Erudition schoolhouse preservation sparks DAR chapter debate
Col Dummer Sewall Chapter of the D A R held its regular meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club. Miss Leonice Morse was added to membership. Members urged preservation of the century-old Erudition schoolhouse on city land and discussed relocating the structure to a prominent site with the Dahoc Historical Society keeping the collection. Mrs Rupert Baxter spoke. Mrs Plummer described a Monticello trip with congressmen. Refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Dummer
Jane Whitmore
Sagadahoc
Plummer
Monticello
Charles Staples
Bowdeinham
White
Low
Visions talk sparks Bible class federation talk
The Wesley Church Adult Bible classes filled the vestry as Rev J J Hull spoke on Visions. He traced the idea of Rumford Falls and urged men of the community to unite for the Adult Bible Class movement and to form a federation of the city's Men’s Bible Classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Church
D. L. Wilson
Sagadahoc County
J. J. Hull
Rumford Falls
Fertilizer Factory at Round Pond Sees New Ownership
The Moxie Cove fertilizer plant at Round Pond has been sold to Halbert P. Gardner of Patten and associates. New owners plan a dryer with odorless output, begin operations soon, and hire Luther Maddocks and O N Vannah from Boothbay to start up. Charles Elliott to oversee repairs, John Butman to inspect machinery. They will harvest ice from Wyman Pond using the Cook house as an ice house and aim to produce mussel based fertilizer for potato fields in Aroostook County. Weekend activity expected across summer amid other real estate deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moxie Cove
Round Pond
Halbert P. Gardner
Patten
Luther Maddocks
O. N. Vannah
Boothbay
Charles Elliott
John Butman
Wyman
Aroostook
Damariscotta Herald
Portland All Stars Triumph Over Bath YMCA 34 to 20
The Portland All Stars defeated the Bath YMCA team 34 to 20 in a fast, hard rubber game. Williams and Talbot starred with long shots while Bath struggled with shooting and injuries. The Portland lineup included McGlaufinne, Needleman, Merrill, and Lydon, with Connellan refereeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland All Stars
Bath Y.M.C.A
Portland
Bath
Lydon
Martin
McGlauflin
Anderson
Yarmouth
Needleman
Bowdoin
Connellan
Williams
Bathites
Talbot
Merrill
All Stars
Y.M.C.A. McGlaufinne Rh
Martin Needleman
Farnham Fia Wros
Airtatine Sarees Ce
Cartmill Spiller
Tus Vaso Ieee Oe If
Lydon Rf
Young
Rath Y.M.C.A
Cartmill
Farnham
Talbot Hawkes
Spiller
MacCormick
Dunton
Hunt
Y.M. C.A
Moses
Y.M.C.A
Red McMann
Scrubs
Moree
Sullivan
Miller
Burns
Pickard
M. Holbrook
McMann
C. Holbrook
Bath Lodge and Dunlap Commandery News Notes
Four lodgers at the police station after a Tuesday night incident. Bath Lodge of Elks elected officers Thursday evening. Dunlap Commandery held its annual meeting electing Walter Glidden Eminent Commander and other officers. Remains of Mrs. Eleanor Snow were interred in Oak Grove Cemetery. Dunlap Commandery counts 313 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Lodge of Elks
Bath Gun Club
Woolwich
Bath
Portland
Eleanor Snow
Malden
Mass
Oliver
Oak Grove Cemetery
Dunlap Commandery
Walter 8. Glidden
Arthur J. Smith
Wallace N. Price
General Staff Plan for Universal Military Service
The General Staff proposes a 3,000,000 man army funded by training 500,000 per year. All fit males at nineteen enter eleven months training, then two weeks and one week in later years. The first reserve system, mobilization rules, and roles for permanent personnel, naval bases, frontier duties, and training units are outlined, with state support phased over five years after war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Staff
Congress
United States
Republic
Frontier Forces
National Guard
First Reserve
Bath City Voters Totals 2537 After Diligent Tabulation
City clerk Grassy completed a detailed tally of Bath registered voters, listing totals by ward and noting 2537 as the current total. The earlier count of 2225 was the previous high, marked as the largest known voter registration in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Making of a Man Highlighted at Y M C A Meeting
Nearly fifty men attended the Sunday YMCA gathering where Rev. C M Fogg spoke on The Making of a Man. The event featured the choir, piano and violin aids, and a benediction by Fogg. Tomorrow will hear Rev M J Duncklee. a boys discussion covered progress in religious education. Real estate transfer noted in Gardiner and Bath National Bank listed. No school signal sounded due to snow blocking the electric road service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Christian Association
C. M. Fogg
Corliss Street Baptist Church
M. J. Sayward
Fred Dwyer
Herbert Douglas
Chester Plant
Charles Holbrook
Mr. Fogg
Fogg
Milton H. Douglas
M. J. Duncklee
Winter St. Congregational Church
Fred W. Armes
S. S. Mullin
Kennebec
Gardiner
Bath National Bank
Mary A. McCormick
Pittston
Michael J. McCormick
Bath
Flora B. Wakefield
Obituary of George H. Nutter of Newton and Bath ties
Mrs. F W Larrabee of West Bath mourns George H Nutter who died Sunday in Newton. Born in Bath in August 1856 he lived in Lynn and Newton before settling in Bath summers. He worked 16 years with New England Tel and Tel Co and suffered a disabling shock three years ago. Survived by sister Margaret J a longtime Western Union operator and brother Alonzo of the West. Funeral was held at 18 Pearl Street Enton with burial in Lynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Larrabee
West Bath
Newton
George H. Nutter
Mr. Nutter
Bath
South End
South Grammar School
Middle and
Granite Sts
Lynn
Mass
Margaret
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
Newton and Waltham
Margaret J
Western Union
South Station
Alonzo
Ellen Shaw
Elm St
Miss Nutter
Death of Alvin B Ireland noted in Portland and North Newport
Alvin B Ireland formerly of the Maine Central Railroad claim department died at the Falmouth Hotel after a long tenure as claim agent. He leaves a wife five children and a North Newport funeral followed prayers in Portland. He had a Freeport farm run by his son and was a frequent visitor to this city with many friends.
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Ward
Portland
Alvin B. Ireland
Falmouth
Ireland
Maine Central Railroad
John Heald
Charles H. Hooper
Hay & Peabody
Newport
Freeport
Alden B Farnham Dies At 28 After Illness
Alden Bradford Farnham 28 years 8 months died suddenly Wednesday at his mother's home 19 Bath St native of the city and longtime New England Telephone Co plant department worker He had suffered heart trouble for months He served with the Fire Department Combina tion 4 Court of Sagadahoc Lewiston Telephone Chapter Lewiston Local Union Portland He is survived by his mother a sister Mrs Charlotte Faxon of New York City and a brother Charles R Farnham of Bath
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alden Bradford Farnham
Charles L. Farnham
Bath St
Farnham
New England Telephone Co
Fire Department
Combination 4
Court of
Sagadahock
Lewiston
Portland
Charlotte Faxon
New York City
Charles R. Farnham
Bath
Death Notice T. W. Hall of Rochester Man Dies in California
Word reached from Long Beach California of the death Sunday March 4 of T. W. Hall aged 56 years 8 months. He was a son of W. R. Hall of Rochester New York and a salesman for a Philadelphia cigar company. He leaves two sons Charles D. Hall and Emerson R. Hall and a daughter Miss Charlotte Hall of this city.
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Long Beach
Cal
T. W. Hall
Mr. Hall
W. R. Hall
Rochester
N. Y
Philadelphia
Charles D. Hall
City
Emerson R. Hall
Portland
Charlotte Hall
Snow shoers seek another hike as locals note weather and travel
Local notices report cold conditions and resumed winter travel. Milkmen report hard traveling Monday morning while coastal freights hold firm with varying rates. A Brunswick haul features a 1400-pound teaming horse bought by George W. Jewett for a trucking business. A three masted schooner, the Margaret L. Roberts, was launched at Phippsburg and towed to sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Jewett
Brunswick
Virginia
F. H. Snow
Pine
Frank H. Gallison
Portland
Boothbay
Bath
Mr. Gallison
Kingfield
America
William King
Maine
Father Anderson
Y.M.C.A
Freeport
Texaco Club
S. B. Holbrook
Roy Burnham
Danforth
Lakin
Herbert Hodgkins
Wavenock
Lemont St
Hodgkins
Margaret L. Roberts
Phippsburg
Fr. S. Bowker Yard
Seguin
Para
W. S. Roberts
Jesterville
Mme
Emma Eames Gogorza
Lewiston
Eames
Kennebec
Ourer
Waterville
Richmond
George Kenniston
Hampton Roads
Boston
Philadelphia
New England
Newport News
Lucille Page
Evelyn Colby
Florence Stevens
Mildred Fall
Haverhill
Mass
Maurice Jewett
Arthur Bowker
Joe Coss
Jerry Sullivan
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Sewall
D.A.R
Wesley
White Bears
Ramsey
Costello
Renkert
Massachusetts
General Staff Plan
New
Madras
Congoleum Art
Cretonnes
James F. Will Co
ALDEN
B. Farnham
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