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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Nov 04, 1916

Page

7

Banks Busy This Week and Center Street Paving Finished

Local notes report banks active in month end accounts and contractor Grady completing paving on Center Street. A resident traveled by Hockomock train to Portland for business, then returned by ferry to Woolwich. A furniture shipment for the Chaffee lumber crew was delayed by a Worcester car accident. Aberdeen shopping days eyed for Biddeford Bath. Woodmen and Texacos clashed in Park League with high scores by Smith and Olinto. Wawenock Camp Fire Girls hosted a Halloween party on Highland Street with Norman Goward and others attending. Government canned food pack analysis highlights Maine outputs including clams sardines and corn. Andrew Merrill prep work at Hospital Point for Old Folks Home foundations with Penney Nichols set to begin concrete work. Architects Goolidge and Carlson plan a homelike home for aged residents to be ready next spring.

Grady Center St Hockomock Portland Woolwich Marker Chaffee Phippsburg Worcester Biddeford Bath Woodmen Texacos Smith Olinto W. R. Kimball Pine Tree State Seed Co Holland Kimball Wawenock Highland St Herbert Hodgkins Norman Goward Thatcher Pinkham Edward Rowe Arthur Bowker Mansfield Totman Robert Fulton Walter Knight Reginald Stacy Carl Albee National Canners Association Maine Andrew Merrill Hospital Point Longview Thomas G. Plant

Community notes and obituaries from a Maine paper

Old Folks' Home work started and Colonial Cafe closes at 11 pm due to the 54 hour law. Large crowds attend North Street church services. Hallowe'en party hosted at Central chapel. Potatoes reach record prices in Aroostook. Healey undergoes cataract operation. successful recovery. Official debate over dime designer initials and coinage. Nathalie Billings hosts fourth birthday party. Metropolitan Life Insurance hits 1916 limit. premiums due. Prison escape leads to manhunt. description given. David F. Murdock of Portland dies aged 71. noted in business, real estate, and clubs. Hugh T. Madden's death mourned at Bath Iron Works and by veterans groups. Night watch hears roof noises. owl defeats pigeon on King Tav ern roof, with feathers scattered.

North St. Church Mullin Jane Moulton League Central Chapel Caribou Aroostook Henry P. Healey Metropolitan Life Insurance Co John Dougherty Thomaston Woolwich Bath Maine David F. Murdock Portland Murdock Murdock & Freeman Odd Fellows Chapman National Bank Hugh T. Madden Bath Iron Works Madden Goss Marine Iron Works Sedgwick Post Naval Veterans Night Watch Sonia Sears King Tavern Benny Smith Clerk Smith

Bath notes on politics shipping and local life

Local Bath items report smelt catches at the South End, Virginia joins Prohibition at midnight, and naval framing projects. Mrs Joseph H Lewis visits relatives. W J Murray and family lease at 23 Russell St, with Murray serving on torpedo boat destroyer Allen. Community events include a dry goods association visit, rumor correction about tenor Emilio de Gogorza, and Pine Tree Circle hosting Pine Cone of Augusta. A Bath court releases a drunk, overseers deny aid misuse, and a libel suit involving Margaret Walsh reaches a verdict. The Jacob M Haskell breaks west coast freight records, and City of Rockland returns to Bath for winter berth with crew on duty.

Virginia Manley B.I.W Joseph H. Lewis Westport W. J. Murray New Meadows Russell St Murray Allen Charles F. Marble Portland Bath Maine Retail Dry Goods’ Association Bath Dry Goods Emilio de Gogorza Brunswick William Belanger Boston Thomaston McQuesten Lumber Co Pine Tree Circle Companions of the Forest Pine Cone of Augusta Keegan Royce Shellf Marion St Russell Board of Overseers of the Poor Times Newell Lewiston L. A. W. Railway Margaret Walsh Ann Stover Freeport Supreme Court Africa Jacob M. Haskell Sekondi City of Rockland Kennebec Eastern Steamship Wharf Houghton’s Charles Lewis George Corbin James McKensie Q. M. Daniel McDonald

Bath notes and local events fill town diary

John H. Stacy visits Popham Beach winds up Bath happenings. Police arrest an offender, officers take vacations, and circles meet. Yachts visit Bath, Baraccouta and Coronet. Funeral for Mrs Eugene Knight held. Boothbay baots Halcyon launch slated with town plans. Public Utilities Commission rules on two fatal accidents with no negligence found. Halloween program at Mitchell barn features Hohpi Camp Fire girls and various contests with prizes.

John H. Stacy Popham Beach O.B.J Conley Odd Ladies Adelia Mitchell Weeks St Popham Sedgwick Circle G.A.R Annie M. Emery Ida A. Foster Shiloh Barraccouta Coronet Iceboro Bath William IL. Tremain P. A. Tremain Boston Bayonne N. J Glenville S. Tremain Elco Eugene M. Knight High St C. R. Chappell W. C. Perry A. C. Oliver Charles T. Small Charles Talbot Fairview Cemetery Boothbay U. S Public Utilities Commission Portland Terminal Company Bridget Build The Maine Central Railroad Company Brunswick Philip Bacon Hallowe'en Mitchell Barn Highland St Hoh Pi Hallowe’en Harold Fielding Marjorie Mitchell Willard Sprague Fred Starkey Guardian Frances Lord Cynthia Crosman Thelma Brown Irene Lennox Mabel Redion Harold Freeman Harold Brown Clifton Charles Neil Karcher Jackson

Local notices and maritime business items mix of Bath news

Pressed hay price changes and hay market notes. Miss Foote adds new books at Patten Free Library. Shipyard hires at Texas Steamship Co. deaths in Bath and Quincy. Auto registration revenue tallies. Coast Guard vaccination season. County Fair amusement plans. Coastal vessel movements and a collision near Castle Island. one missing crewman. Sagadahoc GOP open house election night. Arthur James sunk. 160 passengers disembarked.

State of Maine Pierce H. Lewis Portland P. H. Doyen Co America United States Coast Guard Winter St. Chapel Edward Young Marine Hospital Bath John Young Dummer St Young Port ‘Arthur Texas Oil Co Ezra R. Groves Front St Five Islands Woolwich Stevens New Cemtery Andrews Hallowe’en Elm Street Baptist Vestry Christian Endeavor Society Marie Rowe Esther J. White Marion Colson Arthur Stewart Edward Pomeroy Ariel Louise Frances Lawrence Bros South Gardiner Boston Capt. Brewer Southport Sagadahoc Republican County Committee Colonial R. H. Baxter Arthur James Castle Island Camden Rockland Mulasker Hager Round Bay

Hallowe'en party aids by four police. church note

Grace Church Sunday school held a Hallowe'en party at the Parish House from 5 to 7. Four additional policemen assisted regular officers to keep youths from mischief during the revels. James Lathrop of Blind Crossing received a smoking table from his workers as a testimonial of their esteem.

Grace Church Hallowe'en James Lathrop Blind Crossing New Haven Portsmouth Times Kittery Navy Yard Naval Howard Adams YM. C.A Harry Dunton Sydney Eaton Abbie McCabe Y.M.C.A R. Chappell

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