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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1914
Page
12
Local jottings report a cold snap with Bath seeing few autos, icy puddles and light traffic. Community events include a Boothbay Center dance and Knights of Columbus installations, with ongoing plumbing, stove and water projects and a push to aid Aroostook potato shipments to Belgian relief.
Dike Street will see a new pedestrian path while E C Dunning of the South End recovers from illness enough to be out. A schooner and the City of Augusta prepare for winter quarters as fog and vapor hamper coastwise navigation.
A range of small items from fishing at Winneganee Creek to piano work at Columbia Theatre. George Crockett of Brunswick will start as pianist next Monday. Pigs suffer cholera, and farmers face late butchering as season nears. A lighter collided with a Virginia bow, causing no serious damage. Bath sees more houses shingled amid lower shingles prices. Wells run dry, and a Bath area farmer uncovered live frogs in a spring. A Bath boy in Portland saw 50 000 black ducks off Munjoy Hill. A plate glass light at the former Washburn garage was smashed during car movement. The Rodney Parker schooner bound for Boston stranded near Cranberry Island. likely total loss, valued at 4500 dollars with 7000 dollars cargo. Colonial Club basketball opens December 4 with Rexford Club of Portland visiting. other games booked. Saga dahoc Council Knights of Columbus held a successful whist, with 25 tables and prizes of apples, potatoes, cabbage, and turnips. Mary Kelley performed music during the event.
Patchwork of town news includes a residence conversion on Garden Street to a two flat, a Bailey night school sewing class, a new home purchase by Biddeford Aerie F.O.E., a South Street PTA meeting, Boothbay Center dance guest notes, Curios in Phippsburg, a city water line project over Winneganee Creek, and bequests in Dr George S Lynde’s will to Yale Bowdoin Phillips- Exeter and Bangor library. Also reports on fishing catches near Monhegan and Pemaquid, new auxiliary formation in Lisbon Falls, and local ads for goods and services.
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