Phippsburg News Notes and Local Travel Moments
Mrs H W Cutting of Dromore visits Georgetown for a few days with Mrs Annie Rowe. Walter J Small works with his pair of horses on the road. Old fields promise a big hay crop as they look burdened. Ernest Eaton returns from Bath to his parents’ home, joins by Mrs Eaton over Sunday, and he paints his father’s Ford. Roland Eaton starts work as clerk at Sebasco Estates Stores. The Richard W Clark schooner sale report was erroneous. it was sold by Capt Andrew Corey. John Holland begins work at Sebasco Estates Club House. Eunice Storey returns to Cambridge, Mass., after visiting Brunswick with Roland Eaton. Minott Jr and Bowdoin Commencement attendees noted. Bowker and Webb firms discussed. Mr. and Mrs. C F Webb, with Mrs E G Farrar, motor from Boston to Bangor, Rockland, Milbridge, detouring to Phippsburg to inspect a new schooner. Rogers & Webb own two schooners, one nearing completion. Bowker hosts and Captn Haskell host guests at New Meadows. Rev Charles L Stevens travels from Camden to Bowdoin Commencement, visits Leach and Minott homes. Pottle brings the James M lighter from Bath to Bowker shipyard. Mrs Henry Morgan and Alice Weever Haskell return to Deer Isle. Rebecca Bowker visits home Tuesday. Abbie Minott visits Stroudwater. Ridley and Collins families return from Hebron. Albertina Ridley graduates. Herbert Malcolm and family visit M J Percy and E Dickinson. Lermond and Spinney visit. Malcolm first vacation in ten years. Mrs Lewis Collins and Sara of Stamford plan summer at Redley home Basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Cutting
Dromore
Georgetown
Annie Rowe
Walter J. Small
Ernest Eaton
Bath
N. W. Eaton
Eaton
Roland Eaton
Sebasco Estates
Bath Independent
Rogers & Well
Richard W. Clark
Clark
Andrew Corey
F. S. Bowker & Son
Rogers & Webb
John Holland
Eunice Storey
Cambridge
Mass
Brunswick
Co. V. Minott Jr
Bowdoin
C. F. Webb
E. G. Farrar
Boston
Bangor
Rockland
Milbridge
Phippsburg
New Meadows Inn
Charles L. Stevens
Camden
John F. Leach
C. V. Minott Jr
Pottle
James M
M.C
Bowker
Henry Morgan
Alice Weever Haskell
Deer Isle
Rebecca Bowker
Abbie Minott
Nichols
Stroudwater
Prank Ridley
Lewis Collins
Sara
Melvin Wallace
Emma
Albertina Ridley
Hebron
Albertina
Herbert Malcolm
Clarence Spinney
Elizabeth
Clarence
Henry Lermond
Herbert Malcolm Lermond
M. J. Percy
Emma Dickinson
Lermond
Spinney
Parker Head
Malcolm
New York
Baton Rouge
South American
Rio de Janeiro
Stamford
Redley
Basin
Ray Welch
Bessie Potter
Ernest Avery
Walter Bowker
William Oliver
Ruth Morrison
Cliff Island
Frank Rogers
Herbert Bowker
Mabel Bartlett
Candy’s Harbor
William Wilson
Eugene Perry
Sadie Bartlett
East Boston
Elijah Bartlett
Haskell
Morrison
Auburn
Angelia Bartlett
New Hampshire
Rachel Cutting
A. G. Fisher
Foster's Point
Althea Cutting
Catskill
George Oliver
Virginia
Blanch Heald
Center
Timothy Perry
Town Hall
Local Social Notes and Ship News From Town
Capt and Mrs Caleb Haskell visit after short stay at Capt Minott's home. Bowdoin commencements include Misses Minott and Mrs Jack Haskell en route to join the Geo Smith schooner bound for the South. Townsfolk attend dances, school terms end, and the Jerome Jones schooner photos arrive for owners. The vessel heads to Buenos Ayres with cargo and the freighter cost noted at 15 dollars in coal.
Local Notes From Bowdoinham and Nearby Towns
Summaries of summer visits and travel among residents of Bowdoinham Topsham and surrounding areas. People include Ethel Graves in Sanford Helen Gould at Mrs Cora Smith in Topsham Pauline Gordon with her father in Lawrence Mass and Albert Smith visiting Ernest Smith in Gardiner. The Rockland Country Club scheme is described with officers and capitalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Graves
Sanford
Helen Gould
Cora Smith
Topsham
Pauline Gordon
Lawrence
Mass
Albert Smith
George
Gardiner
Ernest Smith
Henry Webber
Bowdoin
F. A. Heath
Bert Strout
Portland
Miss Totman
Waterville
Walter Purington
Scout Field Day at Birch Point Highlights Central Troop Outing
The Central Troop of eighteen Boy Scouts led by Rev. Wilson enjoyed a week at Birch Point with parents visiting and a Field Day Friday funded by twelve Central Church donors. Winners in events such as the 100 yards, three legged race, high jump, and sack race received prizes including a Kodak, belts, and scout knives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Troop
Boy Scouts
Birch Point
Mr. Wilson
Central Church
Wilson
Wishart
Duncan McInnis
Loyall Jones
Haviland Torrey
James Hanson
Torrey
D. McInnis
L. Jones
Hanson
Kodak
R. McInnis
R. Shaw
A. Wishart
A. Houghton
R. Wishart
Remarkable Eighty Two Year Old Deacon Cultivates One Acre Garden
Deacon Joseph White of West Bath tends an acre garden overlooking the New Meadows River. The crop shows strong growth with 1200 Yellow Bantam corn hills, high potatoes, beans and blossoming peas. A corn section is for a church clambake next October. White, a long time church deacon, once delivered milk on Saturdays. his home remains in the same house where his father once lived as Georgetown became West Bath. Also update on Fred L. Sutherland, son of local residents, in Reading Hospital after coal chute incident. recovery expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph White
West Bath
New Meadows
Bath
Mr. White
William C. White
Georgetown
Lincoln
Massachusetts
Sagadahoc
Maine
New Meadows Notes Outlining Local Social Life
Miss Alma Holbrook returned from West Gar diner school for summer vacation. Harvey Jordan bought a Metz touring car. Mrs Forest Jackson hosted the Merry Club at her new home with nine guests, fancy work, and piano music. Friday evening she and Mr Jackson entertained eight members with a fine supper. Mary Luce visited old friends. Robert Sleeper of Waltham has been here tending property. Weekly Dirigo Grange Hall socials have paused for summer. Mrs Andrew Thomas visiting daughter Addie Humphreys. Mrs Thomas, over eighty, remains sharp despite past blood poisoning and now moves about again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Holbrook
West Gardiner
Harvey Jordan
Forest Jackson
Merry Club
Mrs. Jackson
Jackson
Mary Luce
Robert Sleeper
Waltham
Dirigo Grange Hall
Andrew Thomas
Addie Humphreys
Thomas
Bath City Notes Skip Between Jobs And Visits
John Thompson visits Boston for a few days while Ernestine Pero and Elsie Rose spend the week at Southport. Edward P. Kendall of Bowdoinham travels on business to Bath Tuesday. The late W. H. A. Shaw, Bath High School Class of 1879, is referenced. Bath Iron Works repairs draw John Callan, John Heney, and Roland J. Weeks to Cumberland Mills Tuesday. Frank H. Gallison from Portland attends the Maine druggists meeting in Augusta after a brief Bath stop. Mrs. R. M. Bryant and Mrs. King visit Bath en route to Bar Harbor in a Pierce Arrow. Laura Barstow of D. T. Percy & Sons takes vacation. Olive Rowe fills in, while Annie Gardner starts as a clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Thompson
Boston
Ernestine Pero
Elsie Rose
Southportport
Edward P. Kendall
Bowdeinham
Bath
W. H. A. Shaw
Bath High School
John Callan
John Heney
Roland J. Weeks
Cumberland Mills
Bath Iron Works
Frank H. Gallison
Portland
Maine
Augusta
R. M. Bryant
Philadelphia
King
Saratoga
N. Y
Bar Harbor
Bryant
Laura Barstow
D. T. Percy & Sons
Olive Rowe
Annie Gardiner
Regular Moose Social and Local Happenings In Town
Local notes describe a monthly Moose sociable at Music Hall and seasonal home projects with paint and shingles. A small locomotive display entertains as tugs move barge traffic to New York. Additional items cover new piazzas, camp preparations for Chopps Point, auto traffic guidance, and a burglar hunt that yielded no culprit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Hall
George Lightbody
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Go Oil Company OF New York
Albany
Watt
W. H. Bowker
Capt
Jack Haskell
Caleb Haskell
Alice
Geo Smith
Hazel Parshley
Eleanor Harrington
Edgewood Farm
Dr. Bongartz
Jerome Jones
Charles R. Higgins
Jones
Buenos Ayres
Bowdoinham Post Road
Maxa Purington
Carlton Jenkins
George Jack
U. of M
Merton Umberhind
E. H. Brown
South Portland
Lester Longfellow
Bert Jack
H. E. Jack
Post Road
Sarah Alexander
Matthew Graves
Mary Graves
Goudy
John Bird & Co
W. D. Mitchell
Sisters’ Hospital
Lewiston
Courier-Gazette
Rockland Country Club
H. S. Hix
G. A. Lawrence
H. Irving Hix
Thomas McBeath
William P. Burpee
Glenn A. Lawrence
W. S&s. White
B. F. Smith
A. S. Littlefield
Arthur B. Crockett
S. H. Doe
Israel Snow
Henry B. Bird
H. N. McDougall
Central Boys
Deacon White
Fred L. Sutherland
Robert Sutherland
Homeopathic
Reading
Dewitt’ Novelty Co
Brussels
Lot
Ecru
Novelty Net
Nottingham
AMS
Immer
James FE. Will Co
Seguin
Ariel
Tobyhanna
William J. Lermond
B. M. Plummer
High St
Chopps Point
Howe Farm
Marshal Wallace
Front St
Thompson's Corner
Oliver
North End
Horse Island
Wallace
Norris
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