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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1915
Page
9
Phippsburg locals report visits among neighbors as Frank S. Bowker and son Arthur Wright work Parker's Bay Farm plowing. The farm shows 537 bushels oats and 900 bushels potatoes, reviving a once prominent property. Nearby residents attend games, travels, and social calls, with weather and local schooling details, a Bangor convention, and wartime preparedness themes threaded through daily life.
Lewiston residents Capt. and Mrs. Seward Emmons join the Working League. Supper at the church vestry yields over twenty two dollars. Local society, travels to Bath and Boston, a birthday of notes, a new houseboat near Marrtown, and upcoming Working League meeting mark a busy period in Georgetown.
Westport residents report a surprise visit Monday evening as Solomon Higgins and family welcomed their eldest son Herbert his wife and their family. Local workers James Canon Jacob Colby Melvin Cromwell and Dexter Mahar are on the Eaton farm with Lester Hodgdon taking a week off. Mrs Eaton and daughter Miss Foster left their summer cottage for Boston for the winter and Mr Eaton plans to follow aboard the yacht Zenda next week if weather permits. A State road steam drill was completed last Saturday and Fred Greenleaf hauled it to Wiscasset with his horses. Grant Whitten purchased the cottage near the ferry from J R Colby.
Capt. Lewis of the schooner Oakes Ames, previously ashore while a lumber cargo was loaded at South Gardiner, rejoined his vessel on Thursday.
Arrowsic reports visits by Sadie Smith and others to family homes in Benton Stevens, Welchville and Bath. Local residents attend services, vacations close schools, and regional travel includes trips to Richmond and Boothbay. Stolen potatoes and salt pork from local barns and cellars are noted with a local caution.
At the Brunswick trial before Recorder Willis E Roberts, Harry Warner confessed to taking 700 dollars from Charles Ward. Harry was bound over for the January term in 2000 dollars and his brother John in 1000 dollars on probable cause. The boys were taken to Portland as securities were not being given.
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