West Bath Grange sets Oct 26 27 fair dates
West Bath Grange members met to plan the annual fair to be held October 26 and 27 at the Grange hall. Officers appointed committees for executive supper entertainment and various booths while other members shared social visits and town happenings.
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West Bath Grange
Grange Hall
Harry Lemont
David Rich
Owen Rogers
Fred Brown
Harry Peterson
Jennie Hodgkins
Fred Irish
E. W. Haggett
Willian Ham
Fred J. Teeling
H. Lemont
Edward Lee
Walter Larrabee
William Ham
Lillian Rogers
Herbert Hodgkins
Hope Ward
E.W. Haggett
David Henderson
W. RK. Kimball
Elmer Rich
Helen Brown
Marion Plummer
Esther White
Vaughn Smiley
Joseph Melrose
Charles Burgess
Oscar Smiley
Just Wold
Albert Pollard
James Him
John Conway
Harold Haggett
Walter Plant
Herbert Simpson
Arthur B. Haim
Fred Teeling
Edith Rich
Frank Beals
Addie Shaughnessey
Laura Lemont
Ethel Lee
William White
Fred Irih
Annie Trufant
Pearl Lemont
Challenging Witnesses In Early Legal Procedure
The piece traces the ancient practice of challenging witnesses as a negative proof against accusations. It explains how oaths and false swearing, along with duelling, evolved to discredit witnesses, and how judges sought methods to remove unreliable testimony to protect justice.
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Wittesses
Women Candidates And Suffrage News From Around The World
The article surveys women political figures and suffrage history, highlighting Mrs. Charlotte Despard as a parliamentary candidate in Britain and noting parallel moves in the United States Congress. It covers Amelia Jenks Bloomer’s role, Royal Colonial Institute plans for broader female inclusion, London policewomen, Chinese language study in Columbia and Harvard, and a narrow South African Parliament vote against a woman suffrage bill.
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Elasses
Columbia
Harvard
Melrose Lytle
Kansas City
Lyons A Veteran Of Many Masters
Augusta resident Josepl Al Daeus a 50 year veteran of many master hand tub crews and fire fighting service in Bath and nearby towns. He joined the Torrent hand tub at East Creekfield and served with the FL OLH Wagon Company of Danger. He was blinded by fighting at the Beecher Stowe house and later became a marble cutter. He weighed about 180 pounds and spoke Gaelic. His death details and family notes follow in fragmentary form.
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Josepl AL Daeus
Augusta
Nedo
Brunswick
Steell
Cainpert
Mas
Farmington
N. J
Haerestheien
Lyon
Sears
Bath
Vic
East
Phengh
Chiaries
Fos Heen
Ronner
Lyons Che
Sean Diethe
Maine Football Opens Season With Three Local Teams
The 122nd Maine football season starts Saturday with Colby, Bates, and Maine on their regular schedules. Maine alone plays within the state, facing Connecticut State at Orono, while Colby meets Springfield YMCA and Bates eyes Yale in September. Bowdoin opens a week later at Amherst. Maine’s squad trains at Old Orchard before home practice on the Orono gridiron under Coach Brice and assistants, with key players named as likely starters.
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Maine
Colby
Oates
Connecticut State
Orono
New Haven
Yale Bull Dogs
Springfield Y. Mlc. A
Springfield
Mass
Bates
Yale
Connecticut
Bowdoin
Amherst
Old Orchard
Brice
Simall
Briar
Grulin
Hap? Ward
Waterville
Snow
Tiarry Rewards
Mike” Ryan
College
Garedon Field
Lewiston
Oliver Cutts
Carletomu Wiec
Bente
Coseh Ostergrien
Ated Poreruiys
Ppi
Armherst
Viresthis
Porthind Aire
Mintern
Werthine
Couey Beals
South
New Parcel Post Machine Arrives for Trial Use
A new parcel post machine is being tested, with silver trucks delivering to the depot as crews prepare for trial. Officials and clerks from several agencies discuss setup, dating, and the potential impact on mail handling.
Bates Oxford debate moderator chosen by governor
Governor Percival Baxter has accepted designation to preside when debating teams of Oxford University and States Capitol seek a resolution in favor of the Town of Nation. The debate will be held here Sept. The dates vary as the audience selects. Members of the Oxford team are listed. the third judge will decide the order.
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Percival
Baxter
Oxford University
Liseuss
Todd
Audienes
Oxford
Street Car Men Inspect System Tour in Bath
Officers and directors of Andros coggin and Kennebec Railway Co visited Bath on a tour of inspection. They traveled from Bath to South Harpswell and Brunswick aboard an electric car, using the Merrymeeting parlor car previously retired. The group included Cushman, Silliman, Newhall, True, Sweeney, Skelton, Newell, Gordon, Varney, Lewis, Blake, Harely and Emery, with the trip highlighting the new cross country car and a shift from the older arraignment.
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Androscoggin & Kennebec Railway Co
Bath
South Harpswell
Brunswick
Merrymeeting
Freeport
H. W. Cushman
Bangor
F. Silliman, Jr
C. S. Newhall
Philadelphia
Frank True
Worthind
Alfred Sweeney
William B. Skelton
William H. Newell
Lewiston
Fred Gordon
Portland
EK. L
New Meadows Inn Closes 25th Season After Record Day
More than 1,000 diners visited New Meadows Inn on closing day, feeding over 500 guests as the dining room opened before noon to handle a record turnout. Waitresses served about 100 guests per hour for eight hours, and most patrons chose to wait rather than seek other seating. The season ended with staff returning home near Boston Tuesday.
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New Meadows Inn
Boston
Athantic
Posten
New York
West Virginia
Aodumindi
Trampton Roads
Destan
James Ireland dies after illness at Bath hospital
James Ireland aged 46 a veteran of the Spanish American War died Thursday afternoon at Bath City Hospital after an acute illness from cancer of the intestines. He had moved from Popham Beach to Georgetown Center and planned to buy Frank Moore's home. He was living with Moore when struck by illness and underwent an operation but could not survive. He was born in Atlantic City New Jersey and leaves a wife and one sister Mrs Mary Baker. Oliver Webber and Battery 1 HA members planned hospital visits to ease his condition.
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James Ireland
Bath City
Mr. Ireland
Popham Beach
Georgetown Center
Frank Moore
Ile
Moore
Atlantic City
N. J
David
Amanda Treland
Mary Baker
Oliver Webber
Kateon Camp
Webber
Battery 1
James Ireland funeral held by Kateon Camp VFW in Georgetown
A Kateon camp of Span ish War Veterans delegation led by Commander Olver A. Webber attended the funeral of James Ireland in Georgetown on Sunday. Rev William T. Boyd conducted the church service and Webber and Art Karen led at the grave. Ireland belonged to the First Maine Battalion Battery O Navy Artillery and helped found the Ernest Edgar Kateon camp.
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Kateon
Olver A. Webber
Harry Bennett
Charles Radley
William Kuren
James Ireland
Georgetown
William T. Boyd
Webber
Art
Karen
James Treland
Maine
Fine Motorboat Trip To Portland Ends Quietly
Matthew Ellison and companion William Rouse returned Sunday night from a motor boat trip to Portland aboard the cabin cruiser Vivian. They left Bath Saturday noon and anchored in Casco bay overnight. In Portland they met Harry Jones arriving from Kineo in one hour and 15 minutes, then departed at one o clock and passed Popham Beach at 545 on the return.
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Matthew Ellison
William Rouse
Portland
Mr. Ellison
Vivian
Bath
Casco Bay
Harry Jones
Kineo
Popham Beach
Vital Statistics and Notable Civic Notes
City Clerk John W. Gilmore forwards Bath vital statistics to the Secretary of State. July reports show births seven Herries and V1 deaths against 19 births 4 marriages and 10 deaths. Mrs. Willis W. Kelley named state organizer for Massachusetts Republican women, touring 150 towns from Provincetown to Vermont. York receives a large silk flag from Thomas Nelson Page in memory of his wife’s service, accepted by Chairman Joseph Bragdon with schoolchildren present. The flag, once Italian government property, was linked to the Italian embassy. Plans emerge to host Maine teachers at the Spanic Pall session in nine months.
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John W. Gilmore
Bath
Secretary of State
Augusta
Willis W. Kelley
Frances Cole
Fairfield
Republican States Committee of
Massachusetts
Provincetown
Berkshires
Vermont
Connecticut
York
Thomas Nelson Page
York Harbor
Italy
Joseph P. Bragdon
Board of Selectmen
Wison
San Francisco
Ttalian
Woodrow Wilson
McMillan Mate Recalls Arctic Trips and Family Ties
Jonathan C. Small of the McMillan expedition, known as Jet, recounts trips with MacMillan to Greenkind Labrador and Baffin Land. He details meeting the explorer in Providencetown, family losses, and plans for future voyages while noting coal market chatter and local school enrollments in Auburn and Edward Little High.
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Jonathan C. Small
Wi&s End
Roscoe DP. McPadden
Daflin Bay
Ife
Mr. Small
Jet
MacMillan
Greenkind
Labrador
Borah
Peary
MacMillian Cap
Dathin Land
Esquimos
Grana Bay
Mr. Sniatll
Freeport
Provincetown
Maine Notes Reflect Local Civic Efforts And Pests
In Crowden Elisha Richards nears a century yet votes. Speckled Mountain Fish and Game association plans a dam screen at Shagy Pond outlet, Auburn’s Arthur Stevens to build it. Rumford schools push longer day for more supervised study, Wet day lasts five and a half hours. Budworm damages spruce forests in Northern Somerset, timber cuts planned for pulp mills. Campobello island praised as hay fever refuge, Mastporty Larebee and Deer Island also noted. Pittsfield’s Harvey Corcoran encounters a flying anemone and cryptic envelope urging two shots toward Moosehead Lake. Bangor High School expansion drives need for new building. 1500 pupils this year, 4000 in elem/rural schools.
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Elisha Richards
Crowden
Speckled Mountain Fish At Game Association
Rumford
Maine
Somerset
Campobella
Eastport
Quuoddy
Canada
United States
Hay Fever Association
Moosehead Lake
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Sole
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Elmer
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Ernest F. Williams
Charles H. Bates, Jr
H. R. Rich
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Orrin Riley
J. Everett Mayo
Red Cross Society
Florence Rogers
Minnie Larrabee
Mabel Brown
Marion Purington
Rangeley
J. M. Lemont
T. F. Dolliver
Fred W. Larrabee
Walter Marco
Dromere Grangers
Winneganee
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City Hospital
Miles D Purington
Charles H. Bates, Sr
Beachment
Stackpole
Littlefield School
Edith Gorham
Round Pond
Gorham
Gorham Normal School
Martha King
Wendall Williams
John Clough
Morse High
Dorothy Stilkey
Hallowell Rogers
Llewellyn Rogers
University of Maine
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Margaret Trufant
Ella Higgins
Stanwood Page
Trexter
Arthur Brawn
New Meadows
Fred Brawn
Slind Crossing
John Wheerff
Margaret Hiardi
University of Main
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Sebage Lake
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Purington
Gorham Normal Seqond
Rangeles
Mi D Purington
A. H. Deennel
North Jay
Frank Woodside
Frveburg
J. Everett Mase
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Caampbell
Read
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Ehurch
H. BB. Richardon
Auburn
A. Peres Richardson
FE. J. Brown
Fred W. Winter
Fred DD
Winter
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Clyde Nash
Bates Farm
Charles Smith
Waldelere
Eertubear
Dr. True
Edith Moriarty
Charlotte Despard
Congress
Idrish
Miers
Despard
Woments Freedom League
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Lyons
Brunswick Company
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Morse
Thoraven Academy
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Banger
Thompson Bros. Inc
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