West Bath Town News Roundup and Local People
Weekly column from Bath area reports visitors and travels including Mrs B J Allen of Pleasant Hill guest of Mrs John C Larrabee, Nan Brown in Portland, Mrs Wright improving after appendicitis, and families visiting relatives. Notes on local workers, students, and community events fill the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. J. Allen
Pleasant Hill
Freeport
John C. Larrabee
RR. Brown
Nan Brown
Susie Durfee
Portland
Merton Wright
Wright
Bath City Hospital
James Stewart
J. H. Mayo
Mitchell
Brunswick
Mr. Mitchell
William S. Mitchell
Hlebron
Gwendolyn Brown
Jed White
Bath
Miss Brown
William Brown
J. W. Higgins
William Smith
Gardiner
Smith
Delmar Bates
Frank Seavey
Somerville
Mass
Duncan Cottage
Samuel Bates
Damariscotta
Samuel Percy
Sabine
A. H. Donnell
Boston
Brockton Fair
EK. & Stackpole
Lillian Brown
Twosters Point
Harry White
Middle West
John White
Margaret Peterson
C. A. Harriman
Margaret King
Alpha Beta Psi
Bowdoin College
New Meadows
Garnet
Woolwich Poet and Local News Echoes of Home
Woolwich notices share a poem about home keeping hearts and a run of town news. The feature poem by Sarah P. Jo Mlawthorne reflects attachment to Maine towns from Chops Point to Barley Neck and Kennebec Day's Ferry. Community updates include engagements, moves, visits, hires, and upcoming Grange gathering as residents travel to Bath and nearby locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sassanoa
Montsweinig
Kennebec
Iain
Woolwich Town Fair Draws Crowds Despite Rain
The fourth Woolwich fair ran Wednesday and Thursday with strong turnout. Judges from Topsham and Bath awarded Blue Ribbon prizes across cattle, sheep, poultry, vegetables, and crafts. Notable exhibitors include the Hathorne and Prescott families with multiple best in class ribbons and school displays from Sagadahoc, Day's Ferry, Murphy's Corner, and Nequasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
D. J. Hathorne
Samuel Hathorne
J. J. Fullerton
Dexter Baker
W. E. Downing
I. (. Patten
Topsham
William R. Kimball
Bath
C. C. Potter
Herbert Hodgking
FE. A. Dolloff
Ralph Wright
T. ©. Manns
Fred T. Hathorne
Albert Jiathorne
Jersies
C.D. Prescott
C. D. Prescott
FE. S. Head
Gurnsey
Trolstein
W. J. Leeman
Sussex
Albert Hathorne
Mien Corliss
W. S. Kelley
Maxine Walker
Carrie Hathorne
C. A. Leonard
Jo. A. Dolloff
W. Fullerton
Harriet Wathorne
Mary Radalac
George Gove
Alice Long
Sagadahoce
Day's Ferry
Murphy's Corner
Chops
Nequasset
Winneganee Social Notes Highlight Local Turns of Fall
Visitors from Farmington and Bath figures mingle with residents large and small. Miss Berniece Clifford works at Bath Iron Works while many townsfolk attend meetings, dances, and family visits across Winnegance and Bath. Notables include Mrs. Butterfield, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver, Otis Trunt’s army illness, and local property trades as winter homes are arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autumn
Mrs. Walsh
Bath
West Point
Ernest Haskell
Ernest ‘Rogers
Small Point
Arthur Sewall
Harold Sewall
Martin Wyman
William Davis Farm
Reynards
Jennie ‘Dickinson
Whitefield
Joyce Butterfield
Farmington
Allen
Fred Parks
South Orange
N. J
William Purington
Walter Marco
Dr. Bibber
Lelia Oliver
Bay Point
Ann Oliver
Wilda Stover
Boothbay
Harry Knight
O. M. Redson
Levi Toothaker
Mere Point
T. N. Kewley
Beacon Street
Loraine Kennett
Hazel
Boston
George Eaton
Ralph Whitehouse
White Mountains
Bessie Stunt
Portland
Mary Rogers
Higgins Beach
Ellen Walker
Lester Littlefield
Ida Hunt
Sherman —. Morse
Frank Oliver
Ralph Willis
George Rogers
Isle Aus Haut
Winneganee
Bagh
Otis Trunt
New National Army
Camp Devens
Ayer
Mass
Hunt
Sagadahoe County
Robert Oliver
Sagadahoe
National Army
Seales
Castine
Charles Small
Alex Ross
Annie C. Ross
Percy & Small
Gertrude Litchfield
Nancy Litchfield
Llewellyn K. Adams
McFarland
Reynolds
Oakland
Jennie Norton
Tl. F Adams
Market Prices for Apples and Potatoes Across Cities
Market bulletin lists Boston Gravenstein Wealthy apples at 6.0 to 9.0 per barrel and New York Wealthy Jonathan at 5.06. Baltimore Grimes Golden six barrel at 5.50 to 4.50. Chicago fancy varieties 4.50 to 1.50. St Louis 3.41 per barrel. Potatoes priced in Boston 1.22 to 1.37 per bushel, New York 1.20 to 1.50, Chicago 1.06 to 1.12, St. Louis 1.05 to 1.10, Colorado 0.66, Minnesota 0.70 to 0.75 per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Gravenstein
New York
Jonathan
Tallimore
Grimes Golden
St. Louis
Chicago
Colorado
Minnesota
Glimpses of the Orchard of Hon William L Bonney
The article shows the Bowdoinham estate of William Mo Bonney, speaker of Maine's last House, with 1907 08 apple and plum trees on Center Street. It notes the farm's size and crops including potatoes beans asparagus and garden produce, highlighting Bonney as a skilled farmer and travelling salesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mo. Bonney
Bowdoinham
House of Representatives
Maine
Center St
Wm. Whitmore
Oregon
California
Ilo
Bonney
Georgetown Residents Remember Capt Low at Boothbay Burial
Obituary notes list Capt Gilman A. Low aged 75, uncle of Guy C. Low of Robinhood, buried in Bath after services in Boothbay. Local vecinos recall his visits and long friendship with Georgetown Center. town events include road work on State road hill beyond Noble house and several residents leaving for Ayer for military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robinhood
Gilman A. Low
Boothbay
Capt. Low
Guy C. Low
Bath
Working League
Augusta A. Todd
Georgetown Center
Todd
State Road
Noble House
KE. Dexter
Woolwich
Little River
Also Mentioned on This Page
Phippsburg
Cape Small
Sewall
Town Hall
J. F. Leeach
Mansion House
West Bath Town
Grange
Lester Pratt
Herbert L. Grinnell
Arthur H. Runnells
E. R. Brown
Fred C. Gerrish
Harold
Sam
Mary J. Gerrish
Woolwich Writer
Sarah P. Jo
Mlawthorne
Arrowsie
Harold Snipe
Hawthorne
John Laughlin
Jack
Rhode Island
Zettie Reed
Reed
Richmond
Susan Reed
Novella J. Trott
Augusta
A. E Trott
Frank Walker
Maxine
John Sheldon
G. M. Stinson
Marcia
Johnson
Wiscasset
Freeman Trott
A. E. Trott
Hockomock
Roland Beals
George Hathorne
Marion Soule
Catherine Bailey
Luce
O. C. Nutting
Bar Harbor
L. A. Bailey
Fred Hathorne
Albert and
Frank Head
D. Prescott
John Elliott
Robert Day
W. L. Leeman
Forrest Baker
Jed Hathorne
Eleanor Hathorne
D. J. Slathorne
Oxem
J. J. Wathorne
William Wright
Howard Miller
A. Dolloff
Douglas and
Dwinal Hunnewell
Wred Hathorne
Ralph Whittum
Alvah Savage
P. A. Dole
Mary G. Fullerton
CC. OW. Fullerton
CC. Wy. Fullerton
Gilbert Hathorne
Winnegance
Norman Smith
Charles Williams
Williams Court
Winneyance
Gus Small
Gus
John Lambert
Triggins Beach
Sewall Morse
the Bath Trust CO
Centre Street
Bath, ME
Sade Geeot Amit
John M. Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Front St
Broad St
William L. Bonney
Georgetown
Captain Low
Boothbay Line
Riggsville
Ralph Dunton
Albert Alton
P Dorothy Stuart
Agnes ‘Ss. Jones
Mrs. Manning
Carlisle Cottage
Ken
Nebec Point
Charles Golding
Trenton
Mr. En Sons Co
Apersons Company
Alex S. Marr
Frank S. Heald
Clinton Newdick
Ohio
Charley Russell
Benjamin H. Woodsige
Willard Rowe
Waltham
Byron M. Rowe
Harry L. Horne
Dover
Horne
Annie M. Jones
Sewall P. Oliver
Josephine H. Oliver
Indian Point
Charles Clark
George Jewett
Farmington Ar
J. Everett Jewett
Emery Waterouse Company
Mugahbeth Nagel
Indiana Point
Henry van Buren
Johnson Bros. CO
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