Bowdoinham Weekly News Brews Local Happenings
Bowdoinham residents mix church notices, engagements, farm reports, and road concerns. Highlights include a Baptist sermon title, engagement announcements for Bessie Verdella and Rev John Sawyer, hay harvest, village trades, and travels to Brunswick and Bath.
Georgetown summer visitors and local gatherings noted
Mrs Augustus Slye and Miss Alice Oliver of Waltham arrive from Popham for visits with relatives. Numerous guests, church events, and social activities fill Georgetown Center and Riggsville as summer boarders, families, and local clubs mingle at cottages, baptisms, and travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Slye
Alice Oliver
Waltham
Popham
Nathaniel Perkins
Roscoe P. Todd
Roxbury
Alps Ane Olle
Marion Clarey
Clarey Farm
Riggsyville
Frances Emery
Charles W. Oliver
West Georgetown
E. C. Dunning
Bath
Jones
Obituary of Miss Sarah Whitmore 9 Dies in Gardiner
Miss Sarah M Whitmore aged 9 died at her home in Gardiner Tuesday. Born in Bowdeinham she was the daughter of John and Sarah M Whitmore and taught school in Gardiner. She spoke five languages and read the Bible cover to cover multiple times. She was a member of Bowdeinham’s Woman's Library Association, a pioneering women’s group in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah M. Whitmore
Gardiner
Miss Whitmore
Bowdoinham
John
Monmouth Academy
Brunswick
Mrs Hattie B Cromwell Dies In Portland Heart Failure
Mrs Hattie B Cromwell daughter of Mrs L A Motley and the late Charles Motley died Wednesday at her home 4 Hammond St Portland from heart failure. She is survived by her son Stanley M Cromwell and brother Rufus Cromwell and her mother. She belonged to the Bosworth Relief Corps and Anna A Gouldent Daughters of Veterans. Funeral services were held Friday at Bosworth Post hall and she was buried in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Reynolds
William A. Todd
Bath
Eunice Williams
Laura
Elizabeth
Richard
Newburyport
A. Williams
Robert Haynes
Boothbay
John Morse
O. K. Marr
Marr
Riggsville
Parker Head
Georgetown Island
Charles Blaisdell
Adelaide Massay
Ferdinand Brilmayer
Dayton, C
E. A. Williams
George Oliver
Popham
Georgetown Center
Joseph Harford
Five Islands
Rigersville
Broad River Way
Maine
Hattie B. Cromwell
L. A. Motley
Charles Motley
Hammond
Portland
Stanley M. Cromwell
Rufus Cromwell
Rufus H. Motley
Bosworth Relief Corps
Anna A. Gouldent
Daughters of Veterans
Bosworth Post Hall
Mrs Lydia Mills Crosby Dies at 95 in Brunswick
Lydia Mills Crosby, near Brunswick’s oldest resident, died Wednesday night at 95 years eight months. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Russell W Eaton, with whom she lived. Burial is planned for Norridgewock on Saturday. A new Driftwood Club formed at City Landing after ice left last spring, meeting secretly on the riverview, with Capt. Sam Cook as president and city river interests under scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
The
Baptist Society
Christian Endeavor Society
Baptist Vestry
E. B. Sprague
Warren Roberson
Mabel Robinson
Jennie Reed
H. E. Cheney
Richmond Road
Coombs High School
Maine Centrals
Portland
Bowdeinham
Richmond
W. W. Brown
Rooe Eames
Lydia Mills Crosby
Brunswick
Russell W. Eaton
Norridgewock
Driftwood Club
City Landing
Riverview
Captain Small
Kennebec
Sam Cook
Capt
Dingley
Charles M. Snow
William Hodgkins
Nathaniel Place
New Meadows Inn to Portland Steamers Schedules and Fares
The Garnet or Tourist will depart New Meadows for Portland daily at 2 30 P M with return at 9 15 A M. Fares from Bath or to Bath are 75 cents. round trip 1 00. Various connections via Boothbay Harbor Augusta Gardiner Boothbay and Richmond list round trips from 1 25 to 2 00. The Great Combination offers boat and electric return for 1 00 or 1 25. Tickets are sold in Augusta Gardiner Hallowell Richmond Bath Boothbay and Portland offices. Also, a cook is wanted at the Old Couple's Home with applications to Mrs M F Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows
Portland
Bath
Boothbay Harbor
Eastern
Augusta
Gardiner & Boothbay S. B. Co
Hallowell
Gardiner
Richmond
Brunswick
S. S. Co
Gardiner & Boothbay
8. B. Co
Gurnet Bridge
Garnet Bridge
New Meadows Inn
Gurnet
Augusta, Gardiner & Boothbay S. B. Co
Gardiner, Hallowell
Bath and Boothbay
Portland- Bath-Casco Bay Rapid Transit Co
First National Bank Building
Maine
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Baptist Church
Stes
Alies
James H. Ames
Carolyn A. Dodge
James HH
Ames
Bessie Jane Verdella
John Lewis Sawyer
Athens
Pen
James H. Millay
Warren Blackman
A. J. Gowell
Mr. Gowell
Ee leeCe Vossamos
N Burn
Ce B. Randall
Charles Dickinson
New Hampshire
Tacoma Lake
Litchfield
Epworth League
Lottie Cobb
C. L. Mosher
Wiscasset
Harry
Methodist Ladies Aid
G. 3S. Andros
Charlie Berry
Frank Dunning
Karpswell
Bowdoinhambely
Edith A. Wood
Ethel Graves
Connecticut
Margaret Wilson
New York
James H. Wilson
Carroll Hutchins
Hattie O. Andros
Lottie Blake
Wellesley
Mass
Viola V. Coombs
Miss Blake
and Daugter
Boston
E. ©. McFarland
Edgar L. Wilkinson
Worcester
C. F Staples
Richard Denham
Maine Central Station
Sher- Fannie Fall
Edith Wood
Ruby Recentl
Lewiston
Margaret Chapman
May Lilley
Savadahoe Fertilizer
Duran
Will Curtis
Jer- Sivas Ae J
Hannah Curtis
Mary T. Purinton
Carrie Purinton
Harpswell
I. T. Jackson
River
Crouch
Jackson
Bridges
B. Kendall
E. P. Kendall
Bernard Henderson
Randall
IE. R. Bowdoin
Stockholm
Sweden
James A. Norton
Bowdoin
Frances Coombs
Yarmouth
George R. Cutler
William C. Sparks
Michigan Cottage of Mines
Harvard College
al Tew
Eastern Star
A. C. Williams
Annie Moorehouse
C. O. Purinton
Post Road
A. F. Reeves
Leslie Grattam
George Powers
Grattam
Marshal Powers
Raymond School
Bishop
Florence Sparks
Mont Clair
N. J
K. M. Sparks
Jennie Small
R. B. Rideout
South Berwick
Everett
James W. Brown
W. OB. Kendall
Hot Springs
Virginia
Helen Isadore Newhall
T. W. Foss
Esa
Pleasant Street
RD. Purinton
H. D. Cornish
Prank Small
J. E. Cornish
Robert Ferguson
E. P. Kendrell
Bay Shore Road
Merrill
Dorchester
Mas
W. L. Bonney
New England
Ray Powers
Rockland
CP. Bates
Georgetown News
Massachusetts
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Methodist Church
Gage
Medford
Cove
Low's Point
Henry Albers
Miss Sawyer
Wentworth Cushing
Aida Cushing
Wilton S. Campbell
Sabattus
Rigeyesville
Morse Cottage
Charlie MacMahan
Ida
Florence Schnebbe
Rigesville
George Nagel
Marion Clarke
Bos
Rievesville
Margaret Heald Riggs
Forest Legard
Riggs Ville
Wilton Campbell Place
Thomas N. Williams
D. H. Todd
Working League
First Baptist Church
Hattie E. Rowe
Eula Grey
G. H. Grey
Vermont
William P. Cromwell
Georgetown
Marie Clarke
Bellows Falls
Clarke Cottage
Miss Loring
Josephine Oliver
Clarence Hill
BE. C. Douglas
Roscoe Frame
Ruth Kiblin
Nancy J. Spinney
George Smith
Newell
Everett Campbell
Swallow
Evelyn Grace
Henry Harford
Edwina Mayers
Cambridge
Etta M. Jones
C. W. Horne
Norway
Harry Ll. Horne
Mr. Horne
Howard Horne
Fairhaven
Woodbury Tratton
Inez
Elmira Tratton
Clarence Oliver
Alvin Oliver
Kents
Augustus Sly
Harold F. Hunt
Supt
PY 2 Sorrel
Nirea
Nirss
Harry Ay Sore
Castine
Horne
Dixfield
Harold Oliver
Nancy Oliver
Marrtown
Mr. Oliver
Benjamin H. Woodside
Nannie Russell
Lester
Charles Mains
W. E. Osthoff
Pittsburg
Osthoff
Pearl Colby
James Cummings
E. B. Lovettt
Avery Williams
Will Davies
Joseph Auban
Annie Nutter
E. B. Loveitt
Mrs. Sears
Sarah Whitmore
M. F. Taylor
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