Aurora over Phippsburg as town notes end with Dunning funeral
A Friday night aurora borealis display lights the northern sky in Phippsburg, followed by a funeral service for Miss Sadie Dunning at Basin Chapel. The 13 year old’s death from heart failure ends her family’s long illness. Community updates cover local illnesses, accidents, and social visits across Bath and Meadowbrook areas.
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Sadie Dunning
Basin Chapel
Elder House
Elder Dern
East Harpswell
Joseph A. Dunning
Ethel Christine
Lydia Nellie
Evelyn Wells
Sadie Anginette
Ivory Holman
Charles Varney
Maine General Hospital
Meadowbrook
Martin
Asa Wyman
Martin Wyman
Leon Eaton
Fred Percy
Mr. Eaton
Edith Eaton
John Jewett
James Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Rebecca Bowker
California
Chicago
Eleanor Fullerton
Uriah McNeil
Yarmouth
McNeil
Conway
N. H
Bath
F. C. Bowker
William Bowker
F. S. Bowker
J. F. Leeach
Walter Bowker
F. B
John Williams
Alice
Abbie Minott
Grace Dickinson
Olive Bowker
C. V. Minott, Jr
William Chidgey
Harry Frye
Christine Frye
W. R. Dickinson
Bath Aldermen Sustain Mayor Veto Over Tuition Abatement
Special Bath session sustains mayoral veto on waiving tuition for F. W. Carlton’s child attending Bath schools. Aldermen cite state law, fairness to taxpayers, and risk of overloading schools, while naming Weeks and High Streets school the Mitchell school and outlining nonresident tuition rates.
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F. W. Carlton
Woolwich
Bath
Carlton
Plummer
West Bath
Dain
Cahill
Footer
Front St
Weeks and
High Sts
Mitchell School
Welch
Five Islands Happenings In Local Society News
The Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs. W. H. Holland's home with fifteen attendees enjoying work and social time and dainty refreshments. The Grange activities included three new candidates and plans for a larger harvest supper with State Secretary Kibby present. Community updates cover hunting trips, travels, a new hall under construction, a tragic horse-carriage incident, store ownership changes, and visits from relatives, with warnings about chicken thieves and social guest notes from local families.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
W. H. Holland
Elisha Fields
O. Larrabee
South Gardiner
Freemont B. Rowe
Ellen E. Hagan
South Portland
Grange
Will E. Rowe
Dead River
Black Brook Camps
O. K. Wilson
Charles Snowman
Bath
Caroline Lace
Washington St
Freemont Rowe
Southport
Westport
James McMahan
Harold Rowe
Frank Southard
George Owen Named to MIT Naval Architecture Faculty
George Owen of Newton Massachusetts a MIT graduate has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the naval architecture faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston caused by the resignation of H A Everett associate professor. One schooner on the Kennebec recently earned two thousand dollars in six months on a voyage and the vessel was 500 tons in size.
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Slade
Luke
Christ
Jesus Christ
God
Jesus
The
International Marine Engineering
George Owen
Naval Architect
Newton
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Naval Architecture
Boston
H. A. Everett
Institute
Lower
Kennebec
Central Maine power seeks Bath and Brunswick control
The Waterville Sentinel reports Central Maine Power Co plans to acquire Bath and Brunswick Light and Power Co with potential three cent rate cuts and electricity education efforts in Waterville. Stockholders listed include George F. West Arthur S. Bosworth Charles Sumner Cook and Samuel C. Manley. Approval rests with the Public Utilities Commission. Park Bowling League saw Hyde Windlass at one point and Elmhursts posting 491 on both strings. Cutting led scoring.
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Waterville Sentinel
Bath & Brunswick Light & Power Co
Central Maine Power Co
Bath and Brunswick Company
Androscoggin
George F. West
Arthur S. Bosworth
Charles Sumner Cook
Portland
Samuel C. Manley
Augusta
Central Maine Company
Bath and Brunswick
Central Marline
Pulice Utilities Commission
Waterville
Park
Hyde
Elmhursts
Bowline
Winter Painting Advantages for Interior Work
Winter is ideal for interior painting as painters are less rushed and may offer better prices. Cold homes benefit from disinfecting paint and stable temperatures aid drying. It’s a good time to remove wallpaper and brighten walls with sanitary flat paint, with Sherwin-Williams products suited to any job.
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Sherwin-Williams
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Phippsburg
Wallace
Arthur MacDonald
Walter McCourt
Dr. Williams
Golder
Frank Thompson
F. B. Williams
Frank Ridleys
Basin
John Eastman
Drummond Kelley
Kelley
George O. Curtis
Ethel Gurney
Fanny Percy
N. W. Eaton
Arthur Higgins
A. C. Brown
Bar Harbor
Meda Bridges
York Village
Ruth Eaton
Ashdale
Eleanor Eaton
Small Point
Elbridge Wallace
Orland Wallace
M. J. McCormick
Little Hill
Beals Farm
Charles Henderson
John Goff
Elizabeth Welch
Moses
Lionel
Augusta Small
Chester Wallace
John D. Eastman
S. C. Campbell
M. J. Percy
Small
Leland Mitchell
Chil
John M. Clark
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Wm C. Chadbourne
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United States
Washington
Port-au-Prince
Black Republic
Moses Rowe
Mr. Rowe
Russell
McMahan
Cambridge
Arabine Gray
Boothbay
Charles E. Boucher
Lisbon Falls
Priscillas
C. C. Davis
Julia
Lermond H. Rowe
J. G. Stevens
Carolyn
Colby
Dr. Austin
Central Maine
Bath & Brunswick CO
Big Electrical Corporation
Johnson Bros. Co
Bath, Me
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