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Newspaper

Bath Independent

Location

Bath, Maine, United States of America

Date

Nov 18, 1916

Page

12

Doors Sash Blinds Builders' Supplies Ad

An advertisement for Doors Sash Blinds and Builders' Supplies listing as agent for Chil n Paints Ruberoid Roofing and located at 21 23 Elm St Bath.

Elm ST Bath

Moral tale warns of bad company in Bath

A 36 year old man from Lincoln visits Bath with money and a job. He meets a affable stranger with a suitcase and drinks from a case of forbidden liquor. The Lincoln man refuses to peddle drinks but ends up sick, jailed briefly, cared for by authorities, then sent to the City Home under a physician’s care.

Lincoln Bath I.lincoln East

Drunk Arrest After Theft From Pocket Whiskey

One intoxicated man was arrested after a patrol found him coming from a car early Monday. Two pints of whiskey were removed from his pockets.

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Tall Stove Club Seeks New Checkerboard for Winter Matches

The Tall Stove Club members cheer plans to acquire a modern checkerboard for upcoming winter games. The purchase aims to improve match play and uphold club traditions.

Tall Stove Club

Milbridge Notes on Local Doings and Dated Events

Local items report on porch gatherings at 18 Deering St and a Genesta Sewing Circle meeting. News covers a three masted schooner under construction by Bowker & Son, Beacon Street Church gathering, Hyde Windlass Co office near occupancy, Miss Madeline Crosby’s birthday party, and funerals for David Neagle and pensioned conductor Samuel Lunt. Also notes: lumber camp travel to Phippsurg, Grand Turk launching in Milbridge, and painter demand amid winter work and higher journeyman pay outside Bath.

Sullivan Boston Genesta Sewing Circle G. W. Merrill Deering St F. S. Bowker & Son Phippsburg Beacon St. Church Charles J. Dain Hyde Windlass Co Hacker Madeline Crosby High St David Neagle St. Mary’s Church N. J. Horan John J. Lynch Joseph Crane Henry M. Biggins Richard Nolan Oak Grove Cemetery Samuel O. Lunt Boston & Maine Somerville Mass Mr. Lunt Portland Robert McIntyre Frank Benjamin Charles Owen M. D. Corbett Warren Dyer Phippsurg Thomas McCormick Chaffee Firm Worcester Stony Brook Milbridge Sawyer Bros Rogers & Webb John French Bath

Night shift planned at M C R R for freight work

Local notices move from harvest to transport as a night shift is set at the M C R R for freight tasks. Other items report a Clifton Street resident hospitalized in Portland, road improvements cutting freight costs per ton mile, and local court updates on a Bath burglar.

Sheriff Catches Shore Burglar In Bath and Small Point

Llewellyn Batterson, seized by Sheriff Oliver in the Small Point Beach clubhouse, admitted thefts from shoreline cottages at Small Point and Popham. Batterson, from Phippsburg with Boston ties, faced $4,000 bond and denied accomplices while police recover rifles, silverware, watches, and other items.

Beacon Street Ladies Hold Winter Sale and Supper

The Beacon Street Aid Society hosted a sale and supper from 6 to 7 30 pm on Wednesday. A winter storm left four to five inches of snow with cold weather prompting furnace fires as residents endured more winter conditions.

Weather and local notes from a Maine town

First item in the snow expense account for 1916 17 recorded Tuesday. The northeaster started the wild geese flying and it is nearing the end of woodcock as these game birds leave with the cold. Mrs Marriner takes charge of dress goods at D T Percy store replacing Miss Harriet Morrison who resigned. Merrymeeting Bay hosts ducks and divers driven by the storm along the coast. Coal by rail from Scranton arrives in South Paris at 12 per ton. The Oxford Democrat notes consumers must be thankful for the price. The Teachers Club opens with a reception for new teachers. Intentions of marriage listed for Hasty Grant and Sullivan Ramsdell. Residents save for Boston trip to Billy Sunday services. Joseph Luti shot a 150 pound buck deer in Georgetown this fall. High Street in South End criticized for poor condition. Three four masted schooners building for Crowell Thurlow Boston are under construction in Maine yards and set for launch in spring. Funeral held for Mrs John P Delano on Oak Street. Park League Pilgrims lose to Athletics 1267 to 1170 with Cutting leading. National Federation of Post Office Clerks calls for higher salaries and reduced night work. Bluff Head cottage paints stolen. suspects eyed for repaint.

Teachers’ Club Assembly Hall Arthur A. Hasty Bath Elsie F. Grant Georgetown Harry Dean Sullivan Augusta E. Ramsdell Boston Billy Joseph Luti Joseph High St Russell Pine Maine Crowell & Thurlow Cobb Yard

Local notes reflect weather, obit, and shipping from Maine

The Times issues a school directory while doctors report midwinter colds. Snow fell in Augusta and Rockland with undetermined amounts in nearby areas. H. Y. Davis dies in Cleveland at 60 after an intestinal operation. Bath and Lewiston residents visit relatives, and the schooner Horace A. Stone sails from Portland for Bridgetown with 22 937 bundles of sugar hogshead shocks valued at 40 842 dollars. The Bath Bowling League sees Texas Steamship Co. teams split wins with Cadman top scoring 109 and 285. Bangor reports 60 deer including several named sportsmen, with red license tags noted. Fort Kent hunters anticipate Maine woods hunts next year.

Times Press Frank Hodgdon Dreamland George Crockett Augusta Rockland H. Y. Davis Loyal Order of Moose Cleveland Ohio Davis C. A. Conant Lewiston Philips B. J. Goodwin Bath Horace A. Stone Portland Custom House Bridgetown Barbadoes P. L. Farmer Bath Office Texas Steamship Co Cadman George B. Drake Supt Thomas Spence Bangor John Coombs Herbert J. Pennock Kennett Sr Philadelphia Lew McCarty Catawissa Penn Sherrod M. Smith Manfield BE. J. Pfeffer Champion Ill Coombs John Maine Fort Kent Maine Woods

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A. al Brunswick C. L. Farmamco. Inc M.C.R.R Leavitt Clifton St Maine General Hospital Department of Agriculture Woolwich Bath Aerie Armory Hall Reynolds Small Point Llewellyn Batterson S. J. Court Sagadahne Charles P. Wetherbee W. S. Newell Bath Iron Works Washington, D. C Eastern Steamship Corporation Thonaston F E. H. Waterhouse Daniel Wilkinson God's Quarter Acre Wilkinson Supreme Judicial Court Oliver Monday Small Point Beach South End Popham Batterson George E. Percy Salem Popham Beach Merton O. Webber Marr's Island Morse's River Sheriff's Posse Llewellyn Oliver Aterton Beacon Street Aid Society Bath Co Mikelsky Music Store Charles W. Morse Manhattan Narragansett New York Morse Emma S. Briggs Lewis Vassalboro Hallowell House Island School Washington Sts J.w.&o. R. Pennell Maine ST National Federation of Post Office Clerks Congress Bluff Head Charles FE. Gahan Gahan William Clark Mr. Gahan Charley Dye House H. E. Douglass Prop Front ST Bath, MB Brunswick, Me Citizens Maine Street
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