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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1916
Page
5
Community rounds up news from Bowdoinham including travel plans of Arthur Lewis and Mrs. Carr, a wandering traveler and his dog Teddy, a double wedding anniversary, a severe barn fire at Whittemore farm, various visits, ship and train notes, local courtships, and Standish Reed’s 75th birthday celebrated with friends and neighbors.
Richmond teacher Frances Baker works on Bowdoinham Post Road with H E Jack driving the school team. Families move and guests arrive as Mrs Hanford shifts to the village. Bertha Graves and Myrtle Jack return to teaching. several visitors from Bowdoin, Topsham, Portland, and New York stay with Curtis, Heath, and Randall households.
Earl Rice and Miss Cora Bailey were married Wednesday morning by Rev Mrs Ahem at her boarding place and left for a bridal trip destination unknown. They will reside with Mr and Mrs Addison Rice while plans unfold.
Pearl Hall and Miss Hall spent Saturday in Lewiston with Fair on the brain. Curtis Crocker visits friends in Dorchester. W H Marberry of East Boston stays a month in town. Mrs Fannie McFadden of Bath visits sister Mrs Ernest Hathorne. Mrs Hathorne has house painted this week. Coons are plentiful and causing mischief in corn. Mrs J Herbert Snipe of Arrowsie notes Oct 2 death of Mrs Lizzie Snipe after suffering, leaves husband, three daughters, three grandsons. neighbor in Methodist Church. Mildred Dow from Rockland weekend with Pearl Hall. Novella Trott of Augusta visits North Woolwich. James Colby buys a Buick. Annie Brookings travels to Connecticut to visit aunt and attend school. Waldo Hawthorne visits Stonington. Leonard Carlton of Dresden visits relatives. Frank Hutchins and Percy Colby of Woolwich motor to Boothbay. Blackman family to move into new house. Judson Hawthorne visits Hartley in Dresden Center. John Reed at Capitol Island summer home. Wilson Bailey and family and George Shaw attend Damariscotta fair. Silas Adams of Waterville visits Center. W S Trott of Chelsea leaves for Yarmouth to visit brother Fred J Trott. Clarence Baker drives a team for Texas Oil Co. Merton Wright of West Bath visits Woolwich. Durrell family of Camden rents Reed property.
Local notes report illness, visits, and preparations for the Woolwich and Bath fairs. Highlights include Miss Eleanor Carlton with chicken pox, the Woolwich Fair Baby Show judged by William R. Kimball of Bath, prize ribbons and silver spoons, various local visits, and upcoming Sunday School events led by Prof. Frederick Chapman.
Ethel Lilly, only daughter of Char ley and Edith Lilly, died at home in South Dresden after a brief illness lasting a few weeks. She was twenty two and known for cheerfulness and patience through suffering. She leaves her parents and a circle of relatives and friends in sorrow.
A funeral for the deceased was conducted Sunday afternoon at the M E Church by Rev J C McGraw. A quartet sang and many floral tributes reflected wide esteem. Interment followed at Maple Grove Cemetery. The gathering mourned the loss of a father, mother and brother named Alfred.
The Lilly family thanks neighbors and friends for kindness and flowers after their late bereavement. Oct 4, 1916.
The Snipe family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness help and support after their loss. They acknowledge music and many beautiful floral offerings from the community.
Dr. Arthur Clarendon Wright of Augusta Maine married Ruth Caroline Prescott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Prescott, at the bride’s home in Amesbury Massachusetts. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. S James Cann with Rev. Fenwick C Wright assisting. The couple will reside in Augusta after a wedding trip to Moosehead Lake.
Herbert Worrey tended a small garden that thrived with beans corn and 12 tomato plants producing 4 percent bushels, over half ripe. He grew a beet top reaching 1 yard 6 inches by 16 inches wide and noted beet plants that came to seed in the first year.
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