West Bath Social Notes and Local Updates
West Bath news covers visitors and guests in town including Mrs. A H Donnell in North Jay and Mrs. Sarah Taylor from Waltham Mass. It notes home projects, road work near Egypt, teachers at conventions, harvests, and Grange events with a squash pie highlight and census figures. Local civic life centers on schooling, church, and social gatherings at the Progressive Grange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Donnell
North Jay
D. Judson Bryant
Bryant
Belle Williams
Sarah Taylor
Waltham
Mass
Rachel Trufant
J. C. Rideout
Elmer Craig
Maine
E. W. Haggett
Annie Campbell
North St
Bath
Merton Wright
Portland
Alonzo Donnell
Boston
Charles Foote
Progressive Grange
Topsham Fair
Dirigo
Enterprise
Merrymeeting
Progressive
Sagadahac
Topsham
West Bath
J. F. Baker
Harold Shaw
W. H. Good
Sister Huntley
Pomona Grange and Progressive Grange Meet in New Richmond Hall
Pomona Grange of Sagadahoc and the Progressive Grange held a meeting in Richmond Corner in a new hall with most officers present. Sister Emma Lamoreau gave the welcome address, praised as equally interesting as the response by Clifton Toothaker. The program included a recitation by Minnie Otto and a discussion on home canning proving satisfactory and profitable led by Millward Patten, Edith Hildreth, Florence Brown, M. H. White, and Emma Lamoreau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagadahoc Pomona
Progressive Grange
Richmond Corner
Emma Lamoreau
Clifton Toothaker
Minnie Otto
Millward Patten
Edith Hildreth
Florence Brown
M. H. White
F. 8S
Adams
Topsham Grange Halloween Event and Program
Topsham Grange lists a program for Saturday October 30 including music by Clara Phinney and I B Neiley with orchestra and reading by Mrs Bickford. A Halloween party and dance benefits the Grange on Monday November 1 at Topsham Town Hall with costumes requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topsham Grange
Clara Phinney
West Bath Grange Plans Reading and Music Program
West Bath Grange hosts a Monday evening program on November 1 featuring readings and musical numbers led by Mrs. Fred Cook, Mrs. Frank Young, and Mrs. Lester Pratt. Apples donated by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wright will be served as refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath Grange
Fred Cook
Frank Young
Lester Pratt
Fred Wright
Biddeford
Burrows
Five Islands town notes and family travels in brief
Frederick Libbie and George Yeo were called from Boston to attend the funeral of A. Benson Rowe. Tarr left for Richmond with her mother Mrs. Hannah Oliver visiting for the winter with Mrs. T. W. Blaisdell. William Rowe bought a 1916 Ford touring car from C. W. Clifford Jr. Several local families and guests visited, with outings in cars. The Grange plans a Hallowe'en party at Rowe's Hall and twenty nine Grange members visited Southport Grange to observe degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Libbie
George Yeo
Boston
A. Benson Rowe
Harry
Tarr
Richmond
Hannah Oliver
T. W. Blaisdell
William Rowe
C. W. Clifford, Jr
Robert Willis
Gardiner
Arthur Brown
Hallowell
C. W. Batchelder
St. Albans
Walter S. Rowe
Dorothy
Bedford Stevens
Portland
Mr. Rowe
Benjamin Rowe
George Rowe
Lester Davis
Winchester
Fremont B. Rowe
South Gardiner
Dresden
Will E. Rowe
City Hospital
Bath
The
Grange
Hallowe'en
Rowe’s Hall
Southport Grange
Local Yesterdays at Parker Flats and Nearby
Parks shipments frame for new steamer at Greenville Junction. Smelts abundant in Kennebec and New Meadows Rivers with fishermen earning five to six dollars daily. Civil Service exams announced for lighthouse service and naval trades in Portland area, with December 15, 1915 deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alonzo Parks
Greenville Junction
Coburn Steamboat Co
Kennebec
New Meadows
South 8&1
Sears
Rogers Place
Snow Park
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Lighthouse Service
Engineer Department
Quartermaster Corps
Portland
Maine
C. E. Jellison
Postoffice
Edward E. Stebbine
Post Office
Boston
Mass
Bath area clubs and tradesmen plan events and projects
Acadia Lodge and Knights of Pythias confer Page rank during a Thursday evening gathering. Hallo Harvest supper set by Winter Street Club Friday. Beacon Street Church Ladies Aid met at the parsonage Friday afternoon. Bath shoe factory plans noted by visiting men. Several local charity and church activities update community life amid forthcoming construction and civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Resolute
John H. Winsted
Parker's Flats
Bath Aerie
F.O.E
Driftwood Club
Kimball Wharf
Woman’s Auxiliary of
Grace Church
Acadia Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Winter Street Club
Beacon St
Boston
Bath
Messrs
DeLong and
Ridley
Woodcock
Winter Street
Lina Sewall
Beacon Street
Epworth League
Birth of a Nation Comes to Bath Opera House
Griffiths epic The Birth of a Nation screens at Bath Opera House November 4 5 and 6 with a ten piece orchestra a backstage chorus and beauty pageant ushers. The film features Atlanta burning Sherman’s march North victory at Appomattox Lincoln tragedy and Ku Klux Klan scenes. Reserve seats open Monday at ten o'clock due to expected crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Opera House
Atlanta
Sherman
Grant
Lee
Appomattox
Dreamland Theatre South Wall Boarded In
The south wall of Dreamland Theatre is boarded in, signaling maintenance or closure activity affecting the storefront and access. Local authorities or management indicate ongoing work and safety precautions for pedestrians and patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dreamland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas F. Perkins
Wiscasset
Henry Holden
Egypt
Starrett
Bangor
Newton Bowker
W. H. Brown
Herbert Gerrish
Malden
Pye
Alliquippa
Fred Gerrish
Rachel Potter
J. Everett Mayo
Berry's Mills
Thomaston
J. H. Mayo
Florence Neiley
Trufant’s Crossing
Eugene Brown
East Brunswick
J. C. Larrabee
J. M. Lemont
William H. White
Miss White
Lewis H. Curtis
William Cahill
Joseph White
Fred Larrabee
Isaac Coombs
Foster’s Point
J. B. Neiley
Birch Point
Alfred Coombs
Rose Brothers
Coombs
C. M. Marshall
E. C. Patten
Grace Watson
F.S. Adams
Meader
Mina Ward
Watson
Otto
Harold
Sister Meader
Leu Tarr
Pomona Grange
Harold Ormsby
Hallowe’en
Isaac L. Spaulding
Sagadahoc
J. A. Stevens
Fuller
Small Point
Ray Palmer Eaton
Pleasant St
Brunswick
Horatio G. Foss
R. R. Wharf
Martin Howard Keefe
Keefe
Arthur Chadbourne
Woolworth
Brockton
John Protas
Pole
Durance
John Smith
Water St
Lewiston
Percy Robbins
Park Alley
Ning
Thes Wga
Ce AV Hallis
James King
Allan Spear
Jake Emmons
Antoinett
Georgetown
Virginia
Sanford
Coleman O'Brien
City
Peaslee
Hannigen
Reynolds
Augusta
Fisher
Rice
Post Office Department
Hollis Bailey
Woolwich
J. J. Keegan
M. A. Haraden
John Mulcahy
Gardiner Council
Knights of Columbus
Dignam
Waterville
Crocker
Hattie B
Merrymerting Park
Edward McLellan
Dick Thursday
Larrabee
Mr. McLellan
Thompson Bros
Bath Dept. Store
Center St
A. Singer & Co
Ba H Department Store
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