Local Jottings and Community Notes
Rumford Falls saw When Dreams Come True company visit Saturday morning. Mitchell school wiring for electric lights began under contractor Conforth. Grassy begins ninth term as city clerk after re election. A 10% pound baby boy arrived at Popham Beach home of Mr and Mrs J Arthur Stevens. name not yet chosen. Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Co received permit to erect poles on Tarbox Street extension after Aldermen hearing. Two girls at Opera House practiced embroidery during idle moments. Earle H Coyle Bowdoin 1908 and Berkeley trained cavalry lieutenant chasing Villa in Mexico. Dick the eagle of lower Kennebec remains a lone figure after mate shot decades ago. Lakin funeral incident caused minor property damage but no injuries. Brunswick ice race saw Craft Pointer beat Pansy B and a Patchen mare in heats. County and State Sunday School officials in Portland praised Bath Times for local attention to convention reports. Hebrews celebrated Purim with large gatherings and social festivities. John N Thurlow funeral on Highland Street drew wide attendance. services by Rev B P Browne with Odd Fellows burial. Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumford Falls
Conforth
Mitchell School
Grassy
J. Arthur Stevens
Popham _ Beach
Board of Aldermen
Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Co
Tarbox St
Opera House
Earle H. Coyle
Bowdoin
Berkeley, Institute
California
General Villa
Mexico
Mr. Coyle
Columbus
N. M
Kennebec
Tall Stove Club
Small Point
Cox's Head
Fred Lakin
Maple Grove
Pote
Joseph Avery
Brunswick
Isaiah Morrell
Craft
Pointer
C. D. Pratt
Brunswick Blacksmith
Pansy B
Joe Johnson
Manor King
Direct Hal
Portland
Alice May Douglas
Plinette Allen
Woolwich
Weir
State Sunday School Association
Times
Purim
Farge
Front St
Esther
John N. Thurlow
Highland St
Lincoln Lodge
I. C.C.F
Bath Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Corliss Street Church
Bath Iron Works Machine Department
B. P. Browne
Odd Fellows
N. G. Harvey K. Erskine
D.,s. Harris
Brown
Cros- Man
Bath notes on local events and people
Local jottings report the Ladies Aid meeting with Mrs. Willis and Genesta Chapter Sewing Circle with Mrs. Furber. Harold Hart painted a military window for Thompson Bros. A 72 year old blacksmith Fred W. Coombs is still forging. Baron Rosentwist hosts guests at West Georgetown summer home. Rail freight delays ripple through a Bath industry while a long ship voyage from Barcelona remains unlocated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid
The
Universalist Church
J.willis
Garden St
Genesta Chapter
Charles Furber
Deering St
Harold C. Hart
4Th Co
Thompson Bros
Bath
Fred W. Coombs
Bath City
George B. Drake
Marine Department of the Texas Co
Rice
Solar Lodge
A. M
R. W.D.D.G.M
Fred E. Ward
Freeport
Airdale
Frank Skillings
Buffalo
Portland
Boston
Baron Rosentwist
West George
Virginia
Henry W. Howard
Front
Arch Sts
Rogers
Washington St
F. Wilbur Brown
Walter T. Brown
West Bath
University of Maine
Waltham
Watertown
Worcester
Providence
Charlestown Navy Yard
Eula Keiding
Morse High School
Remington Typewriting Co
Fielding
Vivian Colby
Helen Johnson
Edward J. Lawrence
Barcelona
Iviza
New York
Lawrence
Kreger
Bath society notes and local events in a Bath daily
The page lists Masonic and social meetings, a sewing circle bee, aldermen committee on salaries, aeroplane sightings, farm work across the ferry, a Maine masque club member in a university play, store closings for vacations, and club gatherings at the Lincoln and Entre Nous groups. It also covers Republican convention travel, a Bath man visiting from Revere for his father’s interment, Elm Street Church activities, a meteor sighting at sea, Times Job Department items, and Pine Tree Seed Co. president Kimball’s seed inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robins
Bath Lodge of Elks
Elm Street
North End
Freeman, Robinson
Pinna
New York
Lan
Ella L. Davenport
Page Diamond
Entre Nous
Roy Lord
Upper
Washington St
William Fletcher
Portland
Brunswick
Parkhurst
Bangor
Harry E. Dunham
Revere
Mass
Bath
Andrew B. Dunham
Brockton
Oak Grove
Dupnham
Charlestown Navy Yard
Elm St. Church
High St
Times
Kimball
Pine Tree State Seed Co
New England
Augusta News Highlights and Local Events
Deputy Sheriff Carter escorted Percy B. Jordan to Augusta Jail on Tuesday. Coast Guard life boat addition at Popham Beach arrives from Cape Elizabeth. Funeral held for Patrick Mullaney at St Mary’s Church with interment Calvary Cemetery. Republicans win most aldermen in Old Town election. mayoral race totals listed. Augusta hosts Post campaign dinner with both parties present. Foreign missions gifts reach a record $18.8 million in 1915. Kenneth Nason marks eleventh birthday with party at Highland and Corliss Streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Percy B. Jordan
Augusta
Cosmo Girls
Eugene Choate
B.J.W
John A. MacDonald
Strong
Lizzie
Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Cape Elizabeth
Down River
Charles Bliss
Cherry St
Patrick Mullaney
St. Mary's Church
N. J. Horan
E. J. Murphy
Michael O'Brien
Joseph Crane
John Trainor
Calvary Cemetery
Brunswick
Old Town
John W. Gold
John H. Hickey
Hickey
George H. Richardson
Charles G. Davis
America
Conference of Foreign Mission Boards
Fred P. Hazzard
Boston
United States
Canada
Kenneth Nason
Highland and
Corliss Sts
Katherine Harrington
Gladys Pottle
Albert Redlon
Isabelle Berry
Katherine Stinson
Adelaide Coombs
Lelia McPherson
Helen Jones
Evelyn Moses
Christine Curtis
Christine Lockery
Estelle Reed
Dorris Barter
Arthur Berry
Lawrence McPherson
Raymond Williams
Frances Bruce
Donald Bruce
George Moses
Howard Elliott
Alexander Donnellson
Local notes on river ice and community events in Bath
The column reports the Kennebec above Bath is frozen with twenty to twenty four inches of ice. It notes Preston W Farrar seeks eye and ear infirmary treatment in Portland. It recalls the Y M C A block completed in 1894 and previews steamer work for the summer season.
Odd Ladies Sew Circle Meets. Local Notes Include Birds and Open Water Guess
The Odd Ladies Sewing Circle met Thursday with Emma Knowlton. Mrs. Haynes returned from Gardiner visit with Brad Smith. River authorities predict Kennebec will open to navigation around early April with two forecast dates. A horned lark was spotted on Court Center and Lincoln Streets, a flock of snow buntings near Phippsburg road, and a phoebe seen on Winter Street Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Knowlton
Middle St
Harry L. Haynes
Bradley S. Smith
Gardiner
River Front
Kennebec
Court
Center
Lincoln Sts
Phippsburg Road
Phoebe
Winter St
Obituary of Harry Osborn Perkins
Mrs. Herbert Hodgkins mourns the death of her brother-in-law Harry Osborn Perkins who died after pneumonia. A Maine native, 15 years engineer of the Wakefield building in Boston. He leaves wife Charlotte Segers Perkins and siblings Irving N. Perkins Willis B Perkins Mrs. Benjamin Getechall. Funeral held in Malden then Bath for interment at Maple Grove Cemetery with prayers at the tomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hodgkins
Malden
Mass
Harry Osborn Perkins
Perkins
Kittery
Maine
Wakefield
Boston
Ile
Charlotte Segers Perkins
Irving N. Perkins
Seabrook
N. i
Willis Be, Perkins
Middletown
Funeral service for Margaret A Wildes widow of Isaiah Wildes
Mrs Margaret A Wildes 77 widow of Isaiah Wildes died in Augusta Saturday. Funeral held Tuesday from Middle Street residence Browne of Corliss Street Church with pallbearers Charles Small Hi bridge Wright Frank Purington Levi Spinney. Interment in Fairview Cemetery Winnegance. She was a native of the city, daughter of Joseph O Hunt and Roxanna Hunt, last of six children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret A
Isaiah Wildes
Augusta
Middle St
B. P. Browne
Corliss St. Church
Charles Small
Hibridge Wright
Frank Purington
Levi Spinney
Fairview Cemetery
Winnegance
Wildes
Joseph O
Roxanna Hunt
St Patrick’s Day gathering at the Pines in New Meadows
Social event at the Pines, home of Mr and Mrs Robert Murray, featured Irish songs, Peat bog walk blindfolded, donkey cart rides, Kelly lane walk, and a lobster supper. Guests included the Jordans, Jacksons, Randalls, Holbrooks, and others. Also notes Alma Holbrook’s Canton trip and obituary for Mrs Mary E Snow, wife of John Snow, who died after a short illness. Burial at New Meadows Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Pines
Robert Murray
Tipperary
Kelly Lane
Harvey Jordan
Robert Jordan
Forest Jackson
John Randall
Sidney Holbrook
Samuel Holbrook
Sybil Holbrook
George Staples
George Leonard
Henry Hunt
Thomas MacMann
Amy
Mildred Hunt
Margaret Totman
Alma Holbrook
Canton
Merry Club
Mary E. Snow
John Snow
Mrs. Snow
West Bath
Mr. Tetley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Augusta House
Wiles
Newbert
William R. Pattengall
Maher
Noble
John McKeiver
Auburn
Ruth Rebekah Lodge
R. P. Capen Lodge
Minnehaha
Lisbon
Hiawatha
Gray
Robinson
Jacobs
McFadden
Swood
Congdon
Richardson
Ward
Frank Parris
Preston W. Farrar
Eye & Ear Infirmary
Ransom B. Fuller
Hyde
Elmhurst
Annable
John Stacy
William Small
Brunswick Orchestra
C. A. Warren
Topsham
Yarmouth
Lewiston
Audient
M. A. Shareden
Eastern Steamshin Corporation
Haraden
H. J. Thompson
Bailey School
Harold M. Sewall
Sewall
New England Co
William McGregor
McGregor
Kids of Bath
New Meadows