Local Jottings and Notable Nods in Woolwich
In Woolwich Eben Dana works on oak for local firms while North Woolwich farmers seek $10 a day for team and driver. Fessenden Chase of the naval Inspection office sails to Southport for the weekend. Mr and Mrs Bird Shellenbarger welcome a daughter Agnes Catherine, formerly Agnes Anderson. A Bathman becomes a member of an exclusive club for active and retired sea captains after an initial mistaken invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eben Dana
Woolwich
North Woolwich
Fessenden Chase
Naval Inspection Office
Bb. I. W
Southport
Bird
Shellenbarger
Floral St
Agnes Catherine
Agnes Anderson
Bowdoinham Shipbuilding History and Town Walkways
Bowdoinham’s shipbuilding era from 1781 to 1878 produced 39 ships and 7 barks, totaling 64,326 tons, per Bath Custom House records cited in Sprague’s Maine history. The village corridors suffer from deteriorating concrete walks and rough roads, prompting calls for repairs and a push by locals to revitalize business prospects alongside nearby Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louie Sparks
Plum Island
Mars
William
Robert Wade
W. Leinsmore
Sprague
Journal of
Maine
George W. Johnson
Bath Maine
Bath Custom House
Bowdoinham
C. B. Randall
Robert Patten
Hall Place
Fourth Company Coast Artillery Goes to Fort Baldwin
The Bath based Fourth Company Coast Artillery Corps National Guard with 107 men and officers sails on the Virginia to Fort Baldwin Fopham Beach. Parade through Sagadahoc Square precedes departure amid civic pride and a gift mascot hound named O D Mascot 4th Co CA C. A. C. Several injuries noted and meals prepared by sergeants for the troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Artillery Corps
National Guard
Fort Baldwin
Fopham Beach
Bath
Virginia
Sagadahoc Square
Supt. Fuller
Bath Band
Linden
Washington
Center
Broad
Roscoe H. Shaw
Woman's League For National Service
Owen
Sagadahock Block
A. G. Oliver
The
Times
4Th Co
Murphy's Corner
Chase
Woolwich
Mr. Keene
Charles Whitehouse
Hogan
Decato
Kelley Field
Hatch
Exemption boards expand with new district panel appointments
Governor Milliken nominates five members to District Exemption Board No. 2 and adds a second board to handle claims for industrial exemption. Board 1 covers York Cumberland Oxford Androscoggin Sagadahoc Kennebec Franklin with 398,330 people, while Board 2 covers Aroostook Hancock Knox Lincoln Penobscot Piscataquis Waldo Somerset with 385,886 people. Principal industries listed include pulp and paper, textiles, shipbuilding, fisheries, and lumber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milliken
L. B. Deasy
Bar Harbor
Austin S. Harvey
Bangor
Obadiah Gardner
Rockland
Charles S. Cobb
Millinpecket
Elmer E. Milliken
Bridgeport
Charles S. Johnson
Waterville
Wallace W. Dyson
Portland
Leslie E. McIntire
East Waterford
W. S. Woods
Walter S. Wyman
Augusta
York Cumberland
Oxford
Androscoggin
Sagadahoc
Kennebec
Franklin
Aroostock
Hancock
Knox
Lincoln
Penobscot
Piscataquis
Waldo
Somerset
West Bath News Notes Distinctly LocalPersonalities
West Bath reports a week of social visits and outings with residents traveling to Sabino Boothbay Harbor and Portland. Nathan Davis of Whiskeay mourns his father as the Roberts farm cemetery receives first class maintenance. A Hyde Guards link of West Bath locals is noted alongside church services at the West Bath Methodist Episcopal Community Church led by C Wilson Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie A. Ambach
Hyde Park
Boston
Mass
C. O. Purington
Hugh Lewis
Brunswick
Lewis
Bowdoin College
Charles Humphreys
Richard B. Dole
Washington
I. C
Horace Millay
Fred D. Heath
Frank Aderton
Frank A. Heath
Harpswell
H. Ef. Jack
Bath
Miss Buck
Sarah Elliott
Chester Totman
Waterville
Elbridge Tregembo
Augusta
Ida Purington
Purington
Marion Brooks
Frank Currier
Bowdoinham
Perley A. Currier
Miss Pennell
Harvey Ames
National Guard
Fort Preble
Portland Harbor
Kenneth Wilson
Milliken Regiment
I. W. Webber
Hallowell
Universalist Church
Webber
Willard Blake
Wellesley
Blake
Viola Coombs
John Blake
Baby Curtis Eaton
Perry Davis
G. R. Cutler
F. K. Jack
Ndia
Baptist Church
Richmond Road
A. C. Raymond
Charles Fisher
Massachusetts
Old Orchard
C. F. Staples
Monmouth Center
Stockton Springs
Orville Smith
Ernest Davis
Saco
Davis
B. B. Douglas
Jesse P. Temple
C. B. Randall
Ellen Sparks
Florence
E. P. Kendall
Kendall Cottage
Nathan Davis
New Harbor
Roberts
Groves
Frank E. Purington
Bethel
George Rogers
Joseph ‘Higgins
William Brown
Vivian George
Sanford
Jane Haggett
Helen Stevens
Auburn
A. H. Donnell
William Mitchell
Lester Campbell
Naval
Fred Larrabee
Margaret Nutter
Newton
Boothbay Harbor
Rosedale
Henry Rose
Benjamin Coombs
King's Point
George Alexander
Topsham
Ernest Coombs
May Tole
Godling Cottage
Irving Alexander
Portland
Charles Mann
Lisbon Falls
Samuel Bates
Brighton
Hazel Wing
Sabino
Herbert E. Williams
Harold Bates
William Cleaves
Beechmont
Fred Butler
Forrest
Bridge Hall
West Bath
Winnegance
Mary
Ardell Bates
Edith
Rita Perkins
Susie
Evelyn Bates
Keith Coombs
Clarence Perkins
Stanley Winthrop Williams
Ernest Williams
Campbell’s Pond
H. E. Williams
Lillian Lawrence
Wakefield
Elsie Card
Greene
H. L. Holbrook
West Bath Methodist Episcopal
C. Wilson Harrison
Prince Arthur Requisitioned for War Service
The Yarmouth line steamer Prince Arthur has been requisitioned by the British government and will be withdrawn from service for 17 years. It is believed she will be sent to England to serve as a hospital ship, alongside her sister ship Prince George now abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Tarvey Ames
Brunswick
Viola Leavitt
Rene
Willie
Clara Temple
Baby
Capitol Island
Silas Hamilton
J. H. Ames
Cecelia
Bessie Sawyer
Paul Ames
Ridge Road
Edwin Brown
Passadena
Cal
Bowdeinham
Reed
Yarmouth Line
Prince Arthur
England
Prince George
John J. Lynch Joins Local Police Force
John J. Lynch has joined the local police force strengthening law enforcement staffing. He will undergo standard training and be assigned to the patrol division upon completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Lynch
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L. Farnhamco. Inc
Elm St
Everybody's Column
M_ FF. Taylor
Fort AL B
New House
J. Franklin Harris
Front ST
Johnson Bros
Bowdoinham Village
J. E. Cornish
Bowdoinham, Me
Burrough
Shaw Business College
New England
F. L. Shaw
Bowdoinham Shipbuilding
Old Town
Cathance
Coombs High School
James Pratt
Leonice Clark
Exeter
N. Ml
Hattie Perry
Gertrude Brown Pratt
Nettie Brown
Harvard
the Ridge Cemetery
Paul Hatch
I. M. Fowler
Carrie Amtaik
C. C. Purington
E. T. Jackson
Clarence Willard
Amesbury
G. M. Towle
America Purington
Methodist Aid
J. M. Towle
William Bibber
Joseph Spear
Stella Curtis
Gertrude
Floy Fish
Winchester
R. W. Carr
Harold Reney
Providence
R. 1
Emily Rideout
Reney
Gladys Bryant
J. KE. Cornish
Mr. Cornish
Joseph Elliott
Fisher
District No. 8
Grange
Fred Darton
Helen Wildes
J. F. Cornish
Newtonville
Stork
Thomas Walker Wildes
Gretchen Dorothy
Carrie Kendall
Litchfield
Ernest Merrill
Emma Ferguson
Grace Brown
P. A. Cannon
Dorothy Dickinson
Clarence Blackman
Cornelius Anderson
Bowdoin
Ruth Leonard
W. D. Luce
Concord
Mr. Anderson
Leonard
Lena Anderson
Foster
Isaac Coombs
Anderson
Mary Hardie
George Jack
Ethel Temple
Augusta Robinson
Melvina Williams
Georgia Denham
Harry Purinton
South Portland
F. W. Lorimer
Silver Bay
New York
Y.M.C.A
A. B. Lorimer
Ralph Gay
Hyde Windlass Co
Office Forte
Lavina Adams
Juan Fernandes
George Li Saupson
Agamenvsion
Windsor Forest
Rolling Wave
New Mead
Lee Sheldon
Ralph Siegars
Allan Silsby
Harold J. Simpson
Roland Smith
Arthur D. Stetson
Frank Wakefield
James W. Watson
Bertram ©. Willis
Harry E. Wilson
Charles N. Worrey
Eugene A. Worrey
Harold L. Young
Jerod S.white
Leroy E. Dickerson
Bernard F. Hennessy
Ralph M. Atwood
Sgt. Carey
Sgt. Marr
Sgt
Pratt
Sgt. McKinney
Pvt. Shaw
Popham
U.S. A. Boys
Bath's
Henry W. Owen, Jr
Samuel H. Wakefield
John IH. Williams
Samuel P. Lakin
Eliot A. Fuller
Charles T. Whitehouse
Archibald F. Carey
James H. West
Chester N. Marr
Howard W. Pratt
William G. Hodgkins
Jacob Crocker
Fred A. Stickney
Clyde A. Mains
John KF. Crosby
John J. Crane
Raymond Coolen
Edward J. Hogan
William H. Butler
Raymond Dexter
Frank H. Conant
Harry Farnham
Wiscasset
Donald A. Bibber
James R.chase
Robert R. Coombs
Phillip Daye
George J. Decato
Edward A. Erskine
Newell H. Foster
Roland J. Haining
Elwood A. Hathorne
Albert N. Ladd
Edwin S. Metcalf
William Patten
Henry L. Robbins
Oscar C. Smith
Carrol Stacy
Earle E. Stacy
Charles J. Stover
Harry P. Trask
Lloyd M. Adams
Clifford C. Aitken
Perley R. Bailey
Jefferson
Alfred A. Barter
Clarence W. Benway
Joseph
Arthur A. Gove
Maynard M. Gove
Russell M. Griffin
Wallace R. Ham
Charles B. Hart
Frank L. Higgins
John W. Higgins
William FE. Jones
Lafe L. Lessner
Lawrence F. Lewis
John D. Libby
Arthur Macaulay
Norman O. Morse
Otis A. Munro
Well
George C. Perkins
Everett Pratt
Leen M. Pratt
Ernest E. Pye
Stephen F. Richards
Elmer Robbins
Percy W. Robbins
Yarmouth
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