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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jan 15, 1916

Page

9

Local notes include court rumor and sports updates in Bath

A Bath report covers a Tuesday afternoon court session with a man missing weight and a tooth, a Bath mechanic troubled by fifty boils, and local civic groups like the Eastern Star and D.A.R. The Morse high quintet defends its title with a decisive 35 8 win over Deering at the YMCA gym as Pomological Society eyes Portland for next year’s fruit show.

W. N. Price Richmond Bath Girls Colonials Colonial Club Auburn Wassitts Daughters of the American Revolution American Defense Society United States D.A.R Sturtevant Carey Morse High Y.M.C.A Deering Bath Morse Boys Deering Boys Portland Maine State Pomological Society G. A. Yeaton Norway H. B. Sweetsh Cumberland Center E. L. White Bowdoinham T. E. Chase H. L. Keyser Greene W. H. Conant Buckfield Mark Pendleton G. A. Fletcher Mayport Fla Fayal Azores Norfolk Fletcher Jacksonville Pendleton Cactus Cuba Capt. Fletcher

Illustrated sermon and local notes from Lisbon and Bath

The First Baptist Church hosts an illustrated second Sunday sermon with sixty colored views. Local items note road lobbying from Brunswick to Lewiston and a proposed Bath to Lewiston Federal road. Obituaries and civic notices cover Sheriff Ballou’s death, liquor licenses in Rockland, a religious revival, osteopathic events, a broken arm at Morse High, Ladies’ Aid at Universalist Church, Colonial basketball, Miss Alice McDonald’s death, and Genesta Chapter Eastern Star installations.

First Baptist Church Lisbon Enterprise Brunswick Lewiston McGillicuddy Bath Lisbon Falls Androscoggin John W. Ballou Gourier-Gazette Portsmouth Rockland Uncle Sam Karl Breckenridge Maine Os Morse High City Hall Ladies’ Aid of the Universalist Church Jennie Morse Washington St Treasury Charles Wetherbee Frank EB. Southard C. F. Rideout Emma Moses Charles Blair H. E. Stetson Charles Harriman Andrew Merrill Colonial Boys Auburn

Local Bath Items Highlight Clubs and Seafaring News

Local notes report Twenty patients at City Hospital and various society gatherings. Bath Aerie officers were installed with a luncheon, while St Marys Guild delayed due to winter weather. Bath schooners Alice May Devenport and Gardiner G Deering sailed or arrived with coal, and regional ships reported distress and quick trips for ballast. Community activities include WCTU, Dorcas Guild, and King’s Daughters events.

City Hospital League of Central Church Lucy Kimball High St Jolly Thimble Club John Johnson Middle St Dorcas Guild Beacon Street William Perry Crescent St Bath Aerie F. C.E St. Mary’s Guild of Grace Church St. Little Girls George W. Rooke North Bath Alice May Devenport Rio Grand Do Sul Buenos Ayres Quebracho New York W. C.T.U Washington St Beacon St Harvey K. Erskine Beacon Street Hill Queen Esther Sewing Circle Nahanada Here Hell Gate Colonial Cafe Dunlap Commandery Red Cross Beacon St. Dorcas Guild William J. Perry Ladies’ Aid Fred Willis Cummings St King’s Daughters Rosa Brown Bath Opera House B.I.W Orioles Park Alleys Boardman M. Oliver Portland James W. Elwell Philadelphia Rosario San Juan Porto Rico Bath Marie Mayer Mary Magdalene Oberammergau Margaret Foote Alice Varney Allen Irish Webber Fred Low Miss Wiggin Fr. Horan Cosmopolitan Club Gardiner G. Deering Norfolk Randall & McAllister Deering Percy Chesapeake Bay

Light afternoons bring bustle to Bath area and events

Residents note longer days and a busy new year. Bath groups move the War Relief offices to Church Block. the Bath Industrial Corporation sets its annual meeting January 19. Submarine divers from Bath work in Charleston. a local court fines a young man for drunkenness and assault.

Sewall North End First Baptist Church Fred Coombs Virginia Down River Lily Pond Ames French War Relief Committee Church Block Front St Woolworth’s Bath Industrial Corporation Chamber of Commerce Y.M.C.A Waldo Murray Charleston S. C Augusta M. H. Blackwell Greenville Bath New England Boston Sheriff's Department Sagadahoc Thompson’s Corner Webber’s Drug Store City Hall Center St Times Oklahoma Owl’s Head Nevada McFadden Sears Capt. Wallace George Blodgett Aderton Farm Monee Esse

Storm halts afternoon school and city brief items

The city reported no afternoon school due to a storm. Firemen extended 1700 feet after the Aderton fire and pumped two wells dry. Local society events, boat purchases, a bowling contest, and a Freeport basketball change filled the day alongside charity drives, a hurricane tale of schooner Governor Books, and civic notices for the Republican State Committee in Portland.

Aderton E. W. Society of the First Baptist Church Ruth Reed Court St Diamond Spring Co Dave Mosher James C. Mulligan Maple St. Court Front St Mosher George J. Murphy Mobile and Associates D. J. Sawyer P. Lopez Mayaguez Porto Rico Murphy C. W. Mills Henry Crosby Park Alley Hall Bath Iron Works Shaw Morse High Freeport High Freeport Rockland Governor New York Buenos Ayres Hatteras Southport N. C Rescue Joseph M. Webber Winthrop Mass Corliss Street Baptist Church E. P. Browne E. F. Wright Charles Trask John A. Norris Clarence R. McIntire

Many Towners Travel for Work and Family Visits

A front page list shows Herbert Harris on a business trip to Farmington, Frank Perkins home from Bangor, Alderman Barker visiting Portland, and Mildred Nichols vacationing in Boston. Dozens more residents travel or relocate for work or family, with notes on arrivals, departures, and temporary stays in cities such as Bath Portland and Boston.

Herbert Ralph Reynolds Bath Reynold Medford Mass E. H. Sampson Boston William M. McCormick Woodfords C. J. Sawyer Hudson Charles Fitzgerald Georgetown University George Corbin Bath Iron Works D. L. Howard Rockford Ill Albert B. Roderick Camden Augusta George W. Tobey Maine General Hospital Kittery Navy Yard John Curran John Reed Mec- Isaacs Curran Portland J. S. Jones U.S. N James Jones Ben Portsmouth N. H Industrial Department U. S Birmingham

Donkey Prompted Lively Class Joke at London School

In a London school memory, late Professor Key, a genial headmaster, entertained pupils by noting Spanish customs. He explained that a man of eminence is called a don, prompting a student to quip that they would call him Donkey. The class burst into laughter for the afternoon.

Professor Key London Spain

Invention of Photography Through Early Experiments

The earliest photo efforts were by Wedgewood and Day, but the first photograph came from Daguerre and a partner around 1839. Draper produced the first portrait in 1840, with progress by Fox Talbot and Scott Archer later, and the gelatine-bromide dry plate was invented by Maddox in 1871 and improved by Bennett in 1878.

Wedgewood Day Daguerre John W. Draper Fox Talbot Scott Archer Maddox Bennett

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Thomaston C. G Alice Maria McDonald Mt. Holyoke College Charles McDonald Genesta Order of the Eastern Star O’brien Hutchinson Pine Cone W.M Olive Corliss A.M Annie Cox W.P Elmer Rogers Ruby Curtis Annie Bonney Ada Eunice Walters Ruth P.M Maria Strout Esther Lois McKeiver Martha Kate Perkins Electa Florence Hagan Ella Hoyle Belle Sawyer Sentinel Henry Hopkins Althea Strout Hather Oliver Bertha Dean Woodmen Knights of Columbus K. of C Republican State Committee Falmouth Horace Mitchell Kittery T. F. Callahan Frederick Hale Frank J. Ham
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