Georgetown News of the Week in Brief
Local notes cover church activities Working League meetings and charity plans. Community updates include residents visiting, travel to Bath Five Islands and Popham Beach events, new arrivals, grange activities, church services, and road conditions as frost thaws. Byron Rowe to carry Five Islands mail in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Scott
Popham Beach
Bath
Henry Todd
J. P. Oliver
Virginia
Frank Moore
Byron Rowe
Islands
Phippsburg News in the War Era Footnotes
Local notes report Henry Heald recovering from a severe cold and going out. George Pease offers vegetable seeds amid possible war effects on gardens. Community events include Pomona at Dro more Grange, a 82nd birthday for Katherine Weston, and a series of visits, illnesses, and road work. The week ends with Mrs. Elizabeth Golder’s death at 87 and steamship talk involving the Percy family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Heald
George C. Pease
Pease
Slade
Medford
Mass
Carrie A. Hodgman
W. R. Dickinson
Walter Storey
South Portland
Earl Bartlett
Minott Lake
Charles Pye
Charles,_Jr
Bath
Portland
George Oliver
Chaffee Bros
W. R. Bowker
Beechwood
Grange
Dromore
Pomona
Ladies’ Aid Society
Emma Sylvester
Evelyn Pye
Wilma Sylvester
Nellie Kelley
Small Point
Scituate
William McIntyre
Elmira Sylvester
Fred Oliver
Winnegance
G. D. Weston
Messrs
Clark and
Crosby
Fanny Merry
Walter Marco
James E. Perry
K. O. Weston
George L. Cutting
Rafnell
Purington
Johanna Hodgkins
Mark L. Percy
Abner C. Johnson
Bodwell Grange
Johnson
Hayrack
West Bath Grange
Topsham
Susan Campbell
Katherine O. Weston
Texas Company ship program outlines fleet to 40,500 tons
The Texas Steamship Co. plans include five ships of 9,000 tons dead weight tankers and four vessels plus towboats and barges with total capacities listed. Additional contracts may add 18,000 tons in late 1918. Walter R. Campbell returns to New York as purser for Hudson Navigation Co. Flooding from melting snow affects many cellars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas CO
Carnegie Steel Co
Steel Company
Texas Steamship Co
Walter R. Campbell
New York
Hudson Navigation Co
Woolwich Baptists Plan Novel Easter Program
A Woolwich column reports on local church plans for Easter activities at the Baptist and Center churches, noting patriotic services on April 1 and a mock trial in an Easter program. It also lists staff appointments, local deaths, and community notes from Woolwich and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Baptists
Local Notes From Cundy's Harbor and Nearby
Sunday visits feature Capt Eastman and Will Eastman in Cundy's Harbor. Brunswick trips include Mrs Holbrook and Miss Haskett visiting, while Mrs Lane returns from Portland. A woman’s illness, dental visit, and engine repair are listed among community happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Eastman
Basin
Will Eastman
Cundy’s Harbor
Advertised Letters List The Robins Come
A list of names under Women and Men categories for advertised letters. The note ends with the phrase The robins come, indicating a weather or seasonal tag. The customers include Eliza Augripple Baker S Frank Child Henry F Hutchins Grace Hearn Ruby Kenney Ella Beal Percy Burton L C Greenwood James Mercier Oliver W F Pick Ansell McPlusson J D Stowell B H St Arnaud George Towns Jesse Taylor J W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augripple
Miss Eliza
Baker
S. Frank
Child
Henry F
Hutchins
Miss Grace
Hearn
Ruby
Kenney
C. A
Milliken
Ella
Obituary of Arlo F. Davis and funeral details
The funeral of Arlo F. Davis son of Mr and Mrs George F Davis was held Wednesday afternoon from 1339 Washington St. Rev S A Evans of People's Baptist Church conducted services and pallbearers were James C Mulligan Jr Ernest Rogers Vernon and Arthur Ayers. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery. He is survived by his parents one brother Allison B of Pen Grove NJ and one sister Mrs Ruth Elles of Derby Maine. Miss Walker state organizer for suffrage spoke at several towns from Bath to Farmington Falls and Kingfield in midweek.
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Working League
Charles Clarke
Goldings
Rev. Boyd
Five Islands
Grange
Fred Spinney
Ames
Roy Moore
Bay Point
Abbion Oliver
Morrison
William Oliver
Frank Leavitt
Leavitt
Joseph Percy
Frank S. Bowker
Portland
Margaret Percy
John D. Rogers
Elsie Allegrin
Abbie Minott
Timothy Perry
Golder Leeach
Tommy Allegrin
Timothy Small
Stoneybrook
Eric Carlson
Esther Thomas
Thomas Homestead
Parker Head
Arthur L. Percy
A. A. Raven
New York
Carolina
Elizabeth Golder
Portsmouth
N. Y
Lewiston
Golder
Fanny Percy
Lectina Wyman
Memphis
James E. Percy
James E. Percy As Chief Engineer. Mr. Percy
Walter Percy
James Percy
Walter
Ruth Small
Congregational Church
Alma (Pettersson) Trott
North Woolwich
Milan J. Smith
Methodist Church
Partridge Cemetery
William Downing
Fred Crocker
Dexter W. Baker
Artell Hayward
John Savage
Augusta
Leland Savage
Christine Hawthorne
Wilmot Dodge
Sarah Bagley
Kent's Hill Seminary
Mission Band
Baptist Parsonage
Plinette Allen
Alma Pushard
Chelsea
Mass
Mary H. Crocker
Beverly
Ann Dodge
Kate Blair
Bowdoinham
D. W. Blair
John Thwing
Emma Day
Belle Ames
Clarence Preble
John Preble
Newport
Navy
Morse High School
Glee Club
Lincoln Academy
Montsweag
Christian Endeavor
Alton Soule
Baptist
Center Baptist
Harold Stevens
Chester Robbins
Helena Dana
Maxine Walker
Morse High School Glee Club
Ayer
Beacon Street
Bath
Gershom D. Trott
Bath City Hospital
Delmar
Elizabeth
Woolwich
J. R. Bailey
Maurice
Edward Dunton
Boothbay Harbor
E. L. Dunton
Oak Island Cottage
W. L. Leeman
Kathryn Hall
Alice Holbrook
Brunswick
Stella Haskett
E. W. Holbrook
Will Eastman
Sebasco
Ernest Darling
Carr Watson
Burke Norris
Frank Lane
James Eastman
Ida Murphy
Linwood Skofield
Prince
John Johnson
Jinwood Barnes
Charles Washburn
Lydia Thompson
Harmon Thompson
Sarah Trufant
Arlo F. Davis
George F. Davis
Washington St
S. A. Evans
People’s Baptist Church
James C. Mulligan, Jr
Ernest Rogers
Vernon
Arthur Ayers
Oak Grove Cemetery
Arlo Davis
Allison B
Pen Grove
N. J
Ruth Elles
Derby
Maine
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West Georgetown
Ethel Todd
John Williams
A. V. Todd
Gladys Oliver
William A
Alex Marr
B. H. Woodside
E. M. Spinney
Elmira Trafton
Georgetown Center
Boyd
Bpinney’s Mills
Madelyn Berry
Fred Reid
Earl Pottle
Julia Hinds
Lydia Oliver
Herman Spinney
Frank Hollis
John Thibadeau
G. H. Worthing
Ambrose Thibadeau
Annie Jones
Agnes Jones
Dorchester
R. Pp. Todd
Jones
Clearfield
Erlon Newdick
Benjamin Small
Auburn
Harford
W. P. Cromwell
Union Hall
South School
Roland Harford
John Thibodeau
S. P. Trafton
Phippsburg
Adalbert Williams
Eliza Morrison
Marston
Dr. Norton
D.D.S
Bath Trust Co. Bldg
Mary Preble
Dr. Stott
Clair Freeman
Wiscasset
Sumner Bailey
Wolf Pond
Benjamin Trott
Henrietta Howe
Lizzie Day
Chopps Point
Wilbur Howe
Union Bridge
Susie Brown
Nequiasset
May Kane
Murphy’s Corner
Pamelia Shaw
Remember the Place
Center Street
Robins
West Bath
Fred J. Rose
I. B. Netley
Henry J. Holden
Sarah J. McIntire
Sagadahoc
Arthur J. Dunton
Mertnietter Is
James Jones
James
John H. Maxwell
Jennie L. Maxwell
Grant Gifford
Henry E. Coolidge
Sagadahoc Mutual Fire Insurance CO
BP Eesses
B. B. Douglas
Cc. M. Marshall
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