Georgetown News of the Week Highlights Local Visits and Events
Georgetown residents engage in trips to Portland and Bath and hosting visitors from Brooklyn and Roxbury. The column notes church activities, society meetings, home projects, fishing tales, fall travel, and local illness, with a long list of residents visiting or departing, plus a colorful letter from Charles Smith in Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Clarke
Marie
Portland
Harry S. Clarke
Louise
Brooklyn
Miss Clarke
Ruth Hicks
O. M. Kingsbury
Bath
Everett C. Trafton
Georgia Randall
Josephine Oliver
Indian Point
Newell Campbell
Riggsville
Edwin H. Oliver
Dorothy
Roscoe P. Todd
Roxbury
Mass
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church
Ralph Dunton
Fragments Bring A Glimpse Of A Town And Its Hatcheries
Descriptive text highlights the town, its buildings, people, and fish hatcheries, painting an intriguing portrait of the community and its environment.
War Revenue Bill Aims Fast Action After Caucus Accord
Washington leaders push rapid war revenue legislation with plans to introduce the bill tonight and pass by Saturday if possible. Republicans vow persistent opposition, arguing tax revisions and smaller public works bills negate emergency needs while targeting banks brokers tobacco and other taxed items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Underwood
Republican Congress
Fidelity
Against Suffrage: Mrs. Byron Stevens Speaks in Augusta
Mrs. Byron Stevens of Brunswick travels the state delivering anti suffrage talks. Her August meeting at Mrs. John T. Hull home highlighted studies in Colorado and argued that women’s civic effort should not be redirected solely to suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron Stevens
Brunswick
Augusta
John T. Hull
Colorado
Frederick C Schoonmaker Found Dead in Attic
The Elizabeth Ne Daily Journal reports Frederick C Schoonmaker in his 50s a consulting mechanical engineer living at 225 Murray St was found hanged in the attic of his home at 5 pm yesterday by his wife Edna B. Schoonmaker. Foreseen financial reverses and persistent illness are cited as possible causes. He is survived by wife Edna and three children Frederick Jr Edwin and Marian. He had a New York office at 50 Church St and was formerly with Bath Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard M. Trafton
Annie O. Rowe
Eugene M. Trafton
Island Falls
First Baptist Church
Matthew
Christ
Henry Albers
West Georgetown
Charles Bartlett
Helena Stewart
Cove
Kennebec Point
J. C. Bearse
William Noble
Riggsville
Norman H. Treat
Philadelphia
Bath
Georgetown Center
Edward C. Clary
Westport
Frank Thompson
Elizabeth
Brooklyn
Edgar B. Hunt
Auburn
Douglass
William H. Dearborn
Hattie Rowe
Dearborn
John E. Morse
Benjamin de Costa
Boston
Levi Totman
de Costa
D. H. Todd
N. S. Todd
Harold F. Hunt
Frederick C. Schoonmaker
Murray St
H. B. Brady
Rahway Avenue
R. A. Shirrefs
A. O .Buck
Buck
Orthief
Koerner
Westcott
Brady
George Baker
Bauer
Bauer Said He Believed Mr. Schoonmaker
Home classes planned for agriculture and home management
The U S Department of Agriculture in cooperation with state agricultural colleges will organize home based courses for ten or more farmers and farm women. Courses feature 15 to 20 lectures over five weeks with laboratory and cooking work, led by a state appointed leader, and certificates awarded by the state college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
State College
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Michigan
Vermont
Florida
Maine
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Bath native promoted to chief of Lehigh Valley tug
The friends of George H. Farrin, once a Bath boy, rejoice at his promotion from second engineer of the ocean tug Perth Amboy to chief of the Checktowaga of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Lighter Harriet B. Shibler, capt. Moody, arrived from the Eastern River Friday with 20 tons of hay in bales sent to Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Farrin
Perth Amboy
Lehigh Valley Coal Co
Harriet B. Shibler
Moody
Eastern River
Boston
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L. F. Oliver
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Marr
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