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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1913
Page
8
The Bath area reports open trolley cars debuting, Kinebec coal barges rising to 16 this season, farm plantings underway, and new law requiring guide boards. Local clubs plan events, sports include Morse High versus Bowdoin 2nd, and the Columbia theatre opens soon.
Robert Sutherland, a Bath area nurseryman with over two decades in the business, has helped advance city parks and cemeteries with shade trees and shrubs. He recalls locating rare trees and planning plantings in Maine towns from Portland to Bath, and praises local civic efforts while noting long-term projects like the John S. Hyde triangle and potential new plantings along Maine Central grounds.
The 1%th annual Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church closed at South Paris after a short business meeting and pastors were appointed for the year. Changes were larger than usual with new assignments including Bath Beacon Street T N Kewley Wesley Church H A Corey Brunswick J H Roberts Chebeague W P Merrill Maryland Ridge J E Clancy and West Bath and West Harpswell to be supplied.
At a Bath probate court a final account for Adaline Stateh of Richmond is presented. Executor George C. Webber must publish notice for three weeks in the Bath Independent to allow interested parties to appear and show cause why the account should be allowed, with a court date set in Bath.
Sagadahoc probate order directs notice to interested parties by Bath newspaper for May hearing to show cause why petition should not be granted. Judge James S Lowell signs, W Longley registers. Also classified notice: I will take cattle to pasture for 1913 season at reasonable prices in Phippsburg, Me by Drummond Cutting.
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