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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1911

Page

7

Bath Busy News and Summer Preparations

Bath and surrounding towns fill with planned circuses visits fairs and concerts as schools close for vacation and Bowdoin updates its entrance rules. Farmers report late rains. mackerel fishing docks at Small Point slow. Bath hosts parades sports and commencements while steamers and half hourly rail service shift to summer schedules.

Brunswick Bath Sagadahoc Square Lewiston Topsham

Oldest Woman in Georgetown Plans 95th Birthday

Elizabeth Knight, in her late nineties, is the town’s oldest woman in Georgetown born in 1816. She recalls her father’s role as justice of the peace in Sagadahoc county and her life with husband Ebenezer Knight across Peru Georgetown and Lisbon. Now living with her son Captain Zacheus Trafton Knight and daughter Miss Georgiana Knight, she remains active in fancy needlework. Captain Knight, age 70, began seafaring 40 years ago and took command of a vessel at age 20.

Elizabeth Knight Georgetown Zacheus Lydia Trafton Sagadahoc Bay Point

Bath Board of Trade weighs new hotel plan and funding

A Bath meeting drew citizens and N L Jackson of Orange as key investor. Jackson offered 10 000 furnishings if he manages. A committee led by Sewall Hyde Baxter Drake and Moses will explore forming a stock company and raising capital while Bath seeks free ferry trips for a civic event and endorses Col Edward C Plummer for U S Commissioner of Navigation.

Bath Board of Trade Bath N. L. Jackson Orange Mass Jackson William D. Sewall Johns. Hyde Rupert H. Baxter Frederic E. Drake Galen C. Moses People’s Ferry Company Templar Col Edward C. Plummer U. S. Commissioner of Navigation

Fire at Popham destroys old summer home

A midnight blaze in a historic Popham residence consumed the entire building with losses over 800 dollars. Mrs Spinney was away in Fast Boston. her son had been painting floors earlier and used no matches. Rain and calm winds helped limit spread to nearby houses. The article also notes a Popham Club gathering by Portland residents and an upcoming school visit by Supt J H Stacey amid whooping cough illness causing possible Basin school closure.

Utah Rockland Delaware Popham the Independent John H. Stacey Popham Club Portland Perkins Cox's Head F. C. Rowe Ellen Thomas Payne Frank Howe Fred Snowman Lucy J. A. Richardson Chester J. N Stewart J. Roscoe Stacey Hiram Dyer Harris Walter Small Scott Oliver South Portland Merton Webber Bath Stacey Emma M. Stacey J. H. Stacey Basin

Engagement of Hannah Heaton to Wolfgang Joerg announced

Miss Hannah Heaton of Providence R I announces her engagement to Wolfgang Joerg of Brooklyn N Y Miss Heaton daughter of Mr and Mrs John Heaton formerly of Brunswick is Brown University alumna and German teacher in Providence Miss Joerg is son of Dr Ashwald Joerg of Brooklyn and assistant editor of the National Geographical Bulletin in New York They met in Germany a year ago

Hannah Heaton Providence R. J Wolfgang Joerg Brooklyn N. Y Miss Heaton John Heaton Brunswick Brown University Joerg Ashwald Joerg National Geographical Bulletin of New York Germany

Beacon Street Sunday School June Social Led by Thistle and Erskine

Next Wednesday evening the Beacon Street Sunday School holds its June social with young men taught by William Thistle and Harvey K. Erskine in charge. The boys are being drilled for performances with music and readings planned. Mrs. J. C. Ring is visiting relatives in Portland for a week.

Beacon Street Sunday School William Thistle Harvey K. Erskine Mr. Erskine J. C. Ring Portland

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