Bowdoinham Thanksgiving Visitors and Local Doings
Thanksgiving guest lists fill Bowdoinham as residents visit kin in Topsham Augusta Portland and Waterville. The community reports fairs minstrels and lodge events at Hendersons as well as ship arrivals and a deer shot by Hon. Fr. S. Adams. Local church activities mark the holiday week with services and Epworth League meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Adams
Ira Billems
Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co
H. D. Grant
Mary Carney
Portland
P Fair
Red Acre Farm
Local Jottings From Friday's Community Activities
The Guards drilled Friday due to a holiday. Auxiliary groups planned a supper in Lincoln. Camp Sons of Veterans held a whist party in Foresters Hall. Passmore Mill stock and sales building work began near the city landing. Captain Nat Marrin transported groceries from his West Georgetown store. Gospel Mission services were held all day Thursday. Grace Church Men’s Club hosted a regular social with supper at six-thirty. The Ceceel iaee Pee we LIS tst emer medi Times screened first motion pictures at the Columbia. Navy awards for torpedo boat destroyers likely delayed until early next week. Cold sea weather slowed fishermen arrivals. Myrtle Lodge Odd Ladies installed officers Friday evening. Coasting activity dominated local hills and fields among youth. Steamer Virginia reported 30–40 black ducks off Bald Head on the lower Kennebec. some native geese weighed 10 to 10 pounds. Handsome birds noted from Bowdoinham by the Scribe. Provence Andrews hosted, W Dayton Hill elected president. Troward Haw ley secretary, Daniel Williams treasurer. Fifteen members in a budding social club starting weekly meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
T. W. Tryde
Sons of Veterans
Foresters’ Hall
David Mosher
Passmore Mill
City Landing
Nat Marrin
Marion
West Georgetown
The
Gospel Mission
Washington -Sh
Hah Reve
Men’s Club of Grace Church
Columbia
Navy Department
Myrtle Lodge
Odd Ladies
Virginia
Bald Head
Kennebec
Bowdoinham
Helen
Jewell
Phippsburg Center
Stea Larse
S.A. Evans
People’s Baptist Church
Haydn Quartet
Bath
City of
Bangsar
City of Angasta
Ae Sore Ahi
Chesley Hutchins
South End
New York
Seluce
Mitine
Mr. Hutchins
Lola
West Indies
Cape Haitien
San Pedro
San Domingo
Washington
Solace
Kansas
Tacoma
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Hutchins
Bath area notes include weather, mills and social events
Snow melting and walks clear. Thanksgiving services planned. The old mill pond at Winneesanes was frozen. Schooner Nat Meader likely driven to sea amid weather stress. Chamber of Commerce to nominate officers Monday night. A 650 pound hog shipped to Bath. Red Men initiated a member in Sasanoa Tribe. Henry MelWway to operate portable mill in Woolwich. Grand Patriarch Jackson spoke at OW Mellows meeting for encampment drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hasan
Rave Charels
Ten Atlock
Hovkotrack 32
Winneesanes
Nat Meader
Barter
Sasanoa Tribe
Henry MelWway
Phippsburg
West Bath
Woolwich
Chamber of Commerce
Bradford Clark
Wiscasset
Bath
L. I. Lowell
C. F E. Jackson
Portland
Hyde Block
Thanksgiving Eve Stories and Harbor News From Bath
Various Bath area notes tell of Thanksgiving festivities at Morse High School Armory, hunting trips in the region, and local trades. Construction by F E Morse on North Street continues while Portmouth Navy Yard workers miss a visit. A Bath woman faces a court morality action and heads home by train. The Bowdoin athletics census highlights strong student scholars and local shipping and river activity winds down for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin
Gardiner Light
Ema Clifton
Boston
Morse Bros. Bath
ElMems
Bowdoinham
Avery
Whitlam
Norman
Parks
Miss Corey
Thompson Bros
Kennebec Journal
Gage Street
Municipal Court
Bath
Casco Bay
Maritime and civic notes from the coast and river towns
Buoy Zizania ordered up river for a call. Capt Snowden led a Windegance meeting. Shark headed from Richmond to Boothbay Harbor for winter. Capt Colby and the Sayadahoe drove eight fender piles at M W Sewall’s wharf. Mr and Mrs Bradford Clark of Wiscasset mark 67 years married with visitors and gifts. Levi Miller reports engagement as superintendent of a portable mill on Tibbetts timber jot. Navy rejects coal transport bids to Philippine Islands as too high. Arthur Sewall offers Dirigo for December at 7.62. Wittenburg Coal Co bids from New York. Rev MacDonald with Sunbeam at Cranberry Island for winter fittings after riding out a storm at Stonington. MacDonald, a former Bath boy, is with Bar Harbor Sea Coast Mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Colby
Sayadahoe
M. W. Sewall
Bradford Clark
Wiscasset
Levi Miller
Tibbetts
Poiana
Lehana
Cnt
Navy Department
Atlantic
Philippine Islands
Arthur Sewall & Co
Bath
Dirigo
Wittenburg Coal Co
New York
Alexander P. MacDonald
Bar Harbor Sea
Y M C A gymnasium changes and maritime incident
The Y M C A gymnasium will remove a wall to gain space for basketball and install first class shower baths and conveniences. The Monomoy Point life savers returned from a schooner named Samuel Dillaway bound from Portland to Philadelphia after the donkey engine shaft broke while raising the anchor. J P Hutchinson a prominent Auburn businessman and public figure died at home Tuesday night. Fishermen report poor smelt catches and rare salmon or bass with claims that lack of fall rains has left river water unusually salty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y. M.C.A. Gsminasium
Monomoy Point
Samuel Dillaway
Portland
Philadelphia
J. P. Hutchinson
Auburn
Haines
Grand Commanders of
Maine
Knights Templar
Hindelimson, Co
Maine Association of Fire Insurance Agents
New England
Kennebec
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J. FE. Cornish
Newtonville
Mass
Mr. Cornish
L. D. Small
Alton Small
E. B. Duran
Lonie Sparks
Hattie O. Perry
Charles Perry
Topsham
John A. Cone
Capt
Benj. Adams
Gusta Adams
Mary T. Purinton
Ralph Denham
Denham
William Denham
Edith Fulton
Carrie Frost
Augusta
C. W. Frost
W. B. Kendall
Ife
E. A. Wood
Alphonze Woot
I. A. Aandros
Hattie O. Andros
Ruby Wood
B. B. Andros
Philip Wood
Chee Maxwell
Clinton
Bowdeinham
Ted Wendall
R. Dp. Purinton
Ernest Small
Waterville
Mr. Small
K. of PY
Wiggins
Frank Curtis
Express
Dr. Irish Block
Kf.k
Jack
Lodge
Josiah Armstrong
Red Acre
Clarence Blackman
Varnaby Strutt
Frank Mackett Jonas Jones
Charles Berrs
Squire Harcourt
Mort
Richard Denham
Harry Harcourt
Kies Randall
Lauris Wilson
Tom Bush
Guy Werber
Amanda Armstrong
Josiah
Elsie Dickinson
Nellie Armstrong
Jessie Blackman
Laura Armstrong
Flora Leavitt
Barnaby Strutt
Evelyn Edgecomb Junior
Strutts
Ava Cornish
Lisine
Junion Legere
Tipu
Baptist Church
M.N. Reed
Christian Endeavor
Priver and Praise
Methodist Church
Boon
J. Lewis Sawver
Provence Andrews
W. Dayton Hill
Troward Hawley
Daniel Williams
C. P. Bates
Carltton
Wiatsit- Inston St
Mill Pond
al Ridley
Son Mitchell
Buetene Choate
F E. E. Morse
Stevens
North St
Portsmouth Navy
William Folex
Folex
Hyde
Larrs
Morse High Jiniors
K.Y.C
William Cameron
Harry Witham
Manfred Seidlinger
Amos Knight
Westport
Sanford
Charles Chappelle
Murphys Corner
Lewiston
Hockomock
Brunswick Road
Foote Homestead
New Meadows
Foote’s
Bowdoin
George Barter
Boothbay Harbor
Meader
Read Nichols
Prent St
Tamiden St. Corner
Andrew Gallant
Linus
Sterling
Thompson Bros. Bath
Conley’s Specialty Store
Zizania
Capt. Snowden
Windegance
Shark
Richmond
Winter Quarters
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