Locals and Perso nals Echo Bath News
Local notes report travels and visits of Oliver and Mrs. Moses to New York. Mrs. Wellington Moore and Shirley Louise return from Bath Hospital. Betsy Titcomb returns to Gorham Normal. Miss Priscilla Kimball home from New York for a visit. Salvation Army drive mails push Bath’s quota. Baptist pastor Chappell marks ninth year. Coast Patrol aids Maine service members. navy yard realignment announced. Epidemic closes Charlotte churches. Bath soldiers dispatched to Spartanburg reports.
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Oliver Moses
New York
Wellington Moore
Shirley Louise
Bath City Hospital
Marion Titcomb
Gorham Normal School
Charles Adams
Brunswick
Cosmopolitan Club
Westport Island
Woolwich
West Woolwich
Kennebec
Marcia Stinson
South Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Castine Normal School
John E. Ross
Brookfield
N. H
Bath
Gardiner G. Deering
Edward E. Barry
Boston
Harper Transportation Co
First Baptist Church
C. Raymond ‘Chappell
Seguin Island
Naval Reserves
Boothbay Harbor
Navy Yards
Naval Districts
Daniels
Spencer '. Wood
Naval District
William R. Rush
Boston Navy Yard
Eastport
Chatham
Maine Heavy Artillery
Milliken Regiment
Spartanburg
S. C
Charlotte
Obituary of Eliza J Morrison 81 Widow of Jacob Morrison
Eliza J Morrison 81 widow of Jacob Morrison died suddenly at her Meadowbrook road home of heart failure after a barn chore. A Phippsburg native daughter of William and Hannah Hutchins she spent most of life in Phippsburg and was beloved by many. She belonged to Phippsburg Center Congregational Church and was Meadowbrook Hall trustee. Survived by daughter Mrs Edward Perry Hyde Park Mass sister Mrs Susan Campbell Bath hospital seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at her late home tomorrow morning.
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Eliza J. Morrison
Jacob Morrison
Meadowbrook Road
Morrison
Susan Campbell
Phippsburg
Bath City Hospital
Train Turbulence Delays Bath Rail Service All Day
Unprecedented service disruption in Bath left no trains into the city with Boston connections. The first through train from the Hub arrived two hours late at nine hours past midnight. Boston readers missed papers for a full day, and Bath Times saw a surge in demand as travelers and callers sought extra copies.
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Boston
Boston and
Maine
Dover
Berwick
Bath Times
Bath
Times
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Aid Overworked Minds
Busy workers seek brain and nerve strength from Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron to relieve nervous strain of modern life. The regimen allegedly boosts energy, enabling easy task completion, with Hood's Pills offered for gentle laxative support. sold by druggists.
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Hood
Five Islands News Roundup and Local Socials
Weekly report from Five Islands in the sea notes a box social at Grange Hall and warm hall conditions. It cites church attendance, frigid roads, shipboard promotions for Carl Lewis, and local families dealing with weather, transports, and illness.
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You
Box
Grange Hall
City Hospital Faces Overflow as Patient Load Rises
City Hospital records 38 patients in one day last week, with three rooms housing two maternity cases each. The third floor hosts nurses, limiting space for patients. Officials consider building a nurses home to free space and possibly add a maternity ward, as demand outpaces current quarters.
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City Hospital
Dow
Ensign Appointed for Naval Reserve Ensign Langdon Hill
Friends of M Langdon Hill stationed at Boothbay Harbor with the Naval Reserves learn he has been appointed an ensign. He took the examination at Rockland recently. He was formerly a quartermaster.
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M. Langdon Hill
Boothbay Harbor
Naval
Rockland
Ile
Lighted Candle Ignites Gas Causing Manns Bakery Fire
A brief blaze at Manns bakery started when a hand candle ignited a gas flow in the store room. Mr Mann quickly suffocated the fire by throwing bags on it before the fire department arrived. Two other alarms followed at Fred Hamlin residence and Shepard's barber shop, both confined to chimneys and put out with chemical apparatus.
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Mann
Fred Hamlin
Winter
High Streets
Shepard
Sagadahoe Square
Birthday Party for Herbert Rae Jr at Bedford Street Home
At 78 Bedford St Wednesday afternoon Mr and Mrs W Rae Fuler hosted a first birthday party for son Herbert Rae Jr. Guests played games and enjoyed ice cream and cake. Gifts included toys flowers thrift stamps money and useful items. Present were Genesta Corliss Cynthia Rogers Herbert Lermond Robert Locke and Charles Locke Jr. Guests left at 4 39 in good wishes. War bread disliked by many.
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W. Rae Fuler
Bedford St
Herbert Rae, Jr
Genesta Corliss
Cynthia Rogers
Herbert Lermond
Robert Locke
Charles Locke, Jr
Sewall Receives First Lieutenant Rank in Aviation Corps
Sumner Sewall son of Mr and Mrs William D Sewall of Yorkhall learns he has been promoted to first lieutenant in the aviation corps and is piloting a high speed monoplane. He went to France a year ago, served as an ambulance driver six months, then enlisted in September in the aviation corps. He has trained intensively in the military program of the Great War. Mrs William Ham hosted the Pine Tree Circle sewing club at 61 South St Thursday afternoon, and the ladies worked on Red Cross projects.
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Sumner Sewall
William D. Sewall
Yorkhall
Aviation Corps
William Ham
Sewing Club
Pine Tree Civele
South St
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Sale
John J. Desmond Co
Salvation Army
Daniel Williams
General Campaign Committee
Valentines
W. H. Smith & Son
Hall
Lewises
Carl
Bar Harbor
C. A. McMahan
Grange
J. G. Stevens
Isabel Stevens
S. H. Haskell
Herman Meladden
Charlestown Navy Yard
Gilbert Lewis
Malden
Virginia
Popham
Lester Davis
L. H. Rowe
Carl Lewis
Augusta
Tra Lewis
Hingham
Mass
Naval Auxiliary School
Merchant Marine
Edward Lewis
Tin Lewis
Alton Berry
Arthur Berrys
Wren Cromwell
Iva
Alice
Georgetown Center
Alfred McMahan
William Stevens
RED Cross
Conley’s Specialty Store
Bedford ST. Houser Party
Ferris
Jean
W. G. Cahill
Center Street
Sewall
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