Local Jottings Highlight Small Town Happenings Across Bath Me
Friday and weekend notes cover YMCA meeting, a dance and whist party, residents moving homes, workers for rail and lumber projects, resignations, and community events. Incidents include a near drowning at Bath Grain Co dock, a large mill fire in North Woolsi dinout, and a comforting tale of a cat nursing a blind chick back to health.
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Dexter
Bengor
Topsham
Kendall
Bath
Bath Grain Co
Grain Company
McCabe
Woolsiidi Nout
Mr. McCabe
New Clerks on E S S Co Staff and Local Notices
Frank MacDonald is a new clerk for Agent Haraden on the E S S Co wharf. Judge Keegan moved into Sagadahoe Block rooms previously used by Dr Fitzgerald. Beacon Street ladies plan an early fall calendar bazaar. Marriage intention recorded for Joseph Morrison and Alfretta Pinkham. Maine Ministerial Relief Society offering at Winter Street Church. Nova Scotia lobster season closed. open season sees heavy fishing. Moosehead steamer launched in Rockland to serve Bar Harbor route June 20 under Capt Sadler. Genesta Chapter OES hosted 40 Garison Hill members and 20 Mt Carmel members with banquet and initiation. Times office issued pamphlet for William J O’Brien Columbia Hotel Bath vacation resort and tourism. Tug Seguin to Parker’s Flats then Portland for Mary B Wellington tow. Oldest US horse claim disputed by newer reports. Funeral of Bertha Nichols held at Norway Methodist Church. burial in Bath. Hockomock summer service Bath to Woolwich launches with half-hour trips and crew roster. Summer line supports local merchants and out-of-state auto travelers. Report on limiting hawsers favors master’s discretion. current regs deemed unnecessary.
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Frank MacDonald
Haraden
E.S.S. Co
Judge Keegan
Sagadahoe
Dr. Fitzgerald
Beacon Street
Joseph A. Morrison
Alfretta Pinkham
Winter Street
Maine Ministerial Relief Society
Nova Scotia
Maine Central
Moosehead
Rockland
Bar Harbor
Capt. Sadler
Genesta
O.E.S
Garrison Hill
Wiscasset
Mt. Carmel
Richmond
Times
William J. O’brien
Columbia Hotel
Batha
Columbia
Tug Seguin
Pickering
Augusta
Henry Clay
Parker's Flats
Portland
Mary B. Wellington
Bowdoinham
Kendall
United States
Bigelow
Skowhegan
Mitchell Express
Freeport
U.S
Bertha Nichols
L. E. Nichols
Norway
Methodist Church
Mr. Bruce
Congregational Church
Spear
South
Paris
J. M. Frost
Helen Dunn
Bath
H. A. Corey
Wesley M. E. Church
Hockomock
People’s Ferry Co
Woolwich
Coss
Stinson
D. Smith
J. Vickery
Colby
Joseph Crane
J. Harrington
Albert Galloupe
Secretary of Commerce
George Uhler
Commissioners of Navigation and Lighthouses
Washington
Jottings From Local Scene Include Ferry Change and Sports
Local notes report School Board meetings and a new pool room annex at Riverside Pop ham Beach. The Islander resumed Augusta Boothbay service. tug Pejepscot, Capt Swett, arrived with Barge No 3. Bath Aerie held a meeting. a social for the South St PTA was postponed. Grain shipments went to Morse farm. barge Wollaston at Kelley Spear Co yard. Dresden Richmond ferry mine up settled. Owen Emmons named ferryman. Dr Cragin’s furniture arrived for Georgetown practice. Advertising car No 1 of Frank Robbins circus arrived. Bath billed Tuesday. show set for June 22. Thefts at Sloane’s store. 20 members picnicked at Footer’s Grove. Harry Washburn arrivals bring Regal auto agency rights for Sagadahoc County Brunswick. Colby beats Maine 4 2 to clinch state college title. Windlass baseball lost 6 5 to Richmond. earlier lead lost on late error. Morse High loses to Thornton Academy amid umpire disputes. Train collision at Vine St crossing injures horse. spike caused tumble.
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Riverside
Popham Beach
Islander
Augusta Boothbay
Pejepscot
Swett
Salmon River
Bath Aerie
E. J. Stewart
Kennebec Point
Parent-Teacher Association of
Owen Emmons
Rankins
Horace S. Cragin
Massachusetts
Georgetown
Virginia
Frank Robbins
Tockland
Bath
Sloane's
Richmond
Brotherhood of Wesley M. E
Footer’s Grove
New Meadows
Harry Washburn
Boston
Sagadahoc County
Brunswick
Washburn
Maine
Colby
Driscoll
Crowley
James
Hide Windlass
Windlass Boys
McNeil
Augusta
Pearl Dunbar
Howard
Gardell
Vine St
Morse High
Thornton Academy
Saco
Coss
Morse
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertises Cure and Promise
How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure J Cheney Co Toledo O We the undersigned have known F J Cheney for 15 years and believe him honorable in all business dealings Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on the blood and mucous membranes Testimonials sent free Price 75 cents per bottle Sold by all Druggists Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
Ational Bace
O. Hall
All Drugeste
New England highway marker plan aims to guide tourists
Col. William D. Sohier proposes a uniform color coded pole marking system for main traveled highways in New England. North south blue, east west red, secondary routes yellow with cross junctions, modeled on New York. He seeks authority from regional road agencies and telegraph pole use in Massachusetts. Also reports on Metropolitan Line and Maine Steamship Co. incomes for 1915 and four month totals.
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New England
William D. Sohier
Massachusetts Highway Commission
Sohier
Col
Col. Sohier
New York
Massachusetts
Obituary of Elias H. Powers of Bowdoinham Richmond
Elias H T Powers died at his Bowdoinham road home Richmond on June 2 after a panalytic shock. Born in Georgetown April 2 1852 he was the last of four sons and a daughter. A carpenter by trade he worked in Bath and San Francisco before buying the Bowdoinham home farm in 1872 where he died. He married Abbie Plummer of Alma Maine in 1853 and is survived by son Harry E Powers and granddaughter Thelma A Powers. Funeral at one oclock Sunday officiated by Rev F T Nixon, burial Bowdoinham Ridge.
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Elias HT. Powers
Bowdoinham Road
Richmond
Mr. Powers
Georgetown
Bath
San Francisco
Cal
Income Decline Reported For Eastern Steamship Corp
Calvin Austin of Boston filed a report with the U S Courts showing a drop in net income for the Eastern Steamship Corporation. For the first four months of 1915 earnings were 197 597 77 vs 262 748 61 in the same period of 1914, a loss in net income of 65 150 84.
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Maine Steamship Co
Calvin Austin
Boston
Eastern Steamship—Corporation
United States Courts
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Y.M.C.A
Lizzie M. Allen
Washington St
Brown
Baptist Church
M.C R.R
S. A. Evans
People's Church
Edgecomb Conference
Otisfield Conference of Free Baptists
Dixfield
William McCormick
McCormick Timberlands
East Pittston
Growig Feed
Kimball Bros
C. P. Bates
Bawden
Elias H. Powers
Eastern Steamship
City of
All Drug
Franklin Square House
Castine C. Swanson
E. Newton St
Boston, Mass
Tee
Bath, Maine
Times CO
Bath, Me
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