Local notes record storms fires and city life
Streets were washed by rain as crews repair the sewer and fire ruins on Center Street. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Leonard M. Munsey at 427 High Street with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. A blasting project at Front and Arch Streets draws crowds while Bank Street safety measures limit charges near the Bath Savings Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Trayner
Leonard M. Munsey
High St
B. P. Browne
Corliss Street Baptist Church
Harry W. Crosman
Joseph Thurlow
Morris A. McCusick
L. M. Munsey
Oak Grove Cemetery
Rice
North Pole
Boston
Front St
Local Social Notes Highlight Bath Visitors and Arrivals
Bath residents and visitors are listed with trips and calls across Maine and beyond. Names include S. H. Conley, Herbert Cavanaugh, Walter Reid, Miss Mac O Brien, Richard Feehan, Miss Ruth Nickerson, J. Fitzgerald, H. O. Trowbridge, L Price, A W Viden, Mrs. Averill, Mrs. Quimby, Isaac Rideout, Mrs. Bowker, Mrs. Welch, Bertha Green, A C Ogle, Celia Solovich, Ruby Frazee, Henry Hodgdon, H T Passmore, W Mann, Augustus Seiders, Co H Knowles, L B Smith, George Wakefield, E R Wright, Phyllis, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Trott, Freeman Wood, Mrs. Mark Wood, several church groups, and a Bird House contest coordinated by the Cosmopolitan Club with prizes awarded at a June Morse High exhibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. H. Conley
Boston
Herbert
Cavanaugh
Portland
Walter E. Reid
Seguinland
Mac ’O Brien
Richard Feehan
Thomaston
John Fitzgerald
Ruth E. Nickerson
Southport
L. M. Pinkham
Center St
John C. Fitzgerald
U. of M
Mary Averill
Bath
Vine St
Chester Quimby
Mildred
Irene
Rockland
Quimby
Isaac H. Rideout
Herbert Bowker
Rideout
Maine General Hospital
Welch
Bangor
Maine
R. E. Feehan
Bertha Green
A. C. Ogle
Terry Steam Turbine Co
Hartford
William Mann
Augustus Seiders
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Cc. H. Knowles
Maine Automobile Association
Knowles
Ferry Schedule Opens Early This Season on Hockomock
Reports from Montgomery and St Bernard R A C note night trips beginning today marking the earliest start for the ferry service. The town buzzes with weather and event chatter as local stories unfold from storms to tea-time alibis and bear capers in Patten and South Brook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery & St. Bernard R.A.C
M.M
Hockomock
Boy Scout Council
Kathryn O’brien
Wilson O'Brien
Portland and area visitors noted in town
Joseph E. Anderson visits Portland while Thaddeus Orne of Boothbay Harbor and George Gilchrist of Fort McKinley spend days in Bath. Capt. S. R. Percy and C. H. Oliver return from Moosehead Lake fishing. Others arrange hospital visits, moves, and social engagements across Bath, Sagadahoc Ferry, Augusta, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Anderson
Portland
Thaddeus Orne
Boothbay Harbor
George Gilchrist
Fort McKinley
S. R. Percy
C. H. Oliver
Moosehead Lake
Frank H. Gallison
Bath and
Boothbay
Paul Gilmore
City Hospital
Thomas Spicer
Philadelphia
John Jaquith
Fairfield
William S. Staples
Court St
E. B. Collins
Augusta
Stanley E. Hussey
William DeCoste
Sagadahoc Ferry
Pawtucket
R. I
E. L. Gaudreau
Edward, Jr
Bath
George Marks
Farmingdale
Charles Emmons
Walker St
Bath City Hospital
Ernest C. Davis
Freda Ernestine Davis
Franklin Kendall Tyler
City
Fred S. Curtis
Fred Bowie
Bangor
Lowell Assembly
Grand Assembly
George McLean
Lowell
Massachusetts
W. Carroll
Chicago
Earl Webster
Carroll
U. S. Navy
Webster
Arthur Smith
Auburn
Bay Point
Harold Green
Maine
Alabama
South
Theological Institute
Nyackon-Hudson
New York
Eugene Southard
Harry Southard
Boston
Mass
Alice May Douglas
First Free Baptist Church
Elmer E. Newbert
Ocean Point
Stomach Trouble Endorses Tanlac in Bath Maine Ad
Andrew Nelson of South Portland testifies that Tanlac, made from herbs and roots, cured his stomach troubles after weeks of doubt. He praises the medicine and urges others to try it as Tanlac goes on sale at Swett & Co. Drug Stores in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Nelson
R.F. D
South Portland
Tanlac
Nelson
Swett & Co. Drug Stores
Bath
Moose and bears reported by Patten lumbermen
Lumbermen report abundant moose and bears around Patten. A Bowdoin Conference is set for the second Wednesday in June at Court Street Free Baptist Church in Auburn. The MCRR carried eight cars to the South End big box shop as a round trip fare of 5.00 per car. Moses Chandler of Popham Beach hauled an 80 pound fish Tuesday, his fifth large catch this spring for Portland Cold Storage Co. James A. Bimson’s hen business near his High Street home was disrupted when a gale split a tree and toppled onto his garden and hen house area. Reading and Palmer method buttons earned many students accolades at South and North Grammar schools across multiple grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten
Bowdoin
Court Street Free Baptist Church
Auburn
South End
M.C.R.R
Moses Chandler
Popham Beach
Chandler
Portland Cold Storage Co
James A. Bimson
High St
Bimson
South Grammar
Catherine Murray
Sidney Knight
Wilber Edgerley
Earle Whittemore
A. Preston Haskell
Edward True
Olive Gallant
Frances Peters
Jennie Costello
Joseph McDonald
Joseph Melrose
Florence Dunning
Angie M. Arsenault
Mary E. Oliver
Elsie Lake
Louis Taylor
Gladys Perkins
Marie A. Bernier
Adelaide White
Hallowell Rogers
Walter Morse
Merline Thompson
Elmer Blake
Bertha McCullouth
Ella King
Edith Coser
Marie Green
North Grammar
Ruth Martin
Iris Lantz
Edna Mary Totman
Mary B. Harrington
Ethel I. Grant
Madelyn Crosby
Carrie E. Shaw
Scarcity and local notices mix in Bath week
Good day is a scarcity at 28 dollars a ton. Mark Levine and Harmon Davis from Boston visited Bath this week and left on Wednesday. City officers warn primaries set for the third Monday in June. Heavy rain flooded the park pond and a makeshift raft formed on the bridge until authorities dispersed the scene. Percy Richardson resumes his chauffeur role for Hon. A. H. Shaw after recovering from October injuries. Memorial Day program proposes changing the entertainment to the Ninth Grade Glee Club at Central Church. Bath city officials schedule a special meeting May 22 to consider Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Co. pole and wire permits on Marshal Ave. Boston passengers for Rockland missed their connecting train and stayed in Bath. Pullman trains delayed. The storm helped extinguish distant forest fires. Wharf areas along Bath waterfront went under water by midnight Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Webb
Rogers &Webb
Boston
Bowker
Phipsburg
Mr. Webb
Millbridge
James M. W. Hall
Newton
Cambridge
H. W. Haskell
Deer Isle
Bath
Lewiston
Crowley's
Hong Kong
Halifax
Bangor
Champ Clarke
Washington
Maine
Augusta
Aroostook
Caribou
Tall Stove Club
South Brook
Patten
William Allan
Mother Brain
Allen
Father Brain
Mark Levine
Harmon Davis
Gilmore
Park Pond
Percy Richardson
A. H. Shaw
Also Mentioned on This Page
Beacon Street Church
William Thistle
Oliver St
Daniel A. MacDonald
West Bath
Wesley Church
Fearis
Messrs
E.A. Farrar
H. L. Hopkins
Lloyd Daley
Ripley
Wesley
West Bath Methodist Episcopal Church
Samuel R. Percy
Charles H. Oliver
Night Hawk Club
Moosehead
Percy
Hacker
Bank
L. B. Smith
Narragansett Hotel
Mr. Smith
New Hampshire
George R. Wakefield
Edgecomb
John Wakefield
Center*St
E. R. Wright
Phyllis
Mary H. Bruce
Harold Bruce
Norridgewock
Day’s Ferry
Catherine Trott
Freeman M. Wood
Belfast
Mark Wood
Harpswell
Mr. Wood
Fred A. Wood
Skowhegan
First Baptist Church
Brunswick
John L. Purington
Purington
O. M. Redlon
Cosmopolitan Club
Morse High School
Eureka
Sterling
Thompson Bros. Bath
One Price Clothiers
Conley’s Specialty Store
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