Georgetown Weekly Letter: Sale and Community Notices
The Working League will hold an apron and fancy article sale on Wednesday July 29 at Mrs. B. L. Rich’s Kennebec Point home with supper and entertainment. Readings singing and piano solos are planned. A long list of town residents and visitors are noted, with travels, visits, and church notices. The piece also covers Bible society work, haying progress, blueberry picking, whist parties, and Hall Fund fundraising updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. L. Rich
Kennebec Point
Everett C. Higgins
John D. Williams
West Georgetown
O. M. Kingsbury
Vassalboro
William Couch
Arlington, Ridge
Wilson
Couch
Riggsville
Charles W. Billings
James B. Stuart
Dorothy Stuart
South Gardiner
William M. Farnsworth
Gladys
Augusta
Leon E. Oliver
Waltham
Charles W. Oliver
Ernest G. Heald
Bath
Robin Hood Cove
Lexington
Dorchester
Sagadahoe House
Ardine Stott
Woolwich
Working League
Roscoe P. Todd
Boston
Martha Hinckley
Lewiston
Seward Emmons
Nelson
America
Americans
Alice Oliver
Nathaniel Perkins
Popham Beach
Laura Pottle
William A. Todd
Josephine H. Oliver
Harriet A. Deering
Augusta A. Todd
A. K. P. Oliver
Horatio Douglas
Benjamin H. Woodside
Nannie Russell
Douglas
Rose Snell
E. A. Williams
Robert Haynes
Elsie
John Morse
Joseph Hull
Samuel Butler
Benjamin H.woodside
Anne M. Jones
Frank H. Morrell
Libbie
A. Benson Rowe
Five
Berry
Edith Treat
Philadelphia
Hazel
Katherine
Hildebrand
Sewall P. Oliver
Henry Tarbox
Wso
Helen Randall
George’ Randall
Bessie
Ethel Todd
Agnes S. Jones
Harry L. Horne
Ida Ees
Joseph F. Higgins
Woolwich Social Scene Highlights Summer Events
Woolwich residents enjoyed a string of activities from Path Finder Girls entertaining at Tuessie Hall to dances at Tuessie Hall and Montsweag Grange Hall. The Pathfinders raised 65 dollars for Ocean Park Bible school and dumbbells. Attendance rose at summer gatherings with many locals and visitors, including the Blair family and visitors from Boston and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conforth
Mr. Crosby
Boston
Andrew Blanche
Merton Allen
Kenneth Crowell
Malden
Mass
A. R. Ames
Baptist Parsonage
Pathfinders
Montswesa
Grange Hall
Ocean Park
Bible School
Evelyn Hodgdon
Marion Soule
Vivian Baker
Eleanor Dana
Barbara Reed
Elizabeth Rice
Plinette Allen
Helena Dana
Maxine Walker
Lillian Blair
Mary Preble
Ethelyn Baker
J. Edna Hathorne Rice
Georgia Reed Walker
Harriet Hathorne
Mother
Wood
Miss Wood
Northampton
Kennebec
Woolwich
Local Social Notes From Winnegance Household Guests
Mrs James Bartlett and daughter Chiriotte of Jackman visit sister Mrs Win shir Reed. Numerous residents and visitors are named with movements to and from Winnegance, Bath, Portland, Freeport, Lewiston, and nearby towns. Happenings include visits, cottage stays, church events, and a major surgical operation at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bartlett
Chiriotte
Jackman
Bartlett
Winshir. Reed
John Bibby
Revere
Mass
Charles Trask
Zina B. Hunt
Isaiah Willes
Hunt St
Albert Lakin
Portland
Alfred Oliver
Bay Point
George Dennison
Mareline
Freeport
George Merry
Fred Coombs
Lewiston
Constance
Thomaston
Seymour Wyrden
Southard
Boothbay Harrow
Anne M. Oliver
Catherine Williams
New York
Long Island
Edgar Williams
Stephen Marshall
Stephen Marshall, Jr
Joseph McCutcheon
Informal Woolwich Gathering Features Mrs Bradshaw’s Readings
Mrs Bradshaw, guest of Mrs Wood and raised in Nashville, offered a program of negro dialect readings showing her talent as an impersonator. She drew from a colored mammy to capture the authentic negro twang. Frozen pudding harlequin ice and cake were served, making the event one of the season’s most enjoyable.
Arrowsic Visitors Share Town with Lewiston Guests
William Laurence and family visited Arrowsic from Lewiston in a new Ford. Norman Drummond was recent visitor in Lewiston. Smith school league hosted an ice cream social at the town hall with games and music. Robert Willis and wife of Gardiner were guests of W. F. Hagan. Mrs. Susan Willis returned from Massachusetts and opened her home for the summer hosting her daughter Gertrude Willis and Mr. and Mrs. John White. Mrs. F. H. Snipe returned from West Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Tracy
Newtonville
Mass
J. H. Perkins
E. M. Trett
Day’s Ferry
William D. Blair
Charles Hunneweell
Lillian Blair
Elsie Blair
Bath
George P. Stinson
New York
John Stinson
Nequasset
David Reed
Juniper Point
Boothbay Harbor
Huntington Chambers
Boston
Mary Preble Preston
Philadelphia
Weldon Preble
Norman Drummond
Lewiston
Smith School League
Town Hall
Robert Willis
Gardiner
W. F. Hagan
Katherine Hagan
Mildred Snipe
Arthur O. LaBelle
Portland
Edna Mulligan
Revere
Evelyn Stein
Jones
Dor
Visiting residents and local social notes in Woolwich
Mrs Alfred Perry and Miss Jessie Robbins visited in Woolwich last week. Eugene Cromwell attended town Sunday. E B Snipe and wife were Sunday visitors at Parker Head. Harold Snipe took friends to Bay Point. Charles Rogers of Phippsburg was in town Sunday. Farmers report haymaking weather this week in his 3rd year. He helped organize What Cheer Harbor No. 13 Brotherhood of Pilots, known to seafaring men across New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred P. Oliver
Manchester
N. H
S. A. Clark
Bell Rock Rock Camp
Malden
Mass
Charles D. Graham
Bell Rock Camp
J. C. Bearse
Cloverdale Farm
West Bath
E. R. Brown
Miss Nelson
Maine
Bangor
Alfred Perry
Jessie Robbins
Woolwich
Harold Snipe
Bay Point
Charles Rogers
Phippsburg
What Cheer Harbor, No. 13
Brotherhood of Pilots
Captain Nathaniel Sutton Dies at Providence Farm
Captain Nathaniel W. H. Sutton president of the Providence Towboat Co. since 1882 died Wednesday in Providence at his Abbott Run farm. He was a prominent maritime figure with long service in local shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel W. H. Sutton
Providence Towboat Co
Providence
Abbott Run
Dupont Prize Spoon For Best Trap Shoot Record
The Dupont Powder Co awards a silver spoon to the shooter with the best score in five 25-target series. The handle bears a figure of a trap shooter. Thursday afternoon the Woolwich traps regular shoot took place on the club field with Bath Gun Club members present including Mc Carty Furber Harvey Walter Hawthorne and Ross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dupont Powder Co
Merton Webber
Woolwich
Bath Gun Club
McCarty
Furber
Harvey
Walter Hawthorne
Ross
Also Mentioned on This Page
Georgetown
Ture
Bertha K. Avery
Augustus Sly
Evans
Brown
Free Baptist Church
Montsweag
Manigests
Path Finder Girls of
Tuessie Hall
Center
Sadie Leonard
Ellen R. Warren
John Reed
Capitol Island
Dr. Butler of
Thomas Reed
Thomas Main
William Wright
Freeman Trott
Perkins
Orchestra
Winnegance News
Walter C. Perry
Bernice Clifford
William Wyman
Roger
Winthrop
Obadiah Trask
Mr. Trask
Little Roger
Harry C. Webber
Mere Point
Ernest Allen
Washington, D. C
Allen
Riley
T. H. Riley, Sr
Brunswick
Webber
Thomas Gibbons
Almon Perry
Marie
Perry
Eugene Winslow
Norwood
Winneganee Church
People’s Baptist Church
Ethel Trask
Auburn
Alfred Trask
Henry Potter
Thomas L. Perry
Sturtevant
Abbie Mann
Parker Head
J. Parker Morse
William Laurence
House OF
Earl & Wilson
Kuppenheimer
Lamson & Hubbard
Norfolk
Emperor
Oakes Bros
Stag, Wright and Ditson
American Hosiery Co
Eugene Cromwell
E. B. Snipe and Wife
New England
N. W. H. Sutton
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