Grey Squirrel Causes Trouble for Light Men
A gray squirrel caused a 15 minute power outage in Bath and Nequasset when it climbed a Cedar Grove pole and bridged high tension lines. Emergency crews restored service by 2:10 am with Lewiston routed power via Brunswick. the incident ended with the squirrel electrocuted and the street lights restored to full voltage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grey Squirrel
Bath
Woolwich
Wiscasset
Nequasset
John ©. Gilmore
Cedar Grove
Central Maine Power Co
Gardiner
Willian
Sherman
Ray Colburn
Alexander McDougall
Hockomock
Dresden
W. L. Robertson
Lewiston
Brunswick
Nime
City Council Assumes Office Amid Calls for Prudence
The Bath city council pledges non partisan governance and seeks citizen support for economy as they confront a strained budget. They warn that taxes and services face cuts after over a million dollars was spent in three years and call for careful investigation before further proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labh
Bath
Douglas Park Gift Promises Town Playground And Club House
Charles L. Douglas, Bruns wick real estate dealer and lumberman, donates four acres in Douglas park for a children's playground and a club house with rough lumber for construction. Town to consider at a special meeting amid other agenda items, including fire box and hydrant report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Douglas
Brunswick
Douglas Park
Douglas
V Police
Edwards
Columbia
Thompson Streets
Fire Commission
Stephens high coach seeks Morse debate arguments
The Stephens high team from Rumford defeated Morse in early month debates and the Morse coach requests Warren Oliver and Dorothy Brown’s arguments for use in Bates league finals. The Saco river opens to navigation with tug Carlisle bringing coal hiden barges and the Bart bound for Biddeford, as A G Prentiss resumes river work after winter repairs at Wortland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens High
Rumford
Morse
Warren Oliver
Dorothy Brown
Saco River
Carlisle
Philadelphia
Bart
Biddeford
A. G. Prentiss
Biddeford Pool
Wortland
Five Islands Grange Evening Hears Social Plays and Lectures
The Five Islands Grange held a Tuesday spelling contest with L H Rowe leading the men and Mrs J G Stevens guiding the women. the women won and will host refreshments next meeting. Local residents and visitors attend gatherings, with Mr and Mrs Elbridge Mains hosting a Friday evening party featuring salmon salad and cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Grange
L. H. Rowe
J. G. Stvens
W. L. Berry
Elbridge Mains
Alice Cromwell
Fred Rittall
Julia Davis
Alice
Iva Cromwell
Lulu Rowe
Bertha Lewis
Delia Davis
Victor
Chester Pinkham
Lloyd Pinkham
William Marr
Horace Rittall
Charlie Davis
Everett Stevens
Dr. Barrowes
Ella Cromwell
J. G. Stevens
Bath
Millard Oliver
Vernon Gray
Charles Stevens
Five Islands
Marion Stevens
Oak Grove Seminary
Miss Stevens
Arlene Suttie
Winslow
Henry Howard
Percy Savage
John Hinkley
Elizabeth Cromwell
Ejlen Cromwell
Almon Marr
Medford
Meleckion
Valse Grange
Peary
Gertrude Leonard Bolochlomn
Manfred Newdick
Julia Mains
Amanda Blaisdell
James Stevens
Bimsior
Rene Tees
Grange
Fred and
Sodas
Program Brings Back Old Times from Bath Cycle Club Show
Charles A. Carr displayed a Bath Cycle club minstrels program dated Nov 30 1893. The cast included J. W. Hughes A. I. Denham J. W. Gilmore and many others with solos and performances by Jim Hughes Herman Kuinn and the 1492 company concluding with a life in a worlds fair hotel scene. The Bath Cycle club was a lively 1890s organization with early rooms near Eagles hall and later quarters over Footer's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Carr
Bath Cycle Club Minstrels
J. W. Hughes
A. I. Denham
J. W. Gilmore
Bones
George A. Brown
A. W. Torres
W. F. Pond
W. C. Besselievre
Tambos
George H. Jacobs
Harry FE. Mason
Harry T. Passmore
Charles
William
Besselievre
Jack Shaw
Denham
James W. Hughes
Robert Shaw
Order of the Golden Key
R. Eb. Shaw
Casino
Pond
Passmore
Higgins
Beals
Bowery
Rave
Bath
Cycle Club
Eagles Hall
Footer's Drug Store
New Volumes Added to Patten Free Library
The Patten Free Library has added nearly 75 new books since January 9, spanning fiction histories biographies reference non fiction and technical works. Notable titles include works by Booth Tarkington Marcus Aurelius Dawes Stoddard and Zane Grey among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten Free Library
Alice Adams
Booth Tarkinton
Ernest Woole
Methuselah
Bernard Shaw
Henry Lee Higginson
Bliss Perry
Marcus Aurelius
H. V D. Sedgwick
Molesworth
Hurst
Alice Duer Miller
E. M. Dell
Donald Ogden Stewart
George McCrady Price
Roosevelt
Bradley Gilman
Herman Hegedorn
Paul and
Mabel Thorne
Lyman Abbott
John Dos Passos
John Galsworthy
Hugh Walpole
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
Edward G. Lowry
America
John Esquemeling
Glenwood
Shipbay
John H. Walsh
Artemus Ward
Anthony Pride
Gordon Young
West Broadway
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Mile High
Henry CC
Rowland
George R. Stirling Taylor
James O. Hangay
Edward Phillips
Oppenheim
Booth Tarkington
Theodore Lothrop
Stoddard
Long Island
Charles Hanson Towne
Bradley Allen Fiske
William MacLeod Raine
Henry
Dwight Sedg
J. K. Spingarm
Hobbs
Elliott and
Consiliver
A. S. M. Hutchinson
E. VP. Oppenheim
Paul Wilstach
Zane Gray
William L. Underwood
Bath People Attend Miss Harvey's Juvenile Ball
Bath residents joined Miss Jenny Harvey at Bruns wick town hall for a juvenile ball and dance recital closing her class offerings. Gaudreau's Bath orchestra provided music led by Joseph Gaudreau, Francis MacPhearson, Seldom Hammons, Carrie Buck and George Field with Mrs. Charlotte Cahill Ruuser assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Jennie Harvey
Town Hall
Gaudreau
Orchestra of
Joseph N. Gaudreau
Francis MacPhearson
Seldom Hammons
Carrie Buck
George Field
Ruauser
Diana
Rauser
Elizabeth Coombs
Mildred Hope
Florence Webster
Beatrice Nichols
Roberta Barker
Alice Deering
Mary Kenney
Dorothy Ham
Miss Kenney
Hotte Visits Portland to See Mrs Hotte at Dr Cousins Hospital
Herve Hotte traveled to Portland this weekend to visit Mrs Hotte who is admitted as a patient at Dr Cousins Hospital S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herve Hotte
Portland
Mrs. Hotte
Dr. Cousins’ S Hospital
Social and Entertainment Evening in Georgetown
An entertainment and social event directed by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hagan took place in the vestry on Wednesday evening, March 15, with a program including music, readings, and a play titled Scene at the Ticket Office. A later party hosted by Mrs. Earl Hagan honored Mr. Hagan’s birthday, featuring grafonola selections and a birthday cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Hagan
Hinma Lillings Mehndi
Ceeses
Kev
W. T. Bosc
Howard Heald
Frank Heald
Ralph Reynolds
Ferris Leonard
Earl Slagan
Belle Heald
Ida Lewis
Earle Hagan
Harry Heald
James Stuart
Earle Wottle
Junior Ha
New Store at Middle Bridge Dresden Opens to Public
Mr and Mrs William W Choate opened The Middle Bridge store at Middle Bridge Dresden on March 15. The shop on the site of the old toll house offers groceries cigars confections tobacco a drug department and later ice cream soft drinks and party lunches for boats and autos with a summer veranda for visitors in a hospitable town setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William W. Choate
Middlebridge
Dresden
Choate
Bath
Bath Board of Education Organizes for Year
Bath Board of Education met at City hall and organized with Judge John J. Keegan as chairman and Supt. Charles L. Smith as secretary. Newly elected member John J. Burkhardt attended, along with William A. Furber and Lelioid K. Mitchell. Furber and Burkhardt named to oversee accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Few New Garages Rise in Bath This Spring
Bath plans see limited construction as only a small number of garages are set to be built this spring. One project is under way on Federal Street with other sites yet to break ground.
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Bath
Federal Street
City clerk catalogs past mayor portraits for aldermanic chamber
The City Clerk reorganized framed mayor portraits, adding name cards with term years. He seeks family or living ex mayors and friends to supply missing portraits to complete the display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Gilmore
Gilmore
David C. Magoun
Freeman H. Morse
William Rice
Israel Putnam
John Hayden
Edwin Reed
John G. Richardson
James (. Ledyard
George H. Nichols
Charles E. Patten
Fritz H. Twitchell
George E. Hughes
Edward W. Larrabee
Arthur J. Dunton
Charles H. Cahill
John Patten
Bernard. Bailey
James T. Patten
Samuel D. Bailey
James D. Robinson
Thomas W. Hyde
James W. Wakefield
George Moulton, Jr
John O. Shaw
Randall D. Bibber
Joseph Torres
Charles BE. Hyde
Samuel R. Percy
Edward W. Hyde
Elwell
Stanwood Caldwell Stanwood Marries Cornelia Campbell in Sixteenth Street Home
The marriage of Daniel Caldwell Stanwood of Brunswick and Mrs Cornelia Van Renssalaer Campbell of Washington took place Wednesday afternoon at the bride's parents home on Sixteenth Street. Rev Sidney E Sweet assisted by Chaplain Scott performed the ceremony. The couple left for New York and then England for a two month stay before settling in Brunswick as their future home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Caldwell Stanwood
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
Cornelia van Renssalaer Campbell
Washington
D. C
Edwin Sweet
Sixteenth Street
Sidney Fe, Sweet
Columbus
Scott
U.S. N
Death of Mrs Alfred Videau Brimley Michigan obituary
News notes the death of Mrs. Alfred Videau age 86 of Brimley Michigan formerly widow of Samuel White. She died February 19 after about four months illness and had lived in Brimley about 12 years. Funeral held at Brimley Congregational Church with Rev Tracey officiating and burial in Bay View cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Videau
Brimley
Mich
Samuel Whitehouse
Pine Street
Bath
Videau
Tracey
Bay View Cemetery
Building ships told by Carvill at Gracqa church meeting
Joseph F. Carvill president of the Gracqa Episcopal Men's Club described shipbuilding steps using a Texas Steamship Co. oil tanker as a model. He traced keel to launching and demonstrated freehand drawings of square riggers and modern sailing vessels. Refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph F. Carvill
Gracqa Episcopal Church
Texas Steamship Co
Cuarvill
Carvill
Funeral of Mrs. Ethel Freeman Lemont at Sanford's Crossing
A large funeral service was held Thursday for Mrs. Ethel Freeman Lemont, wife of James B. Lemont, at their Sanford's Crossing home in West Bath. Delegations from West Bath grange Myrtle lodge Odd Ladies Sedgwick circle and Ladies of the G A R attended. Rev Ernest M Holman officiated with Myrtle lodge ritual. Bearers included Percy Richardson Harold Freeman Everett Lemont Arthur C Lemont George Rogers and David Field. Burial followed at Oak Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Hagan
F. S. Heald
Ralph Reynolds
Emma Billings
Belle Heald
Ruth Reynolds
James Stuart
Harry Heald
Junior Hagan
Earl Hagan
George Oliver
Bath
T. M. Hagan
Frank Lawrence
Portland
Tratton Knights
A. BE. Buzzo
Buzzo
YMCA
Velma Harford
Lowdeinham
Everett Higgins
W. Scott
Grange
Five Islands
Edgar Hunt
Harold Hut
Fred Thomas
Bay Point
W. O. Oliver
William Mains
Beth
Jennie Todd
Toward Teald
Nettie Gray
Wortland
John Blackie
Blackie
Topsham
Mark Marr
Frank Taylor
Vassalboro
Susie Oliver
Alshea
John Williams
Mareen Blaisdell
Ashdale
Georgetown
Samuel Mareen
W. T. Bord
Robinhood
Howard Heald
Joseph Vedhnick
Chicago
Ethel Todd
Junior Williams
George Willis
Woolwich
Arthur Delano
Rev. W. Boyd
Ethel Freeman Lemont
James B. Lemont
Sanford’s Crossing
West Bath
West Bath Grange
Myrtle Lodge
Odd Ladies
Sedgwick Circle
G.A.R
Ernest M. Holman
First Baptist Church
John Hunt Noble
Fred S. Curtis
Fred Chaney
Robert Mitchell
Seth Stewart
Clarence McIntire
Lois T. McKiever
Percy Richardson
Harold Freeman
Everett Lemont
Arthur C. Lemont
George Rogers
David Field
Oak Grove
Richmond Hotel Sold to Ranger and Pratt
Hartley Ranger of Eustis and C T S Pratt of Brunswick purchased the Richmond Hotel from Gladys J McGillicuddy and Mary F E Mc Gillicuddy and plan to operate it under their management. The hotel long stood as a well known hostelry noted for fine dinners during Daniel McGillicuddy era. Charles Fuller, previously an engineer aboard the steamer T P Beal, has been promoted to second engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Hartley Ranger
Eustis
C. TS. Pratt
Brunswick
Gladys J. McGillicuddy
Mary FE. McGillicuddy
Messrs. Ranger
Pratt
Daniel McGillicuddy
Charles Fuller
T. P. Beal
Pacific
Dr True's Elixir Promoted As Gentle Laxative
An old advertisement touts Dr True's Elixir as a natural mild laxative with roots herbs and leaves. It claims long history and safety for relieving constipation and guarding against illnesses while warning against harsh metallic cathartics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. True
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John A. Leagro
James L. Morse
Board of Aldermen
Crosman
Oliver Moses
Board of Common Council
John L. V. Burke
Thebeau
Stevens
Torrey
Harry W. Crosman
Rupert H. Baxter
Pres. Thebeau
Harry G. Deering
Edward W. Sampson
Horace G. Morse
Grassy
Cahill
Commonwealth Hotel
Bowdoin Street
Beacon Hill
State House
Boston
Mass
Hotel Avery
Avery Street
Morse Bros. Managing Directors
Beaver
C.L. Farnham Co, Inc
Brunswick Park
Center Street
Maine
New Meadows
H. H. Donnell
A. P. Denham
Sr. Cuyler Greene
Harry Mason
EB. C. Farrar
J. D. Tabor
The
Katherine Kane
Press-Herald
Gray's Syrup
D-Watson E’ CO
New Yorks
Social
Board OF Education
Honest Values
Kuppenheimer
John J. Desmond
Bath’s
City Messenger
Stanwood-Campbell
Upper
Washington Street
Lemont
Richmond Hotel
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