Coasting Accidents Shock Washington Street Hill
The season’s first major coasting accident occurred on Schoolhouse Hill near Washington Street when Howard Pratt aged 23 was knocked from a bob sled. two following sleds struck him, causing cuts and a fractured forearm. Others, including Arthur Freeman and eight year old Lawrence Young, suffered minor injuries and a knee cap injury respectively. John Gowan escaped injury after a collision with a sled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoolhouse Hill
Washington St
Howard Pratt
Charles Pratt
Beacon St
Pratt
Reynolds
Morin
Arthur Freeman
Lawrence Young
Clyde Robinson
Beacon St. Hill
John Gowan
Colonials Defeat Unbeaten Basketball Team In Local Play
Local jottings describe the Colonials remaining undefeated this season after a Wednesday night game. Other items note four lodgers at a police quarters, school cancellation due to storm, ice harvest success, and residents A H Goodwin and companions moving to Oakwood Farm with a long road trip from Swampscott.
Weekly Wes ley items and maritime notes breeze through
Supt. John Mcmnes arrived from Boston for a Wes ley Brotherhood monthly meeting on Friday. The week reports steady work by local crews at Booth bay Kelley-Spear yard and Iron Works with new men joining as material arrives. Maritime updates include the Squirrels Island slip frame, the Hockomock ferry, the Mary E Palmer charter to Norfolk, and shipyard activity at Bath and Bethlehem. Also noted are local socials, orchestra, an agricultural lecture, smelt fishing updates, and a club boxing-tournament tally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Brotherhood
Mercury
William Dall
Boothbay
Kelley-Spear Yard
T. W. Hyde
S. of W
Gardiner
Sagadahoc
Squirrel Island
Winter Street Church
Temple’s
William H. Given
U. S. Wadsworth
Winneganee Creek
Stevens
Music Hall
Bowdoin Glee Club
Ladies Society of the First Baptist Church
Scott C. Hill
High St
Hockomock
Kennebec
Mary E. Palmer
Huntley
Percy & Small
Norfolk
Morse High School
H. S. Osler
U. of M
Yannigans
Windlassonians
Sewall
Mill Pond
Sewall Ice Co
Seattle
Bath
Bliss
Iron Works Yard
Bethlehem
Phi Rlios
Bath Opera House
January Thaw Opens Arrowshire Channel In Fishing City
A misty January night thaws snow revealing a new channel through Arrowshire and stirring activity in Smellville as Bath boats end winter trips from Bath. Squirrels return in large numbers, and the town notes social and civic happenings from a club session to ship news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay
Bath
Arrowshire
Smellville
Archie Grant
Nero
Schoolhouse Hill
Washington St
Bowdoin Musical Clubs
Cosmopolitan Club
Music Hall
Frederick Roessner
Swain
Savana-far-Mar
Philadelphia
Logwood
Cape Lookout
J. F. Ramsdell
The
Bath Shoe Co
Lynn
Whittredge
Supreme Judicial Court
D. T. Percy & Sons
Arthur E. Stewart
Green St
Seth Stewart
Bureau
Joseph Brooks
Joseph Hurley
Boston Post
Times Office
Augusta
Kennebec
Gardiner
Kateon Camp No. 12
United Spanish War Veterans
Grand Army Hall
William R. Kimball
Lewis Edward King
E. J. Johnes
Samuel Welch
E. C. Plummer
Harry H. Donnell
Bert M. Dyer
W. J. Curran
King
Kateon Camp
West Bath Notes Include Ice Harvests and Local Happenings
Ice hauls at Trufant's Crossing and ponds around West Bath dominate the week with residents like Lon Fisher and Miles Purington cutting ice while muskrats disrupt a dam. The West Bath Grangers rehearse a forthcoming play and local visits, illnesses, and social events fill the community page amid stormy seas and smelt camps on Sasanoa Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Fisher
Foster's Point
Fred Larrabee
Trufant's Crossing
West Bath Grangers
I. B. Neiley
Lewiston
Miles Purington
Harry Hanson
Harold
Boston
Annie Trufant
South Carolina
Somerville
Frida erveninz disrupts damp grounds and brave lake camps
Reports describe wet ground hindering a Thursday event with 200d showline and a windy day causing 163 camps on ice to be blown away. A fisherman survived a capsize as huts slid across the Bar while two hungry youths at a police station offered to pay later for breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowshire
Bath News Roundup and British Relief Fund efforts
A Bath report notes the Sons of Veterans social Friday and multiple lodgers at the police station Thursday. James W. Skillen of Bath Iron Works leads the local British Imperial Relief Fund committee, with near seventeen thousand dollars raised for various Allied relief funds and families of service members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Skillen
Bath Iron Works
British Imperial Relief Fund
New England
Prince of Wales National Relief Fund
London
Officers’ Families Fund
Canadian Patriotic Fund
Ottawa
Charles E. Riley
Botton
Women’s Association of
Worcester
Skillens
Water St
Boston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ries
Kelley Spear Yard
Daniel A. Bishop
Popham
Rockfedge
Joseph Young
Zina Wyman
William Bowie
Pine Tree Circle
Companions of
N Foresters’ Hall
Lillian King
Jennie Farrin
D. H. Johnson
Mary F. Murphy
Severena Couture
Nellie Downey
Eva McLear
Gertrude Flynn
Joseph Mulverhill
C. A. Peaslee
Nellie M. Johnson
Circle
Josephine Mulvihill
Leeie Worthley
Colonial
A. H. Goodwin
Oakwood Farm
Goodwin
Swampscott
Herbert Crosby
Reno
Nevada
Edward Danforth
Portsmouth
Supt
John Mcmnes
West Bath
J. J. Conant
Henry Rose Farm
Fred Gerrish
Alice Seekins
L. W. Litch
S. R. Brown
Berry's Mills
William Mitchell
Clarenence
Peaslee
Trufant Crossing
Mrs. Percy Richardson
J. B. Lemont
Elm Street Baptist Church
William White
Herbert Worrey
James
Maine
James D. Lemont
Alfred Bazin
Montreal
Walter Bazin
Bombay
India
Josie Winter
Concord
Mass
Alberta Payson
Susie
Evelyn Bates
Beechmont
J. J. Mitchell
Sasanoa Bay
Big Stove Club
Long Island Sound
L. Bonney
B. D. Stanler
Winthrop
Ernest Williams
West Path
Allan Brown
v_ Alton Brown
Brown
Winnie Shepard
Revere
J. J. Witchel
Lee Brothers
Rufus Lombard
G. D. Merrs
Camphbell’s
New Meadows
Boat ‘Cub
Clnud
Evenine Ail
New Meadows Boat Club
G A. Crockett
Erwin Turner
Leeter Scott
Crockett
Francis McKenney
Wilfred A. Lapointe
Howard Hardine
G. A. Crockett
Prameis McKemmer
L. A. Brown
Barton Crawford
F. J. Quinn
Portland
Menander Dennett
Woman's Autifiers
Grace Church
Thompson Bros
Bath’s Largest Clothiers
Ladies’ Union
Conley’s Specialty Store
Odé Fellows Pitch Parts
Fridaerveninz
Bunters
Sons of Veterans Whist Party
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