Budget news and war thrift stamps drive from Georgetown
Historic Georgetown reports a war thrift stamp drive aimed at raising 2,000,000,600 in 1918 with every citizen investing 20. The Working League held its annual Christmas sale at the First Baptist vestry with clam chowder beans and coffee. Also notes Bath boy Flaherty, killed at sea, honored for his sacrifice with condolences pouring in to his family.
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United States
Working League
First Baptist Church
Wendell P. Baker
George West
Burton
Robinhood
Maurice Hodgdon
MacMahan's Island
Portland
Howard Cushing
Bath
E. C. Clarey
A. K. P. Oliver
Capt. Z. Trafton Knight
L. W. Powers
Carroll
Alex F. Marr
Boothbay
Burton West
Charles H. Mains
Methodist Church
Ter
Flaherty
Navy holds little hope for Flaherty survivor status
The Flaherty family of Bath, Maine, learns from a Navy telegram that John James Flaherty, machinist’s mate on the destroyer Jacob Jones, is not confirmed among survivors. A single unidentified survivor was captured, leaving only a remote possibility that Flaherty survived the sinking after the German submarine attack.
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Navy Department
Washington
John James Flaherty
Jacob Jones
Bath
Patrick Flaherty
Bath St
Flaherty
November Vital Statistics Show More Births and Marriages
City Clerk Grassy reports November births at 22 and marriages at 23, with 12 deaths, up from October which recorded 19 births, 18 marriages and 29 deaths.
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Grassy
Bath rooming scheme echoes Box and Cox
A Bath woman who rents rooms faces a double occupancy plan where a father uses the room by day and his son at night. The arrangement, though prearranged, carries little likelihood of trouble as Bath tests room conservation in practice.
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Bath
Woolwich Boy Captain as WWII Plans Unfold
While a Woolwich home named La in France burned on Wednesday, Mrs. A B Thwing learned Lieut Charles D MacDonald of the U S Medical Corps was promoted to captain and posted to Fort McPherson Atlanta Ga He owned the Lalrance residence and rented it to the Thwing family last autumn In other notes the chief justice announced the 1918 supreme court assignments for Saga dxhoe County Justice Albert M Spear January term Chief Justice Cornish May term Justice John B Madigan October term
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Eugene Lain
France
Woolwich
A. B. Thwing
Charles D. MacDonald
U. S. Medical Corps
Fort McPherson
Atlanta
MacDonald
Lalrance
Supreme Court
Leslie €. Cornish
Sagadxhoe
Albert M. Spear
Cornish
John B. Madigan
Herbert Groves
Lemont Cottage
Lowell
Dorothy Pero
Marion Purington
Miles Purington
Miss Purington
Morse High School
Bath
Everett Mayo
A. O. Thomas
G. A. Stuart
King Tavern
Alice Rogers
Oren Rogers
North Bath
Charles Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Phippsburg Pinnings Portray Life on Lower Kennebec
Letters from Mrs. Belle Sprague of Blackshear Georgia describe church work and social activities, a thriving WCTU, and a parsonage aid society as locals at Bath and Sandy Point cope with housing for workers. The piece notes shipyard life at Sandy Point, local officials, and the impact of war on residents.
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Phippsburg Pennings
Lower
Kennebec
Belle Sprague
Blackshear
W.C.T.U
Bess
Grace Dickinson
Susan Campbell
Bath City Hospital
Bangor Daily News
Sandy Point
Henry Butler
U. S. Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Bath
Earle L. Coyington
Orvil W. Smith
I. C. Atkinson
Capt
Phippsburg
Walter H. Bowker
Biddeford
Sagadahoc Sends Final Draft Group to Portland for Fort Duty
The last four Sagadahoc youths leave Bath by train for Portland en route to a Portland fort. Oscar F. Wright leads the squad with credentials for the adjutant. Local officials and many friends bid farewell at the station. The county has contributed 33 men to the National Army, with many from Bath and nearby towns.
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Sagadahoc
Portland
Oscar F. Wricht
John J. Keegan
David L. Wilson
Bath
National Army
Topsham
Georgetown
Richmond
Bowdoinham
Bowdoin
West Bath
Phippsburg
Arrowsic
Wool
Red Cross Drive Aims 2500 Bath Members Dec 17
Bath Red Cross workers launch a house to house drive December 17 to 24 to raise membership from 556 to 2500. Boy Scouts clergy and volunteers will assist in the effort inviting one dollar memberships, with children eligible for the youth class. The campaign highlights the Red Cross as a major wartime relief and support organization.
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Red Cross
Bath
Tlalifax
Sedgwick Circle Officers Elected At G A R Meeting
At the Sedgwick Circle Ladies of the G A R annual meeting on Tuesday evening officers for the coming year were elected. President Mrs Elizabeth Pollard Senior Vice President Mrs Sarah Garcelon Junior Vice President Mrs Elsie Higgins Secretary and Treasurer Not filled Chaplain Mrs Sarah Cutting Patriotic Instructor Mrs Elizabeth King Conductress Miss Georgia Small Guard Mrs Emma Kine.
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Sedgwick Girele
Elizabeth Pollard
Sarah Garcelon
Elsie Higgins
Sarah Cutting
Elizabeth King
Georgia Small Guard
Emma Kine
Christmas Sale Plans Discussed At Murray Club
The Murray Club of Universalist Church enjoyed a Monday evening gathering hosted by Miss Alice Shorey on Washington Street. Members completed plans for the Christmas sale scheduled for Friday December 14 and spent the evening sewing.
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Murray Club of Universalist Church
Alice Shorey
Washington St
Local Law Board Seeks Bar and Lay Advisors
Gov. Milliken appoints Joseph M. Trott and Walter Glidden to lead a county legal advisory board to aid men in completing selective service questionnaires. They call Sagadahoe County lawyers and 20 laymen to assist, forming small groups ready to serve up to two nights weekly at the Common Council room until tasks finish. Laymen swear an oath to faithfully discharge duties.
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Joseph M. Trott
Walter 3. Glidden
Milliken
Sagadahoe Bar Association
Carl C. Troop
Fred H. Thompson
Walter F. Abbott
John C. Humphreys
Peter A. Clinto
Allan Spear
Edward W. Hyde
Horatio A. Duncan
Culbert McGay
Sidney J. Willis
Augustus Perow
Arthur K. Purington
Ralph K. Hall
Henry G. Hodgdon
J. Houghton McLellan
Arthur W. H. Rand
Arthur G. Oliver
L. Eugene Thebeau
N. Gratz Jackson
C. Raymond Chappell
Halifax student escapes disaster in Mount St. Vincent
Miss Gertrude ONeil, a Mount St. Vincent student from St. John New Brunswick, escaped the Halifax disaster after the explosion of the convent. She was cut by glass but not seriously hurt and traveled to St. John with hundreds of others on a special train. The convent wreckage was cleared and the site used as a hospital.
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Thomas J. Lundrigan
Willow St
Gertrude O'Neil
St. John
N. B
Halifax
Miss O'Neil
Mount St. Vincent Convent
Halifax City
Margaret Gorman
Haraden Heads to Los ton on Business Trip
Marshall A Haraden traveled to Los ton on a business trip visiting local offices and meetings. The trip emphasized corporate outreach and continuation of ongoing projects.
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Marshall A. Haraden
Loston
Fire Destroys Trott House in Woolwich
In Woolwich near Day's Ferry on a cold morning a fire gutted the Nathaniel Trott house owned by Lieut. Charles D. MacDonald and occupied by Eugene LaFrance and family. Mrs LaFrance used a torch to thaw a pipe and ignored the woodwork catching. Neighbors alerted the area but the kitchen burned through to the floor. most furniture was saved except items stored by MacDonald. LaFrance works for the Texas Steamship Company and residents express sympathy.
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Woolwich
Nathaniel Trott
Charles D. MacDonald
Eugene LaFrance
Day's Ferry
MacDonald
LaFrance
Texas Steamship Company
Morse High School Chapel Urges Real Study Need
Principal King urged Morse High School students to value real study as the nation needs educated citizens for the war effort. Miss Hedith Mitchell recapped the girls at Freeport and Arthur Bowker noted the boys’ trip. Join Brown announced the Log’s first January issue and funding support. Charles Jenness resigned from the police force. Virgil Leavitt joins the force.
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Morse High School
King
Morse
Kins
Hedith Mitchell
Freeport
Arthur Bowker
Join Brown
Lady Milkman Aids Husband In Wartime Call
West Bath residents react to labor shortages as townspeople confront trolley service gaps. The issue of Birch Point burglaries prompts police efforts, with Drake and other summer-home properties targeted. Community leaders discuss school planning, patient illnesses, and local repairs amid ongoing wartime pressures.
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Stott
Nual
Edwin J. McKenney
A. E. Rowe
Ethel B. Todd
Georgetown Center
Koston
Edwin H. Oliver
Augustus Sly
Walter Cummings
Todd
Harriet A. Deering
Sailor
Californian’s
Ler
Ethel Cushiman
Walter Ridley
Brunswick
Sedgwick Circle Officials
Pater Head
Halivax Gill
John M. Clark
WM. C. Chadbourne
Front St
Boouis
Broad St
Texas
Day’s Ferry
Charles Jenness
Marshal Oliver
Jenness
Virgil Leavitt
Birch Point Summer Homes
Drakes
West Bath Bay
Independent
Birch Point
Frederick E. Drake
J. Edward Drake
Sabine
George V. Jewett
Johnson Bros.co
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