Social Happenings of the Week in Bath
Bath residents and visiting dignitaries fill the week with military, business, and social notices. Local sailors, veterans, and families return from service or travel as Hon. Noble Maxwell and Captain Torrey visit Bath. Weddings, arrivals from Five Islands, and theater and church connections are mixed with civic business and travel updates across Bath and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble Maxwell of
Richmond
Bath
Mrs Merryman Pursues Advanced Study in Science of Scalp Skin Nails
Mrs Herbert S Merryman is in Boston pursuing an advanced course on scalp skin and nails. Upon her return she will be better equipped to carry on her parfors Sagadahock block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert S. Merryman
Boston
Leroy McLean Operates Moving Picture Machine in Caribou
Leroy McLean has journeyed to Caribou where he is running a moving picture machine at the Powers theatre, providing entertainment for local patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy McLean
Caribou
Powers Theatre
Local Bath Notes On Homes Visits And Gardens
Mrs Hasty aims to brighten life for her children with games and activities while promoting work, play, and mental growth. Notable visitors include Hon William R Pattangall and Hon Raymond Fellows in Bath regarding the Cassidy will case. Rufus Emrose plans a bungalow on High Street overlooking the river, and Jane Murphy hosts a spring garden scene with daffodils and hyacinths despite flower thefts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam R&r
Pattangall
Augusta
Raymond Fellows
Bangor
Bath
Cassidy
Warren C. Philbrook
Jane Murphy
High Street
Miss Murphy
Soldiers use oiled paper windows in France billeting
Serge Henry West recalls soldiers covering frames with strings and oiled paper to substitute for glass, letting light in while keeping out wind. Charles Ervine, who fractured a rib last week from a fall on Granite Hill sidewalk, resumed work at Bath Iron Works Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Serge
Henry West
Charles Ervine
Granite Hill
Bath Iron Works
True Medical executive buys cottage at Southport Swiss Chateau
J Rawson True of Auburn, connected with True Medical, purchased from Winfield Thompson of Boston, U.S. Shipping Board field agent, a cottage at Southport known as the Swiss Chateau. The cottage sits with views of Townsend Gut and Boothbay Harbor. John Stevens moved his household goods from Bath to Five Islands, aided by Joseph Greenleaf. Mrs. B M Stearns left for Philadelphia for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Rawson True
Auburn
J. K
True Medical
Winfield Mr. Thompson
Boston
U. S. Shipping Board
Southport
Mr. True
Mr. Thompson
Switzerland
Townsend Gut
Boothbay Harbor
John Stevens
Bath
Five Islands
Joseph Greenleaf
Bath woman narrowly avoids streetcar in Center Street incident
Tuesday afternoon a Bath woman crossing Center street stepped back to avoid an oncoming car and walked into the path of a streetcar stopped by the motorman just feet away. The report urges obeying Stop Look Listen at crossings and notes local residents Mary H Bruce plans to live with her daughter in Bath, plus other town updates.
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Center Street
Rehearsal Monday for Young People in Katcha Koo
A Cosmopolitan club event plans a late May presentation featuring many groups and child performers. Sammiies and Laddie Boys listed with chaperons, plus Priests and Priestesses, Scarf Dancers, Polo Group, and multiple named principals and nurses, including Miss Bessie Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katcha-Koo
Cosmopolitan Club
Alice Whalen
Catherine Galvin
Evelyn Hope
Catherine Thompson
Wdith Thompson
Elizabeth Coombs
Isabel Wishart
Peter A. Olinto
Charles A. Harriman
Italy
Lydia Daxter
Carrie Shaw
Ellen Newell
Margaret Baker
Louise White
Arabella Lord
Fred P. Shaw
L. J. Underhill
Clarence Johnson
Allen M. Irish
Belgium
Janette Smith
Alexandrine Martin
Addie Palmer
Miriam Reed
Robert B. Hatch
A. A. Percy
Ruth Ledyard
Doris Dyer
Helen Artis
Lucille Page
Evelyn Heald
Margaret Wishart
John Burkhardt
Walter S. Glidden
Ruth Mikelsky
Madelyn Davis
Josephine Fraser
Alice Deering
W. B. Palmer
Arthur J. Dunton
Margaret Hanson
Ethel Cochrane
Hattie Rechardson
Charlotte Cooke
Lillian Mason
Marion Titcomb
Redwina Mayers
Otis Trafton
Arthur J
Lester McCloy
Mr. McCloy
Bath Nets and Local Happenings Highlight Spring
Bath is abuzz with community items from flag lore to Shaws tulip beds. Notables include Gen J P Cilley’s retirement plans, lawyer Walter Butler returning to practice, and the Daniel Baker schooner wreck off Nabou with crew saved.
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Daniel ©. Baker
Eastport
Nabou
Cape, Breton
Strait of Canso
Dalen Islands
Aprarg
Saat
Maine toResume Steam Lines After War Use
Reports say Maine steamship lines will restart after months of vessels diverted to government service. Even small coastal boats such as South Port and Westport were chartered for military transport, carrying sick and wounded from transatlantic ships to hospital ports. An abandoned dock north of the electric power station on Washington Street is filling with debris and will become reclaimed land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys R. Perkins
Calais
France
United States Army
Miss Perkins
Lawrence General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Base Hospital
No. 6
Bordeaux
U. S. Army
Effie E. Perkins
Cleveland Street
Maine
United Sates
Southport
Westport
Dath
Boothbay Harbor
United States
Washington
Spring Street
Sedgwick circle G A R plans supper and grave decorations
At a Tuesday meeting Sedgwick circle Ladies of the G A R voted to serve supper on Memorial Day for Sedgwick Post G A R members and Sons of Veterans, and to decorate member graves. Guests Mrs Richardson and Mrs Gregory, formerly of Camden and now in Bath, attended. The sewing circle donated 235 to Sedgwick circle. Col Eugene T Savage and wife returned to Bangor from Washington after his army discharge and will rejoin T R Savage Co. Arthur Kief of Ellsworth, among Hancock county’s first draftees, home from service with a wound stripe. recounts Chateau Thierry exploits.
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Sedgwick Circle
Sedgwick Post
Sons of Veterans
Richardson
Gregory
Camden
Bath
Eugene T. Savage
Bangor
Col. Savage
Ordnance Department of the Army
Germany
American Army of Occupation
France
Arthur Kief
Ellsworth
Hancock County
Co. B. 1084
Chateau Thierry
Heington
Stinson
Sawyer
South Seville
Texas yard hospital expands services and staff
The Texas yard hospital now handles most accident cases in house reducing transfers to City hospital. Regular attendance includes nurses and surgeons Miss Lulu Manderson, Amy Titcomb, and Sarah Wade. A trench several hundred feet long is dug from J. W. Cummings Feldspar Co. new mill toward the Washington street line to connect with the city water main.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Yard Hospital
Lulu Manderson
Amy Titcomb
Sarah Wade
J. W. Cummings Feldspar Co
Washington Street
City
Civil War era kerosene price notes and yacht club launches
The Gardiner Home Journal of 1862 hints at profiteering during the Civil War with kerosene prices rising yet suggested to drop. It cites a city resale at 80 cents a gallon versus wholesale 45 cents and notes more New Meadows yacht club motor boats have been launched.
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Gardiner Home Journal
New Meadows Yacht Club
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Charles Douglass Russell
Horatio N. Douglas
Dummer Street
Georgetown
Benjamin. H. Woodside
Bertha Russell
Berlin
N. H
Mrs
Ellen Hagan
Albert Jolson
David King
Karl Harvey
Austin Wheeler
Gardiner
Arthur Emerson
Waterville
Joseph G. Rowe
Nellie A. Webber
New York City
Frank Rose
Henry Rose
West Bath
Newport
R. I
Naval Station
Mr. Rose
Island of Haulbowline
Queenstown
U.S.S. Melville
Edna Douglas of
Venus Marco
Harry Morse
Jennie RK. Morse
I. J. Adams
KE. L. Edgecomb
Biddeford
Mr. Adams
Marshall A. Nlaraden
Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc
William Mann
Eugene J. Hartnett
The
Hartnett Furniture Co
Jamestown, N. Y
New York Furniture Exposition
Torrey
Dearborn
Colonia
Portland
Portland Dry Dock
James I. Baxter Jr
Nelly Baxter
Colorado Springs
James P. Baxter Ltd
Anne Strang
Denver
Mr. Baxter, Jr
Rupert H. Baxter
West
Everett Brann
Capitol Island
Fred Rittall
Horace
Walter Richmond
George Gray
Alonzo McMahan
George Hunt
Waltham, Mass
Clara Williams
Hunt
Oscar F. Williams
School Street
Walter MacDonald
Kittery
James R. Dill
Roland J. Haining
Edna Pepper
Miss Pierce
Carrie
Mr. Shaw
Enos Berry
Oscar Tanguay
William J. Rouse, Jr
Rangor
State Foresters Convention
A. R. Pratt
Bedford Street
Nathan Copeland
Pearl Pratt
Ulman
Popham Pass
Sanderson
wEwazier
Merrymeeting Bay Shore
Barker
William Gilbert
Pilsworth
Lincoln Street
Sherman Tabor
David Standish
Sheepscot
Howard Rk, Ives of
F. F. Drake
Mrs. Augustus Pierce
Mr. Pierce
Havel Murray
Harold Emery
L. H. Rowe
Lulu
Vive Islands
Mrs. Rowe
Little Son
City Hospital
David T. Felton
James T. Morse
Wortland
Manlius Sargent
Mme
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Katherine Joyce
Holland' Street
Lewiston
Fred F. Tlaisdell
Philadelphia
Bath Friends
Dora Howard
Eleca— ‘Ton
Jenior High School
Ensign Lincoln Farrar
Alton Reid
Henry L., Day
Celia E. Kane
Grassy
Jessie Wilson of
Donald
Isabelle Fuller
Emilio de Gogoran
Mrs. W. ©. Fuller of
Rockland
New York
George Hobart
Christine
North Berwick
Mr. Tlobart
Thomas Hobart
Ernest A. Allan
Washington, D. C
Lawrence Hinckley
Naval Reserve Force
United States Navy
Rogers W. Pierce
Florence Dow
East Edgecomb
Harold Reed
Fred BB. Reed
Firestone Tire Co
Akron
Ohio
Reed
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Kenmore
Herman-Hoffman Realty Co
John P. Crosby
Guy Crosby
William Boyd
New London
George A. Churchill
L. P. Swett
Greenleaf
Moosehead
Ti. Rogers
L. D. Rogers
Truefants Crossing
Western Avenue
Frank Hall
Woman's Home Missionary Access
Arthur EB. Baum
Portand
Deaconness Board
James TB. Perkins
Wallace BF
Shaw
Oscar Wilson
Cambridge
A. D. Wilson
Wilson
Amherst College
John L. Cragin
Arthur EF. Bishop
Everett
Mass
H. B. Emery
Jane Whitmore
Florida
Louis Gagne
Ralph
Laura Gagne
Irene Kingsbury
Florence Webster
Hether Hall
Fred H. Sparks
Phippsburg
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Whippsburg
KE. J. Cook
Fitchburg
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William F. Ham
Texas Yard
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Chicago
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Texaco
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South End Parent Teachers Association
Moseley
James Lockery
Harold Dunn
Carroll Deering
N. Gratz Jackson
W. Nason
Leland Mitchell
William H. Small
Charles Stinson
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J. A. Redson
Richard Quick
Daniel Miller, Jr
Bay State
Norfolk
Providence
Henry L. Day
Celia KE. Kane
George FE. Green
Kennebunk
Holland G. Hamilton
Riverside
Popham Beach
Ancona Hospital
Vanama
William Hamilton
Brunswick
Hamilton
Robert
John Hinkley
Frank Sewall
Marshall
Sarah Elizabeth
East Highlands
Cal
Anna K. Swanton
Mr. Sewall
Small Point
Last Highlands
W. B. Skelton
Skelton
Dora
William B. Skelton
Public Utilities Commission
Hasty
Hirsha L. Tétman of
Rufus Emroé
Lemont Street
Nichols Co
Julia Davis
B. M. Stearns
Mary H. Bruce
Norridgewock
E. R. Wright
Marshall Avenue
George E. Thompson
Robert Shea
Old Folks
John Clifford
Shea
Kennebec
North Star
River Belle
Resolute
City of Bath
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Daniel Webster
John A. Morse
Summer Street
Morse
Parker Head
Alden Morse
Winnegance
Catherine Torrey
Joseph Torrey
Simmons College
Dummer
Sewall
Orse
Thomas P. Gibbons
Gibbons Coal Co
Mr. Gibbons
Singapore
Hyacintus
Maite
Shaw Home
George Stewart
Front Street
J. P. Cilley
Walter Butler
General Cilley
California
Cilley
First
Selden Connor
Sherry
Arthur B. Baum
Woman's Victory Loan Committee
Combination 4
George M. Rogers
Samuel Morse
Watson, Frye Co
Masons
Court House
Snipe
Thomson
Page
Horate Mitchell
Bath Waters
Néquassét
Allen
Oscar Williams
Virginia
Aderton
Avery Stable
Woolwith
Hipchomnex
Texas
Harding’s Station
First National Bank
Eastern River
Arthur G. Staples
Shaw's
Mr. Staples
Lewiston Byvening Journal
Gay & Barstow
Howard Wharf
Clifford
Edward Sewall
Rose Street
Ray Ham
Whitefield Brown
Mildred
Brown