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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1916
Page
10
Richard Gill died at his home at Prince's Point after a sudden illness of acute indigestion. He moved here from Massachusetts years ago and funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon.
Help wanted notices offering positions for girls with fair to good education in subscriptions with earnings up to 70 dollars weekly and rapid advancement. Opportunities to learn typing stencil work and writing plus a booklet offered from W T Gannett publisher Augusta Maine. Also a domestic cook and a real estate item appear in the same notice as various classified items.
A dealer announces limited sale offers with flour at 1.40 per bag and Checkerboard Cow Feed at 3.75 per bag for a brief period, inviting public purchase.
Bowdoinham notes say sleighing is very good and several teams are active despite little wood being brought in. Local schools close for a two week Christmas recess. Miss Ida Millay returns from Bates College for holidays. Camp Fire Girls hike to a Christmas tree. Red Cross meets. and highway crews move machinery from Bath to the Upper Post Road for spring work.
Mrs. Charles Crocker has been ill with a bad cold. Clarence Gould was in Waterville a few days last week visiting friends. Mrs. Walter Purington and her young son returned home from Waterville last week, with Mr. Purington accompanying his wife home.
Morse High defeated Lisbon Falls High 5S to 18 in the boys game while Morse girls beat Thomaston Night 4. The article notes strong training under Allan Spear and calls for public support to cover rising costs of bringing quality teams. Also mentions a four mast schooner planned for Bowker yard and lists Bath marriage intentions including Howe Higgins with Athol Kane and Robert Dyer with Mae Ivyin Roberts.
Mrs Myra Thibadeau and children visit at her aunt Mrs W S Harley Capt Ernest Darling suffers boils on neck goes to Brunswick for treatment Will Barnes Brunswick visitor this week Mrs Frank Tane visited Portland Mrs Jennie Leavitt Brunswick shopper this week Mrs Ada York and daughter Geneva Brunswick visitors Lyman Alexander busy butchering at home Theodore Thibodeau of Bath weekend guest Arthur Darling on sick list Eva Toothaker sick list Roy Catlin and Edward small aboard Georgie Bouden Maggie Mall and children returned to her mother's for Christmas week
The Brotherhood Club and Class executive committees met at the parsonage Friday week and named committees led by KE EK Whittemore and others. Andrew Michlouk, claiming Bath as home, arrived in Portland from Portsmouth with eight quarts of whiskey and a homeward ticket but no money until deputies Hunt and Caselden seized the liquor and arrested him at Union Station.
The Times notes that five more names should have appeared in the NST list of residents mailed exemption questionaires. Arthur Gallant George Perry Melvin Dinsmore John Feltman and William Lindbeck now living in Boston are the names referenced.
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