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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1915

Page

9

Sixth Anniversary Reception For Pastor Evans

The Ladies' Aid and People's Baptist Church hosted a reception for Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Evans on their sixth wedding anniversary. The vestry featured flowerless decorations with entwined greenery, colored lights, and art squares on the floor. The church orchestra played, Deacons Furbish and Foster assisted, and tokens of appreciation were exchanged along with a cash gift. Light refreshments followed as Mr. Stitphen sang.

People’s Baptist Church S. A. Evans H. P. Mason Given Furbish Foster Stitphen

Local Jottings Report May Wedding Decline and Civic Notes

City records show 25 fewer marriages this year than in 1914 with 13 weddings in May. A robin family nests in a Lincoln elm near the Post Office as Dr. James W. Rouse notes birdsong near his building. High School Music Appreciation notebooks show strong student interest with many clippings and pictures of composers and performers.

Grassy John Klippell Place Middle St James W. Rouse Rouse Postoffice William King Square Doris Shepherd Leota Jacobson Anna Trott Ruth Skillings Ruth Fox Elizabeth Hayes Percy Low Fanny Green Louise Crocker Evelyn Colby Vivian Burgess Edna Hall Samuel Bickle Franlein Quimby Blanche Merrill Ruth Goodwin Madeline Desmond Ruth Mikelsky Florence Haggett Ernest Coffin Adeline Day Mildred Curtis Marshall McDonald Josephine Crosman Bessie Brown Frances Bates Vaughn Smiley Margaret Hanson Maxine Walker

Band Concert Season and Local Affairs Highlight Bath Page

Community notes from Bath cover band concerts on schedule, tomato stands, and ships arriving with freight including a new hose wagon for Kennebec No. Co. A Wesley League picnic visits New Meadows Inn, while Bath Iron Works hosts Navy Department officials. Reports warn about brown tail moths along the New Meadows River and recount family age claims from locals.

Myra E. G Kimball Wharf Kennebec No. * Co Hopedale Wesley M. E. Church E. C. Ripies New Meadows Hull Board of Changes of Navy Department Cap Zabadee Chandler Minot Nathaniel George F. Chandler Byron Tall Stove Club Boards of Health

Summer time table on the M.C.R. Brice Patten dead in Bath

The article notes the death of M.C.R. Brice Patten of Freeport formerly of Topsham. It describes summer travel on trains bound east to Bath, crowded weekends to the shore, and local activity including wharf construction by A. G. Fisher at Foster's Point. It mentions Aryan sailing from Newcastle to San Francisco and renewed summer schedules of ships. It also reports a surprise party for Mrs. Fannie Thurlow by Corlisl e Street Church Research Class on Highland Street with music, games, refreshments, and a closing hymn.

Brice Patten Freeport Topsham Bath Eagles Boston Sea Shore A. G. Fisher Foster's Point New Meadows Aryan Newcastle San Francisco Virginia Popham Corlisle Street Church Fannie Thurlow Pine and Middle Sts

New Car Price Nears 110 and Local Road Work Progress

Reports indicate a forthcoming price of 110 for a new automobile. Bath fruit stands report first peaches of the season. A lumberman recalls workers saluting the sun at dawn in winter camps. Lewiston and Waterville Street Railway invites attenders to an informal freight house opening on Lincoln St. June 21. Highway work on the Brunswick road has begun with a gravel bed found on Fred P. Ring’s farm. Gravel will extend from Blind Crossing to Muddy Bridge without disrupting current traffic. Blind Crossing work will start later in the summer.

Bath G. W. Bowie Lewiston Blind Crossing

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