Maine leads in Coast Artillery proficiency in 1918 report
The War Department lists Maine as top in artillery efficiency with 4th Company Bath leading, others likely Westbrook 12th and Lewiston 9th. Maine has 197 first class gunners to New York's 188 and 87 second class gunners to New York's 187 across 11 coast states.
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Coast Artillery Corps
Maine
United States
War Department
Bath
Westbrook
Lewiston
New York
Coast Artillery
First Second State Co
Mt. Washington
Mt. Mansfield
Stowe
Boston Post
West
Bath area notes and Woolwich Fair items highlight local events
Elm Street crossing improvements please pedestrians while Sheriff Oliver tours to Woolwich Fair. The Suffock Club hosts an indoor clambake with 25 members. The Ladies Aid meets at 87 Middle Street. The Sunbeam ferries Bath passengers to Day's Ferry for the fair. Observations on fair livestock dairy products and a baby show. Weather lore and lunar signs discussed amid winter forecasts.
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Elm St
Oliver
Woolwich Fair
Suffock Club
Ladies’ Aid
Central Church
Clifford S. Sbarbour
Middle St
Sunbeam
Bath
Sagadahoc
S. J. Court
Harmon’s Harbor
Hinckley
Warren C. Philbrook
Woolwich Town Fair
Haskell Farm Implement Co
Lewiston
Submarine tender Bushnell named for Revolutionary inventor
City news notes include a planned naming of a new submarine tender as the Bushnell in honor of David Bushnell, with the department seeking a descendant of the inventor to serve as sponsor. Other items cover local receptions, port activity, and a Bath Opera House production of The Old Homestead.
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Bushnell
David Bushnell
Department
Aliie Oliver
Parker Head
Morrison
Madison Bulletin
Sandy River
Peoples Church
Alex Mason
Elbridge G. Erskine
Washington St
T. N. Kewley
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Frank
Walter Erskine
Frank French
Weston Bonney
Oak Grove Cemetery
Senate
House
National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
James Steele Catherwood
Illinois
George H. Wood
Ohio
John C. Nelson
Indiana
Frederick J. Close
Kansas
Thomas S. Bridgham
Maine
Mr. Bridgham
Gen
Joseph Smith
Bangor
Bath Opera House
Old Homestead
Edward L. Snader
Joshua Whitcomb
Gaudreau
Comet sighting and seaside town notes spill from Bath column
Weather shifts and a quiet comet glow anchor a long list of local happenings in Bath. Gunners report five woodcock at Popham. Alpheus Pye hunts 48 coot. Fred Rich and others battle a street blaze. woodmen organize a new degree team. a tarantula scares a public booth. officials discuss fishing licenses and partridge hunts.
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Popham
Woolwich Fair
Col Dreath
Woolwich
Baxter Box
Alpheus Pye
Fred A. Willis
State Commission of Inland Fisheries and Game
Sagadahoc County
George C. Nichols
Merton O. Webber
Webber Llewellyn
S. J. Court
Keegan
Bath
Modern Woodmen of America
Fred Stover
Ab. Johnson
Gott’s Cove
Fred Rich
Broad St
Bath Automobile & Gas Engine Co
Frye
Kittery
Pittsfield
Ray Parker
Uncle Sam
Cape Sable
Sandy Hook
Parker
Winneyance
Tarantula
Central
Fisherman Campbell nets 34 pound codfish on Thursday
Reports note a codfish weighing 34 pounds landed by Fisherman Campbell on Thursday. Other items include home repairs at Capt. William H. Watson’s residence at Oak and Middle Streets, and lines of logs from Horton woods being shipped to Boston for boxwood making.
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Campbell
William H. Watson
Corner Oak
Middle Sts
Horton Woods
Boston
Ladies Auxiliary
Sons of Veterans
S.15
Lincoln Hall
October Deliberations Highlight Maine Baptists Unite Progress
Maine Baptists and Free Baptists meet in Lewiston for the second day of annual deliberations. Secretary I B Mower presents the year's report noting retirements and renewals among missionaries and state workers, receipts of 21390 dollars, expenditures of 21021.85 with a small treasury balance, and a net membership gain of 54. Five associations report gains and one shows losses, while aid to 100 churches is granted. Steps toward organic union with Free Baptists proceed with a sub-committee report.
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Lewiston
Maine
I. B. Mower
H. E. White
W. H. Whittier
Rgee Ey Young
P. A. A. Killam
J. B. Coy
H. R. Whitelock
A. J. Gwynne
E. A. Davis
Harry Taylor
Portland
Aroostook
Bowdeinham
Kennebec
Penobscot
York
Lincoln
Cumberland
General Missionary Societies
Organic Union of Baptists
Free Baptists
Charters Board Ships for Coal Lading
Henry W Cramp of Baltimore to Mayport Brina P Pendleton of Philadelphia to Calais Maude Palmer of Baltimore to San Juan sailings listed for coal transport with passage terms.
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Henry W Cramp
Baltimore
Mayport
Brina P Pendleton
Philadelphia
Calais
Maude Palmer
San Juan
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Palm
U. S
William King Council
R. A
Nahanada
Augusta
City Landing
Universalist Ladies’ Aid
Jennie Morse
James A. Connerlan
Topsham
Town Hall
Brunswick
Hockomock
Ruth M
Hattie B
Read Nichols’ Co
Winter Street
James W. Elwell
Turks Island
Eastern Salt Co
St. John’s River
Jacksonville
Fla
J. S. Winslow & Co
Elwell
Kelley, Spear Co
Albert Thompson
West Woolwich
Thompson Farm
Morse
Rockland
Berlin
Paris Bowen
John Holden
Bowdoinham
Seguin
Manch Chunk
Gardiner
Farnsworth
Damariscotta
Piscataqua Steam Towage Co
Bath Box
Wennebee River
Congress Shirt
Colonel Dummer Sewall
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Witch Spring
Francis Winter
Samuel Duncan
Simeon Turner
Stephen Coombs
Dromore
James McCobb
Maine Baptists
Tureka Suits
Thompson Bros
Hanalei
Conley’s Specialty Store
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