Bath Weekly roundup of city improvements and events
The Bath Board of Highways and Sewers reports a small deficit but a satisfactory year with two floods, better highway approaches and ongoing improvements. Public schools registered 2,000 children. heating work begins at Snow residence. a fatal accident follows a drunken fall on a wet doorstep. Dreamland Theater orchestra, local concerts, and basketball gain attention. City forester plants 200 shade trees. georgetown wildlife and a 225 pound buck are noted. The new South End schoolhouse faces foundation condemnation causing delays and higher costs.
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Board of Highways and Sewers
Bath
Mill Pond
Bath News Bits Include Feasts and Festivities Around Town
Banswick named for Hunters feast featuring pork beans lobster stew and lobster salad after a side hunt in Georgetown and Phippsburg with a masquerade ball to follow. W S Boucher leases Fields place. Boucher also runs Martin restaurant. Bath Auto Co sells Studebaker to Guy Crosby and Charles Crosby buys one last month. Bath hosts sunlight dance party at Sebenon hall Sagadahoc Ferry. E W Everard and Mrs Everard touring New York Philadelphia and South Easton for two weeks. Bath Opera House marks anniversary since 1913 opening with Sunshine Girl featuring top acts. Marie Wexler pursues bookkeeping at Shaw Business College. W Emery Chase earns football B at Bowdoin College.
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Georgetown
Phippsburg
Turkeys and geese raise season prices and a racing mare change
The November 25 1915 issue notes local market prices for turkeys 30 35 40 cents a pound and geese 25 30 cents while wild black ducks were plentiful but hard to capture. It also reports George Jewett purchasing a five year old mare Emma Hines for potential future trotting success. Weather forecaster W T Foster predicts light snow east of the Rockies this winter and Bath Eagles host their annual ball with an organizing committee listed.
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George Jewett
Emma _ Hines
William J. Hines
Will
Thanksgiving Ball At Music Hall Attracts 100 Couples
On Tuesday November 26 1915 Miss Sally Kimball gave a tea at her grandmother Mrs John Small's Portland home. Miss Priscilla Kimball of Bath was guest of honor along with Mrs Fred H Kimball and Miss Miriam. The Eagles hosted the annual Thanksgiving Ball at Music Hall with over a hundred couples attending. John J Lee as grand march leader with Mrs Lee and officers. Perkins orchestra provided music as Lee and assistants managed guests. The arrangements committee included W F Ham J J Lee Scott Morse Fred Glidden E T Whitehouse T C McCabe and E J Lee. Capt and Mrs S R Percy returned Wednesday from a two week trip to Boston and New York. Psi Upsilon Bowdoin College hosted informal Thanksgiving Eve dances with Miss Pauline Hatch attending.
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Bath Aerie No. 875
Order of Eagles
W. F. Ham
J. J. Lee
Scott Morse
Fred Gliddén
E. T. Whitehouse
T. C. McCabe
E. J.lee
Sally Kimball
John Small
Deering Street
Portland
Priscilla Kimball
Bath
Fred H. Kimball
Miriam
Music Hall
Eagles
John J. Lee
Fred Glidden
E. J. Lee
Pauline Hatch
Brunswick
Psi Upsilon
Bowdoin College
Sixteen empty houses noted along Phippsburg road
A Bath man counted sixteen empty houses on a ride down the Phippsburg road between Elbow Hill and Captain Dicken's place. Some may be used as summer homes. A surprise party Thursday evening at Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Small’s South End home gave the young couple a variety shower.
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Phippsburg Road
Elbow Hill
Capt. Dickenson
Bath Rifle Club Takes Doubleheader Over Auburn
The Bath Rifle and Pistol Association swept both ends of a doubleheader against Auburn, winning 953 to 921 and 926 to 858. Jim Skaling led Bath with 198, as Gold Leaguers and Blue League teams posted solid scores in the Alden M. Gayton Post Rifle League contest.
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Auburn Legion
Auburn
Bath Blue League
Jim Skaling
Bath
Bath R. & P. Assn OH P Tt
J. Skaling
D. Brag
P. Staley
C. Kidder
G. Hartsgrove
Auburn Legion Rifle Club
OH Pru
S. Boothby
L. Timberlake
Pike
Brown
Blue League
Bath R. & P. Assn. O.H Pru
S Wallace
P, Pett
Petit
A. Hall
K. Smith
Rose
H. Sedgeley
Belisle
E. Boothby
Fights No More Taipei Formosa Warship Heads to Scrap
The Kiang Yuan, a 500 ton Chinese Imperial Navy warship built in 1880 in Japan, has been towed to Keelung Formosa to be broken up for junk after sinking in 1949 near the Pratas Islands. Despite synthetic fibers, about 70 percent of U S textile needs are still met by cotton.
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Taipei
Formosa
Tzu Hsi
Japan
Keelung
Pratas Islands
South China Sea
U.S
Parakeet Leads to Home Return Hunt in Albuquerque
A stray parakeet followed Paul Duran home in Albuquerque and prompted a citywide search as owners of missing birds called him with tips. Duran offered a reward and urged callers to identify the bird, hoping to reunite it with its owner.
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Albuquerque
Miairman
Paul Duran
Duran
Ship Size Comparison Across Centuries
A comparison notes that 1,0000 ships the size of the 80 ton Santa Maria would be needed to equal the modern liner Queen Elizabeth, then 80,000 tons, illustrating vast growth in vessel scale.
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Columbus
Y M C A Foreign Work Session Held in Portland
William L. Skelton A M Main and William C. Perkins represented the local Y M C A at the State YMCA Foreign Work committee dinner and annual meeting at the Portland Y M C A. Hartley Fowler from New York spoke as main speaker. Earle Hillman presided, reports urged Maine Y M C A support for foreign work in 78 countries. The Bangor chair leads a mail canvass to boost Bath’s quota.
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William L. Skelton
A. M. Main
William C. Perkins
Y.M.C.A
Ym.c.a. Foreign Work Committee
Portland Y
Y.M C.A
Main
Bath
North Center P T A Christmas Fair at North Grammar
North-Center P T A plans a Christmas Fair at North Grammar School Tuesday afternoon at 2 30 to feature Christmas giving and decorations as well as home cooked foods preserves aprons mittens dolls clothing and hand work. Greens corsages fish pond and extra items will be sold with proceeds to aid the association.
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North Grammar School
North-Center
George F. Bertrand
Armand Petit
Donald McKinnon
Harry E. Cooke, Jr
William M. Hedges
Albert W. Thomposn
Robert J. Footer
Harold
Merit Badges Awarded At Wild Rose Troop Meeting
Sivern merit badges were passed out at the Monday afternoon meeting of Wild Rose Girl Scouts at Central.
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Wild Rose
Sivern
Wild Rose Troop
Girt Scouts
Central
Girl Scout awards handed out at parish house
Mrs Robert Milliken troop leader announced awards for Sharon Ann Milliken and Barbara Farris outdoor cook badge Barbara Kenney and Pamela Litchfield rock and mineral badge Pamela Hanscom and Barbara Farris adventure badge Barbara Kenney and Pamela Litchfield bird badge Cheryl Wetherbee Carla Tukey Nancy Ellen Osgood rambler badge Allison Turpie travel er and horsewoman boating awarded Sharon Ann Milliken Opening exercises led by Miss Marie McMann troop president work progressed on second class tenderfoot and curved ber badges
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Robert Milliken
Sharon Ann Milliken
Barbara Farris
Barbara Kenney
Pamela Litchfield
Pamela Hanscom
Cheryl Wetherbee
Carla Tukey
Nancy Ellen Osgood
Allison Turpie
Marie McMann
Gun hunting ends scare after squirrel bite incident
In Paris Texas Pi-Drgs related item Frank O'Brien states he did not man the postman duty but faced a squirrel attack. He retrieved a gun and went hunting. The encounter ended successfully with O'Brien remaining unharmed.
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Paris
Tex
Frank O'Brien
Divorces Won in Santa Monica for Mature and Mae
Mrs Dorothy Mature, 35, testified she spent most of her married life waiting for screen star Vieltur Mature, 41, to come home. In Santa Monica, California, she won a divorce and a half million dollar property settlement. They married in 1948.
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Dorothy Mature
Vieltur Maeture
Santa Monica
Calif
Probate Notice for Estate of Mary Jane Main in Bath
Court in Sagadahoc grants probate action for the estate of Mary Jane Main late of Bath. Notice published in Bath Independent for three weeks. Hearing set in Bath Probate Court for December to determine probate and letters testamentary to James Avery Main Archibald MacNichol Main Jr and Archibald MacNichol Main.
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Bath
Sagadahoc
Bath Independent
Mrs Roland Leeman Guest At Stork Shower
Mrs Roland Leeman was guest of honor at a surprise stork shower Monday evening at the home of Mrs Hollis Leeman Woolwich. Attending with Mrs Leeman were Mrs Linwood Grover Mrs Ralph Williams and Mrs Calvin Wing. The home was decorated in pink and blue streamers gifts and refreshments including a large decorated cake were served.
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Roland Leeman
Hollis Leeman
Woolwich
Leeman
Linwood Grover
Ralph Williams
Calvin Wing
Richard Morse
Harold Mott
John Webber
Edward Gray
Adam Galuza
Joan Galuza
William Leeman
Clifford Molson
Lawrence Bates
Carroll Wing
Chester Leeman
Herbert Leeman
Forgotten Father Seeks Truth About Daughter’s Death
Jesse Claude Crowell, 64, of Gaylord Michigan, longed to learn what happened to his daughter Angeline born December 12 1916 near Pittsburg Kansas. Now Mrs Ann Crowell Woodward she killed millionaire sportman William Woodward Jr mistaking him for a prowler. Crowell says his ex wife took Ann when they separated.
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Jesse Claude Crowell
Gaylord
Mich
Angeline Lucille
Pittsburg
Kan
Ann Crowell Woodward
William Woodward Jr
Crowell
Ann
International
Probate Notices 1 Sagadahoc estates list executors named
Lillian H Heal registers probate for Sagadahoc County listing executors administrators and guardians appointed in Bath Bowdoinham and surrounding areas with dates in November 1955. Names include Frances D Youn Osgood M Redlon Evelyn O Burden Clara E Aderton Walter Brown Wilbur J Ketchum Lulu M Riley Vernon Hitchcock Frank A Lynch and others with orders true copy by Arthur J Dunton judge of probate.
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Sagadahoc
Wee
Fenite
Berniece D Staples
Bath
Frances D Youn
Osgood M. Redilon
Ambrose H Redlon
Evelyn O Burden
Mary M O'Connor
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Vernon Htchins
Frank A. Lynch
Maine
Arthur J Dunton
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