Bath Locals Report New Cars and Liberty Drive
Local notes report new cars ordered by street railway company and praise Bath’s spring roads. Bath and Brunswick residents join Liberty loan efforts with church school bonds and Scouts canvassing. Bath shipyards build ships as Marine activity grows.
Spring Cure Promise with Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron
A Health ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla before meals and Peptiron after meals as a combined spring remedy. It claims to purify impure blood, relieve rheumatism and scrofula, boost appetite and digestion, and restore sleep and energy, noting Hood's Pills support liver and digestion and harmonize with the tonics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Maselle
Five Islanders social activities fill weekend
Five Islands residents enjoyed a busy weekend with church services Grange activities and social gatherings. Attendees heard a Patriot service address by Theodore Stewart and featured multiple solos and readings. Grange events included a successful Saturday social and a large Tuesday turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florabelle Moore
Grange
Georgetown
Theodore Stewart
France
C. A. McMahan
Thomas Hanna
Walter Hagan Leaves For New York and Party Honors
Walter Hagan departed for New York after wintering in town. Miles Hagan received a wrist watch at a party held in his honor at Town Hall Saturday night. Hagan travels to Fort Slocum, N Y, to enter military service. The Snipe home is quarantined due to Mina Snipe's diphtheria with Dr. Walker of Bath attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Hagan
New York
Earle Pinkham
New Jersey
Merritt Pinkham
Dublin Point
Bath
Miles Hagan
Town Hall
Hagan
Fort Slocum
N. Y
J. Herbert Snipe
Miss Mina
Dr. Walker
Local notes from Bath area report civic and weather updates
Local notes mention trimming raspberries and currants, haying help questions, and fields not mown last summer. City Clerk Grassy reports death of Fred E. Godfrey in Boston at age 70, born in Bath. Liberty bond campaign ends strongly as Bath shows patriotism. ice on Lake Nequasset has melted after a snowy winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grassy
Massachusetts
Boston
Fred E. Godfrey
Bath
P. A. Clinto
Bath Loan and Building Association
E.S. Crosby Co
Lake Nequasset
Connecticut
Edward Cushing
New England
Ship Carpenter Wilbert H Sanford 63 Dies at Bath Home
Wilbert H Sanford 63 a well known ship carpenter died Wednesday at his home 444 High street after a long illness. Born in Nova Scotia he came to Bath 35 years ago. He leaves his wife two sons Perry of Bath and Harry Sanford of Portland and two brothers Jerry of Bath and William Sanford of Brunswick. Funeral held Friday at 2 pm at his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbert H. Sanford
High Street
Nova Scotia
James
Mary Sanford
Bath
Perry
Harry Sanford
Portland
Jerry
William Sanford
Brunswick
Bath News Summary of Local Happenings and Changes
Local items report a live rabbit arriving at the Bath post office for J N Tibbetts, improving roads, and rising political talk ahead of June primaries. Notes on tobacco brands growing scarce, poultry advice from a fancier, and promising colts owned by Capt Sonia and Burns brothers. Daylight saving boosts after school yard baseball, Samuel Levin buys the Benjamin Brown house for renovations, and uncertain electric service affects Front and Center street stores. Rising food costs push boarders to quit meals, Cosmopolitan Club closes its winter meal service, and yard and shipyard work at Hyde property expands with new derrick, chips, and extended streetcar tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
J. N. Tibbetts
Samuel Levin
Benjamin Brown
North Street
Levin
Carleton Block
Center Street
Cosmopolitan Club
Charles E. Hyde
Washington Street
Percy & Small Yard
Waterville unit in France reports no fatalities
A year after guard duty at Bath iron works and New Meadows river bridge, Waterville soldiers are in France and report all present members healthy with no fatalities. The town notes early garden plans, a jitney service between Bath and Brunswick, and the arrival of the lighthouse tender Zizania with buoy repairs needed along the Kennebec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterville Military Company
Bath
Bath Iron Works
New Meadows River Bridge
France
West Bath
John Davis
Brunswick
Mr. Davis
Zizania
Portland
Kennebec River
OUR OWN PEOPLE NEWS SUMMARY
Charles H. Bracker of 723 Middle street leaves for Boston to enter merchant marine service after time at Bath iron works. Clarence W. Morse makes a one day Bath Lynn Cambridgeport Boston trip, dines with brother John A. Morse, returns home at midnight. Assistant Paymaster John P Reynolds Jr U S N R supply officer at Bath now Boothbay Harbor meets J H Gauger who will succeed him at Boothbay. Edward W Larrabee Thomas S Gibbons and Mark W Sewall attend Mains Coal Dealers meeting in Portland chaired by James C Hamlen discussing winter coal supply. Bradford Martin foreman at L H Shattuck Corp Newington NH returns after Bath visit with family. Bath locals include Harry Parker, Charle Purington, Daniel Marti and others in various departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee
Weenesau
Bath
G.G. Deering Co
Paris
People’s Baptist Bible School
Brunswick Boy Scouts
Oliver
Orrin S. Donnell
Brunswick
Willis B. Donnell
Camp Dix
N. J
Bowdoin College
Texas
Grassy
Boothbay Harbor
Squirrel Island
Woolwich
Amory McLellan
Aia
High Street
Avis Arline
Arthur Ansert
Jennie Sawyer
Augusta
Harry B. Sawyer
Dummer Street
F. B. Nichols
Cherryfield
Nichols
Leora Prentiss
Gardiner
Arthur P. Sampson
Washington Street
William A. Fall
Percy
The
American Clothing Co
R. L. Percival
Kenneth
Dougherty’s Drug Stor
Harold Kingsbury
Glendora Louise
Kingsbury
Georgetown
Frank Flint
Sadie Bucknam
Portsmouth
N. H
York Street
Edward D. True
Fred A. Fuller
W. E. Rowe
Francis B. Torrey, Jr
Owen J. Ledyard
Baltiomre
Lizzie Osgood
Emma
Blue Hill
Clement Benoit
Lowell
Mass
John J. Desmond Co
Clarence M. Fogg
Corliss Street
Robert B. Hatch
Spartansburg
S. C
Stanley Pierce
France
Randall Coombs
Fred S. Coombs
Winnegance
San Antonio
F. D. Cushing
Green Street
Eleanor P. Cushing
Hanson Garnet
U.s.n,r.f
Portland
Abbie Kelley
Green ‘Street
Frank
Boston
Walter E.chase
Ensign W. E. Chase
Richmountain
Robert Waterhouse
Elmer Walker
Poland Springs
Walker
Gladysman Waterhouse
Morse High School
George C. Perkins
14Th Cavalry
Fort Sam Houston
Snow and Nealley Co
Bangor
BE. S. J. Nealley
Nealley
Coal Dealers
Matt
Florine Eliott
Grange
Fred O. Robinson
Cambridge
Church
Ladies’ Aid
William Chafe
Alton Berry
Lester Powers
Henry Tarbox
Alvah Reynolds
Camp Devens
E. M. Horton
New York
Ellen E. Hagan
Warren Spencer
Wiggins
Mississippi
Sylvia Boucher
Grange Hall
Vernom Gray
Wiwarha
Horace Wylie
Moses Rowe
Fremont
Vernon Gray
George Hanna
Isabelle Rowe
Waltham
Waltham Watch Factory
John Hinckley
Wilbur Boucher
James
Charles McMahan
J. G. Stevens
Ida H. Rowe
Hope B
Blaisdell and Rowe
Barrows
T. W. Blaisdell
Charles Oliver
C. C. Davis
Julia Davis
W. H. Holland
C. A. McMahan
Red Cross
Carolyn Stevens
Holland
Charles H. Bracker
Middle Street
Merchant Marine Service
Mr. Bracker
Bath Iron Works
Clarence W. Morse
Lynn
Chelsea
Cambridgeport
John A. Morse
Young’s
John P. Reynolds, Jr
U.S.N.R
Naval Station
J. H Gauger
Mr. Reynolds
Battery Wharf
Edward W. Larrabee
Thomas S. Gibbons
Mark W. Sewal
Mains Coal Dealers Association
Congress Square Hotel
James C. Hamlen
Bradford Martin
L. H Shattuck Corp
Newington
Harry Parker
Charle Purington
Aniel Marti
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Brother West
Lara Gray
Nellie Rowe
Eleanor Rowe Davis
Amanda Blaisdell
Lila McMahan
Azulea Holland
Elizabeth Horton
Thomas N. Williams
Columbia
Madeline Berry
May Hagan
Bertha Scott
George West
Thomas Blaisdell
Lermond Rowe
Addie Davis
William Cromwell Bolo
Flora Moore
Onward Christian Soldiers Grange
the House of Kuppenheimer
John J.desmondco
Water Streets
Maine
Sonia
Night Police
Isaiah Morrill
Ed Custer
Dan Q
Burns Brothers
Waterville
Conley’s Specialty Store