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Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Mar 21, 1914

Page

11

Subordinate Officers Revised by City Council

At an adjourned meeting the new City Council made few changes to subordinate officers. Only one police officer was cut. new appointments include overseers of the poor, a second assistant engineer, a city physician, a city solicitor and new tax assessors. Mayor Dunton voted in a tax assessor tie. Numerous appointments to committees, boards, and officers followed, with several petitions and orders passed, including printing rosters and a new brown-tail moth control mandate.

Board of Overseers of Poor Fire Dunton Henry G. Hodgdon Charles T. Jackson Hodgdon Eugene A. Mitchell John W. Gilmore Knox & Lincoln Hon E. W. Larrabee James C. Mulligan Henryg. Hodgdon Jerrys. Pinkham Board of Highways and Sewers James P. Ledyard Charles J. Cain Joseph C. Varnum Walter S. Russell People’s Ferry Co Charles E. Batchelder Herbert E. Worrey Cemetery and Park Board Charles H. Cahill George W. Hunt Charles A. Carr Charles A. Lockery Charles 8S Dunning John Lee Joseph Webster Wilbur L. Butterfield James S. Knight Walter F. Abbott William H. White Charles L. Farnham Bant Hanson Arnold C. Preeny Rand Adams Norton Stover McGrath Hagan Oliver Rich Worrey Reed Barker Bragg Bal Briggs Turner Ham Small Rogers Higgins Bachelder Police Maine R. S Ward James A. Goodwin Harry Thehbeau Roy A. Donnell George W. Thistle Frank C. Skillings Weston I. Bonney Common Council A. J. Dunton South Street Pratt St Lincoln Maple Maxwell and Palmer St Bath Deering St Deering Washburn St Committee On Water and Water Works Fire Department Committee On Finance City of Charles Ross Board of Aldermen Board of Health Elmer W.W. Rogers Davy Police Rudolph Roy William A. Edgett Melvin A. Rice John Sonia Charles E. Wallace George E. Thom

Pleasant Evening Concert for St Patrick's Day by Sagadahoe Council

The Sagadahoe Council Knights of Columbus held a St Patrick's Day entertainment and banquet at their Front Street hall. Judge J J Keegan acted as toastmaster and Rev J P O'Brien presented a picture of Rev Fr Phelan. Performers included Charles Fitzgerald Br Daley Dr Fitzgerald and the K of C choir with conductor Dr E B Fitzgerald. Orphans from the Orphans Home resumed school after quarantine ends.

J. P. O’brien St. Mary's Church Phelan Charles Fitzgerald Br. Daley Bangor Dr. Fitzgerald Charles John John Murphy Edward Arsenault B. H. Coughlin M. A. Haraden Judge Keegan K. of C. Choir EB. J. Fitzgerald John Fitzgerald Henry Biggins Peter Flaherty Frances McDonald Monroe Royal

Bath Market News Reflects Slow Spring Start

The Bath market shows another slow week with scarce produce and steady or rising prices few items moving. Farmers expect an early spring with seed supplies appearing, while cabbage remains abundant and potatoes rise in supply as Maine exports affect prices.

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West Bath Grange notes and town happenings

The West Bath Grange meeting had a small turnout due to bad roads. Town news includes travel disruptions from thaw, river ice gone, clam digging resuming, cottages rented, and local residents visiting family in Bath, Winthrop, and New York amid reopens and school attendance shifts.

West Bath Fred W. Brown Railroad Bridge Brown Massachusetts Topsham Grange Ernest Williams Campbell's Pond Winthrop Bonney Henry Galt Foster's Point New York William Brown S. R. Brown Henry Cottreau Fred H. Low Bath Savings Institution Ernest Rose Fred Bubier Henry Rose & Sons Bath the Independent Independent Henry McKay Phippsburg Jenks J. Mitchell

A Fine Catalogue From Pine Tree State Seed Co

The Pine Tree State Seed Co. of Bath distributes an attractive annual catalogue edited by Major William R. Kimball. The Bath firm is praised for its sales growth and reputation in New England with seeds imported from Germany. The catalogue highlights products and a money back motto, reflecting confidence in their flowers and garden seeds.

Pine Tree State Seed Co William R. Kimball New England Bath Times New Jersey Pennsylvania California Bath Company Bond Germany Bath Concern Kimball Maine Major Wimball

Imposing Array of Wilson Kinfolk Noted in Sagadahoe County

The nine month old Little Miss Phyllis Ethelynde Wright is the fifth generation of the Wilson family of Sagadahoe County with numerous greats and great aunts and uncles listed from Phippsburg Bath and Boston. The article notes she is a peach and mentions H O Richardson’s carriage accident near Phippsburg leaving him with a lame shoulder.

Phyllis Ethelynde Elbridge R. Wright Wilson Sagadahoe County William H. Wilson Phippsburg John C. Wright Bath E. R. Wright Mary H. Bruce Elbrideve 68 Wallace Phippsbure John Holland Tantha Morse Jerusha A. Pye Abial Blaisdell Boston Mass Fred P. Porter Beverly William Younger Massachusetts Henry Horace Clarence Wilson Martha Faye California Ilda Hix Abbie Blatchford Josephine Haton Wright Miss Wright Isadore Crocker

Population Decline In Eastern Town Schools Noted

Comparisons show 212 children in the eastern town schools 57 years ago versus only 2 today. The census records a steep drop as families no longer send children, with once many siblings per family now none.

Jenks Mitchell James E. French Mitch

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