Phippsburg Community Notes Bright With Winter Scenes
Christmas greetings reach readers with a Finnish motif while New Year visitors enjoy Popham and Small Point scenery. Snowy town roads are cleared by the road commissioner Charles Huff and aide Howard Bowker as schools resume with the same teachers. Local residents share visits, farm updates, and winter ailments among neighbors, including James Little, Jim the horse, and Perry family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Popham
Phippsburg
Charles Huff
Howard Bowker
Carrie Little
Allen
James Little
Rose Blaisdell
J. K
Mr. Little
Portland
New York
Mediterranean
United States
Ralph Wright
Bath
James Edgar Perry
Meadowbrook
Winneganee
Jim
Percy Holbrook
T. C. Hughes
James Perry
Charles Pye
Charles Rogers
George Larrabee
Dromore
Brunswick
Larrabee Farm
George la
Ada Catherine Minott
Walter McCourt
Eleanor Brown
Ernest Rogers
Frederick Nies
Brooklyn
N. C
West Point
Seashore
South Carolina
Nies
William E. McIntire
Small Point
Grace Hamlin
Freeport
Italy’s Estate Musicale Italiana stages vast open-air opera
Mussolini’s plan to use ruins and parks for performances expands into 1968 program. The Estate Musicale Italiana reports 621 plays and operas in 101 centers with 2,202,400 spectators, and 8,559,000 lire in box office receipts in 1988 rising to 13,904,000 this summer. Traveling “Carts of Thespis” mounted 454 performances in 158 centers for 758,150 spectators and over 3,000,000 lire in receipts. Symphonies and vocal concerts also tour small country towns under the National After work Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Mussolini
Thespis
Holiday Calls and Club Meetings Across Town
Freeport visitors Mr and Mrs George Dennison called on Mrs Dennisons father George Merritt on Lower High Street. Mrs Leah Strout returns from New York after Christmas with son Cornwell Strout. Community club women plan a Thursday afternoon auxiliary meeting at Mrs Charles T Small. Squaw club gathers Thursday night at Mrs Parker O Rogers. Embden selectman Mark C Walker and Brook Road resident discussed a Christmas round robin with 13 surviving first cousins dispersed across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Dennison
Freeport
Mer Selectman
Embden
Mark C. Walker
Embden Stone House
Brook Road
Allie Rollins
Earl Lowell
Brunswick
Ralph Kenney
West Bath
W. T. Wyman
Arthur Harrington
Maurice Pashard
Phippsburg Center
Parker Head
Frances Libby
Sanford
John D. Libby
Leslie Logan
East Boston
John Kreidler
Eugene Harrington
John Libby, Jr
North Berwick
Lloyd Perry
Bath
Charles Blaisdell
Harold Rogers
Jean Hamel
Ashdale
Charles Buff
Estes Wins Foul Shooting Tourney Among Seniors
Gordon Estes won the senior YMCA foul shooting tournament with 19 20 10 and 17 from 24 attempts in multiple rounds. Earl Locke reached the finals but lost to Estes, with nearly 100 boys competing in a format matching game situations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Estes
Y.M.C.A
Estes
Earl Locke
Charles Sullivan
Albert Desmond
Robert Dowling
Alec Baka
D. MacDonald
James Voorhees
Lawrence Boardman
Philip Chaney
G. Johns
Edward Cummings
James Farnham
Russell Gasser
John Voorhees
Millard Warner
Earl Banks
Russell Turcotte
Frank Dingley
David Alkazin
Harry Bloxsom
Marshall MacDonald
Jere Desmond
Bruce Wright
Robert Ingraham
Malcolm Varney
BE. Jones
Daniel Hatch
Norman Alkazin
Robert Perry
Richard Footer
Morton Holbrook
Millard Green
Richard Cummings
J. Pomerleau
Harold Peasley
Gerard Nelson
George Wilson
Morris Puffer
Carleton Stover
Andrew Hart
Joseph Spear
Robert Levin
Joseph Pennell
James Middleton
Clarence Gowen
John Quirk
Robert Mitchell
John Perry
Sullivan
Dowling
Boardman
MacDonald
Cummings
Gasser
Warner
Turcotte
Alkazin
Wright
Varner
Hatch
Perry
Holbrook
Locke
Peasley
Hart
Puffer
Levin
Middleton
Quirk
Varney
Popham Beach Skibos Defeat Popham Team in New Year Meet
In a holiday scene at Lawrence Taylor’s home in Popham Beach the Winneganee Skibos Rolalot five beat Popham Beach by 20 pins with high totals by Tibbetts Perkins and Morse. The Popham Beach four man Rolalot then defeated the Kennebec River Coast Guard by 49 pins at the Coast Guard Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Lake
Winneganee Skibos
Rolalot
Popham Beach
Lawrence Taylor
Skibos Tibbetts
Perkins
Williamisy
FIORE
jMorse
Morse
Crowley
Sprague
Kennebec River Coast Guard
Walter Sprague
Elisha Bridges
Elizabeth Pinkham
Arlene Perkins
Barbara Sprague
Robert Chamberland
Thomas Wollett
Blanchard Crowley
Fred Spinney
Herbert Sprague
Carl Newcomb
South Portland
G. E. McNulty
Gorham
Bath
Victor Herbert
Opera House
Kennebec
Atkins Bay
James A. Farley
Roosevelt's Program Outlined in Brief Lines
The AP reports President Roosevelt presented a summarized program with five points. Tax increases would finance emergency defense expenditures. He urged extending the reciprocal trade agreements act as a foundation. He called for continued research on a national unity agenda in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Quebec Eliminates Ragweed Across Regions
The Quebec government reports success in a three year effort to remove ragweed from the lower St Lawrence and Gaspe areas. The weed has nearly disappeared and the plant protection service credited its campaign including premiums paid to school children to help destroy it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Lower St. Lawrence
Gaspe Peninsula
Plant Protection Service
Deer Season Lures Half of Biggs Citizens to Hills
The city of Biggs Colorado experiences its deer season tradition as about half the population heads to the hills. Hunters are limited to two deer per year, ensuring they return in time to avoid major disruption to local economy and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biggs
Colo
Sons of a Bathman enlist for coast artillery in Hawaii
Two Bath boys Carroll F. Radley and Willard I. Radley, sons of Capt. Charles A. Radley of 6 Tarbox Street, fired the first shot at Manila on May 1, 1898. They left for Fort Slocum, New York, for six weeks training before heading to Hawaii. Their father, a Jonesport native, served as a gunner on the Olympia when Dewey ordered the first shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Charles A. Radley
Tarbox Street
Manila
United States Army
Coast Artillery
Hawaiian Islands
Carroll F. Radley
Willard I. Radley
Fort Slocum
New York
Hawaii
Radley
Jonesport
Japan
Admiral Dewey
Olympia
Gridley
Maine Engineer Takes Ship Over Millionth Mile
Hazen E. Cook chief engineer of the Oriente a 1130 ton Cuban Mail Line steamer surpassed a million miles of travel in under nine years at sea near the South Carolina coast on route to Havana. A Maine native from Red Beach he began as a cadet in 1909 later rising to chief engineer in 1933 and serving 54 Havana trips yearly. He also served in the Naval Reserve and helped steer troops to France in 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazen E. Cook
Oriente
Cook
Red Beach
Maine
South Carolina
Havana
Cuba
Calais
Eastport
The
America
France
Mercy
Naval Reserve
Naval Reserve School For
Pittsburgh
Penna
Bchenectady
N. Y
Redson's Bowlers Jump From Cellar in Tuesday League
In the Tuesday Night League at Park Alleys the O. M. Redson five picked up 10 of 12 points to rise to second place, 4 behind leaders Plant's Garage. Les Plant led with a 542 five-string, Ralph Small 506, Pete Oliver 502 with a 133 single. Steeves' Market had a weak night, earning only one point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Oliver
L. Plant
Plant
Park Alleys
O. M. Redson
Steeves’ Market Combine
Les Plant
Ralph Small
Pete Oliver
Representative Justus H. Miller Seeks Sagadahoc Senate Seat
Justus H. Miller of Bath announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Senator from Sagadahoc county. He faces Joseph W. Larrabee of West Bath, is a mason and contractor with two houses under construction, and lists a 89th Legislature record on Labor Public Buildings and Grounds and County Estimates. He and his wife have three children and live at 26 Garden Street. active in Masons West Bath Grange Genesta chapter O E S and Rotary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allie Rollins
Walter Cushing
Lewis Lowell
George Thomas, Sr
Malden
Mass
Leston Harrington
Sandra Mank
Marion Cushing
George Morong, Jr
Earl Lowell
Church School
H. D. Mank
Arthur Kreidler
George Jones
Justus H. Miller
Sagadahoc County
Joseph W. Larrabee
West Bath
Miller
Carolyn
Majella
Nancy
Garden Street
Solar Lodge
Masons
West Bath Grange
Genesta Chapter
Rotary Club
Sumner Sewall
Senate
Wealth Hidden in Seas Prompts Wave Motor Venture
A report outlines renewed belief that ocean waves may yield valuable materials including bromine and possibly gold and radium. George Gouldston announces a patent based wave motor to extract resources and generate power, with test sites planned off Atlantic shores and a 50 acre sea front facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastport
Canadian
MacDonald Tidal Power
Bath
Bacon
Harvard Dock
Roger D. Skillings
MacDonald
Kennebec
George A. Gouldston
Scituate
Mass
Atlantic
Arthur E Zoppa
New York City
Zappa
Wa Head
Gouldston
Arthur D. Little
Atlantic City
South End PTA Names Dinner Committee and Speaker
South End P T A members Mrs. Fred K. Sturtevant Mrs. Edgar D. Leavitt and Mrs. Pearl E. Dunbar headed the dinner committee at a full day meeting. Joseph O Purdue is set to speak January 16 on Juvenile Delinquency and its Prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred K. Sturtevant
Edgar D. Leavitt
Pearl E. Dunbar
South End P. T. A
V. Joseph O. Purdue
Creation of Deserts
Deserts form mainly due to constant hot dry trade winds blowing across regions. The persistent aridity is driven by these winds, reducing moisture and inhibiting cloud formation, leading to desert conditions.
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Franklin Howe
Robert Hart
David Desmond
Leo Couture
Paul Lemont
Joseph Swanton
Wallace Mayo
Jean Pomerleau
Andrew Flaherty
Edward Potter
Richard Andrews
Ralph McInnes
Kenneth Wilson
Herbert Belanger
Donald Hinds
William Voorhees
Donald King
Paul Leeman
Lawrence Hart
Lucien Tardif
Elliott Mitchell
Harry Warner
Robert Russell
Ernest Walls
William Middleton
George Burgon
Harold Sewall
Joseph Desmond
Alfred Perow
Fred Bolduc
Richard Green
Couture
Pomerleau
Swanton
Potter
MacInnis
Marion
Page Wyman
Rachel Matthews
Ralph Spinney, Jr
Ernest Spinney
Karl Hentz
Long Island
Basking Ridge
N. J
Walter Niebling
Stewart Day, Jr
Lester Morse
Winneganee Rolalot
Leaman Drake
Coast Guard
Seth Snipe
Lester Oliver
Spruceville
Elizabeth Oliver
Irving Dobbin
Seaman Drake
Yarmouth Academy
Frank Scott
Freeman Beal
Rockland
Roosevelt
A.P
Roosev
Parker
Redson
Seth Pee Op MoRedions
Steeves’ Market
R. Frates
Redlon’s
A. Thayer
H. McCabe
A. Plant
R. Philbrick
I. Plant
Red Invaders
Central Press
Karelian
London
Goulston
Gandhi
Cco
Bathivala
Dasr
India
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