Popham Beach Sees Visitors As Summer Tides Roll
Vacation tourists arrive at Popham Beach while lobster boats bring new jackets from the deep. A Monday cargo run from Popham loads gasoline aboard Vestal. Society Hall hosts an old fashioned dance with Stevens Orchestra and crowds enjoy the music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Beach
Popham
St.’s
New Meadows
Society Hall
Stevens
John Levesque
Cabots
Brunswick
Thomas Brilliant
Mere Point Road
Levesque
Cabot Cotton Mills
Harry A. Starbird
York St
Leonard Wood
Plattsburg
N. Y
Starbird
Bath
Boston
F. J. Lisman
Chesapeake
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Lisman
New York
Bath Iron Works
Mary W. Bowen
Providence
R. I
Portland
Bowen
Clark
Palmer
Norfolk
The
New England Co
Bath News Briefs Cover Local Officials to Coast Guards and Cruises
Sunday coastal notices include tug voyages from Bath to Parker's Flats and Sagadahoc lobster licensing by Fish Warden D A McDonald. Acadia Lodge officers installed by Fred E Allen. Bath ball team plots a ninety cent excursion to Damariscotta with twelve bands in the big celebration. Funeral for Mrs Albert E Ross. Oak Grove interment. Coast guard cutter Ossipee arrives late in Portland. Porch collapse at a Bath cottage injures none. Massachusetts buyers purchase Silas Greenleaf place. Baltimore party tours via Kennebunk and Bar Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin
Robesonia Light
Parker’s Flats
St. Croix
New York
Bath
D. A. McDonald
Sagadahoc County
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Fred E. Allen
Yarmouth
Allen
Chase
Cosmopolitan Club
Albert E. Ross
Sidney B. Knight
Pleasant St
B. P. Browne
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Russell Colby
Herbert Lakin
R. C. Mitchell
Ernest Stinson
Oak Grove Cemetery
Officer Rice
Woolwich
Whistling Buoy
Nova Scotia
Coast Guards
Popham
Coast Guard
Ossipee
Woodbury
Portland
Baltimore
Randolph Ridgeley
Gloucester
Bennetts
Boston
Trevette
Sheepscot Echo
Silas Greenleaf
Amos Pinkham
Alice
Massachusetts
Strout
L. L. Cromwell
Wiscasset
Clinton Summers
C. P. McPherson
M. F. Bayne
Charles E. Bayne
Jean Joyes
Bayne Joyes
Colonial Cafe
Rockland
Bar Harbor
First National Bank
Farm Demonstration A New England County Early 1900s
The article outlines the origins of Farm Demonstration led by Dr Seaman Knapp as a U S Department of Agriculture program funded by the General Education Board in 1902. It details the push to improve Southern education and cotton farming through practical, learn by doing demonstrations, later expanding to the West North Maine and beyond. It notes early results countering the boll weevil, the structure of Extension staff, and solicitations for more county agents and information through Extension Bulletin No 100 from Orono Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board of
New York
South
Alabama
General Education Board
Seaman A. Knapp
Knapp
Maine
College of Agriculture
Orono
Commodore Dyer Buys the Sloop Banshee for Racing
Commodore Reuben K. Dyer of Portland selects the sloop Banshee as his new sailing pet beginning this fall after selling the Clique. Built by Joseph T. Davidson in 1900, the 35 foot yacht designed by B. B. Crownshield offers luxury cabins and speed with a 5 ft 6 in draft. The Banshee, a Portland Yacht Club favorite for 15 years, is expected to launch a new racing career under Dyer's command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben K. Dyer
Portland
Bath
Naval Reserve
Woodman
Commodore Dyer
Frank Wardwell
The
Yacht Club
Portland Yacht Club
Edward Woodman
B. B. Crownshield
Boston
South Portland
Joseph T. Davidson
Bay
Barrel Fly Trap Demonstrated at Elm House
Uncle Charles reports Frank Gardner devised a simple cheap fly trap using a barrel and inverted cone to trap flies. The method, tested at the Elm House, costs about 25 cents plus a barrel and aims to reduce fly trouble in homes and stables. Mrs. H. S. Brown visited Kent's Hill with her daughter Nathalie Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Gardner
Elm House
Frank
Gardner
Krank
Auburn
Postoffice rules on tobacco parcels to France and Belgium
Government notices restrict mailing tobacco products to French troops and POWs in France due to customs charges. Parcels already mailed will be returned and postage refunded on proper requests. A one cent receipt may be issued for fourth class mail from Sept 1 1915. International parcel post allows certain liquids and pastes to the Bahamas and other destinations from Sept 1 1915. Mail to Belgium suspended except for letters and post cards. Plus a Maine probate notice petitions sale of minor heirs real estate in Phippsburg Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postoffice Department
France
Postal Administration
International Parcel Post
United States
Bahamas
British Honduras
Costa Rica
Curacao
Danish West Indies
Jamaica
Newfoundland
Trinidad
Post Office Department
Belgium
Y M C A Membership Drive and Notices
The YMCA invites wide membership for the coming year with options for men women and boys including junior senior and limited memberships. The building rooms and lobby have new furnishings and hours allocate gym locker and showers while new adult and ladies programs unfold. Also noted are a train platform safety update at Rockland and a minor’s real estate sale petition in Bowdoin Maine with probate court notice for sale by private sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Mens Christian Association
Board of Directors
Probate Court in Bath Hears Final Account and Tax Petition
At a Sagadahoe County Probate Court session in Bath on August A D 1915 executors Anna E Butler and Fred F Butler presented final administration account for Catherine Craig deceased and a petition to determine collateral inheritance tax. The court ordered notice by publication in the Bath Independent three weeks running for interested parties to appear on September first at nine oclock in the forenoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Maine
Sagadahoc
Georgie E. Perkins
Phippsburg
Effie L. Spinney
J. Clarence Perkins
Edith E. Perkins
Reita V. Perkins
Andrew J. Perkins
Dr Percy
Sid Percy
W Gilbert
Atkin
Atkins Bay
EF. Os. Marr
Neel
Saeudahee
Hook SS
Cox's Head
Cox's Bend
Gilman Pereix
Lydia A. Lombard
Bath
A. TD
State OF Maine
Joseph W. Cornish
Bowdoin
Harry J. Cornish
Cross Road
Borough Road
Bowdoin Center
Lisbon
George Jones
Said Jones
Wilbert Carver
Frank Varney
Said Varney
Sugindahoc
Sagadhoc
Sagadahoy
Sagadahoe
Anna E. Butler
Fred F. Butler
Catherine Craig
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Corliss Street
Birch Point
John C. Berry
Kennebec
Bell Chapel
E. R. Drummond
B. F. Curtis
Mr. Jones
Waterville
H. W. Hanson
W. C. Blair
Somerville
F. M. Yeaton
Richmond
I. T. Johnson
A. M. Lancaster
Charles Whitehouse
Washington St
B. I. W. Dunlap Commandery
Knights Templar
O. W. Folsom
Commandery
Bath Marine Band
Knight Templar
F. A.thompson
Henry R. White
Mr. Whitehouse
F. D. Hill
W. C. Oliver
R. C. Brown
Charles E. Ripley
John L. Merrill
Otto F. Rulman
H. J. Shaw
Topsham
Frank II
F. L. Gardner
Charles
Auburn Free Press
United States Postoffice Department
Y. M. C. A. Membership
Cyrus SW. Longley
Angier H. Merriman
Rriman
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