Port County News brief from June to July items
Local notices from Port County report a Fourth of July schoolhouse picnic and a ten week term end. Miss Edith Allen teaches at the schoolhouse. Nellie Friend and Bentley Grindle wed at the parsonage. Quarries injury, island arrivals, and church activities are noted along with weather figures and local travel changes. A Maine pilot, William Collins, dies. other town updates include recipients of stage routes, family visits, and a planned recital with soprano Miss Mabel Monaghan.
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North Secewies
Edith Allen
George Allen
Richard Grindie
Swan's Island
Minnie Thurston
North Brooklin
Nellie Friend
Bently Grindle
Brooksville
Grindle
South Thomaston
Sorrento and area summer residents arrive and depart
Numerous visitors and locals gather at Sorrento and Green Lake for the season. Chaffee family from Providence occupy Sorrento Farm House while Mrs Burnham from New York uses Greely cottage. Hotel Sorrento opens under E R Grabow with guests from Boston and Yonkers arriving this week. Local fishing, boating, and social events noted as July starts.
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Sorrento
Chaffee and Family
Providence
R. I
Sorrento Farm
E. R. Grabow
Hotel Buckminster
Boston
A. H. Pray
Pray
Gifford Cochran
Yonkers
N. Y
Eve Cochran
Miss Cochran
Keep Your Bowels Strong and Act Naturally
An advertisement notes constipation or diarrhea linked to bowels being out of order and promotes Cas carets Candy Cathartic tablets stamped C C C as genuine and sold by all druggists at roc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mall Tome
Frase Free
Dr. Kilenee & Co
Binghamton, N.Y
Meteor Lantern Kite Trick From a Simple Home Assembly
Children’s column presents a simple night kite trick using a homemade meteor lantern. A five inch circular light board, a small candle, wire or rattan hoop, and tissue paper create a glowing, longer lasting effect than a real meteor, with notes on safer designs than a Chinese lantern.
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New York Press
Fireworks Heritage From Pagan Fire to Fourth of July Noise
A Louisville Courier Journal piece traces fireworks from ancient rites to gunpowder era displays. It notes illuminations symbolized sacred and civic joy, their shift with Rome Greece and Phoenicia, and the rise of pyrotechnics as art. It highlights Italian inventors and Paris exhibitions leading to modern festive fireworks. It forecasts a hot Fourth with widespread racket, as pyrotechnists have prepared for weeks.
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Louisville Courier. Journal
Aaron
Minerva
Vulcan
Prometheus
Heaven
Bacchus
Ceres
Hell
Callothus
Florence
Rome
France
Torre
Fie
Plato
Mount Etna
Venus
Aineas
John Adam
Ellsworth Falls Fourth Fest Promises Grand Time
C M Witham visited Bar Harbor over Sunday guest of Sylvanus Jordan and Lena Moore. A Ti conic home company meeting voted to buy new uniforms. The Statemaster at Lynch's band arranged a Fourth celebration with a band concert from noon to two, a large pavilion at Mad docks grove, and dancing afternoon and evening.
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C. M. Witham
Bar Harbor
Sylvanus Jordan
Lena Moore
Boston
B. A. Marxfield
Bangey
Hancock Point
Ti~conic Home Company
Lynch's
Maddocks’ Grove
Mouth of the River visitors and a heat toll
Alton Smith of Dedham visited relatives here last week while Misa Nellie Ray of Somerville visited Gordon Ray and Henry Ray from Boston to spend vacation with H. C. Ray and wife. Mrs Taylor and two children stay with Mrs Thomas. Celia Fullerton collapsed from heat last Friday and remained in critical condition for several hours.
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Alton Smith
Dedham
Misa Nellie Ray
Somerville
Mass
Henry Ray
Boston
H. C. Ray
Taylor
Portland
Thomas
Celia Fullerton
Flora Jones Weds Clarence Hodgkins at Home
In Bayside last Wednesday evening, Flora M. Jones, granddaughter of William M. Jones, married Clarence T. Hodgkins of Brewer. Rev. J. P. Simonton officiated. Relatives attended. couple left that night for Brewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Jones
Flora M. Jones
Clarence T. Hodgkins
Brewer
J. P. Simonton
Lakewood Notes Illness and Mail Route Change
Miss Jennie O Moore is quite ill with rheumatic fever. Emery C Frazier is at home from Shaw mat with lameness in his ankles. Simon Garland began carrying the mail between Lakewood and Ellsworth Falls July 1.
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Jennie O. Moore
Emery C. Frazier
Shaw
Imeness
Simon Garland
Lakewood
Elsworth Falls
County News and Barge Arrivals and Ordination Details
The Ocean Home opened June 27. The Norris captained schooner John 8 brought 180 bogeheads of salt from Gloucester for John Hopkins last week. The Stanley schooner Roxelin, Margaret Leonard and Cosmos arrived this week with about 70 000 pounds of dish. The Manset Baptist church called a council on June 28 to ordain its pastor. Rev Gideon Mayo was moderator, Rev C S McLearn clerk. The examination covered experience call to ministry and doctrine. The council voted to proceed to ordination in the evening and set a program including hymns scripture sermon ordination prayer and charges to candidate and church.
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County News
New
Ocean How Home
John
Norris
Holmes
Gloucester
John Hopkins
Stanley
Roxelin
Margaret Leonard
Cosmos
Manset
Gideon Mayo
McLearn
W. Brooks
W. C. Wescott
Hint
Nathan Hunt
B. E. Mitchell
Benedic
Ion
Clarence
Jay
Stops the Cough and Swarks of the Cold
A compact health note promotes remedies to halt coughing and ease cold symptoms. It emphasizes routine care and self treatment steps with generic guidance for temporary relief. No specific products or brands are named in the accessible text.
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M. Gallert
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