Name Variations of Phippsburg Reflect Historic Spelling Shift
The article traces how Phippsburg in Maine was variably spelled Phillipsburg and Phipsburg in old records, noting changes during the brick store post office era and referencing ships like Good Hope and Alice M. Minott. It cites a letter from C. V. Minott Jr. to Capt. W. R. Dickinson confirming official spelling change to Phippsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyds
Good Hope
David Percy
Philippsburg
Alice M. Minott
Phippsburg
Mary B. Rogers
Phillipsburg
C. V. Minott, Jr
W. R. Dickinson
Minott
Washington Post Office
Sir William Phipps
Phipsburg
Maine Highway Report Details Auto Crash Rise
State Police Chief Henry P. Weaver reports 66 accidents for Sept 22 through 29, up 13 from the prior week, including two fatalities, 25 injuries, and 39 property damages. Most incidents occurred in daylight, rural areas, with causes listed as wrong side driving, recklessness, fatigue, and speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Henry P. Weaver
Bowdoin College Notes Week Events
Bowdoin College items note Safe Driving film at eight Thursday in Moulton Union by Maine State Police. Rev Sherwood Eddy to speak at Sunday chapel at five. Choir to sing Jesu Dulcio. Walker Art building hosts Annual Invited Exhibition from O'Hara Water Color gallery. Freshman football vs Bridgton academy Friday at three. Cross country at Colby Friday and Amherst vs Bowdoin at Amherst Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton Union
Maine State Police
Sherwood Eddy
Thoms Luis de Vittoria
Walker Art Building
O’hara
Bridgton Academy
Colby
Amherst
Bowdoin
Mrs Drake to Attend Provincial Synod as Maine Delegate
Mrs Frederick E Drake of Washington Street left Monday to attend the Provincal Synod of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church in Lenox Massachusetts as a delegate from the Maine branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick E. Drake
Washington Street
Provincal Synod of the Women's Auxiliary of the
Episcopal Church
Lenox
Mass
Maine
Community News Highlights From Parker Head Village
Parker Head notes show Girl Scouts meeting with Miss Robie and Mrs Earl Lowell and Brownies planning meetings with Miss Robie. Local church services, socials and card parties are logged along with births, travel for Marine enlistment, and multiple visits among residents including Bath Brunswick and Augusta connections.
Popham Beach offers supper sale funds for church repair
The Popham Circle hosts a Saturday supper in Society hall from 6 to 7 30 PM with baked beans ham hot rolls cabbage salad doughnuts pies and coffee. Proceeds go to the church repair fund. The event is chaired by Mrs Guy Crowley with Circle members assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham
Guy Crowley
Society Hall
Massachusetts
Local readers gather as families plan fall activities
Mass towns and Boston area residents are mentioned in a sequence of social notes. People travel to Newtonville, Popham, Bath, and Bath Iron Works as weather allows. Several women resume teaching and begin new courses at Gibbs School, Bradford Junior College, and local kindergartens.
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Mass
Popham
Vernon, Mattson
Newtonville
Mattson
Dorothy Mattson
South Boston
Vernon Mattson, Jr
Bath Iron Works
Barbara Donnell
Boston
Katherine Gibbs School
Priscilla Martha Beebe
Bradford Junior College
Herbert Kellaway
Newton Center
Ida Kellaway
Stephens College
Columbia
Belgrade
Troy
N. Y
Carter family return from weekend visit in New York
Mr and Mrs Lewis D Carter and their son Richard of 3 Drummond street return early Monday from a weekend trip to Gloversville New York where they were guests of Mrs Carter's brother Norman Hodgkins and Mrs Hodgkins. Mrs Hodgkins and son Kenneth joined them to Bath to visit Mr and Mrs Percy E Hodgkins of 3 Drummond street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorcas Society
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Fred Pecci
Nichols-Ingalls
Guide Board
Frank Bates
Lower Washington Street
Bath
Bates
Arthur Lemont
Dromore
Ernest Rogers
Wyman
Raymond Campbell
David Rogers
Dromore Creek
White Mountains
William B. Perry
Cora Campbell
Robert Metcalf
Campbell's Pond
Lake Winnepesaukee
Cora Gustafson
Brunswick
Charles Thistle
Ralph Coombs
Eugene
Portland
Jay K. Bowker
Kenneth Miller
Dorchester
Mass
Geraldine Fenderson
Saco
T. C. Hughes
Maurice Pashard
Wyatt Albertson
Richard and
Faye
West Newbury
Lewis Collins
Langdon Thistle
Jancis Chamberlain
Litchfield
Agnes Cutting
Foxboro
John Beebe
John
Wakefield
Walter Sprague
Victor
Merrymeeting
Spragues
Stanley Hyde
Barbara
Nancy Hyde
Sprague
G. E. McNulty
York County
Hasty Carroll
Donald Payson
Lucius Beebe
New York
Boston
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert Head
Cross Road
Blanchard Crowley
Lewis D. Carter
Richard
Drummond Street
Gloversville
N. Y
Ernest Goodwin
Brooklyn
Lowise Howard
Cumberland Hospital
Goodwin
Wises Howard
Red Cross
America
William Chamberlain
Bridgton
Mrs. Chamberlin
Mr. Chamberlain
Port Hole
Pete
Miss Mollie Stewart Weds Joseph Read at Brookline Church
The former Miss Mollie Stew art of Brookline and Kennebec Point wed Joseph Read of New Haven on Saturday Sept 27 at eight in Harvard Congregational Church Brookline. Attendants included Constance Anderson Burling ton and several others from New York and Massachusetts. Guests from Bath, Mamaroneck and Portland joined family members in a ceremony noted for white gladioli and candlelight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie Stewart
Brookline
Mass
Kennebec Point
Wheaton College
Joseph Read
New Haven
Conn
Harvard
Constance Anderson
Burlington, Vt
Betty Barker
Mollie le Vin
Nancy Wolf
New York
Doris Stewart
Jean Stewart
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Julie Dalrymple
Stewart M. Strong
Amityville
L. I
Ralph W. Emerson
Pelham
Albert Coombs
Belmont
Pence Family Guests Stay With Snipe in Springvale
Mr Alfred H Pence and his son George visit several days as guests of Mr and Mrs J Walter Snipe at 211 High Street. Mrs Pence was formerly Miss Emma Colby of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred H. Pence
George
Springvale
J. Walter Snipe
High Street
Pence
Emma Colby
Westport Residents Noted In Brief Local Happenings
Westport items report Fred S Bailey visiting Miss Lowe as Mills bridge closes for repairs after a lumber truck damaged it. Milk and travel news mention Paul Mosier and Rush from Indiana visiting, Tiltons at Cedars, Cromwells hosting winter guests, Jewett family dinners, and local repair work on the Cromwell farm house by C P Jewett and Joseph Hodgdon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred S. Bailey
M. A. Cromwell
Ernest Colby
Brian Jewett
Virginia
Alyn Ann Louise Jewett
Jonas Knight
William Lane
Everett
Mass
Gove House
Dudley M. Baker
Hinghham
Edward Cromwell
C-Bar-C Ranch
Gray Road
C. P. Jewett
Joseph Hodgdon
Thomas Cromwell
North End
Red Rose Troop Elects Officers This Season
Red Rose troop of Girl Scouts Mitchell elects officers at first meeting. Beverly Rogers named chairman with Nat alie Burditt as treasurer and Anne Hartnett as secretary. Patrol leaders named for Hut Sut Bluebird and Rerotro patrols with assistants. Weekly meetings and a hike planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Rose
Mitchell
Francis B. Corrigan
Beverly Rogers
Natalie Burditt
Anne Hartnett
Audrey Tinney
Janet Sullivan
Katherine A. MacDonald
Carol Burditt
Bluebird Patrol
Selma Cummings
Cynthia Moses
Rerotro Patrol
Also Mentioned on This Page
Karol Mijol
Somerville, Mass
David Doherty
Cliftondale
Margery Mijol
Springfield
Laura Cutting
Grace Payne
Jean
Henderson
Warren White
Popham Beach
Emma Perry
George Bonney
Rangeley Lakes
William Blaisdell
Baby
Harry Gilmore
Meadowbrook Road
Delia Bolton
Bowdoin College Notes
Madrid
Win
Sherry Muscatel
California
House of Old Molineaux,Inc
Parker
Miss Robie
Earl Lowell
Phyllis Young
Brownies
Janet Shaw
Church School
William Hallett, Jr
Parris Island
South Carolina
Savannah
U. S. Marines
H. D. Mank, Sr
Walter Cushing
Charles Perry
Eugene Harrington
William Hemmer
Leston Harrington
Allie Rollins
Edwin M. Wyman
H. B. Wyman
Robert Jewell
Charles Osborne
John Rollins, Jr
Bradford Linwood
Shepherd
Lawrence Thayer
Cox's Head
Alonzo Lowell
Martin Eaton
Gloria Eaton
H. D. Mank, Jr
Ramon Hamel
Sandra
Barbara Mank
Harry Thomas
Herbert Doughty
Leo Hamel
Diane Elaine
Frank Wyman
James Stacey
Fayville
Mann
F. P. Young
George Morong
Howard
Clayton Hoar
Connie
Lewiston
Mildred
Stephen Rogers
Augusta
Francis Luke
Vilda Barlow
Osgood
Perkins Island
Berla
Raymond
Rumford
John Libby
Donald Logan
Carole Jane
Bath Memorial Hospital
Lisbon Falls
Burleigh Willis
Thornton Williams
Leroy Perkins
Winneganee
Isadore Singer
Linden Street
Swampscott
Prudential Insurance Co
Harry Spencer
Miss Hardy
Sebasco
Stanwood Gilman
Hull
Boston Herald
John Clair Minot
Dover
Bowdoin College
Minot
Clifton Morong
Kennebec River
Charles Murray
Ralph French
Jonesport
Irving Dobbins
Ensign Stewart W. Dalrymple
U.S N. R
Washington
D. C
Philip Dalrymple, Jr
Elizabeth Butterfield
James Graham
Katherine Graham
Lawrence Graham
Arlington
Arthur Maxwell
Bonnoe
Roger Luke
Billy Luke
Mrs
Westport
RED Rose Troop
Girl Scouts
New Hampshire
Bangor
Maine Central Railroad
Maine Central
Steel
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