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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1918
Page
2
The document lists financial items including mortgages on real estate and loans to policyholders. It shows cash in banks and on hand, premium notes, accrued interest, rents, and total assets with a final balance of 13 944 062.15. The figures reflect policyholder liabilities and asset allocations in a detailed ledger.
Miss Alice Crowell of Boston visits her uncle G P Spinney. Mrs Sadie Dunning's death prompts a Springfield call for F H Snipe. Harold Snipe returns from Pelham Bay Park on a ten day furlough amid illness. Weddings, visits, and minor town updates spread through Arrowsic and Bath, including Steep Falls and Portland connections.
Grace Church Sunday school has adopted a female orphan and the offerings of the children in the Sunday school are devoted to this purpose. The amount to care for a child during a year is 26 dollars. Money is sent to the fund for the Fatherless Children of France. The church is the first in the city to adopt a French child. Automobilists increasing as season advances. State highway between Bath and Portland is in good condition from Woolwich to Wiscasset.
A Bath Iron Works driven migration fills West Bath with hopeful renters as men newly employed at The Texas yard seek cottages. Social notices include Grange meetings, Red Cross work, Liberty bonds appeals to Ernest Rose, and local visits, with community updates on cottages and seasonal plans across West Bath.
The Bath district of the Sagadahoc Sunday School Association reorganized at the First Baptist Church with representatives from most Sunday schools. Rev. Samuel A. Evans presided. Rev. J. C. Hull spoke on Sunday school work. Officers elected include Sidney L. Eaton president Milton H. Douglas secretary treasurer Alma Sampson elementary superintendent Mrs. Robert Coombs secondary superintendent E K Whittemore adult superintendent Clarence M. Fogg education department superintendent.
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs Hannah Leader formerly of Bath at St Josephs church Lewiston. She is survived by her husband five sons and two daughters including William Rienvard John J Edward J of Lewiston Daniel D Leader of Rumford Falls Elinor and Mary Leader of Lewiston. After a Men’s Bible class at People's Baptist church the faithful service of pastor Rev Samuel A Evans was recognized with a gift of $25 in one dollar bills.
A Winnegance resident struggled to cut his own hair after a heavy snowbound winter and required neighbor help as many local people are noted visiting relatives, relocating, or changing jobs. The update covers illnesses, visits, and small community movements from Winnegance to Bath and Brunswick with multiple names and places.
James F Will Co Yeomen Royal Matthews and Roland L Eaton U S N R F act as inspectors at Bath Iron Works and will occupy a New Meadows cottage starting May 1 for the season. Ralph Merry to build a house near his father D A Merry in Winnegance. The long standing Winnegance landmark old blacksmith shop is being torn down.
Warden Frank J. Ham visited Bath en route from Thomaston to Brunswick for a prison commission meeting. Miss Catherine Hobbs of Portland stayed with Miss Dorothy Jewett in Bath over the weekend. Local youths were sent to the South Portland State School. police report breaking up a petty crime gang with others under investigation.
Two infant deaths from pneumonia occurred within a day in the same residence. Caroline D., an infant daughter of Walter L., aged one year, died Wednesday, and Hattie Hanscom of 13 Oak Grove Avenue also died. Beatrice, five weeks old, daughter of James M. and Mary King, living upstairs at 15 Oak Grove Avenue, died Thursday.
Announced engagement between Frances Dunton of Boothbay Harbor and Rudolph William Magruder of Buffalo New York now residing in Bath Maine. Also notes Robert A Reynolds of Winchester Massachusetts joined Kelley Spear Co yard as material clerk for the Emergency Fleet Corp. and Lieut Edward Fitzgerald of the Naval Reserve Dental Corps will visit Boothbay Harbor and Portland next week. Water levels in the Kennebec River decline due to little rain, hampering log driving operations and possibly delaying logs reaching the main river.
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