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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1915
Page
3
Georgetown topics recount visits and returns of Mrs. Charles W. Billings, James Stuart, Miss Belle Heald, Miss Ethel Todd, and other locals. It notes road work, fires near the Center school, a hurricane impact at Miss Josephine H. Oliver’s camp, and various town movements, illness, and construction updates.
Local items describe Nat Percy shingling at Cox's Head and guests of Capt. and Mrs. Frank L. Percy. Reports mention Miss Annie Cutting’s Portland trip, Edward Sampson’s Bath vacation, and Arizona engineer Thomas Flint Nichols returning from San Francisco to Phoenix. Fears arise for schooner Maude Crumb’s crew after ship sailed April 20 from Mobile. Pomona notes list Dromore members attending a meeting, withweather and social comments on ocean views and local talks by Hon. Frank S. Adams.
A Woolwich gathering features Bodwell ladies dinner with beans bread and pies. Community updates include hospital visits, ship arrivals, a fire scare at Day's Ferry parsonage, a runaway youth at the Carlton Farm, and plans for the Woolwich Agricultural Fair.
Mr and Mrs Charles Favor of Hopkinton NH and their daughters visit the Locke family for a couple weeks. E E Seekins and wife stay with relatives in Portland and Monmouth. Mrs Arthur Bean visits Cedar Grove. Wiscasset Grain Co installs a large gasoline storage tank. Selectmen of Wiscasset and Edgecomb install lights on the long bridge draw. The harbor’s draw now must be lighted despite reduced shipping. William Southard oversees the lights. E S Leavitt returns to Boston after a week at his old home. Evelyn Hodgdon visits several schools in Wooolwich. Mrs Earl Parker and Miss Iveir Hilton attend the Damariscott Fair. State road inspector Avery discusses laying out a road to be built this fall. Joseph Usher and wife, honeymooners at Little Oak Island, return to Wakefield MA.
The Woolwich Grange presents an evening program on October 2 including A College Song performed by the brothers selected by Percy Bailey, a reading by Carrie Hodgdon, and a medley by Sisters Minnie Locke Mary Plumstead Cynthia Adams and Nellie Bailey. A debate on whether the war in Europe injures New England farmers pits Frank Hodgdon and Percy Bailey against G D Fullerton and M C Oliver.
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