Local Jottings and Bath News from Virginia to Bath
Local notes report a Virginia crew voyage Tuesday and a hunter near Woolwich who bagged five bobtails. Ben Smith returns from travel and notes heavy snow in Virginia mountains. A new North End industry project advances with favorable talks. Dunlap Commandery plans a Red Cross conferring and banquet at Colonial next Tuesday. Mrs. Francis Adams learns of her grandson Francis Flanders’s fatal shooting in Lancaster New Hampshire. he and his brother Lee were indoors after cleaning rifles, an apparent accident.
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Virginia
Bath
Times
North End
Dunlap Commandery
Red Cross
Colonial
Francis Adams
Lancaster
N. H
Francis Flanders
Guy
Clara Adams Flanders
Prices Current and Potatoes Report From Northern Markets
Flour and butter prices noted as steady with varied quality grades and receipts. Wheat futures steadied while beef and porkとも remain at mixed levels. potato notes show a price rise to 2.50 per barrel in Aroostook with a cautious outlook for farmers and harvest.
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Datuth
Manitoba
Perney Middle West
Hennery
New York
Waris
Iton
Western
Eigene New Ace Twins
Ene
Bdget
Hage
Chicago
Argentina
Australia
Chaap
Caribou
Aroostook
Isle
Boston Levy
Local notes from Bath and surrounding towns
Treasurer Hall reports 156000 dollars collected in taxes. Various community items include transfers of land at Small Point for a dollar, Knights of Pythias and YMC A activities, library leadership changes, and a First Baptist illustrated sermon. An elderly Miss Nancy Bruce dies in Malden. Bath Iron Works workers oppose current liability rules. a lost hat story closes the column.
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Bath
Patten Free Library Association
Galen C. Moses
Sasanoah Tribe
Knights of Maccabees
W. M. Leavitt
L. T. Snipe
Patten Library Association
Snipe
Yale
First Baptist Church
Undertaker Curtis
Nancy Ford Bruce
Bruce
W. F. Bruce
Malden
Gilbert Cummings
Bath Iron Works
Employers’ Liability Act
B.I.W
Iron Works
Colonial basketball notes and community events
Local items cover the Augusta ads, senior girls beating their peers, a K P military ball next Tuesday in Music Hall, and Pejepscot’s voyage to Bath for annual overhaul. Also reported are church and YMCA meetings, snow removal ledgers, and ship lumber shipments with 2,000,000 ft slated from Westport to March.
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Augusta
K. P
Music Hall
Pejepscot
B.I.W
Alec Humphreys
Bath
Woolwich
the Universalists Church
T. N. Kewley
Winnegance
Y.M.C.A
B.lw
Beacon St
Ma.r.r
Rockland
Clarence W. Morse
Westport
Pansy B
Calico Pacer
Powers
Rice
Bath Police
Boothbay
Universalist Ladies’ Aid
Jennie R. Morse
Washington St
Sedgwick Post
Sedgwick Circle
Keegan
Central Church
Jessie Donnell
Washington Street
Wesley
First Baptist Church
Norman
Interstate Commerce Commission
FH. B. Smith
North St
Middle St
Brown Bible Class Elects Officers at Brown Bible Class
The Brown Bible Class held its semi annual election of officers at People's Church. Fred E. Bragg is president Elwell Pinkham first vice president Fred Dwyer secretary and Arthur Orr treasurer. Thirty two members attended and a social supper followed.
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Brown Bible
People’s Church
Brown
Ray Cummings
Hooker
Wilson
Fred E. Bragg
Elwell Pinkham
Fred Dwyer
Arthur Orr
Maine press notes Kelley Spear Co fleet plans
The Kelley Spear Co reportedly plans an unusually large shipbuilding slate this year. The item lists three big barges and eight derrick lighters, contrasting with current contracts for one big coal barge and four derrick lighters. It mentions Bath Iron Works builds, plus vessels at G G Deering Co Percy & Small’s Phippsburg yards and Bow shipyard.
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Kelley, Spear Co
Maine Press
Bath Iron Works
G. G. Deering Co
Percy & Small’s
Phippsburg
F. S. Bow
Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad for Blood Health
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a solution for impure or pale blood, claiming it improves quality and quantity of blood, strengthens the body, and aids circulation by purportedly restoring warmth to limbs. It emphasizes a scientific blend of roots and herbs and urges readers to get it today.
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Hood
Bath Department Store ker & Sons Ventures in 1916 Shipbuilding Era
Bath department store Ker and Sons embarks on a venture linked to the Kennebec shipbuilding industry as 1916 begins, signaling a broader commercial shift in Maine's maritime sector. The move reflects how retail firms aligned with regional heavy industry to capitalize on wartime demand and local production.
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Ker & Sons
Kennebec
Old Fisher mansion origins hint on Washington and North streets
Hon Harold Sewall notes the old colonial Fisher mansion once stood on the corner of Washington and North Streets and served as a tavern. The brick foundations remain and local lore links a Bath shipbuilding lodging house to Nova Scotia workers. The site is believed over a century old with pumpkin pine from carved wood.
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Harold Sewall
Fisher Mansion
Sewall
Washington and
North Sts
Bath
Nova Scotia
Death of Miss Alice M McDonald Bath shipbuilder's daughter
Bath mourns Miss Alice M McDonald 46 daughter of the late John McDonald a prominent local shipbuilder. After a week long pneumonia illness she died Tuesday night at a sanitarium in Woodfords run by her brother Dr Charles D McDonald. A Bath High School graduate she is survived by family and friends.
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Mt. Holyoke College
Portland
Elm Street Baptist Church
Charles D. McDonald
Woodford
Wilde Memorial
Thomaston
Bath
Alice M. McDonald
John McDonald
Our Own People Observations From Bath Area
Local social notes record Harvey Hill visiting Boston a few days, Bridget Roche of Lewiston staying with relatives, W E Durgin from Brunswick visiting, and Portland visits by Mrs William E Harriman Mrs Henry G Shaw and Miss Louise B Gowell. A B Thwing and daughter Louie of Woolwich travel to attend Miss Alice M McDonald's funeral in Portland. J Edward Wakefield of Boston recovering from appendicitis surgery. Mrs W J Collins returns from a visit with Mrs B V Blewett in Brookline Massachusetts.
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Harvey Hill
Boston
E. King
Alice M. McDonald
Bath
J.edward Wakefield
W. J. Collins
B. V. Blewett
Brookline
Mass
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Winter Str
John Evans
W. E. Kershner
BE. A. Morse
J. Bradford Sprague
E. C. Plummer
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Norway
Paris
Foxcroft
Footer
Front St
Conley
Swett
Eureka
Thompson Bros
Brown Bible Class
Bath Department Store
Center Street
Old Fisher Mansion
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