Bath News Roundup Includes Crime and Shipping Notes
A Bath page reports jacking deer, two schooners towed by tug Seguin, and local industrial hopes. It details a late night arrest for intoxication in Brunswick, a 90 day punishment for Woodsum tied to fruit theft, a carriage overturn injuring two women, and plans for an electric railway to boost Bath as a rail hub. Additionally a Flora Condon survey shows heavy damage after a collision and a Lewiston woman found with whiskey en route to Rockland, tied to liquor import efforts.
Local Jottings from Beacon Street in Bath
The Bath area paper notes a friendly Beacon Street gathering on Friday, fall weather, and local items. Turkeys arrive at 30 cents a pound. Universalist rummage sale nets $35. E W Society meets at Miss Ruth Goodwin’s home. metal ceilings go in at the New Dreamland Theatre.
Lawns Stay Green and Bath Sailors Add Craft
The region reports ongoing green lawns and strong smelting with large smelts. Bath sailors place more power pleasure craft in winter quarters. Community notes cover routines from the Lisbon Falls band debut to local church circles, court-martial news, and a Coast Patrol campaign launch in Casco Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Bath
New Lisbon Falls
Sedgwick Circle
G. A.R
Tidal Surges Highlight Weekend Haze and Local Notes
Saturday brings very high tides and continued Northern Lights sightings. Town happenings include church meetings, marriage notices, and a plan to study a gasoline engine factory in Bath led by Father Gill and Mr. Nichols.
Blood Purifier Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted
The ad argues brain health depends on pure blood and claims impure blood causes headaches memory loss and vision issues. It lauds Hood's Sarsaparilla as a reliable blood purifier that fights scrofula rheumatism catarrh and other blood diseases and remedies run-down conditions.
Local notices and events fill Bath week notes
The Holy Name Society skipped Monday but will meet next week. Beads with a cross were found on Water Street Sunday and picked up by Deputy Sheriff Aderton. A laymen meeting at Beacon Street Church Monday at 7 30 was led by Dr Haskell of Jerusalem M E Missions. Sunday morning temps reached 29 in Phippsburg and 30 in Bath. The body of William P Cutler arrived Saturday and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery after services for his daughter Mrs Emma Wilson. Boston capitalists missed a Maine electric line meeting Friday night. Staples and Muratto power boats drifted from KYC moorings. no injuries. Coal pile fire at E S S Co began by spontaneous combustion. councilmen Andrews and Leydon aided. Emery Bowdoin-Maine game standout for Bowdoin though team lost. Bath boys in Boston noted working with John D Farrin at New Tremont Hotel. clerk Fitzgerald joked about Independent. Mrs Eliza A Hall funeral at Old Ladies Home. interment Oak Grove. H J Pierce, Bath-born Seattle grandson, wrote Looking Squarely at the Water Power Problem on nitrogen and defense. First Baptist Church hosted a large Sunday service with night lighted room. sermon Come and a future Mounts of the Holy Land with colored views. Tall Stove Club discussed seafaring days and a Navy recruit earning 21 dollars monthly with better meals, remarking on rations.
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Woolwich
Melinic
Hallowell
Hazel Dell
South Gardiner
Seguin
Bath
Virginia
Popham Beach
Brunswick
Augusta
Woodsum
Bath Fruit Co
Portland
J. F. Butler
Alden Richardson
Maine
Flora Condon
Governor Cobb
Portland Shipbuilding Co
South Portland
T. J. Laithwaite
E. R. Norton
8. Murphy
Boston
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Lewiston
Aderton Wi
Water St. Court
Rockland
Ira Rice
George Rice
Hunnewell Place
Murphy's Corner
Universalist
E. W. Society of the First Baptist Church
Ruth Goodwin
Pratt St
Bath Iron Works
Robert Sutherland
Front St
Times
Culbert MccGay
Grace Church
Wiscasset
St. Phillip’s
Messrs
Lemont, Ham, Morse and
Lowell
University of Maine
Parker Moulton
Combination 4
Swett
Don. McCollum
North End
Don
Kennebec
League of Central Church
Margaret Foote
Washington St
League
M.C.R.R
Knights of Columbus
Epicures
Knights
Keegan
Massachusetts Bay
Nevada
Provincetown
Blind Crossing
Board of Highways and Sewers
First Baptist Church
Scott R. Frye
Bath Automobile & Gas Engine Co
Dodge
Studebaker Corporation
Lennox Hotel
New England
Frye
Colonial Cafe
Fred Rich
Salisbury Beach
Joseph Lemont
West Bath
Cheltra
Center St
Dorcas Guild of
Beacon Street
Marion Dain
Trufant St
Ladies’ Aid
William P. Dean
North St
Foreign Missionary Society
Frank Davis
Edwards St
Richmond Bee
Joseph S. Carter
Bullock
Oliver
Carter
Sidney J. Willis
Universalist Church
New World
A. B. Thwing
Carleton
Thwing
Rice
Charlestown Navy Yard
Little
Casco Bay
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Hinckley
Henry A. Shorey
Bridgton
Pine Tree
Boston Post
Water St
Aderton
Times Business Office
Beacon St
Haskell
M. E
Jerusalem
Phippsburg
William P. Cutler
Oak Grove
Emma Wilson
Staples
Muratto
K.Y.C
City Landing
E.S. S. Co
Andrews
Michael
James Leydon
W. E. Chase, Jr
Emery
Bowdoin
New Tremont
John D. Farrin
Fitzgerald
Jack
Independent
Eliza A. Hall
H. A. Corey
Wesley Methodist Church
William Leeman
Cleveland Wright
Charles Wright
William L. Linecoln
H. J. Pierce
Green Building
Seattle
Washington
Joshua Page
Pierce
Myrle Strong
Jesus
Holy Land
Tall Stove Club
Navy
Laymen Missionary Convention Held in Portland
Local churches attended a three day Laymen's Missionary Convention in Portland. The program covered sermons on church growth and world missions, reports on finances and statistics, and multiple ecumenical rallies led by notably Dr. E M Poteat Dr John M Moore and Charles G Trumbull with sessions through November 14.
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Portland
Turkey
James McNaughton
EE. M. Poteat
John M. Moore
E. W. Halford
E. M. Poteat
Charles G. Trumbull
Committee On
Portland Convention Area
Fred H. Gabbi
J. Campbell White
United Rally of Women's Missionary Societies Saving America For the World's Sake
Charles FE
Burton
Hewitt and Higgins United in Quiet Richmond Wedding
Miss Aura P. Hewitt and Ernest M. Higgins of Richmond wed at 2 p m on Thursday November 4 at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage Mechanic Falls. Rev R A Rich performed the ceremony attended by Mr and Mrs O S Sherburne. The couple traveled by auto with Samuel Meserve as chauffeur. The bride is daughter of Capt Charles E Hewitt of Richmond and a Richmond High School graduate. Higgins, born in Lisbon Falls, has worked as a ship fitter in Bath and elsewhere and now holds a position at the Kittery Navy Yard.
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Aura P. Hewitt
Ernest M. Higgins
Richmond
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage
Mechanic Falls
R. A. Rich
Miss Hewitt
O. S. Sherburne
Mrs. Hewitt
Charles E. Hewitt
Richmond High School
Higgins
Lisbon Falls
Bath
Kittery Navy Yard
Sunday School Social Set by First Baptist Class
Rev C R Chappell teaches the First Baptist Sunday school class which held a vestry social Friday evening. All members and friends were invited, marking the first in a planned series of socials by various classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Sunday School
C. R. Chappell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mercury
Clarence Stover
Sewall
Parent and Teachers’ Association
Richard Quick
Weeks St
Beacon St. Church
Eugene McGrath
Milan St
Joseph A. Meckinnon
Margaret M. Morrison
Tugseguin
Charles Trickey
New York
Fred Jewett
Jewett
George H. Gutterson
D.D
Winter Street Chapel
Central
Winter Street
Dr. Gutterson
Congregational
New York Sunday World
Cassin
McDougal
Central Church
I Am
Alpha and Omega
Stainer
Hill
Edward A. Johnson
Anne Hall
Dudley Buck
Nichols
Bath Chamber of Commerce
T. M. Gill
Dominican Order
Mr. Nichols
Father Gill
Chamber of Commerce
Montreal
Holy Name Society
Latin America
L. J
Kinsolving
E. M
America
H. S. Johnson
W. C. Johnston
Baptist First Baptist Church Congregational
Second Parish Church
Methodist Episcopal
Chestnut Street
Protestant Episcopal
St. Stephen’s
High Street
Africa
J. E. Crowther
Japan
Rudolph Teasler
The
Church of Today
James L. Barton
Hewitt-Higgins
Fletcher
Castoria
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