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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jan 18, 1908

Page

4

Bath to Stage King Pepper Farce for Charity Event

Rehearsals for the farcical opera King Pepper in Bath progress well under A. J. Burns and E. P. Favor with O. L. Story painting the Lewiston fairground inspired scenery. Proceeds from a Wednesday Music Hall card party benefit the new city hospital, organized by four local clubs.

King Pepper Kennebec Yacat Club A. J. Burns E. P. Favor O. L. Story Boston Story Lewiston Fair Ground Wikke Lewiston Fair Grounds Music Hall New City Hospital Merritt Island William V. Percy Central Church League Lower High Street Kennebec

Topsham Grange Installs 1998 Officers in Ceremony

Last Saturday evening Topsham Grange installed its newly elected 1998 officers with Po mona Master Charles M. White of Merrymeeting Grange officiating. Assistants Harry and Sister Peterson of West Bath Grange aided in the exercises as over twenty visitors joined seventy eight home grange members for a banquet afterward. Names listed include Edwin R. Hildreth as Master and Albion E. Tedford as Treasurer with other officers Edith J. Hildreth and Maynard H. Tarr among appointees.

Topsham Grange Pomona Charles M. White Merrymeeting Grange Bowdoinham White Harry Peterson Peterson West Bath Grange Dromore West Bath Merry Meeting Edwin R. Hildreth George L. Wright Charles P. Edgecomb Fred P. Carey A. S Joseph W. Larrabee Annie M. Wright Evelyn H. Foster Doris E. Rackley

Litchfield Plains Weather Dampens Winter Activity

Local notes report lack of snow hindering ice needed for logging and no sleighing in nearby Lisbon Falls. Families including the Chases and Rogers visit Mrs Porterson while Geo Rogers surveys logs on Monmouth Ridge for Fred Benns. Several residents recover from pneumonia and overall sickness eases.

James A. Chase Geo. M. Rogers Andrew Porterson Mr. Haines Monmouth Ridge Fred

Funeral services for Abraham Linscott in South Brunswick

Abraham Linscott, a lifelong resident of South Brunswick, died aged about 88. Funeral services were held at his late residence last Saturday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. E. Cochrane. Miss Addie Prince is ill with the grip this week. J. E. Cochrane and wife visited friends in town last Friday. George Princes hauling logs for A. C. Gatchell.

Percival H. Stafford Rochester N. H Eveleth Weeks Blair Francis Weeks Grove Street O. W. Folsom Winter Street Congregational Church Frances Weeks Stafford Bath New York Wakerfield Street Alpheus B. Hervey Universalist Church Kennebec Clini John C. Phillips Boston Phillips Eleanor Hyde Oscar T. Sewall Cit Small Point Herman Focke Honolulu Harold M. Sewall Washington Street Emma Twitchell Rockland Russell Brookline Mass Bermuda Abraham Linscott J. E. Cochrane George Princes A. C. Gatchell Addie Prince Brunswick

Bath City Council weighs sewer bonds and Kew Meadows bridge plan

At a special meeting Mayor Hughes and aldermen reviewed a 16000 sewer bond issue and appropriated 1687.77 for Centre street repairs. A joint convention discussed the Bull Rock bridge location and North New Meadows alignment with the Turnpike road, urging a North of present site solution and urging a petition to lay a West Bath road.

Hughes Oliver Morse Pratt Robinson Pattee Small Campbell McCabe Gibbons C. Pingley Perkins Swett Triggs Foote Franks City of Bath State of Maine City Trust Co Boston United States Centre Street Maine Central R. R High Street Kew Meadows Bull Rock Bridge Bull Rock Maine Central Railroad New Meadows Inn Court House Center Street Gov. King New Meadows Merrymeeting Bay War Department Barrett Potter Brunswick Harold M. Sewall Steamboat Landing County Commissioners New Meadows River West Bath New Meadows Bridge

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