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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1918
Page
3
Oldest Bath resident recalls heroic grandsons in war
Anglus McPhee, age 91, living with his daughter in Bath, mourns three sons of Mrs. James Sheehan of St. John NB. Herman was killed, Donald died recently, and Warren was severely wounded in France. He praises their courage, hopes for peace, and calls for Germany to be punished. Born in 1828 in Prince Edward Island, he later moved through Mitchell's River Georgetown Norton St. John and pursued tailoring and farming before settling in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
France
Angus McPhee
Vine Street
Herman
Donald
Warren Ryan
James Sheehan
St. John
N. B
Warren
Norman McCabe
Germany
Mr. McPhee
Lansing
King’s County
P.E.I
Mitchell's River
Georgetown
Henry Griffin
New
Sains
Bloomfield
Norton
Canada Buys Kendall Sheep From Bowdoinham Ranch
A Canadian government agent visited Hon. W. B. Kendall's Bowdoinham ranch and selected 21 sheep from his Cheviots at 60 dollars each. The buyer plans a return for more stock, while Kendall expands breeding and grazing on abandoned Maine farms, boosting the state sheep industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Kendall
Bowdoinham
Kendall
Long Pranch
Canada
Maine
McPhee Family Patriarch Celebrates Long Life
Mr McPheen is one of nine children with five brothers and four sisters. He has two sons William in St John and Rudolph in Pennsylvania, plus four daughters in Norton, St John, Georgetown and Bath. He has seventeen grandchildren and claims perfect health, aside from rare colds, and has smoked tobacco since age sixteen believing it may kill disease germs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPheen
Ile
Wiliam
St. John
Rudolph McPhee
Pennsylvania
Ora Yerxa
Norton
James Sheehan
Catherine J. McDonald
Georgetown
P.E
McCabe
Bath
New Bath Official to Help Work in Bath
Rey Prank Hf. Stedman named trade industrial secretary of Bath Y M C A and to begin work Friday. Industrial work signals a new phase for the Y after the war, with Stedman resigning as rector of the Episcopal church in Waterville to devote full time to the Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hf. Stedman
Bath Y. M. C. A
Stedman
Episcopal Church
Waterville
WCTU Changes Meeting Dates at Nazarene Church
The local WCTU will convene on the second and fourth Fridays each month at the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. O'Brien of the Salvation Army and his son performed solos. Mrs. Lelia Knight presided, Mrs. Sarah Aderton led devotion, Martha Southard sang, and Miss Alice May Douglas read an original poem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
Issiemalas Rive O’brien
Salvation Army
Lelia Knight
Sarah Aderton
Martha Southard
Alice May Douglas
Poe
Frank G Trott Receives Army Commission In Remount Division
Globe turf editor Frank G Trott, longtime harness racing figure born in Council Bluffs and now head of Globe turf department, has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U S Army Remount Division. He served overseas as a YMCA athletic director and is famed as a horse judge and sportsman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Globe
Frank G. Trott
The
Globe
Quartermaster Corps
Remount Division
United States Army
Frank Trott
Red Triangle
France
Y. M. CG
Sam
Council Bluffs
Lemuel G
Emma A. Trott
ISSS
Spirit of the Hub
Allen Lowe
Lieut
Trott
Medford
Newtowne Club
North Cambridge
Medford Boat Club
Winchester
Edgar P. Trott
301St United States Engineers
Leon Pratt
Torrey
Bath
Sarah Hawthorne
Red Cross social and local notices fill Bowdoinham
Bowdoinham community items recount Red Cross social at grange hall with entertainments and apron exchange to benefit the Red Cross. Town updates include residents moving to Lisbon Falls, illnesses, travel, and holiday events with numerous names and local places noted.
Studley Wounded Going Over The Top In War Drive
Private Frank Studley of Co D 28th Infantry First Division AEF, formerly of Bath, writes to William L Waters of Beacon Street describing going over the top October 9 through a dense forest and the ensuing wounding during the drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Studley
Lntf
A.E.F
Bath
William L. Waters
Beacon Street
Studley
Local Notes on community events and visits
Local notes highlight Leland T. Hodgkins recovering from pneumonia and cleared to be out. Central church Ladies' Aid to be entertained by Mrs. Joseph Avery at 33 Court Street Friday at 2 30. Grace church women to meet at Mrs. Harold M. Sewall’s Washington Street home Friday at 2 30. Maude Cunningham returns to Somerville Mass school duties after holidays with sister Mrs. Milton Trott. Rev E Hilton Post and Rev Frank Wells travel to Boston for Methodist convention tied to centenary celebration. Major P F Chapman of Portland inspects Company L at the armory. 60 members present. Chapman's praise noted. State 5 S P C A agent Hiram Walker in Bath for cattle in pastures. reports wild cattle in Woolwich woods and a hearing with a woman owner who refused information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland T. Hodgkins
Central Church
Joseph Avery
Court Street
Harold M. Sewall
Washington Street
Maude Cunningham
Somerville
Mass
Milton Trott
E. Hilton Post
Beacon Street Church
Frank Wells
Wesley Church
Boston
P. F. Chapman
Portland
Armory
Maj. Chapman
3D Maine Regiment
Hiram Walker
State 5. P. C. A
Bath
Woolwich Woods
Walker
Cosmopolitan Club Names Officers and Plans Holiday Events
The Cosmopolitan club held its regular meeting with vice president Miss Margaret Foote presiding in the president’s absence. Dec 11 Christmas sale at the club house from three to eight o’clock and a January 16 17 presentation of the play Katcha Koo are announced, with committees listed for each event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan Club
Allen Irish
Margaret Toote
Alice Varney
Herbert E. Malard
Margaret Foote
A. E. Bishop
George
Mrs Mary Pinkham Celebrates 89th Birthday In Bath
Mrs Mary Neveille Pinkham widow of Capt Jonathan Pinkham marked her 89th birthday at the home of her step granddaughter Mrs Arthur B Stilphen 67 Russell Street. Friends called to extend felicitations as she enjoys good health and notes long lived family ties including ancestry in Nova Scotia England and Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Neveille Pinkham
Jonathan Pinkham
Arthur B. Stilphen
Russell Street
Times
Pictou
N. S
Thomas Neville
Bath
Capt. Pinkham
Litchfield
Eng
Nova Scotia
Pinkham
Sarah Powers
Malden
Mass
Martha Williams
N.S
Harold Rice To Return Home Soon From San Antonio Field
Harold Rice, stationed at the aviation field in San Antonio Texas since last winter, expects to be home soon per a letter to his mother Mrs Willard Rice of 42 Vine Street. He notes field clean up orders and workers striving to finish quickly for a chance to return. He has not been home in nearly four years and looks forward to seeing Bath’s changes while recovering from a hospital stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah P. E. Hathorne
Arrowsie
Harold E. Jaipe
Harold Troupe
Son Waldron
Evelyn Woodman
Moatsweag
Pine Point
I. W. Carlton
Marion
A. A. Stott
Brunswick
Novella J. Trott
Augusta
A. ‘E. Trott
Fred Carlton
Florence
Bath
John Haley
Murphy’s Corner
Nathan McKenney
Marjorie Bailey
Bernard Bailey
Wiscasset
Carlton Lewis
Fred Grover
Westport
Clair Freeman
Allen Soule
Henry Bailey
Montsweag
Evelyn Hodgdon
Gorham Normal School
Frank Hodgdon
Edna Mahar
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Byron Mahar
Harriet McKenney
J. Edward McKenney
Edith Tapley
Haverill
Mass
Arthur Carlton
Wiord
Hartley Hathorne
Pembroke
Edgecomb
Thomas Reed
Byron
Auburn
Harold Rice
San Antonio
Texas
Willlard Rice
Vine Street
Log raft towed to Woolwich shore for coal shed site
A raft of logs from a Texas yard repair at the ways near Larrabee coal wharf was towed to the Woolwich shore this morning by the Maine Central railroad’s ferry Hercules near where the People's Ferry Co plans a new coal shed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Yard
Larrabee
Woolwich
Maine Central Railroad
Hercules
People’s Ferry Co
Captain Marwick Guarding Texas Plant Among Friends in Bath
Capt Marwick of Farmington a former commander of square rigged ships and later Portland wholesale traveler serves as civilian guard at a Texas plant. He has long made Bath a port of call and counts many friends there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marwick
Farmington
Portland
Texas
Bath
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Sagadahock Block
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Angus M’phee
Sparmaker
Mill
Wright
Kendall Sheep
Bath W
TU. Mets
Percy Morse
Rockland
B. G. Potter
J. N. Palmer
Tremont Temple
Charles Ansert
Alice Long
Blake Reed
Edwold Carter
John Carter
Livermore Talls
David Carter
Horace
Do. W. Wright
William
Solomon Holbrook
Helen Dana
Eben Dana
Harry Hayward
Omar
Tam
Bill
George Truman
Gowen
Eddie Pepper
Eddie
Lecter
Red Cross
Grange Hall
Methodist Church
Arthur Small
Lisbon Falls
Richmond
Belle Umberhind
Massachusetts
Sarah C. Young
W. S. Given
Moulton Place
J. E. Cornish
C. O. Purinton
Gardiner
Nathan Doughty
Charles Blair
East Bow Gotham
W. B. Darton
East Bowdeinham
Emeline Pratt
Woodfords
Edward Brown
Harvards Road
Gretchen Hulse
P. A. Cannon
Wallace Price
George Purinton
Ohio
Ida Purinton
R. D. Purinton
Maria Gray
F. P. Webber
Jim Cornish
the Ridge
Karl Hatch
J. C. Pinkerton
S. of W
G. A. R. Hall
W. J. Graves
McKenney
Jack
Eugene Edgcomb
Fr. K. Jack
Presque Isle
Sylvester Place
Post Road
Scott Brown
J.L. Pinkerton
G. R. Cutler
Nequasset
N. J. Palmer
Jessie Main
Charles Morse
Mabel Thwing
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Carolyn Main
Charlotte Buck
R. Main
Farwell
Cumberland Center
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June
Dresden Mills
T.C. Main
Elizabeth Main
Mary T. Purinton
E. L. Edgecomb
Edgcomb
D.T. Percy & Sons
Mary Pinkham
BOR
Washington and
Pearl Streets
Geo. E. Hughes
John Calvin Stevens
America
Joseph Charles Footer
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