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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 29, 1908

Page

5

Election Monday and Town Meeting in Bath area

Election headlines focus on ward contests in Wards 8 and 6 while Sagadahoc towns plan Monday meetings. Reports note the last city council session, library reading room opening for men, and various local civic events including a dance, a watch presentation, and preparations for street car track removal as winter ends.

Sagadahoc Hillcrest Poultry Farm Company Morse High School Portland Bob Somerville Brunswick Commodore Larrabee King Pepper Charles W. Triggs Board of Common Council Bathaerie of Eagles Thomas B. Perry Ham Aerie Kennebec Yacht Club Rupert MacConnell New York Bowdoin College Morse Metropolitan Consolidated System Linden Street Front Washington Streets Oak Street Oak Streets Gmbe Eastern Electric Express Co

Merchants Plan District Association Meeting Wednesday

Retail merchants from Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties and Brunswick will meet at City Hall at two o'clock to form a district association. State officials will attend, and officers and delegates to state and national conventions will be chosen. Not required to be a member to attend.

Popham Beach City Hall Sagadahoc Lincoln Counties Brunswick Harry E. Stetson Walter E. Chase Frank M. Harnden Charles T. Jackson Rufus D. Moulton Edward D. Jameson Bath Merchants’ Association Harry C. Webber Bath Boston Webber Oxford County Augusta Gardiner

Library Opens for Reading Room Sundays at Patten Free

Patten Free Library will offer Sunday reading room access from one to five o'clock for men and boys over sixteen not in school. Fred J. Parks will supervise. entrants must register name and address and agree to rules on quiet, proper conduct, and returning borrowed items.

Patten Free Library Fred J. Parks

Schooner Contract With Bowker Yard For Boston Firm

F S Bowker Sons of Phippsburg secured a contract to build a 500 ton three masted schooner for Rogers and Webb of Boston. The vessel will duplicate the Horace M Bickford built last year and is expected to be completed in August.

F. S. Bowker & Son Phippsburg Rogers & Webb Boston Horace M. Bickford Bowker

Soldier of Fortune recounts Murphy's Alaska to South Africa odyssey

A Maine graduate, 25, Mr Murphy tallies bold campaigns from Yukon mining to Alaska, a Boer War stint with Strathcona Horse and London review. He faces grizzlies, mountain lions, shellfire, and fear, earns a Victoria cross era medal, and ends settled in Bath with wife and child.

England Wapitte Little Smoky Big Smoky Mr. Murphy Murphy Edmonton Spain Athabasca Lake Lesser Slave Lake Peace River Landing Arctic South Afria Regina Strathcona Lord Strathcona Canadian Mounted Police Halifax Canadian Pacific St. Patrick's Day Capetown Greene's Landing Durban Natal Zululand Komataport Kruger’s Pass Ladysmith Standerton Pretoria Hillis Alaska Kruger Death Valley Potchestrom Transval Aliway Orange Free State Blomfontein Kronstadt Lord Kitchener London Victoria Docks Strathcona Horse Buckingham Palace Edward Sergant Queen Victoria Goddess Peace South Africa University of Maine Bath

Pulpit and Pew Services at Local Churches

The New Church holds no preaching service but Sunday school at 1:46 pm. First Baptist Church on Washington Street near Elm, led by Pastor G. F. Rouillard, offers public worship at 7:30 pm with the Lord's Supper at 11:26 am and Bible school at noon. Juniors meet at 2:45 pm, Young People's meeting at 6 pm, vestry worship at 7 pm. all without another church are welcome.

First Baptist Church Washington Street Corner Elm G. F. Rouillard

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Chester New Meadows Inn Custom House Joseph B Forest Hills Mass Public Harvey K. Erskine Hyde Light Guards Cobb Hughes Universalist Church Society Gus Huse Bachelor’s Hall Colonial Club Segt W. Murphy L. A. Strathcona H Page & Shaw Paragon Smoke Contract and Co Lonial Clab Hart Schaffner & Marx Thompson Bros David T. Percy Sons David T. Percy & Sons Lincoln National Bank Hamburg Walter C. Parker CO Donnell’s Www R. Donnell Centre Street
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