County News Highlights Local Residents and Marine Trades
Front page notes extensive county items from Boston visits to Oceanville and Bar Harbor. It records names like Waite, Hatch, and Spofford, maritime activity around schooners Puritan and Frolie, new deputy sheriff Hurtow, engineer Withle Barbour, and court actions. Fresh weather and social items from West Sullivan and Salisbury Cove mention relatives, concerts, and missionary events, with scattered travel and employment updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuenday
Charles U. ‘Hurtow
Thurlow
Withle Barbour
Jane McCrea
Wood Webster
Spoford
Maud Hatcb
Camden
G. C. B. Crocket
Salisbury Cove Captain Thrives on Wild Goose Decoys
The Bowton Sunday Herald profiles Capt. Fe W Thompson of Salisbury Cove Maine famed for routinely harvesting a dozen geese and several ducks in a single morning using trained decoy geese and ducks. He details selecting and training a gander to lure flocks, handling flight-wing clipping, and selling trained birds to parks and collectors, noting rising interest from Bar Harbor summer residents and public shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Fe W. Thompson
Salisbury Cove
Mt. Desert Island
Thompson
Mimrod
Nat
Uncle Sam
Reguiar
Trent
Woo
Ffteen
New York
Llionaire
Bar Harbor
Department of the
Local Market Prices and Community News from Ellsworth
The report lists diverse produce prices and farm activity, including potatoes, apples, peppers, and greens, with notes on rain, haying progress, and local visitors. It also mentions the Frenchman Bay Packing Co purchasing the steamer Gertrude L for service, Saturday dances at Bunker’s hall, and residents visiting relatives in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Sargent
Horace Jordan
C. H. Bush
Boston
Hammond House
H Ammer
Frenchman Bay Packing Co
Gertrude L
Capt. Holt
Bunker's Hall
Week's Winnowings of News and Nonsense from Kittery to Caribou
A broad Maine roundup notes a grocer from East Machias struck by a westbound Washington County train at Wiswell's crossing, with his shoulder broken and the horse killed. It lists deaths including Edward Kearney of Millinocket, Benjamin F. Butterfield of Bangor, and James M. Davis of Bangor, plus an appointment: B. E. Ring named State land agent and fish and game commissioner. Also recorded are educational staff for Philippine service, several new patents granted to Maine inventors, and local notices of deaths, remembrances, and social tidbits across Bangor, Rockland, Orono, and Augusta communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Sullivan
Carrie Butler
John Woodworth
Halifax
Alonzo Tripp
James Mattocks
Somesville
W. B. Gordon
Son Dell
Helen Thomas
Natick, Mass
Frank Sargent
Boston
Alvin Hooper
Pinkerton
B. W. Russell
Hugh Havey
Ile
Sebenon
A. McKenzie Mattocks
James Mattocks, Jr
Jesse Bunker
Hall Quarry
Ratella Murphy
Bu Ines
Murphy
Gibson Pettee
Winter Harbor
Celia Thaxter
A. M. Mattocks
Grace Mitchell
Qora M. Gordon
C.G. Newman
Andy P. Havey
Caribou
F. A. Havey
Howard Webb
Havey
Webb
Fred Hall
East Machins, Grocer
Washington County
Wiswell's Crossing
Mr. Hall
Edward Kearney
Great Northern Paper Co
Bingham
Benjamin F. Butterfield
Fletcher & Butterfield
Marble Workers
Bangor
Nathan Bateneter
Dover
Auburn
First National Bank of Augusta
Kennebec Savings Bam
Auburn Prunt Co
Kennebee Steamboat Coc
Augusta Water Co
Maine Farner Publishing Cs
Waverly Wooten
Pittsfield
Dexter and Newport RR Co
Frank P. Thomas
Andover
George & Underwood
New York
Mc. Oak
Hon. B. M. Simpson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frontneter &. L. Waite
Carrie Stanley
Oceanville
Sunle
Hatch
Beston
Hiram Annis
Mra
Illea Annis
Charles Colomy
J. Reimigion’s
Stella
Bi. Harrington
Mrw
D. J. Noyes
Puritan
Harry ‘Gray
Sully
Willie
E. J. Spofford
H. G. Spofford
Clark
George Robbing
Spofford
Bin
Bonda
B. &. ‘Tracy
Denny
Bar Harpor
E. P. Spofford
Deer Iste
Evorxe
Mt. Desert
James Campbell
Seawall
Gertrude
Helen Smith
Yortland
P. H. Young
D. V. Wilson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Granvill Hamor
Florence Rowe
Ethel
Mildred
Kilsworth
Sand Point
Bowton
Grou Ali
Tor
Rollet
Fries
Heathers
Warton Stret
Ellsworth
KKETS
Waowmaday
MADER
Liverpool
Aghiarsen
Butworth
Yoratablon
Orion
South Gonrdsboro
Alonzo Sargent
A. F. Hooper
Franklin
Tripp
Lamoine
Alton Tripp
Will Andrews
Sorrento
G. F. Bunker
Brighton
Mass
C. L. Bunker
S.m
DeWitt
Wiogin & Moore
Islisworth
Kittery
B. E. Ring
Orono
Fish and Game Commission
Caries E. Oak
Ring
Edmund T. Ring
James M. Davis
National Guard
John Frederick Merrill
Rockland
Morrill
Washington
Schoors
W. W. Stetson
A. L. Burnell
Woodfords
Paul F. Ross
Weston
Fred J H. Stinchfield
Danforth
R. E. Whiting
Brunswick
Thomas M. Randall
Freeport
D. D. Spear
Portland
Philippines
B. F. Allen
M. S. Berry
Cuundher
G. W. Davis
N. C. Hodgkins
Augusta
H Kelley
Biddeford
B. P. Lawrence
Lubee
Tobin
Madison
South Pemascot
Percy Perkins
Sidney Gray
Southwest Harbor
Clifton Wescott
Dark Harbor
Islesboro
Louise Wardwell
Castine
Williams
Brockton
Olive M. Perkins
Minerva Dunbar
Calvin Leach
Jay Perkins
Providence
Ernest
Bertha Perkins
Olive
Etta Gray
North Penobscot
W. M. Thompson
Eliza A.irish
Augustus Cain
John Beam
West Middlesex
Wicarin & Moony
Godingtin
Cronemeyer
TIN Plate Company
Minarn
Minard’s Liniment Mfg. Company
Fred R. Spear
Rosendale Cement
Park Street
Rockland, Maine
New England
Eastern Telephone
Clarion
N.W. Bond
Wood & Bishop Company
Pearl
Ware
Majin Street
J. P. Eldridge
The
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