Fourth Weather Dampens Phippsburg Festivities
The Fourth in Phippsburg was marred by a daylong downpour that kept seashore plans and dinners at home. A late clearing brought sunset pink skies and fireworks. Local social notes mix church service, visits, and community events across Dromore, West Point, Cox's Head, and nearby Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Cutting
Portland
Dromore
Mark L. Percy
Cox’s Head
M. F. Slade
F. S. Bowker
West Point
New Ford Arrives in Town and Local Auto Lessons
A Ford car arrives Saturday with N W Eaton as owner and his brother Ernest teaching Roland Eaton the motor craft. A new minister is expected on trial at Small Point church next Sunday as committee N W Eaton Orlando Wallace and John Holland seek a permanent pastor. George H Ingalls begins haying aided by Joe Crocker and Aurine Wallace. Eleanor Harrington hosts a fireworks party at Cranberry Point. A torpedo accident involving Corrine Berry causes a scare with minor eye irritation from sawdust but no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Crocker
Dromore
John D. Rogers
West Point
Orr’s Island
C. M. Bryant
Brunswick
Lucy Carter
Somerville
Mass
A. C. Johnson
Johnson
Blanch Bryant
Tontine Hotel
George Ballou
New York
Wood Island
Frank Mason
West Medford
Cox's Head
Sawyers
Swampscot
Frank Scholfield
George Warren
Norfolk
Gulf
Harry Watson
Bath
N. W. Eaton
Ruth Eaton
Watson
J. B. Coy
Small Point
Roland Eaton
Ernest
Will
Orlando Wallace
John Holland
George H. Ingalls
Joe Crocker
Aurine Wallace
Eleanor Harrington
Cranberry Point
Corrine Berry
Miss Berry
Bath schooner Helen W Martin sails to New York for Russian buyers
The Bath schooner Helen W Martin, sold by Percy & Small to A H Bull Co of New York for Russian interests, leaves Portland for New York. Capt Hall remains aboard to sail to Arctangle in northern Russia with a cargo of railroad ties gun cotton ammunition and military supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen W. Martin
New York
Portland
Percy & Small
A. H. Bull & Co
Hall
Arctangle
Russia
Martin
Record Cold June Dips to 42-Year Low, Portland Report
A chilly June sets a 42 year cold record with a mean of 59 degrees and a June 1915 comparison. Frosts on four nights, 1.72 inches rainfall, and overall year trends show a 213 degree deviation warmer than normal for 1915 to date, from the Portland Express. The Odd Ladies Sewing Circle met with Mrs. Margaret Bucknam at 26 Shaw St on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Express
The
Odd Ladies’ Sewing Circle
Margaret Bucknam
Shaw St
City Council Revises 20000 Dollar Loan Plan For Schools
Bath Maine July 7 1915 city council reduces June bond order to 20000 dollars for Upper Grammar and Dummer Street School sanitation and designates 18000 for a six room schoolhouse with 1500 to ease Overseers of the Poor finances A paving measure on Center Street fails and ferry deficit relief of 1500 dollars is approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dummer St
Center St
Washington
People’s Ferry Co
Bath
Maine
City of
Board of Overseers of Poor
Indian Apostle Baxter in Maine Mission Concluded
Rev. Joseph Baxter, born 1676 in Braintree and Harvard-educated at seventeen, became minister and missionary to the Kennebec area in 1717. He learned the language, preached in Indian, and served Arrow sie Brunswick Topsham and even the soldiers camp at Fort Richmond. His work included baptisms and funerals amid Native and settler tensions, with his tenure ending as the Medfield church resisted his departure. Continued on Page Twelve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Eliot
Maine
Massachusetts General Courts
Kennebec
Joseph Baxter
Braintree
Harvard
Medfield
Baxter
Gov. Shute
Arrowsie
Wiwurna
Gyles
Brunswick Fort
Brunswick
Topsham
Fort Richmond
Georgetown
Robert Poor
John Watts
Also Mentioned on This Page
Phippsburg News
Oregon
Christine Cutting
Riggsville
Virginia
Annie Rowe
George Oliver
J. G. Lee
Cambridge
Frank Frisbee
Lizzie Brown
Minott
Etta Morrison
Morrison
Misses Minott
Henry M. Minott
Margaret Frances
J. O. Wyman
Maggie MacDonald
Cornelia Parris
D. A. MacDonald
Frank Allegrin
Bertha Roderick
A. F. Williams
F. B. Williams
Camp Merimachi
Nelson Heald
People’s Church
Roy Lord
Frank Daley
Drummond Kelley
John Williams
Raymond Wyman
William Perry
Alvena Oliver
Eugene Perry
Harold Weston
George Stewart
Sebasco
H. W. Cutting
Laura Mains
Arthur Bowker
Hattie Rogers
Mr. Lawrence of
George L. Cutting
Bodwell Grange Hall
Eunice Storey
Uxbridge
Dickinson
Under Thelee
L. W. Berry
Emma Perry
Abbie Minott
C. V. Minott, Jr
Rev. M. F. Slade
Edward B. Winslow
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Brown’'S
Fire Department
Dain
E. C. Plummer
Ephraim French
Scott R. Fri
Commercial St
He Highway and Sewers Board
Tsper F. Hartlel
Iry Brown
Ioneer
Cona
Onds
Malcolm Tarbox
William House
John W. Gilmore
Aed
Slic
Edness
Idge Keegan
John F. Conley
John M. Clark
Conducted BY
Wm. C. Chadbourne
Front St
White House
Ellen Wilson McAdoo
Eleanor Wilson
the Treasury
McAdoo
United States
Nequasset Territory
Henry O. Thayer
McKinney
Johnson Bros. Co
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