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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1916

Page

12

Pine cargo marks first Bath pine by water since November

The four masted Ellen Little arrived from Jacksonville with 622 000 feet of pine for the Maine Central Railroad. It is Bath's first pine shipment by water since Nov 22, and the ship completed the run in eleven days amid rough seas. Crew report favorable winds allowed a sail into the river without a tug and stevedores began unloading.

Manatawny Catawissa Seguin Parker Flats Larrabees Suffolk Lovell Richmond Ariel James H. Young Randolph South Gardiner Lumber Co New York Flats Haute Augusta Bath Ellen Little C. W. Holden Jacksonville Maine Central R. R Carrie A. Lane Little

Fishermen report scarce shad and small size this season

Local fishermen report few shad in the river with many undersized specimens. A Beam of notes covers community events including a Moose sociable at Music Hall, boat work on the Shaw lot, flag day reminders, and a busy Wharf district with ships, ferries, and local road work.

Moose Music Hall Driftwood Club Shaw Lot Front St

May sunshine Wednesday wel com e portland and voting notes

May sunshine on Wednesday is noted along with a June 1 deadline banning clam shipments from the state. City Clerk Grassy updates primary lists. The article covers local events from shipbuilding delays in Phippsburg to St John’s Day plans and Bath municipal actions.

F. H. Percy Y.M.C.A John Moody Oakland Cal Gilmore Frank Wilkinson Bath Bath City Hospital Grand Army of the Republic of Maine Portland Texas Mr. Johnston Mitchell, Johnston & Carlton Wiscasset Peaslee Grassy W. H. Sampson Bowker Yard Phippsburg Dunlap Commandery K. T St. John's Day Lewiston Commandery Ferry St William J. O’brien Ferry Commercial Commerce Front St Dreamland Theatre Columbian Chambers David Reed Woolwich Reed John David Bangor Theological Seminary Martin George J. Bloomfield Henry E. Dunnack

Various Local Notices Cover Taxes Events and Court Updates

Poll taxes due with a discount. Interscholastic meet hosts 15 schools at Bowdoin. After a Lisbon Falls ball game, Bath hosts a Jolly Dozen attended dance. E C Plummer speaks at Winter Street Church. Morse HS 1916 class invites sermon. Local coal rates stay high. Lewiston YMCA planning progresses. road work near Blind Crossing blasting. court cases in Portland continue. schooner Alice May Davenport change of command. Eagles hold final whist and plan next season. library books funded by South End PTA and new acquisitions listed.

Bowdoin College Saco Club Lisbon Falls Jolly Dozen of Bath Winter Street E. C. Plummer D. L. Wilson Central Congregational Church Morse High School Wallace Pittsfield Police Department John Logan East Bowdeinham Medical School Harry Thebeau Woolwich Y.M.C.A Lewiston Auburn Blind Crossing Connecticut Willows B. P. Brown Harry Warner John Warner Superior Court Portland Brunswick Brown James F. Dunton New York James B. Drake & Sons Davenport South America Wylie Eagles Front St Rev S. A. Evans People’s Church Weeks Street South End Parent-Teacher Association Johnson Lincoln Pinnochio Long Lansing Dame and Brooks N. E. Tres Kashman & Kohler Stickney Webster’s Large Elementary Webster’s High School Robin Hood Baker Selesian Webster’s & Coe Coe Stevenson Hawthorne Carroll and Brook

Bath Drunks Arrested as Brunswick Block Fire Burns

Sunday arrests in Brunswick lock up two Bath drunks while Bath works on canal plans and plant gardens. Fire in Richmond destroys a three and a half story block, with a bowling alley and fruit store on the ground floor, forcing a family to flee. A rock thrown from Cemetery bridge injures a train brakeman as police hunt the offenders.

Bath Brunswick Percy & Small Yard Schmoner John H. Ramsay West Side Street & Sewer Commission Western Ave Center St Cape Cod Canal Metropolitan Line Massachusetts Bunker Hill Boston New York Josephine P. A. B. Widener Delaware River George D. Widener Harry H. F. Barrett Winchester Bath Iron Works Richmond William Small Hyman Brothers Cemetery Bridge Berry Hanscomb Harry Rodick Sonia

Memorial Day events and local council notes in Bath

The report covers Polar Star Lodge conferring the B A degree, Memorial Day plans and a Jolly Dozen double header with Boothbay, Dorcas Guild visiting Mrs T N Kewley, an Aldermanic hearing on pole locations, and routine Highway and Sewers Board business in Bath City Hall. It also notes Morse High playing Brunswick and upcoming home game against Edward Little, a Webb law whiskey seizure destined for Lisbon Falls, and cultural notes on Geraldine Farrar in Bath. Funeral services for Mrs Oliver A Preble and interment at Oliver burying ground are mentioned, plus a Blasted ledge pebble find by John Couillard.

Y.M.C.A MacCormick Cleveland Woolwich Dyke Samuel Thompson William Oakes Thompson Oakes Harry Thebeau South End John Sonia Grammar School South St Sonia Sherr Reynolds Reynolds Small Alderman Morse Bath & Brunswick Light & Power Co Marshall Ave Edward Pepper D.L. Howard Achille D. Guiseppi Chilie Hoffe Kennebec Fruit Co Mike Marotto Co Boston Fruit Co Marco Parillo Committee On People’s Church H. P. Mason S. A. Evans Morse High Brunswick Brunswick High Edward Little High Norris Webb Lisbon Falls Bath Geraldine Farrar Maria Rosa Dreamland New England Oliver A. Preble Willard H. Oliver Crescent St. Court O. W. Folsom Georgetown Center Oliver Burying Ground New Shaw Building John Couillard Deering St Iceland General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church United States

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Cox Hay Lincoln Street State Road Bowker Ram Island M.C.R.R Beacon St Thomas M. Baker Eames de Gogorza North St Edward Harrington Juno Universalist Church A. C. Staples Washington St Woolwich Ferry Ira Duggan Texas Yard Kelley-Spear Co American Ice Co Kennebec Hudson William ‘Holbrook Cundy’s Harbor Clayton Mulcahy Federal Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of People’s Church Pierce Lord St George F. Williams Hawthorn City of Rockland Henry McCabe McCabe G. W. Gray Cosmopolitan Gift, Food and Tea Higgins Art Co Sunbeam South Gardiner Pocopiona Wingate Hallowell Easton Gibbons’s Ella Clifton Lawrence Bros A. G. Marston Polar Star Lodge the Jolly Dozen Boothbay Dorcas Guild T. N. Kewley Beacon St. Parson Highways and Sewers Board City Hall Eastern Steamship Corporation America National Cloak Empire Mechanical Milker Empire Empire Cream Separator Company Eaton Mardware
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