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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1917
Page
5
The townsfolk of Phippsburg feel the autumn hush as a large Friday night dance at the town hall drew the biggest crowd yet. Stacy and Stevens Orchestra played while Mrs. A. F. Williams served as patroness. proceeds support Red Cross material.
West Bath Grange prepares for a two day fair likely to surpass prior events in its hall. The executive committee features Mr and Mrs Harry E Peterson and others coordinating entertainment tables advertising and baby show. Dates are pending with a play and dance planned each night and the baby show on the second day.
Winnegance residents, including Perry area shoppers, regret the closing of the local Perry store. Winnegance pupils attend Weeks Street grammar school with several named students listed. Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. Charles Harrington's home. Capt. Freeman of the Bath Salvation Army led services at Winneganee church. Miss N. E. Trask visited Damariscotta friends. Captain Eugene Spinney, Portland employee, spent Sunday at home.
Woolwich town notes highlight the fourth annual Tuessie Hall fair next Wednesday and Thursday with a traction engine show in Day’s Ferry, prize poultry, cattle and horses, and a complete display of canned goods fruits and vegetables. Local residents attend school drives and dances as community life centers.
Bowdoinham Ridge Cemetery Association held a meeting to arrange a tomb for winter use, aiming to improve the cemetery as the town’s best burying place. The group plans a Grange Hall meeting Oct 3 to form a local Pomological Society with speaker Mr. Connant of Buckfield.
John M. Clark listed at 352 Front Street with contact 116 B. Booms operates at 32 Broad Street with phone 116 W. This item records alternating addresses and telephone references for two individuals or entities.
Georgetown residents attend church service and listen to Rev Mr Boyd. Riggsville pupils present an entertainment at the Georgetown Center Methodist vestry next Wednesday at 7:30 pm to raise funds for new books and bookshelves. Admission 15 cents.
The Five Islands Grange met Tuesday with forty five members present. Miss Ethel Todd Miss Ida Williams and Miss Cecil Scripter were conferred the first and second degrees. Relatives and visitors came from Bath Ottawa and Lewis ton for the week.
Captain Ernest Darling returns home aboard the sloop Georgie Bowker after a two week fishing trip. The crew shared ninety three dollars per man. Local residents make winter moves and join revival meetings led by Evangelists Arthur Lewis and Ernest Matthew of Oregon.
Maine Central launches a workmen’s train from Brunswick to Bath to serve factory workers, daily 6:35 am except Sundays, with stops at Cook's Corner York St Hardings and New Meadows. return from Bath 5:49 pm 5:42 pm York St, reaching Brunswick at 6:00 pm. Also, D T Percy & Sons clerks host an Armory Hall dance Monday night Oct 1 with a four-piece orchestra.
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