Wiscasset Voters Hold Annual Meeting and Elections
At the Wiscasset annual meeting, officers were chosen including Charles Sewall James White and Charles Helah as selectmen and overseers of the poor. Re-elected to the school committee were Sol Holbrook, Samuel Sewall, and Carl Larrabee as tax collector was R H Taylor and auditor Charles Sewall. The town set budgets for schools, roads, and cemeteries and approved several public works and contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legal Voters
Wiscasset
Charles 3 Sewall
James &. White
Charles E. Helah
Sol. Holbrook
Samuel J. Sewall
Carl M. P. Larrabee
R. H. T. Taylor
Sted Cross
Jackson Cemetery
Greenlawn Cemetery
Greenlawn
IF. B. Haggett
Main Street
Main
Water Streets
Wiscasset Electric Light and Power Co
Board of Health
Bath Health Center to Open Free Clinics
At a Bath Health Center meeting, it was voted to open free clinics for communicable diseases immediately with Kingsley, the Resident Sanitarian, to set meeting frequency and hours. Initial sites are the municipal building offices, with plans to use federal rooms doubling as clinic spaces twice weekly for men and women. Funding includes 500 dollars from the city, 400 from the state, and 400 more possible by April first, plus medicines for venereal disease. Mrs. Charles W. Dingley, Mrs. William L. Russell, and Miss Margaret McNaughton returned from New York, while Russell recovers from pneumonia in a Brooklyn hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Health Center
Kingsley
United States Public Health Service
Treasury Department
Federal Building
Sanitarian Kingsley
Charles W. Dingley
William L. Russell
Russell
Bath
Philips
New York City
Margaret McNaughton
Naval Hospital
Brooklyn
Totman fails to qualify as town selectman in Phippsburg
Phippsburg faces a two member board with a third seat to be filled after an upcoming town meeting. Reports show the board approved 1917 town reports and named Walter J. McCourt a constable. George C. Pease and George A. Oliver are among potential candidates for the third seat. The town expects another meeting March 20 to elect the third member as T. L. Totman declines due to travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elisha L. Totman
Board of Selectmen
Walter J. McCourt
George C. Pease
Phippsburg
T. L. Totman
George A. Oliver
C. H. Blaisdell
Parker Head
C. H. Blaisdell, Jr
Cubba
Blaisdell
Azores
France
Cuba
Timothy Perry
Roland Eaton
Mr. Eaton
William Eaton
Ashdale
Henry M. Heald
Bath
Walter J. Small
Lewis W. Berry
Woodfords
Milliken-Tomlinson Co
Portland
William Maine
Meadows
Thomas Percy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Eric Carlson
William QR. Sowker
Alvin P. Sylvester
William R. Bowie
John Reed
Woolwich
Winneganee
Rockland
Elisha Totman
William Richardson
West Point
Augustus Wallace
Bash
George CC. Perse
Bath Men Rally For City's Future Progress
A Bath gathering led by the American City Bureau drew over 100 men and women to a seven o’clock dinner in the Universalist vestry. President Kershner opened, Rev. Hardin gave remarks, Bowdoin’s Prof. Catlin spoke, and Texas Steamship Co. GM George Drake received applause. Vice President Lucius Wilson outlined a three year, twenty six dollar annual chamber of commerce plan to fund growth and community vitality. The evening underscored civic spirit, business support, and the need for sustained public involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American City Bureau
Bath
Universalist Vestry
Warren E. Kershner
America
E. D. Hardin
Winter Street Congregational Church
William Mann
A. F. Peterson
Billy
Kershner
W. S. Newell
Bath Iron Works
Newell
William T. Cobb
Bath Iron Works, Ltd
Rubert HH. Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
of City
Citivens
Baxter
B.D. Hardin
Kardin
Prof. Catlin
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
George §. Drake
Texas Steamship Co
Drake
Mr. Drake
James Edward Drake
John J. Keegan
Lucius EK. Wilson
Myr
Wilson
Co Corporation
Lewiston
Detroit
Ford
Mr. Wilson
Ilo
Local residents noted for visits and injuries around Basin
Sunday visitors and travelers appear in Basin area notes. Abvie Minott returns from Apbuyn to relatives. Wallace recovering from pneumonia after a severe attack. Ina Pease stays with cousin in Bath. Percy Sprague injures hand at Bowker yard. Sarah Nichols of Portland visits Center friends. Susie and Leah Hamilton of Chebenague visit Mrs Walter McCourt. An internal avenue officer checks tobacco revenue. Clinton Beals and Ralph Kenney sawing wood for Perry Morrison Harris with Mr Seals. Betha Roderick of Bath weekend guest of William and Milly Roderick. Silas Purington named shore chief for Lehigh Valley boats, based in New York. John and Margaret Hamilton Smith relatives visit. others return after being called by the tunerator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Nichols
Portand
Susie Hamilton
Leah Hamilton
Chebenague
Walter McCourt
Clinton Beals
Ralph Kenney
James Perry
Charles Morrison
Frank Harris
Seals
Betha Roderick
Bath
William Roderick
Silas Purington
Parker Head
Lehigh Valley Line
New York
Murington
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Bath Opera House
Photoplays
William Faversham In “the Silver King
William S. Hart
Liberty Theatre
Photoplay
Enid Bennett
Mae Marsh
Ethel Barrymore
Annual Meeting
Westport Ferry
Celegy
ifWe
Red Cross
Etta Dorion
Ogdensburg
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wirs
Boyd
Lanton
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkhaim
Lydia Sr. Pinkham
Maria Lorn
WN. E
Canton
Olio
Lydia E. Pinkhams
Anl Serres
Lydia
E-Pinkham
Medicine CO
Lynn
Mass
John McPherson
Kittery
Matthew McPherson
Il Ae 70
Millie McPherson
Margaret Hamilton Smith
Maine
the House of Kappenhsimer
John J. Desmond
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