19 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1914
Page
1
Bowdoinham items report Frank Heath improving, visits, and several residents traveling to Brunswick Portland and Lewiston. Poultry shows prize winners Milton and others, a fatal accident near the steam mill, and community notices on Grange events church gatherings and shop days.
Payne receives a Newark donor's check for cemetery fence funds and seeks the remaining amount. donations accepted by check or postal order. Percy F. Quincy visits Parker Lead, proudly showing his English High School football team sweater. Mrs. Perry convalesces after an accident. Earl Pike hauls hay. Miss Jennie Roderick shopped in Bath. Clara Perry returns to Sebasco for winter.
The Five Islands Ladies Aid held a well attended Christmas sale at Rowe's Hall on Thursday the 10th with fancy work, aprons, home made candy, and snip line, boosting profits to 11.71. Social hour followed with picnic supper, hot tea, and cocoa as the crowd enjoyed the holiday atmosphere and community cheer.
Mrs. H S Hanson and son Harold head to Boston for holidays while Capt and Mrs Brown report safe Miami arrival after a rough voyage in a motor boat. Bath residents hosted parties, Miss Jane Lemont visits, and Fred L Groves dies in Augusta at forty eight. Community notes include local theater, skating, home repairs, and moth control efforts.
A man waiting at five o'clock searches for the towboat launch after misreading his clock. An officer shows the time as 12:59 a m. The man learns his clock had stopped and he must return home for another watch before resuming his river expedition.
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