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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 26, 1916

Page

5

Local notices span clubs sports and elections in Maine

The piece covers Central Church women and Portland Pythian Jubilee travel, Brunswick Y M C A Juniors loss, funeral notices for Mrs Mary A Frisbee and Mrs Harriet F Rollins, a Kennebec County Supreme Court term hinted for Justice John B Madigan, Aunt Mary Douglas Goddard’s 16th birthday, Cyrus W Longley’s probate bid, Morseigh School farce Jayville Junction, Kimball farm sale to Reed and Ward, a ring prank, Hazel May Scott birthday party, a liquor libel case before Judge Keegan, the schooner William H Clifford coal voyage, and Bremer rescue from the Helen W Martin incident.

Central Church Adelaide Dennison Irene Stearns Knights of Pythias Sisterhood Portland Western Maine Pythian City Hall Brunswick Y.M. C.A Mary A Josiah Frisbee Phippsburg B. P. Browne Corliss Street Colonial Clubs Pullman Wassitts John B. Madigan Houston Supreme Court Kennebec County Mary Douglas Goddard Freeport R.F.D Cyrus W. Longley Register of Probate Longley Morseigh School Music Hall Jayville Junction Oriental Stock Co Kimball High St Fred Reed Bath Fred H. Ward Topsham Maple Grove Marshall A. Haraden Front St Hazel May Scott Union St Dorothy Smith Flora Crosby Lorence Miller Doris Leavitt Charles Leavitt Dudly Leavitt Parker Adams Edward Adams Keith Atwood Roy Willaim H. Clifford Norfolk George Hayes Clifford Helen W. Martin North Sea Maine

Local notes on community work and events in Maine

Local items report crane work at Texas Co yard Centractor F W Carlton starts heavy sill and bedlog tasks. Maine Undertakers plan August Portland meeting. Merrill aids pole location for Bath Gardiner line. Sedgwick Circle meets on Washington Lincoln birthday eve. Bowdoin student D C Roper speaks at Beacon Street Epworth service. Morse High attends Y M C A Maine conference in Fairfield with 274 delegates. Funeral for Albert D Cutting held in Rockland with Masons pallbearers. Coasting origin explained by Dr Edward Berry of Bath in the Boston Herald. YMCA men’s meeting at Assembly Hall with brief sermon on Christianity and future events. Wesley Church hosts next session. All men and boys over 15 invited.

F. W. Carlton Texas Co Maine Undertakers’ Association Portland Andrew 8. Merrill A. B. Getchell Central Maine Power Co Bath Gardiner Sedgwick Circle G. A.R Washington Lincoln United Orders Grand Army Daniel C. Roper Washington, D. C Bowdoin College Epworth League Beacon Street Church Mr. Chapman Ralph D. Warren Rodger D. Skillings Morse High Maine Fairfield C. H. V. Cranston Orono R. B. Nelles Bangor Arthur J. Roberts Colby College Francis P Miller Edward E. Brrry Boston Herald Long Reach Joena Philbrook Young Men's Christian Association Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church C. N. Flood William Hamacher H. W. Moulton William R. White C. Raymond Chappell First Baptist Church Harold Pinkham Lee Hooker Fred Dwyer Wesley Church Harrison

Local Society Briefs Highlight Community Meetings and Weather

The Murray Club hosted Miss Emma Hooper on Green Street while the Unity Guild met with Miss Lunie Hodgkins on Chestnut Street. Marriage intentions for George W. Brown and Beatrice E. Parris were filed with City Clerk Grassy. A cold snap pushed readings to six below zero with a fierce wind. The Fortnightly Club celebrated a Washington's Birthday party at the Cosmopolitan Club. Miss Hazel Woodbury sang solo. A North End horse caused a near-miss near High Street as it escaped toward York Street. The tug Narraganset arrived from Portland carrying two derrick lighters for the New England Steamship Co. The Metz Automobile Co. plans were discussed as A. S. Rowe visited town. The sea bulletin notes the gulf stream proximity near Savannah.

Murray Club Emma Hooper Green’ St Upper High St Sagadahoc Morse High School Unity Guild of the First Baptist Church Lunie Hodgkins Chestnut St The Mercury Parent-Teacher Association South End William Small Pleasant St Everett Stackpole Wesley M. E New Hampshire Jolly Thimble Sewing Circle Mary Rose Gallant John Hart Middle St George W. Brown Beatrice E. Parris Savannah McIntyre Wallace Small Point Queen Esther Sewing Circle U. S Singleton Palmer Delaware River Cosmopolitan Club Eclock Hazel Woodbury Auburn Portland New York Kelley, Spear Co New England Steamship Co Kingsbury Barter North End High St Ellis’s Hill York St Harry Peterson A. S. Rowe Georgetown Morsey High School Rowe Metz Automobile Co Boston Metz Waldoboro Pacific Coast

Pay up Week brings new baby and town notes

A nine pound boy was born to Mr and Mrs Edmund Arsenault on Willow Street. The community reported a cold snap setting records with sixteen below zero and ships and shipyards affected. Local events included a Willard and Stevens memorial at the Y M C A a charity dance drawing few couples and a suffragist gathering planned in Portland features Carrie Chapman Catt Maud Wood Park and Glendower Evans. A wolf or wolf like animal frightened horses on Long Hill and Bath residents enjoyed treats and a busy fishing scene at Whiskeag Bay.

Edmund Arsenault Willow St W.C.T.A Willard and Stevens Y.M.C Boston Phoenix Bath Music Hall Boothbay Arrowsic Bridge Universalist Church Washington U. S Flusser New Orleans Louisiana Naval Militia Horace Mitchell Sherman Clark Maine Portland Bine Street Carrie Chapman Catt National Association Maud Wood Park Glendower Evans Massachusetts Center St Morse High Bangor Pullman University of Maine State University W. W. Hosmer Water St Duke Long Hill Reynard

Neurasthenia Cure Ad Promotes Pink Pills

An advertisement urges readers to address Dr Williams Medicine Co of Schenectady New York for a free booklet on nervous diseases and to obtain Dr Williams Pink Pills as a non alcoholic tonic. It claims improved appetite blood flow and mood with use and offers price 50 cents per box six for 2 50 by mail postpaid.

Dr. Williams Medicine Co Schenectady N. Y Dr. Williams

Local notes and maritime drills dominate Lowell scene

Lowell Temple Pythian Sisters hold a Monday tacking and a later meeting. The Tucker torpedo destroyer, under builder crew, made practice spins in Boston harbor ahead of official tests at Rockland in a week or two. Fore River reps say the craft acquitted herself well. Wesley church Sorority hosted a rubber social on Spring Street with a varied program. A large crowd attended a Sunday Eve Birth of a Nation lecture at Universalist Church ending with the national hymn America on screen.

Lowell Temple Pythian Tucker Boston Harbor Rockland Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation Wesley Church H. L. Hopkins Spring St Reading Evelyn Oliver Beatrice Nichols E. A. Farrar Esther L. Brown Charlotte Cook Chld Universalist Church America

Morse High Edges In Bangor Loss And School Group Plans

Morse High basketball fell 32 to 3 to Bangor High as Fitzger ald and Weinblatt led a spirited effort. A night meeting at Fairfield elected officers for the Secondary Schools under the Maine YMCA, creating four groups and district liaisons with Bowdoin student McConaughy named to Morse High district duties.

Bath George Washington Paul Revere Morse High Bangor High Morse Bangor Fitzgerald Weinblatt Young Men's Christian Association of Maine Fairfield Linwood J. Badger Harris G. Hamlin Gould's Academy W. H. Wahlquist Hebron Clifford Lord Coburn Irvin E. Rollins Donald Berry Kent's Hill Charles E. Barnes Ricker

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