Drownings in Kennebec: Horace Witham Falls from Wharf
The three year old Horace A Witham junior son of Horace A Witham and Cora Groves Witham of Augusta fell from the Eastern S S pier into the Kennebec River Sunday afternoon and drowned. Coroner Curtis deemed it accidental drowning and held no inquest. The child, living with his family in Augusta, was identified by his family after first being mistaken for another boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace
Horace A
Cora Groves Witham
Kennebec
S. S._ pier
City of Augusta
Boston Boat Wharf
Garcelon
E. S. S. Dock
Curtis
Goldie King
Pine St
North End
Mr. Witham
Alan
Ezra Groves
Tolls Question Address at Winter Street Church Meeting
RE C Plummer spoke on the Panama tolls question at the Men's Club of Winter Street Church last Friday. He outlined treaty terms and argued reform could be blocked by any renegotiation under current language. Harold M Sewall added questions and the discussion continued with refreshments after. Sunday auto trip description follows with Bath incident of a mudbound car and an Easter cloaked guest who spoke none.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Street
RE. C. Plummer
Panama
State Department
Harold M. Sewall
Local Notes: Busy city scene and transit updates
Joy riding begins and horses being clipped as city reports housing and hospital notes. The steamer Islander to serve the Augusta Boothbay route May 2, while Boy Scouts head to Merrymeeting Park and Acadia Lodge attends the Eastern Maine Jubilee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
Augusta Boothbay
E. E. Morse
Frank Lord
Sagadahoc Square
Merrymeeting Park
Acadia Lodge
Auburn
Lewiston
Times
Huerta
Associated Press
Roland Pero
Floral Sr
Rhode Island
Pero
G. A. Cahill
Nathaniel Loomis
Bowdoin College
Purdue College
Mount Kineo
Kineo
Moosehead Lake
A. C. Judkins
John Il Tyrde
Colonial Club
LL. Eugene Thebeau
Fred D.D. Hill
William M. Adams
W. Dayton Hill
Daniel Williams
Stevens
Bath
Court House Square
Capt. Tainter
Mary Augusta
Howard's Wharf
Tainter
Winterport
M. J. McCormick
Montgomery & St. Bernard
Royal Arch
Walter S. Gildden
Henry R. White
Lucius. M. Lemont
Rand
William J. Perry
King
N. G. Jackson
Iarl KE. VanBamiun
Charles W. Dingley
New York
Bath’s growing ice cream trade and shipyard plans
Bath reporters note rising ice cream sales and a Bath Industrial Corporation push to relocate a shoe factory by July 1 pending funding. Prominent Bath residents discuss Mexico crisis links with Captains Hughes and Cooper. A Tongass timber sale and Bath yacht launch draw regional attention amid local events and a Topsham whiskey tale.
City People Active With Travels Illness and Events
A roundup of local residents with moves illness and social notes. Clarence Seavey died in Portland while many others travel visit and return to Bath including Albert Colby Gardiner, Elisha Varney Boothbay Harbor, and Miss Emeline Gay funeral at Green Street residence with Maple Grove Cemetery interment.
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Clarence Seavey
Portland
Guy Crosby
High St
Fred Parks
Allen Brown
Sheiff Oliver
Bath
N. Y
Albert W. Colby
Gardiner
Frank E. Burns
Boston
Amos Haggett
Irving Matson
O. P. Coffin
Alfred Kimball
Commodore Cook
Guy Glidden
N. H
Carl Liberty
Colonial Theatre
Augusta
Warren M. Stilphen
Warren
Elisha Varney
Boothbay Harbor
Abbie G. Walker
Salem
West Bath
Litch
T. J. Mundrigan
Steele
Harry Sullivan
Frank
Wakefield
Charles H. Hyde
Stanley
Malden
Popham Beach
Frank S. Wakefield
Edward McAuliffe
Elmer Hodgkins
Mary J. Cilley
Valmore
Hinckley
Middle St. Court
Cilley
Eastwood
Fred Adams
John Devine
Lynn
Thomas Devine
Mary Harper
Lyon
Art M. Dyer
Haverhill
Mass
Department of Misachusetts
Imp Kateon
Co. Ir
I Massachusetts
Richard O. Holbrook
Topsham Wie
Holbrook
George B. Holbrook
Kilmanick
Virinia
Virginia
Edmond Gay
Albert M. Gay
Montreal
Veter
Paul
Quebec
Arthur Gay
Southern Pacific
Emeline T. Gay
Davis Hatch
Green St
C. Raymond Chappell
Elm Street Church
William P
Robert B. Hatch
A. B. Sterns
W. G. Cahill
Maple Grove Cemetery
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Horace Witham
S. S. Wharf
Col. Plummer
Winter St. Club
North
Horace Fernald Witham
St. Mary's Sodality
Miss Farrell
Mexico
Charles Frederick Hughes
George F. Cooper
Louisiana
Richmond
Maine
Bath Industrial Corporation
Front St
Park
People’s Ferry
E. R. Leonard
Woolwich
Tongass National Forest
Alaska
Tongass
Comfort
Tom Reed
Five Islands
Carolyn
Moses Chandler
Southport
Kankakee
Willis Brewer
Kimball Bros
Chandler
Opera House
Miss Grace Morse
Allan Guerrero
Miss Morse
Bath Iron Works
Tron Works
Kennebec River
Topsham
Number One
Number Two
Number Three
Joseph Kingsbury
Ferdinando Gorges
Red Sox
John Thompson
James Slunter
William Lambie
Arthur Kindred
Hull
Quine
Albert I. Dingley
Rockland
Carl E. Chapman
Everett
Flossie Beals
Chapman
New H England Col!ectionary Co
Non
Second
Congress
Joseph Kinssbury
Thomas
Lydia E. Pinkham
United States
S. T. Richmond
Providence
R. I. Providence
R. I
T. Ricamono
Waldo Street
I. I
Croquet
Minn
Lydia E. Pink
Jennik Akrerman
K. Akerman
Cloquet
Minnesota
J. D. Murdoch
Quincy
Lydia EK
Lydia FE
Pinkham Medicine CO
Advicg
Castor
Bears
Castoria
Entaur Company
New York City
Hidelity Crust Company
Monument SQ
Portland, ME
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