Human Coal Bridge At Bath Pocket Uses Steam Power
Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co shows off a steam operated coal bridge at Bath Front Street pocket. The machine loads coal from barges into cars, with a single operator, Frank Lefever, controlling dual ends. Seven thousand tons stored, two 1200 ton barges expected, and first cargo of 1200 tons shipped within a month of plant opening on February 2, 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
Kennebec Wharf & Coal Co
Frank Lefeyer
Lefever
American Woolen Co
North Vassalboro
Lewiston
Augusta & Waterville Street Railway
Bath
Vassalboro
Portland
Golden Wedding Of Bath Couple Celebrated At Home
Mr and Mrs George M Fowles of Washington street North end celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a Sunday gathering at their Bath home. Married August 10 1869 in Westport by Reverend Bennett, Mrs Fowles is a daughter of the late William J Cressey. A large turnout included relatives from the Cressey and Harriman circles with Mrs Wallace presenting a wedding cake and a long period wedding knife used since. The couple renewed their vows as Mr Fowles placed a solid gold ring on Mrs Fowles finger. A shower of post cards and gifts followed as friends 40 years familiar offered warm tributes to their half century together.
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George M. Fowles
Washington Street
North End
Westport
Mr. Bennett
Wiscasset
Fowler
William J. Cressey
Donald Harriman
David C. Cressey
South End
Harry Wallace
Stanley
Charles Bean
Fowles
Wallace
Sheriff To Take Samples Of Beer In Probe Of Alcohol
Sheriff Wilbur C. Oliver orders inspections of beer with more than half a percent alcohol. He will label and hold samples, naming source, date, and location, until government standard is set and potential prosecutions. Penalty up to $100 fine and jail. Also notes Leta Card’s return from Lisbon Falls after visits with relatives.
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Wilbur C. Oliver
Oliver
Five Islands Grange Fair Nets a Large Sum of Receipts
The third annual Five Islands grange fair on Friday and Saturday drew a total net of 3812 after sales across booths from Stair Booth to candy and ice cream plus a popular entertainment. Major contributors included Miss Carrie H Stevens and Mrs Nellie Reid with kitchen and crafts, while Madam Mystery Mrs Madge O Brien and Miss Carolyn Stevens helped drive gains. Local residents and visitors attended, with a concert, supper, and a large entertainment program concluding the event.
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Five Islands Grange
Carrie H. Stevens
Philip Blake
Nellie Reid
Addie Davis
The
Grange
Amanda Blaisdell
Mary Frances
J. B. Horton
Nocton
Berry
Newdick
Lila McMahan
Mildred Pinkham
Madame Mystery
Madge
Brien
Sadie Smith Drake
Local Obituary and Community Notes Highlight Five Islands Figure
William Tolland of Five Islands dies after long illness at home aged 68. Born in Brooksville, he lived in Five Islands over forty years and was a devout Baptist. He belonged to Boothbay lodge Knights of Pythias and Five Islands grange, survived by wife Avuba. Funeral attended by grange members. local notices mention grange activity and various residents.
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William T. Tolland
Tate Michael
Jane Howard Holland
Five Islands
Mr. Holland
Brooksville
Baptist Church
Boothbay Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Five Islands Grange
Florilla
Wliphalet Rowe
Avuba
Leander Berry
Grange
Aten
Madge O'Brien
Mole Titers
Tana Wees
Corrinne Ainsley
Amanda Blaisdell
W. Noeton
Carrie H. Stevens
J. G. Stevens
William Boyd
Igi
Caroline Stevens
Edgar Drake
Georgetown Working League Fair and Sale Success Story
The Georgetown Working League held its most successful fair and sale at the First Baptist vestry, featuring booths with fancy work aprons and candy, and a lawn tent selling ice cream. A six o'clock supper offered baked beans salads bread cake cookies tea coffee and ice cream, with receipts topping $150. Local residents and guests were noted visiting Bath Portland and Arrowsic as the community praised the event and noted upcoming town actions on a Woolwich Arrowsic bridge.
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First Baptist
League
William A. Todd
Howard Heald
J. Everett Jewett
William Oliver
Ethel B. Todd
Bertha A. Russell
Harriet Deering
Charles Oliver
Howard G. Heald
Belle Heald
Gladys Oliver
Henry Todd
George Oliver
John D. Williams
Roy Moore
Edgar Hunt
Harold Hunt
Howard Trafton
Ida Williams
Marion Buzzo
Pauline Moore
Woolwich-Arrowsic
Walter B. Reid
A. Ke, Buzzor
William Berry
Augusta
J. A. Williams
Robinhood
Portland
Unn Cushing
Bath
Levi Powers
Newall Campbell
Augusta Todd
Albion Oliver
Prescott Steadman
Denver
Col
Elizabeth Howarth
William Card
Brockton
Mass
Fred Rela
Josephine Steadman
Washington, D. C
Amos Steadman
Bay Point
T. H. Ward
Quincy
George Sprague
West Georgetown
Ira Wilbur
Sarah Clark
Maiden
Joseph Bearce
Lucy Thompson
Kennebunk
Frank Thompson
Seward Emmons
Jack
Lewiston
Benjamin Farnsworth
E A. Williams
Myron Cutler
Webster
Harold F. Hunt
Winfield Rowe
Waltham
Popham Beach
Byron M. Rowe
Walter Cummings
W. C. Todd
Bertha Russell
Rowe Cottage
Edrwin Oliver
Roscoe VP
Todd
Benjamin H. Woodside
Arline Rowe
Popham
Local Notes on boats, fish, and weather near Merrymeeting Bay
The report notes 320 automobiles ferried on Monday by the Hockomock. Teal and black ducks are seen on Merrymeeting waters. Hattie B. Monday delivered 45 tons of sand from Merrymeeting bay to Read Nichols Co. Sunday motor boat trips faced rough crossing due to southerly breeze and ebb tide. William Robshaw injured his left hand when caught between his boat and a wharf piling. A Five Islands casino dancing party is planned for Saturday with Stevens providing music. if the weather holds, more motor boat parties will sail from Bath. Bath market fisherman paid 32 cents a pound for mackerel Sunday, the season’s peak price.
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Hockomock
Merrymeeting
Hattie B
Read Nichols Co
Merrymeeting Bay
William Robshaw
Five Islands
Stevens
Bath
Bath Girls Write Clever Playset Debuts at Mere Point
In the Alley at Mere Point the one act society Cyril Dear premiered with an all star Bath cast. Lydia McLellan Baxter and Winifred Johnson, Bath born authors, saw their first venture praised. John McInnes Jr as Cyril and George McFadden as Sir Cedric delivered professional performances alongside The House That Jack Built. The entertainment committee included Baxter, Parkhurst, Johnson, and Angevine.
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Cyril Dear
Bath
Lydia McLellan Baxter
Winifred Johnson
Miss Baxter
Rupert H. Baxter
Miss Johnson
Clarence Johnson
John McInnes’ Jr
Cyril
George McFadden
Sir Cedric
Jack
Lydia Baxter
Marjorie Parkhurst
Helen Johnson
Ferrisse Angevine
Suspends Sentence for Larceny of Bicycle
Harry Potter, convicted before Recorder Hase of larceny of a bicycle from Forest Baker of Woolwich, was sentenced 60 days in jail with the sentence suspended for good behavior. He is placed in his father's custody after paying $10.54 in costs. Mrs. Chester S. Kingsley and daughter Virginia are at Tumble Inn Bay Point for the season, with Mr. Kingsley visiting nightly. Other guests include Mrs. Leverett D. Bristol of Augusta and her sister from Hartford. Ten to a dozen flocks of ducks fly over the mill pond toward the sea, with the first flight above Sewall pond totaling about 100 birds.
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Harry Potter
Hase
Forest Baker
Woolwich
Chester S. Kingsley
Virginia
Bay Point
Mr. Kingsley
Leverett D. Bristol
Augusta
State Department of Health
Merrill
Hartford
Conn
Mill Pond
West Bath
Sewall Pond
Local Jottings and Naval Notes From Bath Area
Tug Keystone Sunday towed schooner Storm Vetreh to Augusta to load lumber. A baby seal 10 feet long seen on Rock Island near Merrymeeting Bay. Ensign W G Smith, released from transport service, visiting brother Byron H Smith. he sailed the Princess Mateika which carried German internees to Holland. Feltis reports extraordinary blueberries on his Bath farm, raking 40 quarts in 14 1/2 hours and previously shipping nine flour barrels.
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Keystone
Augusta
Rock Island
Merrymeeting-bay-by-Gapt
William Crocker
W. G. Smith
U.S.N.R
Byron H. Smith
Ensign Smith
United States
Charleston
Holland
Leviathan
Lorenzo Feltis
Bath
Bristol
Officer Feltis
Mr. Feltis
Feltis
Boston
Real Iron Tonic Peptiron Promises Safe Strength Boost
An ad touts Peptiron as an effective iron tonic that relieves nervousness weakness overwork anxiety and worry. It claims to avoid constipation stomach upset and dental harm while combining iron with wax celery pepsin and other tonics. From C. I. Hood Company and sold by all druggists.
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C. I. Hood Company
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Thompson Bros
Leta Card
Lisbon Falls
Royal Mathews Plant Street
Lucile Beals
Mechanic Street
WNW
Fred B. Teeling
N.Y. Life Insurance Co
Middle St
Five Island Grange
Walter Moore
L. H. Rowe
Aehiabe
Pinson
Bentling
W.T. Boyil
Bessie Mae Doughty McPhee
Dorothy Drake
Olive Drake
Lswomel
Cole
James M. Stevens
Kinga Golen
Ianepeedsretae
Joseph Muse
Alton Berry
James Stevens
Fred Rittall
Bai
Carolyn I
George Gray
Francis Reid
Gladys Winkham
Evelyn Rowe
Peres
King Cole
Carolyn Stevens
Fairy
CG. A. MacMuahan
Walter E. Reid
Marjorie Bartlett
Dorchester
Quimby
Edward Pierce
Beacon Street
Seguinland
Walter Reid
Hotel Seguinland
William H. Holland
Oak Cemetery
Georgetown
Joseph Greenleaf
Malia House
Front’ Street
Little James
Hidth
Alton Reed
Almon Rr
Lester Davis
Gloucester
Francis
Howard 'T. MacMahan
George Hanna
Mr. McMahan
Hanna
Pennsylvania
Brunswick
Mary Bates
I Berry
Richmond
J. J. Blaisdell
Miss Rice
Friend
Beebe
Malden Island
Mrs. Vierce
Brookline
Sequipland
Etta Emmons
Cambridge
Albert Arene
Alfred Rowe
Clayton
J. E. Blaisdell
Manley Rowe
Texas Yard
Merion Davis
Davis
CG. C. Davis
KE. M. Horton
Nahant
Lillian Lewin
Iva
Alice Cromwell
J. G. Rowe
South Gardiner
Larrabee
Mark Hagan
Yeoman
St. Louis
Manfred Miller
Almon Marr
Lizzie Cromwell
Milen Cromwell
Martha Mains
Jerome Harrington
Waverly
Elbridge Main
Jordan
Yarmouth
Bixby
Elizabeth
Woburn
Horace
Lath Sturday
Johittal
Baby
Diddeford
Edward Lewis
Eleanor
Side-a-Wee
Frankie McMahan
T. M. Hagan
Adelaide ‘Brady
Norton
Mt. Hope Cottage
Eagle Stock Company of
Southport
Grange Hall
BE. A. Russell
Oneida Kennets
N.Y
Mr. Russell
Oscar J. Farch
Margaret Flaherty
Anent
Wti Labardie
Germantown
Fareh
Sadie McClay
Bangor
Edward J. Murphy
Working League of Church
James FE. Will Co
Bath Girls
Dolmans
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