Bowdoinham Moves to Improve Fire Protection
The Board of Trade and villagers discuss relocating the engine house to a central hilltop site on Main Street and examine purchasing a chemical engine. They also consider adding two more reservoirs and securing financial backing to improve water supply and readiness for fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathance Shores
Cheney
Main _ St
McEwen
Kendall
Emily Rideout
Vassalboro
Stummer
Ruth Smith
Hollis Center
Rideout
Georgia N. Denham
Ob. Ok
Clinton
Methodist Society
Francis Plummer
Brunswick
Plummer
Marshal Powers
Raymond
Board of Trade and Citizens
K. of P
Main St
F. K. Jack
R. A. Dickinson
J. H. Ames
I. G. Brish
J. E. Clark
Same
W. B
Five Islands Welcomes Returning Friends
Five Islands greets returning residents and visitors in a bustling roundup of summer guests and newlyweds. Notables include E A Merrill and family reuniting after nineteen years, with Merrill now treasurer at a Minneapolis steel firm, and a long parade of families from Medford Oakmont and Malden arriving for summer months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Merrill
Minneapolis
Harry Merrill
Everett Hatch
Auburn
Carrie Stevens
Leander Berry
Steel Structural
Walter Holland
W. H. Holland
Mr. Gaudet
Somerville
Mass
Ellen Hagan
Thomas Blake
Fred Hamilton
Ernest Harrington
Malden
Georgetown Center
Moore Cottage
Ida Rowe
Harrington
E. C. Merry
W. E. Rowe
Isle of Springs
Winter Harbor
Wiscasset
Erskine
Rose
Marson
Joanna Berry
D. Sexton
Augusta
Arthur Rowe
Waltham
Joseph G. Rowe
Elbridge Mains
Arthur W. Walker
City Council Debates Schoolhouse Repairs and New Building
The July City Council session focused on schoolhouse needs. A $300 repair and improvement proposal failed to pass. A minority report urged a $21,000 bond issue for a six room Weeks Street school and sanitary upgrades across several city schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Edwin E. Pinson
Weeks Street
Lars
France
John A. Small
Lewis E. King
George Barker
William D. Rich
E. W. Rogers
Aare
Weeks St
Weeks St. Grammar
South Primary
Dummer St
Washington St. Grammar
Board of Aldermen
Small
Rogers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bowdoinham
Lena Cobb
Ruby Wood
Sanford
Myrtle Jack
Winthrop
Emma
Hallowell
H. E. Jack
Post Road
Bertha Graves
Jackson
N. H
Gray's Inn
Hattie O. Andros
Nellie Harwood
Cordelia Spear
Robert Adams
Ralph Carrier
Rudolph
Benjamin Adams
Haverhill
Ents
Village Lodge of Masons
S. A. Evans
Bath
W. E.rideout
C. L. Mosher
Charles Randall
Richmond
Mary T. Purington
Harpswell
Eastern Star
W. S. Given
Edith Fulton
Palermo
Josiah Fulton
H. D. Cornish
N. Q. Thurlow
J. C. Sawyer
Methodist Church
Sagadahoc Grange
Bowdoin Center
R. D. Durinton
R. H. Jack
Litchfield
W. D. Hutchins
Coombs High School
Edward Wilson
Upper Main St
Ens
Gertrude Smith
Lisbon Falls
Bertha Irish
Charles Berry
Lottie Cobb
Ida
Myra Fowles
Carrol Ames
Buffalo
N. Y
Blanche Woodworth
Gardiner
L. D. Small
Deer Park
Juda Small Road
Bowdoin
Charles R. Smith
George Powers
Bishop Schoolhouse
Five Islands
W. H. Davis
Medford
J. P. Lewis
William Wade
Oakmont
E. M. Horton
Portland
Frank Quimby
Boston
Earl McMahan
Marjorie Parker
Dexter
James T. McMahan
Eve
John M. Clark
Wm. C Chadbourne
Front St
Tel
Roome
Macmahan Island
Sheepscot River
Porpoise
Miss Roberts
W. P. Nealley, W. P. al
Len and
Hon. G. E
Lower View
St. Cuth
Bert’s
Finance and Schools
Arthur J. Dunton
Edmund P. Briges
Frank H. Turner
James F. Rand
Herbert E. Worrey
E W. Rovers
Fred B. Reed
Emerson and Stew
Arsenal
Carbe Lakes
Iros. CO
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