Woolwich News Sees Advent Calm and Busy Holiday Prep
Probate Court set for next Tuesday as Woolwich gears for Christmas. Advent begins with the first Sunday. Holiday shopping, river front quiet, and Thanksgiving air linger in town. Gunning season wanes, iron works strike ends, and schools reopen after recess. Community events include yacht club dances, Grange meetings, and church services. preparations for a December fair proceed at Woolwich Center.
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Imens
Cain
Woolwich Center
Grange Hall
Clyde Carlton
Lewiston
Geraldine
Wygonda_ Harley
Nellie York
Portland
James Wallace
Sebasco Estates
Ira Perry
Dromore Grange
B. Walker McKeen
Fryeburg
Grange
Parker Head Chapel Repairs Under Way
The Ladies' Aid plan extensive repairs on Parker Head Chapel to improve the church. Community activities include a Friday social, hunting and fishing reports, and local visits by residents and visitors from Bath, Searsport, and Sebasco Estates.
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Parker Head
Jordan Percy
Alston Oliver
Solar Lodge of Masons
Bath
Oliver
William Mann
Leconnett
Norfolk Va
Frank Daley
Mr. Duley
Searsport
Erwin Daley
Boston
W. H. Daley
Young People’s Independent Society
Pearl Lowell
Galen Hinckley
Committees Named For Christmas Tree Aid Programs
The Colonial Club teams with Grace Church Men’s Club and Cosmopolitan Club to organize Christmas trees for city children at the Bath Opera House. Mothers and children will attend. Christmas dinners may follow. Subcommittees formed by Colonial Club and Cosmopolitan Club members met to assign duties.
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Colonial Club
Grace Church
Cosmopolitan Club
New
Bath Opera House
Jails to close in Lincoln county send prisoners to Rockland
Lincoln county will close the Wiscasset jail due to few prisoners and transfer prisoners to Rockland. The Wiscasset facility is noted as one of New England’s oldest in service. Also a Portland recital featured Herbert S. Kennedy Jr. in the studio of Mrs. Viola de Gry.
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Will Lowell
Alston Oliver
Frank M. Manson
William Cushing
Lincoln County
Wiscasset
Rockland
New England
Portland
Viola de Grys
Somerset
Herbert S. Kennedy, Jr
Kennedy
Viola de Gry
Miss Ellen Farnham Dies in Omaha at 19
Ellen J. Farnham daughter of David C. Farnham long resident of Woolwich died suddenly in Omaha Nebraska on November 19. The obituary notes her connection to Woolwich and lists her father as the family head.
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Omaha, Neb
Ellen J. Farnham
David C. Farnham
Woolwich
Local Farm Mishap and Community Notes
A wagon accident during return from the road caused a shaft injury to a draft animal and Dr. Butler expects the animal to recover. A separate grange meeting incident saw Campbell’s wagon strike Upton’s, tearing off a hind wheel rim. Local residents Mrs. Greig and the Baker and Skelton families were noted visitors and travelers. Chester Oliver, ill health, is improving with possible return soon.
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H. W. Cutting
Dr. Butler
Grange
C. Campbell
J. F. Upton
New Columbia theatre packs house with vaudeville acts
New Columbia theatre reports strong week with Thanksgiving crowds and over 100 turned away at night. Manager Burt plans three weekly picture changes and feature films The Workers and The Stolen Papers to draw patrons. Also noted are social visits, university student returning home, and Cosmopolitan Club charity sale proceeds supporting benevolent work.
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Burt
New Columbia
New York
Bath
Sebasco Estates
Small Point
George A. Sprague
Holmes
Della Wallace
Fanny Hayden
William Dunning
Floyd Wallace
Almon
Columbia
Vaude Ville
James Dixon
Tiller
A. Conant Doyle
Cosmopolitan Club
Edward Sampson
Galen Hinckley
William Shorey
Amy Hodgdon
Lucy Furber
Nellie Wheaton
Ethel Lundrigan
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