Local Jottings From Bath and Nearby Towns
The Rivadavia has been accepted by Argentina. A gunning season prep and a new steam heating plant at South Street Primary School are noted. Clarence Merrill sold his trained goat Fannie to Clarence W. George of Woburn. A postal savings limit rose to 1900 with $500 interest. A Bath City Hospital abdominal operation went well for Mrs. Moses Rowe. Reports mention black ducks in Merrymeeting Bay and large logs held back by river stage. Charley Curran’s dash for a train ends in the baggage car. The Waldo Telephone Co. returns to New England Tel. and Tel. management with E. R. Spear staying as manager. Richmond Camp Ground hosts three preachers from Colorado, Maine, and Jerusalem. Notices preview Kora Temple event in Lewiston Sept. 19 with a near 8,000 member count. Imperial Potentate hopes loom for J. Mam Stevens at Seattle next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Street
O. M. Redson
Congress
Moses Rowe
Bath City
Merrymeeting Bay
Hyde Windlass
Merrill Stens Co
Jacksonville
Fla
Stuyvesant Yacht Club
City Island
N. Y
Charles Bertram
Seth Webb
Island Pond
International Paper Co
Charley Curran
Rumford Falls
Curran
Boston Cultivator
Waldo Telephone Co
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
E. R. Spear
Bath
Grace Hayes
Ella Smalley
Colorado
Maine
Kents Hill
Horace B. Haskell
East Maine
Jerusalem
A. A. Walsh
Kora Temple
N.O.M.S
Lewiston
Fa Temple
Ora
J. Mam Stevens
Imperial Potentate
Seattle
Uly
J. W. Riley
Berlin
N. H
Thor
MacMahan
Germantown
Pennybacker
Parker's Flats
Mendelssohn Club
Front
Center Sts
F. Wilbur Brown
L. L. Hooker
Brown
People’s Baptist Church
Alex Mason
New Meadows
Cox's Headfeldspar
Esther Thomas
Edward Thomas
People’s Church
F. W. O'Brien
H. F. Holbrook
Pastor Evans
Thompson
Fred Bragg
Alton C. Wheeler
Rebekahs
T. W. Hyde
Sons of Veterans
T. J. Hooper
Kelley, Spear Co
Tne
Swett
Salmon River
Boothbay Harbor
St. Andrews
W. W. Dennison
Eolus
Clarence Martin
Parker Moulton
Grand Manan
Eastport
Cox’s Head
Charles Chestra
Worl
Augusta
George D. Blake
Prudentia Blake
Cathance
Blake
Bath Tron Works
Fred F. Foote
Charles Foote
Summer currents run hot in Maine politics and markets
Local political notes show a rising GOP mood while prominent Democrats back Oliver for sheriff. Regional updates include blueberry trade gains and shipping movements, with details on a deserter case offering a $50 reward and legal authority for arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelley
Oliver
Henry Newell
Adjutant General
Army
Newell
87Th Co
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Totten
N. Y
Forrest Avenue
Portland
Arthur Becotte
Tremont St
Lawrence
Mass
United States Army
Congress
United States
Labor Day plans and town notes from Brunswick
Community updates cover Labor Day events, church committees, and a city parade. Local visits include J. W. Riley of Berlin and a Bath party detour near Brunswick. Agricultural topics mention armyworm pest efforts and state field agents. A local whiskey incident concludes with Sheriff alertness and a peddler’s tale.
Local notices detail visits and travels across New England
The column lists residents and visitors across Portland, Boston, Lisbon and surrounding towns. Names include Andrew Merrill, F G Taylor, Walter Glidden, Daniel Kant, A E Morris, Ray Potter, Frances Williams, N B Blauvelt, William Hardy, Ethel Oliver, Alice Douglas, Leon Brown, Edward Allen, John W Brown, Minnie Barnes, Florence Lowney, Roy Lord, William Ring, George W Hunt, Mary Harper, the Unn and Margaret Rich, J Douglas, Ella, Charles Shepard, Webster, Rupert Baxter, G W Bowie, Harold Holbrook, William Rk Kimball, Albert Carr, Ernest Eaton, Jennie Luce, John T Palmer, Horace Pinkham, Hugh Madden, Joseph Varnum, J Edward Blaisdell, and Eleanor Pillsbury Pennell Jr. engagements and vacations noted among Bath, Orr’s Island, Kingsfield, and other locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew
Merrill
Portland
F. G. Taylor
Boston
Walter
Alice M. Douglas
Old Orchard
Leon Brown
E. F. Youland
Lisbon Ridge
Edward Allen
South Portland
Harry W. Crosman
John W. Brown
John B. Brown
Minnie Barnes
George Curtis
Portsmouth
N. H
Florence Lowney
Roy Lord
McDonald
Ella
Orono
Northport
Charles Shepard
Custom House
Webster
Boothbay
Rupert H. Baxter
Essex Junction
G. W. Bowie
Lewiston
Harold F. Holbrook
Oquawka
Ill
William Rk. Kimball
Waterville
Albert N. Carr
Ernest Eaton
Carr
Jennie Luce
Orr's Island
Charles C. Williams
Kingsfield
John T. Palmer
Goddard Pond
Horace Pinkham
Swift
Concord
Hugh T. Madden
Joseph C. Varnum
Sedgwick
Massachusetts
Detroit
G.A.R
J. Edward Blaisdell
Roxbury
Mass
George E. Homer
Bath
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Philadelphia
Eleanor Pillsbury
Henry Beaumont Pennell, Jr
Social notes from Bath and surrounding towns
Multiple brief items report departures and returns of residents visiting family and friends in Portland Boston Roxbury Seguinland Bay Point and Lewiston. Travelers include George B Davis Walter Reid Pennie Poli J Edward Blaisdell Mrs A F Barker and many others with mentions of funerals illnesses and recoveries including Nathan E Stone and A H Sturtevant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Davis
Portland
Walter E. Reid
Seguinland
Pennie Poli
Boston
Rose Cary
Washington St
J. Edward Blaisdell
Roxbury
George Reed
Enoch M Reed
Lincoln St
William H. Wilson
Silas Oliver
Maple St
Joseph A. Martin
Fort Kent
Mitchell
Jesse Mitchell
Brockton
Mass
Joseph Mitchell
Richardson St
A. F. Barker
A. Young
W. H. Hoyle
George Behrens
John Behrens, Jr
Joseph Long
Brooklyn
Bay Point
Albert Galloupe
Alwyn W. Coss
Hockomock
Young Coss
James R. Pratt
Lorne
Edwin
William Mann
Court St
Pratt
Roscoe Martin
Jaughter
Florence
Medford
Samuel B. Martin
Young Martin
Lillian Welch
D. T. Percy « Sons
Susan Gibbs
Lidith Varney
Keene
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rivadavia
Washington and
Oak St
Clarence Merrill
Fannie
Clarence W. George
Woburn
Bath Circus
G.O.P
Sagadahock
Swan Island Ledges
U. S
George W. Mesrie
Addie P. McFadden
Marion Carlton
Woolwich
Sarah E. Mallett
Freeport
Beacon Street
Parent- Teachers Association
Beacon St. Vestry
Parker Head
Drummond Cutting
Phippsburg
Cumberland
Consolidation Coal Co
Cedar Grove
Seguin
Edward A. Beverly
Elizabeth
Carrie
Beverly
Hyde
Iron Bridge
Brunswick
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Department
New Hampshire
Vermont
W. A. Sanders
Wakefield
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Stetson
Aderton
Water St
Sly
G. H. Bickford
Lisbon
John Peausner
Edward Pinkham
Walter Gauving
Clinton
Charles Estes
Bickford
Gov. Haines
Fred W. Lawrence
Harold M. Sewall
Georgetown
Riggsville
Five Islands
Dreamland Theatre
F. W. O’brien
Somerville
Pas- Lot
King F. Graham
Cumberland County
Ford E. Stevens
Androscoggsin
Wilbur C. Oliver
Saladahovt
Cumberland Conference of Free Baptist Churches
West Buxton
Greene
Howard L. Keyser
Keyser
Betsy Ross
Maine Association of the New Jerusalem Church
Bath Society
Arthur B.stearns
Ramon N. Stone
Fryeburg
Walter A. Robinson
Jason St
Arlington
Harry L. Cram
Herbert C. Samil
Arthur B. Stearns
Charles F. Smith
D. Page Perkins
Rev
Gould J. Brown
Parker Worrey
A. Sewall & Co
William Armstrong
Upper
Glendon Ayers
Sewall
Albert L. Strout
Exeter
Nathan E. Stone
Bowdeinham
Mr. Martin
Daniel Martin
Robert Sutherland
Yarmouth
Frank Joy
Joy
Richard
A. H. Sturtevant
Augusta General Hospital
Col
L. L. Cooper
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