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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1910
Page
7
Arbor day and Patriots Day activities are announced alongside school holidays and religious events. A steamboat service resumes Boston to Bath, May 3 openings, Grange meetings, and local civic appointments are noted with several accidents and a hospital amputation reported.
The retirement of Senator Eugene Hale opens a Maine Senate contest after health concerns end his re-election bid. Rumors place J S Hyde and Charles V Minott as potential contenders, with possible challenges from J Loyalist Browne and Noble Maxwell as the race heats in the upper county.
Mrs. Fanny L. Moses wife of William F. Moses died at her High Street home aged 69 born in Phippsburg eldest in city charitable work with Central Church Old Ladies Home Orphans Home manager married 46 years survived by husband daughter Lizzie brother Charles S. Larrabee niece Katherine nephew Phillip Larrabee. Morse High School baseball vs Brunswick High today. Sidney B. Knight longtime citizen died suddenly of apoplexy Thursday. Lincoln Lodge will host May 3 concert at Universalist church for City Hospital with Ladies Mozart Quartet and an illustrated summer cruise.
Warren B. Call of Boston, 50, treasurer of the Horace Partridge company and a key Bay Point developer, died by shooting himself in a Hotel Essex room. He and his wife Eva Curtis had a reportedly happy marriage and summer home life. Mrs Call was unaware of the tragedy until reaching Boston after traveling from Bath for Patriots Day.
The Bath Independent recalls a 1912 engagement with the Enterprise and Boxer, noting a cannon ball fired from La Hogue. It passed through Georgetown Captain Alexander Campbell, then to his grandchild, later to Moses Riggs of Riggsville, Me. William Franklin Riggs later bought it, stabilizing its trace and promising to answer inquiries.
A fragment describes Perry Davis Painkiller as a home remedy for colds and emergencies. It mentions preparing a teaspoon in hot water or milk and claims the remedy sells by millions of bottles annually.
At a church meeting on April 12 1910 the Pew holders of the First Parish Congregational Church of Tops ham voted to sell pews to the Parish at one dollar each. Any exceptions must be filed with the Parish Clerk within thirty days after that date. Per order Parish Committee WM EO Frost Parish Clerk.
Dense fog threatened the Union hall supper but Georgetown drew strong support from nearby villages. The event raised clear funds exceeding twenty dollars with small expenses, and patriotic decor highlighted the Patriot's day theme as volunteers and locals enjoyed a festive evening.
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