Society Gossip From Bath and Surroundings News
A Bath area society update notes Mrs. George M. Daley gifting a rubber plant and books from Mrs. Emma Duncan to the Old Folks Home. Various locals attend events, visits, and church activities, with many residents traveling or returning from trips and engagements, including naval and postal connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Daley
Emma Duncan
Five Islands in the Sea News Roundup
Stormy week brings funeral absences, school shifts, and port delays. Bath residents note illness and travel woes as families adjust to fuel shortages. the Ladies' Aid hosts a meeting and the Grange prepares for officer installation. Mrs Nealley of Bath marks a 91st birthday with family, flowers, and a note on her notable New England lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Wesley M. E. Church
C. W. Harrison
Ladies’ Aid
E. A. Farrar
Charles Hanna
Forest
Mark
Mr. Hanna
Bath
T.M. Hagan
James T. McMahan
Portland
C. Bf. Boucher
Arthur Brown
Woodfords
J. K. Blaisdell
Jessie Webber
Carolyn I. Stevens
Morse High School
J. G. Stevens
Milton
Ivan Pinkham
L. H. Rowe
A. E. Rowe
Grange
F E. H. Libby
Davis
Thomas M.hagan
Nat Howe
Eaton Place
Back River Bridge
Hagan
Little Sheepscot
T.w.blaisdell
J.G. Stevens
Maurice Pinkham
Sewall Moore
Morse
Arthur ‘Berry
Alfred McMahan
Jerry
James McMahan
Sarah A. Nealley
Sligh St
William P. Nealley
Bangor
Harry A. Nealley
Joseph Dixon Crucible Co
Boston
Nealley
Spencer
Mass
William Pope
H Edward Me Sy Nealley
Grace Church
Old Indies’ Home
New England
Col
Benjamin Hammond
Newton
Beacon and
Hammond Sts
Chestnut Hill
Ren. Washington
Concord
Lexington
Committee of Safety
Benjamin Janklin
France
Joseph Pope
Harvard
Hannah Pope
Israel Putnam
Putnam, Conn
Hood's Sarsaparilla Blood Tonic Claim Sealed
The advertisement emphasizes Hood's Sarsaparilla as an enduring blood purifier and general tonic. It touts three generations of use, purifying blood, expelling humors, restoring appetite, relieving rheumatism, and banishing tiredness. The product, described as originating from a Boston physician, uses roots herbs barks and berries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Boston
Five Islands Grange Mourns Sister Alice G Boyd
The Five Islands Grange No 523 expresses deep sympathy to Rev W T Boyd and his wife on the death of Sister Alice G Boyd. Resolutions extend bereavement sympathy, request publication in the Bath Independent, and request copies to Georgetown Me. and the Grange records. Signed by W I Berry Sec Amanda Blats Dell Chair Lemmond Hl Roe Steward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice G.boyd
Five Islands
W. T. Boyd
Bath
WL. T. Boyd
Georgetown
Garfield order unsettles Bath industries and stores
The Fuel Administrator Garfield issued a drastic order received by the Times on Wednesday night. it will affect several Bath industries outside shipyards and most Bath stores except those selling food and drugs starting Monday. No official order has been received yet, and people await guidance from Washington via the State fuel administrator and local fuel committee. Miss Lina B. Riddle attended a Maine State Nurses Association meeting in Lewiston to form a district nurses' association with representatives from six counties. graduate nurses only may join. Snow slides from roofs on Front and Center streets occurred Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emery C. Pray
Freida Wetherbes
Shirley
Iuey Adelaide
Melrose
Mass
Jed Wetherbee
Inlaw
Fred W. Prior
Walter P. Hilliard
Times Company
Linotype
Boston Composition Company
Hilliard
Malden
Jane Murphy
Miriam Kimball
Brunswick
Elwasl B. Curtis
North End
Lewiston
Riker-Jaynes
Portland
W. H. Sampson
Stockton Springs
Stockton Yards, Inc
H .M. Jewett
Gorton Pew Fisheries Co
Gloucester
Boston
Wilhelmina Ahrnes
M. J. Duncklee
Garfield
The
Times
Bath
Washington
State
Lina BB. Riddle
Maine State Nurses’ Association
Youngs Women’s
Androscoggin
Kennebec
Knox
Lincoln
Sagadahoc
Somerset
Waldo
Power outage cripples Lewiston trolley lines and area rail yards
A fire at the Lewiston substation destroyed a 200 kilowatt rotor generator, halting trolley service on the Lewiston Augusta Waterville line and the Bath Bruns wick section. Irregular power and snow impede recovery as crews await a new 500 kilowatt rotary unit and track clearing.
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Lewiston
Augusta
Waterville St. Ry
Bath
Brunswick
Crinsals
Free Wireless Work Course at Bowdoin College
A free wireless course begins at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine under the Federal Board of Vocational Education. It targets Bowdoin Unit ROTC members the Brunswick Company Third Maine Infantry men of draft age in Brunswick and Topsham with Prof Charles C Hutchins and Prof Rhys D Evans leading in the physics laboratory. A drafted man achieving sufficient proficiency may receive a certificate admitting him to the signal corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Bowdoin College
Kenneth CC
M. Sills
Bowdoin Unit Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Brunswick Company
Third Maine Infantry
Brenswick
Topsham
Charles C. Hutchins
Rhys D. Evans
Bowdoin
Signal Corps
Bath Red Cross mobilizes women for large wartime sewing drive
Bath's Red Cross unit reports rapid mobilization of women in clubs and sewing societies to fill a large wartime order. Miss Carolyn Moses toured Boston for sewing needs, urging cooperative labor at Red Cross rooms. A temporary thrift stamp shortage delays school distributions, with new supplies expected soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William T. Gobb
Bath Iron Works
Rockland
Jennie Harvey
Temple Hall
Margaret McLellan
D. T. Percy & Sons
Chester M. Oliver
Elm St
Boston
Mary McNamara
Michael Biggins
Chestnut St
Carolyn Moses
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Edward J. Murphy
Boothbay Tlarbor
Naval Reserve
Norman Murray
Percy & Small
Percival P. Baxter
Maine House of Representatives
Rupert H. Baxter
A. J. Snow
William Yule
Brooklyn
Mr. Yule
John E. Fitzgerald
Hershon Oliver
Navy
Newport
R. I
Roland Baker
Fred W. Baker
Swett's
Front St
W. FE. Cousins
Stonington
John Riley
Arthur Turner
George Gibbs
Richmond
Charlotte Cook
Eastport
Subee
John Davis
Ruth McFarland
N. H
Frank S. Wakefield
South St
Fred S. Curtis
Rev
S. A. Evans
Phippsburg
George W. Morrison
Parker Head
S. J. Willis
Garden St
M. J. Duneklee
Henry G. H. Gilbert
Ware
Frank B. Torrey
Bertram Willis
54Th Artillery Regt
Mort W Levett
Frank Shepard
Highland Street
Bradford
Harold Hart
John Crosby
George Chamberlain
Fort Levett
Dorothy Sewall
Thomas Percy
Arlington, Mass
Edith Merrill
Harriet Holoway
I. &. Southard
High St
Gardiner Rogers
U.S. N.R.E
Boothbay Harbor
Rogers
Frank B. ‘Nichols
Maine Press Association
Waterville
Clarence A. Reed
Gould J. Brown
C.A.C
Oliver Moses
Frances
Walter E. Plummer
Frank J. Walker
New York
Paramaibo
British Guiana
U S. A
Demarrar Bauxite Co
Philadelphia
U.S
South America
Winter Street Church
Red
Thrift and
Scott R. Frye
W. H. Smith & Sons
MacMahan
Ladies' Aid
Howe Woods
C. A. McMahan
Basil
E. S. J. Nealley
Franklin and Putnam
BOS U
Oes
Ely
Corer Center
Water Streets
Maine
Texas Steamship Co
Maine Central
Davin
Bis
North Street
Fuller
Sova
Conley’s Specialty Store
RED Cross
National Department
Sh. C. Plummer
Sness