Five Islands Housewives Learn Canning at Grange Meeting
At a Grange gathering in Five Islands thirty five members heard Miss Eugenia Rodick of Maine State College and Miss Carolyn Stevens explain the cold pack method. The talk drew interest from local canning club members and others who attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen O. Thompson
Taunton
Lewiston
Bates
Georgetown
Carolyn Stevens
Five Islands
Grange Hall
Canning Club
Rodick
Bath
Phippsburg
Gowell
Mitchell Home
North Carolina
Carrie H. Stevens
Frank H. Hooker
Huntington
West Virginia
Clarence McMahan
Waldo Lewis
Grange
Enterprise Grange
Richmond
New Hall
Pomona
Bath Ties Deep Roots as Edwins Reed Kin Visit
Mrs. Wadhams from New York City visits Bath with Judge and Mrs. William H. Wadhams. She is a Bath native with ancestral ties to Sagadahoc. great ancestors include Samuel Denney James McCobb and Col Andrew Reed. Edwin Reed, born in 1835, was Bath mayor and Maine legislator who pursued Shakespeare authorship theory. The party plans to tour old homesteads and sites connected to the Reed lineage. Judge Wadhams, a New York court official, recently prepared extradition papers in a major murder case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Wadhams
New York City
King Tavern
Wadhams
Sagadahoc County
Samuel Denney
James McCobb
Samuel McCobb
Bunker Hill
Provincial Congress
Col
Andrew Reed
Cox's Heads
William Maxwell Reed
Phippsburg
Sagadahoc National Bank
Maine Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Maine
Edwin Reed
Bowdoin College
Bath
Oak and
Middle Streets
High Streets
Cambridge
Mass
Francis Bacon
England
British Museum
Italy
Rubber banded mackerel from Small Point noted
In a barrel of mackerel from Small Point a fish bore a rubber band over its gills. The band was worn so long that skin grew over it and a loop formed. Fishermen estimate the band was placed when the fish was a small youngster.
Details of Draft Draw in Sagadahoc County 1917
Local draft procedures for men ages 21 to 31 outlined with 1414 names in Sagadahoc County. Lists show town groups, numbers drawn by lot under War Department, and appeal rights. The article explains how quotas are set by governors and how local boards post drawn numbers and publish names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Army
Sagadahoc
Washington
Times Bulletin
War Department
Arrowsie
National Guard
Bath
Phippsburg Quiet Start to Summer Life
In Parker Head Me the town reports a quiet summer begin with 22 month old Beatrice Libby hoisting the Stars and Stripes at the post office. Camp Seguinland proprietor Charles W. Bradlee visits, now in ill health, with Worcester Academy staff and summer campers from Revere Melrose Jamaica Plain Derby Conn Guantanamo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Libby
Fred Harrington
Parker Head
Charles W. Bradlee
Camp Seguinland
Mr. Bradlee
Wesley M. E. Church
Worcester Academy
Sidney Hazelton
Sidney Stanton
Revere
Clarence Roeder
Melrose
Walter Kuestenmalker
Jamaica Plains
Hans Willman
Derby
Conn
Octavia Hicht
Guantanamo
Malden
Mildred Coffin
New Rochelle
M. Y
Camp Littlewood
Arthur Wilter
Arthur Walter
Stamford
Ownership of the Bath Iron Works is Changed
The Bath Independent reports the transfer of Bath Iron Works to Maynard S. Bird & Company, Charles H. Gilman & Company, and Henry W. Cushman. Executors of John S. Hyde’s estate say the sale enhances war production and Maine ownership, with Wetherbee, McInnes, and McCarty remaining in key posts. The new board includes Cobb, Appleton, Bird, Chisholm, Clark, Cushman, Gilman, Lewis, McCarty, McInnes, Verrill, and Wetherbee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Independent
John S. Hyde
Bath Iron Works, Limited
Joseph M. Trott
Mr. Hyde
Navy Department
Hyde
City
Bath
Maine
Maine Capital
Maynard S. Bird & Company
Portland
Charles H. Gilman & Company
Henry W. Cushman
Merrill Trust Company
Bangor
Messrs. Wetherbee, McInnes and
McCarty
William T. Cobb
Frederick H. Appleton
Maynard S. Bird
Hugh J. Chisholm
Eleazer W. Clark
Charles H. Gilman
Weston Lewis
H. H. McCarty
John McInnes
H. M. Verrill
Charles P. Wetherbee
Georgetown League Meets Naming Sale Committees
The Working League held a Tuesday meeting at Mrs. Charles Clarke's home with 22 attendees to discuss plans and committees for the church sale on August 7 at the church and parsonage. Final arrangements will be set at next week’s vestry meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Working League
Charles Clarke
Maud Todd
Sadie
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North Carolinan
Mrs. Wadhams
Osa
Bath Trust CO
Centre Street
Ellsworth Robbins S
Alpha Sanborn Hall
William Sumner Potter
Miles Hagan
Clarence Wynn
Earle M. Pinkham
Norman Hinckley Drummond
Harold Edward Sniper
Arthur Oliver Labell
Fred Isaac Doughty
Peter P. Allen
Vittore Antonini
I Walter Elbridge Cunningham
Valentino Domenici
Frank Sumner Heald
Horace Arthur McMahan
George Franklin Oliver
Clyde Ellsworth Pinkham
Henry Noyes Reynolds
John Tome
Alton Carol Berry
Lester Thurman Davis
Giovanini Fornari
Paul Henry Locke, Jr
Frank Eugene Moore
Norman Andrew Oliver Earl Howard Pottle Sherburne Lee Rowe Thomas Burton West
Charles Wilbuer Boucher
Ralph Warren Davis Vernon Ervin Gray Alexander Francis Marr
Henry Clow Moore Roland Sidney Oliver Lester Leroy’ Powers
George Lenwood Tarbox
Antonio Candelieri
Cesare Papi Guisippe Sammule Raso
Miss Rodick
Food Conservation
Bath Iron Works
Cobb
Harpswell Way
Front Street
Georgetown League
Springfield
Jennie Y Todd
Stella Clarke
Augusta Todd
Harriet Deering
Charles Oliver
Maude Todd
Agnes Jones
Benjamin J. Rich
Pauline Moore
Grace Scott
Laura Thibathea
Daniel ‘Lester Pettengil of
Prye
John Ji. Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Front St
Proud St
Thermos
Johnson Bros. CO
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