Local Jottings and Page Highlights from Bangor Maine
Items note July issue of The American Boy at Thompson Bros. and a People Church meeting. The Southport carried summer crowds to Boothbay Line with City of Bangor the largest list. Alice Mey Douglas to speak on Kindness to Animals at Lisbon Methodist Church. Gypsy moth treatment by Maine Dept of Agriculture sprayed arsenic. Morse High School jet trees treated. New Meadows Boat Club cruise postponed due to weather. dinner at Garnet with entertainment. Young People’s Convention of Christian Endeavor plans at Corliss Street Church with Rev. Stair and E.A. Davis speaking. Event coverage includes a pricey circus outing and a Kennebec Journal report on Indiana Progressive defections and a Roxbury accident. A new song The Dear Old Kennebec Way Down in Maine honors Richmond youth and features Emerson and Miss Sherburne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Bros
People’s Church
Southport
Boothbay
Boston
Bangor
Alice Mey Douglas
Methodist Church
Lisbon
American Humane Education Society
Miss Douglas
Bands of Mercy
Maine Department of Agriculture
Carlton Lowell
Frank Whalen
Paul Fitzgerald
Morse High School
New Meadows Boat Club
Garnet
Amity Mace Purington
Young People’s Convention of Christian Endeavor
Corliss Street
George R. Stair
First Baptist Church of
Portland
Allen
Woolwich
E.A. Davis
Kennebec Journal
Edward C. Toner
Paul J. Haynes
Progressive State Central Committee of
Indiana
Republican Party
Summer Arrivals and Local News Spark Maine Town
Summer bustle hits Bath and Brunswick as ferryboats repaint and gardens thrive. Maine officials announce highway work, a Portland appointee named to lead the state highway commission, and a large lumber cargo arrives in Boston from Florida. Local clubs host social events and election talks, while farmers report showers and peas brought to market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Bath Lodge of Moose
Boston
John L. Purington
Claire Morrison
George Crocker
Crocker
H. D. Bacon
Bright Meadows
North Bath
T. E. Dolan
Harpswell Road
Harpswell
Philip J. Deering
Portland
Maine State Highway Commission
Oakley C. Curtis
Deering
Lyman H. Neilson
Florida
Mary W. Bowen
Clark
Pensacola
George McQuestion Co
Bowen
Ruth Robinson
Waterville
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Maine
Lola B. Hayes
Foxcroft
Lizzie Millett
South Paris
Elizabeth J. Savage
Bangor
Woman's National Relief Corps
Josie Matthews
Pittsfield
Maude C. Kendall
Biddeford
Elizabeth S. Hodsdon
Oakland
Delta Alpha Society of the People’s Church
Harry Blaisdell
Richardson St
The
Argus
Nantucket Shoals
Wyoming
Norfolk
Sidney B. Stewart
Helen W. Martin
Gulfport
Miss
Grand Trunk Railway
Edward E. Barry
Cape
Jacksonville
Maine Central Railroad
Local notices mix social events and small town happenings
Community brief recounts visits from tramps to lodgings and social gatherings. Farms in West Bath raise chickens and berries for local markets while a new Wurlitzer organ arrives in Rockland and a hotel gains attention. The YMCAs plans open for fall renovations and a county courthouse doorway project progresses.
Wallula steamer raised. mud removal planned on river
A Lakes built steamer sank Jan 17 and lay immersed until raised Wednesday night. About 700 tons of river mud must be dug out at Wallula. Pianist George A. Crockett played again at the Columbia. Miss Louise Robinson filled in during his absence. The Wallula tow and dock arrangements sparked local debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallula
George A. Crockett
Columbia
Mr. Crockett
Louise Robinson
Houghton
New Meadows Inn
Eastern Sta
Owdoin
Bath mi
Byron F. Barker
Rupert H. Baxter
For Sale Two Horse Mowing Machine and One Horse Mower
Two horse mowing machine priced at 15 dollars and a one horse mowing machine at 5 dollars listed by J. F. Upton in Winnegance Maine phone 301 R. Also note a cart of heavy horses received Friday June 26 with cash or easy terms offered by G. L. Quint in Topsham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Upton
Tel
Winnegance
G. L. Quint
Topsham
Local machinist found dead under box shop press
James H Blauvelt of this city a Bath Lumber Co machinist was found dead beneath a printing press used for shipping directions at about 1 30 pm. The coroner ruled accidental death with no inquest and relatives sought for burial arrangements. Blauvelt aged about 30 to 35 previously married to Nan Penny who died months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Blauvelt
Bath Lumber Co
Middle St
Blauvelt
Jackson
Nan Penny
Wadsworth A Wonder Arrives at Bath Iron Works
The oil burning turbine driven destroyer Wadsworth built for the U S Navy arrived at Bath Iron Works at 1 30 p m Thursday after completing its official preliminary trials with utmost success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth
Bath Iro Works
U. S. Navy
Builders’ Works
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles E. Holbrook
Pine St
J. Ernest Holbrook
Roxbury
Ferdinando Gorges
M.C.R.R
L. S. Wright
Fairbanks Scales
John Gilmore
Mercury Haz
Ernest Purinton
Freeport
Galen Low
West Bath
Rockland
Frank Ham
County Court House
Malcolm Baxter, Jr
Rio Janeiro
Portland Yacht Club
Winneganee Bay
Meadowbrook Inn
Y.M.C.A
Virginia
Charles Dwyer
Saco
Rose Johnson
Morse High
Lewiston Brigade
Stanton
Central Church
New Meadows
E. B. Lermond
William Jenkins
Edward Erskine
B. Wishart
John Belanger
Clinton Sutherland
Havaland Torrey
Amory Houghton
James Dunton
Frank Hagan
E. French
John Nocton
Small
Thurston
Daughters of Maine of
Frank H. Holden
Lake Nagog
North Acton
Nagog
John J. Enneking
Ida V. Leeds
George W. Young
Flora E. Barry
Sarah D. Wheeler
Grace G. Lowell
Lucy A. Robertson
Jeannie Robertson
T. Mooers
Emma F. Pratt
Lizzie B
Horace L. Chanell
Dsaighter
Dorothy
John W. Chanell
Horace
North End
Union
Chanell
Muse
Woman's Club
Barre
Frederick Kaivon
Berlin St
Ayers St
Gospel Village
Kateon
Martha E. Katon
Bowdoin
Filme’s
Cundy's Harbor
Post Office Department
Wis
Sumer
Sumut
N. Gratz Jackson
James H. Kauvelt
Bath Lumber
Malden
Mass
Jess Blauvelt
Worcester
Jess
Mary Donnell Jlauvelt
Moses Tome
Highland St
Eureka
Acci
Portsmouth
Powell
Warrener
Fore River Shipbuilding Co
Fore River
E. H. P. Anderson
Henry W. Howard
Front St., Bath, Me
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