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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1911
Page
8
An official Boston letter to The Independent argues the current telephone emergency practice suffices without a standard long ring. It notes operators summon needed aid based on caller information and urges maintaining operator judgment over rigid rules.
The Fidel ity Trust Company held its annual meeting at the banking rooms on Monument Square in Portland on Wednesday April 12 at 2 P M. Directors elected include Edville G Abbott George S Hobbs Silas B Adams Justin M Leavitt Fred E Allen Charles F Libby Fred J Allen Frank M Low Clinton L Baxter Edwin H Nickerson Arthur S Bosworth Franklin Payson and Herbert J Drown.
A nurse-like testimonial cites Hood's Sarsaparilla curing facial eczema and humors after vaccination related illness. Mrs. Bertram Gray of New Bedford reports eyebrow loss and sore skin cleared by several bottles. The ad claims thousands endorse the remedy and warns against substitutes.
The newly elected board announced Edward P. Ricker as President and named vice presidents including Charles Sumner Cook Frederick O Conant and Ernest J Eddy. Ernest J Eddy is Treasurer and also serves as Assistant Treasurer with Theodore Gould and William P Norton. Secretary is George H Weeks and executive committee includes Leander W Fobes ex officio.
A Maine reader asks if potato flour is manufactured in the state and notes promising recipes. The piece suggests Maine could supply raw material from its fields and water power to grind flour, aiming at a “pure food” product for summer boarders and travelers. The sardine season opens with plenty of fish. The Cunarder Portona brings 640 immigrants from southern Europe bound for Canada.
Mrs Sarah Strout aged fourteen is on the sick list as the district school opens April 10 with Miss Elwell of Paris as teacher. Teachers Elsie Pratt Ruth Wadsworth and Weston Allen teach at various district schools while Joseph Schnerr works in Lisbon Falls pulp mill. The Cornish family ill with colds. Alfred Morgan left Bowdoinham for Boston to work as a carpenter. Effie Pratt and Grace Small visit Litchfield. Nathaniel Roberts visits Bowdoinham relatives. Mrs Mary E Thomas travels from Bowdoinham for her niece Ella Wadsworth’s illness.
Mrs Ettie Lewis and family visited in Westport over Sunday returning to Phippsburg Monday. Chester McCullum resumes work on the Island Belle after winter at home with six years at Eastern Steamship. Mrs Alexander White returns to Cambridge Mass from Willows. Roscoe Dickson sails for Boston to join a tug for the season. James H Knight and wife visited Boothbay Harbor last week. Dorothy Tarbox, Morse High graduate and South school teacher, hosted a birthday party with Dennis Tarbox, Percy Hodedon, Byron Knight, and Mabel Heal among guests. Delano of Boston building a bungalow near the parsonage. William Lewis called to Wis casset by illness of his father James Lewis. E S Dunton Woolwich and James L Spinney Bath visited here last week.
The article recalls Rev. Ezekiel Emerson of Maine praised for his devout evangelical spirit and for baptizing many settlers in Kennebec valley and new towns. It notes a generation of his influence shaping Jotham Sewall and laying religious foundations across the state. His fifty years included frequent missionary journeys to reach frontiers with few or no churches.
The Bath Marine Construction company is cited as among the busiest in the city, though not the oldest, and its rapid growth is highlighted as a sign of increasing importance year by year.
Spring repair costs top 390 dollars for upper city gravel roads washed by heavy rains. New England exchanges adopt a revised number repetition system to reduce misdials. Perley Hoyt, seven, and his father rode when a horse kicked after the boy jumped to prod it, killing the lad in Skowhegan.
An advertisement for Allen’s Foot-Ease promotes relief for aching feet and new shoe comfort. The text also covers probate court notices in Sagadahoc County Maine, detailing final accounts and required newspaper publication in the Bath Independent for May hearings. Executors James S. Lowell and James H. Cutting appear with orders to publish and show cause.
The document lists liabilities and surplus figures for Union Insurance Co of Philadelphia and Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co. An abstract shows assets and reserves as of January 1 1911 with cash capital and totals. Officials include IL Brainerd president and treasurer S Hilaire secretary and agents in Bath Maine and Boston Office.
The subscriber, Joseph M. Trott, administrator de bonis non with will annexed for Melville B. Spinney, deceased, Bath Sagadahoc County. All persons having demands against the estate must present them for settlement and all debts must be paid immediately. Hartford, Connecticut names appear as context but the notice concerns Bath Maine.
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