City Departments Directed to Remove Brown Tail Nests
City Council orders the Board of Highways and Sewers to manage brown tail moth nest destruction citywide except cemeteries and parks. Cemetery and Park Board takes charge there. Local workers to be hired. contract not awarded to outsiders. Mayors appoint joint committee to lobby Legislature for city welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunton
Small
Turner
Briggs
Ham
Rogers
Bachelder
James F. Rand
Arthur W. H. Rand
Barker
Knights
King
Webber
Adams
Wakefield
Reed
Worrey
McGrath
Oliver
Cemetery and Park Board
City of
Bath
Alderman Turner
South
E. E. Morse
Charles 3. Brown
Lizzie H. Oliver
Popham Beach
Oak Grove Cemetery
Keegan
John Davis
Local Jottings From the Kelley Yard and Harbor News
The column details yard work for two barges and timber for two new boats, liquor seizures, lodge activities in Brunswick, wage and rate shifts for coastwise voyages, and sightings of ships Ella M. Storer and Nat Meader. It notes the Water Commission formation, an old Knickerbocker Towage Co. safe find, and door-to-door reports on local hunting lore and oddities. Also includes a 1914 tax collection comparison to 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Ella M. Storer
Kennebec
Gardiner
Vineyard
Nat Meader
Storer
Water Commission
Joseph Torrey
Joseph M. Trott
Charles P. Wetherbee
Harry B. Sawyer
R. H. Baxter
Maine Water Co
Knickerbocker Towage Co
Morses
Capt. Small
Bath County notes and regional mentions from a Maine paper
Fog on the river Tuesday morning and a string of local items include Bath UREP meeting, Nequasset Lake ducks, Ridley shooting drakes, a Greek restaurant front painting, and a push to Christmas shopping. Tug Pejepscot to Boothbay, Bangs & Weston mill fire anniversary, deer and buck stories, and trains with 228 passengers. Bell for Free Will Baptist Church in Georgetown, school hall garden at North Grammar, and veterans news from the Sons of Veterans. Hanover wreck memory and a preserved ball atop the Hanover’s main topmast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pejepscot
Boothbay
Bangs & Weston
James Thompson
Parker Head Woods
Woolwich Woods
Arthur Hatch
Woolwich
King
Clerk Miller
Tug Seguin
Augusta
Nat Meader
Nellie Shipman
Gardiner
E. D. McCauley
Maud Dudley
Bath
Dudley
Virginia
West Georgetown
McShane Bell Foundry Co
Baltimore
Free Will Baptist
Georgetown
Five Islands
Llewellyn Oliver
Hanover
Houghton
Phippsburg
Kennebec
Pond Island Bar
Rogers
Sewall Percy
Percy
Morse High
Assembly Hall
Stanton-Mitchell
Murphy Farm
Cook's Corner
Rockland
Hyde
Bowdoin College
City Club
College Night
College Association
Chapel
Willie
Bath Area News Byte Highlights Deer, Mills, and Morale
The week reports 25 deer shot in Sagadahoc County and hunters Rogers and Richardson with four deer from Aroostook. Fresh eggs reach historic highs in Bath. A Woolwich farmer sells cider and prepares portable mill equipment across the river. Bath fog and mist disrupt river navigation. Bowdoin College events and jokes reflect holiday mood with a lively city club gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis
Sagadahoc
Upper High St
Hagan
Rogers and
Richardson
Aroostook
Bath
Woolwich
Ile
Reed Farm
North
Juno Placed in Winter Quarters at Houghton Bros Wharf
A Boston era dispatch notes the yacht Juno was moved to winter quarters at the Houghton Bros wharf on Wednesday. Nearby reports include local activities from Bath and Woolwich with community events, road notes, and a tax update from the Maine Central Railroad on one cent stamps for certain baggage items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juno
Houghton Bros
Corliss Street
Leland Mitchell
Highland St
John Stacey
Maine Central Railroad Co
Internal Revenue
Bath Area Reports Various Local Activities and Weather
Community groups meet in Acadia Lodge chapel and Wesley Church planning fairs and tours. Sagadahoc County reports hospital activity and torpedo boat contracts in Bath, while Mayor Lamb wins re election in Gardiner. Weather notes show November rain totaling 2.31 inches with storms and snow events. ships City of Bangor and Brewster incident near Boston. Internal revenue stamp concerns prompt federal assurances to collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold J. Shaw
Sanford
Sagadahoe
College of Agriculture Extension Service
Oscar
Maine General Hospital Association
Portland
William L. Putnam
Sagadahoc County
Bath
Uncle Sam
Portland Express
B. E. Lamb
Gardiner
Lamb
John E. Cunningham
Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
South School Report
Alderman Rogers
Hamill
United States
Maine
Congress
Kelley Spear Yard
Mr. Sawyer
Maine Lodge
N.E.O.P
Brunswick
Bowdoin Lodge
Wentworth
Esquimaux
George Rook
North Bath
Hunter Books
Reed's Cove
William Freeman
East Brunswick
Rook
P. C
Charles S. Brown
Bath Co., U.R.E.P
Nequasset Lake
Ridley Monday
Dow
North Grammar School
Witham
William O. Cobb
Sons of Veterans
T. W. Hyde
Cobb
Hyde Camp
Arthur E. Stewart
Frank Beals
J. R. Newt
Arrowsic
Mr. Newt
Arrowsie
Prescott
William Carlton
George H. Perry
Jason Fowles
Montsweag
Percy Low
Soap Factory Road
Solar Lodge
Wesley M. E Church
C. W. Longley
King St
Tuc Sarapha
M.C.R.R
Paul Arsenault
Thomas Carey
Charles MacGregor
Galen C. Moses
Front St
Charles King
Goose Rock
David Mosher
Passmore
Bath Ferry
Park
Beacons
Hyde Windlass
Flaherty
Williams
D. A. MacDonald
St. Mary's Church
Wallace MacDonald
James Lord
George
Almon Cameron
Father Horan
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Donald Day
Sir William Phipps
Phipps Neck
Lower Woolwich
Young Day
St. Ladies’ Aid
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Odd Ladies
Ralph Mank
Spring St
Harriman
Wesley Church
Ariel Club
Lewiston
Colonial
Waseca
Ment
Barter
Laliberte Bros. Co
Seguin
Emma S. Briggs
Klark-Urban Stock Co
Co-operative
The
Public Utilities Commission
Sila P.M
City of Bangor
Kennebes
Brewster
Foster’s Wharf
Internal Department
Treasury Department
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