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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1916
Page
5
Horace A. Jordan of West Georgetown builds a 22.5 foot launch for Dominica after Donald O. Riviere of Cranbourne sees Captain Cory’s boat in the Caribbean trade. The launch will head by rail to New Bedford and then sea to Dominica.
Boston benefactor J. P. Coates sent camera shaped candy boxes to pupils, while a festive Grange party in Five Islands drew crowds with music and a cake sale. Updates include Dr. Horace Cragin’s medical studies, Doris Moore’s appendicitis surgery, and community news of local residents and events.
West Bath resident W H Brown visited Augusta as guest of cousin Mrs Charles Johnson. Mrs Starrett resumes Berry's Mills School teaching after holidays in Boston. Harriet Johnson of Bath visited town. Miss Annie Trufant spends winter with Miss Annie Wylie. J Everett Mayo moved into the Trufant place this week. Lillian Brown wintering with Mrs Milton Barry on Grove Street Bath. Alonzo Fisher went to Foster's Point by auto to haul boat for winter. Bates family hosted Eleanor in Topsham for the weekend. Frank Williams returned to Campbell's Pond after two weeks in Bath visiting sister Mrs Couilliard.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Bates of Albany NY celebrate the arrival of a daughter named Elizabeth Lewis Bates. Mr and Mrs Fred Brown and Marie were Saturday guests of Mrs Sylvanius Pennell. Miss Madelyn Hunt from Bath visited Mrs Eugene Brown. Mrs George Graham of Topsham visited Mrs Sylvanus Pennell. Mrs Harry Peterson recovers from acute indigestion. Mona Wyse departs soon for Augusta to work with Central Maine Company. Mr and Mrs Merton Wright settle into their new home in Larrabee's Grove.
Weekly social and personal news items from Winnegance include Mrs. Winfield Groves hosting Eve ning Workers, Mrs. Henry Potter entertaining Ladies Aid, and Eleanor Morse resuming teaching at Ashdale. Others report health updates, guests visiting, travel to Small Point, a horse loss, and residents returning home from Beechmont and Parker Head.
G C Jewett, a local grocer, remains housebound due to an ulcerated tooth as of the latest bulletin.
Henry Greenleaf sold a 300 pound hog after a ready sale around town. Harold Robinson moves into Boothbay to work in the portable mill for the rest of winter. Paul Hilton trips to Boston to visit friends for a few weeks. Capt. Ross Dickson returns home from Boothbay Hospital after a serious operation and plans restful steamboat duty ahead. The parsonage stable work nears completion. Fred Whitten breaks hog raising records by killing a hog near four hundred pounds. Robert Greenleaf suffers a portable mill strain and will be housebound briefly. Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury Hodgdon visit friends in Wiscasset and Small Point. Weather turns markedly cold with ten above zero. Melvin Cromwell hauled his boat. Robert Greenleaf strains his stomach at Leavitt’s saw mill and is laid off indefinitely. Thomas Cromwell sails the Driftwood around the island to cover on high tides. Freeman Colby visits Richmond for holidays, returns Monday. Mrs Etta Cromwell and Ida visit Wiscasset. A wild geese flock passes overhead, mis judging the season. Snow storm enables farmers to haul wood. Alfred Higgins in Wiscasset. Grace Colby returns to Gorham Normal School after holidays.
Capt E E Ingalls of North Ba states a 30 foot semi V bottom cruiser was shipped by rail to Baltimore. Built for M Farrington of Baltimore the craft is designed for 18 mph with a four cylinder Redwing engine. Interior mahogany and accommodations for four, named Muriel II. Pansy B., the doctor’s pacer, is seven years old.
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