City chat notes on local events and happenings from Bath
Probate court resumes Tuesday two weeks before Christmas. Newsboys sell the Independent each Saturday. Blacksmiths report a dull fall due to little ice and snow. Christmas trade grows brisk for Bath merchants. A year’s subscription to the Independent makes a fine gift. Harry W. Owen elected city historian at school board meeting. Mr Strout of Bowdeinham wins shooting deer at open time. Town party travels to Lewiston to see Elsie Janis in the Fair Co-ed. Mrs B Carberry buys Anderson property in Georgetown for summer home. Dreamland theatre fire forces temporary closure. Mrs Jeanette Jewell Kellogg performs readings at Music Hall. The Circus Man to be staged in January at Empire Lewiston. now at Boston theatre. Hyde Windlass ships a seven ton propeller to the Hamilton in New York. largest cone shipped from here. E. R. Brown hosts Uncle Joseph Winter and others for 85th birthday. Rubber body dolls act as hot water bottles for children, convertible to dolls or inflatables.
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Strout
Bowdeinham
Lewiston
Elsie Janis
B. Carberry
Watertown
Mass
Anderson
Georgetown
Dreamland Theatre
Jeanette Jewell Kellogg
Music Hall
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Holman F. Day
Squire Phin
Empire Theatre
Boston
Hyde
Hyde Windlass Company
Hamilton
Old Dominion Line
New York
E. R. Brown
West Bath
Joseph Winter
Rebecca Mitchell
John Farnsworth
Locomotive Kills Bath Works Worker
Charles F E Williams a Sagadahoc Light and Power Co pipefitter native of Brunswick was struck by a backing locomotive at Bath Iron Works while laying a gas main. He died at City Hospital that night aged 46 leaving three daughters Miss Carrie Bath Mrs Minnie Jefferson and Miss Evelyn Brunswick and son Victor Bath plus several brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Iron Works
Charles FE. Williams
Sagadahoe Light and Power Co
Brunswick
Williams
The
Iron Works
City
Carrie
Bath
Minnie
Jefferson
Evelyn
Victor
Bath society notes mark wedding and holiday plans
Bath society column reports the Christmas programs at churches and the December sale by the Universalist parish aid society. It notes the wedding of Henry Greenville Shaw and Miss Sarah Ada Harriman at Central Church parsonage, with details on attire and attendants.
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the Universalist Parish
Evening Sewing Club
Alice Shorey
Laura Westcott
Charles Harriman
Edith Millett
Arthur Pepper
Grace Farr
John Moulton
Fourbur
Deering
Shaw
Harry Passmore
Howard Johnson
Hooper
Longley
Wakefield
Amos Perry
Robinson
Harry Donnell
George Jacobs
Denis Clark
Martha Hooper
Bessie Hunt
Bacon
Block signal system begins operation on Maine Central line
Travelers along the Maine Central route noted the new block signal system going into service between Tate and Lewiston. The 63 block semaphores safeguard busy segments enhancing safety amid rising traffic. Bath cancels Merchants' week but preparations for the Wyoming launch draw crowds next Tuesday to view the world’s largest sailing vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
Here
Lewiston
Maine Central
Pine Tree State
Wild cattle on Swan Island defy ranchers
Wild cattle have grazed all summer on Swan Island in Sagadahoc County and now resist capture. Owners cannot approach them, the beasts reportedly leap fences like deer, and a Western roundup or shooting may be the only option to remove them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc
Swan Island
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Independent
the Independent
Harry W. Owen
Charles
Central Church
Henry Greenville Shaw
Sarah Adaline Harriman
George Colby de- Mott
Harriman
Alice J. Shaw
Mr. Shaw
John S. Goff
Wistaria
Bath High School
William Harriman
Jennie Shaw
Pattern Department
Colonial Club
Oak Street
Owend
Ships
Bowdoin College
Frank Arthur Smith
Calais
Smith
Maine
Grace Church
Mabel Loomis Todd
Volege
Mars
Lowell
Andes
Professor Todd
Amherst
Alfred D. Stetson
Emma Houghton
Portland
John Shaw
Winter Street
Bernice Morse
D. T. Percy and Sons
T. H. Riley, Jr
Pleasant Street
Lena Curtis Riley
Dayton Hill
W. H. Smith
Washpuri
Ladies’ Aid Society
North Street
Dummer Street
Stanley Pierce
Friars’ Club
Riverton
Alonzo Dennis
Harrison Cole
Joseph White
Leslie Brummett
Henry Wiggin
Margaret L. Wilson
St. Paul's Church
O. W.folsom
Knights of King Arthur
Mendelssohn Club
Orphans’ Home
Frank A. Small
Verdell. Haggett
Charles W. Welch
Carrie Ring
Charles Taylor
Oxford University
Miss Ring
Oxford
England
H. A. Huse
Brockton
Dreamland
F. Alfred Norris
Gardiner
Walter 3. Glidden
Ladies’ Home Journal
George Hughes
Avenue
Arthur H. Stetson
Kathryn V. Eliot
Stetson
Col
Harry A. Nealley
Grace Woodbury
Elsie
James B. Perkins
Red Cross
Church of the New Jerusalem
Percy & Small
Governor Brooks
Miss Brooks
Wellesley College
Brooks
Samuel R. Percy
Gauide Jath van Lewiston
Wyoming
Thompson Bros
Hood
Central Church Chapel
Swett’s
House of Kuppenheimer Cage
Black Kersey
John J. Desmond Co
Water Sts
Bath, Me
Honest Values
Everett Snipe
Arrowsic
Rhode
Islam
Park
Pollard
Kimball Bros. CO
Park & Pollard Co
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