Phippsburg News Letter Highlights Local Life
In October five marriage licenses were issued and two couples were published. The Popham school closed for a week. Capt. R. E. Fletcher travels with the auxilliary yacht Traveler, while Mrs. Hill joins later at Norfolk or Philadelphia. A baby girl arrived to the Hutchins family. Numerous local activities follow including plays, dances, porch visits, and road work by Bowker men. Pines, ponds, and weather shift with winsome community notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
R. E. Fletcher
Mr. Hill
Auxilliary
Traveler
Hill
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Key West
Fletcher
William Hutchins
Laura Matthews
Minnie Wallace
Nathaniel
John Morse
Mt. Hunger
Ridleys Landing
West Bath Grange Fair Opens With Baby Show and Entertainment
The annual West Bath Grange fair opened Wednesday with a baby show and entertainment drawing a large attendance. Sixteen babies competed for blue ribbons with Alfred Parks and Earl Walker among the winners. The event featured handiwork, decorations, a fortune telling tent, and a varied afternoon program including music by Perkins's Orchestra and recitations and solos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
The
Grange
Alfred A. Parks
Earl Walker
Gertrude Louise Freeman
Bishop Cooke to Visit Bath and Preach at Wesley
Bishop Richard J. Cooke of the Methodist Episcopal Church will preach at Wesley Church in Bath next Sunday morning. Born in New York January 31, 1853, he has served as professor and acting president of Chant University and editor of the Methodist Advocate Journal. He travels from Portland Oregon to speak in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbridge Morse
Bess Dickinson
Daniel Driscoll
Portland
Mark L. Percy
W. R. Dickinson
Minott Pond
Henry Heald’s Cove
Lillian Blaisdell
Bath
Parker Head
Fanny Percy
Richard J. Cooke
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesley Church
Bishop Cooke
New York
East Tennessee Wesleyan University
Tie
Liza Gettys Fisher
Athens
Tennessee
Chant University
Methodist Advocate Journal
Isal O
England
Ireland
Whurman St
Oregon
Mrs Briggs of the Poultry Yard stage show and fair notes
A Marion Purington Orchestra program drew over 100 attendees with Bath a large local delegation. The three act comedy Mrs Briggs of the Poultry Yard starred a full local cast and received strong applause. Readings by Miss Theo Wilson and Miss Marion Purington complemented Perkins’s orchestra. The article lists the fair committees and officers across many roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Briggs
Poultry Yard
Joannah Hodgkins
Florence Neiley
O'Connor
Belie Donnell
Mandy Bates
Ella Douglas
Theo Wilson
Marion Purington
Perkins
Frederick Wright
Einter Rak
Winthrop Harting
Owen Rogers
Fred Ring
Noghit
Berbery Hotchins
Nitsalweh Donnell
Miles Purington
Sidie Amstrong Tharsdas Mjeht
Dorman Perkins
Thearry Peterson
William Drew
Beby Stow
Rose Rich
Winthrop Ptardoe
Owen Roger Aprons
Joiteh
Dgt Wiesins
Shore Eas Committee On Fines
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Phippsburg
West Bath
J. B. Lemont
Jake
Edward Sewall
Sabine
F. S. Bowker
Georgia Leech
Adalbert Williams
Moving Pictures
Small Point Church
Anita Williams
Henry Heald
G. A. MacDonald
Alvin
Drummond Kelley
Jennie Roderick
Guy Nickerson
Brunswick
Gladys Clark Co
Wolf
the Devil
Edward Nickerson
Nickerson
Walter H. Bowker
Frank M. Bowker
Cape Horn
Mrs. Quick
Bowker & Son
Ittlefield
Brewer
Bowker
Boston
Perker Head
Cepter
KF. Ss
Wallace MacDonald
Popham Beach
Thomas McCormick
Freeport
Pownal
Henry Austin
Otis
Ohio
Arthur Percy
Morgan Line
Charles Blaisdell
Thomas Oliver
Melvin Savaze
William Small
George
Abner Wilson
John Holland
C. W. Cushiman
Mr. Cushinaen
Burnt Coat
J. Gillis
John Holland Hone
Jobs 1 Rovers
Perry Bros. & Campbell
Dora Vrocee
George Db. Weston
Charles Cutting
Frank Frisbee
Mish
Ruth Weald
Hattie Rogers
Lord
de. George Invalls
Walter Peterson
Melrose
Mass
Peterson
Kenneth
Ss. C. Campbell
W. H. Bowker
W. F. Jewell
Dp. C. L
Ena Bucknam
Issa Brown
F. W. Brown
J. B. Neiley
Arthur Brown
New Meadows
North Bath
Harry Lemont
Eugene Foster
Foster's Point
Alonzo Fisher
Joseph Larrabee
Frank Jaques
John Court
Turner
William's
Campbell's Pond
Samurel Bates
BE. W. Haggett
W. H. Brown
State Road
Wiscasset
James Stewart
Maxwell Street
J. H. Mayo
Samuel Brown
Llewellyn Rogers
Western Avenue
Lucy Gerrish
Martha Brown
Carrie Haggett
George Alexander
Mr. Purington
Topham
King’s Point
Henry Rose
Rosedale Farm
Cole
Albert Wharff
Pearl Hazen Oliver
Blanche Elizabeth Freeman
Phyllis Wright
Sadie Pottle
Annie Carolyn Plant
Gwendolyn Brown
Dorothy Anna Powers
Doris Louise Holbrook
Arthur Ernest Rideout
Elizabeth Leighton
Clarence
Clement Field
Fred Wright
Elmer Rich
W. E. Harding
Miss Coombs
Little Doris Perkins
Mister Charlie Hggett
Mrs. Perkins
Charlie Haggett
Mr, Bretton
John M. Clark
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Wm. C
Chadbourne
Front St
Bishop Richard J. Cooke
Marion Purington Orchestra
Ralph
Lester Pratt
Jimmy
Herbert Brown
Alvira
Ruth Fuller
Melissa
Dor
Purington
Silas Green
Pred Cary
Mr. Lee
KE. OW. Higgett
Virginia Tee
Edith Hennessey
Daisy Thornton
Kliner P Hodgkins
Mary Barry
Anne Campbell
Frank Young
Kate Perkins
Harry Passmore
Harold Freeman
Everett Lemont
Jeas Werte
Sadie Armstrong
Hees SE
Petey
Yoav Brovelt
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F. W. Bird and CO
East Walpole
Johnson Firos
Maine
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