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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1919
Page
5
A brief classified notice offers home employment braiding rings with easy tasks and good pay. It provides a mailing address for Phelps & Winix ham Inc at 200 Anderson Ave, Perthoned, ME, for details.
Mrs. Maud Isabelle Nichols 25 wife of Arthur J. Nichols died at 18 Russell Street after a long illness with complications. She was a daughter of William K. MacGregor formerly of Vath now superintendent at a shipyard in Victoria B C. She leaves husband a daughter Beatrice 12 and her father two sisters Mrs Wilfred C Trott and Mrs Fred Beekman two brothers Charles Bath and Winfield Worcester Mass. Lynn Miller and Joseph Teston of North Jay arrived to work for the Texas Steamship Co.
Miss Eleanor Bates lives with her sister Mrs Chester Freeman in Bath while Clarence Baker and William Thurston report large catches at Whiskey Creek this week. Red Cross drive at Miss Jennie Hodgkins home draws West Bath folk as Raymond Rogers visits from New York.
Bowdoinham high school hosted the Boys club with Harold Shaw and Mr. Jones presenting on farm topics. Members built a self feeder for hogs and learned swine care. 20 members attended as leader Mr Penley aims to grow to 25.
Mrs. Alice Preble of Prowdpinham expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy after her recent bereavement and for the floral offerings. February 7.
Spinney of 307 High street reports a flock of Plymouth Rock and black minorcas that, though under six months old, have laid three dozen eggs with several days producing five eggs. One pullet hatched Aug 1 laid its first egg Jan 20, and the owner calls them the most ambitious pullets he has seen while joking about one-upping any rival. Miss Harriet M. Johnson and Miss A. Lillian Leathers attended a Stanton club banquet at Bates College in Lewiston.
Pupils at No. 1 school presented Liberty Journal with songs and tableaux, raising 4.50 for the school league. Woolwich Grange No. GS installed officers in a large turnout, with a fish chowder reception and remarks from Rev. M. D. Webster and visiting grangers.
Charles R. Chase of 847 Middle Street received a letter from his nephew Chester B. Curtis supply sergeant Battery B 54th artillery C A A ER F. Curtis, son of David A. Curtis of Yarmouthville, well known in Bath for North Yarmouth academy games against Morse high. He writes from Angers France dated Jan 16 describing mud, a Bowie pipe, a German first sergeant coat to be made into a smoking jacket, and promises to share the story when he returns. He notes duties to ready a battery of over 400 men to go to the States and asks his uncle to keep writing until he sees him coming down the street.
Green street Bath Maine earned its name from a century of captains and shipbuilders who lived there. The list includes Francis Kelley John Delano Benjamin Delano Nicholas Preble James Murphy Meyers William Douglas John Cushing Edwin Poole and others with Robert Bosworth Christopher Carter and D M Humphreys. The street housed the commodore of the T and A Sewall fleet and the last resting place of Admiral Greene lies in Oak Grove cemetery.
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