Phippsburg reports ambitious road improvements and homefront reflections
In Phippsburg a report highlights greatly improved Sebasco roads while a local column links gardening devotion to wartime service. A Teasdale poem reflects on duty, nurture, and the bond between home front gardeners and soldiers overseas. A letter from a mother notes her son’s march orders in New York as families wait and tend “Our boys” and gardens continue to feed neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
H. W. Cutting
Anni
Gay Westport Hosts First Grange Dancing Party
The first Grange dancing event of the season drew a full hall despite unfriendly weather with many locals and visitors joining in. A second dance is planned tonight under Grange auspices as summer social life continues.
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GAY Westport
Bowdoinham Labor Day Echo Glen Activities Highlight
Blueberrying and lawn parties for the Red Cross draw crowds in Bowdoinham as summer visitors stay through Labor Day. Dances at Echo Glen attract locals and out of town guests while farmers finish haying and harvest rains slow progress. many residents plan Labor Day events and visits to nearby towns.
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Ernest Grauman
Oak Grove Cottage
E. P. Adams
Adams
Charles Adams
Springfield
Madelyn Owen
Mrs. Brown
Alice Bailey
Echo Home
Eleanor J. Warriman
Mildred Johnson
Eisner
Echo Glen
Clyde Adams
Willie Trufant
Orr Island
Sarah Wheeler
Brunswick
Frank Coombs
Wilbur Skelton
Scott Small
Mr. Smalls
Fred Cornish
Old Orchard
Saco
Ethel Beal
Boston
Center School
Angie Cornish
Bowdoinham
Nellie Vendleton
William Fcornish
Woodbury Votter
Bath
Red Cross
Ruth Jones
Fred Orr
Topehac
Joseph Cornish
Robert Nilex
Andrews Byorus
Fred Corpist
Messrs
Ridlex
S T. Pierre
Frank Baker
Boothbay
Stinson Busner
Fort Dodge
Robert Brown
New York
Allra
Mall
Thomas Cottier
Topsham
Bowdein
Libbys Hall
Fannie Comsine Ard Oon
Mabel Baker
Bowdoin
Emma Marsden
Havehhill Mass
Mars Coombs
W. O. Small
Leominster, Mass
Town
Local Social Notes Highlight Visitations and School Appointments
West Bath and Sabino visitors include Mr and Mrs George Mc Rogers staying with Mrs Etta Bloons and a Birch Point outing for Morse couple. Numerous neighbors including Miss Irene Clover and Miss May Tole Entwistle are listed with local schools and staff changes.
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George Mc Rogers
South Harps
Etta Bloons
Morse
Birch Point
Summer Sketches of Georgetown Life by the Sea
A vivid Georgetown Maine piece surveys ocean views and rural charms. The writer praises tides, island flora, old tide mills, and graves of early locals while evoking three centuries of New England life and a quiet shoreline hush.
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Georgetown
New England
Rural Life and Crystaline Air Amid Sheltering Hills
Fragmentary lines describe rural life with crystal air and pine scents. Modest houses nestle among hills, offering quiet views of the landscape and a tranquil setting.
Gunners Find Peters Shells With Semi-Smokeless Powder
Residence 352 Front Street and 22 Broad Street advertise Peters shells loaded with Semi-Smokeless Powder. The description claims less smoke than black powder and as clean and strong as top smokeless grades.
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Phippsburg
Sebasco
Soldier Boy
Sara Teasdale
John Dolan
Hyde Park
Mass
Jonas Jewett
Russell Stodder
Georgia McHeffes
Francis Ingalls
Belle Tilton
M. O. Webber
Portland
Jessie Wisht
Cambridge
Gilmore Creelman
Gilmore, Jr
Ano
Donald
Howard Outhouse
Walter Shaughnessy
Carrie Dunton
Harriet Widlana
Ruth
Revere
Lillian Butler
William
Lowell
Pepper Brothers
Frank
Edward
Moston
Maine
the Bath Trust CO
Centre Street
Bath, ME
Walter Winn
Lisbon Falls
Nathan Adams
Orr's Island
Mrs. Edis and
Chandler
Weymouth, Mavs
F. B. Coombs
Stanley
Noland Cornish
Jack Pendleton
The
John H. Trites
Washburn
Norridgewock
Baptist Church
Bowdoinharm
Small Point
W. B. Kendall
Arrowsic
Nubury Stein
Mecere, Maus
T. O. Stein
Sarah P. Ellawthorne
FL Hi. Snipe
Eugene Cromwell
Mildred Snipe
Mildred
Mina Snipe
John Russell
Fiarold Sniper
Forest Drake
Charl
Slate
New
York
NeVie Blagdon
Edna
Coscett
Corbett
Willan Robbins
Mearin
West Bath
Sabino
Mary Show
Keith Eaton
Phippsboro
Owen Keocers
J. O
Whickeagr
James
Malton
Winter
Auburn
Anant
Pits
Providence
Vassaloera
Eugene R. Brown
Mill Cove
Larree
J. C. Lar- Faber
Edwin Botton
Charles Williams
Ernest Williams
Campbell's Pond
Lewis Curtis
Bos
John Youngelesh
Georgethan
Pibees
al Bh Sane
John Youngflesh
John M Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Front St
Broad St
Peters
Johnson Bros.co
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