Harvest Moon and School Numbers in Local Notes
Local items note hay prices from 15 to 20 dollars a ton and a new name added to the voting list. Morse High School freshman class counts 115 students, eight more than last year. Highlights include community events, ship company leadership change, a street scene with a baby and bystander, sports standings, and an adventurer named Henri Ferrier touring through the area with his dog and a world trek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Registration
Morse High School
Bath area news notes and upcoming events overview
The item bundle reports Bath happenings from carpenters building a small piledriver to drive piling, a peeping Tom case, and large wagon wheels tied to a Bath team. It covers a clambake fundraiser on Bluff Head, public school enrollment estimates, Salvation Army meetings, a coke cargo incident on Front St, yacht club bake tickets, and local shipyard activity with two four masted schooners under construction. It also notes Bath Iron Works projects including torpedo boat destroyers and an ocean yacht, a Boston to Bath yachting arrival, and vacation travels along the Kennebec Reader sightings.
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Carleton
Bath Grain Co
Broad St
Bath Industrial Corporation
Bowdeinham
Bluff Head
Bath
Capt. Snowdon
Salvation Army
Adjutant Abrams
Baker
Hyde Windlass
Kelley Field
St. Claire
McSwains
Murray
B. McNeal
R. Oliver
Sullivan
Martyn
Burns
McLean
Maine Woman's Auxiliary
Board of Missions of the
Episcopal Church
St. John’s
Bangor
Sampson & McFadden
Front St
Couture
Kennebec Yacht Club
Yacht Club
City Landing
Franklin
Coastwise Transportation Co
Boston
Camden
N. J
Seth Chase
Steamer Transportation
Baltimore
Alexandria
Egypt
S. B. Boutilier
Suffolk
Chase
Percy & Small
G. G. Deering Co
Kelley, Spear Co
Atlantic
Bath Iron Works
Mulligan Wharf
C. E. Achorn
Charles West
Bertha West
Providence
R. J
Mr. Achorn
Kennebec
Hallowell
Isles of Shoals
Bluefringed gentians bloom time noted in marshlands
Reports indicate the bluefringed gentians require the marshlands for bloom as local conditions shift with the season. The note comes amid a run of regional agricultural updates including a record hay crop despite Maine rains.
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Maine
Commercial St
Torrey
Woman's Foreign Mission Society of
Beacon Street
George Tobey
Fred Shaw
Georgetown
Obituary: Mrs. Mary A Harrington Dies at Five Islands
Mrs Mary A Harrington aged 83 died August 21 at her daughter Ida H Rowes home in Five Islands after a brief illness. Born December 14 1838 in Westport she was the last of her Willis family. She married William Harrington of Westport whose death left four children Will A Clif ford F and Ida H Rowe surviving with eight grandchildren. Funeral at the church with Rev N Boynton and burial at Oak Cemetery Georgetown. She spent most life in Westport and Bath before living with her daughter at Five Islands.
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Five Islands
Mary A. Harrington
Ida H. Rowe
Westport
John
Hannah Willis
William Harrington
Will A
Oakland
Cal
Clifford F
Bath
N. Boynton
Oak Cemetery
Georgetown
Arrowsic Community News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Os Arrowsic and surrounding towns share a week of visitors and life events. Teachers from the North district Miss Florence Jones and the South district Miss Harding of Boothbay Harbor are noted. A long list of residents visit friends in Foreside Bath and Lewiston and many attend funerals and church services in Georgetown and Bath. Interment and baptisms mark church life as families travel to Little River Beach and Kennebec excursions.
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North District
Florence Jones
South District
Harding
Boothbay Harbor
William Laurence
Harold Laurence
Lewiston
George Spinney
J. H. Snipe
Mrs Mary Estelle Owens Dies After Woodland Shock
Mrs Mary Estelle Owens aged 34 years 5 months of Upper Washington Street died after a shock while walking in the woods last Sunday. She was found by her husband and Joseph Libby and never regained consciousness. She is survived by her husband her parents Mr and Mrs Gilbert Atwood and eight siblings. The funeral is set for 2 p.m. today at the Atwood home on Upper Washington Street.
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Mary Estelle Owens
Michael Owens
Upper Washington St
Joseph Libby
Gilbert Atwood
Phippsburg News Briefs Highlight Local Travel and Visits
The town notes lightering lumber at The Chops this week. J. O. Wyman and family arrived safely Monday evening back in Boston. Pauline endured the trip well despite illness. Dr. A. F. Williams hosted Dr. Kershner at Merimachi last Sunday.
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J. O. Wyman
Boston
Pauline
A. F. Williams
Mrs. Kershner
Merimachi
Wiscasset Briefs Include Local Visits and Incidents
Lawyer O H Drake of Pittsfield stays at Plumstead homestead. Evelyn Hodgdon attended the Darmariscotta Christian Endeavor Convention with Rev Plinette Allen. Edith Hodgdon home after summer on Westport Island. Jr and Mrs Wallace Prescott guests of Mr and Mrs Charles Leavitt. Melvin Dickinson escaped serious injury after a fall at Haines mill while razing the building. Potatoes bugging farmers. Earl Parker laid up from a wood splitting accident. Erna Mahar hired as teacher in Waldoboro schools. South town scholars to attend village schools. Itasca anchored in Wiscasset Harbor. reception for officers and cadets in Franklin Hall with dancing. Marion Soule employed at central office as hello girl.
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O. H. Drake
Pittsfield
Plumstead
Evelyn Hodgdon
Christian Endeavor
Darmariscotta
Plinette Allen
Woolwich
Edith Hodgdon
Westport Island
Wallace Prescott
Gartimer
Charles Leavitt
Melvin Dickinson
Haines
Earl Parker
Erna Mahar
Waldvuoro
Itasca
Wiscasset Harbor
Franklin Hall
Mildred Leavitt
Marion Soule
Holbrook Family News From New Meadows Area
Miss Alma Holbrook left Monday for West Gardiner to teach. Miss Mercy Holbrook of Portland visited here. The Merry Club met Wednesday hosted by Alma and Sibyl Holbrook with eight members. Beechwood cottage owners the Brodrick family returned to Waltham. Charles Savage visiting daughter Mrs Potter at Woolwich. Mr and Mrs Walter Reed also...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Holbrook
Portland
Local Notes on Nearby Happenings This Week
Citizens attended the State Fair this week while Samuel Holbrook and Augustus Snow visited the Bay and secured four black ducks. Garnett House and Fairview Casino report few remaining boarders as the week brings closures. Portland boats will be taken off Tuesday.
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Bowdoinham
William Davis
Samuel Holbrook
Augustus Snow
The
Bay
Garnett House
Fairview Casino
Portland
Old Diary Reveals Sailors and Ships of the Sewall Line
Reader recalls a diary from a ship owner linked to Clark and Sewall then E and A Sewall. It lists vessels such as Vigilant built 1859, captured by Sumter in 1862, and notes crew blackened as “Niggers.” The editor adds a list of the owner’s ships up to 1869, and reflects on wooden shipbuilding’s decline and Sewall prominence.
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the Independent
Sewalls
Clark & Sewall
E. & A. Sewall
Vigilant
N. Y
New York
Sombero Island
Sumter
Cadiz
Brunswick
Hannah
James McCobb
McCobb
Mile
North Star
Ville de Paris
Ocean Scud
Valentia
Villa Franca
Vancouver
Charlotte A. Morrison
Ranger
Vicksburg
Glendale
Intrepid
Orean Signal
Vilant
America
Freeman Clark
Frank Marion
Wetterhorn
Matterhorn
Herman
Tabor
Undaunted
Sewall
Hospital Point
John Harvard
Card of Thanks From Five Islands Family
Card of Thanks extends heartfelt gratitude to friends for sympathy and acts during their bereavement. Signers are Mrs Ida H Rowe Will A Harrington and Clifford F Harrington of Five Islands Maine dated Sept 7 1915.
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Ida H. Rowe
Will A. Harrington
Clifford F. Harrington
Five Islands
Deliver the Goods phrase in a grave national emergency
The London Globe questions using American slang to describe a grave national emergency while noting English resources remain ample. The piece weighs the expressive power of Deliver the Goods against the need for precise language in crisis.
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Atlantic
London Globe
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