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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Apr 29, 1916

Page

8

Bath community notes on events and repairs around town

Local Bath items report ice fishing on Whiskeag, a ferry water main issue, church activities, a New Year social at Grace Church, a 25th wedding anniversary, and plans for a five masted schooner launch. Also news of Dreamland Theatre pianist, War Relief work, a cat advertising image, and a Elks Christmas gift to steward William Leydon.

New Year's Ball and Local Sports Roundup at Bath and Nearby

Southport Grange hosted a New Year's ball at its hall with four pieces in the orchestra. Deering High plays its first boys basketball game at the Y M C A gym Friday. Elmer Rich shot seven rabbits near his home with a 12 year old dog and returned by sunset. A stereopticon lecture on John Huss and His Countrymen was held at Winter Street church Thursday. The Independent Club enjoyed a gathering at Miss Cora Savage's home on Middle Street with ice cream and cake. The Bath Y M C A team visited the Samosets and Bath won 39 to an unidentified score. Miss Thelma Stickney spent the New Year weekend with Miss Hazel Judkins in Westport. Mr and Mrs John Warren of Boothbay are wintering in the city due to work at B I W. Reports on the Persian liner torpedoing mention three Americans aboard. Police lodge officers elected for the year and to be installed next week. The three masted schooner Henry Withington sailed to Norfolk to load coal for Providence, under new master Capt Johnson, built 1874 and 528 tons. Night Police Capt. Wallace notes a horse at White stable repeatedly rising to beg for grain, misinterpreting his routine as the stableman.

Bath Popham Beach Society Hall Harold Boyd Woolwich Grace Church Fred Hockomock E. S.S. Corp First Baptist Church William Shea Beacon St Court Sagadahoc Foresters of America G. R. E. Pullen Gardiner Bay Point Kimball Bros Virginia Percy Chester T. Wallace William Oliver Small Point Dromore Grange Hall New York War Relief Committee Alva Altekamp Dreamland Theatre Miss Alt Southport Grange Southport Deering Elmer Rich Winter Street John Huss Universalist Jesus Thompson Brothers Independent Club Cora Savage Middle St Boothbay Register Y.M.C.A Thelma Stickney Hazel Judkins Westport John Warren Boothbay Warren Aden Frank Rairden Java Father Taylor North End Bostom Lincoln Lodge No. 10 1.C.C.F Noble Newburyport Wallace Old Charlie Charlie Capt. Wallace Raymond's Court Arrowsic Morse High Wesley Church Esther Brown Ladies’ Aid of Universalist Church Jennie Morse Washington, St People’s Baptist Church Amanda McIintire Front St McDonald Charles Lee West Bath Grace Sage Daddy Long Legs Universalist Church Alonzo Parks Coburn Steamship Co Moosehead Lake Moose Mann Kennebec Richmond Bee Hull Engine Bath Iron Works Park Brown Gullicksen Leah Winslow Boston Edgar Brooks Summer St Miss Winslow Plymouth Theatre Philadelphia Thorndike Hotel Boston Common New England Andrew Merryman Bowdoinham Wisconsin California Maine Taylor Harvard Observatory A. O. Leuschner Students’ Observatory Berkeley Cal Bath Opera House Department of Commerce Washington Bureau of Fisheries Halcyon Boothbay Harbor Gannet Houghton Cass People’s Church Evans Chappell Fred A. Snow Freeport Lewis J. Marshall Lisbon Falls United States District Court Portland Hale Mr. Marshall Fred Page Popham Addie Reed Haverhill Mass A. J. Couture Manchester N. H William J. O’brien Alex Cochran Baltimore Dry Dock Co Robert M. Silsby Wiscasset William Henry Brown Eugene Brown Adelbert Chester Carver Rockport Gladys McGillicuddy Richmond Alden Blossom The Hastern Steamship Co Grace Eggleston D. T M. C. Trott Famil North Edward McDonald J. Fred Tobey, Jr Charlestown Navy Yard L. H. Curtis Phoenix Mutual Insurance Co Hartford J. Edward Wakefield H. W. Pinkham McLein-Jones Oil and Supply Co Kittery Navy Yard William I. DeCoste Pawtucket Roscoe H. Shaw Arthur B. Stilphen Gloucester F. E. Bragg Richardson St Stilphen H. E. Pinkham Co East George K. Robinson Famous Players Co Harry C. Webber Robinson Paramount Pictures Paramount Columbia Theatre Park Theatre

Snow and churchgoing mark a cold Sunday in Bath

Local notes recall sleighing improvements and church attendance on a snowy Sunday in Bath. Smelter huts on Arrowsic ice, a burned grocery building owned by Charles Lee, and a new steamer project by Alonzo Parks are mentioned along with park league bowling results and a lengthy tale of Andrew Merryman’s distant orange ranch success in California and Maine’s booming AEG crop shipping 18 million oranges.

Great shipbuilding boom noted in iron and wood sectors

Rockland’s C. G. Rockland notes a surge in American shipbuilding led by iron construction with wooden ship growth expected to follow. Bath already shares in this boom. The report covers local dances at Bodwell Grange, Taylor's comet, a Bath Opera House mishap, and multiple civic items including fishery vessel bids, local sports results, church services, and court news.

Bath News Roundup Includes Local Movers and Visits

Fred Page of Popham called Bath residents Monday. Many locals travel for holidays, visits to Boston Manchester Clinton Iowa Richmond Westport and Boothbay Harbor noted. Key names include Silsby McCarty Wakefield Sprague Spear and Robinson with ongoing shipyard and theater tours.

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James S. Lowell William H. Watson H. A. Duncan Annie Gould Auxiliary Sons of Veterans Mary Price C. R. Chappell Ernest Shorey Elsie Wakefield Brownie Dwight Thurston Northland Santa Claus Harvey Berry Dreamland Florence Hoffman Louis Pooler Margaret Hoffman Erma Temple Retha Morris Pearl Bridges Little Christ Alexander Harry Ring J. A. Alexander Brunswick Brunswick Record M.C. R.R Lewiston Augusta Waterville St. Ry Maine Central Tix Kimball’s Wharf Rockland C. G Knox County Bodwell Grange Oach Popham Parker Head Winnegance Conant Lance Thomaston G. L. Crockett
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