Aliens blamed for slaughter of protected song birds
Claims by John B. Burnham of the American Game Protective Association that aliens with illicit hunting licenses are killing song birds and eating wildlife in New York State. He cites warden William T. Creamer being shot while pursuing two alien bird hunters in Woodhaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Burnham
American Game Protective Association
Burnham
N. Y. Times
Italy
New York State
Old Country
William T. Creamer
New York City
Woodhaven
Patten Furniture Lost as They Move to Winthrop Residence
The furniture and household goods of Dr and Mrs BF J Patten were taken in a truck Monday to their new home in Winthrop. The Patten couple then departed in their car for Kennebec county town to reside, receiving best wishes from Bath friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BF. J. Patten
Winthrop
Mrs. Patten
Kennebec County
Bath
Honor pupils named at Morse High School
Morse High Principal Clinton D. Wilson announced the first honor list of the year. Of nearly 600 students, 27 made the highest honors with an average above 90, and 142 earned honors with averages 80 through 90. The list includes three boys among the highest honor recipients Warren Oliver David Brown and George Stetson. The compiled lists reflect averages across all studies rather than the prior per-subject thresholds and cover seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen with full alphabetical rosters listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton D. Wilson
Morse High
Wilson
Maine
Warren Oliver
David Brown
George Stetson
Anna Arck
Dorothy
Doris Brown
Adelaide Coombs
Edith Courser
Warren TD
Oliver
Annie Quinn
Barbara Austin
Gwynne Dresser
Ellen Newell
Louise White
Helen Brown
Elizabeth Coombs
Mary Curran
Catherine Trott
Helen Holman
Adelaide Campbelle
Margaret Courser
Sarah Courser
Helen Furber
Helen Hayes
Mary McDonald
Elsie Trott
Alice Whalen
Mabel Whitten
Five Islands Grange Evening Conferred Degrees
At the Five Islands grange meeting on Tuesday Miss Kathleen Gray and Miss Alice Pinkham received first and second degrees. A social hour followed with sandwiches coffee and doughnuts. The note of residents and visitors includes Bath Alfred MacMahan and George C. Hicks and many others visiting, returning or moving about the area with various errands and household activities noted. The evening closed with a program featuring grange songs and a question about tractors replacing horses on farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange
Kathleen Gray
Alice Pinkham
Bath
Fred Rittal
Alfred MacMahan
George C. Hicks
Vernon Gray
Mr. Williams
Malden Island
M. E. Bailey
Woolwich
Fred
Almon Marr
Nora
Brunswick
J. G. Stevens
Woodhaven
N. Y
Paul A. Thompson
Joel Avery
Topsham
Esther Worthing
Seguinland
Sunshine Circle
Iva
Alice Cromwell
Herman Spinney
Bay Point
Byron Campbell
Elizabeth Cromwell
Fred Reid
School Spelling Match Declared a Tie
Weekly spelling match at Weeks street school ended in a tie after Miss Hallowell and Phyllis Wright were the last spellers. The two girls spelled four hard words to avoid a tie and will lead next week’s teams, with Miss Hallowell and John Stewart noted as repeated captains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weeks Street
Mary Kane
John Stewart
Edna Hallowell
Miss Hallowell
Phyllis Wright
Man brings honeysuckle spray to Independent from Blair grounds
Robert DP Sutherland, a lifelong nurseryman, cuts a Morrowi honeysuckle spray from Capt. Charles A Blair's High street property. Planted in May, it bloomed in June and July, and this November spray is one of 28 blossoms described by Sutherland who questions Florida as a comparison.
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Robert DP. Sutherland
The
Independent
Charles A. Blair
High Street
Red Cross notes weekly conference and sight of Mrs Ro Amy
The Red Cross social workers met with new executive secretary Mrs Ernest Ro Amy at 2 30 pm Thursday. Attendees included Mrs Robert T B Hatch Mrs 8 8s Mullin Mrs J A Redlon Mrs BE W Hyde Mrs J E Locker Miss Hogan Miss Murphy and Miss Bowie. The chapter welcomes Mrs Crockett back to clerical work. A special committee will handle clothing distribution as office hours run 2 to 5 pm daily except Saturday. The secretary will visit mornings to contact families and assess physical mental or moral needs for relief. The Cathance River area shows old time activity with tugboats towing hard wood rafts and smaller craft carrying cargo. In the past lumber and coal trades drove river traffic with coal priced at $5 per ton at times. Mrs Charles HR Cahill is spending a few days in Boston.
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Red Cross
Ernest Ro Amy
Robert TB. Hatch
Mullin
J. A. Redlon
BE. W. Hyde
J. E. Locker
Miss Hogan
Miss Murphy
Miss Bowie
Crockett
Bowdoinham Waterways
Cathance
Smaaller
Ferry traffic rises in Maine over last year
Official figures from the Maine Publicity Bureau show 75,948 automobiles and trucks crossed the Bath ferry from January to November 1 this year, up from 68,839 last year. Horse drawn traffic fell from 14,606 to 11,915. Ten month receipts rose to 48,557.05 from 47,507.55. The bureau plans a summer out of state car census with stations at Kittery bridge Fryeburg Bethel and Newry. Census will cover arrivals via Jackman Edmonston Houston and Calais through customs officers. This will be the state’s first comprehensive census of this kind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Maine Publicity Bureau
Bath Ferry
Maine
Kittery Bridge
Fryeburg
Bethel
Newry
Jackman
Edmonston
Houston
Calais
Bath Restores Night Mails With New Bath Brunswick Route
Bath gains a new nightly mail route connecting with midnight trains East West and toward Lewiston. Beginning Monday Bath will depart at 10 p m and collection hours shift to 6 30 to 8 p m with deposits accepted until 9 30 p m for same night dispatch to Brunswick Lewiston and Auburn. The change restores the pre discontinuance service once provided when Maine Central train connections after 11 p m were cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Brunswick
Lewiston
Auburn
Maine Central
Bath men purchase stock of clothing
Harry Brown and Morris 8. Povich returned Friday night from a two day trip through the White Mountains to Littleton New Hampshire where they bought clothing and furnishings from Robert Abramson of the New England Supply Co at 154 Main Street Bath. They will ship the stock to Bath. Brown’s first mountain trip impressed by Mt Washington snow and beauty. They stopped at Mt Washington House Thursday night. Their Bath mileage was 169 miles.
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Harry Brown
Morris
Povich
White Mountains
Littleton
N. H
Robert Abramson
New England Supply Co
Main Street
Bath
Mr. Brown
Mt. Washington
Mt. Washington House
Wilbur F Merrill Lincoln county official and lawyer dies
Wilbur F Merrill 65 longtime Lincoln County clerk of courts and prominent Wiscasset figure died suddenly at his home after a brief illness. Born Windsor 1857 he practiced law served three terms as county clerk and held many Masonic and fraternal offices. He leaves a wife three daughters and two brothers. The sardine packing season ends near normal with satisfactory prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur F. Merrill
Lincoln County
Wiscasset
Merrill
Bath
Mr. Merrill
Windsor
Enoch
Mary A. Merrill
Wiscasset Academy
University of Maine Law College
Lincoln Lodge of Masons
New Jerusalem
R.A. C
Arambee Lodge of Odd Fellows
Star Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Vine Cone Rebekah Lodge
Chewonki Tribe of Red Men
Lincoln County Bar Association
Grace York
Freeman Southard
Roy Marston
Everett R. Merrill
Augusta
Ulysses 8. Merrill
Boston
Georgetown supper clears about $28 for church work
A Monday night supper in Georgetown netted about $28 for the Baptist church work fund. The event followed by a vestry meeting and a program featuring Rev. E M Holman of Bath Rev Bishop of Brunswick and Rev Clarence M Fogg of Freeport.
Bath Man Is Named In Bath Divorce Suit
Katherine Edgecomb files a divorce libel in Portland alleging cruel and abusive treatment by Charles W. Clifford Jr. married Jan 15. Grounds include alleged abuse on the third day of their honeymoon. Clifford, once of Bath, now South Portland, operates garages in Bath Damariscotta Rockland and Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Katherine Edgecomb
Clifford
Bath
South Portland
Charles W. Clifford, Jr
F. R. Dyer
United States
R. M. Ingalls
Cumberland County
Frank Morey
W. Bridgham
Flora Edgecomb
Maine
Damiariscotta
Rockland
Brunswick
City committee bought excess coal for schools
The fuel committee overbought coal covering to the end of the next school year, not just the current fiscal year, prompting concern from the Board of Education about paying beyond their appropriation. Mayor Torrey assured action would be taken to prevent overdraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Torrey
James L. Morse
FL Kelley
Dailey Evening School of Industries
Heald
Lucinda Dailey
Sagadahoc
W. Q. Hunt
South Street
Winneganee
SBS
Wilson Magazine Co
Center Street
Morse
Nellie Sprague
South Street U. A
Mrs. Annie M. White Funeral Held at Bowdoinham
The funeral for Annie M. White widow of TH) M. White of Bowdoinham took place Wednesday at 9 AM at the Old Folks Home. Rev. Ernest M. Holman of the First Baptist Church officiated. Burial was in Bowdoinham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie M. White
Bath Boy Proves Hero At Tech Night Rescue
Robert P. Shaw of Bath, president of MIT senior class, urged 1000-plus Tech students to disperse after a celebration at Shubert theatre and Hotel Lenox. Police reserves arrested 17 amid clashes. Shaw’s intervention cooled the crowd. Also, Walter E. Edge hosted dinner for his Bath fiancée Camilla Sewell and her parents at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlantic City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert P. Shaw
Fred P. Shaw
Bath
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Traveler
Tech
Shubert
Hotel Lenox
Harvard Bridge
United States
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Ritz-Carlton
Atlantic City
Camilla Seweile
Harold M. Sewall
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Beaver
U. L. Farnham Co, Inc
Rath
D. M. Humphreys & Co Fire and Marine
Room
Sagadahock Block
Bath. Me
Christine Curtis
Marion Dolloff
Harriett Dunton
Genevieve Duprey
Flora Frasier
Mark Gediman
Elizabeth Gray
Stanwood Gihnan
Beatrice
Katherine Harrington
Mildred Howe
Daisy Hunnewell
Evelyn Hussey
Frederick Trish
Almena Jacques
Lillian Lewin
Malcolm Loring
Bertha McCullough
Katherine Mayers
Marion Morse
Kenneth Nason
Pauline Vpage
Addiella Palmer
Bernice Quimby
Albert Redlon
Dorothy Sheldon
Willian
Carrie Shaw
Cecille Veilleaux
Leslie White
Blair Wilson
Grace Allen
Mary Appleton
Mary Badalee
Lucille Beal
Bona Blair
Alice Bowie
Hattie Brown
Elsie Carter
Mary Conley
Charles Cummings
Loretta Curran
Evelyn Davis
Clayton Dolioff
Alexander Donaldson
Dorothy Donnell
Marguerite Fullerton
Lillian Hall
Fletcher Harford
Lena Gaudette
Helen Harvey
Dorothy Huggard
Beatrice Jenkins
Florentine Knowlton
John Larrabee
Dudley Leavitt
Mary Lord
Violet Lumsden
Luella McDonald
Edna McDougall
Celia McEluan
Doris McKay
Stephen McWhee
Ruth Merry
Gertrude Milliken
Howard Miller
Albine Munsey
Louise Oliver
Hannah Phillips
Harry Pinson
Ephraim Pooler
Wilfred Rice
John Riley
Grace Robbins
Novella Shepherd
Grace Spaulding
Paul
Merle Niles
Mary Paine
Charles Parks
Elizabeth Robbins
Susie Robbins
Carolyn Rogers
Helen Rogers
Clifford Russell
Shirley Shepherd
Marion Skinner
Eleanor Sparks
Doris Soule
Richard Stinson
Louise Stewart
Thelma Thornton
Roger Tubbs
Maurice Warner
Isabel Stevens
Georgetown
Sylvia Barnes
Porthind
Elbridge Mains
Hicks
Scott
Crownshind
J. G. Rowe
Gardiner
Frank Southard
Lisbon
Elisha Fields
Alvah Southard
Herman Colby
Percy McGilvery
John Hinckley
Five Islands
William Belanger
Victoria Snowman
Five Islands Grange
Ida Rowe Supine
Everett Higgins
James MacMaha
Otliscicigee
Tay Po
Alice Cromwell Pitace
Aurelia Grey
Delia Davis
Lizzie Cromwell Grange
Florida
F. S. Curtis
Bath, Maine
Red
Charles HR Cahill
Sade
E. M. Holman
Bishop
Clarence M. Fogg
Freeport
Baptist Church
W. T. Boyd
John Williams
W. A. Todd
Popham Beach
T. H. Hagan and Son
Frank Heald
Ida Lewis
Earle Hagan
Eugene Reynolds
Henry
Ralph
Lester Powers
Robinhood
Annie Senter
Sara Pinkham
Union Hall
George Oliver
Mattie Hinckley
John Oliver
Charlotte Young
Everett Trafton
Edgar Hunt
Navy
Gordon Hospital
Dorothy Leoborn
Walter Cummings
W. C. Todd
Ernest Brooks
Harriet Deering
Lydia Reid
Wantucket
R. L
Clifton Matthews
Thomas Hagan
Lizzie Cromwell
Carroll Powers
Ida Williams
Waltham
Mass
Ralph Reynolds
Ruth
Julia Davis
T. N. William
Junior Williams
Delia Chirk
David Oliver
Marrtown
Charles Perkins
D. W. Griffith
Columbia Theatre
Leah Mains
Charles Mains
Ellsworth Loveitt
Millie
William Mains
Roscoe Mains
Charles Main
Kuppenheimer
John J. Desmond
the House of Kuppenheimer
Mrs. White
Bath Boy
Fairbanks-Morse
Chas. W. Merrill Co
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