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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1927

Page

3

Wiscasset School Play A Hit At Red Men’s Hall

An enthusiastic crowd filled Red Men’s hall Friday for a Wiscasset grade school entertainment. Students and teachers prepared a varied program of recitations, songs, tableaux, and playlets, with proceeds from ticket sales and candy sales totaling several dollars. Community members and local families hosted guests and shared Thanksgiving visits, while a push for Christmas and winter community assemblies continued.

Wiscasset Red Men's Hall Edward Evans Orphint Annie Marion Swinmings Plymouth America Nash St. Andrew's Church Newecastle Locke Clinton Bailey Federal Street Ae Thoose Sue Cossfin Hhiveld Perkins Rafi Sewall Pranconia Robert Day Main Street Charles Hilton Frances Perkins Sophia Pomeroy Bray Rufus Sewall Tao FL Os. Perkins New Hampshire Edgar Sewall Providener R. E Ruth Sewall Boston Trenry Sew Worcester Mass Rockland Chevrolet Joseph Young State Highway Police William Corbett Federal Prohibition Enforcement Force Augusta Thirvey Ro Pease Nora Greenwood Shirley Ro West Greenwood Turner White University of Maines Edward White Kate White James McCarty Porthind Charles Lake Rockhind Norman Pstey Od Orchard Warner Ugley Douglass Florence Brookline Charles Norton Hartford Conn Thomas McLaughtin Lida Kahail Westport Josephine Plumstead South Porthand Richard Phinstead Antoinette Plumstead James Bailey Josephine Louise Sutter John Currier Lee Street William G. Ebubbard Ortho Martin Andrews Welcot Maud Clark Gay Waldoboro Women's Club Congregational Vestry Joseph Po Theker Dumariscotta Phoebe Rufus Elenry Sewall Rebecca Nash O Jones Mildred

Wage stability to continue into 1928 in building trades

The national monthly building labor review notes wage rates will hold through the rest of M27 and the first quarter of T2S. Union tensions grow as bricklayers, masons, and plasterers threaten to sever ties with local councils, risking interunion disputes and potential state or federal action to protect construction activity.

National Monthly Building Labor Review Building Economic Research Bureau The American Bond and Mortgage Brickliyers, Masons, and Plasterers’ Union Sundhaus Trades Department Lebor Tabor Brickliny Loc Carpenters Baltimore National Board of Jurisdictional Awards Building Trades Council Trade Council Bricklayers’ Union Toronto Ont United Brotherhood of Carpenters Pittsburgh Philadelphia Ritchie Maryland

Henry Ford early backer dies in Detroit

John M. Colquhoun longtime lunch wagon operator near City Pall dies in Detroit last month. He helped finance the early Ford car and Ford later bought the wagon for his museum at Dearborn. The piece notes Ford’s early sketches and friendship with Colquhoun during his Molison Company years.

Henry Ford Detroit John M. Colquhoun Molison Company Colquhoun Ford Museum of Vehicles Dearborn

Liberty bonds awaiting two Maine World War soldiers

World War I Liberty Bonds remain unclaimed for two Maine servicemen. The American Legion seeks missing service members or heirs to deliver bonds and accrued interest, directing information through Legion channels to proper government agencies.

Maine American Legion News Service National Headquarters Indianapolis Ind Legion Tt Amy Bes American Legion Bontromoviteh Adolph Vead Cavalry Bangor State Hospital Bangor Stanley Duke Hancock Street Frank Baronofski Wall Street Boston Massachusetts Leydos, Cristos Cook OG. A.C. Kt Lovett Congress Street Portland Micheltorean Street Los Angeles California

Prize offered for best school song by Maine normal school

Principal Kimball at Washington State Normal School Munchins announced a five dollar gold prize for the best school song to be submitted before Christmas vacation. The note mentions school activities and local clergy changes amid a roundup of regional notices and ROTC inspections at the University of Maine with plans for a Coast Artillery summer camp at Fort Preble.

Kimball Washington State Normal School Munchins Rush S. Wells U.S 1St Corps Boston University of Maine Reserve Officers Training Corps Wells New England Fort Preble Coast Artillery RLOT G. B. Glover Coast Artillery Camp Forentoe Virginis

Lewiston Contractor Visits Bath on Garage Project

J. BE. Boucher of the David Lemieux Co. Lewiston contractors working on the Lewiston Buick Co. garage was a business visitor Tuesday in Bath.

J. BE. Boucher David Lemieux Co Lewiston Contractors Lewiston Buick Co Bath

West Bath Grange Meeting Shares Holiday Humor

David Tenderson led a lively West Bath grange meeting with 70 members and seven visitors as he recounted a recent gunning trip with humor. The program included speeches on Maine pride, a discussion on contentment versus progress, singing, readings, and musical performances. Numerous local residents and families were listed as guests or hosts in a string of Thanksgiving visits and travel notices across Bath, Topsham, Auburn, Portland, Richmond, and Brunswick.

David Tenderson West Bath The Grange Order Joanna Hodgkins Hope Ward Mabel Brown Amy Irish Leland Ames Marjorie Henderson Eva Lemont John Auban Topshan Auban T. S. Perkins Topsham John Bryant Abbin Margaret Bryant Stephen Libby Albert Manchester Porthind Fred A. Higgins Earl Bryant Presque Isle Pomona Larrabee’s Grove Frank KE. Donnell Whitman Mass Auburn Earl Donnell Joseph W. Larrabee Bowdeinham Harry ‘T. Littlefield Donald Portland BE. C. Donnell Fred Williams Lincoln Williams Foster's Point Fred Lord St. Petersburg Fla Leslie Goodwin New York City Ida Pierce Bath Fosters Point Belle Donnell Annie Williams Washington Street Annie Wylie Stackpole William F. Mitchell Inlaw Willian Mitchell Brunswick Stacy Robbins Larrabee S Grove Delmont Kennedy Baltimore James Thorpe Robert Small High Street Sabine Wilton G. Bates Frances Bates Winneganee Samuel B. Bates Emily Larrabee Sheldon Frank Coombs Foster’s Point South Portland Samuel I. Bates Fleanor Bates Oscar Landean Bates Fred Duren Richmond Philip Stackpole Bates College Charles Stackpole Bucksport DB. II. Stackpole Campbell's Pond Julia Coombs Myra Coombs Attleboro Amy Coombs Jack Adams Westport Wendall Williams Williams Wentworth Institute Boston Marguerite Williams Gorham Normal School Ernest EK. Williams Ida Bonney Ronald Walter Larrabee Trufant’s Crossing

White hot steel as new foe to ice jam

An article discusses ice jam control by artificial heat using molten steel to melt ice and ice water, arguing dynamite is less effective. Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University explains heat penetration and the sunlike rays produced by molten steel that can vaporize ice and release hydrogen and oxygen, with a boiler explosion as a byproduct.

White Hot Steel ICE Jam Mark Twain North America Howard T. Barnes FLRSS McGill University Montreal Barnes

Famous old ship goes to wreckers

The Lingira, formerly Sabraon built in Aberdeen in 1866, an iron and teak sailing ship, is to be sold to wreckers in Sydney after a long Australian career as cargo liner and naval training vessel. The Tingira was condemned as an ocean training ship. Architects may push to finish the Washington Monument by 1982 for Washington’s birth bicentennial. the plan awaits Chicago chapter action.

Sydney Australia Aberdeen New South Wales Ocean Middle West Washington Monument George Washington Wit Hiren Beers Fourth Avenue Committee On Public Information American Institute of Architects Institute Chicago Beers

Mammoth Cave Aims to Become a National Park in Kentucky

Citizens raise funds to create Mammoth Cave National Park covering about 70 618 acres with support from Congress and the National Park Service. The region features vast limestone caves, many sinkholes, and underground rivers feeding the Green River, with new caverns still being discovered and onyx formations noted for their size and beauty.

Vublig Mammoth Cave Kentucky United States Congress Mississippi Lafayette Park Maine Grand Canyon Sequoia Yellowstone Yosemite East Shanwadowa Sthoky Mountain National Park Service Secretary of the Interior Beevis Keho

Mrs Edith Marriner Leaves for Boston for Business

Mrs Edith Marriner of DBridge-Med ill Inc departed Tuesday for Boston for a few days on business. Rev George B Wolstenholme of People's Baptist Church returned Monday from Bangor and led funeral services for Thurston Tunt a Bangor prominent citizen.

Edith Marriner Dbridge-Medill, Inc Boston George DB. Wolstenholme People’s Baptist Church Bangor Wolstenholme Thurston Tunt Trnnt The LOE Winifred Aderton Washington Street Edna Hallowell Cathrine Hooper Muriel Towe Mildred Elizabeth McGrath Carolyn Plant Phyllis Wright Emma Martha Hooper George Rogers Fritz Klippel Murray Club of Universalist Church Hooper Green Street Mason Lemont Arthur B. Scott William Tf. Small Owen J. Ledyard Byron F

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