Local Jottings Include Cars Sales and Coastal News
Fitchburg notes T J McDonough visits Woolworths and a 1916 Hudson sold to Mrs Charles Morse. Local church groups host socials at 138 North Street and vestry. Bath figures report car arrivals from Boston and Coast Guard postings in Portsmouth. Norfolk coal loading and Cressy repairs noted. District coast guard chief Simon Sands named for First district, with Ballinger overseeing in interim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. McDonough
Woolworth's
Fitchburg
Mass
McCole Garage Co
Hudson
Charles H. Morse
Grove St
E. W. Society of the First Baptist Church
North St
W. A. Moore
Madison
Bath
St. Stephens
N. B
First Baptist Church
G. B. Stanley
Putnam, Conn
Beacon Street
W. P. Pero
Horace A. Stone
Maine Central R.A
Maine Central
E. W. Niles
U.S.A
Maine Coast Artillery Corps
4Th Co
M. D. Cressy
Norfolk
Bahia
Brazil
Cressy
Percy & Small Yard
Donald McCullum
North End
Brown
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
R. H. Howland
Boston
Cumberland
Franklin
Hancock
Kennebec
Knox
Lincoln
Oxford
Penobscot
Piscataquis
Somerset
Sagadahoc
Washington
Waldo
York
Simon R. Sands
Sandy Point
Block Island
R. I
Coast Guard
Silas H. Harding
Newcastle
Portsmouth
J. G. Ballinger
Capt. Sands
Atlantic
Barge towed, schooners load and local notices
Seguin towed barge 793 from Augusta to Berry houses to load ice. Ariel took up schooner Mary E. Olys from Bath to load lumber at Augusta Lumber Co. Helen W. Martin in tow to New York after command by Capt. Hall. Horace A. Stone docked at M.C.R.R. pier with hard pine cargo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin
Augusta
Berry Houses
Ariel
Mary E. Olys
Bath
Augusta Lumber Co
Helen W. Martin
Portland
John G. Chandler
Hall
New York
Horace A. Stone
M.C.R.R
F. L. Frances
Maine Central Ticket Office
Thompson's Point
J. B. Connolly
Gershom H. Palmer
Wellington
Ohio
Alden
Easton
Oak Grove Cemetery
D. L.wilson
Central Congregational Church
Winnie Noble
Washington St
Flood brings relief and damage reports from Bath area
A Maine flood caused $10,000 in Bath street damage and halted K and L railroad service for over 24 hours. Ferry Hockomock adds a new ticket office while Captain Siegars loads lumber for Fall River. Local social notes mention a Bath engagement rumor and Boothbay Camp visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Bath
Brunswick
Hockomock
Capt. Siegars
Eastern River
Price
Fall River
Maine
Calvin Cromwell
Cromwell
Winneganee
Boothbay
Moody
Cecil
East Pittston
Kimball Bros
Howard's
Wreck and Wet Streets Mark July Thirteenth
A large touring car from Connecticut with owner and chauffeur skidded into a ditch near Saladahoc Ferry while avoiding a passing car. Mrs. Wallace, in a Simplex weighing 4500 pounds, escaped injury. wrecking wagons ferried remains to Boston. Wet streets caused pedestrians to seek cover as curfew approached and a brief blackout hit offices and streets before lights returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Saladahoc Ferry
Hunnewell
Buddy
Bath
Boston
Woolwich Ferry
Wallace
W. A
4Th Co
Storm damage limited to sunk boats at Popham Beach
Reports say only several craft sank during the night due to the storm at Popham Beach. Other notes include a church sermon by Rev. Horace Holton in St Louis and ship activity around the schooner M D Cressey. A city clerk recalls flood rides, and ships City of Rockland and City of Bangor arrived with passengers and freight. James E Holbrook of Roxbury died at 35 after a neck injury two weeks earlier, with funeral and burial in Jamaica Plain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popham Beach
Horace Holton
First Congregational Church of
St. Louis
U. S
George E. Morse
M. D. Cressey
William R. Sanderson
Massalon
Ohio
Archie Miller
Granite St
Sanderson
Harris
D. C. Magoun
Center St
City of
Rockland
Boston
Bangor
Seguin
James E. Holbrook
Roxbury
Mass
Albert C
Charles E
Mt. Cavalry Cemetery
Jamaica Plains
Sturgeon Catch and National Guard Board Members
Wednesday night Horace Mitchell captured a 60 pound sturgeon while sturgeon fishing on the river. Mate Hodgkins on the steamer painted the Virginia's new coal shed near the Driftwood Club pavilion red. Major George A. Baker traveled to Portland Thursday evening as a member of a board to examine a newly elected National Guard officer. Other board members were Col. James L. Moriarty as inspector general Col. William C. Peterson Coast Artillery Corps and First Lieut. Ellery W. Niles advisory member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Driftwood Club
Mate Hodgkins
George A. Baker
Portland
National Guard
James L. Moriarty
William C. Peterson
Coast Artillery Corps
Ellery W. Niles
U.S.A
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nat. Curtis
Varney’s Mills
Curtis
Ernest
Frank
Salem
Chauncey F
Cora Small
Ephriam French
French
William H. Sewall
Seth Thomas
Wavenock
Birch Point
Roy Shackford
Joanna Hodgkins
Mildred Curtis
Josephine Crosman
Ethel Totman
Hazel Harrington
Marion Ferguson
Edith Mitchell
Marion Redlon
Bowie
ASW
Ross
Tacoma
Lewiston Sun
Corliss Street Church
John Thurlow
Daniel McNeil
Abbie Morris
Hutchins
Thurlow
E. A. Rogers
Maine Seed Improvement Association
Bowdeinham
Harpswell
Rogers
Hyde Guards
War Department
United States
Joseph Farish
Lisbon Center
Lisbon Falls
Farish
Beals
Supreme Court
L. A. Jack
Forish
H. E. Coolidge
Brown Bible Class
L. L. Hooker
Elwell Pinkham
H. H. Feere
Frank Preble
W. D. Coombs
Henry Wilson
Quaker Point
E. W. Hyde
F. W. Hartnett
Hyde
Thompson Corner
Nainsook Athletic Union
Thompson
Front St
Batk, Me
Horace Mitchell
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