Bath area notes and summer events spill into local jottings
Local items report Bay Point Inn opening with shore dinners F H Spinney. Pine shipments to Bath exceed 130 loads this spring. K Y C to visit Sebasco Estates July 24 for a dance. Yacht Kestrel II anchored off Bath with Commodore Guy Gannett aboard. Maine Catholic Historical Society junior division visits Bath. Gingerbread Fair planned for August 10 to benefit Bath hospital nurses home and wounded veterans. A Navy bill provision aims for 16 capital ships by 1922. Local misadventure recounts a whiskey incident on a municipal car and police pursuit. A. E. McCall visits Bath after New York convention. Sheriff stops a liquor run on the wharf amid pursuit and a stool pigeon is noted.
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K.Y.C
Sebasco Estates
Kestrel II
Augusta
Bath
Guy Gannett
Maine Catholic Historical Society of
James de Gogorza
Cemetery Board
Navy General Board
Senate
Wilson
Sec. Daniels
Navy
Whiterock
Rice
Fountain Head
City of Industry
Lewiston
A. E. McCall
New York
Lake Keokuk
Brattleboro
N. Y
McCall
North America
Oliver
Reynolds
Winter St
Bath News Item Highlights Local Trade Events And Community Notices
Mackerel arrived on the adjacent coast while Hattie B lighter brought in Bay sand. Monday at Damariscove three salmon and 500 mackerel were caught and sold. The Odd Ladies Sewing Circle met Emma Knowlton at 433 Middle St. Winners thanked the public amid applause Monday night. A Bath guest from Illinois recounted a tale of painted sparrows sold as canaries. Change of time announced for Maine Central trains leaving Bath. Dr Maxwell Powers led Maine Dental Society events at Rangely Lake House. The trio of drunks in Brunswick jail were foreigners. Oldest marine engineer Robert Shea, over 90, active with a cane. A yellow Pathfinder drew attention on Front St. and ferried to the Hockomock. Charters include J Manchester Haynes coal at Philadelphia and Ninetta M Porcella lumber to Philadelphia. George Sonia rescued an ink-soaked rat at the Times press. Daughters of 1812 Maine prepare bandages for Mexican service. French War Relief noted. YMC A reunion for Miss Margaret Adams instruments. fourteen pupils attended. Sagadahoc Boys Conference planned for July 14-16 at Winthrop Camp with banquet, services, and camp life. Bath leaders to enroll via YMC A or churches. A meeting for older boys set for tomorrow at five.
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Hattie B
Damariscove
Emma _ Knowlton
Middle St
Illinois
Canaries
Maine Central
Bath
West
Dslb
LLOTD
Ems
Maxwell Powers
Rangely Lake House
Maine Dental Society
Powers
Robert Shea
M.C.R.R
Shea
Front St
Boston
J. Manchester Haynes
Philadelphia
St. Michaels
Ninetta M. Porcella
Fernandina
George Sonia
Times Press Department
Daughters of 1812
State of
Maine
Mexico
Y.M.C
Margaret Adams
Sagadahoc
Y.M.C.A
Winthrop
Arthur A. Heald
Waterville
Association Rooms
Y. M.C.A
Shaw building timbers laid and local incidents reported
Floor timbers in Shaw building are laid. Barn frame 40 by 60 feet rising on Kimball farm Lovers Retreat raid. Woman’s Home Missionary Society met at Mrs Cavanaugh’s home. Several arrests for liquor possession. Maine Central train collision fatality. City of Rockland steamship service resumes. Houseboat on land travels down east. Marriage intentions recorded for Edgar Barter and Eliza Bradshaw. Nurseryman Sutherland returns from New Hampshire shrubs project and Kineo work. Smallpox scare on schooner Hathaway. Lemont cottage opened with seafood feast. Will of Senator Burleigh reveals Augusta lot bequest to son Lewis and residence plans discussed. Remarks on changing housing tastes by Edward Payson Wiles’ father.
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Shaw
Bath
Fred H. Kimball
Kimball
Lovers’ Retreat
Woman's Home Missionary Society
Beacon St
John Cavanaugh
Washington St
William M. Fournier
Marston & Brooks
Hallowell
Maine Central
Kennebec
Eastern Steamship Corp
City of
Rockland
Capt
Linscott
Boston
Hockomock
Edgar Barter
Samuel Barter
Boothbay
Eliza Bradshaw
Charles Purinton
Phippsburg
Grassy
Robert Sutherland
James
Waumbee
Abeter N. H
Kineo
Danville Junction
Paul J. Risska
Maple St
Lisbon Falls
Joseph Labrie
Joseph Percuinas
Lewiston
Samuel W. Hathaway
Rutledge
Orange
Tex
Fred Hylider
Hylider
Gallups Island
Milton Stafford
Hathaway
Lemont
Selasco Estates
Mason
William
John Lemont
Clarence Merrill
Arthur Footer
Howard
Gardiner Rogers
Billy
Camp Midget
Edwin C. Burleigh
Augusta
State St
Lewis Burleigh
Kennebec Journal
Burleigh
Byron Boyd
Edward Payson Wiles
Mayor Wiles
Viles
Augusta House
Lewiston Weather and Local Happenings Report
Fog delayed river navigation on Wednesday as three rafts of ship timber waited at M C R R dock for the Bowker yard. Lewiston heads into July with warm weather foreseen between July 3 circus day and July 4 celebrations.
Snow Park grading and highway work progress in Maine
Isaac Rideout leads landscape grading at Snow Park as nine freight cars reach the Texas Co. yard. Camps open for summer in Boothbay and Arrowsic Island with 45 to 50 boys and 50 more campers from Cincinnati and the West. Italian crews under Charles R. McCormick advance state road work from Ham's Hill to Brunswick, with a new stone base and drainage. Ted Meredith aims to lower Mel Sheppard's 600 yard world record at Lewiston July 4 against Baker, Lawrence, Higgins, Halpin, and Caldwell in a strong handicap event lineup.
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Isaac Rideout
Snow Park
Texas Co
Sebasco Estates
Celine Zinkeisen
New York
Cincinnati
West
Boothbay
Bath
Haverhill and
Lynn
Mass
Y.M.C. A
Arrowsic Island
Blind Crossing
Witch Spring
Brunswick
Charles R. McCormick
Ogunquit
J. H. Hussey
Westbrook
Peterson Pasture
Merrymeeting Park
Ham's Hill
Cook’s Corner
Ted Meredith
Mel Sheppard
Lewiston
Homer Baker
William Lawrence
Bates College
Maine
Joe Higgins
Holy Cross College
N. B
Tom Halpin
Dave Caldwell
New Eegland
Prospects for a Large Blueberry Crop and Local News
Local notes report good blueberry prospects and interest in a potential run by U S Senator Sewall. A Yale group sailed from Marion aboard Yacht Parthenia with capt Bowen and owner Harry Converse. Other items recount a ballad in Victors records, Fourth of July cautions, shipbuilder Moses family, a dockyard boy overboard incident, and Col Dummer Sewall Chapter efforts to preserve the Erudition school building as a potential Bath Historical Society museum.
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U. S
Sewall
Parthenia
Bowen
Harry Converse
Marion
Mass
Yale
Marblehead
William F. Moses
William V
Oliver Moses
The
Times
John Murphy
U. S.co
Murphy
Col. Dummer Sewall
D. A.R
John A. Morse
Rupert H. Baxter
Bath Historical Society
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
Railroads
National Conference Committee of the Railways
Elisha Lee
P. R. Albright
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
L. W. Baldwin
Central of Georgia Railway
C. L. Bardo
New Haven & Hartford Reilroea Pa
H. Coapman
Southern Railway
E. Cotter
Wabash Railway
B. Crowley
New York Central Railway
H. Emerson
D. Maher
Norfolk & Western Railway
James Russell
Maracer
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
M.schoyer
Pennsylvania Lines West
L. Seddon
Seaboard Air Line Railway
J. Stone
Erie Railroad
Waid
Etre
Gest
Sunset Centre Lines
Bowker Yard
McNeil
John Lynch
Court Sagadahoc No. 5
F. of
John Costello
M. J. Sheridan
Thomas J. Beatty
James Lavigne
Howard King
M. J. Sherdan
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