Phippsburg Local News Notes and Moves
Walter Rogers suffered a double arm fracture while cranking an automobile at West Point. Various residents attend gunning at Small Point and visits to and from Bath and Brunswick. Road work progresses south of the center with $190 state funds and a crew led by William Eaton. Several residents change homes, visit Bangor, Bath, and Cohasset, while the Bowker yard launches a new vessel named John R. Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Rogers
Charles Rogers
Winneganee
West Point
George Davis
Brunswick
George Wilson
Bath
Miss Sweet
Massachusetts
Maria Harris
Basin
J. Oscar Wyman
Portland
Perley Rackleff
William Eaton
Paul Gilmore
Charles Morton
Frank Frisbee
Charles Locke
James Oliver
J. D. Rogers
C. H. Cutting
Mr. Eaton
8. B. Cutting
J. O. Lincoln Oif
Irving Harrington
Albert Grassie
Cohasset
Mass
Herbert Bowker
George GC
Jennie Chaplin
William Rogers
Lewis Jowell
Parker Head
William R. Bowie
Jowell
George L. Oliver
Bangor
Alice J. Alden
Bowker Yard
John R. ‘Fox
E.L. Wasson
Paris
Frank Allegrin
Levi Powers
Robinhood
Kennebec
Clinton Beals
Funds solicited for coffin for living scout official says hoax
Scout Commissioner Edward Pomeroy recounted a scare when he learned that funds were being raised to buy a casket for him. He investigated after a North End youngster allegedly collected donations from kind neighbors under a troubling claim. A family reported donating to aid a troop camping trip, but it is unclear if linked to the supposed death tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Pomeroy
North End
Pomeroy
Round About Club Celebrates Twelfth Anniversary
The Round About club marked its 12th anniversary with an all day event hosted by Mrs. L L Lowell in Woolwich. Members including Mrs Edward Hartwell Mrs Charles Carr Mrs William H Small and others toured to Nequasset for a chicken dinner and berry gathering, the season opening after irregular past meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. L. Lowell
Woolwich
Edward Hartwell
Charles Carr
William H. Small
James E. Lockery
Winifred Durgin
Warren A. Lowell
Bedford Street
Bath
Nequasset
Rural Carrier Examination in Lincoln County
The United States Civil Service Commission announces a rural carrier examination for Lincoln County to be held December 14 at Bath and Rockland to fill a Wiscasset post and possible future rural route vacancies. Application blanks available from local offices or the Civil Service Commission in Washington. Submit applications soon. During the war, women may take rural carrier exams on the same terms as men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Lincoln
Bath
Rockland
Wiscasset
Washington
Commission
Post Office Department
West Bath
Ray McCabe
Fred Coombs
Grant
Virginia Foote
Ida Dart
E. R.brown
Emma Gerrish
Herbert M. Gerrish
Malden
Jed C. Gerrish
Harry Rich
Sebasco
H. Richardson
Andrew Green
Lis Lon Falls
Green
Emma Shorey
Maine Agricultural and Industrial League
Cosmopolitan Club
Lowell School
Carrie ‘Perry
Bath High School
Seth
Elmer Higgins
Frederic
Pearl Gaudreau
Ernest Kenney
Edwin
Haggett
M Haggett
James I. Thompson
Spanish Influenza Threat Widens Across the Continent
The article warns of the influenza epidemic reaching North America with thousands ill and deaths reported. Surgeon General Blue predicts spread within 61 weeks and urges personal hygiene and precautions. It promotes Fruit-a-tives as a health tonic with sale details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
General Blue
United States Public Health Service
Blue
Fruit-A-Tives Limited
O@DENSBURG
N, Y
Sorority Elects New Officers At Wesley Church Meeting
The Sorority of Wesley church met Monday night at Mrs. Fred W. Armes home on Cherry street for a social evening and elected officers: President Mrs. Charles Foster, vice president Miss Charlotte Cook, chaplain Miss Sarah Black, secretary treasurer Miss Ena Bucknam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Church
Fred W. Armes
Cherry Street
Charles Foster
Charlotte Cook
Sarah Black
Ena Bucknam
West Bath community notes and human interest items
The Bath region reports daily life details from West Bath and surrounding towns. Local families travel, work shifts, and changes in residences while Red Cross and school activities proceed. Nurses, shopkeepers, and farmers are noted with patient recoveries and community service amid illness and the arrival of a new mail carrier.
Ferryboat Hockomock Returns to Duty Saturday Morning
Ferryboat Hockomock resumes service Saturday morning after repairs for winter operations. Woolwich workers and local farmers welcome the return as producers can transport milk eggs hay and vegetables again. City Clerk Grasso said inquiries came from Rockland Bath and even plans to travel to Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hockomock
Woolwich
Grasso
Rockland
Bath
Boston
Mary Antin to Speak on National Defenses in Bath
The Bath forum Sunday includes enhanced music with cornet and violin as Jack Shaw conducts and Mrs Shaw plays piano. Mary Antin arrives Saturday evening to talk on The Gap in Our National Defenses and then heads to Brunswick for a Sunday lecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Triangle Forum
Jack Shaw
Two Barrels Peach Stones Shipped and Red Cross Drive
Two barrels of peach stones were shipped from Percys store on Thursday in this part of Maine. Harrimans collects tin foil platinum and tin tubes for the Red Cross. School children especially support the drive by bringing in most of the paper foil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy
Maine
Harriman's
Red Cross
Women urged to join sewing doughnut drive meeting
Mrs Sewall extends invitation to all interested women to gather at 4 PM Saturday at 963 Washington Street to finalize plans for a wartime drive. Doughnuts will be made and sold at ten cents each near industrial plants to mobilize labor and funds. Miss Jane Whitmore visits Mrs Ernest A Allan in Hamilton Washington DC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold M. Sewall
Washington Street
Jane Whitmore
Ernest A. Allan
Hamilton
Washington, D. C
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Phippsburg
Rural Carrier Examination
U.S
Perfection Oil Heaters
Standard Oil Company OF
New York
Standard Oilcox
John Higgins
Bart Donnell
Fred Brawn
Frank Higgins
Moosehead
L. H. Curtis
Studebaker
Fred, Jr
Brown
John Doucette
Freeport
Fred Butler
Robert Small
Carl Blaisdell
Sabino
Wilton G. Bates
Bates Cottage
Ralph Whitehouse
Warren Pashard
Wilton Bates Cottage
Sabine
William Brown
William, Jr
Miller
Edna Higgins
Fred Higgins
Texas Steamship Co
R. P. Decker
A. C. Brown
John King
Bowdeinham
Charles E. Bliss
Mabel Rogers
Littlefield School
Myra Coombs
Dorothy Stilkey
Jack Pinel
Quincey
Harold Freeman
William Fields
Campbell's Pond
John Rogers
Grace
Dorchester
George Rogers
May Rogers
Etta Bloom
Mary Cushing
Mary Paine
North Bath
Fitchburg
California
Flora Edgecomb
Annie Trufant
A. H. Donnell
Lillian Brown
Annie Williams
Edna White
E. S. Stackpole
Elm Street
C. Raymond Chappell
Providence
R. I
Sylvestus Pennell
Lewiston
Frank Durant
Sanford’s Crossing
Rachel ‘Coffin
Trufant Street
R.fid
Edwin W. Haggett
West Bath Grange
Pamnana Coranva
John J
the House of Kappenholme Esmond Do
Conley’s Specialty Store
Mary Antin Coming
Open Fortuin
Fletcher
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