Locals and Personal Notes From Bath on July Firesides
Wesley Bates of Portland visits Bath to see friends. Bath’s river still holds sturgeon but fishing is illegal. High street repairs progress. plank sidewalks are costly. July brings new Bath fish and game club rooms expected late month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Bates
Portland
High Street
Hyde Estate
Pine Street
Bath
Charles E. Bliss
South End
Shore Dinner Resorts
J. Fred Stevens
Elm Street
Sagadahock Real Estate Association
Frank H. Percy
Connecticut
Cox’s Head
Brunswick
Winnegance notes on navy service and local visits
Oliver V Webster son of Mrs W A Dowking of Winnegance is a first class gun pointer in the U S navy and recently visited his mother during furlough. The column chronicles local illness social events and visitors from Bath Gardiner Topsham Freeport and Portland with multiple homecomings and community activities across a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver V. Webster
W. A. Dowking
Winnegance
U. S. Navy
West Bath Briefs Include Weddings and Local News
West Bath notes show many guests visiting from Revere Auburn and Dresden, local couples marrying, and residents attending to farms and Red Cross work. The district sees drivers on routes, summer visitors, and a West Bath wedding as Frank A. French and Myrtle P. Harrison wed at the Harrison home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Work or Fight Law Enforcers Named for Sagadahoc County
Announcement from the provost marshal lists Employment Service Agents assigned to Sagadahoc county to assist draft boards in reallocating men from non productive occupations under the Work or Fight provisions of the Selective Service Act. Agents include George S. Arrowsie Bath E W Hyde Bowdoin W L Ma loon Bowdoinham C H McEwen Georgetown J E Jewett Phippsburg John H Stacy Richmond William R Fairclough Topsham F E Daggett West Bath Henry Rose Wolwich John C Gilmore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service
Employment Service Reserve
Sagadahoe County
Arrowsie
George S. Tarr
Bath
E. W. Hyde
Bowdoin
W. L. Maloon
Bowdoinham
C. H. Mc
Funeral of Mrs Evelina Sewall Widely Attended
Funeral held at 44 Pearl Street for Mrs Evelina Sewall widow of Gen Frederick Dummer Sewall with many from Winter Street Church and Old Ladies Home. Reverends Omar W. Folsom and Edward D. Harding officiated. Bearers named Gewall Trott Low Percy. Burial occurred Thursday night. a plump daughter of Mr and Mrs Thurlow Pinkham arrived at the city hospital. both mother and child well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelina Sewall
Frederick Dummer Sewall
Pearl Street
Winter Street Church
Old Ladies’ Home
Omar W. Folsom
Edward D. Harding
William D. Gewall
Joseph M. Trott
Charles C. Low
Augustus A. Percy
Hubbard promoted to colonel at Vancouver Barracks
Word reaches High Street that George O Hubbard brother of Mrs E M Fuller has been promoted to colonel He serves as the ranking officer at Vancouver Barracks Wash At war start he held captain rank and oversaw cantonment construction in Syracuse N Y with rank of major Months ago he became lieutenant colonel and was sent to Vancouver Barracks
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George O. Hubbard
E. M. Fuller
High Street
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
Col. Hubbard
Syracuse
N. Y
Local Notes and Church Schedules Highlight Sunday Services
Distribution of new telephone directories is expected shortly. Grace church will return to customary hours next Sunday with Holy Communion at 9 a.m. and morning prayer with sermon at 10 30. Walter Staples led a motor party to Lewiston in Mrs Frank Lord s car joining Mrs Lord and daughters Mary and Margaret Miss Harriet Ledyard and Miss Elvira Owen. Owen Armstrong, drafted for Camp Devens July 26, left for Nova Scotia to visit his mother before joining the draftees on leaving day. Rev E Hilton Post of Beacon Street Church is among prominent ministers assisting in the Methodist Episcopal camp meeting at Old Orchard Beach starting next Monday night and continuing all week. The Italian revivalist Rev Felix Powell, Maine s renowned evangelist, opens the service and oversees all evening meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvira Owen
Harriet Ledyard
High Street
William Hosmer
Orrs Island
Donald Blandy
Greenwich
Graham Blandy
Summer Street
Harriet
Laura Palmer
Jefferson
Dora Beals
Washington Street
D. T
South End
Laura Winch
Poland Springs
Mollie Palmer
Lowell Cottage
Nequasset Lake
Harry Bartlett
Berlin Mills Co
Berlin Mills
Warren A. Lowell
Lothair Lowell
Woolwich
Bartlett
Son
Eleanor Leydon
Bath
Miss Leydon
Katherine McManus
Brunswick
Back Bay
Boston
Carl and
Lester
W. H. Crocker
Upper Washington Street
Merchant Marine
New York City
Panama
Havana
Scott R. Frye
New York
Camp Mills
Long Island
Mineola
Angus Mcleod
West Somerville
Mass
Cape Porpoise
Cape
Louis Goldstein
New Meadows
Mr. Goldstein
Harriet Henderson
Bath Iron Works
Margaret Fraser
Ayer
John Murphy
Camp Devens
Murphy
Katherine Hagan
Percy’s
Grace Church
Walter Staples
Lewiston
Frank Lord
Lord
Mary
Margaret
Owen Armstrong
Nova Scotia
E. Hilton Post
D.D
Beacon Street Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Old Orchard Beach
Felix Powell
Maine
Regimental Reunion for 19th Maine Set in East Vassalboro
Silas Adams announces the 46th annual 19th Maine regimental reunion to be held at East Vassalboro on Tuesday August 27. Local welcome is promised and attendees are urged to inform of any member deaths by card before the meeting. Also noted are plant shipments to Small Point and recent Riverside hotel arrivals from Montreal New York City Bath Boston and Fitchburg Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Adams
19Th Maine Regimental Association
East Vassalboro
Bath
iEast ‘Vasssfooro
Adams
Riverside Hotel
Popham Beach
W. S. Weeks and Family
Montreal
J. W. Jardine
New York City
E. C. Plummer
John O'Connell
Boston
A. B. Sherman
Fitchburg
Mass
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Allard
Vermont
Allard
Armory
L. H. Himmer
Annie Wylie Stackpole
North Bath
Himmer
Harvard University
E. S. Stackpole
de Peaslee
Young McFadden
Clifton Bridges
Charles Hart
Middle Street
Bridges
Quartermaster’s Corps
Atlantic Express Co
Little River
Proctor A.hagan
P. A. Hagan
Mark
Lewis Hagan
Henry Morris
Wilder Hagan
Katherine
Hagans
Five Islands
E. P. Melcher
Front Street
Jennie Melcher
Herbert Hodgkins
Barker
Ladies’ Aid
Walter Marco
People’s Baptist Church
Charles Preble
Joshua N. Tibbetts
Charles Williams
Topsham
Winneganee
Gus Small
Trufant Street
Gardiner Huff
Dr. Lincoln
David Merry
Earl Coombs
Charles Perkins
Zina Hunt
Grant
George Charlton
Walter C. Perry
Marietta Parsley
Gardiner
John G. Morse
Charles Merry
William Merry
Ralph Trask
Ernest Merrill
Bangor
Ida Hunt
J. F. Estes
George
Worcester
Harry C. Webber
Thomas Ll. Perry
Parks
Bridge Hall
Foster
Waterville
Red Cross
Texas Yard
Palmer
Walter C.perry
Harry Oliver
Metropolitan Insurance Co
Marion Oliver
Popham
Ruth Merry
Myrtle ‘Pye
Small Point
Harry B. Williams
West Bath
Ethel Williams
John Henry Campbell
Campbell’s Pond
Omar Perry
Zina
J. Roy Larrabee
Revere
Fred W. Larrabee
L. H. Curtis
May Tole
Auburn
Florence Neiley
Herbert Holbrook
Peaslee
Wi. H. Charlesworth
Donald
Ernest Williams
Lewis Williams
Samuel Bates
Miss Wing
Miss Hart
Leeds
Sabine
A. P. Balliere
Everettlemont
J. C. Larrabee
Susie Durfee
E. R. Brown
North Seituate, Rhode Island
Alvin Durfee
F. H. Hall
Wesley Methodist Church
Pearl Haley
Annie (Lee
Malden
S. R. Brown
Josie Winter
Fred Gerrish
E. J. Starrett
Thomaston
William Brown
Fred Gowen
Alfreda
Gowen
A. Gowen
J. C.larrabee
Clare Ames
William
Augusta
Ames
Roscoe Deexer
J. W. Higgins
E. C. Murphy
Edward Thompson
E. W. Haggett
Haggett
Grange Hall
F. V. McNair
Minneapolis
Annie Trufant
Lillian Brown
Sandy Cove
Quaker Point
Everett Mayo
Charles Foote Place
Frank Higgins
Cyrus Higgins
Higgins
Fort Levett
Augustus Mayo
James Stewart
Ella Kendall
Gigg Harbor
Washington
Mary Kaine
John Rogers
Southport
Hay
George Rogers Place
Jack Pinell
Quincy
Pinnell
Jane Fields
East Brunswick
Starrett
France
William W. Harrison
Beacon Street
Earl K. French
Esther I. French
Doris Sylvester
Roy Sylvester
James E. French
Hyde Windlass Co
the House of Kuppenheimer
John J.desmondco
Water Streets
Coniey’s Specialty Store
Hubbard
Harold M. Sewall
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