Local notes and gatherings fill town social scene
Murray Club meets at Dummer Street with Mrs. Passmore. Bowdoin fraternity holds annual dinner at King Tavern followed by box party at the Opera House. Rev H A Corey improves health in South Portland with daily five mile walks. Salvation Army Christmas appeal launches kettle drive. Schooner Daisy Farlin clears Georgetown with feldspar for Wilmington. Antoinet at quarries. Sermon on Visions delight at State Sunday School lecture. Real estate owners warned to destroy brown-tail moths by Jan 15 and report to City Clerk. Campfire Girls authorized to collect old linens and clothing townwide. Annie Ainsley brings 326000 feet of lumber from Gardiner for New York. Adventist pastor Rev John W Bridge accepts call. begins Sunday. Brunswick lights outage traced to dam ice. Woodmen and Orioles see-saw game with high scores. Tedford posts season best 125. Verna Belle Hall surprise party at 21 Washington St with friends and Christmas decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Club
H. T. Passmore
Dummer St
Bowdoin
King Tavern
Opera House
H. A. Corey
South Portland
Salvation Army
Daisy Farlin
Plummer
Georgetown
Wilmington
Antoinnet
J. J. Hull
State Sunday School Association
First Baptist
Jesus
John H. James
Frank Sewall
Washington, D. C
Sewall
Oak Grove
Gould J. Brown
The
New Church
Margaret Foote
Seguin
South Gardiner
Annie Ainsley
New York
Bath
F. W. Robinson
Portland
Ainsley
Gardiner
Adventist Church
Middle St
John W. Bridge
Bridge
Lawrence
Mass
Boston Bible School
Stocton
P. Q
Stockholm
N. Y
Humphreys
Brunswick Light & Power Co
Brunswick
Local Fragments Highlight Bath Hub Activities And Notices
Community events fill the week with church gatherings school association meetings and club socials. Local notable Capt Thompson inspected the Larimer barge while John N Thurlow heads to New York to join the Millinocket steamship. A charity chicken supper netted about 200 for Universalist church. A gymnasium tale at the YMC A adds humor with a soap vending penny. Officials report Maine vehicle fee totals for 11 months 1915 and a Cumberland County medical society gathering 150 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center St. Hill
Parent-Teacher Association of
South End
Harry W. Crossman
High St
Grace Church
U. S
H. L. Thompson
Portland
Larimer
Kelley, Spear Co
John N. Thurlow
New York
Stockton
Ladies of the Universalist Church
Chamber of Commerce
Colonial
Morse Bros
Diamond Co
Bath
Corliss St. Baptist Church
J. W. Coombs
Y.M.C.A
John E. Bunker
Sagadahoe County
E. J. Marston
E. M. Fuller
Cumberland County Medical Society
Congress Square Hotel
Robert L. Dickinson
Brooklyn
Samuel W. Bandler
Phi Rho
Phi Rho Society
Burke
Avery
Jackson
Cavanaugh
Hanson
Cahill
Walter Hill
Laton Jackson
Henry Hanson
Percy Low
Arthur Avery
Sentinel
Samuel Ward
Andrew Cahill
McLellan
Mason and Trott
William Mann
Montreal
Quebec
Island Pond
Gorham
Grand Trunk
Mann
Canada
Bath and Brunswick mariners report winter logistics and local commerce
The Bath Box Co added a one horsepower motor to equipment. Tug Seguin towed a wrecked sloop to city landing Bath for final voyage. City Hospital Board considers a laundry project and funds. Emersons move to Falmouth for winter. author’s history book awaited. Haraden named commercial agent for Eastern Steamship with statewide duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Edgecomb
Bath Box Co
Brunswick
Down River
Bath
Stevens Orchestra at Moose Fair This Week
Joseph Thomas jailed for vagrancy 80 days in workhouse. Portland High School plays Moose High Feb 4 in city. Queen Esther Rebekah Sewing Circle held session with supper and card party. Bath harbor reports ice along Boothbay to Bath route. Fisherman lands 600 pounds of haddock and hake at city landing. Coast Guard costs and ships value cited. John W. Nann sunk near Chandeleur Island. divers urged for salvage. Coast shipyard options discussed for Morse interests. Civil Service exams delayed to 1916. Tallman forecast on Kennebec weather future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens
Joseph Thomas
Thomas
Portland
Moose High
Queen Esther Rebekah Sewing Circle
Capt. Brewer
Nahanada
Boothbay
Bath
Hake
City Landing
Maine Central
Hercules
Bath Tron Works
Holbrook Cabot & Rollins Co
al Ridley
Bay
Patience
Staples Coal Co
Larimer
Penn Gas Coal Co
Kelley, Spear Co
Philadelphia
Mary E. H. G. Dow
Fayal
H. B. Emery
Everett
J. FE. ‘Skhofield
Parker Head
S. George
Coast Guard Service
Congress
Coast Guard and Life Saving Service
John W. Nann
Boston
Gulfport
Chandeleur Island
Brighton
Port of Spain
M. L. Gilbert
McDonald Shipyard
New London
Sutton Spar
Sand Mill
C. W. Morse
Marine Journal
John A. Mcckenny
United States Civil Service Commission
Charles E. Tallman
Richmond
Kennebec
Uncle Sam
Bath Aerie F. O. E. elects officers and local notes
Bath residents report Tuesday evening officers elected for Bath Aerie F O E. Other notes cover crowds arriving by train, church lectures, dredging and ice removal at Arrowsic, sardine pack prices rising, and a freight for a Gulf port to Buenos Ayres. The Boothbay Harbor visit and steamship contract chatter wrap a busy tide of regional activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Aerie F.O.E
Over East
Psi U
Kappa Chapter Bowdoin
Local Hay Prices, Ice, and Community News
Local hay sells for 16 to 20 dollars per ton while five tramps found lodging at the police station Sunday night. Dreamland Theatre gains automatic electric jets and Beacon Street pageant rehearsals occurred Monday. Mabel Swett hosted the Junior Dorcas Guild at Cedar Street home. A steamer with sails arrived from Portsmouth. weather was sunny and 25 degrees at night. Insurance adjustors visited Morris Povich for smoke and water losses. Oregon-born N. T. Palmer moved to Woodstock, Portland. Ice fishing and skating noted with six inch ice on Sewall Mill Pond. A new eight member teacher training class started at Beacon Street Sunday school. First Baptist Ladies Sewing Circle met Friday at Mrs. Brooks’ home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittey
Dreamland Theatre
Beacon St. Vestry
Beacon Street
Portsmouth
Hbricht
Morris Povich
Front St
T. Palmer
Oregon
Portland
Woodstock
Merrymeeting Bay
Sewall Mill
Beacon St
Hurlburt
Flora L. Turknett
First Baptist Church
M. A. Brooks
Summer St
Real estate transfers recorded last week in Maine deeds
Transfers list includes Langdon MT Snipe to Estate of Wm H Spinney in Arrowsic and properties in Woolwich Bowdoinham Bath Phippsburg Richmond Georgetown among others. Notable pairs include Katie Colby to Willard E Jackson in Topsham and Alice M Crowell to William M Spinney in Arrowsic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Registry of Deeds
Langdon MT. Snipe
Wm. H. Spinney
Arrowsie
James L. Spinney
Als
George L. Cady
Woolwich
Katie Colby
Willard E. Jackson
Topsham
Myrick S. Heath
Sherman W. Pratt
Bowdoinham
Margaret J. Hart
Mary Welch
Bath
Jennie M. Oliver
Belle A
Henry C. Rowe
J. G. Osborne
J. M. Johnson
Arrowsic
Julia W. Litchfield
Wilbur C. Oliver
Alice M. Crowell
William M. Spinney
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woodmen
Orioles
Tedford
Verna Belle Hall
Washington St
Alice M. Deering
Irene Kingsbury
Alice Deering
Frances Lord
Eleanor Jones
Phyllis Wyman
Loraine Eggleston
Marguerite Kelley
Ralph Small
Thomas Cummings
Meyer Gordon
Pat Hartnett
Harold Brown
Maurice Deering
Frank Deering
Gardiner Deering
Karcher Jackson
Ambrose Curran
A. H. Hodgkins
Tug Sesu
J. Lester Reardon
Vitagraph-Lubin-Selig-Essanay, Inc
Reardon
New Dreamland Theatre
New England
Tug Seguin
Popham
Lines Island
Berry
City Hospital Board
Wallula
Whitmore Wharf
Col
Walter C. Emerson
Squirrel Island
Emersons
Baxter
Falmouth
Emerson
Wallace MacDonald
Independent Club
Burnt Jacket
Mineola
Diamond Ice Co
Read Nichols
Capt. Brown
J. E. Andrews
Boothbay Register
Supt
Haraden
Marshall A. Haraden
Maine
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Eastport Sentinel
Ariel
Farmington
Lewiston
Andrescoggin
Joshua M. Frost
Wiscasset
M.C.R.R
American Tel. and
Tel. Co
Center St. Kill
Forestry Commission
James Galvin
Hallowell Granite Co
Robert P. Murphy
Gulf
Buenos Ayres
Arthur Chapin
Bangor
First Baptist Brotherhood
Cedric Martin
Willow St
M. J. Duncklee
Far West
Sedgwick Circle
G. A.R
Harriet G. Burr
Auburn
Ruth Robinson
Winslow
Park
Gulliksen
L. L. Kane
Morse High School
Boothbay Harbor
Morse
Samoset
Hyde Windlass
Moose
Red Men
Rae Hyde Windlass
Knights of Columbus
Elmhursts
Epicures O
M. Oliver
Cutting
Williams
Robson
Frates
Billings
Martin
Dickerson
E. Daley
H. Oliver
Miller
Wilshire
Norman
McMann
Barrett
Robbins
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