West Bath Welcomes Summer Guests at New Meadows Cottages
Local weekly notes list numerous Bath residents and out of town visitors vacationing along the New Meadows River. Families from Bath Cambridge and Portland stay at Sabine and Larrabee cottages while others travel from Lewiston Medford Everett and Wollaston for July and August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows River
Melvin Smith
Elmer Hodgkins
Ellen
Bath
E. B. Noyes
Sabine
Stackpole
H. P. Healey
Wilton Bates
Chester Freeman
Donald
Eleanor Bates
Portland
Samuel F. Bates
Edward Footer
Nova Scotia
Footer
James B. Lemont
Quincey
Mass
H. A. Owen
Charles Owen
Auburn
A. P. Ballishaw
Francis
Rosale
Eleanor
Cambridge
Larrabee's Grove
Robert Small
H. W. Moulton
Oak Street
Emma Cox
E. C. Faucher
Lois
Ella
Wollaston
Scott Golder
Everett Lemont
Sabino
Roy Oliver
Lewiston
W. J. Burke
Medford
Swan Cottage
Birch Point
First Baptist Church
Larrabee
George Wilson Scudder
George Upson Scudder
Dennis Clark
New Meadows
W. H. Brown
Brunswick
Fred D. Winter
West Bath
Frank J. Fowler
Boston
George Marks
E. R. Brown
Millie Dunton
Green Street
Foreign Missionary Society
the Nazarene Church
Edith Stewart
Washington Street
Charles Bb. Brooks
Brooks
Fox
Springfield
Williams Cottage
J. A. Scott
Everett
Scott
Maud Swan
Cambridge Women Headed to Portland for Red Cross Party
Mrs Gertrude Merrill and Miss Julia Sullivan depart Cambridge for Portland after visiting Mr and Mrs George Quicksall in Oak Street. Red Cross plans a public party at Mrs William dD Sewalls Summer home at Small Point next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Merrill
Julia Sullivan
Cambridge
Mass
Portland
George Quicksall
Oak Street
Red Cross
William Dd. Sewall
Seth S. Mullin
John Leydon
Girard College
Philadelphia
Middle Street
Bath
Montreal
White Mountains
Boston
New York
Washington
Maine Public Health Assn Plans Four Summer Clinics
The Maine Public Health Association announced four clinics this summer: three for crippled children in Augusta on August 15, Biddeford on September 2, and Gardiner on October 22, plus one chest clinic in Gardiner on October 21. Clinics are diagnostic, with no fees, conducted under medical supervision and local cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Public Health Association
Augusta
Augusta Public Health Association
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
York County
Women’s Clubs
York County Medical Society
Biddeford-Saco
Gardiner Public Health Association
Gardiner Shrine Club
Kennebec County Medical Society
Maine
Armory Move Gives Bath New Battery a $6000 Asset
Battery H of the 240th Coast Artillery is placed in Music hall as the armory after state approval. City of Bath negotiates a five year lease with Nathan Povich with partial state reimbursement. Drills pay privates one dollar nightly with increases for higher ranks. First drill held Thursday as equipment removal began under Sergis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
240Th Coast Artillery
Bath
Adjt
Hanson
Maj
Philpon
State Armory Commission
Music Hall
Nathan Povich
Adjutant General
Thiloon
Henry W. Owen
J. Horace McClure
Fred W. Quimby
George W. Merrill
Common Council
Mitchell C. Arel
Sagadabock Block
Masonite
Armory Commission
Walter S. Glidden
Sergis. Carey, Holmes and Chamberlain
Woolwich Social Round: Lawn Party and Neighbors Visit
The North Methodist Ladies aid hosts a lawn party at Mrs. Artell Hayward's home with ice cream cake and candy for sale. Various locals visit, guests travel from Augusta Bath Lewiston Richmond and beyond, with many weekend stays and trips to Sagadahoc Ferry, Gorham and Din.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid of
Methodist Church
Artell Hayward
North Methodist Ladies’ Aid
Milton Hathorne
Forrest Carlton
Fort McKinley
Elizabeth ‘Trott
Albert Hathorne
L. B. Savage
Ralph
Nellie
Augusta
G. W. Marston
Mary V. Wright
San Francisco
Calif
Harry Allen
Horace Pratt
Charles Preble
Bowdeinham
Alice Preble
Mary
Francis Soule
Damariscotta
Hilton
Leon Dodge
Newcastle
Sagadahoc Ferry
Frank Carter
Livermore Falls
Ella Shaw
George Rice
Hugenie Hunnewell
John Austin
Berwick
Morton G. Soule
Fred Sherman
Belle Dodge
Pred Carlton
Everett Rice
Windham
John Reed
Capitol Island
A. M. G. Soule
Denver
Colo
Frank Decker
Robert
Ruth Ledyard
Bath
Novella J. Trott
Lawrence Putnam
Lawrence Moore
Edgecomb
Lake Nequasset
College Players Present In Walked John at Morse Hall
Bath attendees Friday night at Morse High Assembly Hall will view the College Players in In Walked John. The cast includes Anthony McGlone of Philadelphia and Bath’s Mather Green and Frances Green. McGlone recently began with Shanahan Stock Co and will join Show Off in New York in September. Frances Green plays the character woman with the Players. she has two seasons of study in New York and recently left Provincetown Players in Eugene O Neill’s UUsA Glencairn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Morse High Assembly Hall
John
Anthony McGlone
Philadelphia
Shanahan Stock Co
New York
Mather
Frances Green
Provincetown Players
Eugene O' Neill
Uusa
Glencairn
Miss Frances
Woman Takes Over Believed Tiger Gem Mine in North Dakota
Mrs Nettie L Macomber has assumed active management of a mine believed to be the tiger gem in the United States. She succeeded her husband in ownership of the North Dakota property valued at about 1 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nettie L. Macomber
North Dakota
Bootleggers Carry Alcohol Across Canada Border
Report notes bootleggers are smuggling alcohol into Canada from the United States. Authorities respond with renewed border checks and enforcement efforts to curb illicit liquor flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Westport Summer Camp Activity Buoys Local Waterfront
Charles P. Dow buys the old steamboat landing at Westport Junction to build a new wharf for passing steamers. The Corn Camps roster includes campers from Wyoming, Virginia, New York and Massachusetts. Local residents Ezra W. Talmer and family, Charles D. Powell, and several visitors attend events. talks on nature lore and Maine Coast history are planned. The Methodist Church service time is moved from 10 to 10.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Dow
Westport Junction
Astern Steamship Lines
Corn Camps
Wyoming
Virginia
New York
Massachusetts
Ezra W. Talmer
Philip
Harvard
Charles D. Powell
Springfield
Mass
Conn
Maine
John McHeffey
Harriet Burkhardt
Margaret. Burkhardt
Collins Cottage
East Side
Arrowsic Sunday Services At Local Methodist Church
Sunday morning worship features a sermon titled Sincerity by the pastor. Sunday school at 11 45 led by George DP Spinney as superintendent. No evening service this week. Children’s social hour Thursday at 845 in the school. Fellowship meeting Thursday evening at SE Lee apeeads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
George DP. Spinney
Beacon Street church ladies host all day session
Twenty eight members of the Ladies’ aid of Beacon Street Church met with Mrs. F A Shepard for an all day session on Beacon Street. Food included salads Hungarian goulash macaroni and cheese home made rolls cake pie fruit punch coffee and fruit. Dominoes and croquet were played.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid of
Beacon Street
F. A. Shepard
Playground proves value to the city in Bath
The YMCA municipal playground in Bath draws daily attendance over 200 with about 100 children active each session. Parents visit to watch the activities and a youth baseball league is planned to run through August modeled on the YMCA Twilight League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Navy
Y.M.C.A
Clayton Rowe
Herbert Gotte
Elisabeth Wright
Red Cross Card Party At Montsweag Tea Room
A Red Cross benefit card party was held Wednesday afternoon at Montsweag tea room Woolwich. About 24 tables were used for auction and whist with prizes awarded to Mrs. Hatch Miss Kimball Miss Reed and Miss Magoun. The event cleared 86 dollars and attracted many out of town guests from New England states and New York. The tea room was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Butler who supplied tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Montsweag
Woolwich
Henry F. Butler
Robert B. Hatch
Clarenwebk. Allen
W. KR. Brewster
Gammons
Tlaisdell
Walter Webling
Brookline
Mass
B.S. Cushman
Portland
A. G. Walter
Stamford
Conn
Henry VY. Reynolds
Butler
Activities Committee
New England
New York
New Jersey
Evolution Debate and Local Weather Anecdotes
The piece discusses evolution education and liberty in teaching, urging openness and warning against anti-evolution laws. It argues legal action cannot resolve educational and religious questions and references Bryan era debates. Nearby Newcastle Maine reports a haystorm incident and local social notes from Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bryan
Es Ukeys
Attean Quadrangle Maine Map Issued By Government
The Department of the Interior and Geological Survey issue a new topographic map of the Attean quadrangle in Somerset County Maine. The 200 square mile area features lakes ponds rivers and mountains with detailed contour lines and a famous Bow trip canoe route. The map cost about 8000 dollars to produce and sells for ten cents per copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attean Quadrangle
Maine
Department of the Interior
Geological Survey
United States
Somerset County
Canadian Boundary Line
Florida
Wood Pond
Asia Minor
Atteau Quadrangle
Long Pond
Maine Ponds
Attean Camps
Birch Island
Attean Pond
Attean
Holeb Pond
Holeb Stream
Moose River
Moosehead
State of
Famous Lucky Stones From Virginia Display Window
A Warrick county Virginia display of fairy stones at C. W. Clifford & Son notes uncertain origin. Legends tie stones to a Patrick county quarry in the Tue Ridge mountains with cross shapes, linking them to Powhatan Pocahontas lore and famed wearers including Roosevelt and Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrick County
Virginia
C. W. Clifford & Son
John Fox
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June
Tue Ridge
Patrick County
St. Andrews
Roosevelt
Wilson
Europe
Bathman Translates Well Known French Work
Harry McLellan and Mrs McLellan at their MacMahon cottage have completed the first English translation from the French original The Stars by Alphonse Daudet. The translation is praised for its excellent English and reflects McLellan’s recent translation work. Twenty Wisconsin cities have entered a better cities contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry McLellan
Old Orchard Kite Track Still Remains as History’s Footnote
The Old Orchard site once boasted a famed kite track for light harness racing, but attendance dwindled after early successes. Promoters built the Rigby plant elsewhere, now a freight terminal, while Old Orchard’s track overgrew with bushes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Lowe
Boston Globe
Old Orchard
New England
Sumner
U's
White River Junction
Pine Tree
Portland
Maine Horsemen
Rigby
Frank G. Staples
Sea Shore House
M. F. Porter
John KF. Haines
C.F. Staples
Old Orchard House
Charles H. Fiske
Hotel Fiske
T. N. Drake
Pittsfield
Wesley Hutching
Auburn
Maine
Porthind Avenue
Biddeford
Porter
John F. Iivines
East
Orchard
Saving Money with Electricity
An article argues farmers consider improvements for payback and cites electric vacuum sweepers as example. A hotel keeper found carpets lasted longer after using sweepers, reducing replacement frequency from three to seven years. It notes electric light and power for farms and daily comfort.
Willis couple honored with mahogany clock
Mr and Mrs Bertram Willis who just returned to Slyde Park after a Bay Point honeymoon receive a fine mahogany clock from the New York New Haven Hartford railroad office staff in Readville Mass where Mr Willis works Their address is 1087 River Street Hyde Park
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertram Willis
Slyde Park
Bay Point
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Readville
Mass
Willis
River Street
Hyde Park
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McCodb
Whippsburg Center
McCobb
Norway Medicine CO
UMMER
Ethlyn Marston
Day's Ferry
Lowell
Hopkins
Wiscasset
Paul Gilmore
Harold R. Shaw
Frank Walker
Maxine
Day’s Ferry
Gorham
Gorham Normal School
I. A. Chandler
Wilson L. Bailey
Elmer Mank
Waldoboro
Mank
William Stickney
Kittery
Herbert E. Wright
Westport
Montsweag Tea Room
Lon Dodge
Will Stetson
Mr. Dodge
Leonard Gowell
Frederick N. Klippel
Grace Palmer
Bathman
Wisconsin
Chiropractic
Bagdikian Chiropractors
Front Street
Bath, Maine
Ford
Bath Garage Co
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