Five Islands Grange program and community notes
Five Islands Grange hosted a varied evening with singing readings and a road to Jerusalem game. Proceeds from sales totaled 26.55 with 12.55 expenses. auto costs reduced profit to 2.15. Community updates mention seasonal guests, church services, and local visits including Rev. Boynton and other residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page One
the Grange
Addie Davis
Ida H. Rowe
George Gray
Lila McMahan
W. P. Cromwell
Stearns Scott
W. J L. Berry
Vivian Beal
Evelyn Rowe
Jerusalem
Brunswick
Bath
Bothbay
Islands
Mrs. Horton
The
Grange
Sister Horton
Bowdoinham News Full of Local Doings and Visits
Bowdoinham reports visitors from Chelsea and Brunswick, weddings and engagements, farm accidents, and community events. Includes road work delays, Red Cross activity, ball games, a town hall program, and a large Fourth of July celebration with a dog act and a fundraiser for the Red Cross.
Local Notes From East Bowdoinham to Bath and Waterville
Mrs Belle Wakefield returns to Bath. M S Hatch travels to Woolwich to assist W D Blair with haying. Mrs C R Blair dies during Tuesday and Wednesday in Waterville. Mrs Bert Wood, formerly ill, shows signs of improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Wakefield
Bath
M. S. Hatch
Woolwich
W. D. Blair
C. R. Blair
Waterville
Bert Wood
Bath Galvanizing Works Worker Receives Frontline Letter
George Bridges shows a letter from his brother Sergeant William Bridges of the 103d Infantry in France. William describes trench life with loud artillery and gas threats, notes a temporary retreat to a dugout, and mentions a serenade from German forces. He reports being in reserve May 30 and that fellow soldiers are well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bridges
Bath Galvanizing Works
William IE. Bridges
France
Bill
Sam
Chamber of Commerce of
Nancy
Fritz
Thompson
Salvation Army
Billy Patten
Boston firm wins contract to build colony in North End city
L. P. Soule & Son Co of Boston has been awarded by the Emergency Fleet Corporation to plan and build a complete colony near the North End. The project could employ 2000 men, with about half at work within two weeks, including 90 buildings from two-family houses to apartment blocks, plus streets, sewers, parks and lodging halls. Architects from Boston and engineers will supervise on site as preliminary work begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. P. Soule & Son Co
Boylston Street
Boston
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Parker A. Soule
North End
Henderson and
Moses Properties
F. W. Gilkey
Sagadahoc
R. Clipston Sturgis
Aspinwall and
Aspinwall and Lincoln of Boston. E.H. Lincoln
City
H. F. Pierce
C. C. Harriman
Emerson Retires as Sheepscot Echo Editor After 37 Years
Charles E. Emerson retires as editor of The Sheepscot Echo effective July 1 with ownership and management transferring to L. A. Gray. Emerson has run the paper since May 7, 1881 after 41 years in printing, aiming for a clean, unobjectionable local newspaper and plans rest before future work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheepscot
Wiscasset
The
Echo
Mr. Emerson
City Valuation Surges by 2.88 Million in 1918 Commitment
The tax commitment to City Treasurer Andrew S. Merrill shows a total of 272 916 286 for 1918, up from 195 164 728 in 1917. Real and personal estates rise by 2 883 483 and polls up 927, with the tax rate unchanged at 26 mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew S. Merrill
Eaton Story wed in Uxbridge in ring ceremony
Roland L. Eaton chief petty officer U S N R stationed at Bath Iron Works and Eunice May Story were married the ring ceremony conducted by Rev Alexander Wiswall at the bride’s mother’s home in North Main street Uxbridge Mass Lieut Oscar E Merrill best man and Mrs Charles E Funk matron of honor Eaton after returning from France will occupy a cottage at New Meadows for the season He is a Tufts graduate and Zeta Psi member
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland L. Eaton
Bath Iron Works
Eunice May Story
Minnie A. Story
North Main Street
Uxbridge
Mass
Alexander Wiswall
Congregational Church
Oscar E. Merrill
303Rd Infantry
Camp Devens
Charles E. Funk
New York City
Eaton
Bath
New Meadows
N. W. Eaton
Phippsburg
Tufts College
Zeta’ Psi
France
Bath to Have Real Roof Garden
Maine Theatres Inc leases the Jackson block shop at Commercial and Arch to add a third story dance hall and a roof garden overlooking the Kennebec. The hall measures 90 by 46 feet and will get a hardwood floor for dancing. Alterations should finish by August or September with refreshment tables and plants on the roof. Alfred S. Black of Rockland arranged the deal for Maine Theaters, Inc.
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Maine Theatres, Inc
Comercial
Arch Streets
Kennebec
H. W. Howard Co
Alfred S. Black
Rockland
Maine Theaters, Inc
Death of George W Oakman Ends Bangor Piano Tuning Career
George Wi Oakman 71 died Sunday at Bath City hospital after heart trouble. A piano tuner on semi annual trips, he worked in Bath for patrons of Cressey Allen Portland and later Bangor residence. Born in Corinth he leaves wife and son Paul a Detroit physician. Funeral plans set for Kenduskeag.
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George Wi. Oakman
Bath City Hospital
Bangor
Mr. Oakman
Cressey & Allen
Portland
Bath
Ora
Mary Oakman
Corinth
Paul
Detroit
Squirrel Island
Boston
Kenduskeag
Couple tied in ceremony at local church event
The bride, a graduate of Emerson School of Oratory and University of Pittsburgh education, is a member of Delta Zeta and Kappa Psi. On April 1 she resigned from Ben Arion High School.
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Emerson School of Oratory
School of Education
University of Pittsburg
Delta Zeta
Kappa Psi
Ben Ayon High School
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Carter's Union
Brunswick Senter
Maine
Halls
F. J. Gheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Cheney & CO
Tae Halls
Heath
Bowdoinham
Vale
W. L. Berry
Vivian Beals
Clara Mart
Aene M. E. Nocton Plano
Lester Davis
C. H. McMahan
L. H. Rowe
Amanda Blaisdell
Sologes
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James Stuart
William Holland Soley
May Hagan
Evie Beals
Ee Grange
Facris
Belle Stevens
Daniel Sexton
Barry
Augusta
Sexton
Malden Island
Smith
Gertrude
Somerville
Kola Vita
B. F. Perry
Pittsburg
Frank Biggins
Sedgemere
Carrie H. Stevens
Cambridge
Grange Hall
Elizabeth Carey
Hallowell
T. W. Blaisdell
G. C. Rowe
Harold Hunt
Russell Boynton
Five Islands
J. P. Lewis
W. H. Davis
Medford
Mr. Lewis
George Blen
E. S. Blen
S. A. Evans
J. G. Stevens
H .H. French
Julian
Dover
N. H
Russell
Edward Joynton
William Patton
Proctor Hagan
Mark
John Hinckley
Opera Cafe
Frank C. Skillings
Roscoe Taggart
Elmira
N. Y
J. R. McKay
Bedford Street
Harold Blethen
Henry Simms
Mr. Simms
Mere Point
Elizabeth Rundlett
Charles Chestra
Popham Beach
Chilton
C.L. Farnham CO. Inc
Elm St
D. M. Humphreys & Co
Room
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Me
William Dickinson
Chelsea
R. H. Dickinson
Earl
Dickinson
Cobb & Co
Hanover Street
Red Coss Rooms
M. T. Nealey
Hatch
C. F. Staples
E. P. Kendall
R. H. Jack
C. A. Newton
George Baker
Albert Henderson
Geneveive Dunlap
Poland Springs
Mary G. Metcal
Pownel
Louise Clark
Exeter
Hattie O. Perry
Minerva Dunlap
Round Brook
N. J
Eulala Sedgley
E. T. Jackson
Jackson
Ristien
Thomaston
Owen Small
Harold Cheney
WI. B. Donnell
Charles A. Randall
Bay Road
Fred Patten Place
W. E. Lalie
Alice Fulton
Woodfords
Winnie Dinsmore
W. L. Dinsmore
Harry Purington
South Portland
I. E. Cornish
Newtonville
Walter Reed
Julia Davis
Henderson
G. F. Denham
Richard Denham
Cundys Harbor
James Howland
Augusta Hospital
United Lodge F. & A. M
W. P. Carr
Horace Fogg
Eddie Fickett
L. D. Small, Jr
Walter Bartlett
Baby
R. D. Purinton
Bortland
Rebecca Bowker
Topsham Village
Ralph Denham
Elva Maloon
William Maloon
Auto
W. Brown
Ll. P. Temple
Lewiston
Monmouth Center
Tecoma
D. Thorne
Frances Wilson
Samuel Dunning
Harpswell
E. W. Warren
Litchfield
Lisbon Falls
Jack
New State Road
Emma
Denham
Noice
Cecile Gladys Denham
D. Leslie Craney
Brewer
Miss Denham
Rumford
Craney
Bowdeinham
Emma Denham
W. K. Denham
David (. Bridge
Hagardville
Edithood
Charles A. Houghton
West Medford
R. W. Carr
Houghton
James Cornish
Ridge
Elizabeth Sparks
Florencé
Snell
C. B. Randall
Lottie Cobb
Florence Sparks
Red Cross
Sendall
Wright
Town Hall
B. B. Douglass
Lena Cobb
Lottie
Carrie Sparks
Gardiner
East Bowdoinham
Bill Bridges
Helen Johnson
Morse High School
Bay Path Institute
Springfield
Johnson
Bay Path
C. E. Emerson
Sheepscot Echo
T. Percy & Sons
Bath, Maine
Story
George W. Oakman
the Auto Supply Store
Center St
Hershberg
Balbriggan
Deermont Clothing CO
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