Harvest Moon Warship Profile in Civil War Service
The Harvest Moon, a 540 ton sidewheel steamer of 193 feet, built for Maine trade, served as flagship of the South Atlantic blockading squadron in 1864 65 after refitting with a 20 pounder rifle four 24 pounders and one 12 pounder howitzer. It supported operations along the Broad river and Savannah Charleston railroad line with ships Pawnee Mingo So noma Winona WissahickonJames Adger and armed tugs Fforddil and Pettit. It sank after hitting a Confederate torpedo in Winyah Bay March 1 1865. all hands were saved by the Chenango.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
William R. Croix
South Atlantic
John A. Dahlgren
Harvest Moon
Broad River
South Carolina
Savannah
Charleston
Pawnee
Mingo
Pontiac
Sonoma
Winona
Wissahickon
James Adger
Daffodil
Pettit
Cmdr
G. H. Preble
Portland
Preble
Georgetown
S. C
White
Wool
Nipsic
Winyah Bay
Chenango
Carlton May Fights At Arcade Arena In Bath Rumors
Retired Maine light heavyweight champ Carlton May, nicknamed Spider Carlton, is rumored to return to boxing and is booked for an appearance on November 8 at Arcade Arena in Bath. His last major bout was with John ny Bouchard in Bangor, drawing about 2,000 fans and ending with Carlton still holding the light heavyweight title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Elliot
Spider
Carlton
Maine
Bath
Arcade Arena
Barney Grant
Johnny Bouchard
Bangor
Queen City
Old Town
Bouchard
Wiscasset
Paul Roderique
Lewiston
Roderique
Harry Wills
Bemis Wins Handicap Golf Match at Sebasco
The Second Annual Handicap Golf Tournament at Colonial Club held Sunday at Shore Acres Sebasco produced a net 69 by W. Bemis who shot 43 out and 36 in with a 10 handicap, seven strokes ahead of Percy Marks who carded 76. Rodney Ross finished third with 77 as Marks and Ross led a trio tied for third. the event concluded with a lobster stew as the club praised the weather and committee effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club
Shore Acres
Sebasco
Ata W. Bemis
Percy Marks
Rodney Ross
Percy
Marks
Ross
Dayton Hill
George Hunt
Eddie Rowe
Bemis
RS Eyes Ae
TT Peremoe Oh
Cess
Netecce
Ate Ager
Goot. Aiutasee
Adams Bear
Sewall Sait
Cease
R. Small
Brownell
Marshall
Cuvor Fe
GET Ey Oke Nore
Ye Gait SC Re Hie Toys Desmond
Ward Tec. Nus c Ee
Williams
Rousra Iets
Morton
Leavitt O
Gregware
Robert Brownell
Warren Hawley
Morse Sophomores Elect Officers And Council Members
Morse high school elected officers William Greene president Paul Hayes vice president Edith Mac Kinnon secretary and Barbara Ross treasurer. Student council members named Evelyn Trott Gladys Goodrich Charles Lee and Frederick Gowell. Orchestra led by John Grindell performed for the first time this year, and a debating council meeting with director Charles Cummings was held Friday. Nearby a shell explosion near Pancho Villa detonated by a boy with a hammer killed Mr and Mrs Dana W York and their daughter Jeanette while visiting Capt and Mrs Henry W Butler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
William Greene
Paul Hayes
Edith MacKinnon
Barbara Ross
Evelyn Trott
Gladys Goodrich
Charles Lee
Frederick Gowell
John Grindell
Charles Cummings
Winnegance Community Club harvest supper and events
The Winnegance Community club held its first harvest supper of the season at the community house with a menu of baked beans brown bread hot rolls and pies. The auxiliary cleared over 20 dollars and the Wednesday night party featured seven tables of cribbage and auction with Mrs. Harry C Webber and Mrs. Elbridge B Malcolm as prize winners. Sherman L Morse returned home for the winter after a Hudson River trip and neighbors gave him a warm reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Morse
Albert B. Storer
Bath
Western Avenue
Winnegance Community Club
Community House
Harry C. Webber
Elbridge B. Malcolm
Sherman L. Morse
Bear Mountain
Hudson River
Community Club
Cogshall
Milo
Winfield W. Morse
Quebec
Squaw Club
Harry C. Williams
Rotarians Hear Fine Travel Talk At Phoenix Luncheon
Bath Rotarians and guests heard an illustrated travel talk by G A Harrison, general passenger agent for Canadian National Grand Trunk in Portland. He spoke on the Grand Trunk system, noted improvements, and showed two reels featuring Jasper National Park and Mt Robinson. A planned Alaska trip via Prince Rupert was announced for Summer 1930 with half the quota booked. James A Gillies and Charles Henry Butler attended as visitors. November meeting lineup includes Oliver Moses Ed Pinson Arthur Scott and President Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Hotel Phoenix
G. A. Harrison
Portland
Canadian National
Grand Trunk
Harrison
Sir Henry Thornton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jasper National Park
Mt. Robinson
Alaska
Prince Rupert
Pacific
James A. Gillies
New Haven
Oliver Moses
Ed Pinson
Arthur Scott
President Wilson
Marblehead Physician Drops Free Hospital Offer
Dr Goldthwaite and his brother offered Marblehead a hospital valued at 250000 dollars at no cost but after a two hour town meeting argument he withdrew the proposal.
Miraculous Escape From Serious Injury
Fenton Moore twenty two of 440 High street escaped injury when his Studebaker collided with Miss Mary Paine of 924 High street on Center street hill around o clock. Moore crawled free from a crushed car while Paine’s vehicle suffered left side damage but remained upright. Officers McElman and Davis investigated and no complaints were filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenton Moore
High Street
Raper
Agee
Studebaker
Mary Paine
Moore
Center Street
Paine
Walter H. Bowker
Miss Paine
George H. McElman
Farber Davis
Letta Lewis
Cecil E. Paine
Baxter Discusses Timely Subjects in Maine Politics
Walter A. Wyman of his company signals continued work for Maine’s progress after defeat of a measure. He defends power export under Fernald Law and predicts future votes. The Maine Republican organization is praised as responsible, with public life and politics deemed clean and worthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter A. Wyman
Maine
U. S
Portland
Bangor
George F. Manson Buried in Bath After Boston Death
The body of George F. Manson of Boston was brought to Bath by Bowdoin classmate and executor William Warren Towle. Manson, once a Bath High School and Bowdoin alumnus, was found dead in a Walnut Street boarding house bathroom near the State House. He was unmarried and left a will with several Bath-benefiting bequests, Bowdoin named residuary legatee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bath
George F. Manson
Bowdoin
William Warren Towle
Mr. Towle
Tremont Street
Kimball Building
Manson
Walnut Street
State House
Bath High
Boston University
E. E. Barry
Phippsburg and Bath Social Round Notes at Meadowbrook Camp
A Phippsburg Bath social roundup lists visits across Meadowbrook camp and area households. Names include Rogers Bowker Perry Leavitt and others, with attendance at Woolwich grange hall events. Local deaths are noted for Alice Holbrook and James Perry, with cemetery burials in Dromore and Oak Grove. Nearby scenic and cemetery explorations by Miss Hill are mentioned along Winneganee creek and Clifford cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Rogers
Meadowbrook
Omar Perry
Union
Nathaniel Percy
Freeman C. Bowker
Elizabeth Shepherd
Harry Gilmore
Eleanor Brown
Revere
Mass
Allan Brown
Thomas Manning
Westport
Frank Leavitt
Edgar Lee
Albert Gerry
Linden
Clinton C. Beals
William R. Bowker
Howard Bowker
Gardiner
Harold Robbins
Kittery
Ernest. Rogers
Frederick Sawyer
Clinton Beals
Morris Pashard
H. W. Cutting
Alice Galvin
Ralph Tibbetts
Dromore Grange
Abbott
William Tudor Gardiner
Woolwich Grange Hall
James Mitchell
F. C. Bowker
Harold Haley
Ernest Rogers
George C. Pease
Willam Cairn
Gloucester
Mattie Cutting
Miss Cutting
Eugene, Jr
Albert Ingalls
North Bath
George Ingalls
Martha Small
Popham Beach
James E. Perry
Clark Bowker
Brightwater
John Berry
Russell Folsom
Alice F
Alvah Holbrook
High Street
G. B. Wolstenholme
People’s Baptist Church
Dromore
James C. Perry
Sebasco
David L. Wilson
I. W. Hyde
U. W
C. W
Perry
Oak Grove
Dora H. Adams
Cumberland Center
Phippsburg
Lillian A. Barbour
Hezekiah Harrington
Irving Harrington
Fred Oliver
Roscoe Perkins
Alice Holbrook
Dromore Burying Ground
Winneganee
West Bath
Campbell's Pond
England
Mary P. Hill
Clifford
James Perry
Winneganee Creek
Miss Hill
Merion Field
Mercen
Basin Road
Resting places and graves amid town’s historic stones
The article catalogs old grave markers in the area, noting a unique Ionic column monument for Capt. Milton Mereen and Rebecca, the Sprague McIntyre lot, Willard Hall’s iron fence grave, and a Morrison memorial stone unearthed by road work. It mentions Blethen cemetery, Amariel L Blethen, Levi Blethen 1792, and Coffee stones sought near Parker Head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Mereen
Rebecca
McIntyre
Nathaniel Morrison
Mr. Morrison
Sam Day
Parker Head
Civil War Veteran James C. Perry Dies at 86 in Phippsburg
James C. Perry 86 Civil war veteran and longtime Phippsburg resident died at his Basin home after a life in the town He served in Co D 21st Maine Regiment and was the last surviving member of a family of 10 He leaves wife Ella Butler Perry and a daughter Mrs George C Pease alongside many friends and townspeople support
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
James C. Perry
Sedgewick
Ella Butler Perry
George C. Pease
Death of Charles Dickinson in Los Angeles California
Charles Dickinson aged 47 died on October 1 in Los Angeles. He was buried beside his parents in Armona California. He is survived by his widow and four children. He was the youngest child of Eliza Black and Albion Dickinson, former residents of Phippsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Dickinson
Los Angeles
Cal
Armona
Calif
Mr. Dickinson
Eliza Black
Albion Dickinson
Phippsburg
Two Boys Sentenced to State School for Breaks at Cottages
Alpheus and Edwin Darling, 14 and 12, of Harpswell, were sentenced in municipal court by Judge John J. Keegan to serve the remainder of their minority at the State School for Boys in South Portland after weeks of misdeeds. Brother John, nine, who joined the camping trip near West Bath, was sent home. The boys admitted leaving home to camp, stealing a car at Winnegance, and wrecking it at Sabine. Sheriffs recovered the car and captured them. John wept for Edwin, while Alpheus calmly faced the sentence. The case notes previous brief hearings and the pursuit ending with the youths apprehended Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finis
Alpheus
Edwin Darling
Harpswell
John J. Keegan
South Portland
John Darling
West Bath
Winnegance
Sabine
Keegan
Bath
Sue — Seau
Brunswick
Barnes
Sagadahoc
John
Edwin
Ernest Williams
Campbell's Pond
Sheriff's Department
Williams
Sheriff Henderson
Oliver
Loring Small
Ting
Small
Henderson
Hatch
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Kennebec Craft
Wiscasser Lad
Tokyo
Mr. Edison
Kerwin Butcher
A. & K. Railway
Sebasco Course
MORSE
Grindell
Mexico City
Pancho Villa
Dana W. York
Jeanette
Capt
Henry W. Butler
Baxter
Father
San
BY F. Leupan
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