Fall notes reflect return of Bowdoin students and local life
Local notes recount Bowdoin College students on the streets marking fall, plus social and club events. Miss Mary P. Hill hosts the DAR meeting, river outings to New Meadows, Queen Esther Rebekah lodge gathering, and a Bowker yard schooner progress update. A diary from Loyall F. Sewall, ambulance corps chauffeur, may be published as readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Dummer Sewall
D.A.R
Mary P. Hill
Fred A. Fuller
Popham Beach
David H. Curtis
New England T. & T Co
Portland
Bowdoin College
Bath
Bowker Yard
Phippsburg
Warren C. Pushard
Ralph C. Whitehouse
New Meadows
Sabine
Scott Tibbetts
Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge
Edward Street
George Sonia
The
Times Press- Toom
Bernard McCauslanda
Rook's Cove
Merrymeeting Bay
Central Church Chorus
Anne Hall
Brunswick
E. R. Wright
Times
Wright
Phyllis
Small Point
Allie
Harry Thompson
Boothbay Harbor
T. A. Anderson
Somerville
Mass
T. R. Roberts
Boothbay
Lile Cahill
Nikral Club
Middle Street
Andrew Butterfield
South Street
Edward H. Cole
Baltimore
Barcelona
Spain
New Meadows Inn
Nova Scotia
Jessie Greenough
Walton
Evelyn R. Tomilson
Frederickton
E. W. Haggett
West Bath
Robert Hatch
Davis Hatch
Jacob Robinson
Maine Woman's Club of
New York
Westbury
Long Island
Page
Maine
Westbury Inn
Bertha L. Soule
Park
C. W. Tedford
American Ambulance Corps
France
Loyall F. Sewall
Cosmopolitan Club
Sewall
Seaside Town Hosts Visiting Friends and Guests
Merrill E. Foss dies in Portland. Brunswick and Dorchester visitors fill weekend pages as residents host relatives and friends from Boston Reading Kennebunkport and New York. Travel tales include Rangeley fishing and a Bay State wreck view with local hospitality.
Ancient engines of war through history and myth
A compact survey traces early war innovations from Mechana towers in Alexander’s campaigns to Pyrrhus war elephants, Caesar’s dum-dum javelins, Israel’s Jericho trumpets, Gideon’s 300 lamps and trumpets, Greek fire, gunpowder’s rise, cannons, naval ironclads, and modern poisonous gases, linking legends to realized weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Pyrrhus
Heraclea
Julius Caesar
Israel
Jericho
Gideon
Delium
Callinicus
Constantine Pogonatus
Constantinople
Carlyle
Bath News Highlights from Friday Evening Leisure and Local Events
Morse High Philhos held a dance at K Y C with Bath dance orchestra. Damariscotta Fair postponed to next week. South End PTA met at Mrs. Richard Quick’s home. William Bridges returns from summer stint as assistant chef in Old Orchard Beach. William Oakes resumes Bath Iron Works duties after knee injury. The Prince of Pilsen was staged at Empire Theatre Lewiston. Christian Endeavor meeting postponed due to Mrs. Annie White illness. Grangers travel to Pomona meeting at Small Point. Maine Music Festival artists receive post concert reception. Dr. Richard Swain visits Bath as guest of Rev. Duncklee. Bath crack baseball team to close season vs Lisbon Falls at Kelley Field. Joint field day for Bath and Lewiston companies at Five Islands. Clerk Charles Plaisted and Harry Sullivan resume Post Office duties. Cigar brands raise prices per quarter due to market pressures. Five cent straight cigars affect retailers’ profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High Philhos
K.Y.C
Bath Dance Orchestra
Independent
South End
Parent-Teacher Association
Richard Quick
William Bridges
Vermont
Old Orchard Beach
William Oakes
Bath Iron Works
White
Bath
Small Point
Pomona
Five Island
W. E. Rowe
W. H. Holland
Bertha Avery
Maine
Geraldine Farrar
Nina Morgana
Eleanor Painter
Theo Earle
Louis Grave
Kelley Field
Lisbon Falls
Bath Company
Uniform Bank
K. of P
Damon Company
Lewiston
Fleur de Lis Company
Boothbay Harbor
Islands
George Popham
Charles Plaisted
Harry Sullivan
Harvey K. Erskine
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Williams
Lillian Pray
Harry Thompson
Reed family thanks for chair rug and fine evening
G Payson Reed and family of Woolwich Maine express thanks to friends and neighbors for a handsome chair and rug and for the pleasant evening they hosted on Saturday September 8th 1916
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Payson Reed
Woolwich
Marriage of Miss Sylvia Hacker and Dr. Cramel Stanley
Miss Sylvia Hacker and Dr. Cramel Stanley wed in Brunswick at noon on Wednesday. The ceremony was officiated by President William DeWitt Hyde with a wedding breakfast to follow. The couple will reside in Washington, D C, where Dr. Stanley serves in the Army Medical Corps. The article also notes rising prices for bread and essentials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Beatrice Hacker
Cramel Henry Stanley
Charles Edward Hacker
Jordan Avenue
Brunswick
William DeWitt Hyde
Bowdoin College
Aimee Stetson
Robert S. Stetson
Edith Weatherill
Arlington
Mass
Edward P. Hacker
Guy H. Preston
Fort Ethan Allen
Frank P. Weatherill
Sylvanus F. Pennell
Herbert Hall
Bath
Thomas R. Winchell
Arlington, Mass
Stanley
Washington, D. C
Medical Corps of
Army
Brunswick High School
Leland
Essex County Hospital
Cedar Grove
N. J
Families that Go Wrong
Collier’s notes a study by an American Statistical Association bureau showing most girls in correctional institutions came from homes with abnormal parental relationships or absent parents. The piece argues moral qualities stem from family life and promotes placing orphans in loving homes over institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier’s
Philadelphia
American Statistical Association
Charles Dickens
Mrs King sentenced after raid on gambling house
Mrs Mary L King is fined 200 dollars and jailed 60 days for search and seizure and nuisance charges after a sheriff raid on her home. She faces 100 dollars in costs plus 60 day sentence on the search case and 100 dollars and costs on the gambling case, with a 500 dollar bond to the Supreme Judicial Court on the nuisance charge. Sheriff Oliver and deputies had monitored the house prior to the raid which uncovered liquor and a poker game in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keegan
Mary L. King
Local Notes Include Visits and Job Changes
Robert Brackley and Joseph Varnum are patients at City and Bath City Hospitals respectively. Miss Morse resigns as organist at Universalist Church to become pianist at Christian Science Church. Mrs Har ry Ring to fill Universalist vacancy. Five drunks before Judge Keegan. four suspended sentences and one $8.12 payment. Bath Savings Institution and Conorth shop get new exterior paint. several local visitors noted from Lisbon Falls and Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss May Morse
Universalist Church
Miss Morse
Christian Science Church
The
Universalist
Harry Ring
First Baptist Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Merrill E. Foss
Ruth Lovell
Walter Potter
Marcia Pratt
Reading
Ethel Lundrigan
Helen Wheaton
Boston
Elizabeth Milton
Irving Matson
Annie Proctor
Keene
N. H
Herparent
Charles S. Trask
Walter S. Glidden
Malden
Harold O. Page
Damariscotta
O. E. Page
Dummer St
Walker Street
Carl Crosby
Louise Tuman
Kennebunkport
Mos I.’. Perry
Western Ave
Bessie Mikelsky
B. Cohen
Blue Hill Avenue
Dorchester
Allen
Fred Gatcomb
Martha
Everett
Charles Mason
George M. Luce
Edward Purington
Fred A. Toothaker
Amy Gatchell
Edwin Randall
South Harpswell
E. W. Trott
High St
John W.kimball
Deermont Clothing Co
J. Louis Footer
Henry ‘Seymour
Maude ‘Seymour
Florence Seymour
Maine General Hospital
Walter E. Rowe
Thomas Gibbons
Congress Square
Bay State
E. W. Frazier
Quincy
Frazier
Fore River Shipbuilding Co
Ernest Allan
Aramede Tarbox
Harry H. Plummer
Haverhill
John H. Freeman
High Street
Freeman
Hacker
Hyde
Bowdoin
Bowdoin Boy
United States
Chicago
Oliver
Robert Brackley
City Hospital
Joseph C. Varnum
Bath City Hospital
Fred C. Bailey
Wiscasset
J. G. Stevens
Five Islands
Loyall Sewall
Effie Cook
Keene, N. H
Charles Stinson
Flora Leonard
William H. Douglas
Lily Pray
Postoffice Department
New Hampton
Conforth Shop
Bath Savings Institution
Fred Starkey
Mr. Scott
Camden
Camden Hotel
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