First Girl Rivet Passers Tell of Shipyard Labor
Two Augusta and Oneida Daniels from Granite Street describe rivet work at The Texas Steamship Co yard. They detail 400 to 600 rivets daily, nine hours a day with ten hours pay, wearing government mandated gear, and the pride of contributing to the war effort amid cold mornings and strict oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oneida Daniels
Times
Ina Newson
Edmund Daniels
Granite Street
Augusta
Daniels
Texas Steamship Co
Miss Daniels
Texas Yard
Bath Celebrates Armistice Parade With World War I Tone
Bath marks the signing of Allied terms with a vast parade led by Hon. Edward W. Hyde from City Hall at 2 30. Police officers band nurses Red Cross workers industrial plants and mothers of service members join in a multi section procession through the city. Citizens donate to the United War Work Campaign as floats placards and automobiles highlight the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Edward W. Hyde
Witham
Fagan
Kendall
Sprague
Roderick
13Th Co
Fort Baldwin
Co. A
United States Guards
U.S. A
Lieut
Wilbur CC. Oliver
United War Work Campaign
Agerl
Texas Steamship Co
Man
George B. Drake
William T. Cobb
Bath Iron Works
Carroll Watson
Project 13
L. P. Soule Son, Co
Texas Yard
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Project 59
Leighton and Mitchell Co
Palmer Field
Boy Scouts
Morse
Bath Co
U.A.E.P
Colonial Club
Bath Ministerial Assojation
Knights of Columbus
Street Department
Painter’s Union Local 395
United States Department of Labor Employment Service
War Workers Organization
J. Edward Drake
Torrey
George
Dearborn
Colonia
Armistice News Sparks Bath Celebration and Busy Extras
News of Germany signing the armistice reaches The Times and Independent editor early Monday. Mayor Drake signals the city bells and fire alarm as crowds gather, while a Times bulletin board becomes the focal point for impromptu parades and cheers. The Colonial Club flies a service flag and confetti streams down, lighting a daylong Bath celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Times and Independent
Drake
Times
Colonial Club
Peabody Heads Maine Odd Fellows in 75th Session
Dr Frederick B Peabody of Richmond elected head of the Grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Portland marking the 75th annual session Works opened with Grand Master Harold J Toward presiding 54 candidates received the grand secretary reports show lodge counts membership finances and relief disbursements with substantial totals and a page eight continuation noted
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick B. Peabody
Richmond
Sagadahoc
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Portland
Grand Lodge
Harold J. Toward
Waterville
G. M. Chapman
W. S. Hutchinson
Connecticut
Samuel Walker
James Bennett
Massachusetts
Haining Writes Home From Front Amid War News
Priv Roland J. Haining of Battery D 60th Reg AEF in France sends a letter to Mrs Sadie Beaton at 78014 Washington street. He describes frontline movement then resting behind lines, mentions good job driving a truck, longing for home and meals, asks about papers, and notes ships bringing troops back to "God's country."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Beaton
Washington Street
Priv
Roland J. Haining
Battery D
60Th Reg. A.E.F
France
Haining
Priv. Haining
Bath
Mrs Phillips Visits Bath Sister Before Returning Home
Mrs Frank H. Phillips formerly Miss Lucy E. Sewall of Bath is a guest of her sister Mrs Albert L. Strout. She has been spending the season in Bath and is en route back to Reading Pa where her husband serves as superintendent of maintenance for Carpenter Steel Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Phillips
Lucy E. Sewall
Bath
Albert L. Strout
Phillips
Sumis
Reading
Carpenter Steel Co
Memorial for Nurses Losses in Epidemic Proposed in Bath
The Times notes two readers propose a memorial for nurses Harriet Bliss Alice Dain and Adelaide Hogue who died serving during the influenza outbreak. They favor a city hospital contagious ward addition or a monument on city owned ground at the Summer street triangle, Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet F. Bliss
Alice Dain
Adelaide Hogue
City Hospital
Miss Bliss
Bath City Hospital
Bath
Times
Federal Square
Summer Street
City Government Approves Streets and Lights Plan
The Bath city government adjourned session approved Plan 126 outlining public use of highways and street lighting on Moreland Realty Co. property and connected pole and circuit plans by the Central Maine Power Co. The city pledged to operate new lights as public utilities. New constables Fernando A. Shepard Edward E B Ervine and Selwin H Oliver were confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Shipping Board
Moreland Realty Co
City of
Bath
Central Maine Power Co
U.S. Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Sofar
City of Bath
South End
Thomas P. Black
Laura Black
Board of Highways and Sewers
Fernando A. Shepard
Edward EB. Ervine
Selwin H. Oliver
F. J. Thompson
The
Texas Steamship Co
Elsinore Avenue
Quimby Street
Park and
Harvey Streets
Washington and
Cedar Streets
Park and High Streets
Rupert H.baxter
Bathwater
Feaslee
Price
Andrews, Thistle and
Shaw
Shipping Board
Parker Head native Leslie R Oliver becomes port engineer
Leslie R Oliver of Parker Head and son of Mr and Mrs Marcus L Oliver has been appointed port engineer for the United States Shipping Board with offices in Boston. At 28 he holds an unlimited engine license earned at 24 and has sailed seven overseas trips aboard interned German steamers. Married Mary Ellen Cooney in Brooklyn last May, the couple now resides in Cambridge with Mr Olivers parents visiting from Parker Head. A snowfall noted with brief flurries Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie R. Oliver
United States Shipping Board
State Street
Boston
Mr. Oliver
Marcus L. Oliver
Parker Head
High Seas
New York
United States
Germany
Oliver
Willehad
Hector
Philadelphia
France
Bermuda
Brooklyn
Mary Ellen Cooney
Greenpoint
Francis W. O’brien
Bath
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Mass
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Sam
Miss. Oneida_ Daniels
Independent Office
F. B. Peabody
Head OF
Maine
ODD Fellows
R. J. Haining
Phippsburg
Frank D. Percy
Galen Hinckley
Atlantic
Leslie R Oliver
St. John, N. B
Drew Hawling Irons
Johnson Bros. Company
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