Groundhog Sees Shadow and Trades Shipyard Shifts
Local notes report a groundhog shadow causing a pause in early spring plans while 15 Bath riveters join Rice Brothers yard in East Boothbay. Coal and potato shipments arrive as Halley building work starts. medical update on Leroy Stover follows. Gardiner reports no drunkenness arrests in January amid strict Prohibition enforcement. Malcolm Baxter Jr. charters for Rotterdam oilcake gain $38 per ton, and Townsend Marine Railway advances a 900 ton four-masted schooner with record dimensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Rice Brothers
East Boothbay
Aroostook
Wellman
Augusta
Ross Diffin
Halley
Leroy Stover
Hyde Windlass Co
Bath City Hospital
Boston
Malcolm Baxter, Jr
New York
Rotterdam
Ernest F. Kelley
Boothbay Harbor
Townsend Marine Railway A
Portland business return and local civic notes
Charles H. Oliver returns from Portland while the Lisbon Cemetery Association advances a poverty ball to raise funds. The Holy Name Society expects about $200 net from a recent musical production. Community updates include road builders from Boston, frigid Farmington temperatures, and local social notes such as an engagement and a harmless groundhog display at a cigar shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Oliver
Portland
Lisbon Cemetery Association
Holy Name Society
Daniel Bishop
Dresden
Mr. Perkins
Thomaston
Rockland
A. R
Montpelier
General Knox
John C. Tourtillotte
Carl Troop
Board of Highways and Sewers
Boston
American Road Builders’ Association
Bath
D. L. Howard's
South Window
Burt Dyer
Marion Erma Payson
Camden
Clarke D. Rowe
Boothbay
Miss Payson
Mr. Rowe
Boston News Notes Warm Snap and Local Ventures
The piece covers a warm January, fashion notes on spring garments, a Boothbay High school fundraiser led by Capt John A Thompson and crew, a Bath Athletic Club meeting naming Horace Morse manager and Ralph Boardman assistant, fence ad campaign to raise grandstand funds, and Bath real estate optimism with locals profiting from quick transfers and an out-of-state investor showing interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley M. EB
Portsmouth Times
Chicago
John A. Thompson
Southport
Bay State
Boothbay High School
Washington
Navy Department
War
Navy Departments
Bath Athletic Club
Horace Morse
Ralph Boardman
Gecome
Harold Cutting
Edward Kenniston
Morris Oliver
Bath
New York City
Bath Y.M.C.A. Beats Portland A C for Twelfth Win
The Bath Y M C A remained undefeated with a 45 to 22 victory over the Portland A C last Tuesday on the local court. Key players included Farnham Cartmill Lyden and McDowell, while Calumets also posted a 20 to 13 win in the preliminary shop league matchup. Next Tuesday Portland All Stars, selected from Valmont and local teams, will face Bath as seats go on sale at 9:30 AM at the Y M C A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Y. M. C. A
Portlad Athletic Club
Bath Y.M.C.A
Portland
A. C. Lyden
Rouse Martin
Perry Cartmill
Foster Farnham
Ireland Hagan
O'Connell Foss
McDowell Young
Portland A. C
Farnham
Cartmill
Lyden
McDowell
Rouse
Foster
Martin
Ireland
MacCormick
Hunt
Timer
Dunton
Calumets
Sturtevant
Billings
West
Pratt
E. Billings
Ib If
Pratt I. Billings
Sturtevant E. Burns
Marr West
Stickney Gay
Hart C. Holbrook
Chase
Fourth Company
Burns
Gay
Holbrook
Stickney
M. MacDonald
Cummings
Valmont
Bath Boys
Portland All Stars
Y.M.C.A
Hyde Windlass Moves Up In Park League Standings
Hyde Windlass defeated Athletics to climb to second place by 26 points while Pilgrims gained one point in the prior standings. The Bath Office League Texas Steamship team lost 1424 to 1288 to Maine Central in Portland with Farrar scoring 281. The Bath schooner James B. Drake was intercepted by a German raider off Pernambuco carrying quadracho wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Windlass
Athletics
Pilgrims
Texas Steamship
Bath Office
Portland
Maine Central Office
Monument Square
Farrar
Texas
Bath
James B. Drake
New York
Buenos Ayres
Pernambuco
Drake
J. B. Drake & Sons
Philadelphia
Snowstorm Disrupts Monday Classes In Augusta Area
Reports note severe snowstorm forcing teachers to dismiss Monday afternoon. Other items include a secret January marriage announcement, a rockland pressman, a schooner wreck with all hands saved, mosquito suppression plans costing 27000, and legal actions in water street cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Carlton
Augusta
Neil
Perry
Frances Paladino
Rockland
William P. Hurley
Togus
Alden Colbeth
Frances V. Sawyer
Hayti
South Portland
Bucks Harbor
New York
Commewyne
Cape Haytien
Mosquito Post
Cape Cod
West Island
East Fairhaven
Popham
Edward Hobbs
Water St
Keegan
Augustus Samuel Blaisdell
Pine St. F. B
Lewiston
Alfred W. Anthony
Mr. Blaisdell
Franklin
Gamuel and
Caroline Donnell Blaisdell
Cobb Divinity School
Bates College
Parsonsfield
Bath
Providence
R. I
Elmwood Avenue
F. B
Free Baptist Church
Topsham
Tall Stove Club
Stovers
Mill
U. S
Sails arrive for Bowker schooner Margaret L
The Margaret L. Bowker schooner sails arrived from Philadelphia after several weeks at sea. W. A. McCullum left for Kittery Navy Yard following a Tuesday call. The town also noted a snow storm event and shifting winter work on cottages moved by Charles Groves near New Meadows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. McCullum
Kittery Navy Yard
Church
McDonald
Terry Turbine Co
Hartford
Margaret L.ots
Philadelphia
John G. Reed
Woolwich and Arrowsie
Tuessie Hall
Perkins
Woolwich
Sebenon Hall
Johnson Bros
Texas Yard
Lewis Yard
Times
Charles Groves
Fred Brown
New Meadows
Brown
Groves
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Farnham CO. Inc
Chilton Paints
Beaver Board
Elm ST
Copenhagen
Sss
India
Hamilton
Cole Navy
Navy
Brunswick
Maine
Farmington
Western Avenue
North and
Lincoln Sts
Saco
Kennebec
Susie Cutting
Gardner Rogers
Winneganee
Frye
Thunder
P.A.C
the Park League
Windlass
P.C. Red Men
Texacos
Woodmen
Eurekas
Russell
W. H. Miller
Toothaker
Dall
M. Oliver
Cutting
Chester Martin
A. Stewart
Coffinl
Frates
H. Oliver
Morse
Boardman
Lette
Reynolds
Rpur
Bath Tallow Co
Bath Steam Dye House
H. E. Douglass
Prop
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