Republicans Sweep Both Legislature Chambers in State Election
Republicans secured a decisive victory in the biennial state election with Governor Milliken and Senator Fernald re-elected. The party won 30 of 31 Senate seats and is set to hold 112 House members to 39 Democrats, plus gains in sheriffs and county attorney posts. The Bangor Bath Sagadahoc results showed Republican dominance, with Democrats carrying some statewide offices but losing ground overall.
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Milliken
United States
Fernald
House
Penobscot County
T. Herbert White
White
McGillicuddy
Bath
Sagadahoc County
James S. Lowell
Edward W. Bridgham
Fred H. Thompson
Peter A. Clinto
Wallace H. White, Jr
Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Newbert
McIntire
Day
Wardwell
Dale
Newell
Thompson
Clinto
Lowell
Bridgham
Maxwell
Dunham
Rupert H. Baxter
Edward W. Larrabee
Hiram T. Stevens
Register of Deeds
James C. Purinton
Wilbur C. Oliver
John A. Small
Charles H. Mason
Charles A. MacMahan
Haraden
Patten
Charles J. Cain
Charles A. Corliss
Arrowsie
Bowdoin
Bowdoinham
Phippsburg
West Bath
Woolwich
John H. Stacey
Popham Beach
Joseph W. Larrabee
Georgetown
Richmond
Topsham
Frederick B. Peabody
Edward J. Bernier
Fernald Newbert
Logis
Vokadiss
Wierd Va Ives
Ocala Ee
Storey East
Newvort
Milliken McIntire
Reunion of the Twenty-First Maine Veterans in Bath
The Twenty-First Maine Regiment reunion in Bath featured speeches, recitations, and greetings by Civil War veterans and the Ladies of the G. A. R. Mayor Drake welcomed the group. Officers were elected, including President Oakman F. Glidden and Secretary Joseph T. Woodward, with letters from absent brothers read aloud.
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J. F. Woolward
America
America That Ended the Morning Session In ‘Post Sedgwick Hall
Union
Bath
Drake
21St Maine Regiment
Pine Tree
Liberty
Elisha E. Creamer
Ambrose Hoch
Waldoboro
Franklin Sprague
Jefferson
Edward F. Nye
Massachusetts
Debtors Urged to Settle Estate Claims Promptly
All those indebted to the estate are requested to pay promptly, and arrange settlement with the appointed administrator to close outstanding accounts.
War worker talk by Mrs Thompson drawn from YWCA effort
Mrs John F Thompson of Portland spoke at the Cosmopolitan club on the YWCA war work. She outlined hostess houses for women workers in France and in Portland at Fort Williams and Fort McKinley, with hotels, canteens, and “foyers” aiding morale behind the lines.
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John F. Thompson
Portland
War Work Council
Cosmopolitan Club
Europe
Fort Williams
Fort McKinley
Thompson
Columbia Theatre
Opera House
Allan i M. Irish
Young Women’s Christian Association
France
Paris
Hotel Petrograd
Rue Caumartin
American Red Cross
American College Women’s Reconstruction Units
Red Cross
Y.M.C. A
Mann
Fall of St. Quentin Signals German Retreat to Victory
Civilian prisoners are hurried out of St. Quentin as German forces retreat, with the phrase Hindenburg’s “retreat to victory” cited. The report frames the fall as a collapse of the Hindenburg Line and a turning point in the battle.
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St. Quentin
Hindenburg
Callies St
Quentin
Pleasure party abandons sinking sloop off Small Point
Five women and two men from Boston abandoned their leaking sloop near Small Point after sails failed and engine died. They rowed ashore to a gun club house where they were found by Capt. Harvey Berry of the Popham Beach coast guard. The vessel owned by E. C. Amy of Boston valued at 4000 dollars was later located sunk with six feet of mast above water.
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One
Boston
Small Point
Harvey Berry
Popham Beach
Boothbay Harbor
Prince's Point
Mark Island
Bald Head
Berry
Coast Guard
Glover's Rock
E. C. Amy
Garland Street
Mr. Amy
P. F. Kehve
Keene, N. H
Minnie E. Areenbas
Scott Street
Ethel H. Stone
Margaret L. Soule
Dora J
Jessie M. Sutherland
Chase and Stinchfield wed in Lisbon ceremony
Milo Lawrence Chase and Charlotte Stinchfield, both of Lisbon, married Saturday at a Lisbon by Walter Rosesll justice of the peace. The groom is a carpenter, son of Lawrence and Mary L. Chase, and the bride works as a mill operative.
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Milo Lawrence Chase
Charlotte Stinchfield
Lisbon
Walter 5. Rosesll
Lawrence
Mary L. Chase
Bacon Bat and Corn Roast on New Meadows Shore
Wednesday night a Bacon Bat and Corn Roast took place near Garnet house on the New Meadows bank. Automobiles brought guests led by Mrs. Harry Franklin Morse chaperone and Miss Ruth Subbett Staunton Va. The party arrived to a blazing fire, roasted bacon and corn on sticks, sang by embers, and returned about 9 30.
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New Meadows
Garnet House
Harry Franklin Morse
N. Y
Anna Morse
Louise Hill
Frances Southard
Frances Moses
Dorothy Higgins
Dorothy Nichols
Ruth Subtett
Morse High Schools Opens Military Instruction
The two upper classmen at Morse high school begin military instruction with Cleveland H. Wright of Fort Baldwin serving as instructor. Training will occur twice weekly and start with simple forms before expansion during the school year. Mrs. Cora Small of Pine street visits her niece Mrs. Ethel Pearson at the Pearson farm in West Bath for a week.
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Morse High School
Cleveland H. Wright
Fort Baldwin
Cora Small
Pine Street
Ethel Pearson
Pearson
West Bath
Bath to Get 78 Worker Homes From Leighton Mitchell Co
Washington reports the government awarded contracts to the Leighton and Mitchell Company of Boston to build 78 houses in Bath for naval workers at Lincoln and Academy streets. The four to five month project will start soon with wood construction and includes early site grading, sewer work, and streets. An administration building and a large storehouse are planned as part of the project.
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Washington
Leighton & Mitchell Co
Boston
Bath Iron Works
Teras Steamship Co
The
Leighton, Mitchell Co
Lincoln
Academy Streets
Emergency Fleet Corporation
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Congress
Man White
McIintire
State
White McGill
Baxter Larrabee
Baxter
Dale ee _ Newell
Clinto Thompson
Dunham Maxwell
Stevens Purinton
Stevens
Oliver Small
Lela
A Sons
Mason MacMahan
Maine
Veterans of Civil War
Co. C
John H. Brown
John T. Haley
Joseph White
Martin V. White
Col. Crowell
Lewiston
George W. Cushman
Henry Grover
Lynn
Mass
George L. Leeman
Charles F. Tibbetts
Augusta
Charles H. Ashford
William H. H. Ware
Oscar W. Boynton
Whitefield
Abial McCurda
Damariscotta
W. 4H. Hunt
Readfield
S. Wilson Nash
Damariscotta Mills
Leonard Peaslee
George B. Putnam
Gardiner
William H. Maxcy
Rockland
Edwin Freeman
E. Winthrop
Thomas N. Ayer
Anna
William Nash
Samuel F. Tarr
Bristol
Sewall P. York
Woodward
John McLark
Mrs. Thompson
Helen Hunt Jackson
Small Point Gun Club
Chase-Stinchfield
Academy
Johnson Bros. Company
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