Education Board Acts On Several Important Matters
The November Board of Education met at City Hall with members Kelley Hyde Mitchell and Sawyer present. The group approved inviting a Portland Cement Association speaker for Morse High School Manual Arts students and allowed the South End Parent-Teacher Association to use Washington Street Primary School as a meeting and sales space. Regular meetings move to the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. starting December in the Aldermen's room.
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Board of Education
Aldermen's
City Hall
Ernest F. Kelley
Edward W. Hyde
Leland R. Mitchell
Harry B. Sawyer
Portland Cement Association
Morse High School
South End
Parent- Teacher Association
Washington Street
Hughes Victory Sparks Maine Election Night Mood
On election day supporters from Boothbay Harbor and surrounding towns traveled by car in 58 minutes and returned after midnight. Republicans celebrated as Hughes was reported winning by the New York Herald and leading papers. By Wednesday the West and later reports kept the outcome in doubt.
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Boothbay
Gardiner Bridge
Maine
Hughes
New York Herald
New York
The
World and Times
Justice Hughes
West
Sagadahoc County Tolled Early 1917 Votes in Presidential First
Sagadahoc County reports early state results with Hughes receiving 1828 votes and 1791 for Wilson in presidential tally. Rockland plans a hotel expansion with a five story glass addition adding 50 rooms and a summer dining room to overlook the bay. project due May. Bagadohoc Court Foresters of America to name an arrangement committee for Grand Court in Rockland May 8 1917 amid a run of whist games Friday nights.
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Rockland
Bagadohoc Court
Foresters of America
Abducted Sumner Boy Returns Safe From Bath
A 14 year old boy using the name Kenneth Gleason told Bath police he wandered with a Sumner resident, William McNeal, from a lumber camp to Lewiston Lisbon and Bath before deciding to seek help. He returned home to East Sumner after spending a night at the station and said he would not tramp again. The case ends with the boy back with his family and grateful for a safe home.
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Kenneth Gleason
Frank Gleason
Sumner
Maine
Rumford
Lewiston
William McNeal
Park St
Lisbon
Bath
Kenneth
East Sumner
Bridgton
How the States Went in Previous Years
This piece traces U S presidential elections from 1789 through 1912, noting evolving state participation and electoral votes. It lists winners, popular vote totals, and notable shifts such as the rise of the popular vote against the electoral college and the growing influence of third party and scattering votes.
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Washington
New York
North Carolina
Rhode Island
Adams
Jackson
Crawford
Clay
Wirt
van Buren
Harrison
Polk
Binney
Taylor
Cass
Pierce
Scott
Hale
Buchanan
Fremont
Fillmore
Coln
Breckenridge
Douglas
Bell
Lincoln
McClellan
Grant
Seymour
Horace Greeley
Hayes
Tilden
Peter Cooper
Smith
Garfield
Hancock
Weaver
Scattering
Cleveland
Blaine
McKinley
Bryan
Roosevelt
Parker
Taft
Wilson
Tast
Union Thanksgiving Service At Universalist Church In Bath
The annual Thanksgiving service, organized by Bath’s Ministerial Association, will be held Sunday evening at the Universalist Church with Rev. Gould J. Brown of Church of the New Jerusalem delivering the sermon. An offering supports Armenian and Syrian relief. Early returns show West Bath leader Galt guiding the Republican town committee for the second time.
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Ministerial Association of the
City of Bath
Universalist Church
Gould J. Brown
Church-of-the-New
Bath
West Bath
Chairman Galt
City Files Answer in Suit Over Pine St Sewer Dispute
Bath city solicitor filed the city’s answer to Mrs. William A. Jack’s equity bill seeking to discontinue the Pine Street sewer outlet on her Washington Street land. The city contends the outlet has long existed, was moved in 1908 at Mrs. Jack’s request, extended in 1909, and has drained tides and sediments from nearby flats for generations.
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Plummer
City of
Bridgham
Heselton
Jack
Pine St
Washington St
William A. Jack
Bath
Kennebec River
Said Street and Sewer Commission
Jackson House
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I. E. Archibald
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Madaline Traverse
James Munroe
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Hyde Windlass
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Harry O. Webber
Ann Pennington
Rainbow Princess
Anita King
Nance O'Neil
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William T. Hall
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Henry W. Hanson
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