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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1917
Page
7
Bowdoinham items report a string of social visits and travel including Ethel Small's Sunday visit with parents, Ida Towle's trip to Bangor and Bar Harbor for a music festival, and Captain A. C. Williams hosting friends from Boothbay Harbor. Several illnesses and a late wedding in Portland are noted along with incidents of property damage and animal losses.
Major William R. Kimball appointed by Gov Milliken Mornay as Sagadahoc County chairman for the Maine National Food Conservation Campaign. The drive aims to enroll 140000 of 184000 Maine families in the food conservation army with a pledge card program and home kitchen instructions.
Mr and Mrs James Millay visited Boston and Swampscott guests of Ex Mayor Hart. Mrs Benj Green Brunswick Mr and Mrs Robert Jerry Brunswick Mrs High Lewis and two children Donald and Katherine stayed with Mrs N V Harward at Restabit. Mr and Mrs George Purington visited Mrs Ida Purington. Jerry Millay and his California wife stayed with his brother James. Miss Augusta Roberson left Restabit to teach at North Berwick. Miss Lida Maxwell East Bowdoinham teaches on Post Road. boards with Mrs Eliza Varney. About men and 114 teams work on the State road. Mr and Mrs H E Jack and sons Bert and Harold attended Frank Jack’s funeral in Topsham. Miss Myrtle Jack teaches in Richmond visited home Sunday. Mrs N V Harvard spent part of this week with friends in Brunswick.
Reports say Fort Baldwin units receive orders to join nine companies bound for the Philippines to relieve stationed troops and prepare for France duties. The move signals a buildup of heavy field artillery on the Western Front. Jewish Yom Kippur observed. Bath notices schools grant absence, and Maurice Jewett returns home to Maine Wesleyan Seminary football squad practice.
District Monarch delays sending men who appealed to the President. Six appellants may replace substitutes if the President denies appeals, leaving five non appellants to fill the county quota next week. Chairman J J Keegan seeks a ruling from the adjutant general.
At Washington Park off Winship Street, joiners arrive including C P Mains and A R White from Portland. Foreman W J Mains will arrive Friday with others by Monday to build three houses at once and begin further erection ahead of next summer. At a PTA meeting the delegates were sent to Ban sor convention October 26 and the first regular PTA meeting will be October 9 in the club rooms.
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