Charming Card Party Hosts Miss Weeks Guest of Honor
Mrs. Irving Trufant of Oak street hosted a three-table card party Friday week to honor Mrs. Percival Stafford of Rochester New Hampshire. Miss Frances Weeks played with the Fra-Ru-Mar trio. Prizes went to Mrs. Stafford and Miss Jane Whitmore. Refreshments were Welsh rarebit ginger ale and olives.
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Irving Trufant
Oak Street
Percival Stafford
Rochester
N. H
Bath
Frances Weeks
Stafford
Jane Whitmore
Frank Weeks
Grove St
Unity Guilt Meeting Hears Ambulance Driver Talk
First Baptist Bits notes a Unity group gathering Monday at Mrs Maxwell Powers 885 Middle Street with a talk by Roland Eaton about his ambulance service in France. Brotherhood held March meeting Tuesday at Jason A Merrill 846 Middle Street to discuss important business matters. All members urged to attend.
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Unity
Maxwell Powers
Middle St
Brotherhood
Jason A. Merrill
Roland Eaton
France
Red Cross Shipments From February Report
The local Red Cross Chapter reports February supplies sent to headquarters totaling garments and medical items. Notable items include 50 convalescent robes, 195 bed shirts, 2120 towels, 847 hospital garments, 1452 abdominal binders, 120 triangular bandages, 80 four tailed bandages, 135 scultetus, and 65 T binders.
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Red Cross
Parris Couple Mark 40th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Edwin B Parris of upper Washington Street celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with a dinner attended by children and grandchildren and a large family gathering. The sparmaker and wife, Rose Peaslee, were married by Rev L H Bean. Their children include Mrs M B Bennett Buckfield Mrs Raymond B Powers Mrs D Leroy Lord and Albion K Parris, all of Bath.
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Edwin B. Parris
Upper
Washington St
Parris
Albion K
Caroline Parris
Rose Peaslee
Leonard Peaslee
Tey
Bath
L. H. Bean
Beacon Street Church
M. B. Bennett
Buckfield
Raymond B. Powers
D. Leroy Lord
Albion K. Parris
Land on Bedford Street Sold to Woodbury Potter
A large Somerville land lot west of Capt. Hermann Hogan’s home, long owned by Mrs. Edward Blaisdell, has been sold to Woodbury Potter. Potter plans to build in the spring. Blaisdell, a daughter of the late Michael Fisher, remains in the city.
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Bedford St
Capt
Hermann Hogan
Edward Blaisdell
Somerville
Mass
Woodbury Potter
Potter
Blaisdell
Michael Fisher
Quiet Bath election with new police presence
Bath voters faced a tranquil election as City Marshal Oliver assigned Capt. Conley and six officers to patrol each ward. Officers wore blue coats for the first time, though the move drew some criticism for extra cost as officers earned three dollars for the day in addition to regular pay.
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Bath
Oliver
Conley
Barge 740 Delivers Coal to Kennebec Wharf
Barge 740 arrived Sunday with 1000 tons of soft coal for the M. W. Sewall Co. She was taken to Kennebec Coal and Wharf Co. wharf where discharge began Monday afternoon. Barge Mingo with 1500 tons of hard coal for the Howard Coal Co. arrived Wednesday.
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M. W. Sewall Co
Kennebec Coal and Wharf Co
Mingo
Howard Coal Co
Woolwich Notes: Local Events and Illnesses
Woolwich and Arrowsic residents report illness and social events. Notable items include veteran ice safety debate, town meeting quiet under moderator Wilson Bailey, locals visiting Bath and Portland, and community activities by the Ladies' Aid and Red Cross. Death of Mrs. Oliver Frost noted. service held in Dorchester Centre. survivors listed.
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Philip Hathorne
M. H
Woolwich
May Caton
Bath
Léon Pratt
Will Kelley
Stott
Ernest Purington
West Bath
Montsweag
Addison Rice
Boston
John Savage
D. J. Hathorn
South Methodist Church
Cyrus Gilmore
Miss Sargent
M. J. Smith
Massachusetts
Eulah Mitchell
Portland
A. F. Luce
Ladies' Aid
W. S. Hans
Marion Mitchell
Caleb
A. T. Trott
Frank Head
Wilson L. Bailey
Asa. Hathorne
Edgar W. Bailey
J. Gould Bailey
J. Edward Fullerton
F. W. Carlton
John C. Gilmore
Albert Hathorne
Oliver. Frost
Isaac H. Frost
E. J. Bachelder
Dorchester Centre
Mass
Frost
Berwick
Ezra
Hannah Billings
Isaac On
Burke
Lincoln Street
Somerville
J. Bachelder
Madison
William C
Hiram
James W
Albert
North Berwick
Mary A. Quint
BE. J. Bachelder
George M. Rogers
Wilson Bailey
Woolwich Grange
Frank J. Gould
A. M. G. Soule
Augusta
Millard Webster
Arrowsie
John Reed
E.’P. Corliss
Walker
Methodist Church
Milton Carlton
Frank J. Walker
Watertown Arsenal
North Woolwich
Kennebec
George Wright
Herbert Wright
John Gilmore
Harold
Kitteridge
Frank Gould
Deacon Soule
Jonathan Wight
Charles Crocker
Everett
Crocker
Laura Bailey
Moatsweag Road
Ruth Fullerton
William Elkins
Lynn
Coal Shortage Strains Pennsylvania Industry and Rail Transport
The article describes a 1917 coal shortage in Pennsylvania driven by railway breakdowns snow blockades and rising demand from munition and shipyard work. It notes high school boys and Slavonic women mobilized to clear tracks, wages at $125 a month for miners and a card coal ration of one ton per week per household.
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Delaware
Whally
Boston
Anthrac
Vast Treasures in Bath and the Schuylkill Coal Region
In a letter from Pottsville dated February 18 1918 JNO YOUNGFLESH explains the coal industry nearby. He describes the preaker a large machine grinding anthracite to sizes for domestic use and the washery that cleans dirt from coal banks. The note highlights the industry’s contribution to wartime fuel supply and mentions vast byproducts in the mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Schuylkill
Lehigh
Washington
Anthony Wayne
Valley Forge
JNO, Youngflesh
Pottsville
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Serge
Thompson Bros
Cosy Trufant
First Baptist
Field
New York
Standard Cloak and Dry Goods Store
Front Street
Blue River
cial—Town Meeting
Penn
Golconda
U. S
Cashmere
Schulkill River
Phoenix
Onyx
Gordon
Berkshire
Center Street
Ind
Copenhagen
Wash Goods Department
Sam
Angorina
James F. Will Co
Brunswick
F. C. Jackson
Optometrist
Front St
Flight
Opp Churchill
Hershberg
Deermont Clothing CO
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