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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1910
Page
3
The article lauds Thomas G. Plant for achieving success through hard work and perseverance, urging other boys to emulate him as schools prepare students to enter the larger world. It notes how Memorial Day events with Cuban gunboat sailors added novelty and honors fallen service members, praising local organizers and the spirit of service.
Weekly church program outlines sermons and services at Georgetown Riggaville Arrowale Sagadahoc Ferry Nequasset and Arrowale schoolhouse with Sunday schools and reorganizations. Prayer meetings are scheduled Tuesday to Thursday at various locations including Sagadahoc Ferry Nequasset and North Woolwich with Miss Mary Fullerton leading the W C T U meeting next Thursday.
Democrats in Phippsburg held a caucus to elect delegates to state and district conventions and form a town committee chaired by George C. Pease. The committee named two delegates and two alternates, with plans to appoint ballot and election officers. Republicans have not yet caucused.
William Work of East Brunswick, born in 1816 in Topsham, was a long time farmer and ship carpenter. He worked in Bath shipyards, married Abbie Clifford of West Bath, and was the oldest member of Bath First Baptist Church. He leaves two daughters Mrs. Fred King and Mrs. J. Fret Pennell. Funeral services were held at his residence yesterday.
Joseph Muse and crew haul lumber from a portable mill to the Cove landing for shipment aboard the schooner Mary Smith of Portland. Various residents visit, cottage preparations begin for summer rentals, and local society meetings plus arrivals mark the week in Windham and nearby towns.
A Bath leader’s factory in Boston is praised for vast employee facilities including rest rooms, free eye care, nursing, an on site recreation complex with bowling lanes and billiards, a restaurant, dining rooms, 64 drinking fountains, a noon rest park, a roof promenade with city views, and a lookout tower. The plant runs at full capacity for 590 weeks yearly, with a payroll of several million dollars and production of 5.1 million shoes annually. It makes Queen Quality and Dorothy Dodd women’s shoes, using thousands of livestock annually to meet demand. The narrative praises founder Tom Plant as a decisive, action oriented leader.
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