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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Mar 18, 1916

Page

9

Local notes on revival, court, and nautical arrivals

Rev Lawrence Greenwood wraps a Boston area revival with 120 conversions before moving to Amesbury for another series. Judge Keegan releases a West Side man after a contempt tiff sparked by his wife. Capt H F Barrett arrives to command the Bath Iron Works yacht crew and to await commission. Joseph B McCutcheon and his mother recover from severe burn injuries from an oil stove explosion with no insurance.

Lawrence Greenwood Corliss Street People’s Baptist South Medford Mass Amesbury Keegan West Side H. F. Barrett Hunting L. I Bath Iron Works P. W. Rouss New York United States Ocean Josephine P. A. B. Widener Philadelphia Barrett Ocean Palace Massachusetts Bunker Hill Eastern Steamship Corporation Phoenix Hotel Joseph B. McCutcheon City Hospital Mary E. McCutcheon Charlotte McCutcheon McCutcheon

Local notes and community updates from Bath and area

Foundations for boiler work at the Texas yard plate shop begin anew. Summer residents along the lower Kennebec receive inquiries about maintenance for next season. H C Rowe plans to return to Bath in late April to work on Thorne's Head estate. Lumber operations near Lynde's Island prepare for ice break up. Bowling league results feature Moose and Red Men victories with top scores. A former Blanchard maps San Antonio fortifications amidMexican border tensions. Colonial Club hosts final contest between O'Hums and Well Diggers with the O'Hums winning and Well Diggers leading in billiards.

Texas Yard Kennebec H. C. Rowe Florida Sunny Pines Bath Thorne’s Head North McKay Lynde’s Island Park Moose B.I.W Red Men Elmhurst Adams Fred W Merrill O’hums Well Diggers Colonial

Dreamer’s Dream illustrated in First Baptist sermon

March notes a Sunday evening illustrated sermon at First Baptist Church titled The Dreamer's Dream using Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress. Snow is praised as a God send to farmers. A Bath incident reports two rough strangers begging alms. one arrested by police.

C. Raymond Chappell First Baptist Church North Bath Front St Bath National Bank Sonia Bowie Wood St Lewiston

Numerous Bath area notes from shipyards to social groups

Snow expenses at local shipyards rise as Bath stocks19 carry over. 18 tons of hay shipped by rail to a customer. Bath M C R business February ahead of 1915. schooner Courtney C Houck from Baltimore to Fort Dade with coal. Y M C A staff absence filled by Ernest Coffin. Kelley Spear Co building two large cargo barges. Pansy B wins ice carnival Class B heats. two vagrants identified and jailed. Maine Central cable work at the ferry slip. James B. Drake & Sons sell schooner Alice May Davenport. Mount Lowe Daily News received. March 1 visitors registered. more Maine built vessels sold to New York. Front St store conversion to Cosmopolitan Gift Shop. Camp Fire Girls aid War Relief with 109 bandages and 40 slings. court cases and punishments for various offences.

Eugene Brown Bath M.C.R. R G. G. Deering Courtney C. Houck Fort Dade Fla Baltimore Charles Gilbert Houck Ernest Coffin Marius H. Page Y.M.C.A Segular Bangor Kelley, Spear Co Sonia Lawrence Reed Pawtucket R. I Joseph Buckley Portland House of Correction Coombs Maine Central Bridge James B. Drake & Sons New York Davenport New England Co J. B. Drake & Sons D. L. Wylie Buenos Ayres Mount Lowe Philadelphia Cadiz Spain Charles Davenport Jacksonville Daniel Bishop Front St Footer Cosmopolitan South End War Relief Committee Herbert Hodgkins Mildred Curtis Marion Ferguson Ethel Totman Hazel Harrington Josephine Crosman Marion Redlon Edith Mitchell Fred Starkey Cynthia Crosman Marjory Mitchell Thelma Brown Mabel Redlon Marion Purington Irene Lennox Frances Lord Capt. Wallace

Why Women Write Letters About Lydia E Pinkham Medicine

A response to questions about letters published by the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. asserts all letters are genuine with written consent from the writers. The copy praises Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving displacements, inflammation, irregularities, nervousness, and other female ailments, noting grateful women share their health recoveries to help others.

Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co Lydia E. Pinkham

Bath Co U R E P Drill and Ball Invitation

Lincoln Lodge initiatory degree conferred Monday night Queen Esther Sewing Circle met Tuesday afternoon supper at six. Col Ricker and staff invited to attend the military drill and ball at Music Hall Friday as guests of Bath Co U R E P. Bowker yard Phippsburg schooner one quarter framed. stormy weather delayed work. Five masted schooner Jerome Jones chartered for maiden coal trip Hampton Roads to South America.

Lincoln Lodge C.F Queen Esther Sewing Circle Col. Ricker Lewiston Music Hall Bath Co U.R.E.P Bowker’s Yard Phippsburg Jerome Jones G. G. Deering Co Hampton Roads South America

Port crew returns as weather slows trial of torpedo boat Porter

Commander Gelm, Gates, and Capt. Theiss of the Porter trial board, having spent a week aboard the torpedo boat destroyer, were in town Sunday morning returning to Washington. Four days were needed for the standardization due to poor weather. Donald S. Sewall of Portland, Texas Co. representative, attended a Portland Yacht Club banquet after which the Elks in San Francisco were asked to care for Lemuel Sponagle who is ill in a hospital there. Maine posted automobile registration gains this year with 72,735 dollars collected, up from 45,919 in 1915, as registrations show 4,538 cars and 7,452 operator licenses issued, plus trucks, motorcycles, and dealer registrations. The four-masted schooner May V. Neville, built in Bath in 1901, now at Charles River stores loading goods for West Africa, will be renamed Fred Thurlow and commanded by Capt. F. H. Allen.

Elizabeth Field Mallett Elisha Mallett Beacon St Mallett Topsham Ezra Sarah Field Sawyer North Street Bath Teachers’ Club Morse High School Weeks St. Grammar Beatrice Nichols Ernest Wexler Byron Adams L. H. Merrill Biological Department University of Maine Mt. Katahdin Conley Cook Page Bath Orville E. Page Scarborough Ira C. Foss Portland Walter Boothby West Scarboro Hugh Gunnison Rhoda Gunnison American Telephone Co Boston Scarboro Gelm Gates Theiss Porter Washington Donald S. Sewall Texas Co Portland Yacht Club Yacht Club Portland Lodge of Elks The Elks San Francisco Lemuel Sponagle Sponagle J. S. Winslow & Co Maine Secretary of State May V. Neville Charles River New England Sekondi Africa Crowell & Thurlow Fred Thurlow F. H. Allen Robert Graham Dunn Neville James W. Hawley

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