Enlistment Campaign to Expand Bath Chamber of Commerce
Bath aims to boost chamber membership to reflect its population and industry. Officials from the American City Bureau met with Bath leaders to plan a standard, nationwide model and mass recruitment, seeking a larger, centralized civic commercial body to represent the city and aid federal requests.
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Bath
Chamber of Commerce
Bath Chamber of Commerce
Civb-Commercial
James O. Stevenson
American City Bureau
T. Boykin
United States
Chambers of Commerce
Bath weighs state takeover of People's Ferry
A legislative hearing on Wednesday discusses Senator Baxter's 130 000 request for the People's Ferry Co. to be bought by the state amid calls for state operation to handle growing traffic, with Bath citizens debating franchise value and potential profit, while fish prices soften postwar.
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Bath
Legislative Committee On Appropriations
State House
Baxter
People’s Ferry Co
Portland
Rockland
Sound
Mayors Acceptance Speech Acknowledges City Challenges
Mr Drake expresses gratitude for the nomination and appreciation of efforts to run Bath with a businesslike administration. He notes anticipated difficulties and says they have faced more than expected, with continuation referenced on the next page.
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J. Edward Drake
Common Council
Andrews. Merrill
Republican City Committee
John N. Taylor
Roscoe P. Ham
Walter 8. Glidden
Drake
Fernald D. ‘Crocker
The
Metal Trades Council
Ham
Henry R. White
Board of Common Council
Glidden
Bath
Bath boys recall Brest as mud soaked hell in war return
Corp George Chamberlain and fellow Bath men return to New York after service from July 21 1917 with the 4th Company CAC and later the 60th Artillery. They describe Brest France as ankle deep mud and barracks without floors where sleep and meals were mud filled. They recount battles at St Mihiel and the Argonne and note demobilization at Camp Devens.
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Brest
France
Congress
Bath
George Chamberlain
60Th
United States
D4th
Bath Boys
Dourdam
U. S
St. Mihiel Salient
Argonne
Lissey
Namgne
Bath Company
44Th Artillery
Camp Devens
22D
51St
M.p.s
National Guard
Times Mess
War Department
Elmer Williams
Arroyne
Lieut Walter Brown Set to Return From France
Bath native Lieut Walter Brown, son of Lemont, is expected home soon from France. A Bowdoin College graduate and top Dowdoin athlete, he served with the American tank corps and sent a German helmet home. Friends await more letters and details of his wartime experiences.
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France
Edward Bro Street
Morsey High School
Bowdoin College
American Tank Corps
Lieut. Brown
Dowdoin
Bath
Webber Pharmacy
Merton C. Webber
Final sale papers pass for Bath church property
Final papers were filed for the purchase of the old North street church by Evangelist Sanderson. The First Baptist Society sold to the Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists for 4000 dollars. A drive to raise 1500 more is underway as Bath residents fund repairs and rededicate the landmark as a place of worship. Mrs. Sewall H. York of Wiscasset is visiting Bath.
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Old North Street
Evangelist Sanderson
First ‘Baptist Society
Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists
Sanderson
First Baptist Society
Bath
North Street
Battle of Lexington long overdue in colonial memory
In Bath and Kennebec region parents recall April 1775 actions sparked by the Lexington Alarm. Samuel McCobb led a small muster to Cambridge and reports question Edward H. Page as a listed participant. Lemont family figures serve in local militia while Liberty Loan drives gear up for a fifth campaign with both men and women mobilized for equal effort.
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Henry C. Thayer
Georgetown
Bath
Woolwich
Lexington
Kennebec
Son of Liberty
Samuel MacCobb
McCobb
Mc Cobb
L. P. Lemont
Edward H. Page
L Leutenant
Cambridge
Boston
Page
Samuel McCobb
Massachusetts
State House
Lemont
James Lemont
John Lemont
Robert
Captemont
Benjamin Lemont
Lincoln County Regiment
Tiverton
R. L
Providence
Penobscot
Castine
Cox's Head
Daniel Lemont
Benjamin
Samuel
Oliver Moses
Liberty Loan Committee
Sagadahoc
Harry Rounds
Portland
New Haven
Dirigo Bulk Oil Carrier Joins Emergency Fleet
The Texas Steamship Co. launches the Dirigo, a nine thousand two hundred ton bulk oil carrier. Edmund P. Briggs accepts the vessel for the Emergency Fleet corporation as Bath customs papers are completed. The Dirigo, commanded by Capt. Severre Petersen, sails for Philadelphia to load oil for overseas for a crew of 38.
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Dirigo
Texas Steamship Co
Edmund P. Briggs
Emergency Fleet Corporation
United States Shipping Board
Bath Customs Office
Philadelphia
Kennebec
Wilhelm II
Kaiser
German Empire
Florence Lufkin Hunsiker
Buffalo
Pres. E. C. Lufkin
The
Texas Co
Lufkin
Lloyd's
Severre Petersen
Brooklyn
George B. Drake
Lieut Sewall Arrives in Bath After War Service
Bath’s ace aviator Lieut Sumner Sewall returns to America and lands in Bath Saturday at 6 98 p m with his parents and sister. A public medal presentation is deferred until Memorial Day. Sewall is praised as a skilled and daring flyer.
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Bath
Sumner Sewall
America
William D. Sewall
Dorothy
New York
Lieut. Sewall
Ice Race Score Cards At Mill Pond Meet
Race score cards bearing horse names will be presented after the ice races at the mill pond Saturday afternoon. Cards are a gift of Cut Price Market Co. Mrs. Myrtle Annie Scott will appear in Everywoman at First Baptist church on Wednesday evening February 26.
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Mill Pond
Cut Price Market Co
Myrtle Annie Scott
First Baptist Church
Scott
Harper School of Oratory
S. P. Annis
Leighton & Mitchell Co
Annis
War relic helmet returns to Bath from German officer
A German officer helmet with imperial insignia is shown in the Independent office. The wearer, Moritz Ricente, was killed in action near Coblenz while serving with the Milliken regiment guarding a vital railroad. Lucas Marson, who passed the helmet to his aunt in Bath, recalls six weeks of shelling and enemy air battles.
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Lucas Marson
Boothbay Harbor
Woodbury
Suum Cuique
Mit Gott Fur Koenig and
Vaterland
Moritz Ricente
Milliken Regiment
Neva Gregory
King Tavern
Daun
Coblenz
Marson
Army of Occupation
Parcel Post
Germany
Bath
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Fernald G. Crocker
Europe
Old Fourth Company
Walter Brown
Mrs. Sewall H. York of
Wiscassett
Carl Fuller
Sewall
Hun
George Gray
Five Islands
Vernon Gray
Johnson Bros. Co
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