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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1914
Page
5
Local column recalls Christmas sales and social events across town. Morse High girls stop public basketball. A potential farmers and fishermen day aims to foster community links. December moves toward holiday bustle with church activities and enlistment efforts.
The town schedules a Monday Fortnightly Club meeting at Universalist Church and a Winter Street Chapel orchestra program. A Maine bureaucratic probe of egg quality follows a Portland mission, while a Bangor Christmas tree at West Market Square is planned with electric lights and carols each night through the holidays.
Bath community notes recurring meetings of Grace Church Men’s Club and Wesley M Church Sorority. Local social clubs report officers elected for Sedswick Circle and T. W. Hyde Camp. Bath Iron Works receives material for Sutton steamer as torpedo tests loom. Spring and summer entertainments teased amid routine civic events and shipyard activity.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. The ad claims the remedy works through the blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward if it fails to cure. Includes address in Toledo Ohio and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Notices report new street lighting on Washington Street and praise Bath Democrats over Portland election. Bath Laundry proprietor welcomed a baby boy, while partridge hunting season ends. Solar Lodge No 14 officers elected. Home for Feeble Minded adds water, heat and power infrastructure with 100000 gallons pumped into the new reservoir.
Marshall A. Haraden of Bath, superintendent of the Eastern Steamship Corporation Kennebec Line, aims to serve in the upcoming legislature. A Bath citizen born in Wiscasset with past roles as alderman and councilman, he is a Democrat and member of Royal Arcanum, Modern Woodmen, and Knights of Columbus.
A proposed Bath coal pocket would distribute coal over the session with riverfront sites eyed and rich backers from another state and Bath citizens offering support. Lighters would move cargo on regional rivers and coal could be sold retail if approved, with storage to feed fighters vessels and rail cars. The project aims to start in spring, create jobs, and boost Bath commerce and Kennebec shipping. The Belgian Horse Breeders Association met, electing Fred Wright as president and Harry A Plimmer as secretary treasurer. Volavant, a 1600 pound four year old stallion, leads a draft stock program with 21 rising foals showing strong prospects.
Mrs Annie Allen Dennett wife of Postmaster Menander Dennett died at home 30 White St Lewiston Sunday night after a short illness She visited daughter Mrs H W Robinson at Waterville and suffered a bad cold and kidney trouble She was born in Norridgewock daughter of Holway and Cordelia Bowman Aen Married in Lewiston member Bates Street Baptist Church Survived by husband two daughters Mrs H W Robinson of Waterville and Mrs C H Thompson of Lewiston a son Thomas C Dennett of Lewiston and two grandchildren Edith Robinson and David Thompson
The notice seeks full birth marriage residence and death records for Soule descendants in Maine. It requests information on Levi and Nathan Soule in Waldoboro and Amasa Soule in Woolwich plus all descendents of George Soule Mayflower 1620 with connections in Maine. Communicate with Rev. G. T. Ridlon in Portland.
The WK.Y.C. shuts down for winter and janitor Felix Stinson goes off duty for the season to visit his brother in Arrow.
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