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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 12, 1916

Page

5

Colby College baseball game rescheduled for June 27

A Colby College baseball game between the 1916 Wildcats and Jack O Coombs's champion nine is moved to Saturday afternoon June 27 due to an earlier announcement. Also notes include Rev Chapell’s seventh year at First Baptist Church with a sermon in the morning and gospel talks in the evening.

Colby College Jack O Coombs C. Raymond Chappell First Baptist Church John, the Baptist Ellen Turner Charles P. Wetherbee Fred A. Fuller Henry W. Owen, Jr Miriam Kimball Harry C. Webber Margaret Foster Bakeman John Shaw Webber Stewart Eva Adams Popham Beach Coast Guard J.M. Grover Bath Iron Works Allen Minnesota Mr. Grover Allen and Davis W. J. Johansen R. L. Gilbert A. M. Bushnell W. F. Osborn Davis N. Blaisdell & Son Charles F. Hathaway Cambridge J. Blaisdell

Bath area notes and events from 1917 era

Smith College juniors in cap and gown for 1917 graduation. Local groups meet for socials and church activities. Bath schooner Isabel B. Wiley sails from Rio Grande do Sul to Buenos Aires then New York. Womans Foreign Missionary Society and other societies hold meetings. Town reports fox hunting record by Bowdoinham’s Don M. barge 12 of Consolidation Coal Co. sunk after collision. two drowned. Bath Marine Craftsmen elect officers. War Relief Committee ships medical supplies. Maine Sons of the American Revolution to meet in Portland on Washington’s Birthday with brief addresses and music. Birthday gathering for Mrs. Owen features a musical program and cake.

Smith College Agate G. Avg Ry v Suppe Isabel B. Wiley Rio Grande Do Sul Buenos Ayres New York Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of Wesley M. B. Church A. A. Morse Parent and Teachers’ Association South End W. R. Donnell Unity Guild of the First Baptist Church Nathalie Brown South &T Herbert Norton Dummer St. T Howard Merchants’ Arid Miners’ Transportation Co Point ‘Judith Friday Bath Portsmouth Edward Seaman George Reynolds Cook American Society of Marine Craftsmen Winter Street William F. Hussey John L. Evans Walter A. Murtaugh Delmar DB. Bates Fred M. Cook Thomas P. Black John Thomson Rupert C. Cowles Norfolk War Relief Committee Mme Hames de Gogorza Times N. S. War Relief Committee Maine Society Sons of the American Revolution Washington Congress Square Portland Riverton George McL Presson Farmington Presson Mendelssohn Silas Owen Middle St Alice Marion Colson Eivira Owen Bertha Morse Cynthia Crosman Irene Inn Erbert Oliveter Sagadahoc St. Mary’s Epworth League of Wesley M. EB Louise Childs Russell St Wesley Church Robert Gordon South St N. Gratz Jackson Walter Kane Richmond Boston Bowdoin Square Theatre New England City Hall W. Burke Cochran Knights of Columbus St. Elizabeth Orphan Asylum Horace Jordan West Georgetown Jordan Cuba Woman's Auxiliary Episcopal Diocese of Maine Grace Church John F. A. Merrill Brewster Colorado Merrill Elisha C. Varney Supt Spence Texas Co Mr. Varney C. H. Varney Elisha Camden Rockport Waldoboro Thomaston Phippsburg Varney Durham

Community notes and meetings in Bath area society

Local church groups and clubs meet including St. Sundey Valentine party at the Murray Club Universalist Church and Epworth League at Wesley M. E. Church. The Bowdoin Musical Clubs concert at Music Hall supports Bath City Hospital, with lectures by W. Burke Cochran in Portland and a White Elephant exchange at a Wesley church event.

Fishermen report scant catch as Maine coast season ends

Local notes recount minor incidents at Clark's Cove Bristol and Nequasset. Baxterstown fishermen report only small pickerel this season while ice moves to housing rows along the Kennebec for American Ice Co. and Lincoln Castle officers are installed with a banquet in Gardiner.

Ble Mer E Een Clark's Cove Bristol Fce American Ice Co Wallace Queen Esther Sewing Circle Nequasset Howard Little Quintette Cony High Augusta Mary O’brien Water St Chin Sam Lee Yale Albert M. Spear Gardiner Donald F. Snow Bangor

Wiscasset Creamery receives 16 tons of milk and cream

The January 29 banner day at the Wiscasset Creamery saw 16 tons of milk and cream received. Nearby, Mr. Clifford hauled a portable engine for repairs and church events featured sermons by Evangelist Greenwood and a series on The Meaning of Prayer. Officers were elected for the Hyde Windlass Co. and ships Currier and Penn incurred damages in Boston harbor.

Wiscasset Clifford North Newcastle John Reay First Baptist Church New York People’s Church Evangelist Greenwood Hyde Windlass Co Rodney B. Ross Fred L. Andrews Joseph M. Trott Universalist Church Jesus Currier Boston Penn Walter B. Chase Henry Howard Harry Anderson William R. Ballou

Community League Holds Annual Meeting at YMCA

The Community League met last Friday at the YMCA with strong attendance. Reports from President W. B. Kershner and Treasurer B. W. Hyde were read and accepted. The group plans to hire a district nurse by March and uses two YMCA rooms furnished by members. An amendment to include the Cosmopolitan Club president as an ex officio director was proposed. Officers elected include President Mrs Harold M Sewall, Vice President W E B Kershner, Secretary Mrs Arthur E Baum, Treasurer B E W Hyde, Field Secretary Mrs C P Wetherbee, Directors Mrs Palmer Cobb Rev D L Wilson Charles P Wetherbee and W M Adams.

Community League Y.M.C.A W. B. Kershner B. W. Hyde League Cosmopolitan Club Harold M. Sewall W. E B. Kershner Arthur E. Baum BE. W. Hyde C. P. Wetherbee Palmer Cobb D. L. Wilson Charles P. Wetherbee W. M. Adams

Local Notes On Weather Elections and Theatres

Snow and rain marked Sunday with a dull evening as the thermometer stood at 34. City Messenger Gilmore posted ward election lists. The 53 Saturdays and Sundays recall the Centennial year from 40 years past. Beacon Street Dorcas Guild met with Miss Bessie Bowie and Drummond Street. The Jolly Thimble Sewing Circle gathered with Mrs. E. J. Murphy. Dreamland theatre reopened under new management with Geraldine Farrar in Temptation. A report of Hospital Point being sold for a steel plant is false. the Point is leased for five years to a farmer for crops.

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