Cities vie to host national conventions next year
A survey outlines which cities like Chicago Cleveland San Francisco Denver and Minneapolis may host the Republican and Democratic national nominating gatherings. It notes that New York declines the bid while others boast past convention leadership and readiness to field delegates and alternates. A second item reports on Bath Kennebec bridge construction progressing quietly with piers nearly finished and steel girders being erected as traffic opens to the public. A driverless car in Detroit demonstrates wireless controlled operation and phantom driver technology prompting police scrutiny.
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Kennebec
Bath
Tess
Foundation Co
McClintie Marshall Co
Inoena Jeb
Detroit
Ariel
Maine Game Law Changes From Last Legislature
Summary of revised Maine hunting rules including moose seasons in specific counties, deer limits, fur bearing animals, rabbits and fox seasons, Sunday and night hunting restrictions, waterfowl timings, protected species, and non-resident license costs. Mentions statewide and county specifics, transport rules, trapper licensing, and safety provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Androscoggin
Tuland Fisheries and Game
Andrescoggin
Sagadahee
York
Merrymeeting Bay
Animal Rescue League Seeks Vacay Pet Stowaways Care
The Animal Rescue League of Massachusetts asks travelers to notify its offices if leaving cats behind. This humane step aims to prevent strays, starvation, and suffering by ensuring pets are cared for while owners are away.
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The
Animal Rescue Teague
Massachusetts
League
Ben
Bath Independent Grange Department invites letters
Members of the Grange in this area are urged to send items for the Grange Department. Letters should be addressed to Grange Department The Bath Independent and reach the newspaper by Tuesday nights.
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Grange
Bath
Interesting program at Bodwell Grange
Rodwell grange meet at Small Point Friday evening featured an open discussion on whether the social side or business side of the grange is more important. The program included readings by Bessie Sprague and Albert Thompson, vocal selections, a radio segment, and a question for member discussion led by Worthy Master Gilman Trean Taw.
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Rodwell Grange St
Small Point
Albert Thompson
Eleanor Preams Thomas TL
Totman
Bessie Sprague
Gilman Trean
Thomas E. Totman
The
Grange
Bazaar at Sagadahoc Grange draws large crowds
Two nights bazaar at Sagadahoc Grange hall drew standing room crowds. Mrs Charles Bobb led a song with six men as the entertainment on the second night. Items on sale sold well and auctioned goods went to the highest bidders. Altogether the bazaar was a success.
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Shebb
Nh Center
Sagadahoe
Progressive Grange Plans Degrees at Richmond Corner
A good turnout attended the regular meeting of Progressive Grange at Richmond Corner Friday evening. After routine business a well received lecture program was presented. Next Friday evening the first and second degrees will be worked on a small class of candidates. The ladies will host a baked bean supper for church funds. Ventilators will be installed in the hall and cement bought to build a front porch platform.
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Regiar
Richmond Corner
Four Act Comedy A Fishermans Lack in West Bath
Final rehearsals are underway for the four act comedy drama A Fishermans Lack to be presented Friday night at West Bath grange hall. The production promises a premier effort from the grange with lively old favorites and new faces in a well balanced cast including Mrs. Joanna Hodgkins David Tender son Lelinda T Phimmer Katherine Galvin Alice Mulligan William Ho White Mrs Alt Wing Leigh Reed BE Mason Wright and Wilbur Hagan.
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Lelinda T. Phimmer
Katherine Galvin
Alice Mulligan
William Ho White
Alt Wing
Leigh Reed
BE. Mason Wright
Wilbur Hagan
Will Present A Play At Sagadahoc Grange Hall
The Union E Society of Bowdoin stages My Brother's Keeper at Sagadahoc Grange Hall on Tuesday evening featuring a cast led by Meacham Alonzo Freeman Horner Marshall Ernest Freeman Penal Jasper Natalie Toward Frances Baker Ellen Miller with specialties and a music between acts.
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Union
E. Society of Bowdoin
Sagadahoc Grange Hall
Meacham
Alonzo Freeman Horner Marshall
Ernest Freeman
Penal Jasper
Natalie Toward
Frances Baker
Ellen Miller
Five Applications At Topsham Grange
Topsham grange held its regular meet Saturday evening with an attendance of about 100. Five more applications were brought in. The speaker program featured readings and entertainments by local members. A One act play titled The Silent System was presented by Mr and Mrs Morrill. Christine Rackley read a piece on Small Pines. Grace Sprague arranged the Flag Salute.
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Topsham Grange
Gercrude
Mrs. Morrill
Christine Rackley
B. K. Moore
Ad- Grace Sprague
Ser Williams
Cross Country Auto Tour Highlighted by Mrs Bailey
Mrs. Julia Bailey shared details of her automobile trip to California and back to West Bath grange on Monday night. Readings by Hope Ward. new memberships proposed. Senator J. Edward Drake and wife to join grange with degrees conferred June 6. upcoming performance of the four act comedy A Fisherman's Neck Friday draws a crowded hall.
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Julia Bailey
West Bath Grange
California
Mr. Bailey
Hope Ward
J. Edward Drake
Grange God
Grange
Dutch play planned at Woolwich Grange session
Weather interrupted Woolwich Grange meeting last week. Next Wednesday night an open session will feature a Dutch play by Washington school children at Mentsweag station, with tea cream and cake for sale. Public is invited.
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Woolwich Grange
Washington School
Mentsweag Station
Dromore Grangers Improve Their Hall
Dromore grange of Phippsburg held a largely attended meeting Tuesday evening to plan hosting Iahoe county Pomona day. Repairs to the hall, especially the dining room, enhance appeal. The grange will stage public entertainments and suppers later in the season with a large turnout expected. New members are joining this spring.
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Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Ihahoe County
Pomona
Grenge
Errange
Sagadahoc Pomona Grange Meeting at Dromore
Rain did not keep away a good turnout as Sagadahoc Pomona Grange and Dre more Grange met in Phippsburg for the annual memorial service. A fine dinner followed the program, and the session pleased attendees. The Independent will run a fuller report next week.
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Sagadahoe County
Pomona Grange
Dremore Grange
Phippsburg
Inge
Five Islands Grange Evening Program Noted
The Five Islands Grange held a Tuesday evening program featuring Long-Smile Awhile and a motins stele attre week. Mrs. Addie Amuazeen, Miss Eleanor Campbell, Miss Lelia Campbell, Mrs. Amanda Mlaisdell participated with a reading and a closing thought.
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Five Islands Grange
Moses
Addie Amuazeen
Eleanor
Lelia Campbell
Amanda Mlaisdell
Engagement announced for Miss Madelene Barker of Topsham
Mr and Mrs Chester F Barker of Topsham announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Madelene Ko Tark er to Louis D Litehfield of Brunswick. Both graduates of Brunswick High School. She taught at Brunswick High in the commercial department after Bay Path. He worked for the State Highway Commission since NH graduation and has been stationed in Calais for two years.
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Chester F. Barker
Topsham
Madelene Ko Tarker
Louis DB. Litehfield
Stephen Litehfield
Brunswick
Barker
Titehfield
Brunswick High School
Bay Path Institute
Litchfield
State Highway Commission
University of New Hampshire
Calais
Bath Sends Check for Flood Relief
Charles C. Low treasurer of Path chapter Red Cross reports total flood relief contributions reaching 1861.55. A 1800 check was sent to Washington this week and new additions bring the fund to 41.75 from Woolwich, Arrowsic, and Lowell school pupils in West Bath, nearly triple the original 700 quota.
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Charles C. Low
Path Chapter
Red Cross
Mississippi
National Headquarters
Washington, D.C
Woolwich
The
Arrowsie
Lowell
West Bath
SLATO
Bath
Bergeron Belanger Bride Leads Brunswick Wedding
Laura Mae Belanger daughter of Mr and Mrs Leon N Belanger Bath and Eugene L Bergeron son of Mr and Mrs Treffler Bergeron Brunswick were married Monday at St Marys church Rev Fr Gorman officiated The couple wore elegant attire and bouquets The bride attended Morse high school and worked in her fathers bakery The groom attended Brunswick schools and worked at Pejepscot Paper Co They will reside in Brunswick after a wedding trip to New Bedford Massachusetts
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Laura Mae Belanger
Leon N. Belanger
Bath
Eugene EL. Bergeron
Treffler Bergeron
Brunswick
St. Mary's Church
Fr. Gorman
Alice Belanger
Alfred Gaudrean
Pejepscot Paper Co
Morse High School
Obituary of Elizabeth Kanaghan Sawyer of Portland
Mrs Elizabeth Kanaghan Sawyer 59 wife of Albert L Sawyer of 64 Paris Street Portland and sister of Mrs Charlotte E O'Brien of Bath died Friday at Maine General Hospital Portland She had been crippled for 20 years but kept a genial disposition Survived by husband sister niece Mrs Mary O'Hara grand niece Miss Charlotte O'Brien 2nd A requiem high mass will be at Sacred Heart church Portland Monday 10 am Mrs O'Brien has gone to Portland and Mr and Mrs Philip G O'Hara will attend the funeral Sunday
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Elizabeth Kanaghan Sawyer
Albert L. Sawyer
Paris Street
Portland
Charlotte E. O'Brien
Bath
Maine General Hospital
Mary O'Hara
Charlotte O'Brien
Sacred Heart Church
O'Brien
Philip G. O'Hara
Blister Rust Work Expands Across Maine Counties
Maine Forest Service reports field work for white pine blister rust control has begun with a record funding year. Programs are active in Cumberland York Oxford Sagadahoc Androscoggin Kennebec and Lincoln counties with 51 towns funding eradication efforts. Local leaders appoint crews to assist pine owners, train over 50 workers in identifying rust hosts, and coordinate state and federal agents to target affected areas.
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Maine Forest Service Oat
Augusta
Cumberland
York
Oxford
Sagadahoe
Androscoggin
Kennebec
Lincoln
W. ©. Frost
J. A. Kimball
Auburn
F. P. Yeaton
R. G. Newman
E. H. Hunton
Mr. Frost
Death of William T P Sanford Former Bath Ship Carpenter
William TP Sanford 64 died Monday at his home S09 Maine street Brunswick native of Hanks county NS came to Bath as an infant. He lived here until ten years ago moved Brunswick. Survived by one son William H Sanford Brunswick three daughters Mrs Vernon W Miller Bath Mrs Fred Johnson Lewiston and Mrs Forrest Cunningham West Newbury MA two brothers Rufus Hanks county NS and Jerry Sanford Bath one sister Mrs James Goodwin Portland.
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William TP. Sanford
Path Ship
Maine Street
Brunswick
Hanks County
N. S
Bath
William H. Sanford
Vernon W. Miller
Fred Johnson
Lewiston
Forrest Cunningham
West Newbury
Mass
Rufus
Jerry Sanford
James Goodwin
Portland
Committal Service for Octavia Putnam Thompson set in Maple Grove
Committal services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. on the Putnam lot in Maple Grove for the burial of Mrs. Octavia Putnam Thompson. Daughter of the late Dr. Israel Putnam of Bath she died in January at her son William P. Thompson’s home in Quincy Massachusetts and the body has been entombed until this burial in her old home.
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Putnam Lot
Maple Grove
Octavia Putnam Thompson
Delightful Genesta Chapter Past Matrons Night Program
Genesta chapter O I S celebrated its 27th anniversary with Past Matrons Night drawing large attendance. Mrs Ber Nice Fuller chaired with past matrons and patrons assisting. After the meeting a mixed quartet performed and readings plus songs followed by ice cream and crackers. First matron Mrs Warren Gledhill attended from Lewiston. Charles Bradeen returned to New York after a Bath weekend involving track games in Brunswick.
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Genesta
Berniece Fuller O
Luther Thompson
Henry G. Shaw
Thompson
Frederick Edney
Charles Bradeen
New York
New England
Brunswick
Man’s ailment turns to a mouse in pants tale
A Rockland man, troubled by rheumatism, notices swelling migrate between legs. After discussing with his wife and trying the osteopath, a sudden pantaloons change reveals a live mouse leaping out, ending the odd episode reported by the Rockland Courier-Gazette.
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Rockland
Hubby
Rockland Courier-Gazette
Bragg Competes At Whittierfield Track Meet
Ralph W. Bragg attended the track games at Whittierfield Brunswick Saturday afternoon to participate in events and compete against other runners.
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Ralph W. Bragg
Whittierfield
Brunswick
Milk Production in New England Shows Small Gain
New England dairy reports on April 1 show average milk per cow rising 4.4 percent from March, to 17.12 pounds. Regional and state variations exist with gains in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, while Maine and Rhode Island post declines. Prices for milk and grain remain favorable, with higher wholesale butter prices and minimal butter storage.
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New England
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Maine
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New England Milk Producers’ Association
Mareh
Toston
Thoston
Cross-Word Puzzle Horizontal and Vertical Clues
A dense list of crossword clues spanning horizontal and vertical entries with numbers and punctuation, including multiple definitions such as an advocate, a device, and various common nouns, arranged in two contiguously labeled sections.
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Treas
Front Street
Bath, Maine
Ameri
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Sagadahoc
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