Bath Local Notices and Society Updates
Local items report the city physician’s salary at 700 dollars and a sprouting of novelties in store windows. Mentioned are lodge members at the police station, band rehearsal, and Ladies' Aid gatherings at multiple churches. Other notes cover a pink and white mayflower find, street sprinkling, and coal deliveries. A Bath man comments on the new town clerk of Phippsburg, Walter J. Small, noted for abstinence and upright conduct. Lectures on wills and estates occur at Morse High School. The Madison Square Garden horse show yields two chestnut colts with tall pedigrees. Bath police identify Edward La Chance and Joseph Miller cases, including an amusing misnaming incident at Portland witness fees. No La Chances appear in Bath directories since 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid of
Winter St. Church
C. F
Ladies’ Aid of Universalist Church
C. F. Rideout
Washington Street
Winter St. Society
Duneklee
Kerschner
North End
Parent-Teacher Association
Weston Bonney
Washington St
Howard Dodge
Esther Ann
Gilmartin & Trundy
New York
H. M. Bell
Seaford
Del
James W. Hawley
Bath
Maine Central
Portland
Phippsburg
Walter J. Small
Small
Joseph M. Trott
Morse High School
Maine
Maxwell Powers
Madison Square Garden
N. Y. City
Edward la Chance
Lowell
Mass
Augusta
Kennebec Journal
Joseph C. Miller
Canton
China
U. S
Farrington
la Chance
Miller
Washington, D. C
Robinson
Bath and Portland Shipping Moves and Local News
Town events include repairs on the Oakley C Curtis at Percy & Smalls yard and a large Bath freight from Boston. Local sports feature Clothiers and Hyde Windlass bowling with a high 267 average. Community notes cover Mussenden funeral, Bath Lodge Moose officers, and plans for Music Hall activities with initiation April 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Landing
Bath
Oakley C. Curtis
Haskell
Portland
Percy & Small’s
Lizzie M. Snow
Wiscasset Bridge
Henry M. Howard
Howard Upper Wharf
Boston
A. M. Glidden
Knox & Lincoln
Community notices and industrial updates from Bath area
New moon activities include a clam stew supper by Willing Workers in Winnegance vestry and a Phi Rho rehearsal at the Y M C A. Torrey Bushinzr Works progress with roofs partly in. Monhegan band concerts boost funds to 50 dollars. Lobster shipments and timber operations involve Apple River NS origin and Boothbay engagements. Shipping and ice loading plans for F J Lisman and Seaconnet at Bath Iron Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnegance
Phi Rlios
B.I.W
Torrey Bushinzr
Monhegan Band
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Sons of Veterans
Clutting
Robbins St
Flora M
Kelley
Spear Yard
Apple River
N. S
Sagadahoc Towage Co
Boothbay
North Boothbay
New York
F. H. Swett
James Blair
Mayor Small
Kelley Field
Remington tests and community events note lively week
Morse High students take March Remington tests while Wesley Church hosts a sock social. Mendelssohn Club meets at the Parish House as ship movements along the coast attract attention and portraits of local leaders are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High
Remington
Ladies’ Aid
Wesley Church
Mendelssohn Club
Oak St
Bath area notes and town events brief
A Bath town roundup reports boats with potatoes and apples arriving, schools planning visits, and a church midweek prayer meeting moved to Wednesday. Local business purchases a Buick, and sports results from a Maine basketball tour are listed alongside club meetings and a Morse High School entertainment date change. The Hudson Navigation Co restructures with Morse as president. A Bath basketball loss to Newport and local hospital recoveries are noted, plus a St Patrick’s Day postcard shower for Officer Rice’s son. A tale of a caught pickerel and quick disappearance due to melting ice is included. The Patten Free Library receives several Christian Science works donated by the will of Mary Baker Eddy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Small
Bath Toware Co
Bath Garage Co
Benrekas
Hywineos
Beacons
Morse High School
Athletic Association
Hudson Navigation Co
Charles W. Morse
Hudson, Mass
Newport
Newport A. A
Hudson
Maine
Augusta Y.M.C.A
Bangor
H. W. Child
Clinton Child
Bath
Boston
Massachusetts
Mr. Child
Filene
Beacon St
Howard Rice
Officer Rice
Bath Police
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Young Rite
Nequasset
Patten Free Library
Mary Baker Eddy
First Church of Christ
New York
Sibyl Wilbur
Mercury
Ladies’ Aid
New Jerusalem Church
Alice Sewall
Companions of Foresters
Foresters’ Hall
Boy Scouts of
Beacon
Wesley
Arthur I. Pepper
Holmes
Committee On
Bath City
Phi Rho Minstrels
Leo Burke
Kathleen
Jameson
Mr. Burke
Apnea Te Ees
Brown Bible
People’s Baptist Church
Winneganee Church
Fred E. Brags
F. Wilbur Brown
Coss
Morse High
Cosmopolitan Club
New England
Seguin’s appearance improves after spars removal
A local note lists varied town happenings from a white snow night to church gatherings and social events. Mentions the disappearance of spars from the Seguin, a Masonic Foresters party, Boy Scouts games, and Liberty-era civic chatter amid hospital appropriations and Easter sale plans.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wheegan
Atwood
Boardman
McNeil
Ed. Kenniston
Sinclair
Lewiston
Cutting
O’brien
Clothiers
Hyde Windlass
Park Alleys
Dupont Powder Co
William B. Mussenden
Garden St
D. J. Wilson
Central Congregational Church
R. H W. Baxter
Frank A. Small
Edward W. Larrabee
J. Houghton Mclellan
Penny Savings Bank
Plain St
Bath Lodge No
Loyal Order of Moose
Music Hall
William Mann
W. H. MclIntyre
Henry Mstes
J. CC. Coombs
John Place
W. C. Hammacher
I. G
W. H. Ward
C. G
H. L. Pettengill
J. E. Evrard
F. E. Whitmore
W. W. Hosmer
P. D
A. A. Perow
A. Perow
B. Dyer
H. Estes
W. Hammacher
J. Place
Waldoboro Lodge
New Moon
Greenleaf
Westport
Elmer Greenleaf
F. J. Lisman
Seaconnet
Shawmut Steamship Co
Bath Iron Works
I. KE. Hahn
Imperial Fisheries Institute of Japan
Yokohama
Hahn
Puget Sound
Japan
Pacific
Hagan
Pratt St
Peaslee
Madelyn
Bath Box
James Temple
William Temple
Seth Potter
Sawyer Trott
John Rose
Civil Service Commission
Lighthouse Service
Thomas JH. Hinehls
Board of Examiners
Office of Lighthouse Inspector
Y.M.C.A
B. H W. Coughlin
Custon
Kennebee Journal
Charles Chase
Robinhoows Cove
Georgetown
Kennebec
Sleep Hollow
FE. J. Hinckley
Texas
Galveston
Charles H. Marston
Hinckley
Philadelphia
Auburn
the Times Company
Bath, Maine
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