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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Mar 18, 1911

Page

3

Woolwich Grange Tonight and Local Happenings

Woolwich grange hosts a varied program tonight with instrumental music readings recitations and questions followed by a closing prayer. The town hears of meetings concerts dances plays farm updates and church events as 55 members attend last Saturday’s gathering and plans for upcoming Harmony club performances are announced.

Woolwich Grange Florence Burlingame Gladys Nason Quartette Angie Hunnewell Alice Stinson Stella Purington Anna Soule Ned Turner Mildred Leavitt Minnie Getchell Grange Hall Harmony Club Woolwich Center Woolwich Grange Hall Donald Marr

Postmaster Elias Totman of Small Point Remembered

In Phippsburg resident Elias Totman born July 14 1808 and died March 2 1890 his faithful public service as postmaster from 1870 to 1882 is noted He served West Point residents by delivering mail from his home each night He was a longtime Free Will Baptist Church member and Sunday school superintendent with many church roles He studied at the old diamond roofed schoolhouse near the highway to Nancy Wheeler’s home

Phippsburg Totman Devonshire England Small Point James B. Lowell West Point Free Will Baptist Church Nancy Wheeler

Death of John F Hinckley noted in St Louis service

Word came of the Feb 20 death in St Louis Missouri of John Franklin Hinckley born 1849 in Boston son of John L Hinckley and Emeline Webber long linked to Georgetown He was MIT trained and rose to chief engineer for the Frisco System building tracks across Missouri Oklahoma and Texas and the New Orleans docks He later worked with the Gould system on the Cotton Belt He remained in St Louis as a consulting engineer unmarried with a sister Mrs Howard Watson a niece Miss Martha Watson and two nephews Clinton Fisk and Charles Fisk He was a nephew of Samuel Webber of Bath and B F Hinckley of Georgetown.

St. Louis John Franklin Hinckley Mr. Hinckley Boston John L Emeline (Webber) Hinckley Georgetown Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hinckley Frisco Missouri Oklahoma Texas New Orleans Gould Howard W. E. Hanscome Mechanic Falls Win. A. Todd Capt Waterman Oliver Millard Oliver Bradbury P. Todd Mra. L. F Oliver B. F Ninckiew Ellen Oliver George Emmons Georgetown St Aimestall Bessie Ethel Todd Beths Heald Bern Newport News

Albert Weeks Hodgkins longtime Roeltland Lewiston conductor dies

Albert Weeks Hodgkins a Bath Maine resident and longtime conductor for the Roeltland Lewiston passenger service died March 12 of pneumonia at age 70. Born September 3 1850 in Jefferson he joined Knox Lincoln Railroad in 1874 and served 37 years. He belonged to Polar Star F and A M Commandery Kochland Eastern Star Kora Temple Mystic Shrine and the Order of Railroad Conductors. A Bath observer praised band concerts as public amusement and urged clubs to fund free city park concerts and summer subscriptions.

Albert Weeks Hodgkins Roeltland Lewiston Maine Poeumnonia Hodgkins Jefferson, Me Sawyer P Abbie Noyes Hodgkins Knox & Lincoln R. R Polar Star Kochland Eastern Star Kora Temple Mystic Shrine Order of Railroad Conductors Bath Independent

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