Local happenings in Bowdoinham Maine reflect community life
Miss Myrtle F Beals opens a music studio in Brunswick forming a piano club. L G Clancy hosts a charade party as high schoolers enjoy the show. The town closes schools for a Teachers Convention in Lewiston. Rev J E Clancy and others attend Epworth League events in Richmond. Albert Henderson boasts a bountiful potato season and orchard stores. A new phone line arrives at the Methodist parsonage through Harry Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtilla F. Beals
Brunswick
L. G. Clancy
Lewiston
Henry Purington
Richmond
Methodist Church
Pasonage
W. D. Hutchins
Methodist Sunday School
Silas Haynes
Hal Jowell
Gardiner
Bowdoinham
Albert Henderson
Baldwins
Hubbardstons
King's
J. E. Clancy
Harry Jones
New England Telephone Company
Clancy
Richmond Social Notes Report Wide Travel and Visits
Gilbert Maxwell returns home to North Adams Massachusetts after a visit with his mother Ruth Maxwell. Many locals plan trips to Boston while others entertain with whist gatherings and family visits. Noble Maxwell leaves for Boston on business as others host friends and relatives around the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Maxwell
Ruth Maxwell
North Adnuis
Mass
K. W. Small
Boston
Frank Blake
Capt. Blake
Emma
Briggs
Bradstreet's Wharf
New York
Clifford FE
BB. Hf. Reed
East Pittston
Harry Tarr
Noble Maxwell
Edward Hondlette
W. F. Dunham
Front Street
James A
Old Folks Concert at Elm Street Church
A Monday evening Old Folks Concert at Elm Street Baptist Church features a musical program and a sale of homemade candies. Performers include Isaac Higginbotham Higginbotham Obediah Jebeedy Williams and Ye Bigge Choir with various solos, choruses, and readings. Proceeds fund church roof repairs. program managed by Mrs. Emma Lowell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elm Street Baptist Church
Isaac Higginbotham
Obadiah Jobeedy Williams
Offelold Stearns
Earl Spruceby Stacy
Elder Brewster
Obediah Jebeedy Williams
Offerold Stearns
Spruchy Stacy
Elder Brewster Small
New Jerusalem
Isaac Higgenbotham
Obediah
Jebeedy Williams
Jedediah
Miles Standish Dean
Job Tuneful Trott
Sophonia Norris
Mehitable
Jeremiah Sparks
Bigge
Sons of Zion
Persis Patience Douglass
Jerusalem
Home
Paul Jones Curtis
America
Ye Bigge
Adironizah Perkins
Tymeist
Reliance Lucy Varney
Emma Lowell
Taft trips Mississippi river. opossum theft shocks stage
President Taft travels the Mississippi this week and in one town a thief stole an opossum from his private car. In Newport, Japanese merchants placed a laurel wreath on Commodore Perry's grave as they study U S industry. Portland official Charles H Clifford was injured in a late night auto collision. Sheriff C O Emery survived a bullet fired at his window amid enforcement of prohibitory laws. Captain Magnus Manson of New Haven died. Sewall shipyard machine shop roof repaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Mississippi River
New England
Newport
R. 1
Commodore Perry
Japan
Charles H Clifford
Portland Street Department
Magnus Manson
New Haven
Sewall
Improving New England Apples for Market Success
The article urges balanced fertilization for trees, spraying to boost profits, and improved picking and packing methods. It stresses hand picking, careful grading, box packing, tissue wrapping, and branded packaging to meet western market standards, with free copies available from the Chamber of Commerce in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
South
Pacific Coast
Committee On Agriculture, Chamber of Commerce
Boston
Mass
Arnold's Expedition Fails as Over Four Hundred Die
Continued account recalls the arduous siege and the high casualties. More than four hundred Americans fell in the battle and four hundred were captured while attempting to take the stronghold.
Bay Point Casino Opens Near Kennebec Coast
Bay Point near the Kennebec mouth grows as a popular summer resort with a completed casino costing about 1300 dollars. It features a beech floor for dancing and a broad three sided piazza under a roof overhang. Cottages planned by Mrs Kir kup John C Wright Ray Oliver and Mr Malone. Partridge shooting noted as leaves fall. Mr and Mrs A B Rowe return from Neponset Five Islands cottage. Rowe linked to Boston library business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Point
Kennebec
Kirkup
Western Avenue
John C. Wright
Ray Oliver
Bath
Mr. Malone
Auburn
A. B. Rowe
Dorchester
Mass
Neponset
Five Islands
Mr. Rowe
Georgetown
Boston
C. F. Libby
Mrs. Rowe
Nervous trouble relief promoted by Dr Williams Pink Pills
A testimonial from Mrs H R Evans of West Swanzey New Hampshire claims Dr Williams Pink Pills cured years of nervous prostration Tremors pains numbness and weight loss improved energy and health after a short course The advertisement notes the pills build blood nourish the nervous system and offer a free booklet Disease of the Nervous System with price 60 cents per box six boxes in Schenectady New York
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Williams
Trolleys to Boothbay
About 200 Boothbay business men attended a Board of Trade meeting with a banquet honoring ex president Luther Maddocks for his services since locating there four decades ago. He discussed plans to supply electrical power from Damariscotta Mills to nearby communities and reported pole work has begun toward a trolley line to Newcastle with power transmission wire ordered for operation next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay
Board of Trade
Luther Maddocks
Maddocks
Damariscotta Mills
Mr. Maddocks
Newcastle
Express Car Crash Kills Horse In Lewiston Run
An electric express car between Lewiston and the city collided with a double team driven by James Tarr of Topsham. One horse died instantly, the other was thrown over a fence. the driver escaped with no serious injuries. The company reportedly settled with Tarr for damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
James Tarr
Topsham
Tarr
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Bow Dolnham
Proctor
Bermuda
Mary
Bowdeinham
Ella Wordsworth
Effie Pratt
Litchfield
Harry Pierce
Edward Libby
W. A. Pratt
Stephen Small
Tists
Small
Ye Bigge Choir
Sherburn
David
Narcissa Rosemary Chapman
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl St
Hood
Gene
Webber
Fiat Winter
Webber’s
Maine State Commissioners of Pharmacy
Wrebber’s Drug Store
Maine
Reliable Drug Store
T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
Dean
Thomas
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