Elm Street Cleared and Ferry Repairs Add Spring Pace
Local notes say Elm Street is cleared by Oscar's crew. The Hockomock ferry engines were overhauled at the B I W and placed for summer service. The Penobscot River to Bangor is open to navigation and the Eastern Steamship Co began Bangor Boston service Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elm St. Ie
Oscar
Merry Men
Hockomock
B.I.W
Penobscot
Bangor
Eastern Steamship Co
Boston
Court Square
Bath
Brunswick
Mate Hodgkins
Virginia
Kimball Wharf
Local Happenings and Notices from Bath
Local items report eight wild geese over Bath heading to the Bay. Community groups meet at Wesley M. E. Church parsonage and G A R hall for events and meals. School uses Bath Opera House for graduations. Billy Hall’s Musical Comedy Company visits next week. News covers baptist sales, weather, and a dry moon. Morse High plans spring baseball. police lodging a crowd. local officials consider taxing musical instruments. Sailors’ deaths noted. Atlantic passenger figures cited. motor boat bills may raise costs and require inspections and licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Wesley M. E. Church
Bath Opera House
Harry Webber
Billy Hall
St. Anthony’s
Billy
Boston
Mass
Morse High
Colonials
Colonial Club
H. W. Owen
C.A.C
Leslie Miller
James P. King
Dinner
Bureau of Navigation
Board of Assessors
Donald B. Smith
New England
Norwood
Elizabeth
Palmer
Norfolk
Baltimore
Gardiner Augusta items note river clear for navigation
Local notices report Kennebec River navigation reopen from Augusta to the sea. Community adds sightings of robins and bluebirds, church circle meetings, shipyard painting, and civic changes. Funeral, Belgian flag sale, ship tonnage, and court actions are briefly recorded.
Maine News Bits from Maine Towns and People
Frost lingers as country roads dry. Capt McFadden escorts Muse boy to State School in South Portland. Fred Stilphen lands five cellar jobs for new homes. Baptist meetings push toward 100 attendance. Mrs. Oliver of Popham Beach sails to Boston to meet her husband aboard the S S Arlington. Real estate buy by Mrs E Glidden at Pine Street. Navy man A H Goff reenlists for four years aboard the Delaware. Maine bank balance April first stands at 1 218 136 62 with cash in office 42 712 49. Corliss Street Church class meeting postponed due to Merritt Lermond illness. Maine Conservation and Reclamation League forms to advocate state control of water powers. Thomas J Lynch dies at 59 in Augusta. former banker and postmaster. Day's Ferry volunteers save Capt Thompson house from fire. Rosie Mongo arrested in Portland for handbag theft after Bath clerk follows suspect. Bath shopper’s bag with about 15 dollars missing. George A McFadden, Roscoe P McFadden’s son, impresses with shadowgraph act at home after seeing Birth of a Nation.
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Milton Reed
Exeter
Lynde’s Island
Ralph Dunton
Portland
People’s Baptist Church
S. A. Evans
Bath
Kennebec
C. H. Saunders
Mildred C. Gross
Orland
Capt. Saunders
Charles D. Loveland
Percy & Small
Philadelphia
Liverpool
C. S. Loveland Co
Saunders
Colonial Club
Charles H. Cahill
Brunswick Club
J. Edward Drake
J. A. Martin
Walter Emery Chase, Jr
Cahill
H. W. Owen
M. A. Haraden
Gardiner
Augusta
First Baptist Church
C. R. Chappell
North St
Steamboat Square
Aldermanic Chamber
Gilmore
la Senate
Daniel Carlton
Anna
Bath City Hospital
Carlton
W. F. Stearns
Bangor
New York
Souna
John W. Roberts
Harry W. Tucker
Middle St
Friends
Sidney J. Willis
Universalist Church
James S. Lowell
W. Scott Shorey
Howard B. Johnson
George F. Jackson
Maple Grove Cemetery
Col
Commission For Relief
Belgium
Albert
Bath Garage
Missouri
Boothbay Harbor
A. J. Fuller
Charles E. Moody
J. J. Moore & Co
Port Townsend
Fuller
Everett
Wash
Port Pirie
Australia
Moody
Goss & Sawyer
John McDonald
Keegan
City Landing
Joseph C. Footer
Footer
Junkman Joe
Chester Muse
McFadden
Muse
South Portland
Fred Stilphen
People's Baptist
Frank S. Oliver
Popham Beach
Boston
S. S. Arlington
Oliver
Lakes
Ethel Glidden
Fred B. Reed
Pine St
Charles H. Oliver
A. H. Goff
Charlestown Navy Yard
Cuba
Corliss St
Cora Small
Merritt Lermond
John Nocton
Washington St. S
Bradford Martin
Charles B. Roberts
George P. Larrabee
Walter A. Barlow
Fred E. Bowie
Fred E. Irish
Maine Conservation and Reclamation League
Thomas J. Lynch
Maine
State Trust Co
Cleveland
Lynch
Day's Ferry
Capt. Thompson
Portland Sunday Times
Rosie Mongo
Eastman Brothers & Bancroft
George A. McFadden
Roscoe P. McFadden
Opera House
George
Shamrock Minstrels
Sally
Bath Camp
M. W
Central Church
Odd Ladies
Mary McIntire
Washington St
Myrtle Lodge
Auburn
R.W.G
Nettie Verrill
J. J. Desmond Co
Center St
Courier Gazette
Junco
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Minnehaha Rebekah Lodge
Lisbon
Thomas Mott Osborne
Bowdoin College Union
Mr. Osborne
Sagadahoc Council
F. of A
Archie Carey
William Rouse
William McMann
Grand Court
Thompson
Y.M.C.A
C. H. Cahill
Colonial Cafe
People’s Church
Evans
City of God
Ray Cummings
Young People’s Society
Pastor Evans
Owen
Waterville
Civic League
Bath notes and events from city life in Bath Maine
Regular Y M C A board session and April weather details. Reports include river ice retreat, past snow in 1915, ship Ada F Brown arrival, Hockomock repairs, new power boat for Milton Reed, Bath Gun Club growth, and preparedness night with Coast Artillery band. Also the Norman launches service, Hockomock hull damage, Ginger the horse death, and Elm Street Baptist Church Boost the Church program with department heads speaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.M.C.A
Charles V. Minott
New York
Ada F. Brown
Buenos Ayres
Wallace
Cousins
Blaisdes
Bangor
O. K
Milton Reed
Exeter
Bath
Lynde’s Island
R. M. Silsby
Bath Opera House
Col. Peterson
Coast Artillery
New England
People’s Ferry Co
Norman
Southport
Bath Iron Works
Wheeler
H.A. Huse, Jr
Ginger
Also Mentioned on This Page
LOCAI
Seth Stewart
A. A. Percy
Mr. Percy
Robert W
City Hall
Mr. Stewart
Herbert McMann
Jorep Travely
Stewart
Androscoggin
Bay Tce
Ladies of the First Baptist Church
Amanda McIntire
Susie Rice
Margaret Darrah
Raymond Cummings
Beltran Crocker
J. Edward Sullivan
Oakley C. Curtis
Elm St. Baptist Church
Brotherhood
Scott C. Hill
H. E. Worrey
Ladies’ Aid
Arthur Dunton
Unity Guild
Ellie Moulton
U.P.S.C.E
Chappel
Woman’s Missionary Society
Marion Larsen
E.W. Society
Harry W. Moulton
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