Bowman and Hodge duel shaped early Wiscasset lore
In 1803 a duel over a quarrel at Bowman’s house near Wiscasset led to a long court fight. Jonathan Bowman senior, judge and clerk, faced Capt. James Hodge after a horsewhip threat and alleged blows. The case wound through common pleas and supreme judicial courts, ending with Bowman awarded costs. The tale links local families, jurists, and the Kennebec region’s colonial era.
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Pownalborough Court House
Kennebec
Swan Island
Jonathan Bowman
Pownalborough
Our Fire Society
Dorchester
Hannah
Hancock
John Hancock
Lexington
Harvard College
John Wentworth
New Hampshire
David Sewall
Maine
Adams
Jacob Bailey
Bowman
Church of England
Our County
Thomas Hancock
New Plymouth
County of
Lincoln
Jonathan
William Bowman
Jonathan Wman
Lincoln County
William Cushing
Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts
Washington
Supreme Court of
United States
Wiscasset Point
Court of Common Pleas
Capt. Hodge
Tinkham
Supreme Judicial Court
Common Pleas Court
Hodge
Manasseh Smith
John Merrill, Jr
Daniel Davis
Samuel Sumner Wilde
Wiscasset
Merrill
Brian Lee
Benjamin Jones Porter
Topsham
John O. Page
Hallowell
David Payson Jr
Isaac Dowe
Seth Tinkham
Samuel Miller
Samuel Sawyer
Samuel Hubbard
Joshua Danforth
Jetf Payson
Mariner Pearson
James Neal
Joseph T. Wood
Bzeakiel Cutter
Samuel Adams
Jonathan R. Parker
New York
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Moderator
Local Social Notes Record Heads and Visits
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Desmond with Mrs. Roscoe Shaw and Mrs. Karcher Jackson traveled to Portland on Thursday. Miss Gertrude Galloupe returned to Bath from Winthrop, Mass. Miss Helen Decker went home to Rumford after a week in Bath with Miss Ellen Dolloff. Mr. and Mrs. George Oliver and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Trafton of Lincoln Street spent Saturday in Georgetown. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Burkhardt returned to Quincy after visiting Mere Point with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Allen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Desmond
Roscoe Shaw
Karcher Jackson
Portland
Gertrude Galloupe
Bath
Winthrop
Mass
Helen Decker
Rumford
Ellen Dolloff
George Oliver
Everett Trafton
Lincoln Street
Georgetown
John E. Burkhardt
Quincy
Ernest
Allen
Mere Point
Village notes on property sale and local events
William Atwood bought a house that burned and will move the lumber to build a new home near the Park ere. The mill boarding house lingers with wide old boards. Travel to seashore resorts in Phippsburg drew a heavy Sunday crowd. Mrs Sherman Morse returned from New York with her husband aboard the Bear Mountain. Doris Morse left for Milo to visit friends. Mrs Frank Oliver returned to Quincy with Miss Marion Morse. The Evening Workers plan a final meeting before summer closure and the next gathering after Labor Day. A picnic at Bailey's Island included Reuben Purington and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Atwood
Oi ml Bane Vv
J. Parker Morse
Phippsburg
Sherman L. Morse
New York
Bear Mountain
Hudson
Doris Morse
Milo
Frank Oliver
Quincy
Mass
Marion Morse
John W. Gilmore
Reuben Purington
David Clayton
Humphrey Owen
Elbridge Malcolm
Susie Sheffield
Susie Sheffield, Mrs. Moore
Leila Oliver
Bailey's Island
Bathman Awarded Life Saving Medal
Secretary Adams recommended the gold lifesaving medal for Owen Alfred Freeman the Bath Me navy photographer of 12 Charles St Bath for rescuing Lieut D D Gurley U S N from drowning after Gurley’s airplane sank in Honlulu harbor Freeman freed the officer from wreckage and held him above water until rescue Freeman is son of Mr and Mrs Frederick W Freeman 12 Charles St Bath He has served in the Navy for years and last visited home three years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Owen Alfred Freeman
Navy
Charles St
Bath
D. D. Gurley
Gurley
Honolulk Harbor
Freeman
Mr. Freeman
Frederick W. Freeman
Charles Street
Birthday tribute to temperance leader Miss Anna Gordon
On July 21 the birthday of Miss Anna Gordon, president of the World W C T U, is marked as Loyal Temperance Legion day. Gordon, who lectured worldwide for the movement, helped publish song books with Alice May Douglas and once served as Frances Willard's private secretary. Her tours reached major U S cities. Special attention this week honors her life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Gordon
Loyal Temperance Legion
Miss Gordon
Alice May Douglas
Bath
Frances Willard
Winter Street
Miss Willard
United States
Child Health Conference Set in West Bath
Tuesday July 30 9 30 to 11 30 a m a health conference led by Dr S S Mullin with a committee of the local school board graduate nurses and the State Department of Health inviting West Bath parents to bring all well children of school age for general examination
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S. Mullin
State Department of Health
West Bath
Rotary Club Rest Room Visitors List Noted
Recent visitors at the Rotary Club rest room include George D. Rankin Jr Cranford New Jersey George R Rankin Cranford New Jersey Mrs G W Morse Boonton New Jersey G E DuBary Cranford New Jersey Mation Reger Montclair New Jersey Mrs William Cook Boonton New Jersey George Morse Boonton New Jersey Laura B White Winthrop Massachusetts Frederick B White Winthrop Massachusetts and Mr and Mrs Thomas Pitt West Chester Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
George D. Rankin
Cranford
N. J
George R. Rankin
G. W. Morse
Boonton
G. E. DuBary
Mation Reger
Montclair
William Cook
George Morse
Laura B. White
Winthrop, Mass
Frederick B. White
Thomas Pitt
West Chester
Portland visitors tie to Radcliffe estate settlement
Mr and Mrs Edmund Robinson and family visited Portland on Monday as Mrs Robinson formerly Agnes Radcliffe came on business connected with settling the Radcliffe estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Robinson
Portland
Robinson
Agnes Radcliffe
Radcliffe
Summer Visitors Fill Popham Beach and Sebasco
A long list of guests and seasonal visitors are staying at cottages and inns around Popham Beach Sebasco Meadowbrook and West Point. Notable names include Mrs Lucinda Sprague Miss Margaret Minott Mrs Ella Dunning Mrs Paul Niven and others from Bath Portland Belmont Chestnut Hill and Philadelphia. Guests mingle with local hosts during a busy summer period.
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Popham
Carolyn Rich
Illiedale
W. J
Fred Hamiston
Lucinda Sprague
Ruth
Mary
Sebasco
Ella Dunning
Chestnut Hill
Mass
Charles Clifford
Popham Beach
Paul K. Niven
Kendall
Belmont
Allan Spear
Agnes Cutting
Foxboro
Dromore
J. L. Percival
Bath
J. R. Harwood
Philip Gromeley
Portland
Rosemary
Meadowbrook
Jason Merrill
Club
Jennie Bishop
West Bath
H. W. Cutting
Thelma Gran
Jennie Feere
Edwin Jackson
Waterville
W. R. Bowker
Charles L. Stevens
Rose Wyman
Pauline
W. R. Bowkers
Robert Feero
Jennie Feero
Mabel Ingalls
George J. Ingalls
Mattie Boynton
Cambridge
G. J. Ingalls
Gordon Schoff
Philadelphia
Joseph Small
New York
J. Houghton McClellan, Jr
Boston
Mr. Small
Martha Small
Arthur Williams
West Point
Jack Cushman
Taunton
Wallace McDonald
J. E. Perry
Miss Emily Pease Plans Engagement To Roger Skillings
Announcement from Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Pease of 16 Cobb road Bath reveals engagement of their daughter Miss Emily B. Pease to Roger D. Skillings son of Mrs. Edith F. Skillings and the late Capt John F. Skillings of 906 High street Bath. Emily Pease has held gymnastic posts in Greenwich Conn and studied at St Mary s Concord Arnold College and Oxford. Skillings a Morse High and Bowdoin alum formerly of the Virginia University and active in Bath civic life. Mrs. Graham Campbell of New York City visiting Bath friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore W. Pease
Cobb Road
Emily B. Pease
Roger D. Skillings
Edith F. Skillings
John F. Skillings
High Street
Pease
Thomaston High School
St. Mary’s School
Concord
N. H
Arnold College of Gymnastics
New Haven
Conn
Oxford University
England
Greenwich
Skillings
Morse High
Bowdoin College
University of Virginia At
Charlotteville
American Legion
Masons, Elks, Colonial Club
Shore Acres Golf Club
Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity
Aged Johnson Brothers Earn Degrees in Ra monas Visit
Two Johnson brothers aged 86 and 71 from Orrs Island joined five neophytes as Ramona council degree team conferred the adoption degree on Silver Cloud council visitors. Thirty-two Ramona members traveled from Orrs Island. supper followed with fish chowder, cake and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramona Council
Johnson Brothers
Orr’s Island
Ramonas Council
D. of P
Silver Cloud Council
Sone Brothers
Silver Cloud
Betty
Ramona
Phinney
Salvation Army Drive Reaches Two-Thirds Fund Goal
Captain W E Hoffman reports $2000 subscribed toward the $3000 Salvation Army fund. Campaign organizers and officers plan plant visits and door canvassing this week to secure remaining pledges. Donations or pledges may be left with Daniel Williams at the First National Bank to ensure the drive reaches its goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Hoffman
Salvation Army
A. J. Warren
Daniel Williams
First National Bank
Williams
Woman Injured As Auto Collision Occurs On High Street
Mrs. Alfred Purington was severely injured when a Massachusetts car collided with the Purington vehicle on High street near the courthouse. The car overturned, Mrs. Purington suffered facial lacerations and bruising, and she was removed through a shattered window. The Massachusetts driver admitted liability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Purington
Parker Head
High Street
Court House
Purington
Massachusetts
Center Street
Couple Offered Settlement For Damages After Crash
The man did all he could for the couple and offered to settle damages to the car. Mr Purington, though shaken, was not seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purington
Bath workers drive own cars amid varied factory fleets
The Bath Iron Works and related plants show a diverse car ownership pattern with 108 autos listed among workers including Ford 30 Buick 15 Essex 9 and Nash 5. A, Hyde Windlass and Torrey Roller Bushing Works report multiple makes with many cars left unlocked and unattended at the yard, reflecting changing commuting habits and trust in security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde
Oldsmobile
Studebaker
Torrey Roller
Ford
Essex
Buick
Reo
Hudson
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Dodge
Packard
Bath Iron Works Corp
Hyde Windlass
Torrey's
Waterville Residents Visit Friends and Nearby Lakes
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Haskell of Waterville were calling on friends in town on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Plummer and Mr. and Mrs. Harry White left the first of the week for a trip through Canada. Mrs. Mae Mayers and daughter Anna, Mr. and Mrs. Alden Denham Jr. and Alonzo Fletcher passed Sunday at Rangeley and Belgrade Lakes. Mrs. William Tudor Gardiner, wife of Governor Gardiner, was in the city Monday, coming over from her summer home at Phipps Point, Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Haskell
Waterville
Leland Plummer
Harry White
Canada
Mae Mayers
Anna
Alden Denham, Jr
Alonzo Fletcher
Rangeley
Belgrade Lakes
William Tudor Gardiner
Gardiner
City
Phipps Point
Woolwich
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William D. Patterson
Hodge-Bowman
Lydia ‘Wood
Abiel. Wood
John H. Sheppard
James Hodge
Bociety
Henry of Esq
Mr. Taylor
Six Sisters
Abiel ‘Wood, Jr
Spencer ‘Tinkham
Henry Hodge
James
Joseph
T.’ Wood
Thomas Nickels
John Hodge
Orchard Cook
Capt
Sheppard
America
Edward Doty
Edward Leister
J. Bowman, JR
Jrs. Hodge
Joseph Tinkham
Bathman
Secretary of Navy
Graham Campbell
New York City
Iron Works
Fords
Buicks
Eer Essex
Dadar
Nash
Oakland
Cadillac
Bbe
Whippet
Star
Overland
Moon
Maxwell
Elgin
Durant
Marmon
Franklin
Semater Smith
Michigan
NAKAC
Agee
Sway
Dip
Cranda
Schmitz
Q& van Loon
TSN
van Loons
Fleirziger
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