Postmaster Hyde praised as ideal pick for town
The piece lauds Edward W. Hyde as an exemplary postmaster choice and notes local openness to testing a tidal power project. It also laments Bangor’s devastating fire, praises its resilient recovery, and urges upkeep of warning signs and pest control, alongside rural concerns about livestock and agriculture in West Bath and Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Carlton
Montsweag
Bath
James T. Soule
Boston
Tate
Wiscasset High School
Woolwich Grange
Fierce Phippsburg Fire Trials Neighbors Fight Spread
A severe grass and woodland blaze in Phippsburg yesterday challenged residents as winds and dry conditions fanned flames. George D. Weston started the fire. back firing and crowd efforts helped check it near several Rogers and Cutting properties. Mrs George Cutting and daughter Aletha earned praise for their firefighting. Government gypsy moth scouts assisted in containment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
George D. Weston
Dromore
Weston Wood
W. A. C. Rogers
Myra E. Rogers
George Cutting
Aletha
George Ingalls
Pitch Pine Hill
Bean Picking Bee Delights Bowdoinham Neighbors
A lively social at Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kelley on Ridge Road drew about forty neighbors for a bean picking bee followed by refreshments and song. Rev. W. C. Beedy arrives as Methodist pastor after preaching a strong first sermon. The Anna Lord schooner brings coal to Capt. Benjamin Adams. Merrymeeting grange weighs heating options for the hall with a summer install planned. Eureka Fly Killer company gears up for the busy season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Kelley
Ridge Road
Marshall White
W. C. Beedy
Methodist Church
Merrymeeting Grange
Eureka Fly Killer Company
Georgetown News Roundup Harrowing wagon crash and local updates
Wilton S Campbell was thrown from a wagon in Georgetown sustaining head and shoulder injuries. later reports say the injuries are not serious and recovery is expected. Others include Mrs Nancy Oliver improving after illness, and travel notes about residents from Bath Pittsburg and Richmond. Local school enrollment shifts, frost retreat, and poultry leader William Haley feature, along with theft at Center schoolhouse and hospital surgery on Linnie Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilton S. Campbell
Nancy Oliver
Walter Newdick
Bath
Robert Newell
Pittsburg
Everett Jewett
Auburn
Geo. Oliver
Riggsville
Annie O. Rowe
Vina Kingsbury
Owen K. Marr
Popham
Ernest Harford
Richmond
William Haley
Haley
Kneeland
Bowdeinham
Harvey Oliver
Oak Ames
Linnie Page
Wiscasset
Lewiston
E. C. Merry
Georgetown
Five Islands Hill Fire Threatens Dunwoody Cottages
A fire started by hot ashes on the hill east of the Dunwoody house burned a large area before firefighters contained it. A bucket brigade operated as a strong wind and dry ground raised the danger, with Mr Hall and Mr Gray's cottages nearly at risk. Residents warned to exercise caution in dry weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunwoody House
West Bath Grange Monday Night Program
The West Bath Grange program for next Monday night features Singing, Grange Reading, Wilson Piano Solo, Sadie Armstrong Recitations, Fred Cary Discussion on whether the Grange today reflects community good as it did twenty years ago, Herbert Hodgkins and Fred Ring Vocal Solo, F M Harndsen Reading, Bernice Blair Happenings of the week, Ella Douglas Male Quartette, Tableaux, Spelling Contest, captains O P Coffin, Lillian Rogers, teacher Addie Purington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Grange
the Wilson
Sadie Armstrong
Fred Cary
Herbert Hodgkins
Fred Ring
F. M. Harndsen
Bernice Blair
Ella Douglas
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Harry C. Webber
Edward W. Hyde
Bangor
Fore
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West Bath
Woolwich Town
Kennebec
Charles H. Rice
Portland
H. E. Carlton
William N. Beal
Mary A. Gowen
Fred
Winneganee
Fred Robinson
Brunswick
Winnegance
Woolwich
Walter Hagan
Providence
Newport
Alonzo McNear
Purser Shaw
Hockomock
Charles P. Wetherbee
Bath Iron Works
Sasanoa Bluffs
Maine
Harmony Club of
North Woolwich
Anus Thwing
Sebenon Hall
Fred Gowen
A. C. Brown
Small Point
Dora Austin
Z. Gowen
Josie Winter
John
David Reed
Edward
Dunton
Thomas Savage
Frank W. Jones
Scott Tibbetts
Ruby Nason
Minnie Getchell
I Islands
Wright
F. M. Lawrence
Felix Stinson
Ruth Stinson
Nequasset Stream
Dodge
Damariscotta
Lester
Lincoln Academy
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A. J. Hagan
Mary Plumstead
Harmony Club
Center
W. L. Bradeen
Nequasset
North Methodist Church
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Bowdoinham
Mary R. Bubier
Andrew Bubier
Mary E. Bubier
Lewis Bubier
Litchfield
Marie Lettie Bosworth
Tilton
N. H
Arthur Bubier
Ella Blin
New Mexico
Mary KE. Bubier
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M. T. Hall, JR
State OF Maine
Thousan
James Me Lowell
W.congley
Register
State OF
Almira M. Sylvester
de Eet
William Bylvester
Souptye
Ruth L. Sylvester
Nathaniel P. Sylvester
Wilma W. Sylvester
Charles V. Minott, Jr
Walter S. Glidden
James S. Lowell
Tee W. Longley
Sagdahoc
Holden
Bowdoin
John Lewis
Bowdoin Center
Henry Webber
Lisbon Line
W. Nelson
R. E. Purinton
S. W. Ackley
E. A. Jordan
J. P. Bailey
R. S. Carr
N. Doughty
Court of County Commissioners
Fred H. Thompson
O. P. Coffin
Lillian Rogers
Addie Purington
Chas. L. Oliver Archie E. Doyle
David R. McDougall
Ernest F. Kelley
Ray M. Triggs
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