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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Mar 25, 1916

Page

11

City Council Appointments and Pedestrian Sidewalk Petition

Ward representatives listed. A sidewalk petition from 194 North Street residents was referred. Mayor Small announced numerous appointments to health harbor master house of correction almoner and constables. Joint standing committees named including Accounts Finances and Public Lighting with members named.

Page Hight Chester A. Plant Harry W. Thebeau John M. Kane George W. Thistle Walter S. Russell Frank W. Skillings Weston L. Bonney North St No. 194 J. W. Gillies North and Lincoln A. H. Durgin Amy Hodgdon Board of Tax Assessors Hiram R. Pattee W. S. Russell C. J. Dain Herbert L. Hall House of Correction George E. Thompson Fred S. Curtis Rudolph Roy Charles E. Wallace John W. Gilmore John A. Norris Thomas F. Reynolds George H. Wakefield Charles H. Norton William V. Percy Weston L. Banney John Biggins D. Wylie Lemont James A. Ham William Lynch Coleman Flaherty George FP. Allen Edwin L. Emmons George Wolf Joseph Atkinson Clarence R. Mcelantire Charles W. Purington William F. Higgins Charles F. Trask George L. L. Babb Joseph McCabe Elwell G. Pinkham Frank P. Anderson Samuel B. Martin Robert Shea Claude F. Fifield Alphonse Roy Joseph Smith Edwin S. Bacon William J. Conway Peter Gaudreau William A. Edgett Arthur C. Lemont Wilbur C. Oliver John F. King Fred L. McFadden John Pinkham William H. Tobey Edward Brown Elmer W. Rogers Jean F. Butler Samuel Welch John R. Lowell George Whitehead Fred A. Fuller Fred S., Sears John F. Conley George E. Barker Melvin A. Rice Night Watch Small Hooper Jackson Covel Dunton, Hosmer Oliver

Local Jottings Highlight Winter Storm and Community News

Bath items note a severe Wednesday snowstorm with drifting and easterly winds and a report of ice clearing in Narrows. The D. M. Humphreys agency settles a Dewey Cafe fire loss. News covers church Ladies’ Aid meetings, Republican conventions, Willard Moran boxing night, and local civic events with personnel changes and society officers.

D. M. Humphreys Dewey Capt. Wallace Beacon St Narrows Bath Oscar E. W. Bailey Woolwich Times George B. Drake The Texas Co Pennsylvania Roger Moulton Brotherhood of Beacon Street Church J. E. C. Sawyer

Bath area notes include weather, ships, and social updates

Reports from Bath cover a busy period with a Reading tug Tamaqua seeking shelter at Parker's Flats, the City of Bangor prepared for sea, and a Tucker torpedo boat destroyer endurance test delayed by Tuesday weather. Social and business items include a baby Curtis Pearson, railroad agent Walter Wass in Bath, and Willys Overland Co. yacht plans in Bath.

Hiram A. Walker Walter P. Wass Boston Bath William Pearson Pine and Ashington Sts Curtis Pearson Reading Tamaqua Parker’s Flats Rogers and Lewis City of Bangor Grace Church Mr. Wells Detroit John North Willys Willys Overland Co Bath Iron Works Willys Phippsburg Georgetown Tucker Rocklands Quincy Mass Reed & Bonney Maxwell Cumberland County Sagadahoc County Hattie M William E. McMann St. Court E. L. Nash Gardiner G. Deering Wesley Church Frost Bath Gun Club Bath Chamber of Commerce Y.M.C. A Woolwich Rosentwist Kennebec West Georgetown Thomas Williams Owen Marr Victor Richardson Oakledge

Local Social and Community Notes From Bath

Dr. W S Whitney resumes practice after vacation. Officer Conley is on sick list at home with a cold. Mrs W J O'Brien and daughter Charlotte visit relatives in Portland. Miss Florence Kingsbury visits sister in Boston. Mrs Leroy Myers of Light Station Popham travels to Machias for ill father. Dr Breckenbridge attends Maine Osteopathic Association meeting in Waterville. Aftel Crowley of Addison, Coast Guard Life Saving, visits from Popsham. Bartley McCullum ill in Philadelphia hospital. Mrs Carl C Troop travels to Portland to meet sister and niece from Somerville. Carl T Day resigns Bath Iron Works post to join Texas Co. Dr and Mrs A F Williams of Phippsburg visit Portland. Gen Charles Minott and Frank S Bowker visit Bath. Freeman Oliver reports New Bedford ship activity. two whalers chartered at good prices. Mrs Bant Hanson of Bath aged mid birthday reunion with eight siblings at dinner after forty-four years.

W. S. Whitney Officer Conley W. J. O’brien Charlotte Portland Florence Kingsbury Boston Thomas Elliott Leroy Myers Popham Machias Breckenbridge Waterville Maine Osteopathic Association Aftel Crowley Addison Coast Guard Popsham Bath Bartley McCullum Philadelphia Carl C. Troop N. P. Cady Somerville Carl T. Day Naval Inspector Bath Iron Works The Texas Co A. F. Williams Phippsburg Charles Minott Frank S. Bowker Center Freeman Oliver New Bedford

Bath Area Notes and Local Events Highlighted

Ducks tame along the river and Beacon Street social at the parsonage signal light community chatter. Eastern Manufacturing Co of Brewer sells most coasting schooners including the Eagle and other vessels to buyers in Boston Machiasport and New Bedford. A Flemish chair and a large carved sideboard enter FitzGerald’s Old Curiosity Shop as Gen Thor Thwing lineage and Colonial era artistry surface. Three Patterson cousins serving with Nova Scotia Highlanders are reported in Belgium with photographs in the Gold Hunter.

Beacon St March Hill Bath Eastern Manufacturing Co Brewer Eagle Annie P. Chase Andrew Nebinger N. E. Aver Elsie A. Bayles Izetta Grace Davis Edmund A. Rice Boston Fred L. Dorr Ayer Chase Davis Nebinger Mazerall Benjamin D. Cleveland New Bedford Fitzgerald Old Curiosity Shop Thwing Woolwich George A. Patterson Percy & Small Belgium C. L. Mott S. H. Patterson John L. Pat- Arnold L. Patter Charles A. Patterson 85Th Nova Scotia Highlanders the Gold Hunter Nova Scotia I

Obituary: Mrs George Cook Dies in Boston at 37

Mrs. George Cook, aged 37, died in Boston after a brief illness. Her remains were brought home by Mr. Phillip Pembroke, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Munsey, and George Cook and son Phillip. Survived by husband Phillip, mother Mrs. Jennie Pembroke, sister Mrs. H. M. Munsey, and brothers George Pembroke and Cyrus. interred at Oak Grove Cemetery after services at 704 Tremont Street.

Phillip Pembroke H. M. Munsey George Cook Phillip Boston Jennie Pembroke George Pembroke New York Cyrus Cook Tremont St Oak Grove Cemetery

Military Exhibit Aims to Boost Coast Artillery Recruitment

Through the courtesy of Thompson Bros an intriguing military exhibit is shown in their north window. It features a full service uniform on wax, U S magazine rifles, a complete field kit with shelter tent halves blankets poncho and entrenching gear, a haversack and mess kit, semaphore flags and a standard U S knife bayonet. The display supports the 4th Company Coast Artillery recruiting drive and invites inquiries at Sagadahoc Block Armory. Also noted is the Frederick sailing from Portland Jan 12 to Archangel Russia now overdue with shipmen doubting its voyage and fearing loss in severe gales off the Atlantic.

Thompson Bros United States National Guard Coast Artillery Corps U. S Warner & Swasey Coast Defense Bath Company Sagadahoc Block Frederick Portland Archangel Russia New York Maritime Register Atlanta

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McGrath Swett Rogers Bruce Thompson Marr Tobey Kane Smith and Barker Passmore Swett and Manufactures Mason Haggett Swett and Smith Dunton Haggett Morse Leeman Whitehouse Barker Bowie Willard-Moran Willard Harold M. Sewall F. B. Nichols E. W. Hyde W. C. Oliver C. S. Brown W. G. ‘Small R. H. Baxter Capt S. R. Percy W. A. Farber C. A. Peaslee W. S. Glidden George F. Jackson A. L. Strout Joseph C Wesley M. E. Church Robert Gordon South St Ida Pierce Arthur E. Baum E. E. Whittemore H. E. Thompson Charles Shepard Charles Foster F. W. Ames Otis Card Madelyn Davis Ralph Warren Edw. Ripley Marion Robbins Missionary Society of the Sunday School G. A. Cahill Mildred Robbins Temperance Society N. B. Cortell Louise Childs Silie Cahill ONE Price Clothiers Conley’s Specialty Store Mrs
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