Camden town meeting backs church tower repair fund
A Tuesday town meeting in Camden approved raising 500 dollars to repair the Baptist church tower so the town clock can remain in operation. The report notes Alden Hichborn’s recent work with a Washington capitalization committee and his Augusta visit to his father, Hon. C. B. Hichborn.
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Camden
Alden Hichborn
Capitalization Committee
Washington, D D. C
Augusta
Hon. C
Hichborn
Moosehead Lake
19Th Maine Infantry
Waldo County Veterans Association
Scribner
Hulett
Lewiston-Auburn
E. D. Hulett
Brunswick
Boston Steamer Service on the Kennebec Route Restored
The Boston steamship line will resume Bath to Boston service this summer. Superintendent Haraden of Eastern Steamship Lines confirms the City of Bangor will operate the Kennebec route, with WWI era ships in use and schedules to be set pending demand and expenses. The Weiss? remains uncertain. Wiwarna is expected to run Bath to Boothbay Harbor with connections to Boston.
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Bath
Boston
Marshall A. Haradsen
Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc
Haraden
Kennebec
City of Bangor
Bath and Boothbay Harbor
Southport
Westport
New York Harbor
Newport News
Wiwurna
Boothbay Harbor
Islands
Bath Local Notes Highlights And Assignments
Local notes cover ferry schedules, repairs on the William J. O'Brien block, and the New Meadows landing stage adjustments. Bath volunteers note Scouting activity, Oregon spars arrivals, vehicles accidents, and pigs with flowers on a morning train.
Winnegance District Trolley Wire Damages Local Lines
A southbound trolley car near Eugene Knight’s home in the Winnegance district pulled free a pole and struck a guy wire, burning and tearing a 150 foot section of New England telephone cable and knocking out lines in the area. Repairs and testing will determine full damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Knight
Winnegance
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co
Albert B. Storer
Fred S. Coombs
Winneganee
Phippsburg Basin
Edward Lane
Frank, Jr
Navy
Harry Oliver
Sherman
Morse
Portland
Oliver
Annie
Purington
Ann M. Oliver
Forest Drake
Gardiner
Arrowsie
Leon Pennell
Five Islands
Pennell
Ladies Aid
Winfield W. Morse
William T. Standish
Clinton Pratt
Sybil Houdlette
Ormand Rogers
Phippsburg
Clarence Blaisdell
Bath
Blaisdell
Winfield Groves
Harold Small
Lawrence
Small
George Eaton
Eldora Rhines
Wiscasset
Eleanor King
Morse High School
Seymour Hayden
West Bath
Mary I. Perkins
Berley Philbrook
Massachusetts
Alice Rich
Clarence Johnson
Summer Street
William Merry
D. A. Merry
Earl Coombs
Charles Verkins
Parker Head
A. Evans
The
Peoples Church
Otis Hunt
Camp Devens
Hayden Conant
Conant
Thomas Oliver
Scott I. Frye
Olivers
Brunswick
Thatcher Pinkham
Edgar D. Williams
al Goodwin
Maine
New Hampshire
Bridge ‘Hall
Red Cross Home Service speakers address Cosmopolitan Club
Miss Priscilla Kimball and Miss Mary Turpin of Bath’s Red Cross Home Service outlined current and planned activities before the Cosmopolitan Club. They stressed help for families of service members, civilian life transition, and community outreach with Bath’s chapter noted as a model in New England.
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Priscilla Kimball
Mary Turpin
Home Service
The
Red Cross
Cosmopolitan Club
Margaret R. Foote
Miss Kimball
Tlome
Bath
Telame Service
Miss Witlball
Foote
Miss Turpin
American Red Cross
New England
Turpin
FE. W. Hyde
Kimball
Dorothy Sewall
Bath Chamber of Commerce
House
Harriet Holway
Ena Bucknam
Edith Stetson
Clara Barbour
Charles Weber
Laura Palmer
Philanthropic
Alfie Jacobs
Herbert Calderwood
Flora Randall
Lula TL. Manderson
Mary L. Turpin
Margery Stetson
Annie Mitchell Gardiner
Kathleen V. Landers
Rachel Cutting
Agnes Hennessey
Margaret M. Whalen
Florence Wright
Annie Brigham
Katherine M. Sanford
W. G. Cahill
Winona T. Stinson
John B. Rogers
Bathman Renews Allegiance to the Flag in Repentotion Process
Michael James Callahan 53 Vine Street Bath formerly of Lawrence Massachusetts lost his right leg at Ypres 1917 and discharged 1918. He renewed allegiance to the United States through repatriation before Judge Hale in U S district court. Callahan works at Civil Iron Works. In December 1915 he sailed from East Boston as a marine fireman on the Bohemian bound for Liverpool England where he joined the Sth Irish Battalion King’s Regiment. He served nearly two years.
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Lee
Grant
Appotomax
Webster
Thomas Moran
Biddeford
State Road
Scarboro
Dunstan Marshes
Walter Stevens Brown
United States Army
Orono
Thomaston
Law Court
Brown
Charles W. Gerow
Will C. MacFarlane
Portland
Hwah Yih
Gaston
Archangel
Maine
National Food Administration
Russia
Bangor Chamber of Commerce
Knights of Columbus
Salvation Army
Rotary Club
Y.M.C.A
Red Cross
Alexander Bordeleau
Alias Moran
Lowell
Mass
Moses Tozier
Houston
Sherman
Bordeleau
Boston
Waterville
Winfield S. Hasty
Saco
United States
Federal Court
Clarence Hale
District Court
Universalist Church
Belfast
William Hilton Gould
Turner
Church of the Messiah
Thomas’ A. James
State Museum
Elmer H. Boynton
North Whitefield
Boynton
Deer Meadow Pond
Michael James Callahan
Vinestreet
Bath
Lawrence
Ypres
Flanders
America
Hale
U. S. District Court
Callahan
Civilron Works
Liverpool
England
Sth
King’s Regiment
Bath Resident Recalls Injury At Ypres And Service Rules
The man wounded at Ypres lost a leg and returned to Bath after discharge. Former US citizens who joined Canadian or other services before the war must be repatriated to resume citizenship. Those enlisting in other countries after the US declaration retain citizenship without further action.
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Ypres
Bath
Canada
United States
Morse High Baseball Schedule Set by Manager Stearns
Morse High baseball coach Stearns announces an 11 game schedule with five home dates. The slate opens May 10 at South Portland and includes Hallowell at home May 14 and clashes with Lewiston Bath June 80 and other regional opponents.
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Stearns
Morse High
South Portland
South Portland High
Hallowell High
Hallowell
Edward Little
Auburn
Bowdoin
Bath
Open
Tesco Club
Lewiston High
Freeport High
Freeport
Islander to Resume Service Between Augusta and Boothbay Harbor
The fast steamer Islander will resume service May 15 between Augusta and Boothbay Harbor with Bath as a stop. Downbound it will reach Bath about 10 a.m. and return later in the day. Capt. Ellza Dunton will command, succeeding the late Capt. Robert Westman. Rev. John M. Arters visited Bath on Wednesday.
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Augusta
Boothbay Harbor
Bath
Ellza Dunton
Robert Westman
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Bath Opera House
Henry Walthall
D. W. Griffith
Geraldine Farrar
Liberty Theatre
Photoplay
Charles Ray i
Dodger
Lina ‘Cavalieri
Harry Carey
Hale Hamilton
Dunn & Killiott
John A. Elliott & Co
New York
Reine Marie Stewart
Cecil P. Stewart
Elos
Crosby
Bangor
Isaac Clark
Visalia
Calif
Clark
California
Westchester
Lewiston
Washington
Philadelphia
Harriet Ashley Patten
Acolum
Boston Steamer
William J. O’brien
Ferry Street
New Meadows
Joseph R. Sanford
John A. Marge
Woolwich
Ford
Joseph Bowman
Bay Point
Stony Cache
North End
Sewall’s Mill Pond
Isaac Rideout
Albert H. Shaw
T. W. Hyde
Sons of Veterans
Veterans of Sedgwick Post
G.A.R
Armory
Bretton
Theresa M. Flynn
Alfred Lagueus
Danville Junction
St. Joseph’s Church
Catherine I. Burke
George Haput
Miss Burke
Danyiile Junction
Lagueux
Thomas Lagueux
Danville Ninetien
Texas Steamship Co
Patrick and
Mary Flynn
Koppenheimer
the House of Ruppenlicmor
John J. Desmond
Conley’s Specialty Store
Bathman
Morse High Manager
Islander
John M. Arters
Vportland District
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