Dummer Sewall Chapter Announces Annual DAR Program
The Dummer Sewall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution outlines the 1930-31 season with monthly meetings October through June at 2 30 PM in the American Legion hall. Program topics include Dates of the Revolution, Current Events, Revolutionary Music, Patchwork Quilts, and Stars and Stripes, with hostesses and a long list of committee assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Dummer Sewall
Daughters of the American Revolution
American Legion Hall
Flora M. Randall
Massachusetts
William
John A. Morse
Harry ©. Webber
Thomas
Gibbons
Old Trail
New England
U. S
Alice Robbins
Howard B. Johnson
Alice Shorey
Gertrude Greenleaf
Continental Congress
Corrie H. Varney
James E. Lockery
Fred C. Hill
T. H. Riley
Harry E. Ring
Stars
Star Foote
Abbie Va Minott
Alice
M. Minott
George Ingalls
Bowdoinham
Rodney Ross Wins Colonial Golf Tourney at Sebasco
Rodney Ross swept Class A with 161 total for 36 holes at the Colonial tournament held Sunday at Sebasco. Dr. Paul A. Gregware, John Houghton, and Edward Sewall tied for second with 166. Clinton Wilson posted 38 for one round, while John Houghton claimed the blind handicap prize with a net 147.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toen
Sebasco
Rodney Ross
Brunswick Golf Club
Paul A. Gregware
John Houghton
Edward Sewall
Clint Wilson
Dayton Hill
da. Hill
Allan Irish
Mr. Irish
Marshall
Wally Marshall
Grze An Wel
Ross Ceceivees
Gregware
Sewall
Houghton
Liborl Polar Side Iy
Browne
WOMIG
Sameeren
Howe Hoe Oe
Hersom
Stover
Bally Yess
OPTOV
Carl Anderson
Stan Hunter
Marshal
Adams
Hagget
Mackinnon
Linekin
Porcupine Mistaken for Skunk Brought to Local Store Display
Early morning in Biddeford Michael Cadorette found what he thought was a skunk in his garage. After retreating he and a friend investigated with sticks, discovering a 17 pound porcupine which was killed and placed on display at his grocery store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Cadorette
Biddeford
Bath's Oldest House Undergoing Repairs
The Jonathan Philbrook house on High street, Bath, built in 1743 and once the first Bath home, is being renovated. Workers uncover original east and south wall blocks used for Indian protection. north and west sections were altered long ago. The Philbrook family once owned land from the Kennebec river to New Meadows and built ships at the riveryard. a daughter married Rev. Solomon Page, turning the house into Page’s Tavern on the Bath post road. Walter Snipe of 190 High Street has joined W. Rogers hardware store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Jonathan Philbrook
High Street
Center
William James Rouse
Philbrook
Kennebec River
New Meadows
Center Street
Granite Boon
Kennebec
Solomon Page
Bath Man Keeps Promise Made Many Years Ago in Lithuania
Morris Cohen and his wife Ruth Edward and Ida visited Varna and Zezmer in Lithuania to fulfill a promise to his parents made 160 years earlier. They traveled from Bath to Boston then to Liverpool and Rotterdam before reaching Kiel and Kaunas, greeted by a large crowd. They saw Kaiser Wilhelm’s palace in Berlin, war relics, and noted economic hardships and Old World customs amid postwar recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Cohen
Lithuania
Varna
Zezmer
Cohen
America
Nathan Petlock
Bath
Boston
Ruth
Edward
Ida
Liverpool
Old Country
Cohens
London
Hull
North Sea
Rotterdam
Berlin
Kovno
Kashadar Zezmer
Kashadar and
Mr. Cohen
Chicago
Vorna
Zermer
Verna
Kaiser Wilhelm
Unter der Linden
Germany
MacMahan Island season drawn by a bustling resort mood
MacMahan Island enjoys a bustling late season as Sheepscot Lodge stays open through September and plans for 1931 expand. Notables visit, cottages receive upgrades, art exhibitions occur, and Miss Mary B. Young is named manager for the coming season.
Bath's Growing Pride and Prosperity in 1853 Bath
Sagadahock House Bath Mo June 11 1853 details Bath’s allure and growth. It notes settlement in 1756 incorporation 1781 population growth from 2491 in 1810 to about 11 000 by 1848, shipbuilding dominance with firms employing 2200, new gas works, a custom house, several banks, and the City Grays militia reflecting local enterprise and wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahock House
Bath
Maine
Boston
City
West Bath
Harvard
Trufant & Drummond
Johnson Rideout
Clark & Sewall
George F. Patten & Co
W. W. Moses
Wm. M. Rogers & Son
L. W. Houghton & Sons
Arnold, Curtis & Cox
Willard Hall & Co
Larabee & Robinson
Governor King
City Bank
New England
City Grays
Harding
Pictures of Old Merrymeeting Park Recall Days of the Gay Nineties
The article recalls Merrymeeting Park as a Maine show place thirty years ago. It describes nature trails a zoo a casino an amphitheatre ponds and trolley crowds from Sagadahoc to Old Orchard and the era of top buggies and grey mares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrymeeting Park
Sagadahoc Square
Maine
Portland
Cook's Corner
Brunswick
Old Orchard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dummer Sewall
D.A.R
Horace P. Morse
Marian Jaques
Edmund M. Staples
Emily M. Rideout
Maud Clark Gay
Alice Edna Varney
Elshap Flint Durgin
David L. Wilh
Harry C. Webber
William 8. Given
Ernest A. Allan
Alice M. Minott
Charles C. Low
Owen J. Ledyard
Rupert H. Baxter
Elmer D. Hodgkins
Fred H. Cary
Annie J. Palmer
Alice G. Shorey
Herbert C. Calderwood
Clarence E. Johnson
Alexander Cutler
Edwin Dodge Hardin
George W. Merrill
Georgie N. Denham
Arthur Allen
Optometrist
Mon
Walter Snipe
Vagiva
Poland
M’mahan Island
MacMahan
Sheepscot Lodge
Lod
R. M Hughes
State Univer Beattie and Chil
Warwick
N. Y
Mary Carry
New York City
Henry Doughten
Doughten
David Williams
Jane
Philadelphia
William Thaw, Jr
Pittsburgh
Cecille Jacobelt
Staten Island
George Fowler
Colorado Springs
Colorado
A. J. Holley
Brandon
Vermont
Charles Wurtle
Anne
Goodrich
Canada
William R. Thomas
Springfield
Mass
E. D. Fite
Poughkeepsie
N._Y
Lawrence Rumford
Rye
Woolridge
S. C.phillips
Cleveland
Ohio
Harold Johnson
West Hartford
Pinehurst
N. C
Henry C. Wright
W. O. Jones
Brooklyn
W. A. Evans
Greenwich
Conn
A. Evans, Jr
Birdent
Daniel M. ‘Bates
Bertha
James Marshall Cole
Christchurch
Brandywine
Wilmington
Delaware
A. M. Austin
Mabel
Laura
Helen
Sparkhill
H. H. Lee
Edith Howard
Theodore
La‘zell
West Newton
Josephine Kimball
Hartford
Woodhull
W. C. Allen
Arthur N. Taft
H. A. Nealley
Philip Little
George S. Pine
Howard Giles Esq
Constance Ekstrand
Theodore S. Lazell
L. C. Roberts
Marguerite Gray
Pasadena
California
Talbot Rogers
Mary B. Young
Masters School
Dobbs Ferry
Miss Young
High School of Practical Arts
Columbia University
Young
A I Stuart
Optometrist Tel
W. Bath
Weekly Mirror
The
Tribune
the Mirror
Times
Whig
Democrat
Sagadahock
Commercial
Lincoln
Char
Merrymeeting Park Casino
Morrimesting
Johnson Brosco
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