West Bath News in Brief Highlights Local Life
Miss Grace Rogers of Dorchester visits West Bath relatives as Mrs George Rogers hosts. Local farm life noted with barn painting and a long ox haul for shoeing. Residents attend Nazarene church events in Lynn and New Meadows boat launches mark early season. Patriots' Day activities include a women’s mass meeting and Bath triplets to Brunswick. Community notices urge reader submissions to West Bath column.
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Grace Rogers
Dorchester
Mass
Whiskeay
George Rogers
Arthur Sewall
Stone House Farm
Bath
Ridley
Boston
Lynn
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
Fred
Kittredge
Humphrey Owen
New Meadows
Fred W. Brown
Miss Marie
J. C Rideout
Randall
Avery
Trembly
Annie Wylie
Isaac Coombs
Brunswick
Robert Donnell
North Bath
West Bath
White and Donnell
J. M. Lemont
Campbell Pond
Josie Winter
Samuel R. Brown
William Mitchell
I. B. Neiley
Ernest Williams
Neiley
J. Edward Drake
Birch Point
Morse Brothers
Williams
Campbell’s Pond
Everett Mayo
Winter Street
National League For Woman’s Service
J. M Lemont
E. W. Haggett
Fred Larrabee
Mme
James de Gogorza
Joseph ‘White
Joseph Lemont
Thomas Spence
Fierbert Redlon
Leland Mitchell
Richardson
Dennis Clark
Lowell School
Grange
The
Independent
Leader of Agricultural Clubs visits Woolwich Schools
Rev Milan J Smith pastor of north and south Methodist churches is assigned Woolwich pastorates after Methodist Conference. Charles White of Bowdoinham, leader of Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs, visits and encouraging local students to farm. Major community notes include deaths, road commissioner reappointment, and local visits.
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Woolwich
Milan J. Smith
Harry Allan
Yarmouth
Thomas Reed
Ellen Trott
Bath
Jameson
Warren
Sagadahoc Ferry
Emma
Charles White
Bowdeinham
Town
John Reed
S Ferry
Montsweag
Murphy’s Corner
Union Bridge
Chopps
North Woolwich
Nequasset
Arrowsic
Georgetown
Phippsburg
Eben Dana
William Wright
Frank Card
Artell Hayward
Clarence McMahan First Five Islander Enlists For War
Clarence McMahan son of Capt. James T. McMahan is the first Islander to enlist and is at home subject to call. The piece also notes community events, grange activities, fund-raising, and local movements around Malden Island and Bath with multiple local residents and organizations mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence McMahan
James T. McMahan
Will Rowe
Arrowsic
Dr. Cragin
Bath
Edward Hodgdon
Portland
L. H. Rowe
J. G. Rowe
MacMahan’s
Charles McFadden
T. E. Cromwell
Wilson Moore
People’s Church
W. H. Holland
Dr. Stott
Madelyn Berry
Fred Reid
Georgetown Center
Charles W. Boucher
Parsons Paradise
Nehemiah Boynton
Malden Island
Russell Boynton
Hendrick
Drummond Stevens
Donald
Kennebec
Levi Totman
F. D. Reid
Grange
Stevens
Joseph G. Stevens
Victoria Snowman
Miss Dell
Mattie B. McMahan
Manfred Newdick
J. G. Stinson
Alton Berry
Will L. Berry
Fremont Rowe
Joseph W. Blaisdell
West Foundation
Kindness to Animals Week Observed in Schools
This week marks Kindness to Animals Week with schools urged to observe it in some manner. Tomorrow is Humane Sunday and congregations are asked to preach on kindness to animals or address the subject in their sermons.
Exemption Rule in Trustee Garnishment Case in Maine
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court holds that wages exempt from attachment at the first trustee service remain exempt for successive services. The trustee was discharged with costs after ruling that the twenty dollar exemption should not be aggregated across multiple attachments.
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Law Court
Howard Coal Co
Melvin H., Savage
Glidden
Coal Company
J. M. Trott
Haley
Bath Municipal Court
Supreme Judicial Court
Sagadahoc
Haynes
Thompson & Trustee
Maine
Quimby
Clinton C. Stevens
Newlander MacGregor Wedding in Worcester
Winfield W. MacGregor and Agnes H. Newlander were married in Worcester on Saturday April 14 at eight in the parsonage 68 Fairfax Road with Rev. Carl B. Sandberg presiding. The bride wore a blue serge traveling suit and bouquet of bride's roses and was supported by her sister Mrs. Fred Kowalker and brother Anthony Newlander. Mrs MacGregor is the daughter of Oscar and Mrs Newlander, formerly of this city. MacGregor is the son of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield W. MacGregor
Agnes H. Newlander
Worcester
Mass
Fairfax Road
Carl B. Sandberg
Swedish Lutheran Church
Obituary of Robert B H Alden Portland Drug Firm Veteran
Robert B H Alden of Portland dies at 60 after an appendicitis operation. He spent 26 years with G H Guppy & Co in the drug business and 15 years as a Maine Central Railroad conductor between Portland Bangor and Augusta. A Port land Elks Lodge charter member and longtime treasurer, he was a prominent Maine lodge figure. He is survived by brother William O Alden.
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Robert BH. Alden
Portland
G. H. Guppy & Co
Maine Central R. A
Bangor
Augusta
Portland Lodge of Elks
Order
Maine
William O. Alden
Postal Telegraph to Launch Nationwide Telephone System
The Postal Telegraph Company plans a nationwide telephone network starting in Chicago with equipment contracts already in place. Private wire offices can switch between telegraph and telephone, using Postal Co lines to transmit voice. An Illinois Public Utilities Commission permit is sought, requiring a certificate of convenience and necessity. Bath's J. S. Committee on Finance met Tuesday night.
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Postal Telegraph Company
Chicago
Postal Company
Postal Co
Postal Telegraph Co
Public Utilities Commission of Illinois
Notice of executrix for Claire Perkins Hussey
Jenie Sisley executrix of the will of Claire Perkins Hussey of Topsham Saga dahoe Maine requests all claims be presented for settlement and all debts paid promptly. Bath April 10 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Perkins Hussey
Topsham
Sagadahoe
Jenie Sisley
Bath
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George Levi Trott
Chelsea
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D. G. Trott
G. M. Stinson
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Cora F. Cressy
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Mr. Holland
George Hanna
Willis Brewer
Southport
Alvin
Grandpa
W. &. Holland
Carrie Hagan Heald
Florabel Moore
Plymouth
Leonard
Hagan
Mr. Hale
Lizzie Stevens
Arabine Gray
Capt
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Front St
J. M. Harford
Ida
Hall
Robert Hodgdon
Malden
J. G. Btevens
Newlander-Macgregor
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Hood
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J. Blair
Day's Ferry
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New House Boat
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Mouth Rock
V. P. DeCoster
Springfeld
Springfield
James H. Ames & Son
Bowdoinham
Eerie
William K. MacGregor
Oregon
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Robert E. Alden
J. S. Committee On Finance
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Mary A. McCormick
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James S. Lowell
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