Rotary Conclave Opens In Poland Spring Next Week
Bath Rotary members learned the first annual eighth district conclave of Rotary International will open Monday at the Poland Spring House and run through Wednesday. Noted speakers include Everett W. Hill and Chesley R. Perry with about 1,000 Rotarians expected, plus a packed schedule of meetings, concerts and dinners.
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Bath
Rotary International
J. Anton E. Verkade
Zaandam
Holland
Chesley R. Perry
Chicago
Bert M. Fernald
United States
Maine
Vpland Spring House
Pan
Lynn
Lowell
Marblehead
Newburyport
Haverhill
Everett W. Hill
Hart J. Seely
Boys Work
Will R. Manier
Jrf
Herbert C. Wilson
Fred W. Carberry
Robert W. Hill
Elmer Kk. Hubbard
George ID. Hegarty
Bangor
Houston
Claremont
Concord
Fred Carberry
Milwaukee
Wis
Rotary Club
Oklahoma City
Okla
Herbert (. Wilson
Worcester
Mass
Bist District
Hart I. Seely
Waverly
N. Y
28Th District
Everett W. Hull
Boys Work Committee
Daniel F. Sullivan
Vortland
Portsmouth
Fort Fairfield
Keene
Marion Harper Kuschle
Nashua
Ehesley R. Derry
Edward KK. Whiting
Boston
Whiting
Boston Herald
Salem
Dover
Manchester
Newport
Augusta
Bath Board of Trade Eyes Texas yard plow plant
A Bath Board of Trade meeting heard Horace Thomas of the Thomas Snow Plow Co outline plans to manufacture plows in a central Texas yard. The group discussed purchasing the Texas yard, backing with eight percent mortgage notes, and leasing plant space to begin 20 workers immediately with potential reach to 100 within months.
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Bath Board of Trade
Texas Yard
Ralph ©. Dale
Horace SS. Thomas
Thomas Plow Co
Thomas
United States
Canada
Texas Company
North End
Thomas Snow Plow Co
New York
Gath
Board of Trade
Texas
Dale
Bath
Texas Co
Moldieft
M Cormick Talks Prison Reform at Bath Rotary
Austin H. MacCormick Bowdoin Alumni Secretary spoke at Bath Rotary on prison reform praising Thomaston’s new state buildings and improved inmate treatment. He recalled a local warden from Boothbay, noted prisoner solidarity after an inmate’s escape, and teased other Crusades from patent medicine to Mah Jong. Plans for the Eighth District convention at Poland Spring next week were announced.
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Austin H. MacCormick
Bowdoin College
Bath Rotary Club
King Tavern
MaccCormick
Thomaston
MacCormick
Boothbay
Bath Club
Poland
Woolwich Farmer Breaks Berry Record in Maine Cultivation
Woolwich farmer Harry DeWick reports 4000 quarts of strawberries in one season at the Hlockomock Berry and Poultry Farm. He plans to reach 19000 quarts next year with expanding raspberry and blackberry plantings and a start on a vineyard. He is also building poultry houses for milk fed chickens and aims to serve first class hotels and families with non fertile eggs. He emphasizes careful marketing and leaf-labeled boxes to brand his fruit.
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Hlockomock Berry & Wpouliyy
Woolwich
Harry I. DeWick
Mr. the- Wick
Maine
de Wick
DeWick
Rhode Island
Plymouth Rocks
Lower
Sagadahoe
Montsweag
President sends autographed book to Maine autograph library
The President and Mrs Calvin Coolidge autograph a copy of The Price of Freedom and send it to Larry Chittenden who runs the Autograph Library at Christmas Cove Maine. The note recalls the librarys vast collection now over 200 books and the unique, free-access system serving residents and summer visitors along the Maine coast.
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Mra
Calvin Coolidge
Larry Chittenden
Christmas Cove
Maine
Boston Globe
Harding
Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Chittenden
Texas
Chitenden
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Ida Tarbell
Edwin Markham
Lyman Abbott
Boothbay
Pemaquid
Andrew Carnegie
Abilene
Palm Beach
Damariscotta
Iris Winter
Bermuda Islands
Montclair
Jules M. Burguieres
New Orleans
Florida Development Board
Autograph Library
Holly Inn
Mr. Burguieres
J. M. Burguieres Sugar Co
Florida
Palm Beaches
West Palm Beach
Good Samaritan Hospital
Southern States Land and Timken Co
Klori li
Oy Wes Udes
Visitor to Bath in Army Service Under Six Flags
Bath hosts Carl Ward a world renowned runner on the US 8 8, serving aboard the US Cassin. Ward, a former major in the U S Army and Verdun veteran, has fought across multiple theaters and earned numerous medals. He speaks several languages and has written travel books and war stories. Ward now serves on the Cassin Coast Guard service with ties to Syracuse New York.
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Bath
Cassin
Bath Tron Works, Ltd
Carl Ward
Combred
Ward
Nomand
America
Mexico
France
England
Iraly
Belgium
French Foreign Legion
Italy
Serbia
U.S
Pershing
Tink
Vera Crug
China
Philippines
Vlavaisa
Abasha
Ile
Jacok London
Mr. Ward
Syracuse
N. Y
United States
Bridge meeting maps plans for Kennebec Association growth
A Bath county meeting outlines forming the Kennebec Bridge Association with officers to decide dues and a grantee report. Fred B Teeling offers 7000 free application blanks. An expanded executive committee, 45 members, includes men and women from Bath Woolwich Arrowsie Creagertown Whippsburg and West Bath with local officials and several residents attending Brockton fair next week.
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Kennebec
Association
Fred B. Teeling
Bath
Arthur Sewsall
Marshall A. Haraden
Rodney Ross
Prank Ki. Nichols
Charles T. Cahill
Warry Th. Sawyer
Allen M. Trish
Ralph ©. Dale
Nelson J. Jackson
John J. Desmond Tubert
Hf. McCarty
John W. Freeman
John A. Legro
W. E. Kershner
Robert J. Hatch
Samuel Belanger
Ton
Paul Dresser
Marion Dain
Frank S. Wakefield
Sylvanus IF. Pennell
J Unes Sh. Lookery
Scott Golder
Il Ff. Morin
Carroll Watson
Piarry N. Beals
Martha Darker
Marion Freeman
Jane Murphy
Harriett Small
Daniel
TM. Dougherty
Proctor Hagan
Dirigible Proposed for Arctic Exploration by MacMillan
Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan urged using dirigibles to survey 2,000,000 square miles near the pole. Speaking before the Dinecolne Saadithoe County Teachers Association in Morse High, he contrasted past slow overland methods with airship prospects, citing Bowdoin College connections and support from the German government.
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Donald MacMillan
Arctic Explorer
Dinecolne Saadithoe County Teachers’ Association
Morse High
Sean
Bowdoin
Tarver
Vinto
Ballin Land
North Pole
Arctic
Baffin Land
Sumer
Bath
Tie
Commander Peary
MacMillan
Charles S. Sewall
Wiscasset
Bowdoin College
Bath Woman Reaches Grana Old Age of 94
Mrs Samuel Welch, a Bath native born September 1870, celebrated her 94th birthday at the Old Ladies Home. A daughter of Hepzibal Winslow, she trained at the old academy and was a Universalist. Widow of harness maker Samuel Welch, she has one living son, Samuel Welch Jr., at the National Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, California.
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Ruth Mageun Null
Daugher
Ound
Harry Albert Mageun
Bath and
Chaddonsfield
N. 1
John Scudder Boyd
New York
Stanuel Boyd
Washington
Delpliniun
Rey Charles Myron Thbhs
Garace Elureh
Vinsenla Magoun
Eid
Toner
Richard Davis
Boyd
Forest Arms
Forest Hills
Long Island
Yale University
Aviation Corps
Sunsell Seminary
William Flinn
Evelyn Croft
Louis MacClosky
Howland Bottomly
Thaddonfield
Samuel Boyd
Boston
Bath
Samuel Welch
Welel
Hepzibal Winslow
Samuel Welel
Samuel Welch, Jr
National Soldiers’ Home
Sawtelle
Calif
Toronto Fisherman Beats Pemaguid Mark On Record Catch
Woodworth of 175 Indian Road Toronto and his family living at Pemaguid Inn spent the summer and fall at Pemaguid Point. He broke the fishing record last week with a 17 pound fish the largest ever caught off Pemaguid rocks.
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Hh. UW. Woodworth
Indian Road
Toronto
Canada
Pemaquid Inn
Pemagnid Point
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Rotary
M’cormick
Woolwich Farmer
SIX Flags
Dr. Williams Whitney
Raymond Belven
Brockton, Mass
M'Millan
Sagadahoc
Lincoln County
Northland
John S. Boyd
Johnson Bros Co
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