Portland. D P Harley family found a Christmas Eve rap on the door revealing a dressed fowl with a Santa note. Angie Wickson and Raymond Smith visit Sebasco from Massachusetts and Portland respectively. Lizzie York returns to Bath by stage, Annie Richardson is ill with erysipelas, Geal Bartlett and Ruth Morrison resume work and school on Cliff Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lee
West Bath
Drummond Kelley
Grippe
Laura Matthews
Georgie Lord
Bath
Georgie Oliver
Karl Oliver
Popham Beach
Waltham Watch Factory
Mero
George Soreie
Prederick
Spravie
Topsham
Small Point
Annie Cutting
Portland
Dante
Dromore
Charles True
Parker Head
Frank P. Leeash
Chicopee
Mass
Wallace MacDonald
James Lord
D. A. McDonald
Henry Butler
Anchorage
New Orleans
Denver
Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
California
Elijah Bartlett
Chas. Cutting
George Weston
George Cutting
F. S. Bowker
William R. Bowker
William Bowker
al. Blaisdell
Ashdale
Thomas Oliver
Grace Percy
Cox's Head
Orrin Kittredge
Washburn
John H. Stacey
Edith Oliver
Gladys Clifford
Waillittim
Prats
Idariad
Pine St
Beth
Arthur Bowker
Bower
Mr. Blue-Jay
Jack McCollett
Dresden
Squirrel Point
James
Ralph Willis
Gardiner Rogers
Phippsburg
Kelseyville
Armona
Hanford
Oakland
Rams
Austin Creek
Sonoma County
Mr. Dickinson
Ingrams
Herbert Morrison
Hite Wyman
Henry Heald
Charles B. Williams
Winnegance
Supreme Judicial Court
Susan P. Nichols
Oberlin College
Philadelphia
Miss Nichols
Oberlin
Red Cross
Fred Mains
H. W
James (. Perry
Nellie Perry
Brunswick
Alvena Oliver
George C. Pease
Falkland Islands
Boston Herald
South Atlantic
Hugh
Akes
Soanbard
Soeiers Ital Poplim Beach
Santi Claus
Peeper
Esther Evanstelyn Hamilton
Walter James McCourt
Chebeague
Merrill
Hamilton
Phippsboro
Miss Hamilton
Mr. McCourt
Millikin Tomlinson
Walter McCourt
D. A. MacDonald
William Yorke
Min
Arts
Frank Beals
Alfred Jean
William Wilson
Walter Ridles
Wilkin
Ridley
John Carr
Andrew Perry
Fred Perry
Linda Campbell
James E. Perry
Meadowbrook
W. R. Bowker
Popham
Martha Williams
Rose Carpenter
Dora Frisbee
William Wyman
Lyman Oliver
C.W
Locke
G. L. Cutting
S. G. Hutchinson
William E. Litchfield
Charleston
Boston
Dromore Grange
Clark Bowker
Asa Percy
Arthur Stevens
Pease
Thomas McCormick
Pittston
Georgia Wiggin
John Williams
Golder Leeach
Ives
Wiggin
Ralph Harris
Massachusetts
George Harris
Walter Ridley
D. P. Harley
Santa Claus
Angie Wickson
Sebasco
Raymond Smith
Lizzie York
Annie Richardson
Geal Bartlett
Ruth Morrison
Cliff Island
Five Islands Holiday Notes and Local Updates
Freemont B Rowe and wife visit relatives in South Gardiner during the holidays. Postmasters L H Rowe Manfred Newdick Frank McFadden and Almon Marr attend Bath K of P Lodge for year end. E S B Corporation reportedly will not pull the Portland Rockland boat. May Archer to replace. Shrimp wiggle served at Priscillas gathering with Carolyne Stevens. Mina Hinckley staying with Rozilla Rowe. Oscar Snowman hired at T M Hagan mill. C A McMahan closes store to join family in Boston. Elson Fields improves from illness aided by nurse Hattie Rowe of Georgetown. Frank Heal back from Powell Wyoming after a year away. others expected soon. Fishermen hampered by heavy winds cold. Patrolia 3 brings kerosene for merchants easing scarce supply. Situation calmer after Portland boat OFF plan changed for Jan 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freemont B. Rowe
South Gardiner
H. Rowe
Manfred Newdick
Frank McFadden
Almon Marr
K. of P. Lodge
Bath
Nahanada
E. S. 8. Corporation
Portland
Rockland
Boston
Elson Fields
Hattie Rowe
Georgetown
Frank Heal
Powell
Wyoming
Patrolia 3
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Habye
William Oliver
W. Fl. Preston
Virginia
Preston
Lan Olney
Perier
Margaret Percy
Dr. Williams
George Davis
John H. Pease
John Davis
Doris Pease
Nellie Pervs
Basin
Violet Luthin
Ina Pease
Lewiston
Chester Oliver
Bates College
Dorothy
E. C. Dunning
Elbridge Harris
Frank Harris
Lillian West
George Oliver
Harry Frye
Horace Holton
St. Louis
Charles Gordon Holton
Olive Bowker
Jennie Roderick
Bodwell Grange
Abner C. Johnson
Fred A. Curtis
Julia E. Johnson
Raymond McIntire
Leon Eaton
Lizzie R. Carr
Charles H. McIntire
Emma Sylvester
W. W. Hosmer
Laura Allen
Pauline Moore
Ida Williams
Newborn King
S. School
Marion Grey
Holly and
Mistleve
Dorothy Drake
Chester
Gerrish
Grace Scott
Star and Story
Ellery Harford
Julia McHale
Lela Harford
G. H. Grey
A. E. P. Oliver
Beulah Larrabee
Candy’s Harbor
Holiness Church
Lockwood
Lewis J. Sawyer
Bangor
Phoenix
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