Phippsburg Hometown News Roundup and Social Notes
Local items rail about Miss Ruth Morrison from Portland returning home for holidays, visits by Mr. and Mrs. Blaisdell of North Abington, and obits of Mrs. Gertrude Blaisdell in West Newbury. Sebasco hosts a Christmas party for A L Bailey and guests from Vassar and Dartmouth, with school lunches funded by community donations. Engagements, travel, and a Brunswick jewelry career are also noted along with a skiing accident in Auburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbie F. Minott
Ada
Ruth Morrison
Portland
Charles Morrison
John E. Blaisdell
North Abington
Mass
Gertrude Blaisdell
West Newbury
Annie Synnott
Gilbert Woodman
Bath
Roscoe Woodman
Fred Morrison
Quincy
Elfreda Perkins
Hubert McCarty
Dromore Grange
Sagadahoc Pomona
Merrymeeting Grange
Bowdoinham
Annie Derwent
Ray FP. Campbell
Sherman Campbell
Georgetown
Ralph E. Wright
Dromore
Sebasco Village
Sebasco Grammar School
A. L. Bailey
Westtown
Vassar
Dartmouth Colleges
Frogtown
Santa Claus
Mr. Baily
Baily
Sebasco
Ralph Jones
Tweed Anderson
Charlies Goodrich
Mrs. Baily
Joseph H. Moody
Basin Point
South Harpswell
Vera
Clarence T. Field
Brunswick
Miss Moody
Brunswick High School
Gorham State Normal
Harpswell
Mr. Field
T. Albert Field
Philadelphia College of Horology
Field
Varney’s
East Bowdoin Ladies' Aid Enjoys New Year's Tree Event
East Bowdoin Ladies' Aid met with 13 attendees at Mrs. Erland Rogers' home for the annual New Year's tree. A bean dinner, readings, and a gift exchange followed a short business meeting led by president Mrs. Jane Woods. Guests included Richard Enman. visits noted from Vesta Ackley, Albert Loeselle, and Clyde Starbird party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Bowdoin Ladies’ Aid
Erland Rogers
Jane Woods
Richard Enman
Litchfield
Vesta Ackley
Albert Loeselle
Chelsea
Mass
Haigh Road
Clyde Starbird
Lisbon Falls
L. C. Starbird
Noted Dr Charles Whitman Dead at 64 in Park New Jersey
Prof Charles Huntington Whitman an eminent drama authority and English department head at Rutgers University died at his home in Park New Jersey from grip complications. Born in Abbot he studied at Bangor High School Colby Yale and the University of Munich. He wrote textbooks and other works acclaimed worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Huntington Whitman
Abbot
Bangor
Bangor High School
Colby College
Yale
University of Munich
Park, N. J
Rutgers University
Whitman
Nathan
Helen Thomas Whitman
Boston
Main Street
Star Store
Dr. Whitman
Students head to University of Maine for new term
The pupils Virginia Jewett Esther Drummond Ellen Hodg kins Beth Trott William Mussenden and Warren McNeil left on Monday to resume their studies at the University of Maine in Orono.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orono
University of Maine
Virginia Jewett
Esther Drummond
Ellen Hodgkins
Beth Trott
William Mussenden
Warren McNeil
Popham Beach notes greet new year locals
Vernon Mattson Jr and two friends return from a cottage weekend in the South Shore area. Various Bath and Augusta visitors are noted including Miss Laura Harling resuming duties at Popham school after vacation. The report mentions weather, fog bells, a fire at Elkanah Wyman's Spruceville house, and Mrs Florence Littlefield turning 94 while continuing tatting crafts and attending a grandson's wedding in Waterville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Mattson, Jr
Newtonville
Mass
South Shore
Lorrime; Brackett
New York
Fred Osgood
Shirley Morong
Bobby
Bath
Laura Harling
Popham School
Boothbay Harbor
Viola Sudds
Auburn
Lighthouse Reservation
Eugene W. Osgood
Sudds
Blanchard Crowley
Barbara Sprague
North Yarmouth Academy
Earlon Newdick
Augusta
Emma Newdick
Eva Dobbin
Jonesport
Herbert Sprague
Walter Sprague
Portland Marine Hospital
Edgar N. Drake
Georgetown
Edgar L. Drake
Ellison Moody
Long Island
Leon Fickett
Pond Island Light
Florence H. Littlefield
Winthrop Court
Maine
Far North widow writes of her Ketchikan home store life
Adah Sparhawk Young widow of J W Young and manager of the People’s Cash Store in Ketchikan Alaska recounts life in the Far North. A former Hallowell schoolteacher with many local friends, she preserves memories of her husband’s dry goods venture and her northern experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adah Sparhawk Young
J. W. Young
Ketchikan
Alaska
People's
Hallowell
Bay Point Rex Weather, News and Social Notes
New Year brings 10 degrees and snow giving way to thaw and ice. High ocean surf seen from Popham Beach as calm at Fort Popham mouth. Bath residents share Bay Point news with Canada readers. local social visits span Bath, Long Island, and Brunswick. Etnier’s New York show prep and Bowmans’ California trip noted. Birds flock to a kitchen door suet tree outside the Navajo cottage. Miss Louisa Hamilton visits Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Popham Beach
Fort Popham
Gilbert Head
Lawrence Perow
Bath
Bath Independent
Canada
Bay Point
Massachusetts
Herman A. Spinney
Edgar Drake
The
Birchwood
Friends
Long Island
Karl Hentz
Edna M. Coolidge
Bowman
Salter’s Island
California
San Pedro Harbor
Hollywood Lane
Maine
Union
Maine News Notes and Historical Highlights Share Local Moments
Mrs Lucy Lewis Roy of Oakland marks her 92nd birthday with family at the Andrews home, a life long reader and sewer who plans to read a book weekly. Augusta remembers Edward J Neil, famed Spanish War AP reporter, and the Bowdoin student days of his wife Helen Nolan. Filmore Emden Black, aged five, is the first Augusta child fingerprinted under the new state law, his prints filed nationwide. Biddeford’s McArthur Library expands exhibits tracing 75 years of local press, including early Biddeford papers and youth produced issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Lewis Roy
Oakland
Lester Andrews
Roy
Cyprien Roy
North Wayne
School Street
Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
Teruel
Augusta
Bowdoin College
Helen Nolan
Albany
New York American
The
American
Maine
Belgrade Lakes
Joseph Force Crater
Filmore Emden Black
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M. H. Wein.blatt
Sport Oxfords
Chu
Goodyear
Panco
Oxfords
Welt
Endicott-Johnson
Ball
Goodyear Welt
Center Street
M. H. Weinblatt
Bilodeau
Bath, Ime
Phippsburg
Irving Prince of Brunswick
Holbrook
Meadowbrook
Morse
Winnegance
Lena Oliver
Woonsocket
R. I
Albert Bailey
Mickey
Westown
Totman’s Beach
William McIntyre
Evelyn O'Brien
Perkins Island
Pred—Briggs
E. Mass
Victor Lindquist
Field Avenue
Greene Corner
Ed Rackley
Greene
C.M.G. Hospital
Elkanah Wyman
Spruceville
Forrest Legard and Son
Paul
Ernest Oliver
Kar. Hentz
Madelyn Bridges
Marion
Harold Wallace
West Point
Moses T. Chandler
Leroy Colby
Lester Oliver
Marie Leonard
Betty
Kenneth
Charles
Marguerite McNulty
North Jay
Homer Zilch
Victor Sprague
Topsham
Perley M. Chandler
Town
Philip and
Lawrence Wyman
Popham
Aliie Wallace
John
Ephriam Young
George Morong
Pauline Morong
Stephen Etnier
New York City
Louisa Hamilton
Maine News Notes
McArthur Library of
Biddeford
United States
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