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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1914
Page
10
Local jottings describe social gatherings at Lowell Temple Pythian Sisters Genesta Chapter and Ramona Council. Mentions include busier ferry operations by Hockomock and Fronte nac schooner with coffee cargo from Norfolk to Rio. Park League Plumbers beat Beacons. Brown Bible class social nets $11.30.
Lent begins as plans for Maine Insurance Co. and Bay Bridge funding surface. Reports include whist parties, library fund events, moves by Postmaster Hyde, and a dramatic Hockomock ferry collision. Colonial basketball defeats Springvale 18 14 at YMCA gym amid rough play and heavy officiating scrutiny.
East Boston won the day as heavy snows and frigid temperatures gripped the region. Bath residents report 200 horse teams and hundreds scraping Kennebec ice between Richmond and Augusta, while Bath fishermen plan Nequasset Lake holes as ice banks endure.
Sewell E Small aged 88 died January 23 after a nine day illness. A native of Bowdoin he sailed from youth, later rigging ships along the Kennebec, operated in Boston Bath and quartz and fish peddling in Maine. Survived by widow two sons and a daughter and siblings. Funeral from Morse’s Mountain Road Small Point with interment at Bowdoin South Cemetery.
The funeral for Emma C. Auld 62 years four months old died Wednesday at her daughter Mrs Merrill's home 61 Western Avenue was held Friday at two p.m. She was born in the city a daughter of Charles and Clarice Munroe widow of Zebulon G. Auld. Survived by two daughters Mrs Goerlse Lynn Mass and Mrs Merrill of the city and four grandchildren. She had been in declining health two years.
William C. Hall, aged 49, a freight brakeman on the Portland Rockland division of the Maine Central, died in Portland on Wednesday.
Deceased native of New Castle and son of the late Artell Hall died after a brief illness due to shock. He was a longtime Maine Central employee and part of a family of thirteen children. Funeral services were held in Portland on Friday from 851 Congress Street.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs. Joseph G. Torrey who died in Rockland last Saturday. Aged 92, she was born in Stockbridge Vermont and lived in Rockland for many years. Survived by sons George E. of Rockland and Arthur L. of Elgin Illinois. She belonged to the Chiureh congregation since childhood.
The Bath Independent and Enterprise column thanks friends who aided Mrs Sewell E Small during her bereavement.
On the George F Warren voyage from Portland to New York Mrs J F Sheffield of Coxs Head was thrown from her bunk in rough seas and badly burned after striking a hot radiator. She was found unconscious by her husband the captain and taken to a New York hospital for treatment.
The former farm of General Knox in Thomaston was sold this week by its late owner M. J. McCormick who bought it two years ago from Mr. Madison. The new owner will reside on the historic place and was shown over the property Wednesday during the brief closing. Also Wednesday McCormick sold land to the Yarmouth parish used as a Catholic cemetery.
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