Maine and Bath News Roundup Highlights Local Happenings
City notes report sleighing and longer days as the six week municipal election approaches. Maine National Guard to join New York invasion next summer while Brunswick plans a new theatre. Portland High tops Morse 20 to 15. streetcar service suffers from storms. Bath and Brunswick face health and industry updates amid winter conditions.
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Maine
Fred A. Powers
United States Senate
Brunswick
National Guard
New York
Bath Marine Construction Company
Bath
Society Gossip Notes and Local Plans in Bath
Public school teachers form a teachers club to meet monthly in Assembly Hall Morse High School with lectures and social evenings. The first meeting is on the 25th with Superintendent Freeman arranging an out of town speaker. Also noted are lectures by Professor Roland P. Gray on Twelfth Night, summer plans for James P. Webber, Annie Trufant’s Bermuda departure, Henry W. Cobb’s health, Bath girls at a smelting camp, Mrs. A. E. Rowe’s Bath visit, a skating party desire for more events, and Mollie Gibbons hosting a bridge party with Mrs. James O. Lincoln winning a traveling brush.
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Assembly Hall
Morse High School
Freeman
Roland P. Gray
University of Maine
Annie Trufant
Bermuda
Cecil Tucker
Sarah Duncan
Bath
Henry W. Cobb
North Street
A. E. Rowe
Georgetown
Wilbert Cahill
the Alameda
Mollie Gibbons
James O. Lincoln
Onan
Mr. Morse
Morse
Jennie Morse
Taft
Fraternal Order of Eagles install Biddeford officers
Deputy Grand President R. P. Ham and W. L. Cullinan installed Biddeford Aerie officers in a public ceremony attended by many Biddeford and Saco residents. A banquet for 200 followed as speeches were given by the new officers and guests, with Ham presented a leather traveling bag and silver umbrella.
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R. P. Ham
Order of Eagles
W. L. Cullinan
Bath Aerie
Biddeford Aerie
Biddeford and
Saco
Ham
Church Notices at East Brunswick and Trufant's Crossing
Services at the Chapel of Our Savior East Brunswick tomorrow at 3 pm with W C Hamacher. Sunday school at 2 pm and special music. Evening service at Trufants Crossing Sunday at 7 30 pm with W C Hamacher assisted by Harry Hamacher. cars depart Sagadaho Squire at 7 pm.
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East Brunswick
W. C. Hamacher
Trufant’s Crossing
Sagadahoc Squire
Harry Hamacher
Sentence Commutation News Reaches Morse and Taft
The public learned that President Taft ordered immediate commutation for Charles W. Morse. Demonstrations erupted with bands bonfires and a shower of congratulatory telegrams. Front Street appeared quiet as word spread of the action.
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Front Street
Independent
Taft
Charles W. Morse
Pardon News Sparks Bath Town Celebrations and Genealogies
The Bath community reacts with telegrams, band music, and bonfires after President Taft pardons Morse. The piece traces Lorettus S. Metcalf's Bath lineage to Kennebec pioneers John Le mount and Joshua Philbrook, detailing colonial military service and local public life.
State Moves to Buy Malaga Island and Clear Hovels
The Executive Council discussed purchasing Malaga Island but signatures remain for a warranty deed. Some former inhabitants have been moved to the Home for the Feeble Minded, with others likely to follow as the island is cleaned up. An added $1100 to the Home for the Rate Minded appropriation addresses a deficit. A Perry heir dispute is noted as a potential obstacle to the sale.
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Malaga Island
Executive Council
Winslow
Kilgore
Republican State convention set for April this year
The text notes an April Republican State convention with an early start for the game. It also mentions the Independent's foreign subscriber paper sent to Africa and costs from the December term at about $4,000. The State Board of Trade plans to meet in Augusta on March 15 with Bath sending a delegation.
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The
Independent
Africa
State Board of Trade
Augusta
Bath
John McInnes
Bath Iron Works
Bath Vital Records Show Last Year Totals
City Clerk Kelley reports 137 deaths 103 marriages and 150 births in Bath for last year based on filed records.
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Bath
Kelley
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Keefe
the Independent
Steamer Nahanada
Wiscasset
National
Roller Polo League
Portland High
Morse High
Portland
J. A. Winslow & Son
Broad Street
Custom House
Virginia
Bluff Head
Phippsburg Center
Lewiston
Revere
Bowdoin Square
George P. Davenport
Mr. Davenport
Steven Kennedy
Boris Sullivan
Alameda
Tom Larrabee
Jesse Savage Jr
Joe Laroche
Young Beaulieu
James P. Webber
Mr. Webber
Oxford
Winchester
Biddeford Eagles
Ulatory
Mrs. Metcalf
Lorettus S. Metcalf
Metcalf
John Lemont
Kennebec
New Meadows
Joshua Philbrook
Long Beach
Bath Board of Trade
N. Gratz Jackson
Solar Lodge
A. M
Victor H. Paquet
Dromore
New Meadows River
William Butler
West Bath
New Meadows Inn
Col
Ticonderoga
Crown Point
Lexington
Samuel McCobb
Washington
White Plains
Saratoga
Burgoyne
John
Philbrooks
Cornwallis
George Washington
Sir William Pepperell
Louisburg
Bath Merchants’ Association
Frank E. Burns
F. W. O’brien
Times
Malaga
Perry
George C. Pease
Phippsburg
Der
Thompson Bros. Bath’s
One Price Clothiers
Walter C. Parker CO
Walter O. Parker
Centre
St. Bath
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Swett’s
Haley & Marr
Popham Beach
Phillips Kimball
Bath, Jan
J. F. Upton, Winnegance, Me
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Sagadahoc
Cassie E. Rowe
Andrew J. Rowe
James
Lowell
Cyrus W. Longley
Register
Geo, M. McManus
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Wollaston
Quincey
Massachusetts
Charlotte A. Perey
Harvey P. Percy
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Fred O. Percy
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