West Bath Town Meeting Dominates Local News
The week in West Bath centers on the annual town meeting held Monday at the Berry's Mills schoolhouse. Officials elected include Moderator Alonzo Donnell and town clerk Ernest Rose, with multiple fund appropriations approved for roads and schools. The social calendar features the West Bath Grange sociable and a busy week of family events and local travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred W. Larrabee
E. W. Haggett
Baptist Church
Bath
Ladies’ Sewing Circle
Berry’s Mills
Alonzo H. Donnell
Isaac W. Coombs
Lincoln Williams
Alonzo Fisher
W. H. Larrabee
Ernest Rose
Harry Peterson
Maine General Hospital
North Bath
Rodney Wright
West Bath Grange
St. Patrick's Day
The
Grange
John White
Foster’s Point
Bubier Mill
Harold
Charles Haggett
J. M. Lemont
Jospeh White
Dr. Stott
Woolwich
Frank Higgins
Miles Purington
Georgetown Whist Party a Success in Cold Night
Georgetown news notes a successful whist party despite a snow storm and small attendance. Republican caucus at Center schoolhouse elected leaders and placed Stevens as candidate for the legislature. Town meeting chose new officers and discussed roads and school supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Stevens
House
Town
Woolwich Life Words and Local Happenings
Community notes from Woolwich recount a church talk on borrowed religion and preparedness, a Sunbeam group party with gifts and food, visits by Mrs. Main and others, school plans at Montswag Grange Hall, and several minor injuries and arrivals including a seven-ton boiler across the ice and a near finger loss from a chopping accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Calder
Little Sunbeams
Miss Main
Carrie
R.F.D
Gertrude Varney
Carrie Main
James Main
Blackstone
Caribou
Edgar Baileys
Fred Crocker
Freeport
Milton Carlton
North Woolwich M. E. Church
Willis Downing
Bath
Georgetown News Notes and Social Updates
W. O. Oliver and constables listed with Herman Spinney T L Ryder and G H Worthing. Road commissioners to be appointed later by select men and superintendent of schools by the school committee. Miss Jones returns to West Georgetown after weeks away. Mr and Mrs Harford arrive at Bay Point from Auburn. Miss Jessie Davis has the mumps at West Georgetown. Mr and Mrs Will Oliver of Parker Head weekend guests of Mrs Everett Jewett. Ladies of the Working League host a chicken supper for the men and members on Tuesday the 14th at the vestry. if stormy, it moves to Wednesday. League attendance at Mrs Everett Jewett's Wednesday afternoon despite bad weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cragin
Bath
S. P. Oliver
Winston
Gardiner
J. Everett Jewett
W. O. Oliver
D. H. Todd
Everett Jewett
Hodgkins
J. B. Durrel Co
Portland
W. L. Berry
Five Islands
Republican County Committee
George West
W. P. Baker
T. N. Williams
F. M. Reed
Henry Reynolds
J. G. Stevens
Stevens
Georgetown
Perkins
Topsham
Richmond
Riggsville
Edgar Hunt
Boston
B. H. Woodside
A. E. Rowe
Harold Hunt
Virginia
Harold F. Hunt
Thomas Blaisdell
Charles McMahan
G. H. Worthing
Hartley Harley
Byron Campbell
H. G. Heald
Herman Spinney
T. L. Ryder
Miss Jones
West Georgetown
Harford
Bay Point
Auburn
Jessie Davis
Will Oliver
Parker Head
Working League
Painful Mishap And Winter Tales From Town
Miss Florence Reed injured her palm and wrist after slipping near a stove while trying to save herself. The town notes church events, illnesses, sea storms, and a secret wedding in Portsmouth as residents cope with snow and upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Reed
G. A. Durrell
Woolwich
Augusta State House
I Ida Hathorne
Ermina Smith
Mabel Thwing
Morton Soule
Harry Plummer
Worrall Reed
Fred Crocker
Town Meeting Dinner Attendee Georgie Lord Noted
Report mentions Miss Georgie Lord among those who served at the town meeting dinner. It also notes Parker Head passengers Richard and William Mann on the steamer Virginia last Saturday and traces Mrs Walter Small and Miss Ina Pease’s journey from Bath to Stoney Brook timed with a northeast snowstorm on High Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgie Lord
Richard
William Mann
Parker
Virginia
Walter Small
Ina Pease
Bath
Stoneybrook
High St
Home
J. O. Wyman
Boston
Fountain Pen Offered For New Weekly Independent Subscriptions
The Times Company of Bath Maine offers a $1.50 fountain pen as a prize for any boy or girl who sends in one new yearly subscription to the Weekly Independent. Supplies are limited so subscribers should act quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
the Times Company
Bath
Maine
Morse High schedules tentative baseball slate
Morse High School baseball manager Ralph Warren lists a spring schedule with games at Bowdoinham Farmington Lisbon Falls Bath Lewiston Hallowell Edward Little Auburn and Brunswick plus Open dates. Captain Perry F. Dunton and three crew members of the ill fated Baker Palmer return from Buenos Ayres aboard the Rhine after being rescued from the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Warren
Morse High School
Coombs
Bowdoinham
Farmington
Lewiston
Bath
Hallowell
Edward Little
South Portland
Auburn
Brunswick
Perry F. Dunton
Boothbay
Baker Palmer
Norfolk
Buenos Ayres
Rhine
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Grange Social Pleasants
Campbell Pond's New School
Ma’am
W. F. Mitchell
Nannie Brown
Lewiston Journal
Emma Gerrish
Robert C. Hannigen
Starrett
Berry’s Mill
Thomaston
John
Merton Wright
Eugene Brown
Jennie Mountfort
Campbell's Pond School
James Perry
W. H. Charlesworth
Donald of
Winthrop
Ernest Williams
Waterloo
N. Y
Charlesworth
W. H.brown
Howard Heald
Ethel Todd
Alfred Rowe
Stearns Scott
Grace Scott
W. A. Todd
Fred Oliver
Rudolph Trafton
Elmira Trafton
B. M. Rowe
Mr. Malouf
D. Henry Todd
Fight Inch Tee
Wiscasset
Montsweag
Woolwich Sons
Day's Ferry
Lynde’s Island
Oscar Bailey
Wiscasset High School
Montsweag Grange Hall
Plinette Allen
Montswear
Velma Bailey
Ance
Harvey P. Hathorne
Ralph Varney
Cretonnes
Silkalines
D. T. Percy & Sons
Brussels
Axminster
Palm Beach
Hipercy
Alfred Trott
Nequesset
Hazel M. Wright
Elocutionist
Mrs
Jason Edgely
Augusta
William Perry
Herbert Manson
F. S. Bowker
Bangor
Capt. Perry
Newport
Panama
New York
Boston Herald
P. W. Caswell
Court St., Christian Church
W. J. Small
Bertha Shea
G. D. Weston
W. R. Dickinson
William Heald
Arthur Wilson
Roscoe Mains
Dromore
Susan Campbell
Margaret Percy
Phippsburg
Warren
Lisbon Falls
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