Bowdoinham Discusses Power Plant Vote and Local News
Bowdoinham townspeople focus on a five year Central Maine Power Co. contract for electric light upgrades. Harry Powers campaigns for selectman amid talk of electricity propositions, while Mrs. Eliza Hardie and others face illness. The community notes a 93 year old funeral, frigid weather, and various regional socials and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Powers
Selectmen
Board of Selectmen
Central Maine Power Co
Williams
Richmond
Bowdeinham
W. S. Given
Eliza Hardie
America Purinton
R. H. Jack
H. D. Grant
Five Islands Pie Auction Supports Grange Fund
A Rowe's Hall millinery social Saturday featured a pie auction raised 2.16 after selling five pies with a frosting pie at 1.25. Prizes awarded for best and worst hats, and proceeds boosted the Grange fund while other community notices followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowe’s Hall
The
Grange
J. T. McMahan
Dr. Cragin
Alton Berry
Cragin
IL. H. Rowe
Manfred Newdick
James T. McMahan
Grange Orchestra
J. M. Stevens
Charles W. Nocton
L. H. Rowe
Will Rowe
Pomona
March Flip or Flop Echoes Old Adage in Weather Talk
In Phippsburg residents debate whether March will mirror February with a mild finish. Fred Oliver delivered treenail stock to Bowker yard and will be employed there with his horses next season. Postmaster Mrs. George C. Pease endures a tense week balancing Post Office duties and her ailing parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Oliver
Bowker Yard
Oliver
George C. Pease
Saturday Sale Inexpensive Crockery and Textiles
A crowded advertisement lists low priced kitchenware and textiles with 10c to 25c items. Crockery including a Glass Rose Vase and Egg Boilers. napery like Linen Towels and Huck Toweling. wallpapers and shelf paper. various linens and fabrics such as Percale Ginghams and Outing. long cloth and flannelette offered in limited quantities for a Saturday sale.
Town Meeting Items and Local Notices Ahead of Ballot
A Brunswick town meeting draft lists articles including road and bridge repairs, school bills, and the next State road location from Pitch Pine Hill to Dromore Bridge. It also proposes funds for a Basin school remodel, public watering tank maintenance, schoolhouse flagpoles, Dromore and Pitch Pine Hill schools, Popham Beach sidewalk work, and a Dromore Bridge culvert. Local deaths and social notes follow, including Mrs. Richard Mann, 52.
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Nellie Perry
Brunswick
James C. Perry
Snow Hills
Pitch Pine Hill
Dromore Bridge
Selectman
Basin
Sanford Doughty
A. W. Blaisdell
Supt
Dromore
Popham Beach
Boat Landing
William Mann
F. J. Lisman
Richard Mann
Mann
New York
Ida E Erskine widow of Elbridge G Erskine dies at 66
Ida E Hughes Erskine 66 widow of Elbridge G Erskine died after a brief illness of bronchial pneumonia. A native of Bremen Maine she was long a Beacon Street Methodist Church member and resided with her son Harvey K Erskine at 1181 Washington St. Funeral at two this afternoon from the son's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida E. Erskine
Elbridge G. Erskine
Bremen
Isaac
Mary Ann Hughes
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Erskine
Harvey K. Erskine
Washington St
Curran Lewis Couple Wed at St Marys Church
Miss Mabel Curran and Ralph Lewis united in marriage Monday evening at seven o clock by Father Horan at St Marys Church. A reception for the couple followed at 3 Willow Street Court. Refreshments of ices cake and fruit were served and a happy hour enjoyed. William Gilette reporter for the Y M C A Camp at Arrowsic was in town for the weekend and planned to return to Boston soon with a visit due in about a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Sparks
Philadelphia
William
Robert Hatch
The
River Road
James Libby
Central Maine Hospital
Georgie Robinson
Portland
America Purington
W. S. Given
Herbert
Mary Wilson
Kennebunk
Methodist
J. L. Pinkerton
H. D. Cornish
Pleasant St
W Lauris Wilson
Mary T. Purington
Main St
Grant
Joseph Adams
Ridge Road
Irish
Sons of Veteran’s Auxiliary
Grange Hall
G. H. McKay
Augusta
Eastern Star
Edwin McFarland
Lena Patten
Brunswick
W. W. Denham
Frank Gilbert
Farmington
Long Branch Farm
Gilbert
Maggie Lewis
Arthur Lewis
Coll. Mosher
Mark L. Percy
James Percy
Parker Head Village
Elbridge Morse
Hattie Morse
Frank Wyman
Fred Wyman
Percy District
Mark Percy
William Cushing
Winneganee
Walter Perry
William Small
Bath
Parker Head
Evelyn Hosmer
Ashdale
Mabel Curran
Ralph Lewis
Father Horan
St. Mary’s Church
Willow St. Court
William Gilette
Y.M.C.A
Arrowsic
Boston
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Bowdoinham
of Electric
Margaret Newell
Eliza Varney
Fred Spear
South Portland
Varney
Hazel Cornish
Simmons College
Frank Brown
Somerset Junction
al Cornish
Bridge St
Joseph Adams, Jr
New Hampshire
Ellis M. Beane
Joseph Dalton
E. J. Millay
J. F. Baker
Monmouth
A. L. Smith
Melvina Williams
Duluth
Minnesota
E. P. Kendall
F. K. Jack
Bertha Irish
George Pratt
Howard
Woodfords
Pratt
Emeline Pratt
W. B
Nathaniel Williams
Bride
Biddeford
Lottie Cobb
Tirrell
John Mealey
Central Maine General Hospital
T. W. Blaisdell
Ellen Cromwell
Carrie Hagan Heald
Doris Moore
J. M. Harford
Ida
Harford
Southport
Southport Grange
Everett Cromwell
Iva
Alice
W. P. Cromwell
Priscillas
Minnie McMahan
W. H. Holland
Jennie Dearborn
Eliza Dearborn
Sarah Stevens
Willis Brewer
George Hanna
Wallace Pierce
B. F. Fickett
Frank Rowe
Boothbay Harbor
W. F. Delano
Phippsburg
SALE
Percy
Men’s Dept
Ipswich
Colgate’s and Williams
Satur- Daveege
Daputgny
Roncan
Germantown
Saxony
Shetland
D.T. Percy & Sons
Sadie Stacy
Bert Young
Cordelia Morrison
Leslie Oliver
B. B. Society
Chapel Town
Guy Crocker
Joe Crocker
Earl Pike
Ellis Rogers
Annie Nichols
Alice Minott
F. S. Bowker
Adalbert Williams
Bess Dickinson
Ethel Barrymore
Miss Barrymore
Abbie Minott
Camden
Charles Leon Stevens
F. B. Williams
George Edward Black
Sebasco
Harpswell
Philena Wallace
Joseph Black
J. House of
Alvena Oliver
West
Poland
William Farr
Rebecca Bowker
Ralph Patten
Walter Small
Walter
Abbie
Mable
Alvina
Edward H. Sampson
Fred Starks
Daniel Miller
N. Gratz Jackson
Rollins Cemetery
Elbow Hill
Curran-Lewis
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