Bonneys and Friends Visit in Phippsburg Community News
Local notices list visits and travels of residents and guests in Phippsburg. Mr. and Mrs. George Bonney stay from Range Jeys and tour Portland. Many neighbors and relatives, from Hyde Park to Bath, arrive or depart, with service changes and family updates, including a new baby for the McGuiggan household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bonney
Range
Jeys
Frank E. Phillips
Elmont
Duxbury
Mass
Perley Rattleff
Mr. Rattleff
William Smart
Bowker Yard
Lucy Gahan
Allston
Parker Head
J. F. Leach
J. O. Wyman
Raymond
Pauline
Lake View Cottage
Portland
Everett Harrington
William Roderick
Waitstill Wallace
E. L. Wasson
Calais
Phippsburg Boy Honored by Marine Journal for Service
The New York Marine Journal lauds J. E. Percy of Phippsburg Maine for twenty seven years in the Savannah Line. He is noted as a chief engineer on many steamers including the City of Memphis and City of St. Louis. The piece mentions his nephew relation to Captain J. B. Percy and references a government postal ruling and a new schooner from Richmonde built by Crosby Navigation Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg
The
New York Marine Journal
J. E. Percy
Savannah
Pine Tree
Percy
City of
Memphis
St. Louis
Capt
J. B. Percy
Morgan Line
Jacob Hook
Crosby Navigation Co
Richmond
Maryland Navigation Co
Baltimore
Pendleton Yard
Crosby Yard
People's Ferry Co to Buy Land and Build New Slips
The People's Ferry Co plans a land purchase along the Bath and Woolwich shores to straighten the approach and add a coal shed. A new 40 foot ferry boat with three vehicle tracks and separate foot passenger flows is projected, along with larger waiting rooms on both sides and a modernized bookkeeping system. The plan ends a long dispute and officials say benefits will endure for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Ferry Co
Bath
Ferry Street
Woolwich
Ferry Company
Drake
People's Ferry Co
Bath Warns Public on Influenza Cases
A few influenza cases appear in Bath but are not serious. Residents are urged to avoid crowds and seek prompt medical care. Sanitarian Kingsley stresses rest, fresh air, and nutrition to aid recovery and prevent spread during the wartime shipyard effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Chester S. Kingsley
Sam
West Bath Gathers News From West Bath Community
Dr and Mrs Frederick Carter of Augusta visit Mrs Carter's sister Mrs Cramore Ramsey. Commodore and Mrs McNair return from a ten day Annapolis trip. he will join a destroyer soon. Inn at New Meadows closes. many motorists will travel the state road. Various locals visit, host, or travel in Bath area including schools, farms, and Red Cross events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Carter
Augusta
Wek
E. J. Trask
Nobleboro
Mary Knowlton
Joseph White
New Meadows
Merryman
Isaac Coombs
Foster’s Point
Dr Palmer
Brunswick
Llewellyn Rogers
Bath
Ella Higgins
Bath City Hospital
Florence Neily
Topsham
I. B. Neily
George Hamilton
Elijah Kimball
Berwick
Roscoe P. Decker
William Brown
Fred White
Portland
West Bath
Frank Leavitt
Ben
Josephine Winter
Jed
Rachel Coffin
Trufant Street
Harry Wright
Daniel Williams
Birch Point
William Dean
Dorchester
Mass
Jennie Tarrabee
Walter Larrabee
Lowell
Fred L. Williams
Wokland
Lincoln Williams
Campbell’s Pond
A. H. Donnell
Springfield
Donnell
Massachusetts Dairy Association
Jennie Jarrabee
Walter HH. Larrabee
Thomas F. Perkins
Fred Wright
North Bath
Hillcrest Inn
Twin Mountains
Bethlehem
N. H
Johnsbury
North Hero
Lake Champlain
Montreal
Plattsburg
M. Y
Ausable Canyon
Keen Valley
Green Mountains
White River Junction
Bilious relief and local social notes in Maine
Bilious relief ad promotes true L F Atwood Medicine from Wortland Maine as a stomach and liver tonic. Local notes mention Vivian George visiting grandmother in Sanford, a trip to Windsor and Dead River, Mona Wise visiting Augusta, George Rogers celebrating a Seth wedding anniversary in North Bath, and Samuel Cole visiting Bath residents.
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Atwood
L.F
Atwood’s
Medicine Co
Wortland, Me
Mis
J 0
Patles
Lanier Craig
Harvey Harlow
Kenneth
South Gardiner
Windsor
Dead River
Mona Wise
Augusta
Fred W. Larrabee
George Rogers
North Bath
Seth
Samuel Cole
Bath
Fred Larrabee
Mendelssohn Club Holds Wet Night Rehearsal
Despite heavy rain the Mendelssohn Club met at the Parish house on Oak street with splendid attendance. An enthusiastic rehearsal followed and the director praised the progress from recent weeks. A union rehearsal was held Thursday in Brunswick with Professor Chapman conducting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendelssohn Club
Oak Street
Brunswick
Professor Chapman
Newspaper cuts print stock to ease wartime shortage
The War Industries Board asks all papers to reduce newsprint usage. The Independent, like peers, will drop from eight to six pages while preserving information and local news. Readers are urged to send items about people and places, including former Sagadahoc residents, to keep content engaging. Funeral for Capt. Wylie Rogers Dickinson held in Phippsburg with Rev. Omar W. Folsom officiating. bearers named and burial in Oak Grove, Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Industries Board
The
Independent
Sagadahoc County
Independent World
the Union
Bath
Wylie Rogers Dickinson
Phippsburg
Omar W. Folsom
Winter Street Church
Harry Butler
Co. W. Rogers
John D. Rogers
Charles Cutting
Harry Plummer
J. W. Berry
Oak Grove
Clock changes October 27 set back one hour nationwide
The United States Naval Observatory will turn the clock back to standard time at 2 am on Sunday October 27 signaling time retardation to Arlington wireless Key West and Chicago naval stations. Localities will be notified by telegraph wires as offices and clocks adjust the new old time. Funeral services for Navy Wea ler were held at 2 pm Wednesday at the home of his son Joseph Wester with Rev. Clarence M FogE officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Naval Observatory
Arlington
Key West
Chicago
Railroad Administration
United States
Naviers Wealer
Joseph Wester
High Street
Clarence M Foge
Corlins Street Church
N. Gratz Jackson
Percy Chesley
Pearl Dunbar
Red Khirdt
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Promote Vital Health
Advertisement claims women suffer most from blood and nerve conditions and touts Hood's Sarsaparilla before meals and Peptiron after meals as cost effective, improving physical weakness and nervous irritability with iron deficiency. Drugstores are urged to supply them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
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Levi Wallace, Jr
Gray
Levi Wallace
Basin
Henry M. Heald
U. S. District Court
Fort Baldwin
Ellison Houdlette
W. A. Butler
John McGuiggan
McGuiggan
Margaret McDonald
Richmonde
Pendleton Brothers
Bolivia
Bath Dept Store
Yarmouth Junction
Hlinets
New England
Patrick Ward
Charles W. Gerow
Yarmouth
Maine
Brandon
Rockland
Newport
Vermont
Concord
Portsmouth
New Meadows Inn
Green Mountain Chain
Eomer Clough
Lewiston
Rodney Wright
Clarence Whittwu
Delmar Bates
Howard
Edwin
Samuel Bates
Marion Dain
Charles Foster
Dain Cottage
Leon Pennell
Parker Adams
George Dennison
Madeline
Freeport
Sabine
Owen Hartshorn
Bates Burrgalow
Hartshorn
Connecticut
Harshorn
S 1. Failes
Waltham
Pailes
Elmer Craig
Elm Street
Larrabee
Everett Mayo
West Point
Vivian George of
Sanford
Jane Haggett
Independent Readers
Dickinson
Copyricht
Kuppendhaimer
John J.desmond
Water Streets
Conley’s Specialty Store
Morse High School
Cleveland H. Wright
15Th Co
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