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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1927
Page
7
A Bath chronicle notes Mrs Warren Glidden visiting Rockland and Fred Norton from Boston stopping in town. Bath Electric Light and Power Co forms, with officers and committees elected, plans to erect street poles and a refrigerator building for Swift Brothers & Co. Local dances at Alameda and Long Beach draw large crowds, with Humphrey Owen benefiting from a charitable event.
Local items report Albert G. Eaton joining the Sedgwick post office clerking force and Bath Times employees adopting 6 30 am to 5 80 pm hours with a noon break. Fire company chowder discussion at the north end engine house. Dunlap commandery officer installation planned with John O Shaw officiating. Maine and New York parties discuss hull work for a steam freighter and a Boston area builder. A wedding at Green Street yesterday between William T S Tabor and Evelyn K Farrar. Boiler and engine contract for a steamship to be built at South Freeport awarded to George Moulton Jr with June 1 delivery. Public Buildings committee meets. hydrants for Water Works shipped from Troy. Fuller visits Portland Commandery with Shaw.
A large gathering of about 100 veterans convened at the Post Sedgwick hall last evening for a camp fire event. They shared war reminiscences, played cards, and enjoyed baked beans, hard bread, and coffee, ending the evening around eleven.
April 2 1887 lists Bowdoin Orient editors Hall DeWolfe Foote Bath Board of Trade meetings and city appointments. Reports on Watson Gannett firm dissolution Water Street projects High Street water works center street trenching and New England Amateur Rowing Association regatta in Boston June 17. Also notes meals at J S Beals restaurant accident to Benjamin Savage street improvements and Supreme Judicial Court term opening with jurors named.
Overseers of the poor organized March with Raymond Powers as chairman Sidney N Eaton as clerk without compensation and superintendent of the department at a yearly salary of 1200, as authorized in the revised city ordinance. Eaton will run the city farm and house of correction. Meetings will be monthly.
Notice records the engagement and marriage of Miss Eleanor M. Lewis of Bath to Benjamin C. Clifford of Brookline Massachusetts. It lists their education and work histories, Eleanor’s time at Nassan Institute and the First National Bank in Brunswick, and Clifford’s Bowdoin College background and current hospital staff role. It also notes Maine tourist traffic trends at Calais and a discount excursion offer from Maine Central Railroad. A London hat-raising controversy is mentioned.
The annual Church League banquet featured remarks on manhood and faith, with medals and cups presented to Beacon and Winter Street teams. Toasts praised service, the league's growth, and Ben Whitfield’s address elicited strong ovations from attendees.
Louis Veilleux aged 88 died Friday at his son’s Lewiston residence 259 Sabattus Street. Born in Quebec he lived much of his life in Farrington and Bath, leaving another son Philip Veilleng of Rumford. His survivor list includes his son and others in his extended family.
The report lists The Girard Fire and Marine Insurance with total liabilities and surplus for the Bath Maine company. Details show corporate identifiers and financial figures, noting the insurer's asset structure and balance components.
A data fragment lists assets and liabilities for multiple insurers including Superior Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh Western Assurance Company Home Insurance Company City of New York Insurance Company Fire Association of Philadelphia and The Scottish Londis with figures for stocks and bonds mortgage loans cash in office and bank agents balances and total liabilities and surplus across various dates and line items.
Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York reports assets and surplus figures with location at 55 5th Avenue New York and a Bath Maine entry showing 35.87 in shillings. The document lists assets as of December with 37,744 indicated.
Financial statements from Travelers Fire Insurance Company and Travelers Indemnity Company show assets liabilities and surpluses with details on mortgage loans stocks and bonds cash and agents balances. Maine probate court notices name Annie M Lowell as executrix and outline petition to license sale of Frederick W Coombs real estate in Bath Topsham and Sagadahoc County.
Philip Ricker Shorey highlights motion pictures as a powerful publicity tool for Maine. He notes news reels reach millions, showing Maine’s recreational, agricultural, and industrial facets. A South Paris scene with six horses illustrates changing transport as roads improve.
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