Local Jottings from Bath and Nearby Maine Notes
Community items report summer motor launches at city landing and a Murray Club meeting at the Unitarian Church vestry. Local events include Hyde Guards drills, Shaw building progress, coal shipments, a window hat-pin incident, car movements, utility hearings, y m c a activities, a lawyer’s inquiry, a police incident with a jailed woman, a long-ago Wiscasset circus tale, primary election county results, and continued dog fish legislation efforts with federal funding.
Exterior repaint completed at Columbia Chambers
Sunday featured Children's Day at Corliss Street Church followed by an evening annual concert. The Hockomock ferried over 1700 autos this season despite rain and a deer was spotted on Lynde's Island above Bath by lumbermen. Wiscasset Academy defeated Bath's Corliss Street 7 to 0 with Jackson a standout for Bath. Bowdoin alumnus George Christy enlisted in the Connecticut Medical Corps for six years, likely headed to the Mexican front. A ship timber crew on Lynde's Island plans to move to Saco after finishing work this week, with 15 to 16 workers producing lumber and cordwood. A Skowhegan couple's elopement sparked a local chase and eventual reunion, with no arrests.
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Lynde’s Island
Bath
Wiscasset Academy
Corliss St
Jackson
Payson Smith
Supt. Starkey
New Meadows Inn
George Christy
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin Medical School
Connecticut Medical Corps
Lynde’s
Saco
Mosquitoes on the loose and local trips across Maine
Mosquitoes were particularly active Friday night in the first seasonal bite spree. Sunday saw the first Sunday excursion from Portland reach New Meadows in the Tourist. Corliss street baseball team traveled to Wiscasset Saturday to face Lincoln Academy. Genesta Chapter OES held a memorial service Sunday. Members left Saga dahoc Square at one o'clock. A Franklin Street woman found lying on the walk Saturday morning was released at noon with an agreement for her employer to pay her fine. A West Auburn botanist reported mayflower berry specimens. A Geography Magazine writer noted arbutus berries resemble fruit. Italians arrived to work on the State road between New Meadows and Brunswick Friday with more on Saturday, camping on Peterson farm and beginning turf removal to reach ledge for blasting as the road grade is straightened. Sheriff Oliver arrested an old offender named Woodsum, found intoxicated on Front Street Saturday evening after escaping Work House custody. An Edgecomb man also jailed for intoxication. Woodsum seized about 4000 dollars and the other man’s false teeth, shoes, and more. All booty recovered by Captain McFadden. Woodsum held and the Edgecomb man released Sunday.
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City Landing
Murray Club
Universalist Church
Hyde
Armory
Fort Baldwin
Shaw
Consolidated Coal Co
M. W. Sewall & Co
Parker's Flats
Brunswick
Bath
George W. Snow
Freeport
Chandler Automobile
Maine
H. M. Castner
Damariscotta
Public Utilities Commission
Lawrence B. Greenwood
Advent Church
Middle St
McFadden
Franklin Street
Portland
Wiscasset
William Hubbard
Joseph Hilton
Alna
United States
Bert M. Fernald
Frederick Hale
Ira G. Hersey
Fernald
Androscoggin
Franklin
Kennebec
Lincoln
Oxford
Sagadahoc
Somerset
Hale
Cumberland
Hancock
Charles W. Davis
Capt. Donovan
Jonesport
Maddocks
Nova Scotia
Virginia
Washington
House
Senate
New Meadows
Corliss Street
Lincoln Academy
Genesta
O.E.S
Sagadahoc Square
Franklin St
West Auburn
The
Geographic Magazine
Peterson Farm
Ham's Hill
Oliver
Woodum
Front Street
Woodsum
Woeodsum
Edgecomb
Texas Yard
North End
Tall Stove Club
Arthur Sewall
M. B. Hodgdon
Fred P. Ring
East Brunswick
Ring
Barnum and Bailey Circus to visit Lewiston on July 3
Local notes report a July 3 circus in Lewiston by Barnum and Bailey amid city sightings, Bath river activity, and community events. Reports include cars, new vehicles for local residents, fishing catches, church orchestra at a W C T U convention, and a fire insurance settlement on Hyde block. The article mentions Boy Scouts camps, a L A and W railway relocation hearing set for July 7, and various local curiosities and incidents.
Local G A R Meeting and Veterans News From Brunswick
Sedgwick Circle convened Tuesday at 7 30. New York estate owner Trowbridge cited for stomach trouble. Hog health linked to clover pasture and clean pens. Encampment of Spanish War Veterans in Portland reports Dyer presiding and Sterling elected. Attorney General Pattenhall cites July 17 as earliest possible primary date. Bath men staged fake argument to cover escape. fire at Brunswick police station injures suspects.
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Sedgwick Circle
Frederick K. Trowbridge
New York City
New Meadows
Burt M. Dyer
William Curran
E. C. Plummer
Samuel Welch
Lewis King
George Roderick
United Spanish War Veterans
Portland
Mr. Dyer
Sterling
Waterville
William R. Pattangall
United States
Edwin C. Burleigh
Bath
Brunswick
Wilem Belker
Charles Laskim
Meksy Tardt
Brunswick Spirits
Edwards
Belker
Tardz
Laskin
Decorations Drenched By Rain For Knights Templar Visit
Sunday rains soaked many decorations left for Saturday’s Knights Templar visit. two Bath funerals followed on Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Benjamin Stimpson and William F. Moses. Gardiner Leader notes Fred Armes and Bath family vacationing at Pleasant Pond. Paramount Pictures president Hiram Abrams hosted a surprise dinner in Boston with 300 silver pieces presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights Templar
Bath
Benjamin Stimpson
William F. Moses
Gardiner
Fred Armes
Pleasant Pond
Armes
Bath Iron Works
Hiram Abrams
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Boston
Mr. Abram
United States
Mr. Abrams
Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills Ad Line
An advertisement extols Hood’s Sarsaparilla with Peptiron Pills as a safe, harmonious tonic. It claims to uplift blood and strength, treats impure blood and anemia, and notes no opiates or habit-forming drugs. The copy urges readers to start taking the combination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
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New York
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Toronto
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Halifax
N.S
Sydney
Columbia Chambers
Hockomock
Skewhegan
Skowhegan
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Lewiston
Eugene Wor- Trey
McClintock
Montsweag Bay
Orchestra of People’s Church
W.C.T.U
S. R. Percy
Daniel T. Dougherty
E. M. Fuller
Hyde Block
E. W. Eyde
Charles H. Oliver
Charles A. Coombs
Small Point
Boothbay
Bristol
Old Ladies’ Home Association
Bath High School
Central Church
Central Troop
Birch Point
Gould J. Brown
Center
Front St
Fred B. Reed
Purprietor
A. R. Webster
Doan
Augusta
Conley
Castor
de Saat
Castoria
Fidelity Trust Company
Monument Square
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